Kanie Seiya , where the kanji used for Seiya read “West” (so our hero is literally Kanye West), or Sento Isuzu (read as 50 Cent)? How about Seiya’s aunt Aisu Kyuubu (Ice Cube) or the easiest of all, Latifa herself (who’s a princess rather than a Queen).
Nevermind the badguy is named Chris Tucker (Kurisu Takeya).

>>20892
Thanks for making me want to drop this and burn the hard drive.

This scene sums up my experience with the first ep pretty much perfectly. kyoani painting by numbers again. First ep was anything but spectacular. felt like exactly what I'd expect from kyoani beat by beat.
Although the concept of revitalizing a dilapidated failing theme park still seems very interesting. The most interesting parts of the first ep for me were at the end when it really did make it seem like a rollercoaster tycoon adaptation. mainly with that mind reading thing I'm assuming is for viewing the wants and needs of guests which he gets after becoming the park manager, and the ticker at the end with the guest count.

Not bad...

>>20892

Well that was fast.

Does this mean she shot all the witnesses? Because there were a lot of them there, and that ammo is supposedly very rare.

Jesus fucking Christ...

Did no one tell this dickhead that the target audience for a theme park is children and familys? The very first problem they encounter with the park is the misleading love hotel nextdoor... and one of his first ideas to attract more guests is to reinforce the negative image by whoring out the cast members? what in the fuck is wrong with this guy? Do you think anyone would take their kids to Disneyland ever again if the park made the Disney princesses strip down and hop around half naked for the tv ads? I really couldn't believe what I was seeing, I mean I know this is japan we're talking about here but... god damn...

>>21139
and for what? An online video that gets shit views with a barely noticeable increases in visitors?

This is the guy who's supposed to save this park? maybe they'd be better off with the shady corporation after all.

>>21139
>Do you think anyone would take their kids to Disneyland ever again if the park made the Disney princesses strip down and hop around half naked for the tv ads?
I'm pretty sure more than one divorced dad would begin to take the time to take his children to disney regularly if they did so.

>>21144
Somehow I feel they wouldn't have custody of their kids for very long.

>>21139
>I know this is japan we're talking about here but... god damn...
It is Japan. You should try watching some children's anime once.

Sentoooooooooooooo

>>21210
>>21211
If you're just going to throw out insults you shouldn't bother posting. At least try to explain why you disagree with someone's view points.

Pool Pirate episode

So what, that highschool girls really did get stabbed by her crazy brother?
I thought it was just a gag or something to land her the job, but there was no resolution to it and the ep after that made no reference to it. The whole thing was so over the top I can't believe it was meant to be taken seriously. Even the blood looked all fake and pinkish.

This was the first episode that I really liked.

>>21302
The author probably just had fun with over the top what if's. A gag for the sake of making a gag is not bad once in a while, especially not when it's this well done.

>>21282
Arrrrrrrr

I wonder why no one bothered to ask why he was holding his head like that the whole time.

When is the Fairies-focused episode?

I'm disappointed by how quickly they glazed over the park restoration. couldn't even be bothered to show a montage of the place being fixed up.

>>21332
<3

>>21339
episode 9

>>21383
Yes

>>21388
Oh yes

>>21353
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better.
Do you ever get the feeling that some anime just speaks to you? Some will try with a drawn out monologue fx. a generic "everybody is friend and working together" or "I tried so hard" speech or a reference to another show (not that it's bad), but putting hearts in her pupils is so fucking great because they're simply answering the call upon that which you didn't think you wanted but actually did want. It's like they get you, and they get that you enjoy those small details even though they may seem pointless to others.

So let me get this straight. Kobori learned how to dance simply by becoming better friends with her coworkers?

This might be a stupid question here, but why don't they just falsify the numbers? Why not just tell the security guard to click the button a few extra times over the course of each day?

>>21448
That's cheating. Doesn't the park need some amount of Anima (happiness) to keep it magical?

I want Sento Claus to visit my chimney.

What a shitty king.

>>21450
The happiness is unrelated to their required visitor count. They need x amount of visitors by x date or control of the park gets handed over to that corporation. The problem with the happenyess power comes from if the park closes due to not getting the required number of guests, then the employees will be on the street (or other parks) and risk not being able to get their fix. I don't see what it matters if it's cheating, Kanie said he'd do anything. He's willing to whore out the cast members and hand out free admission to reach that goal. What's paying some kid to walk in and out of the park over and over?

