(L) Magi - Labyrinth of Magic [manga]

[Om Nerabdator]

*reads the latest chapter*

...........................................damn

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by hawkeyesvn

Goddamn David, he sure know how to make people feel horrible. He and his force clearly tried to leave the people bodies in that state. They want to make a powerful image that will be carved into people's mind.

That's something you could expect from a man who possesses the power to forsee the future. I think all those deaths are just part of his plan to make Solomon understands his path and acts the way he wants, just like what was written in his prophecy.

[vansonbee]

The burn victim look like they came out of a nuclear fallout. I wonder if the author did this on purpose to show how impact it was for Japan? Maybe this is me over thinking. Overall the chapter was sooo depressing. Ugo is going to get some of the blame for this harshly.

I can't wait for the next chapter! How is this going to correlate to Sheba child!!!

Spoiler for theory of mine:

Sheba > Goken > Aladin OR ugo resurrect dead aladin for Sheba to not go Goken!

[ChampDream]

that was really tragic and sad.

[shalala]

Soonow we are starting to see why Falan and co betrays Solomon.

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[Kartaen]

Such a plot twist in new chapter...

[Awrya]

Spoiler for 230:

What happened, did David merge with Solomon?
If Solomon's behaviour after this collision changed drastically, resembling David's when he created the Magician Orthodox, it's no wonder if the other magicians grew suspicious of him as seen when he united all other species as the king, and created Al Tharmen in response.

[hawkeyesvn]

i don't think it's gonna be that simple. I still think solomon screw it up by himself alone.

[Kartaen]

Spoiler for for 230:

But it seems like Al Thamen didnt understand Solomon. They fighting against fate. But in Alma Toran originally was black ruhk and from David's words it seems that Alma Toran's fate is to be destroyed after Illah lost his power. So in new world white rukh flow seems to be that Al Thamen called "fighting against fate". They think that fate is the white ruhk, but originally it was black. So at the end they doing exactly the opposite thing - follow the fate. Maybe I'm wrong.

And from this chapter I could say that David is the most interesting character at least in Alma Toran arc for me. He is much mysterious than Solomon.

[hamazura]

sinbad new chapter is a fricking trailer seriously? -_-

[Slayerx]

Originally Posted by hamazura

sinbad new chapter is a fricking trailer seriously? -_-

Well not really. If I understand it correctly, because Sinbad is a bi-weekly series(new chapters every two weeks) I think the scanlators release the chapters in pieces to give people content every week. That is why each weekly chapter often seems short and cut off at awkward moments. However for he past couple of chapters, they didn't do that; they provided full chapters thus creating the necessarily breaks from week to week. The trailer and last omake were likely tacked on to the last chapter and the scanlators are only releasing them now so that readers get something this week rather than nothing.

Honestly I've been so bored with Solomon's arc that I almost wish Sinbad was the weekly series instead. THAT's the magi story I am most enjoying right now... With solomon, its just a painful wait until we get back to Aladdin.

[hamazura]

^
aladdin? who is that? magi adventure of solomon is too damn long i forgetting our original maincast
im okay wth long flashback... but this is just... at least there are gatts in berserk and kuroko in knb super long flashbacks

[bakato]

Anyone get the feeling David wasn't such a bad guy?

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by bakato

Anyone get the feeling David wasn't such a bad guy?

Me, in his book of prophecy, it was shown clearly that the man holds no hatred no grudge toward anyone or anything. Each and everything he do aren't out of ill intense, but the benevolent desire of creating a true utopia. Someone like that can't possibly be a baddie.

[Slayerx]

Originally Posted by hamazura

^
aladdin? who is that? magi adventure of solomon is too damn long i forgetting our original maincast
im okay wth long flashback... but this is just... at least there are gatts in berserk and kuroko in knb super long flashbacks

This flashback is both too long and too short; its like the uncanny valley of storytelling. Its too short to really get to know the characters well enough to care about them, thus making the arc boring, and the arc is too long because its boring and thus feels like it just drags on and on. This arc either needed to be of epic length so we could get proper characterization and development for the characters, or a lot shorter so that we could get the important info we need and get right back to the main story.

And y'know I thin someof these characters I actually like LESS now... Like Ugo. I liked him so much more back when he was just an overly muscular body sticking out of a flute. Don't care one wit about super genius, geeky ugo. I might have cared if the story took more time him , but the story just rushes along. And Solomon... eh, i feel like the arc added nothing to his character; kinda prefer him back when I knew nothing about him

Can only hope that its almost over

Originally Posted by Fwarlord

Me, in his book of prophecy, it was shown clearly that the man holds no hatred no grudge toward anyone or anything. Each and everything he do aren't out of ill intense, but the benevolent desire of creating a true utopia. Someone like that can't possibly be a baddie.

Um, no. David is a complete monster. His motives does not absolve him of anything and grant him non evil status. Really real world tryants and dicators could fit in the same category that you would place David; a lot of tyrants tormented their people and others because in some twisted way they thought it would make the world better. In the real world, many of those who engaged in outright genocide did not do it for ill-intent, but because they actually thought that THEY were the monsters and the world would be a better place without them. This twisted logic doesn't make them good people; their actions are far too horrible to excuse.

No good guy would engage in such wanton death and destruction... heck a fine example would be what he did to Setta; even if you except the twisted logic that he felt that he had to kill setta for some "greater good" there is NO REASON at all why he had to basically TORTURE him to death.

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by Slayerx

No good guy would engage in such wanton death and destruction... heck a fine example would be what he did to Setta; even if you except the twisted logic that he felt that he had to kill setta for some "greater good" there is NO REASON at all why he had to basically TORTURE him to death.

Calm down, you can't say it for sure at this point. Just like Aladdin said, it's normal for mortals to not understand higher beings' thought. And David's completely fit into that category. He must did all those things because he felt they're necessary. Maybe to make Solomon and his followers realize something and somehow change their way of thinking to fit into his prophecy, or to lead to the creation of Al Thamel in that world and Alibaba's world... Whatever the reason is, it will be explain later in the story. You just have to wait before passing on judgement.

[hamazura]

next chapter is 2 weeks break right? i think we will get full year of solomon adventure...
i imagining when anime season 3 come out, there wont our main cast in the opening song. just solomon and his companion

[Key Board]

David has seen the future, reached the conclusion that he can not change it, and has grown very bitter from it
This offering he made is simply his inner frustration lashing out at the world.

Let's see if Solomon treads the same path

[ChampDream]

I guess whatever Solomon do after what David told him is the reason Al-tharmen was created.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Key Board

David has seen the future, reached the conclusion that he can not change it, and has grown very bitter from it
This offering he made is simply his inner frustration lashing out at the world.

Let's see if Solomon treads the same path

Strangely the whole theme of this manga seems to be don't fight...go with the flow and grin and bear it

Normally there would be nothing wrong with this except the portrayal of "fate" is apparently benevolent when it's neither good nor bad.