Illyasveil von Einzbern has faced many challenges since
becoming a Magical Girl: Class Cards, church enforcers, evil twins, even the
craziness of her own classmates. After a
death defying battle against a monstrous 8th Class Card, it looks
like real peace is finally in sight for Illya, Miyu and Kuro. But that battle has left their world
scarred. A tear has formed between Illya
and Miyu’s worlds and now those Miyu once ran from are coming for her. These are foes on a different level from
anything Illya has ever faced before.
Even with the power of Kuro, Rin, Luvia and Bazzet at her side, this
battle for the fate of two worlds may be one she cant win.
It’s the last First Impression Friday of the year (next
week I’ll have some special reviews in place).
I watched the first episode of this season a few weeks back but opted to
save it for now, just cause of all the shows ive covered on FIF, Prisma Illya
is the only series I’ve had one here multiple times, once per season.
I’ve enjoyed this Fate/Stay Night spin off up to this
point. The magical girl elements mixed
well with the cute-ification of the cast.
Some of the humor is a little…unsettling to say the least and some of
the characters bother me to no end.
However, as long as Illya, Miyu and Rin were around, I was
satisfied. As we head into Season 4, it
looks like we’re getting a setup that’s the exact opposite of the start of
Season 3. The time for humor seems to be
passed. It’s time to get to the nitty
gritty…ok it’s not totally that serious.
However, after the first half of the episode, dealing once again with
Illya’s odd choice of school friends, I get the feeling we’re in for a far
different experience this time around.
Ever since the beginning of the series, one huge question
has been left unanswered: Where the hell did Miyu come from? We’ve gotten hints that she might be from
another world (a la Reiji from Gundam Build Fighters). But why she got trapped on Illya’s Earth has
never been touched. Towards the end of
Season 3, things seemed to be building towards a big revelation…only to be
silenced with a “Friendship is Magic” excuse to keep things quiet until Season
4. But now it seems that Miyu’s world is
coming for her…and they are pissed. A
better question to ask is not why Miyu left, but why her guardians from her
world waited so long to come after her.
Yeah, it would have made Servant Card hunting a bit difficult, if not
impossible given the skill level of these new fighters. But still, it’s been quite a bit since Miyu
first met Illya and company and became part of their make shift family. You’d think something would have happened long
before now.
I’m a little confused about how Miyu’s world will
work. Is it a “Mirror Mirror” replica of
Illya’s world? Is it a mash of modern
and olden day era Japan? Why is the only
person Illya’s seen so far a girl in a high school gym uniform with no memory
and a high annoyance factor (hey the humor needs to stick around somehow)? But it’s only the first episode. I cant expect a heavy exposition laden answer
session right off the bat. Now that
Illya is trapped, having gone after Miyu without any hesitation, I’m sure we’re
going to be in Miyu’s world a bit. I’m
more anxious to see these worlds start to bleed into each other. With the battle against Kid Gilgamesh tearing
a huge hole in their “space time continuum” there’s bound to be more repercussions…my
money’s on world fusion like Mortal Kombat Annihilation…just…you know…better.
Whatever the case, the action quota is going to be higher
than ever I bet. With any signs of side
character humor diversions pushed aside, it looks like we’ll get a battle
royale between Miyu’s OP kidnappers and Illya’s crew. Hopefully Rin, Kuro, Luvia and Bazzet wont be
kept out of the action for too long (I watch this a lot for Rin anyway). But the stakes were definitely raised after
that first battle, when Illya and crew got the crap kicked out of them. Illya’s little Super Saiyan Magical Girl
power up at the end of Season 3 might not be able to solve every problem
instantly. So I’m wondering what prep
will be involved for the inevitable rematch in the battle to retake Miyu.
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya remains one of 2016’s
biggest surprises for me and I’m glad I’ve stuck with it. If I had been thinking and planning better, I
could probably have caught up completely by now. As it stands, I’m going to aim to get 3wei
finished by the time I head to Katsucon (really all I need to do is sit down
and watch an episode or two in a row to build up some momentum, plus there are
an extra 2 episodes but that’s no biggie).
Could this be the finest hour of the Magical Girl Fate Stay Night
Fantasy or will this be the Gundam Build Fighters Try of the series…aka the
season that forgets everything that made the series fun and tries to make it
depressing as hell?
I’ll let you know sometime in 2017 I guess. Thanks for taking a look at this new blog
feature. I might take another short
break from these in early 2017 but I’ll have a more final decision about that
within a week. Until then, thanks for
checking out the First Impression Fridays of 2016.
Catch ya later everyone.
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