The WORST episodes of Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA
Every episode of Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA!
Tohsaka Rin and Luviagelita Edelfelt are magi from the Clock Tower, the headquarters of the Mage's Association, and they were sent by its director to collect Class Cards, each holding the powers of a Servant from the Holy Grail War. To aid in their quest, they were handed two powerful magic wands, Rin receiving Magical Ruby and Luvia taking Magical Sapphire. However, due to the two girls' inability to get along, the wands got fed up with them and broke their contract. Ruby then sought a new master, and found one in an unsuspecting school girl by the name of Illyasviel von Einzbern. Despite Illya's protests, Ruby insisted in making a magical girl out of her, and she is now Prisma Illya. With no knowledge in magecraft and no previous training of her own, she must now collect the powerful Class Cards using whatever limited aid Rin can give her. Will the two at least to enter a truce with Luvia and Sapphire's new master and work together for this goal?
#1 - Your True Enemy
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/2016
Led by Gil, Illya and Tanaka successfully infiltrate the Ainsworth mansion. Their goal is the room where Miyu's held captive, but standing in their way is Beatrice and Angelica. When she's driven into a corner, Illya manages to reunite with Magical Ruby, regaining her power as a magical girl, and taking a stand to save Miyu!
#2 - Girls, Life is Short, so Rot Away!
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/8/2015
When they were buying swimsuits in the shopping mall, Mimi caught sight of Illya "resupplying" Kuro. Ever since that day though, she's been unable to stop herself from imagining naughty things. Then, after a few words from Suzuka, Mimi awakens! Illya and Kuro are forced to face the new rose-colored tone Mimi's mind has taken.
#3 - Theme Park Panic!
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/15/2015
After Illya recieves tickets from Luvia, she heads to a theme park with all her friends! As they play to their hearts content, they end up separated from their guardian, Iri. While looking for Iri, they encounter the nurse, Caren-sensei?! Meanwhile, Illya realizes she's lost her precious bracelet charm...
#4 - Yukatas and Fireworks
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/22/2015
Illya's enjoyable summer isn't over! After changing into a yukata, she joins the usual gang and heads to a local festival. As Illya enjoys yo-yo fishing and lottery drawings at the festival, she realizes something dire--she was supposed to wear underwear beneath her yukata! A great tragedy befalls upon her!
#5 - Blue Glass Moon
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/2015
Iri and Liz enjoy playing with water in a vinyl pool in their yard. Then the two of them send Illya and Kuro for a dip too! While they enjoy the approaching end of summer, they recieve notice that Luvia's holding a party to celebrate the reconstruction of her mansion. That was also the signal for them to begin the operation to retrieve the eighth card. The plan will be carried out tonight at midnight!
#6 - Enforcer
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2015
The girls are joined by Bazett, who reveals she had dispelled the curse of shared pain a while back, before entering the Mirror World, where they are confronted by the eighth card, shrouded by a black mist. Following their plan, Luvia restrains the enemy while Rin provides a mean to enhance Illya and Miyu's attack, providing an opening for Kuro to attack. However, the enemy manages to block it with a shield and counterattacks, forcing the girls to retreat while Bazett charges in, only to get stabbed by multiple swords wielded by the enemy. As Bazett fights using the Berserker's power, Illya and Kuro stay behind to give her a chance to strike, but are still unable to defeat it. Barely managing to escape, Bazett informs the others that the enemy possesses a second Archer card, before it suddenly appears in the real world.
#7 - Observer
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/2015
Luvia collapses the ceiling onto the enemy so that everyone can escape, but it transforms itself into a craft that starts heading towards the city. Just then, the girls are approached by Caren, revealed to be an observer for the Holy Church, who had placed a bound field around the city to keep anyone from seeing anything, giving the girls an opportunity to rest. As Caren theorises that the creature is targeting the Holy Grail, with Kuro deducing it relates to a different Holy Grail War entirely, the enemy starts heading towards Mt. Enzou, where it uncovers a magic circle. While trying to push them out of it, Illya pushes out a human boy that was inside it.
#8 - Golden Boy
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/20/2015
As Caren experiences backflash from her observation spell, the boy, revealed to be the Heroic Spirit of the eighth card, reveals that Miyu is a princess from a parallel world who was born as a complete version of the Holy Grail. Feeling she can't escape her fate, Miyu gives Sapphire to Illya before being pulled into the vortex, completing the Heroic Spirit's ultimate form. Learning that Miyu is still alive inside the demon's body, Kuro and Bazett hold off the demon while Illya, gathering her resolve to rescue her friend, combines Ruby and Sapphire's power to unleash a powerful new transformation.
#9 - Calling Your Name From a Corner of the World
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/2015
Using her new power, which puts her own body at risk, Illya fights back against the demon while Kuro and the others provide support. As the demon brings out his strongest sword, Ea, Illya uses her full power to defeat it and finally rescue Miyu. Following the battle, Illya and her friends get together to finish their summer homework, with Miyu more than happy to help. Meanwhile, Irisviel and Caren discover the crater has disappeared into a parallel world, where the eighth card is recovered by a mysterious pair.
#10 - City Fading to Silver
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2016
Illya's fun summer break comes to a sudden end. The aftermath of their battle against the Heroic Spirit of the 8th Class Card disappeared overnight from Mt. Enzou. Their suspicions aroused, Illya and the others race to the scene, where they encounter two mysterious women who say they've come to retrieve Miyu... After a fierce battle, they're all bathed in a mysterious light. Afterwards, Illya wakes up to a midwinter Fuyuki City?!