>>21456
Yeah seriously that's what I was thinking the whole time too. The king essentially commissions a hero to save the day then skips out on the bill and as if that's not bad enough tries to have the hero killed. What a piece of shit. Just the idea of sending the remnants of a beaten army to kill a person who single handedly killed a dragon the entire army couldn't take down is pure insanity in itself. while they did manage to kill him in the end anyway it was still a stupid call.

Besides it's common practice in midevil style monarch systems to trade off children like currency. To break that promise means that king's word is worthless and he can't be trusted. Not only would it damage relations with other nations but it could also possibly mean no one would ever want his daughter less they risk being attacked.

Yeah that's what this show needs. A young pack of gang rapists.

What do you want from Sento Claus?

>>21502
The red-haired girl

>>21502
More Sento Clauses

So what, is kanye west going to be coming out of retirement to perform at the soccer game's half time show to draw in those extra visitors?

>>21450
>That's cheating.
and hosting a free soccer game while making attendants walk trough the park isn't cheating?

I'm also a bit confused why the suits are even being so anal about the number of visitors. Guy with the stupid glasses is almost going out of his way to be a smug douchbag... but why? All they care about is money right? As long as the park turns a profit they shouldn't need to shut the place down and the park has clearly been turned around. This would make a lot more sense if they were being anal about park profits instead. What good is reaching a billion visitors if admittance to the park is free? Kanye has increased the park's quality sure but he's apparently run the finances into the ground in the process... and all the suits care about is hitting the visitor count?


Also, the park has been in a bad spot for years before Kanye showed up... how come they never sold that massive amount of land they had? they had no problem selling that castle to the guys that made it into a hotel.

I was kinda disappointed when they glazed over the park restoration and didn't actually show anything getting repaired. It went from dilapidated to sparkling clean in no time. Then it turns out the magical whatchamacallems can easily fix just about anything with magic.... so why the shit did they let the park fall to ruins in the first place then?

>>21532
The Sento Clause

ep12 was...
so retard...
on so many levels..

This whole thing is spoilers so don't bother reading if you haven't seen ep 12.


oh my god...
They fucking started calling random people up to visit the park and straight up offered to pay some of them!!! WHY THE FUCK DIDIN'T YOU RETARDED FUCKS DO THIS MOTHS AGO?!?! AND THEY"RE DOING IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ASSHOLE MONITORING THE NUMBERS!! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Oh god this shit is so fucking retarded it makes my head hurt....
So glasses douching was the wizard? are you fucking shitting me?

First off, Are you telling me an entire army sent after this guy never bothered to confirm his death?

Now, I'm just gonna assume none of the cast members knew he was the wizard (because that would be even more retarded if they never said anything) but I gotta ask... if he's been hanging around this whole time, why hasn't he tried doing... anything?
For one, he wanted to marry the princess right? so naturally you'd think he'd be trying to kidnap her or something right? where's the logic behind his motivations here? WHAT are his motivations for that matter?
lets say he cursed her because he thought he was gonna die. okay sure. so once he survived why why kidnap her or try to seduce her or use his magic to make her fall in love with him or something?
alternatively, lets say that maybe he just hates her now. maybe he's got some misplaced hostility after being rejected and betrayed. okay, so why not finish the job? seems like he's just been sitting around doing nothing until Kanye West showed up. If he wants her dead, killing her shouldn't be so hard for an all powerful wizard.
So you might now be saying "hey faggot, maybe he just wants her to suffer?" first off no, he put that curse on her to kill her, it's only by relocating to the park that she's being kept alove. Second problem with that is were that the case not only are there much much MUCH better ways to make people suffer, and besides he'd be trying to stop Kanye West from hitting that visitor mark don't you think? now there's still an ep left (somehow) but you'd think he'd want to reinstate the curse as well for that matter. ...maybe he will, we'll just have to see but so far this shit is fucking retarded.

so moving on... the king sends an army to kill the wizard because he doesn't want to hand over his daughter to him... (insane but fair enough) but does nothing when he shows up again as part of a corporation trying to take over or shut down the park she's living in? Now you might be saying, "hey maybe he changed forms so nobody knew it was him." Then by that same logic the army shouldn't have been able to ever find him in the first place. now you might be saying "well what if that's why the army wasn't able to confirm his death, he shape shifted and got away" then why not shape shift his way into the castle and just take the princess? why even bother with the curse bullshit? It's implied he set that curse as a last stitch effort to get back at the king, but if he's okay then why bother? Are you telling me this wizard single handedly kills a dragon and fights off an army for the princess, but decides he doesn't want her anymore just because her dad changed his mind and instead tries to kill her?
and don't say he changed his mind due to having to fight off that army, that army is nowhere to be found in this anime and nothing is stopping him from getting to her now.

