![]() Hiroshi Hiroyama’s magical girl manga Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (2007-ongoing) was adapted into an anime by Silver Link (released in 2013) and continues to find success. It turns out, the near-destiny level circumstances that brought Illya and Shirou together were far more relevant than either of them expected.īut in yet another twist of fate, the pair were given a second chance to become close in the alternate universe spin-off titled Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya. Illya and her Greek myth-inspired servant were a force for protagonist Shirou Emiya and his own servant Saber to reckon with, a rivalry that was very much personal…and tragic. I think this comes from the fact that a majority of Fate/stay night’s servants are fictional characters reimagined for the spectacle that is the anime adaptation (2006) with one of its most memorable master-servant pairs being antagonist Illyasviel ‘Illya’ von Einzbern and her servant Heracles/Hercules. ![]() While the idea of having a mix of characters, historical figures, and even icons that blur the line between the two, duke it out is both objectively cool and a tad bit silly, Fate/stay night tends to err towards the former. The main participants of the Holy Grail War, masters, are made up of human mages (for the most part) while their servants, ‘heroic spirits,’ are where the Fate shenanigans truly begin. Type-Moon’s sleeper hit, visual novel Fate/stay night (2004), takes place in a world with a certain degree of magic where a life-and-death tournament called the ‘Holy Grail War’ is waged to grant the master-servant pair that wins any wish of their choosing. Needless to say, even with all the anthro, genderbent, and ‘moe-fied’ characters and historical figures the Fate/stay night visual novel and its sequels/spin-offs have come to be known for, I still did not expect Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya to be a thing. However, when talking about such a popular franchise that managed to spawn products well beyond its eroge roots to date, it’s more than possible to miss the odd series now and then. This isn’t my first rodeo with an anime/manga one-two punch related to Fate.
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