These accessories will fly in Harajuku soon.
Last time on Amagi Brilliant Park, the water park area of Amagi Brilliant Park starts to receive more visitors as summer comes, but the gate to Maple Land breaches, bringing in a massive pirate ship who take over the area. With the customers thinking it all as some show run by the park, Seiya uses his new mole employees to retake the water park and rescue Latifa……only to hire pirates later for future shows.
Summary of Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 8 and 9
- Seiya falls ill after getting weighed down with schoolwork and managing the park simultaneously. So Isuzu, Moffle, Macaron and Tiramie develop the idea of creating a ‘bodysuit’ of Seiya, so he can attend lessons. This, however, backfires when their real attitudes towards life come about, making Seiya a target for every girl in the school when he gets better.
- Later, in Episode 9, fairies Muse, Salama, Kobori and Sylphy end up clashing over their trademark show, Elementario. In an effort for them to bond, Latifa invites them to her castle, only for them to accidentally activate the park’s defense system. So in order for them to escape, the four must face testing trials which, eventually, makes them work again as a team.
My take
- After watching Episode 8, and later hearing about the fan feedback, I wondered to myself whether it would be an actual favorite episode…a monumental one…but it wasn’t for me. Instead of laughing at all the jokes of Isuzu, Moffle, Macaron and Tiramie showing their true colors in the ‘form’ of Seiya, I instead was thinking about that poor girl who was being pushed around by the four of them. The one which instigated the mass female alliance of hatred towards Seiya. Not sure if you could say it was a ‘meh’ episode, but I just wasn’t as entertained as I thought as I ought to be.
- Episode 9, on the other hand, I found so much better. An easy-to-spot filler, but the fact that the fairies finally had the limelight was something. I was getting kind of bored of Muse’s tryharding, Salama’s not-caring and Koromi’s stoic demeanor. But Sylphy has never stopped entertaining me. Never. And so with Salama being tested on karaoke, Koromi being tested on dancing, and Muse being tested on…umm…typing…the final trial came, and everyone lived happily ever after. Which makes one think how Sylphy managed to pass every single trial with flying colors despite how delusional and crazy and oblivious she is. And now we get to see a slightly weirder side to Latifa; setting up an elaborate and potentially fatal plan to get the fairies to bond again. First, hotpot, then that button, then those silly trials, then those death booths…
Well…I liked it…
- But I get to say “Poor Isuzu” at last. She’s being sidelined now, what with Seiya and Latifa forming this adorable little friendship that makes one go “awwwwwww”. But there’s no boyfriend and girlfriend thing between the two; more like onii-chan, onee-chan. Makes one think why Latifa addresses him as “-sama”. Obviously we’ll all find out, and it’ll crop up in those flashbacks in the beginning episodes that it seems everyone’s forgotten. Did the two know each other in the past? Are they related somehow? Was it Latifa’s fault that Seiya quit acting? Or maybe it’ll be something super extravagant and silly, like Seiya himself turns out to be royalty or something. Now that’s something I very much doubt, but if that does ever turn up to be the case, I’ll eat my stupid little hat. Okay so I am grasping at straws here, but with only 4 more episodes to go, things need to wrap up soon…really soon. These atypical KyoAni fillers of being at the water park, one of the staff being ill, members clashing but then all shiny and rosy and happy at the end……4 more episode and we need to know the important stuff. Will the park stay open? Will the people have to return to Maple Land? Will Isuzu confess? Will Seiya get over his superiority complex? Let’s all hope something comes up.
- Well I can tell you something now though; I’ve warmed to pretty much every character in this show, regardless of how big their role is. Even that so-bad-he’s-good Amagi Management guy who wants the place for a car park for the love hotel next door. And that’s something that rarely ever happens when I watch shows these days. Amagi Brilliant Park is certainly going to be on my Top 10 of 2014, that’s for sure. One other thing I’ve started to see these days is how Kyoto Animation has started to listen to both the bog-standard average viewers and the crazy hardcore otakus. Things like bodysuits, love hotels wouldn’t crop up in a family-oriented show 6 or 7 or 8 years ago. Makes you think how the children of 6 or 7 or 8 years from now would think about modern-day culture. The little kids didn’t have Twitter back then.
If only I could get my Twitter page to look like that.
