The official website forShinobu Ohtaka's andYoshifumi Ōtera's spinoff mangaMagi: Sinbad no Bōken (Magi: Adventure of Sinbad)announced on Wednesday that a television anime adaptation has been green-lit. The series is slated to air onMBS's "Animeism" block beginning April 2016.

The manga has already inspiredfiveOVA episodes that have shipped with volumes of the manga. The firstOVA episodeshipped with the manga's third volume in May 2014, the second episodeshipped with the fourth volume in August 2014, the third episodeshipped with the special edition of the fifth volume of the manga in December 2014, the fourth episodeshipped with the special edition of the sixth volume of the manga this past April, and the fifth episodeshipped with the seventh volume in July.

The main staff and cast are returning from theOVA series.Yoshikazu Miyao (Inazuma Eleven, S.A) is directing the series at studioLay-duce (Classroom Crisis) off scripts byTaku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!,Silver Spoon).Souichirou Sako designed the characters for animation andTomohiro Ōkubo is composing the music.

Daisuke Ono is returning from the mainMagi television series and the OVAs to play Sinbad. Other returning cast members includeAkira Ishida as Yunan,Tomokazu Sugita as Drakon,Ai Kayano as Serendine,Katsuyuki Konishi as Badr, andYōko Hikasa as Esra,Keiji Fujiwara as Hinahoho,Takahiro Sakurai as Jafar,Ayumi Fujimura as Pipirika,Takehito Koyasu as Barbarossa, andHiroki Touchi as Baal.

The manga is a spinoff of Ohtaka'sMagi manga. It takes place 30 years before the events ofMagi and focuses on Sinbad's journey to become king.

A 70-page "prototype" of the manga with art by Ōtera wasbundled with the first Blu-ray Disc of theMagi anime in 2012. The manga's prologue alsoran inWeekly Shonen Sunday later that year. Afterbeginning a full serialization inShogakukan'sWeekly Shonen Sunday magazine, itmoved to the publisher's web comic site "Ura Sunday" in 2013. The eighth compiled volume will ship on October 16.

Source:Comic Natalie