Having heard a lot of good things concerning Magi, I started watching it with a lot of enthusiasm, thinking it'd be another masterpiece, but I was disappointed to find that I'd been wrong.
Despite strong characters, strong backstories, eye-catching art and a good IDEA for a scenario, I found Magi to be severely disappointing. Though the general idea behind the scenario has potential, that potential is unfortunately very poorly exploited. The first four, maybe five episodes are interesting. In a way. But then the second main character, Alibaba, suddenly has a turn in ideas, decides to tag along with the very guy who killed his father and made him believe he was his friend just to get information out of me. He loses self confidence, lets himself be led along by half the town without resisting, becomes scared of everything... WHAT THE HELL?? Very little explanation for his motives are actually given. Perhaps the explanations for this are given later, but after holding on to the anime for the last three episodes with boredom on my face, I'm afraid I won't be finding out.
I also tend to find the soundtrack inadequate, both in nature and in pacing. Seriously, why use classical music? I get the point of having Arabic music because it fits with the setting, but why CLASSICAL of all genres?? It completely breaks the pacing of the scenes it accompanies.
