After producing five OVAs bundled with the manga series, the TV series adaptation of the Magi: Adventure of Sinbad was announced last September with plans for it to air this year. We learned previously that it will debut in April 2016 as part of the Animeism block on MBS as part of the spring 2016 anime season and now new details have surfaced. With Aniplex streaming the announcement video and updating the official site – which includes the new visual to the right – the show will run in five arcs that mirror the arcs of the manga.
The TV series will be utilizing what we’ve seen with the manga bundled anime episodes where it’ll be directed by Yoshikazu Miyao based on scripts by Taku Kishimoto. It’s being animated at Lay-duce with Souichirou Sako handling the character designs.
The cast includes Daisuke Ono as Sinbad, Akira Ishida as Yunan, Tomokazu Sugita as Drakon, Ai Kayano as Serendine, Katsuyki Konishi as Badr, Yoko Hikasa as Esra, Keiji Fujiawara as Hinahoho, Takahiro Sakurai as Jafar, Ayumi Fujimura as Pipirika, Takehito Koyasu as Barbarossa and Hiroki Touchi as Baal.
Plot concept: The series takes place thirty years before the main Magi series and focuses on the young Sinbad as he goes on his journey’s that leads to him becoming king.
Magi: Sinbad no Bouken TV Anime Announcement PV by pKjd
[Source: ANN]