Why It’s A PROBLEM To Make Magi The Kingdom of Magic Seven Season 3
Résumé
TLDRThe video delves into the reasons why a third season of "Magi" has not been produced, despite the series having a significant fanbase and remaining content to adapt. It discusses the financial aspects of anime production, including sales figures and licensing agreements, and highlights the challenges faced by the franchise in a competitive market. The video also suggests ways fans can support the series to potentially influence the decision for a new season.
A retenir
- 📉 Sales of Magi have declined since the second season.
- 📺 Streaming services play a crucial role in anime production decisions.
- 📚 There are still arcs of the manga that could be adapted.
- 💰 Financial viability is a major factor in continuing a series.
- 🤔 Fans can influence future seasons through support and engagement.
Chronologie
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The video discusses the challenges in producing a third season of the anime 'Magi', highlighting the differences in episode counts compared to other long-running series like 'One Piece' and 'Dragon Ball'. After the second season, there were spin-off episodes, but no new season was produced. The creator emphasizes the importance of understanding the anime industry and how fans can support potential future seasons.
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The narrative of 'Magi' revolves around Aladdin, a sheltered young boy, and his journey in a world where Magi, powerful magicians, influence kingdoms. The story explores themes of social status, personal growth, and the harsh realities of life, as Aladdin and his friends encounter various challenges. The characters' development and the unique storytelling approach set 'Magi' apart from other shonen anime, despite its struggles in maintaining popularity and sales.
- 00:10:00 - 00:18:50
The video delves into the financial aspects of the anime industry, discussing licensing deals, streaming rights, and the impact of sales on the continuation of series. It highlights the decline in sales for 'Magi' and its spin-off, 'Adventures of Sinbad', which contributed to the hesitation in producing a third season. The creator suggests ways fans can support the series, such as streaming and purchasing manga, while acknowledging the challenges posed by the evolving anime market.
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Vidéo Q&R
Why hasn't a third season of Magi been produced?
The production of a third season has been hindered by various factors including declining sales, licensing issues, and the overall anime market dynamics.
What is the current status of the Magi franchise?
The franchise still has content to adapt, including three more arcs from the manga, but the production companies have not prioritized a new season.
How did the sales of Magi compare to other anime?
While Magi had decent sales, they were not enough to justify the costs of producing a new season compared to other more successful titles.
What role do streaming services play in anime production?
Streaming services can influence the profitability of an anime, and their decisions on licensing can impact whether a series gets continued.
What can fans do to support a new season of Magi?
Fans can support the series by streaming it, discussing it on social media, and purchasing manga volumes.
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- 00:00:00why it's been a problem to make Maggie season three hey yeah you I'm sure you're curious to
- 00:00:05know why Maggie isn't on a one-piece art where it has literally like a thousand episodes or
- 00:00:10even Dragon Ball where they have 100 episodes per iteration of the series right after the release
- 00:00:15of the second season we received 19 volumes that were made into five Sinbad spin-off episodes which
- 00:00:20was then made into a full series most fans could assume from this that that's just the appetizer
- 00:00:24to the main dish being a new season but that never happened this series is to give you all
- 00:00:29the information I have available to provide you with a complete story about the pros and cons
- 00:00:33to continuing the next season so if it ever does come back out you know how to best support it in
- 00:00:38this series I try to best talk about what goes on behind your favorite anime series and if you like
- 00:00:42this kind of content make sure to leave me a like and let's set a light go for 2 000 likes also let
- 00:00:46me know down in the comment section who's your favorite waifu of the series hey from morgiana
- 00:00:49B for coyote Rin C for yamareja and lastly D from Myers and hayakuren also subscribe if you haven't
- 00:00:55already and if you do comment I subscribed and I will make sure to comment back to you and make
- 00:01:00sure to watch till the end of the video so you don't miss anything Aladdin is a young Maggie
- 00:01:04has been sheltered for most of his life he's looking to explore the world so because of this
- 00:01:08he's a little naive to the new world a magi is a magician who has an inclination towards magic that
- 00:01:12is so intense that has the potential to shape the world and because of that they have significant
- 00:01:16influence each Maga chooses a worthy candidate to become a king Magis are meant to supervise their
- 00:01:20elected representatives as they build a country and shape the world Alibaba is the secret love
- 00:01:24child of a peasant woman and a king and works towards his goal of earning enough money to start
