Magi: The Kingdom of Magic

After celebrating their victory against Al-Thamen, Aladdin and his friends depart the land of Sindria. With the end of the battle, however, comes the time for each of them to go their separate ways. Hakuryuu and Kougyoku are ordered to go back to their home country, the Kou Empire. Meanwhile Aladdin announces he needs to head for Magnostadt—a mysterious country ruled by magicians—to investigate the mysterious events occurring in this new kingdom and become more proficient in magic. For their part, encouraged by Aladdin's words, Alibaba and Morgiana also set off in pursuit of their own goals: training and going to her homeland, respectively.

Magi: The Kingdom of Magic follows these friends as they all go about their separate adventures, each facing their own challenges. However, a new threat begins to rise as a great war looms over the horizon...

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Episodes 1 and 2 were previewed at a screening in Tokyo on September 22, 2013. Regular broadcasting began on October 6, 2013.

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Adaptation:	Magi
Prequel:	Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

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Characters & Voice Actors

Morgiana

Main

Tomatsu, Haruka
Japanese

Saluja, Alibaba

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Aladdin

Main

Ishihara, Kaori
Japanese

Sinbad

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Judar

Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Ren, Hakuryuu

Supporting

Ono, Kensho
Japanese

Ren, Kougyoku

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Ja'far

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Ren, Kouha

Supporting

Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

Alexius, Titus

Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
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Ochikoshi, Tomonori

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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Maruyama, Hiroo

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Shimizu, Akira

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Opening Theme

	1: "ANNIVERSARY" by SID (eps 1-13)
	2: "Hikari (光-HIKARI-)" by ViViD (eps 14-24)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Eden (エデン)" by Aqua Timez (eps 1-13)
	2: "With You/With Me" by 9nine (eps 14-25)

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Oct 4, 2014

PeteySoCute

Recommended

How are you feeling today? Upbeat? Or perhaps a little down? Maybe you've had a long day at work and you just want an anime to take your mind off things. Well, grab your cup of tea and look no further my friend - Magi: The Kingdom of Magic is the anime you've been searching for!

Magi: The Kingdom of Magic has everything you look for in an anime. Pleasing sounds (not in a dirty way!), bright (pun intended) characters who develop nicely throughout the duration of the anime and beautiful art. The characters are interesting, have depth and will make you feel for them, so ...

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May 10, 2016

TzKal-Zuk

Mixed Feelings

A catastrophic collapse and blunder is what the kingdom of magic can be described as. It takes a weird direction in terms of storytelling, character building and world building and centers it around a conflict that is brought upon due to mere selfish desires. The first season subtly built its world through political conflict, internal strife between characters, and eccentric disney like environment/setting. The Kingdom of magic deviation from it's predecessor seemed like a wild decision because any viewer can tell from the first few episodes that Magi was taking a new approach in how it continues to build the world and characters. However, it ... felt very superfluous because frankly, there wasn't enough screen time to continue meandering between characters and conflicts. However, the biggest fall was the central conflict because it developed from one's prejudice and was really underwhelming to create the abomination that was the enemy.

Now the story begins right after the Labryinth of Magic, which directly involves the 4 people we follow in the beginning segments of the show. Now my problem right off the bat was how much screen time there was between the side characters. It seemed to have a lot of unnecessary interactions and most of the time didn't yield anything directly related to the story. There is way too many side characters for there to be any time to devote to all of them while still keeping up with the main core which is Alibaba, Aladdin, and Morgiana. The story maintains its comedic nature, relying heavily on chibi mode and funny reactions amongst the cast of characters. It feels at some points that the show didn't take itself seriously with many tropes that feel out of place, such as blushing for no reason. I can't comprehend what the writers were thinking when they decided to take the route of splitting the main cast. Of course, due to the nature of the story, it made sense that they wanted to split but it was a tall order to get enough screen time to each of them. What we have left is a convoluted plot that has many plotholes as well as one minute wonder insignificant characters.

But it wasn't all bad, there is a certain disney charm that Magi has with good characters that mesh with the setting. Midway, the tone of the story changed from stopping a bad guy to a more inquisitive theme. It came out of nowhere, but it was handled well with a combination of humor and lightheartedness while also having an undertone theme of mythical beings coexisting with humans. It explores prejudice within civilization and questions which side is truly evil or good. I feel like it came out of nowhere though, because there was nothing like this in Labyrinth. Is self desire the true evil within every living being? While it's not directly answered, it does give viewers something to challenge analytical thought processes.

