The time has come for me to watch MAGI.

I think everyone understands the plight we go through while choosing an anime to watch sometimes!

There are anime that work for you right from episode 1 and there are anime where you need to sit through atleast some episodes till the premise is established.

I am not trying to compare any anime here. It’s just our mood sometimes. No matter how many anime we choose and start, nothing seems to sit well with us.

After watching the water magician, i put a post asking for recommendations here and i received alot of great recommendations and am planning to watch all of them but right now what i really wanted was an anime that would stimulate my imagination with its scale and setting.

After putting down 7 different anime after watching the first episodes, not because they were bad but because they didn’t vibe w me at that point.

Finally i chose Magi after keeping it in my bucket list for years.

All i can say is, Man! I am hooked!!!

There were so few anime that managed to get me excited right from episode 1. (I dropped AOT 4 times before finally starting it back in 2017)

Magi is one of them.

Other anime that had me hooked right from the first episode were:

Naruto
Pokemon
SAO
Black clover
Erased
Jobless Reincarnation
Water magician (ended up not liking it)
And now Magi!

(There are some i forgot - list isn’t complete)

Just wanted to say thank you to all the kind members of this sub.

And do you have days where you cant sit through an anime or are searching for the perfect anime to watch endlessly? If yes, which anime saved you and had you hooked right from episode 1?

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TommyTeaMorrow2025-12-30 05:46

I believe odd taxi was the last anime that did that for me. It is a pretty short show and I watched it in one sitting.

I never completely drop a show, but for most I usually don’t watch more than a new episode . But for that, I couldn’t stop until I finished it.

ryuudrago2025-12-30 06:07

Oh! Guess i will add odd taxi to my list.

Thanks!

I never truly drop any anime, they just wait for me until their time comes.😅

SouekiSennoSTM2025-12-30 12:46

Wow, I've never watched any series in one sitting.

Even for the shorter one cour 11 - 13 episode ones (or even shorter than that), I find that I need to spread it out to at least three to four days to provide sufficient breathing room to be able to ruminate and commit to memory enough of what happened in each few episodes, otherwise I feel like it'd all become one big blur.

Letters_to_Dionysus2025-12-30 05:48

it's good to keep a stable of those ones that were kind of interesting but didn't grab you. that way when you've run out of exciting stuff and you just want to throw something on you know you always have a candidate somewhere between mediocre and great.

ryuudrago2025-12-30 06:08

Yeah! I always maintain a list. Thanks for the advice though!

Few hundreddd!!

Woahh. Thats alot.

Letters_to_Dionysus2025-12-30 06:44

few hundred?

ryuudrago2025-12-30 06:52

Oops! I got the comments mixed up ig🫠
My bad

MusubiKazesaru2025-12-30 05:53

I used to do that but it was a big waste of time I could be spending on other things and I'm also out of anime that stand out to me. These days I keep a few hundred potential options and choose the one that I feel most like with when I got to start another series.

Magi is great. You should check out the prequel Sinbad no Bouken as well and continue the anime into the manga because it never got the S3 it should have.

ryuudrago2025-12-30 06:10

Yeah! You’re right. Guess i will start adding everything that i may like in a list.

Thanks for the advice!

And i will surely check out the prequel too. Thank you.

MusubiKazesaru2025-12-30 06:16

Adding to that sort of list little by little over time as you find out about a new series is nice too. If you ever need to look at what might be good I've seen over 3000 anime. You can check out my MAL. Anything rated 8 and up I highly recommended, my 7s are really good too, and heck even some 6s.

Since we're on the topic of Magi, Orient isn't as good but it has the same creator and you can find a few similar writing flourishes. It got two one cour seasons a few years back.

Toloran2025-12-30 19:16

> it never got the S3 it should have.

To be fair, the last couple arcs of the manga and the ending were..... weird. I thought they were good, but they were *very* weird.

MusubiKazesaru2025-12-31 00:26

I thought the final battle itself was poor, but up until right before it, it was really good. I do understand why that spending almost another two cours on a flashback arc might not have gone over well, but people are generally fans of it and the stuff after it is awesome.

yancovigen2025-12-30 06:03

Hunter x hunter, first “long” anime I finished.

ryuudrago2025-12-30 06:11

Hunter x hunter was ammaaaazing!🔥

I love anime with strong male friendships/brotherly bonds.

It brings out the whole vikings fanboy in me.

arcade_quest2025-12-30 06:08

Who will bet for Naruto to finish it...

Derallerechtere2025-12-30 13:57

Don't forget to watch adventures of sinbad it's a magi spinoff

ryuudrago2025-12-31 01:17

I will watch it. Thank you.

Derallerechtere2025-12-30 14:00

I finished citrus in 4 hours. Happy sugar life also glued me to my seat

bananeeek2025-12-30 17:17

I still listen to some of the Magi soundtracks. I wish that series got a continuation instead of a spin-off.

ryuudrago2025-12-30 19:21

You’re right!
Magi has great BGM!

Ryuuyami472025-12-30 17:56

Yup I think mood is a major thing. There are always shows which I've watched after keeping them off for many years.

You should watch Magi's second season if you haven't already. Its shockingly better than the first.

ryuudrago2025-12-31 01:18

Wow! Thank you.

LengthinessLow42032026-01-02 10:13

i came here to say it's 2026 and i still yearn for magi season 3