- 00:01:28exploring the dungeons while loading a card he finds the young Magi eating some watermelons and
- 00:01:33we're soon told about the dungeons with it being a strange ruin that appeared a couple years ago if
- 00:01:37a person is able to capture one they'll receive wealth and power Fit For A King storing a magic
- 00:01:41vessel containing a gin it's almost like you're telling the audience that this is going to be a
- 00:01:45tale of Rags to Riches the Underdog Story where you too can have Fame and Fortune and we think
- 00:01:51we're gonna go on this Fantastical world but this can be misleading just because someone conquers a
- 00:01:55dungeon doesn't automatically make them omnipotent or anything the power of the daijin is limited
- 00:02:00did and even experienced dungeon captures can be defeated with this being of course where the magic
- 00:02:04runs out every character still is human and just as we're getting our hopes up our characters get
- 00:02:09a taste of this reality their world how everyone around them acts around the social statuses or
- 00:02:14money and this is where they meet morgiana a slave girl who comes from a tribe of Warriors
- 00:02:18but now has to serve Jamil equivalent to like a young Lord Aladdin is confused why everyone is
- 00:02:24openly mistreating her with either Alibaba bowing his head or trying not to get involved the people
- 00:02:28that violate the social status laws are sent to the Executioner so they're afraid so they don't
- 00:02:33get involved Aladdin isn't able to accept this using a lot of his powers based on his emotions
- 00:02:38from meeting the young Magi Alibaba goes against the audience but I'm able to teach morgiana how
- 00:02:42to break her mental chains they're having a newfound goal of finding her Homeland the plot
- 00:02:47is mostly about wars between Empires countries Aladdin learns that not all Magis have the same
- 00:02:52goal making them potential enemies their episode plot structure sounds rather easy but is hard to
- 00:02:57accomplish first a main lead would be left to a new location meet a new character that's given a
- 00:03:02bit of development then they'll be tasked with fixing a problem from time to time one of the
- 00:03:06new characters would die and the main lead would be forced to take away a new life lesson despite
- 00:03:11there being three main leads as customary for shonen's I believe the characters do have a
- 00:03:15particularly good job of showcasing their own unique personality they do form a traveling party
- 00:03:20but everyone in there is voluntarily there and they have no problems departing from one another
- 00:03:24on their own Journey which if anything mirrors the real world we're all main characters in our
- 00:03:30own story and we might have friends but we don't have to depart from those friends to reach our
- 00:03:35own destination this is hard to do an anime like ask yourself this Tale one piece gorillagan can
- 00:03:41they focus on the would-be side characters and it still be good and the reason why Maggi is similar
- 00:03:46to these animes is because they have multiple main leads the audience can find interesting to
- 00:03:51advance the story enough with what it feels like an endless amount of Adventures that can go on the
- 00:03:55settings are Lively which at times makes you just want to smile and dance around but can also go
- 00:03:59into to more adult slash mature topics the other children stay away from like the fact that they're
- 00:04:04all kids but they know there's a place in the city where they can go to where beautiful women will
- 00:04:09surround them and will be willing to do anything as long as they have money or a title and how not
- 00:04:14everyone has a grand title they have their own day job with Moe's just trying to just get by willing
- 00:04:19to work any job no matter how demeaning that could be with other people having open prejudice against
- 00:04:25other people Maggie has a unique interpretation of Arabian style season two of Magi ends on chapter
- 00:04:30199 of the manga with this being the eighth Arc as far as remaining content they can add they have
- 00:04:36three more arcs that have not been adapted yet the alma Tehran Arc the co-empire art final Arc but
- 00:04:43I'm also not finishing the adventures of Sinbad so there's still enough content to adapt to say
- 00:04:48a movie or two seasons streaming this isn't all be a new segment on these videos but it can no longer
- 00:04:53be ignored now the information here is probably the most interesting but without a doubt is the
- 00:04:58hardest to actually put a pin on hopefully this will be more clear in the future to make these
- 00:05:01videos easier so take it with a grain of salt but also just want to point out this segment alone
- 00:05:05could be its own video Magi license are streaming rights back in 2013 to MBS with this being their
- 00:05:10native country of Japan madman entertainment which is based in Australia takaze which is in
- 00:05:15the UK and anyplex of America which is in the name America obviously I'm going to be talking
- 00:05:20about America anyplace then did a deal to give the streaming rights to Netflix and Crunchyroll
- 00:05:24this honestly so far is the best deal possible you see the way licensing works for animes is
- 00:05:30they're broken down into royalty based with an mg that being a minimum guaranteed or flat base with
- 00:05:36upfront deals in general streaming services at the time like Crunchyroll and Funimation
