Funny / Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA

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General

• Sella and Liz are pretty funny. While Sella is overly serious, Liz is pretty laidback. Sella is also always getting pissed when Shirou takes over her job.
• Ruby loves teasing Rin and Illya. The very first episode/chapter is already full of it.
• Ruby and Sapphire are basically Kaleidostick versions of (happy) Kohaku and Hisui. Which is why they are voiced by their respective voice actors in the anime.
• Rin is still the same old tsundere. And she is still constantly broke. Luvia on the other hand is still stupidly rich.
  • Rin and Luvia's bickering from other Fate/-related works is also still kept in.
• Shirou is not the protagonist of this story, but he's still a Chick Magnet. He's also a Butt-Monkey.
• Irisviel. In almost every scene, except when she's talking about the Holy Grail War, she acts like a Cloudcuckoolander and ruins the mood.
• Similarly to Irisviel, if the scene features Illya's friends from school, it's going to be funny. That's just how they work.

First season

• Ruby and Sapphire decided to switch Masters because Rin and Luvia couldn't stop fighting. When they tried to include their respective Class Cards, the Kaleidosticks ended their contracts. Midair. A few hundred meters above the ground. They only survived by invoking Soft Water.
• Illya's reaction when Ruby showed up to make her into a magical girl:
  Ruby: Hello, there! I'm a magical stick of love and justice, Magical Ruby-chan! Do you want to be a magical girl? What do you think? Become a magical girl, join forces, and fight all that I deem evil!
  Illya: Way too fishy...
  Ruby: Ah, I bet you think this is way too fishy!
  • When she notices Miyu to be around the same age as her, she immediately figures out that Miyu will transfer to her class the next day. Ruby even lampshades how cliché this development is.
  • When Ruby concludes that they need to fly to hit Caster, Rin notes how difficult it is. However, Illya easily flies, because:
    Illya: Don't all magical girls fly?
    Rin: What a useful delusion!
• Ruby in general really loves teasing Illya and Rin. There are way too many scenes, but here's an example: In the last third of Episode 1, where the story proceeds to skewer various magical girl tropes, with poor Illya along for the ride while the mildly psychopathic Ruby takes the opportunity to take revenge on Rin. What really makes the whole thing perfect is the brilliant voice acting, never faltering in that sickeningly sweet tone:
  Ruby: Very well. Illya-san, point me towards Rin-san while saying "damn you" in your head.
  Illya: Um. (points Ruby at Rin) *half-hearted* Damn yoooouuu.
  Rin: (Rin's getting electrocuted) AAAAAHHHHH!
  Illya: (shocked) Whoa, it shot something!
  Ruby: Fufu. Illya-san's answer is as follows: "I'm not giving this stick to anybody. Go back to where you came from, you twintailed hag!"
  Illya: I didn't say that!
  Rin: (starts shooting Gandr shots) WHAT WAS THAT FOR!? TAKE THIS!
• There are so many Mythology Gags in this series. For instance, at the end of the first chapter, instead of Saber asking whether Shirou is her Master...
  Rin: From now on, you will be my Servant!
• Illya is getting really excited when she finds a letter addressed to her. Ruby immediately thinks it's a love letter and Illya is getting all flustered and blushes. When she opens the letter:
  Rin: Tonight at midnight, come to the highest point in the schoolyard. If you don't show up, I'll come for you.
  [cut to Illya and Ruby showing very disappointed faces]
  Ruby: Shall we go home, Illya-san?
  Illya: Yeah.
  • Rin's "love letter" is a reference to the Heaven's Feel route, where Shirou receives a very similar letter from Rin. ^Note While that particular scene is pretty funny, it will lead to a Bad End.
• In episode two, Ruby tries to teach Illya how to use a magical girl's strongest weapon. Illya is supposed to do a twirl, place her fingers on her cheeks and give a nice smile. When she tries it a few times and still doesn't see any weapon:
  Ruby: Very cute indeed.
