Introduction
In the small, impoverished Tison Village of the Parthevia Empire, a boy, Sinbad, is born to the jaded ex-soldier Badr and his kind-hearted wife Esra. His birth creates a radiant surge throughout the rukh, a declaration of a singularity to those who stand at the pinnacle of magical might: the "Child of Destiny" is here. Despite his country being plagued by economic instability and the repercussions of war, Sinbad leads a cheerful life—until a stranger's arrival shatters his peaceful world, and tragedy soon befalls him.
Years later, mysterious edifices called "dungeons" have been erected all over the world. Rumored to contain great power and treasures, these dungeons piqued the interest of adventurers and armies alike; though to this day, none have returned therefrom. Sinbad, now 14, has grown into a charming and talented young boy. Inspired by the shocking events of his childhood and by his father's words, he yearns to begin exploring the world beyond his village. As though orchestrated by fate, Sinbad meets an enigmatic traveler named Yunan. Stirred by Sinbad's story and ambitions, Yunan directs him to a dungeon which he claims holds the power Sinbad needs to achieve his goals—the "power of a king."
Magi: Sinbad no Bouken tells the epic saga of Sinbad's early life as he travels the world, honing his skill and influence, while gathering allies and power to become the High King of the Seven Seas.
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Audience reviews
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Avgasblomman
This show simply does not justify its existence as a stand-alone piece of media
The first few episodes show quite a bit of promise, and moment to moment the show sort of works; it's fast-paced and the story moves along quickly.
But beyond that there's just nothing there; the characters have very little personality beyond a few quirks, and the ones who do undergo some type of development do so far too quickly for us to take their struggle seriously.
Sinbad himself is just a Mary Stue, but with no real redeeming quality to compensate for simply being there to succeed at everything he does. The moral of every story, basically, seems to be that Sinbad is just so good at everything.
I will not give it lower than a 4/10 because, by and large, it's harmless and fast-paced enough that it doesn…
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Let me start by clarifying that my reviews don’t focus on explicitly dissecting an anime’s production details, scenes, or plot summaries. Instead, as someone deeply invested in narrative writing and storytelling, I aim to analyze the work’s strengths and weaknesses from a structural and thematic perspective. This review will avoid major spoilers and prioritize my personal viewpoint.
Where to Begin?
In the vast landscape of anime, it’s rare to find a series that excels narratively on multiple fronts: storytelling, cinematic depth, art direction, choreography, and technical execution. Magi: The Adventures of Sinbad, a prequel spin-off of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, manages to achieve this balance. Produced by Lay-duce, directed by Yoshikazu Miyao, and written by Taku Kishimoto, the anime…
Read at the sourceDeividK3
The worst anime I have ever seen (out of 130+).
This is the typical generic adventure anime with a protagonist who is recruiting people to fulfill his objective. The problem is that the characters are flat and with little charisma, and the plot is nothing to write home about.
- The story is uninteresting (except for the first chapters). There is a turning point where it goes from being a more or less decent anime to a boring anime.
- The protagonist is very poorly built, without evolution and almighty. Some other characters may be interesting, but nothing to highlight.
- There are no villains as such (or at least they do not make an appearance), which impoverishes the plot.
- The universe in which it is set seems more that of a video game.
It is certainly an anime that I would NEVER rec…
Read at the sourceAnnVictory
It’s so bad it’s hard to watch. This sentence perfectly sums up this anime. Unfortunately, Sinbad no Bouken was a huge mistake and I’ll explain why.
I’ve been reading Magi’s manga and I’ve watched a few episodes of the anime. I was so interested in this one because who doesn’t love Sinbad? He’s one of the more intriguing characters of this franchise. I remember that, surrounded by all the hype, I even made a FB fanpage about him when it aired.
But Sinbad from Sinbad no Bouken is just so bad, he’s personality is flat, there’s nothing interesting about him. He overcomes every struggle without a problem which makes him look fake, it’s just too easy. All of the other characters that appear later in the story are undeveloped. I don’t even want to begin with Ja’far, he’s character arc is almos…
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I will make this short and simple.
I think this anime is good. it has all the main stuff that makes a good anime. story, characters, character development, ect. my only real issue is the writing, god the writing....
Magi Adventures of Sinbad is literally written by a high schooler with the vocabulary of a gymnasium. The characters speak “simple” you definitely understand what’s going on at all times but alongside all of the plot there are some odd character behaviors that are a bit out of character, that is mostly in the villains that for no real good reason start helping Sinbad.
that’s pretty much it. Aside from those big issues it’s a great story about changing the world buy becoming a merchant? I definitely meant to make that a question because how dafaq did Sinbad come to major plot…
Read at the sourceOrneryimp97
Magi Sindbad no bokuen is a series that in a couple episodes does the impossible. In a short life spend of only 13 episodes we live through the history of Sindbad from a young father loving child to kid with high hopes and finally to wise cracking leader standing in a hall of fame. This life story is done by other series like naruto and one piece, but in my opininion less effective and far longer. Magi Sindbad no bokuen has beautiful colors and very vibrant animation. While you watch you are truly feeling the power grow of not only him, but other characters as well. Writing is on point with more comedy anime like nichijou or yahari ore no. I truly recomend this series to everybody, maybe it is left open with room for second season, but you won't regret.
