10 Second Anime - Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 13 [END]

Amagi Brilliant Park - Episode 13 [END]

A fan service episode full of fun stuff for fans. Tricen tries to produce a promotional video for the park but we find out much more about our loveable cast instead. Series Finale.

Heh.

For a second there, I thought we were going to have the second season of Full Metal Panic Fumoffu with Sousuke stuck in his suit.

Seiya and Moffle know entertainment. Hilarious how they both pronounced, verbatim, Tricen a boring director making a boring video. We saw how in sync they were from the second episode when Seiya could see through Moffle's attacks, but was always prevented from counterattacking by Isuzu.

Isuzu is bothered by those thighs. I'm not. Not at all.

Did Gou-chan slip into a Koboli costume?

Muscles and speedos and biceps and pecs! You go Koboli! Let your fujoshi flag fly high!

Isuzu also wanted more man-flesh. Squee!

Tricen knows exactly who Isuzu thinks is better looking than the security guards. Office gossip must produce a lot of giggles whenever Seiya and Isuzu get tsundere with each other. C-girl also couldn't bring herself to say what was missing from Tricen's video. At least that's how I'm interpreting her reaction and almost suggestion.

So Tricen is the only one who can hear Codain talk? And just how did a statue we never see move get up in space?

Geh.

Ashe-sama, you crazy!

Extremer ironing! I got my wish though. She did something extreme(r) wearing glasses!

Hmm.

Seiya shouldn't be surprised that some weird video showing the actual personalities of the park's cast members got almost a million and a half hits. People are curious about the people who work at an amusement park and in the age of online social media, everyone's a reality star waiting to be discovered.

I think that crazy video was just Tricen's sneaky lazy way of getting his original promo to become the official video for the park's web presence. And it was another callback to Seiya's use of scantily clad idols to really promote Moffle's related video of smacking some rude customers. Maybe Tricen did understand splash zone organic traffic driving!

This episode could have easily been a DVD extra, but it was released the day after Christmas. Thank Kyoani for the holiday gift!

Final Thoughts.

This show was fun! It was great to look at, had quirky characters, a ridiculous premise, great comedic writing and elements, and a heart of pure sentimental goo. Great comedies need to have a background of impending tragedy to fill the audience full of dramatic tension to move the story along and lighten our hearts when things get too heavy. Every Shakespeare comedy was a tragedy that ended in a wedding. I think my brother the Renaissance scholar told me that once.

The characters were the source of tragedy. An antihero sought redemption, even if he couldn't admit it. A royal family needed courage to seek an outsider's help and accept it. A princess needed to be saved from an evil wizard's curse. A land needed to be protected from oblivion. The villagers needed to escape their doom. Sounds really dark, right? Well, make half of those characters fuzzy mascots, add a dash of magic, and have them go to bars, pachinko parlors and high school. Comedy!

The setting of an amusement park sold the use of magic. The gold standard is Disneyland, where "dreams come true." But what if the cast members were real and so was magic? That fantasy element gave the audience the feeling that anything was possible and that the story could literally go anywhere. Even the people attending the park inside the story felt that, otherwise how could anyone tolerate a black pirate ship popping up in the middle of a pool and its crew start taking hostages? Magical.

The one relationship I appreciated the most was between Seiya and Moffle. There were all sorts of dichotomies running through there. The old and the new guard, perfectionists at their respective crafts bristling at criticism, and the father figure scared some new guy who appears to be a younger version of himself is going to take his little girl away. By the end of the story, the generational tension gave way to mutual respect, with the grizzled veteran accepting new ideas and the talented prodigy learning the value of experience. Just don't expect Moffle and Seiya to be best buddies, though.

Best of all, this story surprised me. I really had no idea what was going to happen from episode to episode. The structure of the narrative was classical comedy, so it all flowed naturally, but the details! I laughed. I laughed a lot. I fully recommend watching this show.