Amagi Brilliant Park (Japanese: 甘城ブリリアントパーク, Hepburn: Amagi Buririanto Pāku) is a Japanese light novel series written by Shoji Gatoh and illustrated by Yuka Nakajima. Fujimi Shobo has published eight volumes since February 20, 2013, under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. There are three manga adaptations published by Fujimi Shobo and Kadokawa. The series follows a young man named Seiya Kanie, a smart and extremely narcissistic high school pupil, who has only three months to save a struggling and magical amusement park from being sold for land redevelopment, with the help of his friend, Isuzu Sento and theme park owner Princess Latifa Fleuranza.
A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between October 6 and December 25, 2014. In North America, the series is licensed by J-Novel Club for light novels, with the first volume released digitally on September 9, 2018, and Sentai Filmworks has also licensed the anime series for home video distribution and is streaming on its Hidive platform.
By November 2014, the light novel has over 100,000 copies in circulation.
Contents
Plot
Seiya Kanie is a good-looking, perfectionist boy who is forced by the mysterious Isuzu Sento to visit an amusement park named Amagi Brilliant Park, which is in serious financial trouble and about to be closed forever. The park is actually staffed by refugees from a magical realm called Maple Land and the park is a facility for harvesting magical energy from visitors while they're having fun. As such, the park is the only way the refugees can maintain their existence in the human realm.
To save the park from closing, Seiya is hired by the owner, Latifah Fleuranza, the princess of Maple Land (whom Seiya met before when he was a young boy), to become its new manager and use his skills in entertainment to save it. However, they have only two weeks to attract 100,000 visitors (they have to attract 250,000 visitors in three months in the anime version), a feat that seems impossible given the park's current situation.
Characters
Amagi management
Seiya Kanie (可児江 西也, Kanie Seiya)
Voiced by: Koki Uchiyama (Japanese); Adam Gibbs (English)
Seiya is a perfectionist high school student who is extremely intelligent, has excellent reflexes, and acts like a prince to the point of being a narcissist which annoys people. As a child, he was involved in the entertainment industry and his stage name was Seiya Kodama. According to Isuzu, he was a child who would have made any parent proud. However, Seiya has told her that persona died a long time ago. Latifah grants him the magical power of listening to a person's heart, although it only works once with each person. After some time, he opens up to the park's workers, especially Isuzu, with whom he shares his fears and insecurities, which encourages Isuzu when she was disappointed in herself. He once met Latifah when he was a kid, but he didn't remember until he found out about her curse. His name originates from Kanye West.
Isuzu Sento (千斗 いすず, Sento Isuzu)
Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese); Molly Searcy (English)
A royal guard who forces Seiya (at gunpoint) to go on a "date" with her to Amagi Brilliant Park. She has a stoic personality, rarely showing emotion. Despite that facade, she is also very sensitive. She managed Amagi Brilliant Park before Seiya's arrival, but she was a poor manager due to her upbringing as a royal guard and her fearsome reputation among the staff. Once Seiya takes over as manager, Isuzu serves as his secretary. After meeting Seiya, her personality slowly changes and she eventually develops feelings for him but refuses to tell him. Isuzu carries a magical muzzleloader named Steinberger that has been magically infused into her body, so she can summon it from any exposed skin. With it she fires bullets with different effects such as removing the target's memory or simply causing a lot of pain. Her name originates from 50 Cent.
Latifah Fleuranza (ラティファ・フルーランザ, Ratifa Furūranza)
Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese); Cindy Lou Parker (English)
The princess of Maple Land. She gives Seiya some of her magical powers by kissing him. According to Triken, she is Moffle's niece and bears a striking resemblance to his sister. Due to her frail body as well as other circumstances, she cannot leave her garden, which is surrounded by a magic barrier. In the light novel, Latifah is blind. It is later revealed that a wizard cursed her, making her body deficient in Animus, Maple Land's life force. The curse renews each year, resetting her memory and age, meaning she has lived as a 14-year-old for more than a decade. It is heavily implied that she also has feelings for Seiya. Her name originates from Queen Latifah.
Amagi Brilliant Park cast
Moffle (モッフル, Moffuru)
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Tiffany Grant (English)
A mouse-like sweets fairy who is Amagi Brilliant Park's main mascot, who takes a mutual dislike towards Seiya. He is Latifah's uncle and is very protective of her. He hates being called a knockoff of Bonta, resembling the fictional mascot of the Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu series (animated at the same studio, Kyoto Animation, and based on a light novel by the same author, Shoji Gatoh). It is hinted, albeit indirectly, that Moffle hates Latifah's father due to his marriage to Moffle's beloved sister and that Latifah was merely left in his care.
Macaron (マカロン, Makaron)
Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi (Japanese); Allison Keith-Shipp (English)
A sheep-like magic fairy who is one of the park's mascots, a short tempered artist who often takes time off work if he is not feeling inspired. He plays the violin. He's divorced and fighting for the custody of his daughter.
