Magi has been bestowed with a fresh PV – a video providing unusual in comparison to most promotional clips for animation in general as it’s introduced from a very straightforward third person narration.
Available on the official site, this is by far one of the most well-spoken and articulate anime preview clips ever released. The entire clip is only an ever-slight panning across key areas, as well as our blue-haired shota protagonist character – yet the true main attraction is the voice in the background sharing some history and relevant details in a regal and a concise manner. A popular shounen manga series, now turned into an animation, is set to soon debut – and with its arrival it will bring three characters who will determine the fate of the world.
As one can see, the series will contain all manner of magical brawling – as well as merely some more easygoing slice of life aspects in the Mediterranean, yet the general route looks to be a tough one for the protagonists.
A-1 Pictures is taking the role of head chef for the concoction of this series – and with their latest creation being a horribly botched mess known as “Sword Art Online“, it’s not entirely certain what or if they’ll manage to make anything of Magi’s many unique ingredients. Although hopefully, Magi will at least turn out notably well-considered – rather than randomly sliced together according to any recipe for disaster.
Judgement day isn’t too far away – and Magi will either bring success or shame back to its homeland in the desert.
Sep 11, 2012 @ 23:41 CDT
I was waiting for this image and off to watch that preview.
Sep 11, 2012 @ 23:46 CDT
ya….hope it wont turn out to be a disaster,but the animation really looks fantastic…i’m a big fan of the manga so i had high hope for this…
Sep 12, 2012 @ 0:38 CDT
There’s a youtube link now, you can add it to the article: watch?v=hlbrIxLNriM
For the record, the few battle scenes in this PV have more coordination than the ones in SAO.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 2:16 CDT
I’m tired of the Magi trailers because they are basically the same thing over and over again, with the same footage and visuals. I’m still excited to watch it, just a little disappointed.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 2:28 CDT
Magi is easy to adapt, since it’s a manga. SAO is a LN with a lot of random time-skips that are hard to pass to anime form.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 6:46 CDT
well, look at jinrui, that had a lot of timeskips, but they did it
Sep 12, 2012 @ 8:41 CDT
Yes, but one thing with Jinrui is that it does not need to be in order to understand it. Everything is pretty episodic.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 8:53 CDT
I disagree – if you didn’t see multiple episodes to either directly explain or infer certain aspects, you’d still be at a blank at what exactly is going on either in respect to the episode, or specific parts of the plot.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 9:15 CDT
I also disagree, as Jinrui utilized a technique of “oh, now I get it”, starting at some point and then going backwards to understand how everything lead to the current flow of events.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 16:06 CDT
A complexity of plot presentation practically extinct in modern time.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 6:56 CDT
Or Kara no Kyoukai. It was adapted faithful to the LN timeline, which was basically all over the place: 1998 -> 1995 -> 1998 -> 1996, etc.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 8:11 CDT
and what a great series KnK was, well beyond Epic, in story and in animation
Sep 12, 2012 @ 9:06 CDT
As others have already proven, this is no excuse.