User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 5 - A Moonlit Lake, Review./@comment-25334245-20141118004158/@comment-7418318-20141120130630

It's the prequel to Magi - Labyrinth of Magic detailing the past of a very prominent leader and has nothing to do with the "classic" Sindbad stories.

The mangaka of Magi just used a lot of names from 1001 Nights and similar stories, obviously with the usual translocation stuff going on ( like Sindbad --> Sinbad for example). Seems that it's not easy to turn arabic into japanese. ^^

The manga is now at 41 chapters and so far two OVAs have been made. The 3rd one should come out soonish too, but the closest I got to a release date was from MyAnimeList who put it as "Aired: May 16, 2014 to Dec 18, 2014"... not very specific.