Magi

[arcsalvo]

First 2 arcs (which mostly are in the anime) and thereabout are good, but the final arc is boring, pedantic, and drags a lot. I can see why there was no Season 3 of the Anime, I FORCED myself to finish the manga on Viz because I was paying $2 a month for it. Even then, I had to take breaks and only finished 2 months after I started the final arc.

The author (and editors advising her) lost the plot, and threw away everything that made Magi work. The found family, the friendship and adventure, and the easy to understand, emotional plotting. Then it replaced it was dry politics and economics, and separated the core team for a loong time for little reason, and replaced emotional characterization with pretentious sounding "philosophy" that was also really childish because it just wouldn't admit that some people are evil sociopath sadists and not "misguided people" with a "different set of values".

Major faceplam all the way through the last arc of Magi, which ended with a cliche and boring, hard to follow big battle arc with pages and pages full of huge mobs of characters I could barely remember and that felt like a bad marvel movie climax. Then an almost Shueisha-style rushed 1-chapter ending where they're like "Oh yeah, and then the main trio went on a bunch of adventures" on the last page.

You know, the adventures we wanted to read about rather than pointless, boring battles with huge crowds and dull action scenes filled hard to follow mobs swinging at each other. I'm surprised this manga didn't end sooner honestly, and while I used to think it was sad the Anime didn't get a Season 3 (and beyond), now that I've finished the manga I totally understand why there wasn't and agree with the studio heads that refused to make it.

 

[yabrajshabaj]

at the start of magi, it seemed bigger than what it was. Most people have seen the anime first, and majority agree it was one of the great anime spectacles of the early 2010’s. The production was insane, the art, music and passion was so much, no wonder it stuck with so many even without any fan fare after it wrapped up ( we don’t see any news or new pics of it for a decade).
That being said, I watched the anime as a kid, finished it in one sitting, I don’t recall sleeping for 2 days.
As I grew up I always wondered why there wasn’t another season.
I finally picked up the manga, more than 10 years later, and now I understand why.
It drops off in quality so much, opting for so much drama in such little time. They tried to mix politics with battles. The last arc was just abysmal, people coming back not being real but being real but living in eachother. Pretty stupid.
I can understand sinbad even though, even through all his switch ups that the other tries to throw at you.
He is testing his human.
Overall the foundation for this manga was excellent the spinoff was nice. The later chapters dropped.
The art was so heartwarming, the mangaka knows how to make characters look silly, charming, wholesome, cute and so much with just little faces being drawn.
I don’t even think I can forget about the passion being shown through the paper of the writer.