  Illya: You are just making fun of me! Ruby, you are definitely making fun of me!
  Ruby: What are you talking about? A magical girl's number one weapon is her cuteness!
  Illya: I've never heard of something like that!
• Illya does her transformation in a restroom because it happens in real-time, with all the music and light effects, and she finds it extremely embarrassing.
• Illya has no idea how to fight the Rider card. So when Ruby tells her to make some distance, she immediately runs away.
• Miyu is way too intelligent for an Elementary School student to the shock of everyone, including Taiga. Miyu's confused look when told there was no need to solve for the volume of a cone with an integral is priceless.
• Chapter/Episode 4 starts with Illya, Miyu, Rin and Luvia jumping into the Mirror World to retrieve the next card. 5 minutes/one page later they are back in the real world, utterly defeated.
• "RUBY EYE POKE!" (never try to bully her little sister Sapphire)
  • "RUBY DUAL CHOP!"
  • "RUBY FOREHEAD FLICK!!"
• Illya can fly without any difficulties because she assumes it's natural for magical girls. So what happens when Luvia orders Miyu to do the same?
  Miyu: Human beings... are not meant to fly!
  • And what does Luvia decide to do when Miyu is having difficulties with learning it? She throws Miyu out of a freaking helicopter!
• The Anime gives us, Don't Think, Imasine!!!◊ Though it's fixed in the Blu-ray release.
• Luvia is accusing Rin to be stingy because Rin used less jewels to finish off Caster. Rin may not be poor, but she is nowhere near Luvia's level of wealthiness.
• Illya and Miyu Take a Third Option and throw their sticks to Rin and Luvia to save them and defeat Saber Alter. When the two of them become temporary magical girls, Ruby starts the teasing again:
  Ruby: But as usual... Aren't you embarrassed to wear such clothes at your age...?
  Rin: (starts smashing Ruby on the ground) Aren't you the one who forced me to! Wear! This!
• During the intense fight between Archer Illya and Saber Alter, from the ground, Sapphire appears and acts very out of character:
  Sapphire: ARE YOU ALRIGHT, MIYU-SAMA?!
• Episode 6's ED card: Go Back to Camelot and take your clones with you!◊
• Illya really has strange dreams...
  Illya: When I grow up, I want to be a cat...
  • And when she does wake up, she's extremely bored because she has a fever and can't do anything besides sleeping.
• The first scene that usually comes to mind is Illya utterly freaking out over Miyu's maid uniform. When Illya sees Miyu in her uniform, she talks about a strange switch in a similar way she narrated her fight against Saber Alter, and ends up mounting Miyu while wearing an expression◊ that would be more appropriate on a psychotic thrill-killer than a girl who thinks maids are cute. Poor Miyu. Then again, Miyu's face is kinda... orgasmic (?)
  • Ruby even scolds Illya for overdoing it and tells Illya to apologize:
    Illya: Please forgive me. It's the fault of that strange switch.
  • Then Illya asks Miyu to wash her and begins to strip. Suddenly, Illya's friends show up and of course immediately misunderstand the situation.
• Sapphire is sending her memories via USB-port to Ruby to show her how Illya managed to defeat Saber, though Ruby is acting rather funny.
  Ruby: AAAAAHHH!! It's entering me...! Copiously... Sapphire-chan is coming inside me!!
  Sapphire: ...
  Ruby: Haa, haa... You didn't play along, Sapphire-chan. Nee-chan is lonely...
  Sapphire: No need for dumb games, nee-san.
• Illya almost killed everyone when she nuked Assassin. How does she react when she remembers this and how she defeated the previous card? She teleports away and leaves everyone else dumbfounded. (Manga-only, sadly. The anime's take on the scene is much more serious.)
• Illya is very depressed after Rin relieved her from her magical girl duties. Then her mother Iri shows up out of nowhere and wants to take a bath with Illya "to improve [their] mother-daughter relationship".
