I just saw the latest korean scan, and wanted to know if someone who is following can explain to me:
! Was that the end? Wouldn't by the announcement the end be at chapter 370?
Magi
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Sad when a series fizzles out like this. Read the latest chapters and I just don't care. I mean, I care on some level but I'm not excited or anticipating a new chapter. I'm only reading to see how it ends.
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Goddamn, I keep remembering and forgetting to catch up with last 6 or so chapters.
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Wait hwere are people reading this? The last scan I knew was when they left the other world and began fighting angels. Alibaba began fighting his teacher (the egyptian) and that is it. Is there a new scan group i didn't know about?
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Wait hwere are people reading this? The last scan I knew was when they left the other world and began fighting angels. Alibaba began fighting his teacher (the egyptian) and that is it. Is there a new scan group i didn't know about?
Kissmanga has them up to 368. I stopped at 357 so more than 6, lol. Time sure flies.
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Just caught up. Just one chapter left. Guess i'll give my thoughts after that.
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Is it finally ending?
Such a pity that a manga that at one point might have rivaled OP in its significance for me had deteriorated to this state.
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Yeah… there was a time, when this story only revolted at minimal stakes of countries trying to be in the game that would've decided the monarch in the entire world... with powers that had an origin from another dimension, which is to be a tail about a King that became God and made the impossible, to manipulate fate.
What are the weights of living beings, countries, worlds against the weight of fate itself??Where that story was going about how the main characters that were supposed to be good, were rooting on what that King did, and how he made actions for himself and those antagonists that tried to defy fate, were against being controlled by their crafted system that engulfed the souls of all beings, the main force to fight fate on equal grounds, changing the world's rules thanks to Depravity within hearts...
There was a time when Magi was a masterpiece to me, 10/10. I didn't care about battles because that plot is unique, i can see battles everywhere, but to see the development of that, it was a moment that would not be repeated in a long time... and now only that matters are main characters playing god and look cool, pity.
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Well, just read last dozen or so chapters. It wasn't all bad and there were some pretty strong moments.
It's a shame the last arc couldn't have been resolved properly. Ohtaka has aimed too high maybe.
Nice last chapter though. Alibaba gets married and everyone else becomes support cast. Then he and Aladdin go on some adventuresTHE END.
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Yeah I just marathoned it too and the last volume's worth of chapters were not bad. A bit jumbly but there were a lot of strong noments and great art. It's a shame this last arc was so confusing as well as translations stopping for it at some point.
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Yeah, I can accept this ending. In the end it is the right message, and had a few good last moments.
The weird thing is that the metal vessels went from 72 to around 25, how so?
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Well, alls well that ends well.
Just wished the final arc had some proper direction instead of being all over the place.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I'm happy with the ending. It wasn't the smoothest but the resolution made the most sense, a shame translations stopped for a while but I don't mind a quick binge
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Personally, I don't like endings where the world loses what makes it interesting.
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! they lost the metal vessels but they didn't lose magic, and they recovered the creatures of the rift.
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They mentioned a lot the "16 king vessels" in these chapters.
- We had the 6 of Kou (Kouen, Hakuryuu, Hakuei, Kouha and Kougyoku) (9 djins)
- The three of reim (Muu, Ignatius and Nerva Julius) (3 djins)
- Sinbad and the Aliance the 5 (The queen of the woman country, the pharaoh of the sand country, the chieftain of the snow country, the knight king of the mountain country and the shogun of the japan country) (12 djins)
- And Alibaba (1 djin)
That makes 16 (and 25 active djins), but in that count it doesn't make sense to include Sinbad because he's preocupied in something else.
But as he claimed 25, then I suppose that he was offering himself as well.
The wiki claims that Barbosa is also a king Vessel (and has evidence that I don't remember but can't denny), but it's all but certain to be dead in the present.
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Ohtaka quite half assed it in that last chapter. Offering couple of superficial random resolutions, Aladdin included.
Like the optimistic tone, though.
Reading Sinbad is going to be strange now.
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Wasn't a bad ending but it was underwhelming imo
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The thing is that once the brainwash was cleared, she didn't do anything that she didn't do better against the medium.
