10 Second Anime - Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 4

Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 4



Normal operations and a park emergency caused by flooding contrast Seiya's and Isuzu's leadership styles and gifts.

Heh.

Did Seiya just freehand Moffle, Tiramie, and Macaron with a mouse? Yes, yes he did. Mad skillz yo.

Seiya comes from the Fonzie school of electrical appliance repair. Ay!

One of the items Ashe-sama was complaining about was staff raincoats. Don't beat yourself up too badly Seiya. Even though you put off repairing the 3rd water pump, at least the employees had raincoats to deal with the sandbags and emergency pumps.



You'll get him next time, Ashe-sama.

I'm not surprised Isuzu was slack-jawed looking at Sieya's hyper-competency in his management skills. Considering her only tool of persuasion was a musket to the face, it's easy to see why the park was in such disrepair before Seiya took over.

Those little kids are monsters! They put Isuzu in a figure 4 leg lock, an arm lock and a sleeper hold.

Geh.

This episode was mainly about Isuzu, so she had to carry the weight of the fanservice duty. Oh yes, she delivered.



If that wasn't enough skin, compared to last episode, how about a sulky soak in the bathtub?



Hmm.

Isuzu's character study, a imperial guard tasked to take over the park management from Princess Latifa, was a good way of showing us how the park got so bad and an answer to Isuzu's issue she started having with Seiya last episode. His presence, and then his obvious management skills, kept reminding her of her first big failure in life. It's something to bond over with Seiya, who left the acting world at the height of his popularity, and was left with a psychological trauma manifested as a fear of heights.

Sieya's over the top performance of being the villain calling the hero's failures "trivial occurrences in everyday life" stirred something in Isuzu. I believe she recognized that he was putting on an act, not only to make her feel better, but she saw that it was a coping mechanism for himself as well. Perhaps she interprets the megalomaniac mask as Seiya revealing his own vulnerabilities, and was moved that he shared it with her.

At the very least, mutual respect was established, because you need a military mind to deal with natural disasters, as well as a corporate mindset to deal with normal business administration.

Isuzu's episode resolved one of the cliffhangers from last episode, but the obvious one, Latifa's health scare, is still being glossed over. Isuzu and Moffle say her collapsing is not a rare event, but they're both still hiding the reasons behind Latifa's frail health from Seiya. This is good, because I have a feeling those reasons will be tied in with Seiya's back story with the younger Latifa and what this prophecy of the "Chosen One" really means for the people from Maple Land.

It appears to be a thing now for this show to give us a dramatic tease at the end for the next episode. Will this dragon awakening in his lair be a throwaway joke or will it be something more serious? Will Macaron have to take it out with his sniper rifle? Or will this guy become a new attraction that will start getting the daily attendance into the thousands? They need to get over 3000 people a day to get to their attendance goal and a live dragon just might do the trick.