Amagi Brilliant Park
Amagi Brilliant Park 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.
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, 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, a feat that seems impossible given the park's current situation.
Characters
Amagi management
;Seiya Kanie;Isuzu Sento
;Latifah Fleuranza
Amagi Brilliant Park cast
Mascots
;Moffle;Macaron
;Tiramy
;Wanipee
;Dornell
;Jaw
Elementario
;Muse;Sylphy
;Salama
Other members
;Triken;Ashe
;Wrench
;Ōkuro
;Nick
;Genjūrō
;Rubrum the Red Dragon
;Taramo
;Eiko Adachi
;Biino Bandō
;Shiina Chūjō
;Tetsuhige
Other characters
;Takaya Kurisu;Aisu Kyūbu
;Takami
;Mutsumi Terano
;Kanae Tsuchida
;Kimura
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 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 began serialization in Monthly Dragon Age with the June 2014 issue. A third manga titled Amagi Brilliant Park the animation, written by the AmaBri Restoration Committee 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", performed by Akino with bless4. Akino and bless4 also did an English version of this song titled "Extra Magic Hour ". The ending theme is "Elementalio 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 is also distributed for home video in Australia by Crunchyroll Store Australia and in the United Kingdom by Animatsu Entertainment.