- 00:05:42you're still gonna be mentioned paid the minimum and offered royalties so animes could make their
- 00:05:48money back over time briefly talk about this in my last video that being the trendy 7 video
- 00:05:52that has a lot of information that I guess people just found a little boring so they didn't watch
- 00:05:56it as much but there's a lot of information in that video but in that video I basically
- 00:06:00explained that most animes make their money back years later like a seven year plan type of thing
- 00:06:05for example while sites like Netflix plus Disney plus and I guess you could say Hulu paid a flat
- 00:06:10rate year deal Maggie came out in 2012 and 2013. the first year it could be considered an A plus
- 00:06:16priority given his early season placing and the amount of episodes it got but the second year
- 00:06:21I would say the priority fell off a little bit with it being an A minus based on this I think
- 00:06:25it's fair to say that they were paid 400 000 per episode in 2012 and probably around 250
- 00:06:30000 per episode in 2013 altogether 16 million 250 000. now this seems like a lot of money but funny
- 00:06:36enough this is usually used for the funding of the animation but for reference I think this
- 00:06:40is just what Crunchyroll game later the anime was licensed to Netflix a different one with
- 00:06:45them probably paying an upfront cost winning a package of Magi and Sinbad streaming the animes
- 00:06:50worldwide so I wouldn't be surprised if they doubled with crunchwrote paid for the rights
- 00:06:54so yeah I personally think the streaming deal for Maggie now is worth about 60 million but
- 00:06:58made about 32 million five hundred thousand what makes this number probably a bit less is because
- 00:07:04anyplex is the lead producer with MBS also on the board licensing the anime to themselves
- 00:07:09then getting a long-term deal with Crunchyroll in an upfront bag with Netflix allegedly Blu-ray
- 00:07:15I think I could also add a disclaimer for this section now as well if you are up to date in
- 00:07:19the anime industry then you know it's changed a lot over the last years and I mean a lot really
- 00:07:24ever since streaming became the preferred way that you watch your shows with Crunchyroll I mean Sony
- 00:07:30as our new anime overlords with them deciding a lot of how the industry Market is going to
- 00:07:35be run with streaming now moving up into the 80 billion territory as the end of 2022 even with
- 00:07:40the streaming services in the red they're hoping to turn a profit years later here with each play
- 00:07:45worth a fraction of a cent as a YouTuber you can already kind of understand these numbers
- 00:07:49a bit better than most probably could and you can understand how long it took for creators
- 00:07:53to actually be paid a good wage but streaming is the future with industry trying to push us
- 00:07:57into a buying of digital copies instead of printed copies traditionally about 80 of the revenue came
- 00:08:03from Blu-rays and DVDs but that number keeps going down over the years and is being pushed out which
- 00:08:08isn't a bad thing it has some real positive sides to it the industry is finally doing what we've
- 00:08:13been calling to do for years and be more diverse in their revenue now let's introduce production
- 00:08:18companies or the bosses that own your favorite anime is maki serialized in 2009 in Chicago Coons
- 00:08:23weekly showing in Sunday until 2017. during this they advertise the anime to sell manga
- 00:08:29copies where there being six committees backing it who funny enough kept their stake in the second
- 00:08:33season this is not common based on this I think it's fair to say that 80 Flex owns a majority of
- 00:08:38the animation rights with a close second going to Chicago Coons production company which is a
- 00:08:42subsidiary company of the hoto sabashi group who Hado shows like saki komisan called the night
- 00:08:47and the all-time popular show in spy X family along with a radio and TV network there's also a
- 00:08:53merchandising company that deals with the figures CDs and trading cards to be honest these companies
- 00:08:58have a scary amazing track record picking the most successfully or critically acclaimed animes of all
- 00:09:03time the first season of Magi sold 72 279 copies this number is higher than the average for sure
- 00:09:10but they're not all-time numbers for Shonen so keep that in mind the second season sold 31 735
- 00:09:17copies again for most seasonal animes this is an acceptable number and even for modern day numbers
- 00:09:23very acceptable but with the genre and the big backing that was pushed for this Anime Plus The
- 00:09:29Upfront cost needed to make it I can somewhat understand them not wanting to continue because
- 00:09:35these numbers usually tend to just go down and then this happened Maggie Adventures of Sinbad
- 00:09:40now this anime is actually really good and this show probably meant to to be the hype for a third
- 00:09:45season but it sold an embarrassing number of copies being a thousand and seventy this steep
- 00:09:51decline is quite hard to ignore like I said they are now multiple ways to make a profitable anime
- 00:09:56but keep in mind this show came around in the 2010s where it's hard to do and wasn't really
- 00:10:01seen as a good idea in the US also keep in mind the blues were 80 of the profit so understandably
- 00:10:07the other committees put a pin on the idea of a season three other goods sold I feel the series
