10 Second Anime - Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 10

Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 10



The park is running fine, but Seiya feels the pressure as the deadline approaches. Latifa's condition is tied to the Amagi Brilliant Park's fate, spurring Seiya to work harder.

Heh.

Usually we get the "wanting to protect someone's smile" cliché in anime, but here we actually get Seiya wanting to make someone genuinely smile. This ties in pretty neatly with the whole purpose of the amusement park.

This was a special kind of recap episode. All the solutions for all the problems we've seen in past episodes are shown to great effect. From the new pirate show at the water park, how Ruby the Dragon's new attraction looks, the unveiling of the park at night and even a special callback to the first episode.



Those three little monsters still have Isuzu's number too.



The three salarymen and Isuzu show up at the bar, making the same kinds of jokes.

They don't even need viral online video marketing anymore when local news and magazines are doing stories on the park's comeback.



Tricen will definitely remember all the attention from boom mics and magazine racks, hunched over, of course. Somehow Sylphy is handling all the viral video marketing by herself now...

Seiya made the same face I made when I found out that Moffle was Latifa's real uncle. I mean, he made that hypothetical tragic love story rant when he was impersonating Seiya at school, but he SAID it was hypothetical.

You've always got to watch out for the quiet ones. Koboli made up BL scenarios starring Seiya and some "good for nothing rookie."

We haven't seen Seiya's sister since the first episode either (See? Recap episode), but she offered the best advice for dealing with failure. Drink!



Hilarious that she used the Kanie superior smirk for advocating accepting defeat with copious amounts of alcohol.

We even got a reminder of how famous Seiya used to be.



Moffle was big, big, big fan of his little child prince role!

Geh.

Who wouldn't want to burn down the rest of the world except for the little island of Amaburi Brilliant Park for this face?



Hnnnggh...!

Hmm.

The two main puzzles of the series, how Latifa's condition is connected to the park and how Seiya knew Latifa in the past, finally got their full explanations. Latifa's wasting disease is actually a magic curse that not only makes her need way more Animus than a normal Maple Lander, but it also physically resets her on the same day every year, so she never ages and never remembers the last year. This explains the depth of feeling the Maple Landers had when Latifa was telling them they had to shut down the park. It wasn't only the selfish need for survival, though there was that from the balloon dinosaur, but they all knew it meant the death of their princess. They were all there on a special mission to keep her alive, and they had failed. They had lost hope, until some arrogant punk strolled in to save the day.

Seiya's memory of Latifa from 10 years ago had him trying to give the performance of his life to make some sad girl stop crying, but the smile she gave him was to console him for not cheering her up. This was the same smile Latifa gave the grown up Seiya, which was sparked the full memory coming back to him. Seiya doesn't want to protect that consoling smile. He wants to put a genuine smile on Princess Latifa's face. Calling him a miracle, when he knew it was one of those Japanese almost-but-not-quite-everything miracles, only caused Seiya more frustration.

We've only got a few episodes left, and it looks like Seiya has taken on an extra mission: to save the park from being sold and to break Latifa's curse. I wonder if that glasses wearing guy from the development company is related to the wizard who cursed Latifa. We haven't seen Seiya use his new magic power for much except for tricking a dragon, so there might be a way for mind reading to save Latifa from a wizard.

Things still look grim for the attendance goal, though. By Seiya's own projections, they're going to fall 40,000 people short. Seems like they might have a stadium that could hold that many people... Could the news Tricen brings an inspired Seiya at the end of the episode be related? If Isuzu is the oracle with her future predicting dreams, maybe she didn't get all the details right for how Seiya would save the park. They've got 10 days left to build their miracle.