Tiramy (ティラミー, Tiramī)
Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese); Jessica Calvello (English)
A pink cat-like flower fairy who is a flirty pervert with a keen eye for young women and bewitching older women and well-versed in explosives.
Wanipee (ワニピー, Wanipī)
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese); Clint Bickham (English)
A fairy in the form of a blue crocodile who is one of the park's mascots, though he barely has a fanbase compared to the other Mascots.
Dornell (ドルネル, Doruneru)
Other characters
Takaya Kurisu (栗栖 隆也, Kurisu Takaya)
Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (Japanese); Jay Hickman (English)
Takaya is the wizard who defeated a powerful dragon under orders of the king of Maple Land with the promise of gaining Latifah's hand in return, but when the king refused to fulfill his part of the bargain, he placed a curse on the princess, leading to her current condition. He later appears disguised as an employee of Amagi Development, a company that wishes to acquire Amagi Brilliant Park. He is named after Chris Tucker.
Aisu Kyūbu (久武 藍珠, Kyūbu Aisu)
Voiced by: Yūko Kaida (Japanese); Katelyn Barr (English)
Seiya's aunt and guardian. Despite usually slacking off, she deeply cares about her nephew; she is named after Ice Cube.
Takami (タカミ, Takami)
Voiced by: Sakura Nakamura (Japanese); Cara Duncan (English)
A waitress working at the restaurant "Savage" that is frequented by Moffle, Macaron and Tirami.
Mutsumi Terano (寺野 睦美, Terano Mutsumi)
Voiced by: Mikako Izawa (Japanese); Chelsea Ryan McCurdy (English)
Classmate of Tsuchida who accuses Kanie (actually the mascots) of playing Tsuchida's affections.
Kanae Tsuchida (土田 香苗, Tsuchida Kanae)
Voiced by: Moe Ōtomo (Japanese); Robin Nennig (English)
Girlfriend of Kimura and classmate of Terano. She intended to send a love letter to Kimura but accidentally sent it to Seiya.
Media
Light novels
Written by Shoji Gatoh, with illustrations by Yuka Nakajima, Yuka Nakajima was published in eight volumes by Fujimi Shobo under its Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint from February 20, 2013, to June 18, 2016. During their panel at Anime Expo 2018, J-Novel Club announced that they have licensed the series. The eight volumes were released digitally from September 9, 2018, to November 25, 2019.
A three-volume spin-off light novel series written by Keishō Yanagawa, titled Amagi Brilliant Park: Maple Summoner, was published by Fujimi Fantasia Bunko from October 18, 2014, to February 20, 2015.
Manga
A manga adaptation with art by Kimitake Yoshioka started serialization in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age with the March 2014 issue sold on February 8. The series has been compiled in two tankōbon volumes, released on June 7 and October 8, 2014. A four-panel comic strip manga illustrated by Kōji Azuma titled Amagi Brilliant Park? Fumo (甘城ブリリアントパーク?ふも) began serialization in Monthly Dragon Age with the June 2014 issue. A third manga titled Amagi Brilliant Park the animation (甘城ブリリアントパークthe animation), written by the AmaBri Restoration Committee (甘ブリ再生委員会, Amaburi Saisei Iinkai) and illustrated by Ami Hakui, will begin serialization on Kadokawa's ComicWalker website.
Anime
A 13-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, with Fumihiko Shimo handling series composition, Miku Kadowaki designing the characters and Shinkichi Mitsumune composing the music. The series aired from October 6 to December 25, 2014. The opening theme is "Extra Magic Hour" (エクストラ・マジック・アワー, Ekusutora Majikku Awā), performed by Akino with bless4. Akino and bless4 also did an English version of this song titled "Extra Magic Hour (International Edition)". The ending theme is "Elementalio de Aimashō!" (エレメンタリオで会いましょう!, Erementario de Aimashō!), performed by Brilliant4, a voice actress unit composed of Yuka Aisaka, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Shiori Mikami, and Minami Tsuda. Additionally, there is an original video animation episode bundled with the seventh volume of the DVD and Blu-ray discs, and seven mini-episode side stories titled Amagi Brilliant Park: Wakuwaku Mini Theater - Rakugaki Backstage that were also bundled with the DVD and Blu-ray volumes.
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America and the series in both Japanese and English dubs were released on home video in Blu-ray on February 28, 2017, with the series streamed on HIDIVE. Crunchyroll had previously streamed the series in North America in 2015. Following the acquisition of Crunchyroll by Sony Pictures Television, the parent company of Funimation in 2021, Amagi Brilliant Park, among several Sentai titles, was dropped from the service on March 31, 2022. The series was also distributed for home video in Australia by Madman Entertainment and in the United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment.