Audience reviews
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scarykitty84
This entire series always seems like it's one step away from becoming a true classic, but then it somehow takes a step back and never really develops into the cohesive powerhouse of a show that it could have been. Even at it's most epic, the motivations and storylines of the characters seem hollow at times and narratives will shift to suit whatever new characters have appeared in that episode. The show has an annoying habit of introducing tons of new characters at an alarming pace without ever fully exploring the original stories of the older characters.
Flaws aside, this is still quite a good show and it's unique enough that it deserves a watch. It certainly has it's share of amazing moments that compare to other top tier anime, but just when you're completely hooked it stumbles and fall…
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Bing bong, here we go again.
Perfection at its damn finest, Magi
Story:
I do not want to give ANY clues to the story since it's so beautiful and you gotta experience it yourself. Whoever thinks that Shounens are just fighting needs to watch this. The story is great and its world-building is even better. Legit the anime version of Avatar or something. 10/10
Art: It's A-1, they made SAO which had really good art but a total shit story. So obviously character art is real good! Magic seems exponentially better than other animes and more polished than its first season. The chibi version is even cuter in some ways and in some of the scenes I was genuinely impressed by the way the art was performed. 10/10
Sound: Bruh, wanna hear some clinky clannks? some nice skdooshes of magic or some boing…
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Magi: The Kingdom of Magic is an anime about overcoming one's accursed fate and destiny, discovering who one is, and making new friends along the way. First, I must say, Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, is the second season to Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. Hands down, I liked the second season more.
Story: 9
The story in Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, surrounds Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgiana on their adventures as well as their goal to eliminate Al Thamen before they destroy the world. I will admit, the writing fell off on some parts, and some aspects of the universe were explained poorly, which is why I didn't give it a 10. Nonetheless, I enjoyed how much the story blossomed after Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgiana departed on their adventures. Seeing characters grow strong is one of my favorite asp…
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Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, though sometimes a bit hard to follow because of its largely politial derivation, is nonetheless an interesting and entertaining story.
Art - 9/10
The animation is nothing out of the ordinary, this said, it's still beautifully animated.
Sound - 8/10
Nothing really to say here, no complaints nor suggestions, it was good enough for me.
Characters 7/10
Some characters are easily liked, while others take awhile to get attached to. For example some characters who have malicious intent, are still being treated as innocent, and this can carry out over multiple episodes and given the low number of episodes, this can be a bad thing. So, in conclusion the viewer doesn't know wether to instantly like or dislike the character, which in a way is a good thing for it avoid…
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certainly an improvement on the first season.
what I liked:
less focus Alibaba and his whining
more focus on Alladin
anti-racism message *clap clap clap*
What I didn't like:
not enough morgiana ahhhh
Also, the animation was still arse, the fight's dull and anti-climatic, and too much of "talk no jutsu". I mean why go all DBZ with your flashy sword moves, when you could have solved the whole conflict by just having a hearty talk while sipping some tea preferably.
no, really I had lot's of problems with how the conflict get created and then resolved in this anime, they didn't really flow well and felt unnatural, the writer could have written them more solidly, with more emphasis on political reasons behind them, yeah the "slavery is bad, hatred, destiny" thing get boring really quickly.
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The first season of magi is the best, at the level of hunter x hunter or other great anime. But this second season is horrible, the first half is fine, but then the story has many holes.
We dont see the progress of the protagonists of alibaba, morgana, or aladin. Alibaba is going to train and we don't see them until the last chapters. Morgana, Sinbad and the third magi are extinct characters and wasted. Aladin is doubting here and there, his role in war is poor.
Too much screen time for supporting characters who wanted to tell something that never came, like aladin's roommate. The second half is rushing to finish everything so fast that I didn't know what was happening. History is a maze full of excuses. There is no balance between chapters, or they are slow or fast.