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Opinion?
I love, love, LOVE, this anime to death. Sinbad is one of my all-time favorite characters. I personally ship him massively with ja'far as well and this story really en-captured Ja'far and Sinbad's roots together. I watched this before watching Magi so my opinion is more extreme than other fans, but my enjoyment of this piece still stands. I wish a new season continuing off this would air soon, I have a feeling my review might be similar if they keep up the amazing art and characters. Plus the fight scenes were to die for.
Flaws?
I am biased towards this show so pardon me but the only flaw I see is that lack of. Whilst generic it can be in some regard I love it all the same.
10/10 This show is beautiful and deserves more praise.
Read at the sourceTheFlamingHitman
What can I say this anime was a perfect balance of Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy , all four of these genres are shown so well and I enjoyed it so much more than the the other magi series.
The main character Sinbad has such a positive personality that it makes me want to be more positive in real life. The action was well done for a fantasy anime, the adventure of the dungeons and different countries and the comedy of the crew that actually made me laugh out loud!
This anime definitely sets the ground works for more seasons which it truly deserves!!! There is so much more to explore and to be honest I binged this whole anime in one day so I am sad there is no more :( but I really hope there will be another season, this anime is really under rated because it is a spin off series but to be…
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so i just wanted to say that i had enjoyed this spin-off of the original magi more then the original just becouse it was alot less confusing, i just wanted to say that i did enjoy the original magi but it was quite a strugle i think it took me around a year of trying to watch original.
if you have not started to watch magi you might start off by watching this because its only 13 ep of you can watch the ova verson (4eps) that i have not watch and dont want to because its the same thing as this maybe less enjoyable tho.
unfortunately i dont think there will be a second seasson of adventures of sinbad.
i can not make a deeper review comparing and contrasting this with the original because i dont have the fresh emotions after watching the original becouse i have finaly managed to watch it a…
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Amazing feel good anime. I liked this better than the other 2, but I'm excited to watch them again now. Unlike other reviewers, I really don't think you need to watch the others first. This may have come later, but it is a prequel, and lays a good foundation, so you can watch it without ever watching the other ones.
I really hope there is a second season. They certainly left room for a lot more content to come. Here's hoping!
--Review Ends here--
Writing longer reviews for the sake of writing long reviews is ridiculous. I have to keep writing in order to meet the minimum requirements so here goes. Sinbad is great. A boy king wannabe with a bright future and very sincere eyes. He does crazy things with his djinn powers but we never see him practice so where does he find the time between…
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Short description: It's Magi so it's always gonna be a good anime. But compared to the other seasons I have to say it's unsatisfying. This season should've told us a lot more about Sinbad's past and his crew members (or at least to have more consistent action scenes) and try less to make random jokes for an entire episode (episode 12 was barely watchable).
I'll start of by saying that I really like the Magi series and I think that it's a unique anime with an outstanding plot, although I think it lacks pace, consistency and more and better battle scenes.
This season focuses on what I presume will be the main antagonist of the series (didn't watch the manga but it has been hinted pretty obvious). I think Sinbad shares a lot of similarities with Itachi from Naruto, but with different outcom…
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I really wanted to like this show more. As is the case with many people, I found Sinbad to be the most compelling character in the first two seasons of Magi. After watching this prequel, however, I'm wondering if the mystery and mystique surrounding Sinbad in the original Magi series is part of what makes him so compelling. Telling his backstory didn't seem to work as well as it should have. But it was still a fun show to watch.
STORY - 6/10:
I felt like this was really where the show fell a little flat. What could have been an interesting story, outlining a long, hard journey for Sinbad to become a king and form the Seven Seas Alliance turns out to be fairly rote and straightforward. After a couple interesting episodes involving his birth and parents and eventually capturing the first d…
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Magi: SnB (or SoB because it has an alternate meaning) is an extension of the original Labyrinth/Kingdom of magic which, for reasons both because of and beyond me, I liked much more. That being said, this show also has some.... eh.... ego problems. To elaborate, Sinbad is OP, the show knows this, doesn't do anything about it and instead puts him on this massive f*cking pedestal screaming "Look what we made, we're so good"... Well Magi, there are a number of reasons for you being just plain wrong.
