Oct 11, 2022
Prisma Illya kinda blows
It's not, like, offensively bad or anything, but as a whole show it ranges from very pitifully average to downright bad, depending on your penchant for loli fanservice
The story itself is middling. Very generic collectathon magical girl stuff. The actual writing is all over the place; some scenes come out of nowhere, some feel like they have an incomplete setup, and some are honestly genuinely great. It's a very mixed bag. The beginning of the show is probably the worst of it, and where a lot of the fanservice rears its ugly head, but the middle of the show (especially the fight
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against Saber) is pretty good. The ending is okay too, but MAN does the fanservice just really take away any emotional weight some of these scenes have. Example, Irisviel's introduction starting off with a showcase of a nude Illya, going immediately into a closeup of her groping her daughter, then going into a genuinely nice scene of Illya confiding in her mom and talking about her thoughts on her friend and herself is a really weird tonal dissonance, especially for a character who just kinda.... showed up at the very end.
It just felt like the show cared more about getting those shots in than it did actually focusing on making a cohesive and interesting narrative. Miyu constantly feels like a nothing character until, like, the very end of the show. Any character building opportunities felt squandered, and the one episode that felt like her moment in the sun was taken up by her playing maid with Illya (her maid outfit later being taken off because of course), then going complete 180 and telling Illya she doesn't wanna work with her any more because she keeps messing everything up (as far as I remember, she didn't mess anything up and, in fact, saved Miyu's ass in the Saber fight (of which Miyu took credit for)). Illya's motivations aren't super clear, the plot itself isn't even really clear as to why anybody is even doing anything, everything just kinda happens. It's meh. 10 episodes is a weird length for a show, and that constrained schedule might've been the issue, but as it stands it's meh.
Animation is alright, some poor CGI here and there but nothing too distracting. Fight scenes could've gotten more polish, they feel a bit too snappy and floaty simultaneously but were overall fine. Nothing to write home about. Soundtrack's good, though.
Overall, forgettable. If you like loli fanservice, it could be your thing (it would distract from the poor writing), but if you don't, skip it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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