Explosions, powe…
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okey !
i don't have many things to say so i gonna be quick this anime is just a masterpiece, because everthing you are looking from an anime you gonna find it here for sure , ok when i said everthing i mean literally everthing starting by the characteres : the characteres here are simply interesting and the 2nd thing is the story, to avoid spoilling i won't say anything but the story here is pretty good ,without forget about the sound tracks and the openings they're actually so good .
and the last thing i gonna say is that magi is one of the best magic animes if it isn't the best !!!
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I'm writing this review in consideration of the expectations Magi:L had me hooked for.
Magi was something fresh for me, I could not think of much anime that has infused culture, politics, and mythology of another culture. It was a nice blend of it, I could not get enough of the battles as well: the sword fights, djinns, Metal Vessels.
I still enjoyed most of Magi:K, especially every djinn equip transformations and the battles along them.
What I think was wasted in this season are the interactions of characters, especially the chemistry of Alibaba, Aladdin, and Morgiana. I understand that this is the training arc, and they had to train by themselves. But all of the focus was pointed towards Aladdin. And even with him taking all the screentime, the focus of the story was being tossed all…
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After finishing the first magi season, the truth is that my expectatives about the second season were quite high. The first season had an incredible story, well developed, with depth, very well worked and exploited characters, with a protagonist so human that they make you love it, etc.
The historical content of magi and even the events are quite credible and the background behind simply catches, about the dungeons, the geniuses, the magi, the nations, the other world, the king solomon, etc. With all this the second season painted to be incredible, what I find is only the most wasted stories I ever saw, the development of the story from the beginning to the end is horrible, with 0 background, credibility, and even seriousness, which I admired quite a bit from the first.
The way they rava…
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Before I get into this, keep in mind that this is a review for all of Magi up to this point, not just season 2.
When I was first introduced to Magi, I could only think, "great, an anime ripoff of Disney's Aladdin." Like come on. It's in an Arabian desert setting, it has magical blue wish-granting genies, and to top it off, one of the main characters is even named Aladdin. How they didn't run into copyright issues for this I will never know. But the more I watched Magi, the more I saw it grow into its own. I watched it meet, and often exceed, all of my expectations of what constitutes a good piece of entertainment. But looking back, I can't say I can pinpoint any aspect of the show that truly wowed me.
STORY - 7.7/10
There's no doubt that Magi has a very good storyline. It follows a jour…
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For such a highly regarded franchise my wife and I found season 1 of Magi to be mediocre and overrated. I ended up giving it a 7 and you'd be very hard pressed to convince me it's better than that. Also, we've had pretty poor experiences with season 2s as an in general. While there are of course exceptions to every rule, we've found in the large majority of cases- Knights of Sidonia, Log Horizon, Attack on Titan and many others- that season 2 frequently tends to be worse than season 1, so we did not have high hopes coming into this particular anime when neither of us loved the initial season in the first place. Thankfully, this appears to be one of those uncommon cases where a show's second season really and truly is superior to its predecessor.
While this show is still flawed and imperf…
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Well, I am very late since I just made an account yesterday.
If you have watched a lot of anime, you'll acknowledge that the plot for Magi is one of a kind. Only this anime will fall under the theme, "Arabian" with magic and intense action.
This anime left me speechless. I've re-watched this for a lot of times already, and still, it doesn't fail to make my heart pound. This anime has a special place in my heart, along with FMA brotherhood.
I am not good at making reviews, but please do watch this. This underrated anime deserves A LOT of love and recognition.
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The Kingdom of Magic is Magi's greatest season and an absolute masterpiece. And I'm going to tell you why without spoilers so you can read this review, especially if you haven't watched it yet.
Not since Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood have I binged a series this hard. (FMA: Brotherhood still holds the record for my biggest binge; 31 episodes in a day, basically watching half of it in less than 24 hours)
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic is filled with complex characters, to both love and hate, with very few being purely evil. The two OPs in this are both great and fun, and you will never want to skip them.
