My roommate is often curious if he should watch certain episodes of Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA or not. He sees the potential for awesome episodes in the series but reading my reviews proves to him that the promotional material does not misrepresent what the show is about like say a show like Kamichu! does. While the series has some of Type-Moon’s amazing signature fight scenes all of that is sadly held in check from being as awesome as it could be with some squicky fanservice around Illya, Miyu, and Chole. It is definitely an anime that you either need to like the fanservice, be able to ignore the icky parts, or just read a guide to skip to the parts that have the battling with Servants.

Well this was an episode my roommate could watch without reservation. After a season of a half of hype the 8th card finally appears. You can’t build up an opponent like that and then have it fall down like it was a simple jobber. (Technically you can do that but you better either have the twist of the “real villain” prepared with adequate set up or just be prepared to utterly disappoint your audience.) That means that their one hit knock out plan is probably not going to work. Actually considering who the 8th card is the thought that this might be a cake walk battle is actually unthinkable.
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