Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!

Waking up to find herself in a parallel version of Fuyuki City, Illyasviel "Illya" von Einzbern is lost and alone. She discovers her home in ruins, with a massive crater lying in the center of her hometown. With snow falling in the middle of summer, confusion consumes the young elementary schooler, who has no knowledge of where her friends or her wand Ruby may be.

Making it to the remains of her house, she is suddenly tackled by an amnesiac girl. Wearing a gym uniform as the icy temperature sets in, the mysterious girl has no idea of where she is or why she showed up. However, this stranger, known as Tanaka, apparently has information about the location of Rin Toosaka, Miyu Edelfelt, and the rest of Illya's missing friends.

Fleeing from agents of the Ainsworth family⁠—those in control of this parallel realm—where will these two end up, and how will Illya restore the present back to the world she once knew?

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Gilgamesh Main

Endou, Aya Japanese

von Einzbern, Illyasviel Main

Kadowaki, Mai Japanese

von Einzbern, Chloe Main

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Edelfelt, Miyu Main

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Toosaka, Rin Supporting

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Emiya, Shirou Supporting

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Kotomine, Kirei Supporting

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Matou, Sakura Supporting

Shitaya, Noriko Japanese

Edelfelt, Luviagelita Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Fraga McRemitz, Bazett Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Oonuma, Shin Director

Jinbo, Masato Director, Storyboard

Takahashi, Ken Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tsuchiya, Masanori Sound Director

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Jul 31, 2021

Xweg

Recommended

completely honest after watching the series:

holy shit this show doesn't make any sense (considering I have only seen stay/night and apocrypha), giving it a 7 sounds completely wrong given this information now, HOWEVER, that's what makes it special. Fitting something as illogical as this into the fate series is funny to me and the story throughout the timeline of the anime was pretty linear luckily. I have no complaints though, it was enjoyable and something I could just watch without needing to pay attention to the story

the art was really good, nothing else to say about it.

I didn't pay much attention to the sound throughout, ... it's not something I fuss about (i don't fuss about much, you can probably tell) but I saw no wrong in the sound throughout the show

characters were good (although as I mentioned prior, don't fit at all into the fate timeline I've seen so far) and there was good development (in Chloe and Miyu especially) although something felt slightly hollow (i didn't really care too much though)

fucking loved this series, no complaints at all on enjoyment, I could just watch it without thinking at all and that's something I need more of.

overall 8, I'd watch it again

this is my first review, so don't bully me pls

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 17, 2020

Mr_Yaz

Mixed Feelings

Reviewer's note: This is my 10h entry into the Fate/Kaled spin-off works (Ilya>Specials>Sekka no Chikai>Undoukai de Dance!>2wei>Specials>Mahou Shoujo in Onsen Ryokou>2wei Herz!>Specials).


✪ Genre: action (swordplay), contemporary fantasy, comedy (facial distortion, funny expressions), magic (circles, spellcasting, magic weapons), mahou shoujo, seinen, superpower (emotions awaken superpowers) with some loli and yuri elements


✔Positive Aspects✔

◧ Animation: following my review of the 3rd season, the characters' design is even sharper, based on the same combination of colors of moderate to low saturation/medium to high lumination, with the urban environment and the urban landscapes being a little more muted in comparison.

◧ Comedic sequences: even though they are not as frequent or ... hilarious as in the previous 3 seasons, they nevertheless continue to be entertaining. They, mostly, revolve around our 5 protagonists (7 if you count the sticks) with the addition of 3 new deuteragonists and 3 new antagonists (technically, there's only one new), taking place in the same elementary school (kinda) and the antagonist's castle.

◧ Fan service: is always welcome, even though it is not as frequent or as captivating as in the previous 2 seasons - some loli-/yuri- based interactions and some ecchi-based interactions (e.g. pantsu, semi-nude breasts, buttocks fondling).

