Magi: The Adventures of Sinbad

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Magi: The Adventures of Sinbad is a 2013 shounen manga.

This manga is a Prequel telling the life of Sinbad before Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, since his early childhood, starting at 30 years before the start of the events of that story. Though born from normal parents, Sinbad had since an early age a power to see the right choice for decisions. His parent was a war veteran, but his crippling injury and his benevolence puts his family towards a cruel path...

Written by Shinobu Ohtaka. Art by Yoshifumi Ohtera. Serialized at Shogakukan's Ura Sunday.

Tropes used in Magi: The Adventures of Sinbad include:
  • Auto Cannibalism: Played For Laughs at the start of Chapter 2, where Badr thinks about roasting himself so he can eat something.
  • Humble Hero: How people see Badr in Chapter 1, who refuses rewards he is given because of the war he took part in and gives it to other people. However, Badr's internal thoughts imply he wants no reward who is associated with that event.
  • National Geographic Nudity: A woman with exposed breasts is shown as Darius talks to young Sinbad about the world outside in Chapter 2.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sinbad's father is punished and apparently executed in Chapter 3 for helping a wounded person that turned out to be a spy and for telling the people of his village the whole truth about war.
  • Seers: Sinbad has the innate power of knowing what's the right path to take, since he was a baby at least.
  • The Empire: Between Chapter 1 and 2, Partevia changed its official name from "Partevia Kingdom" to Partevia Empire
  • War Is Glorious: In Chapter 1, the people of Partevia seem to have this vision of war. Sinbad's father is the only one who don't thinks so highly of it, because he saw it on first person and lost a leg because of it. After the time skip from the first chapter, Partevia's inhabitants grew to care only about war as things got worse.
  • Would Hurt A Child: Darius almost killed Sinbad when he realized he was never going to be given a means to escape at Chapter 3.
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