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マギ Magi

A fan homage to Magi by Shinobu Ohtaka, made by Exe.Eyes Labs.

The Labyrinthof Magic

Story and art: Shinobu Ohtaka
Weekly Shōnen Sunday: 369 Nights, 2009 to 2017

第一夜Night 1

その名はアラジン

His Name is Aladdin

A golden flute on a cord around his neck. Blow it, and his friend comes out.

第一夜Night 1

ウーゴ

The friend in the flute

Ugo, a Djinn, blue and gigantic. The flute can bring out all of him, but never his whole head.

金属器Every metal vessel

八芒星

King Solomon’s seal

One circle, two squares. Every vessel that holds a Djinn bears it. Light its eight points.

第十四夜Night 14

迷宮の主

Lord of the Labyrinth

Seventy-two Djinn sleep at the bottom of the Dungeons; whoever reaches one is chosen as its king. At the bottom of the seventh waits Amon, Djinn of flame.

第四十六夜Night 46

二人のマギ

Two Magi

Judar’s Rukh are black, and his ice is coming for Ugo. Hold on: give Ugo all of Aladdin’s Magoi.

第六十六夜Night 66

聖宮のアラジン

Holy Palace’s Aladdin

With the flute’s last power, Ugo brings him to a library outside time. Every book here is a Night.

第六十六夜Night 66

扉

The Door

Ugo opens it and asks Solomon to take Aladdin home. They will not meet a second time.

第二十三夜Night 23

魂の故郷

Rukh is the home of souls.
When you die, all go back to one place.

Baba, of the Kouga clan, to Aladdin

The zeroth Djinn

Ugo

Magic: Heat
Tribe: Human (Magi)
Vessel: Aladdin’s flute
King: Solomon, then Aladdin

Solomon’s householddrawn named only never revealed

Volume1of 37

千夜一夜

Weekly Shōnen Sunday · 2009 to 2017

A Thousand and One Nights

Magi ran for 369 chapters, one a week, and each is a Night. These are their title pages in order, read from the right.

Title pages © Shinobu Ohtaka / Shogakukan, via the Magi Wiki. Drag to look around; click a Night to read it.

七十二柱

King Solomon’s household

The Seventy-two

Every Djinn was one of Solomon’s. The story names twenty-seven of the seventy-two, and Ugo came first; the rest it never reveals. All seventy-three are here.

Djinn © Shinobu Ohtaka / Shogakukan, via the Magi Wiki and its list of Solomon’s Djinn.

三十七巻

Shōnen Sunday Comics

Thirty-seven volumes

Down the tower, one cover at a time. Drag to turn it.

Story and art

ShinobuOhtaka

大高忍

Ohtaka's design sheet for Aladdin's flute — Aladdin’s flute, design sheet, 2013

Night 1: Ugo comes out of the flute — Night 1, 2009

Night 66 title page — Night 66, Holy Palace’s Aladdin

Ugo in the Sacred Palace — Night 197, the Sacred Palace

1983Born on 9 May.
2004Sumomomo, Momomo, in Square Enix’s Young Gangan.
2009Magi begins in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
2012A-1 Pictures’ anime.
2013Magi: Adventure of Sinbad, drawn by Yoshifumi Ohtera.
2014The 59th Shogakukan Manga Award.
2017Night 369, the last.
2018Over 25 million copies in print. Orient begins.

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The work: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Shinobu Ohtaka (Shogakukan). This site is a fan homage by Exe.Eyes Labs, not affiliated with the author or publisher.
Facts: The Magi Wiki (magi.fandom.com): chapter titles, the Djinn, the Rukh. Wikipedia: Ohtaka’s dates. The household’s numbering follows the Ars Goetia, which Magi’s Djinn take their names and order from.
Sound: Freesound, CC0: desert wind by felix.blume, ney by aliaref, wings by DigPro120 and 5ro4, crows by Fenodyrie, thunder by xUMR and richwise, a stone door by PostProdDog, sand by nicoproson.
Type: Amiri and Reem Kufi by Khaled Hosny (Alif Type); Zen Antique by Yoshimichi Ohira. All under the SIL Open Font License.
This Lab: 65,536 Rukh flock on the GPU and answer your hand: they write the title in the sky, pour out of the flute as Ugo, and draw Solomon’s seal on the sand. Nine scenes share one canvas and hand over without a cut, from the desert through the labyrinth to the library of Nights. The flute is modelled from Ohtaka’s own design sheet.
Built on: SYSTEM.EXE, three.js and GSAP. The desert lit in Cycles from Poly Haven’s aerial beach scan (CC0).

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