Sure, the "let's sacrifice ourselves" would be a great moment in a weekly read, but in the end it came down to "let's shoot very big magic at it, untill aladdin does something esoteric"
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Heh, back during the Magnostad arc, they also did the count, 13 kings participated in that battle,
5 of the Kou, Zuko-Kou sitting it out
Simbad+4 alied kings, Japanesse dude haven't been introduced
2 of Reim, as Nerva was just as useless as now, and didn't count
And Alibaba.While Arba raising the question of the 72 stafs. I get it that we can't have that many characters, and even if we suddenly had the america or australia of the world, or more kings selected by Yunan in the dark continent, there's the place on the history that they would need, but I liked the concept..
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While Arba raising the question of the 72 stafs. I get it that we can't have that many characters, and even if we suddenly had the america or australia of the world, or more kings selected by Yunan in the dark continent, there's the place on the history that they would need, but I liked the concept..
I guess it was too much to expect she would have all 72 designed and thought out. With each having a relevant character, 2 areas of expertise and a nice ability.
It's not that I ever expected there would be 50+ king vessels, but it would have been nice to have them all shown somewhere, if only for the sake of a cool new profile pic, having something nice to draw or for various Which Djinn Are You quizes.
Maybe we'll see a couple more in Sinbad, though.
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Speed read the last chunk of chapters. Despite everything I don't regret reading the series, just sad it didn't live up to my expectations. The Magi world got too big for the mangaka to handle, I wanted to dive more into it, specifically the characters. I feel so many characters got the shaft; Mor, the Reim metal vessels, the Ren household, and Sinbad's crew. I wanted to learn more about them, their relationships with each other, see them fight more, etc.
The final battle had some nice twists but it was your standard bad guy grows huge use let's work together cliche. Maybe if the battle wasn't focused almost entirely on Alibaba I'd like it more. I want to know how much the editors influenced the mangaka. Did she want to go in a different direction or did they force her to go the standard shounen route? Speaking of Alibaba, he didn't click with me as a protagonist. Didn't hate him but I could always take him or leave him. And why does Gyokuen Ren get to survive? She did a lot of evil crap and she gets to literally relive her life? Bullshit. Oh! And add Al-Thamen members who used to hang out with Solomen to the list of people I wanted to see in action.
Again, the series was a mixed bag. Do I regret reading it? No. Will I ever read it again? Only, the parts I like. My fault for expecting too much, I guess.
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She didn't "get" to survive, she was condemned to live as a person.
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^That doesn't sound much better. She still gets to relive her life even though she caused wars, gleefully murdered people and generally dedicated her life to make as many people as possible miserable. I get the whole redeeming villain thing but did we even get that? I speed read the series after a while but is she even sorry? Sure, she's confused and pondering the rules of the universe, but I don't think Arba gives a damn about the lives she's ruined. The Magi equivalent of a slap on the wrist is all she got.
I don't know, man. Maybe Ohtaka did too good a job making me hate the character.
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She didn't get punished, but she can't go on doing her evil things, and killing her would risk releasing her soul again.
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But is she still a mage?
The world simply reverted to pre-Solomon state and people can still manipulate magoi and use magic. As far as I could tell. That means the cyle is just going to keep repeating.
Maybe Arba is the next Solomon.
Maybe a singularity is just being born somewhere.
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But this time they're not constrained by the abstract concept of destiny, whatever it is
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I still remember the days were I thought Judar would be the end boss of all this.
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If there is no destiny, then another singularity can do shit. Like being able to see magic in a robot world.
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Maybe Nerva just tossed her of the carpet and she is actually dead.
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So Sinbad died, Arba was basically the female Orochimaru.
Series went downhill after the Kou War Arc.
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Maybe Nerva just tossed her of the carpet and she is actually dead.
Headcanon accepted. I feel much better.
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D:
The same… with Bleach's ending. Plus a Gohan's Kamehame-ha pic with Aladdin...
It is clear to me that Sunday's editor got they hands in this, and sadly Ohtaka couldn't do pretty much with actions but i still could feel the resolutions within words of Alibaba, Sinbad and Aladdin. They're plenty holes here, but i can for sure just admire Ohtaka's ambition to do every panel of Magi and try to outcast every single demostration of pictures and meanings of it.
