Latifa Fleuranza

Latifa Fleuranza is an important character in the light novel and anime series Amagi Brilliant Park. She is the kind-hearted princess residing in Amagi Brilliant Park, an amusement park headed towards failure. The main character Seiya Kanie is sought by deauteragonist Isuzu Sento to become the new manager of the park, after Latifa and Sento both failed in the past. Seiya proves to be the most promising manager of the park, but to Latifa, he's doing more than just renovating a park.
She is voiced by in Japanese and Cindy Lou Parker in English. 
==Appearance==
Latifa appears as a petite 14 year old girl with waist-length blonde hair and blue eyes, almost always seen in an elegant peach and white dress. She also has two necklaces and a pair of white gloves. Likely because she's a princess, she wears a silver tiarra on her head. Her appearance and sweet personality compliment each other with innocent blue eyes and golden hair complimenting her heart of gold. 
==Personality==
For a princess, she possesses many heroic attributes, but her kindness is emphasized by her soft and sweet demeanor. Despite having the affection of all of her employees, she is humble, kindhearted, and overall a very nice person, exemplified with instances such as when she comforted Kanie when he was suffering from acrophobia even though he was a narcissist. Even in light of being cursed, she remains optimistic, and handles difficult situations calmly. Since she is rather frail and even bedridden at one point, she values her friends and comrades very much. Just as much, she values Amagi Brilliant Park, and is not that faint of heart despite being soft, as shown when he kissed a boy so that he would be gifted a magical ability, and to prove that she and the park were not natural creations. She is rarely seen without a smile on her face, which could only possibly turn upside down at the concern of another important other. 
==Biography==
===Background===
Latifa Fleuranza is the daughter of the unnamed King of Maple Land, and an unnamed mother, who could've possibly been the queen of Maple Land. Maple Land is a magical realm, vaguely described to exist "between land and water". Being the first known princess of Maple Land, Latifa could've possibly lived a blissful life; but one that was not ignorant. At the age of 14 years old, Latifa's father reluctantly made a bargain with a wizard to defend the place from an unknown threat, that he would offer Latifa as his partner in marriage if he saved their homeland. The wizard saved Maple Land, but in return, the King did not give anything back, refusing to keep his end of the bargain. This made the wizard furious, and Latifa's father ordered all the knights to persecute him. Before falling off of a cliff, the wizard made the final move before his supposed death: he cursed Latifa.
===Curse===
The curse from the wizard gradually drains her life force and resets her memories and age every year on August 1. The life force, known as animus, is a magical energy all Maplelanders require to continue living. As such, she remains frail and weak, and depends on the animus produced by Amagi Brilliant Park to continue living. Amagi Brilliant Park is more than what it appears to be, not in the sense that it is more fun than it looks, but it actually has a hidden purpose, and it's magic. Amagi Brilliant Park was an Argel facility built to harness the "fun energy" into life force for its inhabitants to survive. After the construction of Amagi Brilliant Park, it was soon known curtly as Amaburi, and managed by Princess Latifa, for whom the disguised facility was built for. Despite her mandatory need for the park to function to ensure her survival, she shares it with other magical creatures from Maple Land, which are seen as minor and recurring characters in the series. 
===Fate===
A long time ago while Princess Latifa was in Amagi Brilliant Park, a little boy named Seiya Kanie watched her cry right in front of him. He vowed to stop whatever is making her sad, and this foreshadows the events of the show. Seiya Kanie is the main character. However, this does not happen in the beginning of the show, and is instead shown in a flashback at some point. After Seiya remembers this flashback he completely forgot about, he questions if it was even real, remembering Latifa to have the exact same appearance as she does right before his very eyes. Also, Latifa does not remember this. At this point, (the viewers, and) Seiya is still unaware of Latifa's curse, only that she struggles in physical activity and can barely even go outside. 
===Management===
====Latifa Fleuranza====
Amagi Brilliant Park operates on the agreement that it reaches 500,000 anual visitors, with the count being tallied on August 1 every year. It will remain extant for as long as it lasts before it fails to reach the count for 5 years in a row. It is infered that due to her curse, she is past her peak and is unable to manage the park efficiently, and Amaburi is now already on its 4th consecutive year where it failed to reach the minimum requirement. Her assistant and right-hand manager Isuzu Sento was then sent by Latifa to hire (or rather extort) high school student Seiya Kanie, who they believed to be their beacon of hope. After dryly touring him around the park, Kanie is frustrated with how horrible the park was, calling it "a dump". Sento offers him some croquettes, which were contradictory to the rest of the park since they were actually delicious. Desiring to know who made them, Sento leads him to Latifa, and in their encounter she kisses him, causing him to faint. 