• Iri acts very serious when she reveals things about Illya's hidden power. When Illya asks for more details:
  Illya: Mama... you knew? About my power? Then tell me! What is that power? What do I-
  Iri: (shrugs) Who knows?
  Illya: Wha... Don't play dumb so suddenly, Mama!
  Iri: Well... it's like the saying "It's meaningless if you don't realize it on your own" or "it is too early for that", don't you agree?
  Illya: What the hell!?
  Iri: (chops Illya) Aaaaah, geez!! Don't argue with me!
  Illya: DV^Explanation Domestic Violence!?
• Miyu seems to cling on Illya a bit too much the day after they retrieved all cards. Whether she only sees Illya as her Heterosexual Life-Partners or whether there is more is up to debate.
  Miyu: The only friend I'll have for life is you. Other people don't matter, do they?
  Nanaki: What are you saying!?
  Suzuka: And that's a very strange way to interpret friendship!
  Illya: (I-I don't get it! Well, that's nothing new, but I have no idea at all what Miyu is thinking!)
  • Also, another attempt from Tatsuko to break the fourth wall:
    Tatsuko: Damn you, Illya! You unlocked the Miyu route that we wanted to get!
• Luvia manages to steal Rin's Class Cards and flees on a helicopter to get all the credit and become Zelretch's pupil. What does Rin do? She brings down the helicopter and lets Luvia kiss the ground. And then she is told that both her and Luvia need to learn some manners and stay in Japan for another year. Cue enraged Rin destroying her phone.

2wei

• Illya recognizing just a second too late that "I thought you were my brother" is really not the best excuse for why you just surprise-French-kissed someone.
  • The anime version is priceless. Illya wakes up out of her dreamlike state to find her vision filled with Miyu's bright-red face. Everything is dead-silent and totally still, until Miyu tries to stammer Illya's name, and...
    Leysritt: Maidenly screams so early in the morning?
• Rin and Luvia bickering and complaining throughout the entirety of Illya and Miyu's transformation.
• Chloe falls into the same sinkhole trap that Rin and Luvia had fallen into previously. Rin and Luvia, who Chloe had mocked for their apparent obvious trap setting, get to share the last laugh at Chloe's expense, calling Chloe an idiot and sending her into tears of humiliation and rage. Funniest of all is that in her fit of laughter, Rin even says "Who could be so stupid as to fall into that?"
• Irisviel once again ruins the moment. First, she stops a dramatic fight between Illya, Kuro and Miyu by busting into the scene with her car. However, she then realizes she can't open the door, so she has to kick it open.
  • Iri then pulls off a giant fist made out of strings to silence Chloe after she almost attacked Iri. Then she proceeds to do the same with Illya just because. Chloe is seen with two bumps because she shares Illya's pain.
• Chloe tries to flirt with Shirou. To stop her, Illya starts smacking herself (since she has the shared pain seal). Shirou is completely bewildered. It's especially hilarious in the anime:
  Chloe: D-Don't worry. It's nothing, Onii-cha-*smack*-BWAH!
  Shirou: Onii-cha-bwah?!
  • Then Rin and Luvia show up to take Kuro away... and see Shirou.
  Shirou: Huh? T-Tohsaka? And Luvia?
  Cue pink bubbles and a sparkling effects
  Luvia: (Blushing) Shero...?
  Rin: (Also blushing) Emiya-kun...?
  Illya and Chloe (thinking) WHAT'S WITH THAT REACTION?!
• Illya's friends again. Highlights in this season include:
  • Extreme Dodgeball.
  • Calming Tatsuko down by putting a bag over her head as though she were a scared horse... and it works.
  • The net result of their attempts to make Illya into an elegant big sister. To explain: they give her a soft cone-like hairdo, with a Gunpla underneath. Chloe's blank face explains it all.
