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「プールが危ない!」 (Pūru ga Abunai!)
“The Pool Is Unsafe!”
This week, Amagi Brilliant Park gets invaded by pirates.
That’s it. What else is there to say? I should just end this post right here. Go home, guys and girls. We’re done.
This episode caught me off guard in multiple ways. For one thing, it started off so…normal. After two episodes of hijinks seeing the three faeries actually doing their job was a bizarre experience. For a moment I thought the plot would be about the Stooges having been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by unconvincing fakes. Instead, we’re introduced to forbidden things sealed beneath the water, and how can that not be a Lovecraftian horror? Though we do get plenty of tentacles, dead Cthulhu did not emerge from his house of R’lyeh. Instead, it was supposed to be a gateway back to the magic world. Okay, I could see potential in that. A way back home is an avenue for drama, and perhaps a chance for the Maple Landers to do some serious introspection.
I should have known better.
At its core, this week is simply Amaburi‘s version of the Obligatory Beach Episode, but simple swimsuits are apparently far too tame for Amaburi. Which is why, pirates! Spielberg parodies! Gleeful seal clubbing! Since they’ve got this huge, insane cast, they might as well do something insane with them.
Utilising new characters
I wasn’t expecting more out of last week’s hires, since we have so many characters already, but I’m glad they weren’t just a single-episode plot device. Sure, it was only girls A, B and C, but even by themselves they offer an interesting look into how mundane humans manage to deal with the magical Maple Landers. Props to them for managing to roll with all the crazy, though that’s probably reflective of the state of their own sanity. I was hoping some of the other loons would make an appearance, but I suppose we only have 20 minutes, after all. It does mean we missed out on a fateful pirates vs ninja confrontation, which is probably my only disappointment of the episode (though I’m sure at least one person was disappointed that Isuzu didn’t get her turn in the tentacle pit).
Despite the the increasing number of characters competing for attention, Amaburi continues to add to its bloating cast. I didn’t expect the shark to ever have a role, and now he even has his own troupe with the newly added Jabba the Hutt Ironbeard (Tanaka Mashiko). And the mole rats from episode 05 make a reappearance (but not the dragon though; shame on KyoAni for not giving us dragon vs pirates either), and I certainly wasn’t expecting them to remain relevant. The cast keeps growing! I’m going to have to update the OP at some point.
Old characters are still here
Of course, we can’t neglect our core members either, and even with all that went on this week they still managed to squeeze in development for them, as Amaburi has shown itself to be adept at doing. In fact, the Elementario girls may have gotten more development this episode than they have since episode 01. Koboli is a closet fujoshi. Salama has a minimum of one fan. Sylphy practices tai chi (and of course the wind faerie is a master of qigong. Hurray for foreign language jokes!). Meanwhile, Isuzu keeps trying (and really, this anime could easily be titled Isuzu Keeps Trying and lose nothing). I can’t tell if she’s getting better, but at least she’s getting somewhere; the IsuzuSeiya ship has officially progressed to the blush awkwardly in each others’ presence phase. Also: Isuzu, crack shot with an un-rifled gun with no depth perception. That’s more useful than all of the Elementario powers combined.
The only on who really loses out this episode was Latifa, who was very cute but was ultimately just a damsel in distress. It did make me smile to see Seiya go out of his way to console her, but that was more Seiya’s scene than Latifa’s. Fortunately, this episode also marks the brief reappearance of Kurisu Takaya (who loses and regains his glasses in between shots; they really are magical). This may be a signal for forward momentum in the plot—we’re more than halfway through, after all—and with it a larger role for the princess of Maple Land.
Oracles of the future
The reappearance of the antagonist—even if he does nothing except show up—should signify a shift in the plot, perhaps towards the serious. He’s a reminder that despite Seiya’s commendable efforts it’s still going to take a lot more to attract the required number of guests to satisfy the quota. Seiya needs to pull a bigger rabbit out of his hat, and along the way deal with the issues in his past, and probably Latifa’s past too.