◧ Character development: despite its faster, combat-heavy pace, the season does a decent job at building the new antagonists, while being more conservative with the new deuteragonists. To be honest, this aspect of the series barely registers as a positive one.


✘Negative Aspects✘


◧ Action scenes: as I've reiterated, ever since the Sekka no Chikai movie, Silver Link has been consistently putting out crisper action sequences, clearly chasing after Ufotable's remarkable work in UBW & F/Z. Specifically, it does a good job using various camera perspectives (first-person, second-person, third-person) coupled with different camera 'heights' and quick zoom-ins/outs. Once again, the studio is not able to choreograph and polish its action sequences as impressively as Ufotable has. Another problematic element, which is also present in the 3rd season, is the unmistakably shounen-ish vibe that they give. These sequences are not as violent or back and forth as the sequences of the first 2 seasons.

◧ Plot: even though this season is way more action-packed than the 2nd and 3rd season, it does not really balance out its dramatic, comedic, and action sequences as well. Since most of this series' story is wrapping up, the season is busy leading the audience from fight to fight, from new deuteragonists to new antagonists, fixing up some major plot holes, while opening up some smaller ones.

◧ Soundtrack: following the 3rd season, this season's collection also consists of silly-sounding tracks to electronic music during the comedic sequences, new age piano/new age orchestral tracks during the more dramatic scenes, and, mostly, electronic music during the action scenes. Nothing really popped, most felt very generic and low-key for my taste.


Overall: This season does suffer from the same issues as the 2nd and 3rd season, resulting in a somewhat better than average anime.


P.S. For further reviews of the Fate franchise, please take a look at my profile.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 7, 2019

PixelB

Not Recommended

This is the fourth installment of the spinoff series focusing around Illya, who is a magical girl.

I'm going to review only the third fourth seasons, as I actually thought the first two seasons were good for what they were. Especially the second season, I found it to be a much better sequel than I was anticipating. As for the third and fourth...not so much.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on the third season, but basically, the first 6 episodes are a nonfactor. If you didn't already know that illya was a magical girl, you'd basically never would have figured it out until ... episode 7, since the first 6 episodes are just mindless slice of life stuff. Not to say you can't have slice of life, but try to incorporate it into the actual plot. I mean, the third season is basically split into a slice of life section and an actual plot section. Just a lazy way to make a third season, when the first two seasons actually made sense. Plus, the third season's actual plot is pretty linear, boring, and very predictable. The eighth card they are trying to capture is gilgamesh, but that doesn't really matter. He splits off into a child version, who doesn't really do anything but provide comic relief, and some semblance to plot development I guess? Anyway, Illya blows away the eighth card after some ridiculous powerup. NEXT

The fourth season actually doesn't have a split slice of life part and a serious plot part, which is already an improvement. Which is what you think, but it sucks. The fourth season was bold, the first episode shows a lot of promise, but the episodes that follow fail to live up to the first episode's "oomph." Lots of plot goes on, but the anime still decides to just throw in a bunch of comic relief and "funny scenes." It's not just a couple minutes that this takes up, but rather multiple episodes. As a result, the plot is not developed, the characters that are introduced are soon forgotten until they fulfill their plot role, and in the end, you just have a bunch of characters you barely know influencing the plot and driving it forward. While I don't mind new characters introduced at all, the characters that are introduced just end up forgotten. The girl chasing down the counterfeiters doesn't even appear for like 4-5 episodes... Gilgamesh is probably the best thing that happened to the fourth season. Other than that, the ending is also trash. Rather than just wrapping the story up and answer any questions, they just leave everything the way it is and hope for a next season. Plus, a bunch of out of character bs happens for the sake of plot, and things happen when they shouldn't happen. WOW. ok.

Conclusion of the fourth season:
-new characters just "disappear" until they are needed again
-comic relief covers a few episodes, which make less time for actual plot, so the plot is even less coherent
-Plot twists at the end happen, but they aren't quite good because they don't make a lot of sense, while also simultaneously not wrapping up anything

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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