Magi: Adventure of Sinbad (マギ シンドバッドの冒険) is a Japanese manga series written by Shinobu Ohtaka and illustrated by Yoshifumi Ohtera. It is a spin-off and a prequel to Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May to June 2013, before being moved to Shogakukan's website Ura Sunday (also later available on the MangaONE app) in September of the same year and published until April 2018. Its chapters were collected in 19 volumes.
The manga was adapted into a five-episode original video animation (OVA) produced by Lay-duce, released from May 2014 to July 2015 bundled with some volumes of the manga. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation, by the same staff from the OVA, was broadcast from April to July 2016.
Plot
Many abnormal things start occurring around the world, with magicians noticing the birth of a certain child. Badr, a war veteran helps his wife Esra successfully birth their child; a future King and the special First-Class Singularity.
Living in the Parthevia Empire with his father Badr and his mother Esra, Sinbad spends his childhood living in discrimination due to the fact that his father avoids going to war against the Reim Empire that all men of Parthevia must go to. Authorities come and take Badr by force, and Sinbad unfortunately loses his father due to the war against the Reim Empire, and spends his youth helping the local villagers and tending to his ill mother. One day, he meets and shelters a mysterious man named Yunan, unaware that he is a Magi.