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Most series have them, Magi is no exception, but lately it feels like we started reading an entirely different manga than what we started with. No one will likely ever know the behind the scenes story, what Ohtaka was thinking and planning at the different stages of the manga, what stories and characters were summarily cut and why, but we can speculate and certainly some of them stand out more than others.
As an example, Yunan makes a vague allusion in one line about how he's "not really that nice". This set off some warning bells with readers that elevated him to "final boss" status, but two years later and what little character development he's had (reincarnated 9 times taking some kind of toll on him?), and we've had a big fat nothing from him. He nursed Alibaba back to health, and played the part of the damsel in distress to reintroduct Morgiana and Aladdin to the story proper, but as the character who propelled Sinbad forward, he ended up being a big fat nothing.
Not all hope is lost for the character, he may have more development in the SnB manga and maybe he'll have a Dio moment yet, but at this point it'd feel pretty forced and silly considering the rate at which Ohtaka has been tying up loose ends lately.
So what are some others people would care to mention?
As an example, Yunan makes a vague allusion in one line about how he's "not really that nice". This set off some warning bells with readers that elevated him to "final boss" status, but two years later and what little character development he's had (reincarnated 9 times taking some kind of toll on him?), and we've had a big fat nothing from him. He nursed Alibaba back to health, and played the part of the damsel in distress to reintroduct Morgiana and Aladdin to the story proper, but as the character who propelled Sinbad forward, he ended up being a big fat nothing.
Not all hope is lost for the character, he may have more development in the SnB manga and maybe he'll have a Dio moment yet, but at this point it'd feel pretty forced and silly considering the rate at which Ohtaka has been tying up loose ends lately.
So what are some others people would care to mention?