Did the wizard attack Kanie there? Kinda hard to tell but if that's the case this would be really weird because he had plenty of opportunities to kill him up till now, so why would he wait until after Kanie restored the park and hit the visitor goal?

why didn't the rape gang rush in when they passed by the first time? maybe I'm mistaken but they passed by before too didn't they? well whatever.
for that matter, they said they were going to a family restaurant or something the first time they pasted didn't they? First off, the park surely has tons of restaurants you could have invited them too. secondly, what fucking family restaurant were they going to? If you look at the map the only thing for what looks like a mile in the direction they were heading is the love hotel.

I know they're just doing this next thing because it looks cool, but if all the park employees are standing in front of the park gates, then who's manning all the rides stores and attractions? Not like it's just a one time thing, they did it the very next morning too. All those kids running past the employees were gonna find themselves waiting on a bunch of rides they can't ride because the employees are all being retards standing at the front gate. wtf?

I knew they were gonna break the curse, that much was obvious. I was waiting eagerly to see what kinda bs they come up with. I honestly thought they'd go with pure love breaking curse or a kiss or some shit like that, but they go with an overcharge...
Now I'm kinda drawing at straws with this one, but wouldn't this have already happened when the park was still new and working at full capacity?
I'm pretty sure overcharging a battery doesn't stop it from slowly loosing it's charge. ...but hey it's magic so I guess they ain't gotta explain shit with that one right?

That counter reset and said they had 365 days to reach the visitor count again right? so I'm to assume this is a yearly thing then? This park looked horribly dilapidated at the start of shit show and like it had been for a good long while. Maybe I missed something but how in the hell did they hit that visitor count the year before this one? They restore the park to better than new condition and struggle to hit the goal while they were able to hit the goal before with a park that was run down empty and falling apart?

How was this not the last ep?

unrelated to this ep but I just got to wondering. THE KING... the mother fucking king sends her daughter to this theme park knowing that a high amount of happiness or whatever is all that will keep her alive... so why the shit doesn't he make sure the park is doing it's best? He sends an army to kill the guy that wants to marry his daughter but he can't send some people to renovate the park that's keeping her alive? what the fuck? are you fucking shitting me with this retarded crap? who came up with this shit?

Post edited on 20th Dec 2014, 12:05pm

>>21563
Whoa glad I didn't watch this series

>>21563
You watched it for the plot?

>>21563
It's good to point it out, but holy mother do I still love it for the trio-shenanigans, art, comedy and girls. I haven't been this entertained in a while now.
>WHAT are his motivations for that matter?
Seems like he wants to enjoy/"feed off" their despair. Letting things run their course is probably most preferable. Besides, with the curse he kind of "owns" Latifa.
>THE KING
An idiot.
>First off, Are you telling me an entire army sent after this guy never bothered to confirm his death?
What does a dead wizard look like? Or, shouldn't it be possible to fake death? He was said to have been defeated after all.
>Then by that same logic the army shouldn't have been able to ever find him in the first place.
Unless he didn't mind getting found.. being an almighty wizard and all.
>AND THEY"RE DOING IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ASSHOLE MONITORING THE NUMBERS!!
He didn't seem to mind. Seems like a neutral kind of guy.
>WHY THE FUCK DIDIN'T YOU RETARDED FUCKS DO THIS MOTHS AGO?!?!
That method is probably too slow.
>He sends an army to kill the guy that wants to marry his daughter but he can't send some people to renovate the park that's keeping her alive?
The gate was locked up for some reason. Maybe there's some explanation there.

Also, maybe the park just have to be self-sufficient enough to maintain itself while looking good on papers with visitors (more opportunity in a busy theme park)? Maybe it's related to Animus somehow?

>>21580
>Seems like he wants to enjoy/"feed off" their despair.
Then why let them reach their goal? they had a good amount of despair at the start of this show, Kanie gave them hope and made everyone all happy and stuff. There's really not much despair to feed off.

>What does a dead wizard look like? Or, shouldn't it be possible to fake death? He was said to have been defeated after all.
Like a body missing it's head. In medieval style settings it's not uncommon to take someone's head as proof of killing them. The king issued a direct order to the entire army to kill one person, that means it's kind of a big deal. in fact it's far too big of a deal to just watch him fall off a cliff then shrug and say "whatever he's probably dead lets go home." Besides, you'd think the king would want said proof of his death, but then again like you said the king just seems to be an idiot so there's that.

>Unless he didn't mind getting found.. being an almighty wizard and all.
If he's an almighty wizard then why fake his death or run away? if the king wont give him what he wants why not just take it? Not like he's too nice of a guy to do something like that lol.

