Audience reviews
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MooBouBies
This is just a natural ramping up and improvement from the previous season in my opinion. We've got a new sexy black girl, a TON more ecchi, and more of the sinister magic vibes from the original Fate coming in and meshing seamlessly with the magical girl/slice of life aesthetic.
I have to make special mention of Chloe/Kuro because I knew she would be great before I started this, but she really steals the show here. A perfect foil/sister for Illya who not only keeps the comedy and the fanservice coming but also has her own arc that ties into the grander themes of Fate.
This is basically her season too, it's primarily about her showing up, being a badass Archer loli, making out with everyone, and then crying.
This is just a damn good show for anyone who loves Fate and some good old fanser…
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Reviewer's note: This series is my 5th entry into the Fate/Kaled spin-off works (Ilya>Specials>Sekka no Chikai>Undoukai de Dance!).
✪ Genre: action (swordplay), contemporary fantasy, comedy (facial distortion, funny expressions), magic (circles, spellcasting, magic weapons), mahou shoujo, school life, seinen, superpower (emotions awaken superpowers) with some loli, yuri, and harem elements
✔Positive Aspects✔
◧ Animation: adequately distinct characters, based on 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. The usage of 'light' and 'spark' effects during the action sequences, where the characters are swinging around & clashing their melee weapons, appears to be much crisper i…
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For me this season started with a BANG until the 4th episode where things just got slow and uninteresting for me, save for some rare genuine hilarious moments.
The battle animations are still top notch and I like the soundtrack during each episodes. I love how they gave a different seiyuu to Chloe but the kissing sound effects are too gross for me not to cringe to death.
I would say that if you want something chill to watch and enjoy the Fate cast, this is a good option for you.
SPOILERS:
1) the whole drama about "I want my life back" had already been addressed last season so it was just plain stupid to reuse that for plot;
2) Miyu as Ryder was so, so, so, so, so, awesome. Even better than as Saber.
Overall, this show gets a 7/10 from me.
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It seems contradictory and abominable to follow up a review of an excellent Fate series with a review of a dreadful one, but what better way to kill the anticipation for Unlimited Blade Works’ second season than watching something that turns the entire franchise into a joke? After all, who can’t help but laugh at the giant freaking title? What is it with anime having ridiculously long, pointless titles comprised of gibberish?
It’s a month after Illya got her magic wand, Ruby, and things are going swimmingly. They’ve captured all seven Clow…er…regular cards (these contain the Heroic Spirits), Rin and Luvia appear to be on friendly terms (though still hate each other and are only doing it as per orders), and Illya and Miyu are still on their way to being total lesbians. It’s all well and go…
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Before I start if you haven't read or seen the first season of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya then either read my review or watch the first season and then come back here.
So if your still here welcome back to Fuyuki City where Illya's normal life still gets disrupted but only this time by a full blown clone of herself.
In other words the sequel is even more interesting then the first season as it moves away from the magical girl tropes and into the Fate tropes that everyone knows and loves. keep in mind the Magical Girl tropes are still there but not as much as the first season.
The art and sound are beautiful to look at and to listen to as well as this series uses water and bubbles as part of the art style in certain scenes as for the sound well just listen to the ending theme and yo…
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Minor spoilers.
This review is written with the assumption that you have seen the prequel, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya.
Sense of place. The term can be used in many different ways. For some it may be unique places like ones bedroom, for others it may be about an attachment to a group of people where one feels safe and free to express oneself. We all seek a place to belong, somewhere where warmth emits. Some are lucky to find attachment early during their childhood while others struggle to. When you do not find a place, you feel left outside, alone, scared, cold and that is when one is the weakest and perhaps most aggressive; acting with hostility towards those who have taken your comfortable place out of frustration and fear.
2wei! is a story about finding a place to belong.
The s…
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STORY
In my opinion, the first season was a very comfortable and enjoyable show. So, when I heard there was more, I thought "why not?". I mean it couldn't hurt to get more. I only expected for Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei! to be entertaining. Although it wasn't too much of a step up as a story, it was certainly more entertaining than the first season. The main contributors to why this show was more entertaining to watch, were the Fate/ throw backs. I mean, the first season had a few of these, but they were mostly weren't used to move the plot. This season, however used them in a serious sense. Like the connection between the Illya of the Prisma universe and to Fate/Stay Night. They actually used this plot point to an extent. Which made the show more enjoyable.
As for the main story…
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Considering you're reading this you've propably already watched the first season or at least read its plot so lets make things clear: Everything that was good about the first season is here upgraded!
