Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE ANIME ANY CRITICS ABOUT THIS ANIME WITHOUT WATCHING IT WILL HAVE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES!

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic is an anime written  by Shinobu Ohtaka and directed by Koji Masunari director of A-1 Pictures . This anime is inside the category of Shonen, because it's all about adventures and action. This anime is most likely featured like the story of the Thousand and One Night story because of the names of the main characters as Aladdin, Alibaba, Sinbad, Morgiana, Yuunan, Heliopath...

This anime is about a boy called Aladdin whose existence was not allowed in the world until he had a chance to explore the world by himself. On his way he finds out that he is a "Magi" a Mage of The Creation, loved by the Rukh the essence of life in the world and most magic's source. But so far he finds out what is he there are other people that don't want follow the right route of the destiny and they reverse their own destiny turning all into despair and nothingness and Aladdin must stop it from being spread.

I really liked this anime, it has two season with 24 chapters and most of it made me think about the destiny of each person and how bad would be for someone to reverse their destiny. Well those feelings cannot be explained if you didn't watch this anime. I liked it that much that I read the manga every week.

#shakespeare400

#shakespeare400: Is a hashtag of a season of cultural and artistic events across 2016, celebrating four hundred years of Shakespeare, his creative achivement and his profund influence on creative culture across the centuries.

#stratford-upon-avon: A hashtag which explains the market town Stratford-upon-avon in Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon. The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

#annehatheaway: She was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when he was 18 and she was 26 years old. She outlived her husband by eight years. Very little is known about her beyond a few references in legal documents, but her personality and relationship to Shakespeare have been the subject of much speculation by historians and creative writers.

#theglobe: The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend , and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

#plays:  The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western Literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history and comedy. The most famous plays are : Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar , The Tempest...

#plague The plays of Shakespeare were like a plague because when they were shown to the world almost all the people of the town had gone to the Globe Theatre to watch Shakespeare's plays.

#1595 William Shakespeare achieves prosperity and recognition as the Leading London Playwright.

#queenelizabeth  Shakespeare was ardently attracted to Elizabeth and her Court, and proved a faithful servant to his royal mistress. The first evidence of this is in his fine eulogy of the virgin queen in that most sweetly poetical early drama, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, as "a fair vestal throned by the west".

#thearmada  The british victory against The Spanish Armada influenced Shakespeare in his plays, adding more English national identity to the country.

#shakespearequotes "To be or not to be, that's the question" , "We know what we are, but know not what we may be", "It is not in the stars to hold the destiny but in ourselves"

DIFFERENCES ABOUT THE BOOK AND THE FILM

Question 1. SETTING: Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place?
Example: Verona VS Verona Beach. Where are they? Which country?

In the film the place they filmed the film it's in Verona Beach in United States, a hot neighbourhood decorated with 20th century style. However Verona from the book of Romeo and Juliet it's in Italy not in United States and in the 14th century not the 20th.

Question 2. IMAGERY: metaphors & images:
WATER and FIRE, LIGHT and DARKNESS,  the MOON... What do they  mean?

Generally the Water symbolism has a universal undertone of purity and fertility, it also symbolizes life, motion, renewal, blessing, intuition, reflection, subconscious, fertilization, purification and transformation. However the Fire symbolism allows you to hold the power and the passion of the Gods, right in the palm of your metaphorical hand. It also symbolizes energy, passion, power, action, sexuality, creativity, authority, consumption, the untamed, destruction...

The Light it's the spiritual and the divine, it's illumination and intelligence. Ligth is the source of goodness and the ultimate reality. Light is knowledge, purity and morality. However Darkness is  a symbol of evil or mystery of fear. The darkness is almost a monster waiting to swallow you whole.

The moon is a symbol of subtlety. It also means time, cycles, psyche, wonder, shadow, balance, renewal, mystery, emotion, intuition, passivity, influence, fertility, transition, femininity, perception, progression, receptivity, illumination...

The meaning of Lightning in the film it's all about Power, clarity, sacred, fertility, creativity, revelation, inspiration, destruction, enlightenment or announcement.

Question 3. LANGUAGE. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator?
All the characters that appear in the book and also appears in the film talk in verse because of original sentences of Shakespeare. Although in the film the narrator it's the News Woman and she speaks in prose.

Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY. What's the role of the costumes the characters wear?
In the film Juliet wears a costume of an Angel, meaning of purity and naivety. Tybalt is dressed with a Devil's costume, meaning of evilness, power, destruction...

Question 5. ELEMENTS. To make the new version, basic elements have been changed. Example: swords for gun. In the film the man who gaves poison to Romeo is a drugdealer and in the book  Romeo bought it in a shop. And Romeo brought a mask to the party not a suit of a knitght, furthermore Juliet was'nt dressed and in the film was disguised as an Angel. The Prince of Verona is actually a Prince not a Police Station Captain. The nurse in the book is the maid in the film. The tomb of Juliet is a cript not a tomb inside of a church, otherwise the church was over decorated. Juliet dies with a dagger in the book, not as in the film that she dies with a gunshot in her head.

Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version. Verona It's a medieval city not a modern city with skyscrappers and policemen. Mantua was supposed to be a town not a moving group convoy.