- 00:10:11did all right for itself being better than the average titles with it having an anime manga video
- 00:10:16games regular merchandising CDs and a stage play and yeah I know the idea of a stage play is kind
- 00:10:22of weird for your favorite anime especially in the west like no one's going to a stage play but
- 00:10:26as weird as it sounds anime is having a stage play goes back deep into their marketing schemes with
- 00:10:30the earliest being in the 70s oftentimes the voice actors are Idols or actors so they seamlessly walk
- 00:10:36right into the new role it's like for example if say Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time
- 00:10:41had Ariana Grande as the voice act and then she acted in the stage play plays are more accessible
- 00:10:46to the most die-hard fans who would go to them regardless of really what you're being given but
- 00:10:51then usually having a low budget to produce and what them oftentimes doing well the anime has
- 00:10:55great CD sales funny enough you can still buy a copy of the stage play on Blu-ray actually
- 00:11:00I said too much about the stage play we'll come back to this later but speaking of Music the main
- 00:11:04op of the anime from Sid's Outsider album sold 38 736 copies with the next appearing at number
- 00:11:11418 spot and then selling at 423 settling 12 741 copies and then 12 568 copies with this being for
- 00:11:21Eden and various songs with this being for season two four months after the series anime adaptation
- 00:11:26was announced in June 2012 the print circulation of manga went from three main copies of the first
- 00:11:3112 volumes to 6.5 million copies of the first 14 volume with it increasing to over 18 million
- 00:11:36copies in May 2015 then to 25 million copies by April that same year I say all that to say it's
- 00:11:42crazy to think that they have had a video game series that no one's ever heard of and just did
- 00:11:47poorly they had four in total two of them being on 3DS the first being titled after the anime's
- 00:11:51name with attacking the first season with it later being removed from Nintendo's eShop Within magy's
- 00:11:56A Whole New World talking about season two as for the two mobile games they're not even more
- 00:12:00from memory there was a card game and then there was an RPG game it would be an understatement to
- 00:12:04say that the franchise dropped the ball here but I'm trying to use Japan's most popular console to
- 00:12:08further push their fantasy into the households of Japan they were hoping that Nintendo's audience
- 00:12:12would give them a long-term future with a video game but that just simply didn't pan out being
- 00:12:17costly with them obviously missing on the vastly large and accessible audience of mobile which this
- 00:12:23is another callback to my Trinity Seven where I basically go over how much mobile games can
- 00:12:27actually make for anime with it being big enough to be the main driving force of your Revenue it's
- 00:12:32easy for me to say this in hindsight but this could have been the easiest and most profitable
- 00:12:36Avenue for modern animes that they could have discovered but that didn't happen and there are
- 00:12:41four games that they did make are forgettable and if anything thing put them in a bigger deficit
- 00:12:45light novels flash printed works this is based where I just go over how much they made with
- 00:12:48the printed work like we already know Maggie had 37 volumes of the manga selling over 25 million
- 00:12:53copies and if you just want to go with easy math you put each copywork at ten dollars given this
- 00:12:57I think it's fair to say that they've made 300 million dollars from the manga sales now this is
- 00:13:01just me doing the most basic of calculations of how many copies they sold average price of the
- 00:13:05books I mean come on granted I will say this is on the high end as always because I'm not counting
- 00:13:09distributions and how many other people you have to pay along the way now for the adventures of
- 00:13:13Sinbad which is honestly more debatable in terms of how much they actually sold but there being
- 00:13:17less information available with this purely being calculated by me and not in some other official
- 00:13:22Source but given this I think they sold three million 461 867 copies making around a little
- 00:13:29over 38 million geez and when I'm doing this calculation this calculation also is really only
- 00:13:35based on Japan mainly because I didn't feel like doing the NPR stuff uh if you if you don't know
- 00:13:41let's go back to 27. granted this number is only me cow calculating Japan's numbers that they gave
- 00:13:45not going off of the United States Summers for example or you can call me Lisa but I'm not going
- 00:13:50through every method possible to be fair Sinbad did outperform some of the later chapters of Magi
- 00:13:55making it understandable why they wanted to Pivot to Sinbad to restore up some hype to get a third
- 00:14:01season in Monkey that's why it's hard to really fault them with Sinbad now let's talk about the
- 00:14:05author what does she feel about this series it's kind of hard sometimes to even get something like
- 00:14:10this from the author but it definitely hits home a little bit more when you do the other gave a
- 00:14:15goodbye article wishing more kids would just watch more Shonen and not grow out of the genre what
- 00:14:20I took from this is people in the Shonen genre buy a lot at the start throughout their life and
