Amagi Brilliant Park

I honestly do not understand how this series is getting above a 5 rating. It's truly mind boggling.

If you're 5 years old you might enjoy the campiness of this show. Otherwise there's plenty of much better comedies out there than this.

Story:
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Haphazard and disjointed drivel. No coherent thought or cohesion. It bounces all over the place and at the same time (I stopped after watching episode 5) never goes anywhere. It's just bad and it hurt to watch as far as I did.

Art:
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... Mediocre at best. Certain aspects are used repeatedly and that gets tedious to see.

Sound:
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Repetitive and annoying songs. The sound itself was good though.

Character:
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A bit of thought went into the characters but not so much to make it above a 4 rating in my book. Lots of characters just blend together by episode 5. That's not that great and made me wonder if the company didn't make this anime just for a tax write off.

Enjoyment:
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For me... it felt torturous just to get to the end of episode 5.


Overall:
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I enjoy good shows and will remark positively on them when I see them but this one STUNK. It's amazing that enough people thought this was actually good.

A big disappointment. The universe and story are interesting and the anime is quite funny, but it has major flaws that I suppose (and hope) are due to the date it was released, which results in a lot of uncomfortable scenes.

The female characters are only there for fan service and/or to be helped by the main character and/or for the romance with the main male character, and in the last episode the adult women are reduced to the status of mother or housewife...

The redundant male side characters are perverts and appear very often only to objectify female characters. There's even one (an adult, of course) ... who fails to rape a high-school girl by possessing a high-school boy's body. This character is even disappointed. This is never questioned and the friend who defends the victim is treated as if she didn't care about her friend but just wanted to make herself look good (it can be seen as logic in the scene, but any sane person would never have resolved the situation like that).


- Version française -

Une grande déception. L'univers et l'histoire sont intéressants et l'anime pas mal drôle mais il possède de gros défauts que je suppose (et espère surtout) sont dus à la date à laquelle il est sorti ce qui donne beaucoup de scènes malaisantes.

Les personnages féminins ne sont là que pour le fan service et/ou être aidée par le personnage principal et/ou pour la romance avec le personnage masculin principal et dans le dernier épisode les femmes adultes en sont carrément réduites à un statut de mère ou ménagère...

Les personnages secondaires masculins redondants sont des pervers et apparaissent très souvent pour seulement objectifier les personnages féminins. Il y en a même un (adulte évidemment), qui échoue à violer une lycéenne en possédant le corps d'un lycéen. Ce personnage en est même déçu. Ca n'est jamais remis en cause et l'amie qui défend la victime est traitée comme si elle ne s'inquiétait pas pour son amie mais voulait juste se faire une bonne image (ça peut passer comme logique dans la scène mais toute personne saine d'esprit n'aurait jamais résolu la situation comme ça).

I'm going to start with the highlights. The main character was good. So were all the mascot characters. The concept is unique and pulled off well. Everything that the concept had to offer felt present. It explored the concept in the way it should. The main struggle is good and handled well. It has a satisfying solution.

Now for the bad. Sento is a good character but she get so many poor storyline which prevents me from enjoying her character properly. However their a character who's personality is to be stupid. This character makes me cringe every time I see them on screen. We never ... were given a reason to care about Latifa. Thus there isn't a sense we will have a meaning full loss if she were to disappear. Any and all sympathy for her comes from her situation and not her character. Her character is non existent. An episode dedicated to her would fix my main gripe with the story. If we instead were given time to explore her character and how she thinks, we would care for her. Instead her character is situation driven and not character driven. Lastly how her situation was resolve was lazy. It was wave away with magic that was only explained after the fact. And the explanation was also lazy.

Overall a few bad episode and how the secondary conflict was resolved prevents me from enjoying the show. I have low ratings for this first season. However in a second season, I'd probably give it a higher rating like a 7 or 8. It is very unlikely they will repeat the storyline that brang it down in the first place. Thus without these plot points, the show exponentially goes up. A season 2 is needed for this series to make this show shine. This first season is just poor. A second season great.

The story is of a dude being hired to bring back a decrepit park from oblivion in three months but it just doesn't go well. it's just not fun to watch at all.

It doesn't know exactly what it wants to be. At some points it wants to be "comedy" but at others it wants to be "serious" and it really just doesn't match the least. It's even more hilarious when the serious scenes are with characters with costume. It tries to be serious but completely fails at it at the base level.

The only thing good is- Sento is hottest waifu made.

*Spoiler-free review*

What is Amagi Brilliant Park's strongest point?

Most probably its beautiful art and some of its humour, of course depending on what your type of humour is.

The story or plot itself doesn't make much sense, with an anti-climatic reveal at the end that felt out of place, and many scenes that barely contributes to anything other than some occasional fan service or humour. In other words, it does next to nothing to bring the main conflict to its end, which in turn, is pretty weak to begin with.

What should probably be expected from an anime with a weak plot is great characters, ... as that would at least pique an interest. However, characters are probably where the show's at its worst. The two main characters are probably the only ones who felt relatively enjoyable to me, but they fall flat compared to many other show's characters out there, and are in no way interesting enough to carry the show on their shoulders through character development or personality at all.

That being said, I did enjoy some of the episodes, mostly because of the vibrant animation and likeable soundtrack and upbeat opening. The mascots often ruined some episodes for me though, which was a shame.

All in all, I do think many people would find this anime enjoyable and a good watch, so I would tell you to still give it a try.

This anime just wasn't for me, that's all.

Cringe "comedy" in a nutshell except there's nothing in there that's even remotely remarkable enough to make you laugh or even giggle. Instead, you get a narcissist and self obsessed male main character (whose name sounds like Kanye; how very fitting), ultra cringe pervy male side characters, sexist/cheesy dialogues, forced vulgar jokes, typical sexually objectified and intellectually challenged female characters, nonsensical/boring/bland plot and storytelling. Basically an anime that'd appeal to low IQ/EQ (male) weebs.

I couldn't finish the whole thing so you get the gist.

P.S. Why does one need write an entire PhD thesis as an anime review to be accepted by MAL?