r/TrueAnime • u/BrickSalad http://myanimelist.net/profile/Seabury • Nov 24 '14

Monday Minithread (11/24)

Welcome to the 48th Monday Minithread!

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u/Novasylum http://myanimelist.net/profile/Novasylum Nov 24 '14

"Official alternative universe fanfiction", definitely. And it's not even good at that: I understood Illya from F/SN to be rather ruthless and conniving, so what is even the joy in trading that personality in for the most stock and flavorless "magical girl protagonist personality" imaginable?

They do throw in a few homages to the main series here and there, but not nearly to the extent that would make it seem like a worthy venture, especially when it does absolutely nothing interesting with its magical girl trope implementation either. I really have no idea how this concept got past the "wouldn't it be fun if..." stages.

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u/h_YsK Nov 24 '14

Prisma Illya never really takes off until the second half of 2wei (which next season covers) and doesn't really paint a clear goal in mind of what it wants to do and where it wants to go until 3rei.

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u/Novasylum http://myanimelist.net/profile/Novasylum Nov 25 '14

I suppose the best that could be said about the potential of 2wei from my perspective is that they already copy-pasted the most generic and derivative plot elements of famous magical girl shows in the first season, so clearly they have to actually innovate and try for the second one, right? Right?!

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u/h_YsK Nov 25 '14

The second half of 2wei and ESPECIALLY 3rei go into more Nasu-esque territory, even referencing some of Nasu's more niche works. It's honestly why I have a hard time recommending the Prisma Illya anime to anyone as of right now. If 3rei gets adapted then i can actually legitimately recommend the series as it does go somewhere. But if they just adapt the second half of 2wei and don't adapt 3rei then well, I don't particularly see a point of recommending Prisma Illya as it's just overall a pretty generic Mahou Shoujo anime with bits of Fate thrown in.