I didn’t know what this meant until now. The boy’s smart.
Last time on Amagi Brilliant Park, Seiya and Toriken discover the local soccer team has a friendly anniversary match on July 31st: the park’s deadline. Thanks to his magic, Seiya persuades the team’s owners to let them host the match in their empty stadium, thereby reaching the required visitor count…however when the game starts, they discover the visitor count is still short.
Summary of Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 12
- Discovering that the soccer match had some no shows, the entire staff ropes every single person they know to enter the park, free of charge. The idea pays off, making the park reach its 500,000 total. Later, the chief of Amagi Management arrives, revealing to Seiya that he was the wizard who cast the curse on Latifa the whole time. But miraculously, her curse is lifted by the fact her Animus tree blossoms throughout the night, thereby letting her remembering everything. Seiya goes by his agreement to resign as manager, but changes his mind thanks to his sister.
My take
- Well here came the episode that would, in theory, have us on the edge of our seats. But this is KyoAni, and of course, they got their target. And by then I totally lost all caring who the friendly vampire really was. But then it does make kind of sense. He’d just appear every now and then at the park in the middle of the night to taunt Seiya unannounced, he’d wear those clip-on glasses that make him look stupid…like I say, doesn’t matter now…but now we know that visitor cycle thing will carry on going every year. Thus proving Seiya cares more for our pretty princess than the Mami wannabe.
- This episode was more factual than anything else; not much in the way of fun. 4 things were established in the entire show:
1. The park reached its target very quickly.
2. We discovered who the wizard who gave Latifa’s curse really was.
3. Latifa managed to remember Seiya, Isuzu and everything else that happened in the last year, thanks to Seiya’s own geniusness.
4. Seiya decides to remain as manager.
- A rushed ending? Maybe, but it wasn’t like it wasn’t planned, like in some crappy shows I’ve seen in the past. I think it was all intentional, and that the final episode will fill us with so much fun and comedy, it’ll make us think that watching Amagi Brilliant Park in its entirety, fillers and all, was really worth it.
- So now the park got its target and Latifa’s going to be okay (for this year, at least). This could have effectively been the end of the show. Well now we know who the wizard is now, Amagi Brilliant Park could get a sequel that probably won’t be as good as this season…a second season that will showcase another year, and perhaps that guy will be defeated (don’t quite know how, though). But to be honest, keeping it as one season is fine for me. Seiya knows what he has to do: to get the park its 500,000 guests each year so that the cute girl she adores (poor Isuzu) won’t forget everyone. That’s fine enough an ending for us, and now that summer break has officially started, and now part of the park has been sold off to a hypermarket, Seiya will have more of an excuse to show off his superiority complex.
- And now the question remains……oh wait, it doesn’t really. Towards the end of Hyouka, Yasuhiro Takemoto (the director of this show), chose to do a few episodes that could (or could not) be described as fillers to officially end the show. And so I think it’d be rather odd if he didn’t do the same thing for Amagi Brilliant Park. So with the final episode, it’s just a matter of what exactly he’d do. Well it’s summer break now, but we’ve already had the beach/water episode. We could always have Isuzu confessing, but that will never ever happen. We could always have Seiya confessing too, but a mirror beat Isuzu to it, I do believe.
- I am, oddly enough, very interested on how a show that has already ticked its I’s and crossed its T’s would end. Personally? The park would close for the day, and the entire staff would host a beer-fueled party.
Amagi does Glastonbury.
