2014, 13 episodes:
AniDB.
High school boy is asked to be the acting manager of a failing
amusement park populated by fantastic creatures.
Which feels as though it ought to be a video game conversion,
complete with the score at the end of each episode (unless they get
enough visitors by a certain time, the park will be closed down), but
actually this is adapted from a light novel series. As is common with
such adaptations, there's a feeling of much more going on behind the
scenes than makes it into the anime.
This has the same light novel author and several of the same animators
as the Full Metal Panic! series, but a very different style of
story, and the clichés that are promised in the first episode never
really come to pass; there's basically no love story, and the comedy
of embarrassment vanishes completely.
It does get a bit heavy on the fanservice at times, and the plot
finishes one episode before the series ends. Character design and
music are unremarkable. But the large cast is easy to keep
distinguished, and most of them have some sort of story of their own,
which is what keeps the show interesting.
This isn't going to win any awards, but it's still mildly enjoyable. I
liked it, but my standards are low.
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