- 00:14:24then they leave becoming adults yes but leaving to watch other anime genres with this usually
- 00:14:29being how a lot of young boys get into anime only coming back for the big and best showings that are
- 00:14:37there like one piece Naruto Dragon Ball making it harder to keep an eye into over years and
- 00:14:43hindsight against say maybe she should have kept going with the manga series and then eventually
- 00:14:4710 years later you know look at what you created but it's hard to really dispute someone as close
- 00:14:52to the work as the author so overall it's a four out of five formula follows a lot of what other
- 00:14:56showings had at the time but in an Arabian fantasy world instead of the traditional anime formula of
- 00:15:01Japan the world felt alive and for the most part right but it also had dark elements and deeper
- 00:15:07storytelling where we could understand the world through Aladdin's eyes as the audience
- 00:15:11I guess what you could say is it had less than seller numbers than made some sense in ways to
- 00:15:17not keep continuing this isn't about if the anime was good I think everyone would agree that yeah it
- 00:15:21was but they can also say that maybe there wasn't a reason to keep continuing the Animated Series I
- 00:15:26would assume andiplex owns the rise of the anime the manga already finished so the Publishers don't
- 00:15:30have an incentive to keep advertising it with chrisonia I mean any place I mean Crunchyroll
- 00:15:35having a Stranglehold on anime I can't really see it coming back unless Crunchyroll feels threatened
- 00:15:41with this coming from the anime exclusivity deals so it's hopeless well that's what I was going to
- 00:15:45say but something might have had me change my mind remember how I mentioned the stage plays
- 00:15:50the plays just didn't start back in 2014 or 2017 but in 2020 yes Maggie was green lit to have a
- 00:15:57more low budget musical in 2022 and it seems to be opening with positive perception with Crunchyroll
- 00:16:03doing a small but still promotion for it I would assume this was made to serve Japanese interests
- 00:16:08for a globally profitable anime I don't think it's just some throwaway news like when have you known
- 00:16:13a Japanese anime company to do something out of the kindness of their hearts yeah not very often
- 00:16:17and still I can point to cases where this wasn't exactly anything significant like full metal going
- 00:16:22live action Death Note having multiple live action iterations same for xxholic my little monster and
- 00:16:27this very well could just be a throwaway cash rap but like we said there's more content they could
- 00:16:33adapt learned in a different age of anime like for example Devil is a part-timer got a season 2 this
- 00:16:38year like Masami nokun Revenge got a season 2 with it coming out later on isaka AI smartphone got
- 00:16:44another season so it's not unreasonable to think that they wouldn't get another season I think the
- 00:16:49show had a crazy amount of things going for itself but it simply failed to be a tier one Shonen with
- 00:16:54some of the other people it was mentioned with which isn't the worst thing seeing how close it
- 00:16:58got to tapping into its true potential but as far as like fans could actually do to best get another
- 00:17:03season I would say there's like three steps step one would be to watch Orient what is Orient with
- 00:17:10this being the author's second favorite child if you go to the comments section of that show right
- 00:17:14now people are going to be talking about Maggie still with them hoping that she's going to be
- 00:17:18greenlit to make another season of Maggie even how unlikely it is this could still happen Orion
- 00:17:23could be the fire force to Soul Eater where the author might be inspired to make more correlations
- 00:17:28between the two shows to keep it going even if it doesn't work out we get a very good story out
- 00:17:33of it step two streaming more of Maggie streaming is one of the ways companies make a profit after
- 00:17:38several years of it being in the red but it's sort of like being if enough people kept streaming
- 00:17:43the series repeat the higher up some control to contact other people they'll see that the anime is
- 00:17:47trending with a story like being if the show went number one on the Twitter's trending page I can't
- 00:17:52exactly prove this but I kind of seen it happen and I'm just going off of what my gut is telling
- 00:17:57me lastly step three buy more copies of magi's manga series and with this I would probably be
- 00:18:01saying like the re-releases of the manga not old copy with this method probably being the one I
- 00:18:05least suggested of anyone do you see both Annie Plex and Chicago don't really have a reason to
- 00:18:10promote the series if we look at anyplex they have ton of Big Time anime series that is streaming
- 00:18:16right now currently that are going crazy and Chicago has already finished the manga series and
- 00:18:21they've already sold millions of copies the only reason I even mentioned this as a potential step
- 00:18:25is because the creator of DxD even though he sold millions of copies is having to tell again people
- 00:18:31to go buy the new releases of their manga copies that is the only reason I would be mentioning
- 00:18:36this step for this anime I hope you guys have enjoyed the video make sure you leave me a like
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