Magi

[Kraco]

I can't say I'd have enjoyed this episode overly much either. Alibaba was fluctuation between his usual hesitatation and a stupid will to sacrifice himself in vain. I also hate the plot element of an enemy successfully using a main character's annoying weakness (exploiting a reasonable weakness would be just fine), like the dark djinn now showing Kassim's face to Alibaba. If Alibaba had half a working brain, he would remember it was Kassim himself that willingly turned his own flesh into that monstrosity, so it's purely condescending not to fight him with all he has got. A true friend would rather want to end Kassim's misery than let him live the rest of his days as an abomination and a rotten magician's slave.

Damn, how I wish this stupid arc would end already.

[Inazuma]

Spoiler alert : Someone is going bankai

[Archangel]

The terrible animation didn't help either, this was a pretty worthless episode overall.

I also don't like it when they introduce too many new elements at once to a story, makes the story too convoluted.

[Uchiha Barles]

gg - Episode 17

The three minutes between Ali Baba's tears were awesome. It was awesome concentrated. Sinbad's crew being awesome, Sinbad himself looking like a Joestar in dragon armor (and kicking ass like one), and a set of 3 yet to be named scantily clad females in a creepy room with a magic circle in it. That was a great 3 minutes. Then, 30s of Morgianna being adorable for the cherry on top. The silver lining people, look for it, see it, relish it.

One more thing: Aladdin 2, Judal 0.

[Ryllharu]

Ugh, at last, this dragged-out arc has ended.

It would have been nice for this to happen two episodes ago, but it was a decent ending, I suppose.

Huge evil cabals are always a great enemy threat, but this group seemed to mostly be anonymous ones, unlike the masked d-bag they'd been fighting in this arc. Large anonymous evil cabals never get used to their full extent, they just sort of get forgotten halfway through.

If you can't count them by hand, don't expect the protagonists to fight them all, they'll just slip away into the shadows and be forgotten, or more likely, get absorbed instrumentality-style into some super evil gargantuan in the penultimate episodes.

[Buffalobiian]

Ugh, at last, this dragged-out arc has ended.

It would have been nice for this to happen two episodes ago, but it was a decent ending, I suppose.

I couldn't even really appriciate this overdue ending, which made this:

a set of 3 yet to be named scantily clad females in a creepy room with a magic circle in it

and this:

30s of Morgianna being adorable for the cherry on top

the best parts of the episode.

[Kraco]

Finally! This arc was so stretched, so annoying, and so repetitive that I'm done looking back to it and rather will just heed the last line of this episode and look forward to the new arc.

[Archangel]

This episode was so gaaaaaaaaaaaay.

I'm glad the arc is over though, i'm ready for new developments and some explanations on what the hell was going on in those final episodes.

[Uchiha Barles]

Episode 18's out. I lol'd at Ali Baba getting punked by Sinbad. I'm not entirely sure if that was necessary but it sure was funny. Not to mention that I do agree that Ali Baba isn't necessarily the best choice to rule even if he was the best face for the rebellion. Besides, ruling and legislating aren't very shounen. Morgianna being cute once again made the episode. Her development is coming along quite nicely. When I saw the new intro, I imagined she was dancing onstage as part of a show she'd been rehearsing for to perform during a festival. I never imagined she'd simply jump on stage and begin dancing as a reaction to a sudden and overwhelming feeling of joy. That was beautiful .

[Archangel]

Not to mention that I do agree that Ali Baba isn't necessarily the best choice to rule even if he was the best face for the rebellion. Besides, ruling and legislating aren't very shounen.

His intention was never to rule, he was the face of the the revolution and the obvious choice as the organizer of all the elements required for a proper democracy.

Morgiana is indeed adorable.

[Kraco]

I expected they would leave Alibaba's home country in a more agreeable way and in higher spirits, but it turned out quite differently. They made Alibaba so patriotic and self-sacrificing that it might have been impossible to get him to leave any other way, even if there hadn't been a threat from the empire; I'm sure he would have come up with a hundred excuses to stay and never leave even for Morgiana or Aladdin's sake. So, better this way, with Sinbad deciding it for him.

Morgiana was, indeed, once again the brightest part of the episode. She was without most emotions in the beginning of the story, but not so anymore, even if she has troubles dealing with those emotions. But that's exactly what makes her so cute, besides her looks.

The generals dealing with the sea creature was so comedic, and pretty much not a fight at all in the end, that it wasn't too exciting.

[Buffalobiian]

Sindria looks pretty damn amazing.. but when you think a bit deeper..

Where does all their waste go? Certainly you don't dump it into your backyard ocean, right?

[Xelbair]

why not?
use everything that you can as fertilizer, dump rest into the ocean to feed the fishes.

[Archangel]

Sindria looks pretty damn amazing.. but when you think a bit deeper..

Where does all their waste go? Certainly you don't dump it into your backyard ocean, right?

Well where does all of Australia's waste go? You're just a glorified island too ;D

[Inazuma]

Morgiana saves the Magi franchise.

[Buffalobiian]

Well where does all of Australia's waste go? You're just a glorified island too ;D

Landfills. And we dont' pump sewrage into our oceans (at least, we try not to).. and it's not the best idea to use human shit to grow your food since that's a great way to spread parasites. (last part is more at Xel)

[Ryllharu]

All you have to do is compost it. Mix in a decent amount of sawdust, add food waste (or plant material), wait a while (something like a year), and it is perfectly usable. All the harmful parasites will be dead.

Thanks television for that fun fact.

[Xelbair]

Also - remember that they aren't so technologically advanced to have really dangerous chemicals - this setting looks like ancient times or medieval ones.

[Dark Dragon]

What the hell happened to the animation budget for this episode?

They went through the trouble of teasing us with great animation in the intro which consist of mostly scenes from this chapter/episode. The eel scene looks ok, but then the animation quality dropped like a rock during the second half. Morgianna dancing scene in particular is huge disappointment and looks so awkward.

[vejita613]

What the hell happened to the animation budget for this episode?

They went through the trouble of teasing us with great animation in the intro which consist of mostly scenes from this chapter/episode. The eel scene looks ok, but then the animation quality dropped like a rock during the second half. Morgianna dancing scene in particular is huge disappointment and looks so awkward.

Agreed. I felt like everything thing in this episode was a bit off. Animation was a part of it, but there seems to be something else. I can't quite put my finger on it.