The characters severely suffer from superfluous interactions and lack of screen time. It's hard to say something like Magi wasn't long enough, because it was 25 episodes, the equivalent of 2 seasons. I believed that some characters got too much screen time, such as one in the beginning arc, and Aladdin's arc. It seemed like they just so happened to be there when the main core gets caught up in trouble. Although, they do provide internal conflict amongst each other due to difference of opinions and statures. However, my biggest problem was the splitting of the main core. The incredibly reduced screen time amongst them is the biggest change from Labyrinth and much of the charm of the show came from their interactions and resolutions. It seemed like a way to eliminate characters with a lot of screen time so it can focus on the main one. I really disliked that because the ending rolls around and we're left to assume that the separation of these characters built them up individually enough for the conclusion. It was a cheap tactic and I didn't like it one bit. However, the show still had it's comedic touch among the main core, which is great because it shows a dynamic relationship between each other.

I loved the soundtrack of Magi. It has a middle eastern like OST and what better way to implement that than a show that relies on its setting to continue it's story. There were many tracks that I feel is good enough to listen to as a standalone track and it overall enhanced action scenes, more intimate scenes, and brought life to the huge world. The sound effects are good and the voice acting is good, so no complaints at all from the sound department. Animation is good too, albeit a bit confusing due to it's grand scale of what's happening. There is just so many power moves that it can look like it's lagging a bit.

Maybe with the exception of Psycho-Pass and Darker than Black, Kingdom of Magic is one of the worst sequels to a good series I've seen. It's poor execution of it's story direction leads me to believe that the writers are catering a target audience that I'm unaware of. It's separation of characters is the most catastrophic decision that could've happened in a show like this, where the main core was vital to the success of conflicts. Labyrinth had a existential undertone theme that was only explored minimally in Kingdom, which I see as a missed opportunity. Kingdom is a disappointment from a character standpoint, and a hit or miss from a story telling standpoint. The pacing was incredibly lackluster and slow and it sporadically shifted to incredibly fast, which makes the ending more laughable. Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, failed to utilize what it had to make it a powerhouse anime.

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Dec 15, 2015

UsaagiTsun

Not Recommended

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As per usual, this is part of a video review on youtube, and I'm proud how this turned out, so go watch/listen to it over there ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i260HcpLSE

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Like „The Labyrinth of Magic“, this is a fantasy-adventure borrowing themes from all around the world. Again, it was animated by studio A1-Pictures and directed by Masunari Koji. Obviously different is the original date of airing, which is now Fall 2013, and it adapts chapters 111 to 196 of Ohtaka Shinobu's manga.

After the events of season 1 and successfully conquering the dungeon Zagan, our heroes stand before the question of what to do next. Stay in Sindria with ... Sinbad or journey to another country? While befriending Dunya, the corrupted princess they fought in the dungeon, Aladdin decides to travel to Magnostadt, country of magicians and apparently source of the dark metal vessels. Much to Alibaba's dismay though, the wants to go there on his own. Morgiana decides to travel to Katarr, her homeland, and Alibaba still has problems with his full Djinn-Equip, for which he travels to the empire of Reim in the west, while Hakuryuu is called back to Kou.
With the main cast parting ways, the focus of the story shifts, following only Aladdin with two episodes exception dedicated to Alibaba and Morgiana respectively. We do learn a bit more about Hakuryuu, especially what his reasoning for hating the current Kou empire is, but all 3 are as good as forgotten for the bigger part of the show.
Generally though, there is not as much focus on any of the characters, except Mogamett, the director of Magnostadt's magic academy, which is basically Hogwarts, and Titus Alexius, a magician from Reim introduced after the first half. We also learn about many new characters, like the leader of Al-Thamen, the rest of the magi, and Kou's royal family, all with distinct characteristics and features. Sinbad also finally proves what a terrible person he is.

The focus taken from developing the main characters is set on developing and explaining the world instead. There's a lot of exposition on how magic works and the different empires. Sadly, that exposition is mostly dumped on the viewer and with the exception of the climax, there's as good as no action present, making this more a show about being told stuff, rather than an exciting adventure.

The missing action makes the first half at least passable to look at, as a drop in quality from the first season's start is already noticeable from the beginning, but at least doesn't hurt yet. The show does spend a lot more time in this chibi-style though, which I didn't appreciate. In contrast to its predecessor, I did notice a lot more bad CGI, and even a lot of it at unnecessary parts, like an army of soldiers looking all the same, but not moving. And there's a creature that's half drawn and half CGI, which looked absolutely terrible. Like season 1, the second half is incredibly lazy in terms of animation and wasn't fun to watch.

The soundtrack is mostly taken over from what we know of season 1, I personally hoped for more new stuff, but as it wasn't bad before, I won't complain.

And now, once again, we pose the final question:
Is „Magi: The Kingdom of Magic“ worth the watch?
If you're a big fan of season 1, this works well as an extension to the universe, but it's not a good show in itself. If you already struggled during „The labyrinth of Magic“, you won't get anything out of this. It's not just a build-up to a third season that doesn't exist, but at least a finished arc, so I won't say „wait for the next one before you watch it“. To sum it up: If you're interested, why not? But if you aren't, just ignore it and end your relationship with the franchise at this point.

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