If you haven't watched the first season go watch it. To get some basics down it's a magical girls spinoff of the fate series, which ended up surprisingly good (in my opinion it actually surpasses stay night by far and perhaps zero too... I mean they didn't have a Saber Termiantor Vorhees who shoots Getsuga Tenshous while wearing 50kg plate armor in them.)
Continuing where the first story left off (warning: spoilers), all 7 hero spirits have been sealed and the disturbances seem to have ended. Illya's alter personality however (the form she had taken when using archer's powers against saber)…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
Existence is a strange topic. It's rare for people of any age to ponder what it means to "be" or at the minimum how one knows that who he or she is, is actually real. But what happens when you throw in a few magical girls and a bit of lewdness? Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei! (it got longer!) explores this idea to an extent while still maintaining the same quality that the previous season held.
STORY
F/k2 (shortened again at this point!) begins where F/k left off; Illya and Miyu are recruited by Rin and Luvia once more to help them with magical happenings. However, on their first excursion, something definitely strange occurs.
Where F/k focused mostly on the character dynamic between Illya and Miyu, this time the focus shifts from rela…
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The fan service was lacking overall and there was a lot of CG for no reason, but I considered it a step up from the previous series.
I typically say to people that if they enjoy mahou shoujo and loli fan service they'll probably like Prisma Illya, but 2wei is where the world building starts picking up steam and the Fate/ references stop being benign cameos and start being important background info and foreshadowing.
Basically this is where stuff starts to get interesting for Prisma Illya, but emphasis on "starts to," because 2wei overall feels like an interlude to the real climax in 3rei. It does have a lot of great twists (mostly in the latter half) that are pretty rewarding though. So to that effect this first cour will probably give you some dramatic blue balls, since most of the maj…
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I've always had a soft spot for Illya von Einzbern. The adorable and dangerously unbalanced young Master of Berserker, with her strange brother complex for Shiro, is probably my favorite loli character of all time. Nevermind that she's 16 in the anime and only looks like she's 11.
In Prisma Illya, our Einzbern princess actually looks her age, and adventures through a strange mirror of the Fate universe with her magical girl powers. In the first series she teamed up with fellow magical girl Miyu for fanservice, yuri subtext and fighting berserk Spirits trapped within seven cards. This time, while investigating an imbalance in the ley lines, Illya accidentally creates a clone of herself, Kuro Illya, who possesses the formidable abilities of Archer. The initial conflict between the two, and…
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Now then, the sequel to the Fate Magical girl show is over I tell you my thoughts on the show and it's new elements.
Story: 7
The story is very similar to first series in terms of plot as in the first it focuses on being friends with Miyu this focuses on understanding Kuro the new character which is a fun ride through and is worth watching as this new development triggers various things in the show from funny comedy, yuri undertones and doing various acts to embarrass Illya which helps fix her into the evil twin role and is good comedy/drama for the viewer.
Character: 8
All the characters you know and love from the first season are back and new and improved with further character development for main cast Illya and Miyu as well as new character Kuro getting a great role as well as great…
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If you're here you've probably watched first season. And you're interested if it's worth watching another.
Regardless of this review I think you WILL watch this, because nobody watches 1st season of Fate/Kaleid to the end and doesn't watch 2nd. Just, nobody.
Still, you want to know how good it will be before watching. Let me tell you straight, it's much better than season 1. 2 Wei is literally twice as good as first.
While half-a-joke (you'll get joke after 1 episode) it's really much better. It was like - "I just came to see some more cute girls doing cute stuff and HOLY S**T THAT BATTLE FUCKING AWESOME.... wait is she... OH MY GOD THAT SCENE WAS AWESOMe!!! and than more cute stuff and than HOLY F**K WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE!! MY GOD DON'T TELL... OH MY GOD WHAT A FUCKING AWESOME BATTL…
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Is it fate that Illya became a magical girl? Maybe. Was it destiny that set forth events that led her to meet Miyu? Maybe. And did Illya always wonder if there was another side of her that existed? Probably not. Oh wait, you’re probably wondering who or what that ‘other side of her’ is. No worries though because in this spinoff of the Fate universe, anything is possible.
Serving as a spinoff of the popular Fate/Stay Night franchise, Fate/Kaleid returns for a sequel once again to adapt the manga of the same name. Like season 1, it consists of 10 episodes of magical girl fun. The ‘fun’ here is probably not emphasized for Illya’s case though. Rather, it’s mostly for the fans. This is because Illya’s life turns out to be anything but fun after one day when she discovers that she has an alter…
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