I can't for the life of me keep all the different players straight (especially any of the Kou family - they all look the same!), and I'm not invested enough in the series to go back and reread to figure out everyone. I'll keep up with it for now, but it's not gripping me. It looks to be one of those endless shounen series. I didn't know what I was getting into when starting Magi. Aladdin get’s some development and so does his friend. However his journey is interesting and his depth is basic but serves the story.
Titus is a good foil and so are the people in District 5.Ĭharacters: Titus is an interesting character and is a new pieces in the larger story. There are some nice emotional hooks here to drive the story and it’s well done. His mission was to study magic but to also see the city and what it’s about and this one is exactly that. Story: The Aladdin story is good, we get a lot of depth here and a lot of forward progress. The ideas behind the magic city and how it runs and the different levels is not entirely original but it does ring emotionally strong. The world building is really heavy this time around, it’s tied into characters and the whole larger picture of the world as a whole. World: Art is still kinda wonky but this is just the series then. His mission was to study magic but to also see the All Aladdin all the time. But the dark secret they discover among the downtrodden people of the city takes them into even more danger…. The two become friends and continue their climb up Magnoshutatt’s caste system. Among the upper-ranked students is another young sorcerer whose power seems to rival Aladdin’s. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks.Īladdin’s studies at the Magnoshutatt Academy are going well, and he continues to advance. Aladdin’s studies at th Deep within the desert lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks. In 2014, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic received the 59th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.Deep within the desert lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. A spin-off series titled Magi: Adventure of Sinbad, written by Ohtaka and illustrated by Yoshifumi Ohtera, began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in May 2013, before being moved to Shogakukan’s website Ura Sunday, where it was published from September 2013 to April 2018. It has also been licensed by Kazé in United Kingdom and by Madman Entertainment in Australia. In North America, the manga has been licensed for an English-language release by Viz Media and the anime series by Aniplex of America. An anime television adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired in Japan from October 2012 to March 2013 and a second season titled Magi: The Kingdom of Magic aired from October 2013 to March 2014. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2009 to October 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 37 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Japanese: マギ, Hepburn: Magi) is a Japanese fantasy adventure manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Ohtaka.