An Arabian Nights-themed manga by Shinobu Ohtaka, the author of Sumomo Mo Momo Mo.Aladdin is a Cute Shotaro Boy and Cheerful Child who's partial to pretty ladies. He's traveling a dangerous desert full of bandits and monsters, but that's ok — his magic flute summons a huge, muscular djinn named Uugo. Uugo happens to be missing his head at the moment, but this doesn't seem to stop him from casually tossing aside any threats (although he also tends to scare the crap out of whoever Aladdin is trying to protect...) However, summoning Uugo does a number on Aladdin's stamina, requiring him to sleep for a while, so they have to be a little careful.In their travels they meet Ali Baba, a young man who dreams of getting filthy rich by Dungeon Crawling. See, in this land, dungeons periodically appear out of nowhere: mysterious, seemingly extra-dimensional spaces full of monsters, traps — and fabulous treasures. Realizing that Uugo would mitigate a lot of the dangers, Ali Baba quickly befriends Aladdin and persuades him to go exploring a dungeon in the middle of the nearby City of Adventure.As they charge into unknown peril, encountering allies and powerful foes, Aladdin encounters other djinn, and discovers he may be The Chosen One...A character sheet is now in progress.
Tropes:
Actually Pretty Funny: Morgianna pays no attention to Aladdin’s childish antics, but gives a small laugh when he makes a particularly dopy imitation of her horrid master.
A-Cup Angst: Pisti. Even Aladdin doesn't believe she's actually 17 from the size of her boobs.
Art Shift: To a more sketchy, much less defined style when something particularly surprising has happened, usually of the absolutely hilarious variety.
The Chosen One: There are hints of Aladdin being this. Due to a prophecy of the land that mention that the Magi will chose and guide one who is worthy enough though the city's local dungeon. This turns out to be Ali Baba whom Aladdin (said Magi) willing helps in his quest as he shows he's an honest and caring person worthy of reward despite how he initially seems. At the end of the first arc, he even (unknowingly) gets his own genie. Jamil thinks he should be this just because his position in the city but Aladdin quickly shuts him down.
Also a subversion. As it turns out, Aladdin isn't the only magi, and there are far more "king candidates" than Ali Baba.
Collapsing Lair: The fate of dungeons after they have been successfully completed.
Deflector Shield: Magi and Magician can create 'Bolg' to protect themselves from physical attack and magical attack to a degree. Now, against a Djinn's strength, though....
Fat Bastard: The wine merchant. Preferred to let a little girl die rather than sacrifice his profitable wine. Alibaba's step brother Ahbmed Saluja also fall into this trope.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Ali Baba's mother, and not just to him: she saved his friends from being beaten by their drunken father, then adopted them when he either died or abandoned them.
Hope Spot: Combined with Retirony, Baba is fatally wounded pretty much right after her clan has both saved its people from slavery while preventing war (by not killing the slavers) and thinking she must live on with her family.
I Work Alone: Alibaba in the Balbadd arc and Hakuryuu. Deconstructed in that doing this seems noble, but it also alienates you from a potential ally, making you unable to move forward or plain get you killed.
La Résistance: Alibaba eventually leads the "Fog Troupe" against the king Ahbmad.
Magic A is Magic A: The different magics have specific, complex rules for their use. So many that a lot of readers get mazed by the Info Dump during the Expositions.
Memento MacGuffin: Usually, Djinn metal vessels and household vessels are like this; they are usually things that the owner had some memories and dependence upon.
Non-Elemental/ Soul Power: Every Magi who is loved by Rukh can directly use magoi to attack instead of converting it into Elemental Powers. It doesn't work as well against fellow magi, though.
Obvious Rule Patch: After Sinbad conquered his seventh dungeon, its djinn basically told him, "You're not allowed to collect any more djinn after this for balance reasons."
Leila, when she sees bandits who recognize her dark and troubled past.
Alibaba makes this face, and thinks it, after Aladdin, in typical ignorant shonen hero fashion, simply breaks a slave’s chains in the middle of a market without understanding the consequences.
Power Copying: The Ants in the first dungeon, actually Slimes, are capable of this, changing their form after analyzing the strengths of their opponents.
The Power of Friendship: Aladdin's personality tends to center around this. When a misunderstanding causes him to think Ali Baba doesn't really think of him as a friend, he goes into a serious Heroic BSOD.
Aladdin says this trope word for word after deciding to go dungeon diving with Alibaba, but it’s subverted as Alibaba isn’t in a friendly mood.
The Slimes in the first dungeon are a shout out to Dragon Quest, complete with “A Slime appeared” narration.
Shown Their Work: One chapter goes into economic theory in surprising detail, à la Spice and Wolf. It's also pretty astute about the political complications of overthrowing a ruler, even if he is a tyrant.
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