>He didn't seem to mind. Seems like a neutral kind of guy.
Yeah you're right, he really didn't seem to give a fuck one way or the other. It still takes some balls to do that stuff in front of him though. Like stealing money out the cash register at work in front of your boss. maybe your boss doesn't care but you don't know that for sure, and even then why he doesn't care he might still have to report it. Besides, the point is they could have done it at any point in time, but they wait until someone is there to monitor the numbers before they do it.
Also, 'why' doesn't the guy in charge of watching the numbers care? That's what he was assigned to do, does he not care about loosing his job or something? If he works with the cooperate asshates then he must understand how much money is involved the successes or failure of this contract. Sure it's not impossible to think that maybe he's someone that don't give a fuck. maybe he's going through some hard times in his life. who knows, but it's still weird.


>That method is probably too slow.
They acquired more than 200 visitors in just a few hours with just calling up random friends for a one time visit. Surely they could have reached huge numbers had they paid a few people to just walk in and out of the park over the course of a whole month.
Or hell, like mentioned before in this thread, just falsify the numbers. Tell who ever is keeping count to click away even when people aren't coming in. If it's based off the mechanism in the turnstiles then get someone to hack it, or manually spin the bars on the turnstiles for an hour after the park is closed, or use magic to increase the numbers. There's so many ways they could have inflated the numbers.

>The gate was locked up for some reason. Maybe there's some explanation there.
Guess I missed that part. You aren't talking about that underwater gate are you? If you are that got busted half way into the show.

>Also, maybe the park just have to be self-sufficient enough to maintain itself while looking good on papers with visitors
The problem is they were doing horribly financially speaking. they had to sell off part of the park just to pay for that soccer game. They could barely afford to pay their own employees and were letting people in for free by the end. what good is having a billion visitors if you're not making any money?

>>21581
>Then why let them reach their goal?
"You find a glimmer of hope only to lose it. That is when your despair tastes the most divine!". Allowing them to succeed would not necessarily allow them to win.
>If he's an almighty wizard then why fake his death or run away?
Maybe he wasn't as powerful as he thought or maybe he thought it would be easier not to have the army after him constantly. A fake death could be something like burning up. The fortress could also partially be for him.
>You aren't talking about that underwater gate are you? If you are that got busted half way into the show.
Just looked into it. Apparently they used it to carry materials... I have no idea why they don't do it anymore. I thought the location might be random, making it difficult to maintain contact, but alas I must have been wrong.
Let's say that his original intention was to put the king into despair by proposing something that would break his heart or something, then it would not matter for the wizard to get her in our world since the king wouldn't be able to hear about it or come to aid. Although if he DID come to her aid, it would make his escape pointless.

If anything at all I would categorize the wizard as neutral/lawful evil. It's not easy to figure out his ambition (is he fx. only in theme parks because of Latifa?).

Just checked up on something from >>21563
>Maybe I missed something but how in the hell did they hit that visitor count the year before this one?
The didn't for four years, making this one their last chance. Visitors' count is a yearly thing (episode two).

About the money, as far as I know they fixed that by selling a part of the park. They actually address the money problem in episode two, calculating what each family had to spend to keep the park in the black (85.000 yen).
>Like stealing money out the cash register at work in front of your boss. maybe your boss doesn't care but you don't know that for sure, and even then why he doesn't care he might still have to report it.
Since it's also about money (the problem they solved), it all comes down to visitors. I think KyoAni went for the "silent watcher" hero type here.
>There's so many ways they could have inflated the numbers.
True. But you also saw the interns reactions to Kanie's dissing of their guests. Maybe to honor their guests they haven't manipulated the numbers.

I'd be glad to discuss it more, but hopefully you dislike it a little less.

>>21583
>"You find a glimmer of hope only to lose it. That is when your despair tastes the most divine!". Allowing them to succeed would not necessarily allow them to win.
sure that makes sense, but If that was his plan then why reveal his identity? why not keep them in the dark and manipulate them from behind the scenes?

>Maybe he wasn't as powerful as he thought or maybe he thought it would be easier not to have the army after him constantly. A fake death could be something like burning up.
well for starters they said he fell off a cliff and they left it at that. You're right though, it's possible he over estimated his abilities and had to retreat. That doesn't really explain why he wouldn't do anything though once the princess was left essentially defenseless in that park.
Yeah they have the fortress, but that seems more designed for fighting off large scale attacks and don't seem like it'd be very good verse a single person that infiltrates the castle under disguise or stealth like I'm sure the wizard could have if he wanted.