The hook for next week, though, seems to involve some kind of Isuzu doppelganger. Or whatever. I’ve given up on trying to second-guess Amaburi at this point. I’ll settle for being open-minded. Come on, Amaburi. Hit me with anything.
Full-length images: 01, 02, 05, 10, 11, 17, 20, 27, 28, 31, 33.
Preview
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The shark looks like from the great white, but the only the head.
And so begins the mystery on how Adachi Eiko can understand the speech of Maple Land’s residents…
This is quite possibly the shortest ever post I have ever seen on Random Curiosity.
*That is if you don’t add the text in the spoiler tag.
My guess? She’s making it all up LOL.
That or somehow doing AVs has given her the magic of animal speech?!
I don’t know if anyone has said this before but another interesting thing about the
VA joke is that the voice actor for Eiko also did VA for Hentai anime
Shit, I mean AV joke
Oh shit, she’s Airi!
If you want to enjoy her AVs she has done, here’s some details.
She IS an AV seiyuu… WHT DO YOU EXPECT
She has a nice and warmly Voice.
This isn’t the shortest post. Dig deeper and you’ll be surprised who made it. >:D
Which one?
“Animal Video”
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I spit out my drink.
Captain Tessa Testerossa must secretly enjoying seeing Bonta-kun/Sagara gets tentacled
Tiramie………don’t be too greedy and opportunistic, otherwise Isuzu will hunt you down
*Views Masahiko Tanaka’s MAL page*
I knew it! Ironbeard was Gauron! Well-played casting gag, KyoAni.
And that be fine booty right tharr, mateys!
“Though I’m sure at least one person was disappointed that Isuzu didn’t get her turn in the tentacle pit.”
That’s the reason why Rule 34 exists. Go on Danbooru and you’ll find… Yeah.
(Though I could find a good use for that tentacle pit… Muahahahaha.)
I’m glad somebody notice that. I usually think that listing seiyuus of minor characters is too much work but this one was too good to pass up 😉
Well I did recognize the voice, but since I can’t read moonrunes in the credits (and I did forget the name of Gauron’s VA), I waited for you guys to confirm that hunch.
Also, GA-SHUNK!
As long as you also post those full length images, then it’s no problem. 🙂
Nice detail regarding the Gauron seiyuu.
Wouldn’t surprise me if “matey” was just an addition by the fansub translators/editors, so I wouldn’t use it as characterization of him.
Sorry, Gauron do not ring any bells on me. Someone to help me here?
Gauron notably features in Full Metal Panic!, where he does some piracy and kidnaps some maidens. Yeah.
I didn’t recognize him watching the episode, but as soon as I saw his name on this post, I was all, “Holy crap, it’s Gauron!”
So, by that logic, apparently Gauron is now deathly afraid of Kurz. Isn’t that a little ironic?
My musket has run out of ammo due to the Isuzu in tentacle pit stuff I found.
The only one that doesn’t show anything among them was this. The rest are definitely too raunchy to share.
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Nice Boat.
Oh wait, wrong show.
Die, Mothercuffer!!!!
Heart the narrator.
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So the question is….where did she pull that out of this time?
According to tvtropes, she just needs to touch any exposed skin to pull it out. So technically, Isuzu is at her dealiest in the shower/the bath, and her weakest the more she gets covered up.
Going by that logic, if she covered everything but her face and hands, the very basic thing she could do is have one hand pull the gun out from the other hand?
There is also pulling out the gun from her face, but that already sounds ridiculous and even more ridiculous to animate…
incoming: worst pun ever:
“this episode gets my SEAL of approval…”
Nice angle there. Fufufu
As much as my guy side would’ve liked Isuzu to have a turn in the pit, my logical side is glad she didn’t end up in it. It keeps her character consistent rather than dumbing her down for nothing more than attempted ecchi fan-service (a mistake SAO made with Asuna during ALO).
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Just seeing Isuzu in such outfits is enough for me. <3
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I'd love to be part of and/or plunder this crew.
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And nice to finally see Latifa again (and rocking that swimsuit), even if it wasn't doing much.
