-Story 8/10-
If you haven't watched the anime series Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya and the movie called Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Movie: Oath Under Snow, then this movie won't make much sense to you. The story picks up right after, I mean, right after the events of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!. Unfortunately enough, even if you have watched all of those, the story in this movie still does not make much sense either.
I'm going to try my best not to give spoilers. This movie has a great story and plot, but fails to deliver. The conversations between characters don't make sense a lot of time because the movie thinks the viewers already know what they're talking about. To give you an example, say you're watching the original Fate series (all routes), but minus the part where they explain the holy grail system and just brush all the important information off. You will be left confused with what's going on. You will be left confused as to why are the characters fighting each other despite claiming to be heroes. The story telling of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Movie: Licht - Namae no Nai Shoujo is like that. You've never heard of this information before, but the movie doesn't take the time to explain it slow enough for the viewers to grasp the situation. They treat these new characters and words as if the viewers are already familiar with them; they aren't. You find yourself confused, thinking 'who is that?' or 'why is that a bad thing?' or 'what does this word really mean in this context and why is everyone trying to prevent it from happening?' and so on.
Why did I give this an 8/10, you ask? Well the movie manages to redeem itself later on by 'explaining' almost everything. When it does, everything clicks out. All the questions you had in your head will eventually be answered once the movie reaches a certain part. To be honest, I don't really like that method of conflict solving and would much prefer to have at least some problems solved as the movie progresses; not when the movie reaches a certain point. This is due to the excessive amount of fighting scenes. I kid you not, about 86% of this movie consists of fighting scenes and exchanging blows.
-Art 8/10-
The girls look cute in their magical girl dresses. Other than that, I don't see a huge difference in terms of quality in the art department compared to the previous movie Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Movie: Oath Under Snow. To put it bluntly, I don't see much difference between this movie and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!. It is by no means bad, not at all. Just don't set your expectations too high because you will be disappointed.
The animation is good most of the time, but there are like 4 scenes which use bad CGI models and animation. The CGI is very noticeable and looks very poorly made when on screen, but thank goodness there aren't many moments which the models are featured in.
-Sound 7/10-
Now I think this is the weakest part of the movie. Soundtracks, amazing. Voice actresses and actors, amazing. Sound effects, not so much. the sound effects they use in this movie are legit bad. No joke. I watched this at the cinema and not a single sound effect amazes me. They are all very mediocre. It seriously feels like they don't think about the sound too much, which I know that isn't the case, but all the explosions, lightning strikes, sword fights effects etc. are just so painfully mediocre. They don't sound clear and are honestly quite hard to hear. To sum it up, 'can't they choose something better than this?'
-Character 9/10-
This is where the movie deserves to be praised. I always like the idea that villains are not the bad guys just because they are evil; instead they were in a certain condition which forced them to be the way they are. Even if their evildoings cannot be justified, the background story makes the viewers able to sympathize and feel for them. This is exactly what this movie offers.
If you hated the villains from the previous movie, then you might change your opinion after watching this one. Even if it doesn't, you might still nod and can't help but to think 'I would've done the same thing'. If you're not interested in the bad guys, don't worry. This movie also tells you more about our Protagonist(s). Either way, I honestly think this movie does a great job explaining its characters; be it the protagonists or the antagonists. For this, the movie deserves a 9/10 for characters.
-Enjoyment 9/10-
Despite my harsh comments on the story and sound part, I enjoyed this movie. Watching this really makes me think, 'ah. I'm watching Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya'. The one Fate series I used to avoid due to its magical girl nature, turns out to be one of the most interesting, well-written Fate series I've watched. There's not much I can say in this section other than I really enjoyed it.
-Overall 8/10-
Nothing I can say here except this is still a great movie in spite of its flaws. I've said this before and I'm going to keep saying it: no movies are without flaws. I can confidently say that Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Movie: Licht - Namae no Nai Shoujo is up there with other good Fate adaptations, and that people should watch this AND the series before this.
-TL;DR-
Good story but quite poorly executed, great art but jarring animation in some scenes but accompanied with amazing soundtracks and badly mediocre sound effects with very well-written characters that is enjoyable for either Fate fans or non Fate fans is how I describe this movie in one sentence (or phrase).
