“I can’t hear myself from the sound of my own awesomeness!”
Last week on Amagi Brilliant Park, Seiya works on ways to promote the park via advertising and reduced ticket prices. With the help of Toriken, a video of Moffle dealing with unruly guests goes viral, making the visitor count higher. This in turn gives Moffle more vigor and energy to fulfill his job as an entertainer and park mascot.
Summary of Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 4 and 5
- After seeing Seiya managing the park so easily, Isuzu attempts to deal with problems, only for her bad attitude to get in the way. However after a downpour hits the park, she decides to step in. Afterwards, Seiya learns that Isuzu is in fact part of the military in Maple Land, and was forced to be manager of the park.
- Later, in episode 5, when Seiya’s 30 yen ticket price plan makes them broke, Moffle says there’s an abandoned cave in the park containing treasure. After getting lost inside, they find a former employee turned otaku, along with a population of engineers and a dragon, only to discover that the entire place was, in fact, an adventure-styled park attraction. Finding out the engineers used the treasure, they decide to sell the otaku employee’s models and anime to last them a month.
My take
- Another pack of filler episodes? Yes and no. After a couple of episodes now, I think some things have come up that might actually be quite important. For Seiya, Isuzu, Latifa, plus the gang-of-three. Seiya has admitted that his life as a child actor was, in fact, rather miserable…and he’s afraid of heights. Likewise, Isuzu has her own little secrets; she was brought up in a military family, yet after being part of the park for so long, she still manages to win the hearts of the staff, even with her not-so-great attitude. When it comes to Latifa though, I’m a little curious though. Obviously something happened that made Seiya and Latifa come together, whether it be in the present or in the past. I’m looking forward to future episodes; something I actually haven’t said about a show in a long time.
- Does that mean that my attitude towards shows has changed? I have a bit of an awkward job now, working evenings (*cough* *irrelevant*). I’m just saying that I don’t watch as much anime as I used to, so shows I find amazing are far and few. It’s only a third of the way through, and I’m finding this rather ‘amazing’, even with the 2 filler episodes. There’s not a character I don’t like, which is a rarity in its own right.
So school does exist, after all…
- I did say that each episode would mean something would happen involving at least one of the characters, and eventually nice words would be said and things would return to normal. No change for episode 4: Isuzu is the focus here, but I also think the relationship between her and Seiya is focused as well. They both have their own methods of management in the park…it was made clear that Isuzu’s own ‘methods’ of management was partly responsible of the park going downhill, but while Seiya was bossy, he made sure the job was done without the staff cowering at him. I’d make a crap manager, so seeing 2 high-school kids manage I-don’t-know-how-many-square-metres of theme park is beyond me. I mean, dealing with small things like designing new guides, to dealing with elementary school trips, to flooding. We can see that the mixture of Seiya’s apparent ‘genius’ and Isuzu’s military precision in crises makes the park work again. This is KyoAni’s way of saying that these two are a couple now, like it or not, regardless of Latifa’s cute methods of flirting with Seiya, calling him “-sama”. No wonder Isuzu’s frustrated; I mean it was Latifa who planted the first kiss, not her.
- But I have to admit that episode 5 fell a little flat. Finding a whole new part of the park, fine. With abandoned staff, fine. A hidden otaku creep, fine. What can I really say? Not much I’m afraid, aside from the fact that it’s blatantly obvious now that Isuzu is way too tsundere than she thinks she is, and the fact that we now know that she was never cut out to be an entertainer but a soldier, instead of saying “I-I-I’m not in love! Baka!”, she can just thrust her musket gun in peoples’ faces.
- But seriously guys, being a long-term MMO gamer, do read this warning. MMOs do take over lives, like it has done mine.