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Dem Biino’s Biinos
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Shiina’s still adorable as ever.
Hilarious ep. A few minutes in and I already bust a gut. I laughed so hard about Jaw’s circumstance when in water.
Fanservice. Fanservice everywhere…
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And let us not forget the Jabba scene…
Oh Lord.. Pirate Sento.. Hnnnnggg…
As soon as I saw Ironbeard my first thought was “He’d make a great attraction in the park, YOU SHOULD CAPTURE HIM!”
Meanwhile at the Hutt Cartel base
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“Bring me
Han and Lando50 Cent and Kanye West”https://randomc.net/image/Amagi%20Brilliant%20Park/Amagi%20Brilliant%20Park%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2032.jpg
“You will pay the price for your lack of
visionloyalty. Now youngSkywalkerTiramy, you will die”https://randomc.net/image/Amagi%20Brilliant%20Park/Amagi%20Brilliant%20Park%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2032.jpg
mEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!!
I haven’t lughed as hard as I did when moffle slipped and fell off the plank after all that build up In a while
Pirate Captain Isuzu is <3. I'd be her First Mate anytime, I tell ya.
And I share the same sentiments with Passerby. I was taken off-guard with how the episode progressed, and you would think viewers like us are desensitized to the insanity that is Amaburi by now after 6 episodes, but I was proven very wrong (at least for myself).
Not much of plot progression in the episode, but good old-fashioned wackiness is involved. I love how they keep bringing up new cast without causing viewers to question who the main characters are, yet keep the side characters interesting. Jaw's characteristics were pretty hilarious in his bozoku accent, earnest attitude and the very fact that he transforms in appearance from a cute shark mascot into a menacing, horrific man-eating Jaws.
Then you have Ironbeard, apparently a terrifying pirate who ruled the seas at MapleLand, but together with his crew are scared sh**less of sharks. The three stooges are awesome as always, and KyoAni even affords to slip in characteristics for our side characters.
Of course, the one scene that really made my day was the first appearance of Isuzu in her pirate cosplay and Seiya's reaction. As a SeiyaIsuzu shipper, I'm glad to see the ship sailing just fine.
I'm as clueless as the next viewer now, of course, considering I've only read up to volume 2 of the light novels, but I must say the anime is doing an extremely good job of entertaining the audience. While I'm still anticipating the drama that might unfold in the future, I'm also loving how Amaburi is playing out with the humor and teasers at the end of each episode.
This show's been a real gem this season.
Out of curiosity, where and how do volumes 1 & 2 end, vis a vis the anime? If there’s no clear analogue because the anime shuffles the content too much or if it’s a spoiler then you don’t have to say anything.
Don’t think I can say much with regards to that since that would mean putting in spoilers. What I can say is that the anime has hardly covered any of the more serious, or rather, urgent parts of both volumes, other than pulling material from both volumes to make this one heck of a show. They did drop quite a few hints along the way though, with the latest being
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Those aren’t all that spoilerific anyway (I hope), since speculation would have come up about what Seiya would do with regards to these. I still like the way KyoAni does it though – throw in plenty of comedy, fun, heartwarming moments…Then lob in a bomb of a drama scenario.
At least that’s what I hope they are planning to do. :p
Is it weird that I’m shipping Jaw with Mayoi clone? lols
Would have been nice if it was the oh so gorgeous pirate captain Isuzu that punished that turncoat Tiramie. Some nakama he is. It doesn’t look fair too that Macaron and Moffle also fell into those yellow tentacle thingies with him. They were just paying back Tiramie for what he did. And Ironbeard and his goons deserve their hard labor punishment for mistreating Latifah, and throwing poor Bandou-san into the pool.
what main point for me is
AV-chan is very good do her job, translate the animal language
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Jabba the Hutt + Princess Leia in chains reference?
Immediately got me attentive for any other references.
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Sarlacc pitt?
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Jaws, definitely Jaws.
Not sure if there were any Pirates of the Caribbean reference though…didn’t see any unconventional pirate around.