I can't help but like all of it... Magi has a story that without a doubt, takes my mind to realms that only my imagination can meddle to, and that's awesome, so it has so much value to me and is one of the best shonen ever written... agh, i remember that i picked Magi just for luck at 2009 and loved Amon's dungeon and i was so impressed! and then Cassim at Balbadd arc, kyaa! i admire it, was so perfect back then.
Got to see how Sinbad will be back at his own manga, i'm sure some tips of the Singularity will come there.
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http://reader.sensescans.com/read/adventure_of_sinbad/en/13/139/page/1
Ohhh, now i get how the antagonist was made… hope still have some readers after the main story end.
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Read the last chapters . . . . yeah, not how I wanted this series to end exactly. But it could've been worse.
I will say this though: Drakon is hot!!
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Well so after an underwhelming end for Magi, Adventures of Sinbad ended with the same note. Did Othaka lost passion for the project?
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oh is Sinbad over now? Maybe it's time to finish it.
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Well so after an underwhelming end for Magi, Adventures of Sinbad ended with the same note. Did Othaka lost passion for the project?
Did they at least filled the gaps left by the main series? Because there was a bunch of Metal Vessel Users that weren't show doing anything in Magi.
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Did they at least filled the gaps left by the main series? Because there was a bunch of Metal Vessel Users that weren't show doing anything in Magi.
Well Kage since we both are brazilians you can check out for yourself, mangasproject is finished translating the series, but answering:
! No, it didn't. It ended quite abruptally in the destruction of the first Sindria Nation by the machinations of Falan and Judar. The only dungeons cleared where Baal's, Valefor's and Zepar's.
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Is it over? Where can I find the last chapters? The latest in all scanlation sites I know is 141 and it did not seem that close to ending..
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Okay, I posted at nearly the same time you answered, I'm going to check it out. I don't like to read in portuguese, though, even less in PT-BR
A shame this series ended like this. Both the main one and the spin off... -
Well Kage since we both are brazilians you can check out for yourself, mangasproject is finished translating the series, but answering:
! No, it didn't. It ended quite abruptally in the destruction of the first Sindria Nation by the machinations of Falan and Judar. The only dungeons cleared where Baal's, Valefor's and Zepar's.
Well that was a fucking waste of time.
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I can guess how or when it ended without reading spoilers. Doubt I'll ever finish it.
Had to force myself to sit and read through Magi's last 5-6 chapters.
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The best MAgi was the adventurous Magi really. Pretty much the first half until the ending of Magnostadt. After that it tried to be overly political and overly philosophical while not really having a clear concept and it became a huge mess.
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I dropped Magi after the Magnostadt arc and I have no real desire to go back to it.
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Yeah, the climax of the magnostad arc was pretty lame, and the series never trully recovered.
There were some good moments here and there, like the final Aladin vs Jugdral (or whats his name, Ice Magi), and Alibaba's solo adventure, or Sinbad's final battle.
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I liked the Kou civil war. The battle was pretty tense for a while.
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I dropped Magi after the Magnostadt arc and I have no real desire to go back to it.
And you shouldn't.
After Magnostadt the manga gradually lost all that had made it so great in the first place, to the point that even I, a walking ball of fanboy-ism, just stopped caring (which frankly is the hardest feeling to swallow in regards to things you hold dear).
It's kind of like Naruto where you best pretend that everything after the timeskip never happened, just not that bad. -
Well, considering Magi´s highs were higher than Naruto´s ever were after chapter 20 or so (don´t remember when Zabuza died), it might be as bad subjectively speaking.
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I need to figure out what chapter I left off on. I think the last thing I saw was Alibabba initiating talk no jutsu on God Sindbad.
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For one moment, i thought that Sinbad ended… still appears being published.
Ohtaka makes me wonder... are good stories -from beginning to end- created by woman this days??
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@Shobu:
Ohtaka makes me wonder… are good stories -from beginning to end- created by woman this days??
What the heck?!? Of course they are! Just because Magi ended weakly doesn't mean all stories by women are also bad, it's not Ohtaka's responsibility to represent all women in manga and she doesn't anyway because there are tons of female mangaka producing good stories to this day. Basically that's a stupid thought.