>The fortress could also partially be for him.
That would mean they suspected he was still alive, but everyone seemed convinced he was dead. I'd like to think if they suspected he was still alive they would have had that army(or anyone for that matter) out searching for him until they confirm his death.

>Let's say that his original intention was to put the king into despair by proposing something that would break his heart or something, then it would not matter for the wizard to get her in our world since the king wouldn't be able to hear about it or come to aid. Although if he DID come to her aid, it would make his escape pointless.
why would he save the king just to put him into despair? sure he might want to do that now after getting fucked over, but he could have just sat back and watched the dragon rape the kingdom if he had previous grievances with the king.
If the king didn't come to her aid when the park keeping her alive was dying, doubt he ever would. How would the king coming to her aid make his escape pointless though?

>The didn't for four years, making this one their last chance. Visitors' count is a yearly thing (episode two).
Alright then, my mistake.

>calculating what each family had to spend to keep the park in the black (85.000 yen).
Right, and that number is just inflated because of how few guests they had at the time I get that. Problem is entree ticket sales are a big part of a park's revenue. sure they have shops and stuff, but if they're charging 0-30 cents per entry they're not gonna make much of anything. also as mentioned before, why wouldn't they have already sold that part of the park if they were in such huge trouble before? They sold that castle to the love hotel so why not the empty lot across the street? also I believe the part of the park they sold was mostly to cover for the soccer game fees and even then it seemed like the deal wasn't finalized until after they hit their goal but I could be wrong about that.

>hero type
I'd hardly call him a hero. Didn't seem like he was moved by how much they all cared for the park or anything like that, he simply didn't seem to care about anything. the guy was basically like a bump on the log and served nothing to the story, I don't think anyone even bothered to name the guy did they?

> it all comes down to visitors
It should come down to profits, like I said before visitors in and of themselves are meaningless if they're not spending anything. 30 cent entry then free entry to people attending a free soccer game? This hits the visitor count sure and might be good for the long term life of the park to give people a demo/taste, but it's a horrible way to make money in a fixed amount of time. I know profits weren't part of the contract, but not being part of the contract doesn't make any sense. It's like a car dealer that pays commission to employees based on how many people they bring in to window shop and don't care if anything gets sold or not. That might work for a public museum or library but I don't think the business world works that way.


>True. But you also saw the interns reactions to Kanie's dissing of their guests. Maybe to honor their guests they haven't manipulated the numbers.
I don't really see how changing some numbers is doing any dishonor to their guests.
Besides they have no problem manipulating the numbers by inviting friends and family over, offering to pay people to come in, lying to people just to get them to enter, what about paying that pizza guy to deliver the pizza in the park? Not to mention this >>21139 didn't seem very respectable to -anyone- involved. It also doesn't seem very respectable to guest to beat the shit out of them then shoot them when memory erasing bullets. Also I forget but wasn't one of the attractions shut down due to the mascot molesting guests or something like that?


It's not like I hate the show mind you. I do still plan on finishing it. I like the setting and concept, I just don't think it was thought out very well. It's also got something of a charm to it in spite of everything said. I'm frankly amazed this is from the same guy who produced FMP, it wasn't brilliant but neither did it come off like it was written in a panic like this show. If nothing else talking about it has proven to be enjoyable at least.

Post edited on 22nd Dec 2014, 6:54pm

http://blogsuki.com/archives/2014/12/23/6794/
This anime is literally "A wizard did it to that amusement park"

Fanservicey filler ep 13
Perfect for the last week of the year

>>21596

What the fuck was that?

Why was such a massive filler ep the last ep? Did someone at kyoani mix up the air order or something?
This felt like something much more befitting of an ova. Wasn't even decent filler everything was so random and stupid and they just went with the first pv in the end anyways so it felt like a massive waste of time. I honestly don't get it, was their ignorant and stupidity supposed to be funny or something?

>>21611
Also, I like how he shits on that PV but when he made one it was nothing but shamefully demeaning sexual exploitation of the female employees. Not to mention it did nothing to showcase or service the park other than making it look like they were advertising some sort of strip club.

>>21612
No, it was that the lastest PV was such a chaotic jumbled mess that the initial boring one was a better choice for an advertisement.

>>21617
I'm referring to the PV Kanie made near the beginning of the series. >>21139
After making something like that, he has no right to criticise the works of anyone else.

>>21584
I'm sorry that I didn't respond.

I liked this anime more than I expected, ending was a bit disappointing though.
I imagine it was just something to end the anime there at the 13th episode while the LN continues in a different way. I'm kinda curious about it but I've never had a good experience trying to read LNs on the internet.