I like how KyoAni included tentacles in this but not a single girl was affected by them.
Another moment of the girls in swimsuit and yet pirates… I think I need to hunch over (=w= ||)
I have to admit that the first shark hint I missed (Wind chick with the shark puppets… I couldn’t figure out why they weren’t swarming her during the initial attack), but when the seal pirate freaked out at her bringing over the snacks with them still on her hands, I had the ‘Aha!’ moment. I love those little details that KyoAni is throwing in that keep my eyes peeled on the screen every episode.
Also, the fact that the little sister (Bandou) who’d been stabbed for trying to work at Amagi ends up covered in “blood” again is hilarious… and then she’s complaining about strawberry syrup!! Girl, you survived being stabbed in the side, don’t be weak over liquid sugar!!
Me too.
I just thought they were confused by her actions:
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traitor of the year!
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Legitimately cutest scene ever. Argue with me on this, and I will CUT you. Ahem. Sorry. I just get really passionate about my ships. Plus, Seiya BLUSHING over Isuzu’s fantastic pirate outfit? I’m just gonna squeal about it in my corner. Quietly.
How cute. I like this scene were they both blush at each other.
I’m squeeling inside.
i still long for the day to come again when kyoani will produce incredible stuff like haruhi and K-ON. not to say that amagi is bad, because i personally quite enjoyed it.
At least Haruhi and K-ON are pretty recent. Us FMP fans have been waiting REALLY LONG for the next FMP season.
I don’t want KyoAni to animate FMP. They really shouldn’t be trusted to finish off the series, FMP gets really grim right after TSR. Looking at the state of (what remains of) Gonzo and KyoAni neither studio should be allowed to handle the finale. If IG, Bones or even Sunrise gave it a shot I think it would be good.
What about UFOtable for FMP?
While I quite enjoyed that episode, am I the only one who felt the music/sound part of it felt somewhat… lacking? I’m not exactly sure how to put it, but it didn’t feel right.
This was probably the lightest episode yet. We pretty much never got any quiet, profound scene that developed the characters, but apparently the writers know what they’re trying to do with pacing, so I’ll see how the rest of the show does.
Look what the internet did to the Latifa we saw in this episode..
http://tinyurl.com/k2xcc84
Caution: Depending on your general mindset, the image could be funny. Or disturbing.
I need Seiya x Isuzu to be canon. They’re just too cute~!
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Going by anime logic, I wouldn’t be surprised (but would be disappointed) if Latifa ended up being more important.
I speculate in the name of my Master, that the MC is also a People of the Magic realm. But, the Princess is somehow keep him alive in sharing her Mana, so that he can live a life a normal Human being, growing old. Because they are young forever?
The Park is also only there for producing Mana, where she is the Catalyst. So in the end, he is saving the Park for his own surviving, that would explain somehow the picture in the OP or was it ED, where she is captured in Thrones.
Of course best girl away win.
I bet she likes yaoi
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I bet she fapped to FREE!
She wants threesome 😛
I just love this Anime. Not boring at all, since the start
Come on, Macaron! You know that whatever you are cooking up, it can only end with you filled with bullets from our musket-wielding female lead. Can’t these guys never learn?
They’re actually “M”s
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Captain Seiya!!!
Btw, the Film Music that began to start playing in this leaking Flood Gate, was good. Looks like the Symbiosis of Eyes and Ears are working together. What Eyes can not see, the Ears must hear it for them. (Emotions works perfect. Like suddenly Raining for sad emotions rule). Please keep on working and holding on this Eye and Ear Symbiosis.
Jaw needs more love. He’s adorable when dry, lovably earnest, and the tear in his eye when he was in regular shark mode was charming.
After finally catching up with anime this series and Akatsuki no Yona are my favorites this season. This episode had me rolling with the pirates, and drooling over Isuzu’s outfit 😀 Still wondering what the whole story is with Latifa and those flashbacks Kanie has of her are all about.
I’m pretty sure Isuzu’s gun has rifling.
That shark really shrunk at the end of the episode.