====Seiya Kanie====
The next day, Seiya realizes that Latifa gave him the ability to read people's minds, but only once. Sento made him read her mind before telling him this so that he would never read her mind, and also tells him he was given this ability to force him to become the manager. Later, they meet Takaya Kurisu, who will take down the park once it fails to reach its target. Despite coercion from Isuzu and pleas from Latifa, Seiya still declares he is not going to be their manager. However, this was revealed to be intentional lying, as Kanie makes a surprise appearance as Latifa sadly makes a PSA that the park will be closing in 3 months. He then criticizes the entire park, which the entire audience of employees didn't take lightly, and appeared glad to become the park's new manager. 
With his bold yet brilliant tactics, the park rose from ashes to new over the events of the series. He exemplies the traits of a disciplinarian who knows what's best for the park, even if his decisions are highly controversial. His discipline set Isuzu in a really bad mood when he reprimanded her for her militaristic extortion tendencies, and cost him the approval of his employees. Not all of his ideas were reluctantly received however, as after reprimanding Isuzu for her cold approach to solving disagreements, he shows her that people don't hate her, and slowly, the employees see Seiya as a messiah. Isuzu started to develop feelings for Kanie. On a ferris wheel ride with Latifa, Seiya reluctantly reveals he is scared of heights, and Latifa comforts him, being the only resident of the park who held no ill feelings towards him at the time. 
A few days after Seiya hires new employees, Amaburi is attacked by Mapleland pirates, who capture Princess Latifa, among others, including Isuzu. Seiya and the rookies defeat the pirates led by Ironbeard, and rescue Latifa and the hostages, all while making the tourists believe this was just an act. This event boosted Amaburi's reputation even more, to add on to Seiya's brilliant management. 
Some of the park still needed work-- namely the Elementario group. After eating dinner with Latifa, the four of them push the button despite Latifa's ominous warning, and activate the defense system, which result in them facing a series of trials all requiring teamwork. With the teamwork needed to succeed, they finally learned to work as a team and boost their performance in their attraction at the park. And a few days later, Latifa collapses, and Seiya states that Latifa's life insurance is top priority, and schedules a meeting. He soon learns of Latifa's curse, and vows to reverse it. 
He strikes a deal with some officials to host a soccer match that is estimated to draw a large crowd, since the negotiators desperately needed some place to host it. Using his mind reading powers granted by Latifa, he knows exactly what they want, and the negotiation was flawless. The plan didn't succeed as much as he'd like it to, and they resorted to calling everyone they knew to get the visitor count as high as possible. The end result was that 499,997 people were officially counted. The last 3 people came just to tackle Isuzu, but it still counted. However, it appeared to Seiya that he had failed to do the other thing he vowed to do: reverse Latifa's curse. 
===The Final Curse===
Takaya Kurisu revealed himself as the wizard who cursed Latifa in the story Isuzu told Seiya about, and disapparated. Every year, Takaya Kurisu grows stronger from the power that's drained from Latifa. Feeling an everlasting thankfulness and impossible debt to Seiya, Latifa cries in Kanie's arms and says that she is not okay with forgetting about him due to the curse she has. The supposed memory erasure took place as soon as midnight, but the cherry blossom tree above them started to glow, and petals brilliantly scattered themselves in the air, failling down as Seiya carries her to Moffle (her uncle) and Isuzu. In some kind of miracle, Latifa wakes up and says that she remembers everything. 
Seiya is revealed to have saved Latifa, as the tree they were under was a collection center of the fun energy of the park. It was finally given enough animus to bloom at last, indicating more than enough to ensure Latifa's survival. Seiya did succeed in reversing the curse after all. 
==Abilities==
Not being of this world, Latifa instead comes from the magical world called Maple Land, the location of which remains mysterious. Maple Land is a fantasy world, and all people from Maple Land are magical. Latifa's ability appears to be giving other people magical abilities. Using this power, when Sento brought Kanie to her for the first time, her kiss gave him a magical power: the ability to read minds, though only once per person. It is unknown how many magical powers she's gifted people with using this ability. 
Her talent is making croquettes that taste scrumptious, which is also her hobby. 
==Trivia==
* After the revelation that Takaya Kurisu is the wizard who cursed Latifa, the memory reset of the curse taking place on the same day that the visitor count is finalized (August 1) no longer becomes a coincidence. 
* It is possible that Latifa has feelings for Seiya, as their platonic relationship is so intense that it may not even be platonic.
* Latifa's last name has been published under many different spellings, including Fullanza, Fleuranza, and Florenza. Fleuranza is thought to be the correct spelling due to the anime. 
* Latifa's first name has alternatively been spelled "Latifah". 
* In Episode 10 she is confirmed by Moffle to actually be 24 years old.
*Just like how Seiya Kanie and Isuzu Sento are references to Kanye West and 50 Cent respectively, Latifa's name is a reference to hip hop artist . However, her career has explored a variety of other styles, such as jazz, contemporary R&B, and soul, and she is also an actress.
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