Having recently watched the first season of Magi (LoM), I wasn't sure what to expect from this prequel of sorts. On one hand, it could have been a load of pandering and displays of power, on the other, it could have been an onslaught of politics and sweet-talking.
You get both.
Story-
Magi has…
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Firstly, I watched this before watching any of the others since it's listed as the prequel, whether that takes some enjoyment away I'm not sure, but I was still really happy with it.
It's the story of Sinbad's beginning;
We start off with little Sinbad, his birth and then it goes to showing him causing trouble for his dad. The beginning has lots of feels, so be prepared.
The character style is great, they're very individualized, colourful and fit really well in the style of the anime.
I loved Sinbad as soon as I met him.
Sinbad comes across his new comrades in unusual ways, but they make great friendships.
He doesn't want any more people to suffer the way he has, he's resolved to change it all, to bring everyone happiness. It's just going to be a difficult road for him to get there but…
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Magi: Adventure of Sinbad has a lot less of the flavor that made the original Magi entertaining. That flavor mainly being the themes that were brought up about kingship, genocide and the morality of war and peace alongside a very interesting medieval and arab setting that was well explored. But most of that was left absent from this spin off or not touched upon to the degree in which the original series went to, which made it feel very underwhelming and more shounen-like and superficial. Now lets get on with it, and let me remind you that I watched the original two seasons of magi two years ago so my memory isn't the best.
Story
The story begins with a boy being born, Sinbad of course, and when his conception took place the world's sky went crazy in a burst of magical energies because of…
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I have mixed feelings about the existence of the Anime.
So, as a fan of the Magie series, I am waiting for a third season of Magi... and when I ended the second season and the OVA of Sinbad with 5 episodes came out, I was like: Okay, it's cool, I want to know more about Sinbad and his comerades...
But the 5 episodes did not statisfied me a bit.
So now we have this! Why does it exist? The 5 episodes I have watched (OVA) are in this new Anime plus some other episodes (which are perfect, no doubt).
But why did they not countinued the OVA under the titel of the OVA? Why did they not took out the 5 episodes, which we saw before, and made new content?
What I also must say, before my real review, I am afraid of the relase date of the third season of Magi, because the Sinbad series just had an…
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And so ends, one of the most greatest anime of the season. This was rather impressive and the anime does a rather good job at adapting the manga about probably the greatest character in Magi, who is known as Sinbad to a certain degree. In this review, I will try to leave it spoiler free.
Story-9
The story is brilliant. Depicting the life of probably the strongest living character in Magi. This is a prequel series that shows us the life of Sinbad and his journey to change the world. Such as the struggles that he experiences and the people that he meets to get stronger. The pacing seems rather okay at times, sometimes it does feel a bit rushed, but apart from that I find it easy to get into the mood. I have found the story filled with adventure and comedic aspects that have honestly grabbed…
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Story:10/10
I loved Sinbad since the Magi series and he easily became one of my favorite characters.It felt so good to be able to witness his journey to become king and to create Syndria.I loved the pacing and all his adventures that came,how he matured and captured all the dungeons.It was a series full of surprises as well because of the turns it took such as his quickly mastering the djinn equip and his courage to face everyone with an open mind.The story I enjoyed the most was his adventure in the Imuchakk kingdom as part of Valefor arc.Also to see elements such as amazons and legendary warriors assimilated into the lore of the series was great.I hope that we will get a season 2 because what is to come is even better.
Art:10/10
I loved Magi's series art and to see it back it was a compl…
Read at the sourceLux02
Personally I am a big fan of the the manga Magi so my opinion might be a little bias.
Story:
The story follows Sinbad during his childhood, every event that takes place has a correlation to how Sinbad becomes who he is and what he achieved. The way that the story is told is based on the largest events that connected Sinbad to those who would help him created the Seven Seas Alliance
Art:
The art-style is faithful to the manga and the animation is extremely smooth so it is definitely nice to watch. The only fault with the animation has to be what I like to call the "slide-show" effect, where during certain scenes they will use a single frame to display an action such as a "sword-clash".
Sound:
The soundtrack in this anime is great, ti definitely builds excitement and comes on cue in…
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Every Magi fan's favorite OP character Sinbad gets his own series. Being a big fan of Magi myself I was very excited about this.
Fair warning, if you haven't watched Magi, you really won't get the same satisfaction from watching this. I suggest watching the Magi series first before watching this.
It begins with Sinbad's birth. Showing the background story of how Sinbad ends up becoming the swashbuckling man he is in the Magi series. These episodes drew me in right away. If you're a fan of the Magi series you will really enjoy this part. I loved being able to see a baby Sinbad interact with his family and grow into this heroic, lovable teenager. You get to see him conquer his first dungeon and decide that he wants to create his own country and change the world. It leaves you feeling satis…
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