He’s older and much more cynical than Aladdin and the two soon form a team to achieve both Alibaba’s quest for wealth and power from dungeons and Aladdin’s goal to find more djinns to help him understand his identity. When we first meet Alibaba (voiced by Yuki Kaji, from Blood-C: The Last Dark, in Japanese and Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan’s Erik Scott Kimerer in English), he’s a young servant, working desperately to save up enough money to fund an attempt on a dungeon.
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A blue giant, Ugo lives inside a golden flute and, when summoned, strikes an imposing figure, (admittedly hindered somewhat by his inability to remove his head from the flute).Īs the series progresses, other people are found to be accompanied by djinns, which come in all manner of forms and each representing a different force of nature as well as different sides to people’s emotions. Aside from making friends and meeting new people, Aladdin’s two great joys in life are food and breasts, both of which he tends to indulge in without shame or much regard for whom they may belong to.Īladdin’s djinn companion Ugo (voiced by Naruto Shippuden’s Toshiyuki Morikawa in Japanese and Fairy Tail’s Patrick Seitz in English) is a wise and powerful ally to Aladdin. Aladdin is a fiercely loyal friend and extremely powerful magic user, despite a naive worldview. Social injustice is a common theme and slaves are regularly shown being beaten or even stabbed repeatedly as a form of rebuke.Īladdin (voiced by Highschool DxD’s Kaori Ishihara in Japanese and Erica Mendez in English) is a young boy in search of answers about his own identity with his (surprise, surprise) flying carpet and djinn (genie), Ugo for company. These magical aspects are grounded by the show’s use of political unrest and inequality.
Magi can summon dungeons, enormous towers filled with monsters and death-traps which give fantastic wealth and magical treasures to any who can successfully defeat the dungeon’s dangers. The more magical aspects of the world are centred mainly on magi, great magic users whose task is to chose and prepare great king and leaders. The plot deals with many themes, from more typical anime-matter of adventure and overcoming great monsters and perilous dungeons, to issues such as war and slavery. Magi takes place in a world inspired by the collection of stories, One Thousand and One Nights, also commonly known as Arabian Nights and so it’s unsurprising to find that straight off the bat, two of the main characters are Aladdin and Alibaba.
The series comes from the manga of the same name, created by Shinobu Ohtaka, who also created the manga Sumomomo Momomo.
Now then, what is it you wish for?”Īnime Reporter ventures to far-off lands to review Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic- Part 01 (episodes 1-13). “Oh venerable one, your wish is my command: A vast array of riches, the power to rule over billions of stars, even eternal life if you so desire.