Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya - 10 (It is the cliché finale, y'all.)

Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA Episode 10 REVIEW (final)
Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

After "dying" at Ilya's hands, Berserker once again resurrects. Rin and Luvia arrive and use high level magecraft to bind Berserker, giving time for Ilya and Miyu to make amends. Berserker breaks free, but Ilya and Miyu have a plan. Together, they successfully battle Berserker with Miyu getting a killing blow with her Lancer card, but again, Berserker starts to resurrect. Rin and Luvia are out of the fight since they have no more gems, but Ilya and Miyu are able to combine their powers and launch a single attack at the charging Berserker, which manages to force him into card form. Returning to the real world, Luvia and Rin than Miyu and Illya, but then Luvia takes the cards from Rin and escapes in a helicopter to take all the credit.

The following morning, Ilya dreams that Shiro is waking her up, so she decides to get a kiss from him, only to wake up and find herself kissing Miyu instead, after which she freaks out. The two leave for school, after which Iri leaves to rejoin her husband, assuring Sella and Leysritt that Ilya will be fine. Since Ilya and Miyu are running late, they transform to magic girls to speed to school.  There, Ilya's friends are shocked by the fact that Ilya and Miyu have not only made up, but Miyu has become "dere" as well. Miyu shows great disdain for the other girls, saying Ilya is her only friend and the two of them don't need anyone else. This leads to a lot of problems for Ilya to try to resolve.

Meanwhile, Rin managed to take down Luvia's helicopter, defeat Luvia, and report her success. She's informed that while she'll be allowed to train under Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, she has to live in Japan for a year along with Luvia to learn to get along. Rin is very unhappy with learning this news. Meanwhile, in London, a stranger arrives with a tub carrying case on their back. The gloved stranger makes their way to Heathrow and waits at a terminal.

Thoughts/Review:

And so this series ends, but with a promise to do a sequel anime series based on the second manga series.

The way the writers resolve having to defeat Berserker was rather clichéd to say the least. After punishing Miyu for thinking she could go at it alone, they couldn't very well have Ilya save the day alone, so we get a Unison Raid Parallel Include, "we combine our powers," after which, Berserker is ultimately defeated. Add to this the clichéd, vocal musical score and well, I just wanted to spin on.  If I hadn't seen this type of resolution before, it would have been fine. Heck, even finding some sort of new way of dealing with the resolution would have been fine. Unfortunately, the easiest route is the one already taken tons of times before.

While the Rin and Luvia scrabbles were humorous to me at the start of the series, when it was clear that parodies of the mahou shoujo genre and female rivals in general were being done, when those resume at the middle of this episode, I just didn't laugh. I has become more interested in the story so the clichéd comedy trope just failed to interest me much.

I could do without the sudden Miyu x Ilya loli shoujo ai element that was introduced at the end of the episode. It just made my head hurt.

The tease for the next series was nifty though. I hope that this time, Silver Link decides not to make critical changes to the manga story that twist things about.  I do plan to read the manga and will volume-blog it as I'm able.

So, until I get my final thoughts post up, I'll just say that this episode ended on a somewhat disappointing note to me due to the clichéd nature of things.