  • Chapter 12 of Zwei. The cooking duel chapter. The whole damn chapter, barring maybe six or so pages. Particularly any moment Tatsuko is on-panel.
• Chloe stealing the Sacred First Kiss of all of Illya's friends, causing all of them to pile up on the rooftop and demanding compensation. Of all people, Taiga is also among them and looks the most depressed.
  You kissing demon!
  • Later, Tatsuko complains again, namely because she wanted to have her Sacred First Kiss with her older brother (though it's not clear which of the two). She gets immediately compared to Illya, who is not happy about that.
  • We actually get to see Chloe have her way with poor Mimi, as well as the aftermath. While Chloe is talking to herself about not getting as much mana as she wanted despite how many people she's 'drained', Mimi is in an epic state of Post-Kiss Catatonia, complete with swirly eyes, beet-red face, and letting out cute little whimpered moans as she sits there in a total daze.
    Illya: Mimi! Mimi, are you okay?!
    Mimi: Wow~... So many pansies~...
    Illya: S-She passed out? W... Was the kiss that amazing?!
• Chapter 5 has Miyu's defence wall made of brooms rammed into the ground.
• 2wei Interlude. Luvia absolutely freaking out at the idea of spending night at the Einzberns' house (with Shirou). To put in perspective: She somehow connects sleepover at his house with sleeping with him in same bed, "doing the deed", getting pregnant, and having Shotgun Wedding.
  • Why does Shirou look like a muppet?◊
  • Really, Luvia has some interesting ideas about sex and certain terms. When she and Rin successfully put the shared pain seal on Kuro, she declares that Kuro is "now Illya's meat slave". Illya, Miyu and Rin are utterly mortified.
    Rin: No, that isn't right...
• 2wei, Chapter 17, Illya and Chloe kissing in a stairwell to restore Chloe's prana—and Mimi seeing them and absolutely freaking out.
  • Just prior, Illya uses the rather awkward excuse that she and Chloe are just going to look at some flowers. The others either buy it, or assume they're just using the bathroom. Illya's expressions throughout this, as well as learning that Chloe needs her prana topped up in the first place, just scream "I'm not getting out of this with my sanity intact".
  • Once at the stairwell, things get more awkward. Illya begins to get nervous about kissing Chloe and demands to know if there are other ways to restore prana. This being the Nasuverse, there are, but Chloe understandably thinks Illya wouldn't want to know about them. Illya prods anyway and immediately proves Chloe right, huddling over the stairs with her hands over her ears in the aftermath.
    Illya: EEWW!! HOW COULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT!? OH MY GOSH, I FEEL SO VIOLATED!!
    Chloe: I knew you wouldn't like it.
    Illya: THAT'S SO DIRTY!
    Chloe: Dirty, huh? You always act like you're so innocent. I bet you've thought "ooh, I wonder if I'll ever get to do grown-up stuff like that too". You're not fooling anyone!
    Illya: GYAA!! STOP IT!! I'D RATHER NOT THINK ABOUT THIS STUFF WITH YOU!! I'M BEGGING YOU, LETS JUST PUT A STOP TO THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW!!
  • In the anime adaptation, we get to see the reaction in realtime. The increasing degrees of sheer regret and horror on Illya's face as Chloe whispers to her are a sight to behold.
• 2wei Chapter 18/19 is chock full of em... but the best is Mimi's horrid reaction to Illya and Shirou's forbidden moment, Ruby having drugged Shirou despite Illya's protests with a love potion!
  • Right before that, Ruby accidentally injects Shirou with a truth serum (he thought it was the love potion). He promptly starts being brutally honest with anyone he sees, starting with talking about Luvia's huge breasts being overwhelming, Rin's skirt being too short to cover the cloth underneath, Issei's eyes being scary sometimes, and "elementary schoolers these days are so well-developed", much to the horror of Illya's schoolmates. Ruby then injects everyone except Illya, Shirou and Mimi with powerful sedatives that make them look like golden Buddha statues (except Tatsuko, who turned into an Asura statue instead, and even growling the background in the anime).
