Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Movie: Licht - Namae no Nai Shoujo

For anime onlies, Definitely a good continuation after watching 3rei and OUS. Fan service is almost not there and irelevant, and they went straight for the plot.
Good art style, character developments, OSTs, and fights, and most of all, great voice acting. If there would be problems to them, it would probably be the CGI and the ending of the movie.

Now for it's adaptation. It's a big problem. It can't even be compared to how great the manga is. I said the character development is good. But it's the fact that it's only good is what makes it not great compared to the manga which ... is top tier. The art, the developments, and the plot. It makes you think:"Am I really reading the same series where there are "lesbian lolis kissing" It's just that good. That's why it kinda disappoints me on what they did.

So yeah I can only give it a 7.5. 8/10 If i'm generous.

I hate to say this because Kaleid for me is at the moment one of my favorite ongoing Type-Moon series, the manga that is, and the arc that the movie adapts is one of my favorite ones , it has so much action, nuance, character development and great visuals there, but the movie lacks almost all of them.

Visually it isn't good, sometimes it looks really good but mostly not, the story and characters are too rushed, and it's sad because Kaleid has solid adaptations overall, they handled Oath Under Snow greatly, mostly because it was an arc with around 10 chapters, this movie adapts ... an arc of essentially double or triple the size of the last one, and you can really feel that after the first minutes of it.

They did handle the last minutes of the movie much better than the first ones, though again, the manga is the better version by far.

As a fan of this series I am very disappointed in it. I'm writing this review because there doesn't seem to be a negative review here as far as I can see.

The story was strong although it cut out some very important parts from the manga, effectively skipping the nuance in the fights and in the characterisation. There are some great parallels in the characters.

The soundtrack sucked, it was mixed poorly and the songs never matched up with the fights. Often times I would find myself questioning why a song was playing. (or a lack of it) I really wouldn't be surprised if the sound ... director was out of a job after this travesty. The ending song was good though.

The fight animations felt excruciatingly lacklustre: zoomed in CG combat is a cardinal sin, random distant zoom outs to the point where you can hardly see the action, wonky framerates in places. There is a LOT of needless CG animated which was awful to look at. They also overused an awful particle effect with lots of moving black particles which didn't look good the first time they used it, let alone the next 30 times. I have literally no idea who thought it was a good idea.

The voice acting was practically the only saving grace of this floundering failure of an adaptation. Some highlights are Kugimiya Rie who kills it as Beatrice; Kadowaki Mai who does a fantastic job as Illya as per usual; and Hanae Natsuki who really managed to share the pain of being Julian.

In conclusion, this movie is heavily carried by its source material and voice actors. Most of the successes can be attributed to its origin manga which is genuinely good; the only thing the adaptation really feels like it added were the voices which is, however, a shallow victory considering the things that were lost. I really wanted it to be better, but alas, it wasn't.