10 Second Anime - Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 11

Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 11



Seiya finds his solution to make up the attendance shortfall - sponsor a local soccer match. After all the effort, will they still fall short?

Heh.

This show's pattern of using the final scene of each episode and the title of the next episode in the after credits as the preview was all for this episode. This was the payoff for those fun little scenes. It was a great cliffhanger and totally spoiler free. Good job.

Congratulations go to this show too for totally faking me out with how they were going to use the stadium. I thought for sure they were somehow going to use the Elemental Fairies giving a flash mob concert through Sylphy's viral video fans, but piggybacking on a popular soccer club's exhibition match was remarkably mundane for a show steeped in magic. Seiya had warned us how little viral video translates into attendance, so maybe there's still something there in this plot point.

We had a nice scene showing how Seiya had gained the confidence of the staff when announcing a hard decision to ensure the economic viability of the park. It was a marked contrast to how he posed himself as a villain in the first episode to give the cast members someone to focus their frustrations on as a source of motivation. Sylphy showed support, in her own random way.



Where did she get that katana? Don't tell me she pulled it out from under her boy shorts like Isuzu does...

Seiya and the Moles have a great working relationship.



I thought it was a bit of a missed opportunity not to have Koboli support Tiramie in growing an awesome field of grass. She could have done something with her trowel.

Hey Tricen, coffee is for closers!



Seiya was definitely the closer for the deal, even if he gave away the farm. However, the whole point of his tenure was the attendance number. They've already been running in the red from the 30 yen promotion and have only been making payroll by selling otaku memorabilia and, soon, the southern half of the park's property. I knew Seiya had to use his magic ability in crunch time, and this was it.

Speaking of crunch time.



Get your game faces on. These scenes were exactly like NFL Films showing pensive moments before the Super Bowl. Well done. But, uh, why is Sylphy acting like a boxer before entering the ring? I was expecting to see shark puppets instead of boxing gloves.

Geh.

Ashe-sama approves of the property sale.



It's still a travesty we never saw the park's accountant in a bikini, an idol outfit, or casual clothes at the bar with the salarymen.

Eh!?

They're short by 252 people! They've got 3 hours to get 252 people to come to the park!

Hmm.

Well, I was right that they had to use the stadium somehow to get an extra fifty thousand people, but it was also predictable that they would end up a little short right before the end. That's how you establish dramatic tension.

They've got three hours left to make the attendance goal. I see three ways for how the series resolves itself. 1) Absolute happy ending - attendance goal made, with dramatic plot points showing how to break Latifa's curse. 2) Good enough happy ending - they don't make the attendance goal, but find out how to break Latifa's curse so the park isn't necessary to keep her alive. 3) Hopeful happy ending - barely make the attendance goal, keeping the park in Latifa's ownership, and showing hints of a future resolution on breaking the curse.

This show threw me a creative curve ball with using a soccer match to fill the stadium, so I won't be surprised at all if the ending they come up with is something else entirely. All I ask before the end is please show Koboli using her earth magic. That, and showing the salarymen with rage faces one more time.