Magi: ‌The ‌Labyrinth ‌of Magic wrapped up its anime run in March 2014, and since then there’s been no official word on a continuation. That’s left a glaring gap, especially because the anime covered only about the first 20 volumes of a 37-volume manga, meaning almost half of Shinobu Ohtaka’s finished story never made it to the screen.

What makes this situation stand out is that the usual “we’ll see where the manga goes” problem doesn’t apply here. The manga ended cleanly in 2017, with all 369 chapters released. The remaining arcs already exist, fully written and ready to be adapted, without the uncertainty that comes with waiting on ongoing source material. No one has ever offered a formal reason for why a third season never happened, but the conversation in the industry has often circled the same possibilities: weak Blu-ray sales back when discs weighed heavily in production decisions, A-1 Pictures becoming increasingly tied up with other projects, and the sheer competitiveness of the early 2010s anime market.

Still, the landscape now looks nothing like it did then. The business side of anime has shifted hard toward international streaming, global licensing, merchandise, and the long game of franchise value. Blu-rays aren’t the lone deciding factor they once were. And Magi’s performance, commercially and critically, is hard to dismiss. The manga has moved over 25 million copies worldwide, regularly appeared among Japan’s top-selling series from 2012 to 2017, and took home the 59th Shogakukan Manga Award, a marker of both quality and staying power.Just as telling is what’s happened with the audience.

The fan community hasn’t thinned out and disappeared, it’s stayed active. More than a decade after the anime ended, people are still drawing fanart, cosplaying, running discussions, making video essays, and pushing for a continuation across social media. New viewers also keep finding Magi through streaming services, getting invested, and then hitting the same wall when they realize the adaptation stops well before the story’s conclusion. That level of ongoing engagement says a lot about the series’ reach and the impact it’s had.

Fantasy anime is also in a strong moment, and the things audiences keep showing up for, big worlds, morally messy characters, political tension, emotional stakes, are exactly what Magi has always been built on. A continuation wouldn’t only serve longtime fans; it would also bring a finished, award-winning fantasy epic to a new wave of viewers, while finally giving existing fans the ending they’ve waited more than ten years to see.

With that in mind, we ask the rights holders to seriously consider bringing the anime back, whether through A-1 Pictures or another studio with the ability to do it justice. Partnerships with modern streaming platforms could also help spread or reduce the financial risk. However it’s approached, the goal is simple: complete the adaptation of one of the most widely celebrated fantasy manga of its era. Magi has already shown its value through sales, awards, and a durable global fanbase, and now that the source material is complete and the industry has changed so much since 2014, the case for finishing this story is stronger than it’s ever been.