#11 - Encounters and Reunions
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/13/2016
One of Ainswoth's dolls, Beatrice, attacks Illya and the mysterious girl, Tanaka. Both are driven into a corner by her overwhelming strength. Just as they run out of options, someone calls Beatrice back, freeing them from their peril. Afterwards, they both fall victim to hunger and a suspicious ramen shop owner gets them into an even worse crisis--they don't have money to pay him! But the one who saves them from those straits is who you'd least expect.
#12 - Tricolore Birthday
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/1/2015
Summer! Swimsuits! The beach! Illya and the others enjoy the beach to fullest, playing along the shore and celebrating their birthday in a beach hut♪ But the popsicle seller they encounter there turns out to be the fierce foe they fought a hard pressed battle against... And to make matters worse, Ruby adds a Love Potion that makes Shirou go crazy! Will Illya's desires come to fruition in an unexpected way?!
#13 - For My Weak Little Sister
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/27/2016
Thanks to sniping from Kuro, Illya's group managed to slip away from Beatrice and retreat from the Ainsworth mansion for the time being. Then they try to regroup at the school building Bazett and Kuro and have been using as their base. However, Illya couldn't figure out a way to counter their Cards: Archer (Gilgamesh), and Berserker (God of Thunder, Thor), leaving her dejected. Seeing her like that, Kuro suddenly turns her twin swords at Illya and attacks?!
#14 - The Little Lady Attacks
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/3/2016
Bazett's barrier was supposed to prevent surprise attacks from the dolls, however Illya finds a little girl, Erica, sneaking into their school. For some reason Erica calls Illya "Onee-chan", and the two of them quickly hit it off. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be Erica's father appears. He seems kind at first glance, and while he came to pick up Erica, he's also...?!
#15 - Chilling Hostility
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/10/2016
The man who came to pick up Erica proclaims himself as Darius, head of the Ainsworths and Miyu's kidnapper. Using his great power Darius activates an ice-barrier Noble Phantasm. Even with Kuro's Caladbolg, their attempts to break the barrier barely scratch it while Darius delivers a shocking statement to Illya!
#16 - Dolls and Stuffed Animals
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/17/2016
Illya has been kidnapped and taken to the dungeon of the Ainsworths' mansion. Erica wants to grant Miyu's wish to be with Illya, so she swaps Illya's mind into a stuffed bear. Thanks to her willpower and imagination Illya manages to gain the freedom to move, but when she starts searching the mansion for her body, Beatrice discovers her...
#17 - People and Tools
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/24/2016
With Sapphire in hand, Illya transforms into a magical girl while still a stuffed bear. Her fierce battle with Rin and Luvia, whose minds have been replaced, leads them all to the bedroom occupied by Erica and Angelica. After regaining her original body, Illya continues to fight Angelica and learns the hidden truth about Miyu.
#18 - Illya's Choice
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/31/2016
Sacrifice Miyu and save the world... The Ainsworths' true objective is to use Miyu, the Holy Grail, to save all mankind. The new turn of events sends Illya into confusion. Kuro rushes to her aid, immediately saying she values Miyu more than some parallel world. Meanwhile, with the fate of a world and Miyu hanging in the balance, Illya struggles to find her answer...
#19 - To the Princess's Side
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/7/2016
"I'll save both Miyu and the world!!" But for Illya to realize that wish of hers, she'll have to first rescue Miyu from the Ainsworths' clutches. While Illya is forced to face a fierce battle, Gil and Bazett appear out of hiding to overturn their disadvantages. At long last, Illya's reunion with Miyu draws close!
#20 - You Are Not Alone
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2016
The battle heats up as Julian's magic comes undone and he threatens Miyu's friends with a horde of Heroic Spirits pouring out of a mysterious, black cube! Emiya Shirou, Miyu's older brother, rises to the occasion after his rescue, fighting alongside Kuro to break past Angelica and face Julian! But his charge is stopped by... someone new? And what does Gil realize during their battle?
#21 - Woven Miracles
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/21/2016
With Shirou down, Illya and the others are completely cornered by the infinite horde of Heroic Spirits pouring out of Julian's dark cube. All seems lost when a mysterious sword appears before them! Seizing the new sword, Illya finally puts a stop to the spill, but Julian and Erica escape. Finally able to relax, everyone, including the abandoned Angelica proceeds to Shirou's home to recoup, where they see a whole new side of Miyu.
#22 - It's Like Looking In a Mirror, and I Don't Like It
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/25/2015
The grand event for elementary schoolers is finally here--Summer Break! In preparation for the long-awaited trip to the beach, Illya and the others go with their classmates to pick out new swimsuits and carry on in front of the skimpy clothing♪ While they're out, Kuro runs out of mana and calls Illya away to an empty stairway platform. But Mimi catches sight of them in the act?!
#23 - Illya Grow Up!?
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2014
With the ley lines failing to recover despite the cards being retrieved, Rin and Luvia bring Illya and Miyu with them to help seal the lines. However, something goes wrong, leading Illya to become split into two separate people.
#24 - Illya x Illya
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2014
Illya finds herself targeted by her dark clone, Kuro Illya, whose creation has resulted in Illya's power becoming weaker. Rin and the others attempt to lure Kuro into a trap, but her ability to read everyone's moves leaves them at a disadvantage. However, Illya manages to draw Kuro into a bog, allowing her to be captured.
#25 - Normal Life Breaker
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2014
After failing to get any information from Kuro, Rin places a seal on her that would cause her pain if anything happens to Illya. When Kuro escapes, Illya has to take drastic measures to keep her from making moves on Shirou. The next day, Kuro causes more problems for Illya when she starts randomly kissing other girls at school to replenish mana. When the two are spotted together by her classmates, Kuro decides to pose as Illya's cousin.