Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Chapter 284 Discussion

Sinbad… Just what sort of amazing world did he make??

mira-nyan said:
THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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So... in Magi 3 years = A millennium.
Seems legit. Damn, Sinbad. All dat technology.
From the looks of it, Sinbad next chappy.
Poor Alibaba, lol. I missed his face and his over-exaggerated reactions.

Not sure if allowed to post the pages, so I'll just roughly summarise it:

Alibaba borrows a flying broom stick magic tool from Yunan and makes his way to his destination. He complains that it's far slower than when in Djinn equip(which he can't do cos he doesn't have Amon with him). He remembers what Yunan told him before he left - that the world has change immensely and Sinbad has created a 'utopia'. He lands in Reim and starts walking, to save magoi. In the streets, he sees that the citizens are using magic carpets and magic tools to carry things around and go about everyday life, like it was normal.
He asks an old man for a boat to Partevia(the country where 'Partevia's Sindria Company' are based), to which the old man says that only peasants use ships and boats to move about, calling it 'old fashioned'.
Instead, Alibaba has to go onto what the old man called a 'flying ship'. Alibaba arrives in Partevia, after making weird and comical faces at he ship's speed ofc.
He walks around and sees skyscrapers, elevators/lifts and bright lights even tho it's night time. He uses a lift to get up, where he finally arrives in front of the Sindria Company HQ.
Ofc, per usual, que his reactions to all the high tech.
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I'm expecting to see Suit!Sinbad next chapter. Oh the hype.
I have to wonder tho, with the tech and what not, why are they still wearing old-fashioned clothes? 0_0

mira-nyan said:

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MeinKaiser said:
Where does they got all this mana ?
looking at the magical tools and facility they use it must be bigger than magnostadt mana facility 2 years ago,

Now they did say about all metal vessel has been confiscated yes ?
i wonder if they use the "Djinn" as the mana source to support all that facility.

ItalodeM said:


Is this the entire chapter? Damn it felt so short.



Good point, i was asking myself the same thing, since we KNOW that the Utopia of Sinbad will have some type of flaw to generate conflict

alicieux said:
Wow, that was pretty gutsy of Ohtaka. To be honest though, I feel kind of betrayed. One of the reasons I loved Magi so much was because if helped fill the severe lack of historical action-fantasy type manga out there ): The difference in aesthetics is going to bug the hell out of me, with a futuristic dys/utopia Sindria Co building and a Victorian-steampunk airship while everything else still remains in 800 CE. Not sure how this will play out.

ItalodeM said:


yeah i'm not a big fan of it as well, the cellphone type of thing bugged me a lot but i'm just way too curious to see what happened so i'm ignoring it for now

ItalodeM said:


second pannel

mira-nyan said:


>Shell
>Electronic phone

Pic one, lol. It's a magic tool, not a phone made from science-technology. I like what she did there, actually.

ItalodeM said:


And where exactly i said "eletronic phone", OF COURSE it IS a magic tool, BUT it is basically the "cellphone" of this world

Sarrora said:
and is it just me or did Alibaba imagine that Aladdin would have boobs ,when he was thinking how his friend would look like , are those boobs on Aladdin ? looool

Araneae said:

That's Morgiana

Shangetsu said:


Pretty much, you need to remember that although 3 years passed, for Alibaba it's been over a hundred of years since he last saw them.

Also I can't help but believe that most of this technology come from the Alma Toran era. It always seemed more prosperous than Magi's world. This means that Sinbad is using David's knowledge to accelerate the growth of the world.

Sinbad probably think he can control the world but I'm pretty sure the reason why Alladin and co disappeared is because they think it'll eventually end like Alma Toran did.

mira-nyan said:


He used Magnostadt as the base/foundation of all this. Tho Alma Toran was probably a part of it.


He doesn't want to control the world; he just wants a world with no wars. Making it more advanced is just a stepping stone.

Shangetsu said:

In the end that's controlling people, he wants to impose his view about how the world should be unto everyone and anyone disagreeing with it is an enemy that must be removed.

Sinbad always was the type of character to control others for his own ideal.

alicieux said:
Wow, that was pretty gutsy of Ohtaka. To be honest though, I feel kind of betrayed. One of the reasons I loved Magi so much was because if helped fill the severe lack of historical action-fantasy type manga out there ): The difference in aesthetics is going to bug the hell out of me, with a futuristic dys/utopia Sindria Co building and a Victorian-steampunk airship while everything else still remains in 800 CE. Not sure how this will play out.

mark417 said:
LOL all these people hating and I'm just like "I can dig it" XD

mira-nyan said:


Well, no. His dream is actually quite mainstream. As you can see, he has not imposed his ideal from everyone. Aladdin said it himself; if he stayed near Sinbad too long, he'd be N A T U R A L L Y drawn to him and W A N T to follow him.
The way you've completely understood such an important character is baffling. Hakuryuu himself started a war, in which Sinbad joined. He stopped the war, without having too many casualties - everyone else wanted the least amount of casualties too - and Kouen wasn't even killed. Hakuryuu started a war and did Sinbad dispose of him? No.

There, you paragraph is moot. You clearly don't understand a grey character. -_-




Nope, not at all.
If you're talking about Zepar, then still no. He only got to see what she saw - and could only take over her body for a few seconds, in which all he could do was speak to Alibaba, with no evil intentions.
Ofc, his methods are questionable - tricking someone that obviously has feelings for him is underhanded, but if you read Sinbad no Bouken, you'd understand why he does that.

Shangetsu said:

Actually what is baffling is that you think that because something is right or done with right intention then it is good and that the end justify the means.

You said it yourself, he has a tendency to draw people near him. He does not control people with power, he control them with love.

He manipulate people by making them think they are doing it by their own belief but they are dancing in his palm.

I read Sinbad no Bouken and it seems you understood absolutely nothing from the Madaura arc,

you only see what's on the surface without caring about what's happening deep down.

This whole situation is a rehearsal of when Sinbad filled the slaves with hopes, nourished their desire to be free only so they would revolt, crush his enemy and made him free.