It takes the trio in Labyrinth of Magic; Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgiana, and builds on them even more in this season while introducing new characters to love, more challenges to overcome…
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Story - 9
The story of Magi is such an adventurous experiment from start to end, with the evolution of the characters, setting, and general happiness of the town changing as the events due in a way that feels very natural.
You can understand and sympathize with (nearly) every character, and the actions that drive the story and the events seem genuine, if a bit exaggerated.
Art - 7
Nothing special, pretty generic, with a couple cool looking scenes (Mainly Ali Baba's """fight""" with Sinbad). Next
Sound - 5
Again, nothing special, but the music specifically is so impartial and impending that it didn't help me engage at all, but at least it wasn't bad.
Character - 10
All of the characters, even the 1-off villains, have an effect on the characters and are themselves interesting characters. No…
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Magi review
I love this show and I can’t express how much I adore the three main characters Alibaba, Aladin and Morgiana ,so I decided to put all of my love and raw emotions this show delivered to me into words.
You go into a bookstore and from the thousands of books laying in the shelves you stood upon a particular book with a unique and vivid cover . At first you are hesitant to buy it not being sure of what to expect from its content. Once you open that book you will find out how wrong you were to judge it just by its colorful cover. This is Magi , a book that should not be judged by its cover but for its rich and beautiful content that it offers for its readers.
Reading through the pages you will discover a fantastic world, a world filled with dungeons , djinns , metal vessels , ho…
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I really enjoyed "Magi: The Kingdom of Magic". When watching "Magi: Labyrinth of Magic", I was introduced to a lot of characters, and was able to learn about the main characters and their importance. I found that when watching "Magi: The Kingdom of Magic", there was a lot "self improvement" between the main characters. The main characters learned more about themselves and how they could successfully follow there own paths. I do not believe that the anime balanced the amount of "self improvement" time for each character. Otherwise, I found the art and characters amazing. I felt that the story was an excellent continuation of "Magi: Labyrinth of Magic", and I loved seeing additional challenges and adventures. I especially loved learning more about characters that had been briefly discussed i…
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I feel like Magi: The Kingdom of Magic is a slight improvement over the original season (which I quite liked). I want to give this an 8.5, but half points aren't permitted. So I settled on an 8 instead.
STORY - 9/10:
While the characters were really what helped push a first season that was a bit weaker on story, those elements are reversed here. The second season spends most of its time following Aladdin. We get brief glimpses of Alibaba and Morg, and they each make a triumphant return towards the end of the season, but we're really focused on Aladdin here.
Aladdin is at the magic school in the magical country (I'm not even going to try to spell the name out). He's there for a few reasons: he wants to improve his magical skills; he wants to investigate potential links to Al-Thamen; and…
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Magi: The Kingdom of Magic,
Having watched both The Adventures of Sinbad and The Labyrinth of Magic I was really excited to carry on to this. The Magi series is fantastic and really enjoyable.
This season picks up where the first left us, Aladdin, Alibaba, Morgiana and Hakuryuu completed the dungeon and have gathered back together with Sinbad in Sindria.
They've grown a lot since arriving there, but it's coming to the time where they need to set off on their next adventures.
You get to see them grow separately and together in this season which is really nice. They keep their promises of adventuring together, though they also set out for their goals alone. Seeing them go off by themselves but always striving to make the others proud adds a lot to the feeling of the anime. They maintain t…
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If it’s only enjoyment that you are after, then Magi: The Kingdom of Magic may suit your taste and entertain you well but if you are looking for an anime that has depth, then this may not be the closest one. Whether which is which, don’t get your expectations too high!
The story was interesting but there were major flaws such a lack of consistency and coherence. For one, a lot of information were unconcluded and simply left behind without explanations. For example, as from the title says, a magi is gifted magician who is tasked to choose a king candidate. Magis were mentioned frequently but they weren’t given a particular depth of information or significance just like how one of the few magis barely did anything despite appearing the last few episodes of the show. Their importance was the…
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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…
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