  • Why wasn't Mimi of all people sedated? Because Ruby forgot she even existed!. Sapphire caps off the hilarity by coming to the rescue with a Laser-Guided Amnesia device used on the whole beach to prevent a Broken Masquerade.
• Chapter 5 opens with a towel-wearing Luvia with just a Scenery Censor. The description to that? "A young woman with a dynamite body!!!"
• Chapter 24 has the Eighth Card running loose in the city, and Caren appeared to help put most people within the area to sleep to keep the happening secret. Before leaving, Illya turns toward Caren to ask a question with extremely serious intent: why isn't Caren wearing a skirt? Her answer and everyone's reaction is... priceless.
• 2wei Herz episode 2 with Shirou and Issei has manga panels of the two of them drawn in an incredibly Bishōnen style as they discuss how much Issei likes the lunches Shirou brings. Suzuka is drooling and taking notes while Mimi blushes furiously and slowly approaches the camera.
• Later that episode, Miyu and Illya are having a touching moment while in the background someone is advertising popsicles. Chloe turns to yell at them and sees Bazett. Much panicking ensues.
  • Speaking of Bazett, when everyone is arguing over who gets Illya's "sisterhood", Bazett is rather aggressively trying to sell popsicles.
    Illya: YOU'RE STILL HERE?!
• In Herz' first episode, Miyu pulls out a rainbow-sparkling credit card from Luvia, which causes Illya's friends to bow down in worship of her and saying how glad they are to be friends with Miyu. Miyu then doesn't waste even a single second to ask "When did I become friends with you?"
• Herz' episode 4: Miyu underestimating the power of a roller coaster and then screaming from the bottom of her lungs. This is especially funny since it clearly shows that Miyu is Not So Stoic after all. The same episode has Caren at a "lost child" center, giving her usual comedic Child Hater vibe. There are also two children other than the group who look creeped out at the happenings. The girl even looks like Nanako!
• After meeting Child Gilgamesh and accidentally squeezing his crotch a few times, Illya and Miyu hide and ask him to cover himself out of shame. His response?
  Gilgamesh Don't worry. There's no part of my body that I'm ashamed of.
  Illya and Miyu: W-Worldwide!
  • Then after trying to cover up his nether regions with a leaf (to Illya and Miyu's disapproval) he goes fishing into the Gate of Babylon for his clothes, while getting shot at by Illya!
  • The initial bit of Kid-Gil's reveal is hilarious. After inadvertently tackling him out of his dark half, Illya struggles to figure out what happened before the dust settles. She notices that her hand is grasping "something soft". She looks, sees exactly what she's touching, and in her ensuing epic freak-out she fires an enormous barrage of mana bolts at him while screaming, as he runs for his life.
    Kid Gilgamesh: Jeez, I should be the one screaming...
    Illya: ItoucheditItouchedItoucheditItouched it! I SQUEEZED IT!!!
  • Funnily enough, the cover page for this chapter has a dialogue balloon censoring Gil's crotch, and it's even smaller than before!
• Shirou's incredibly awkward bath with Auguste.

3rei

• The opening of the 3rei anime has maid!Luvia getting her top ripped off, to her embarrassment. It's amusing enough on its own, but the incident it's referencing, where Illya rips off her top when she's Brainwashed and Crazy, is even funnier, as Luvia in that state has no sense of modesty and thus spends a large period of time topless, much to her embarrassment when she finally gets her mind back.
• Everything about Tanaka. Her introduction is wearing gym clothes in Winter and forgetting her own name. Illya points out her name is on her shirt... and she proceeds to read it upside-down.
  Tanaka: Nakata!
  Illya: TANAKA!
• Kotomine Kirei◊, Mapo Chef Master◊. That is all.
  • After threatening Illya to finish her mapo, he lets out this gem of a quote:
    Kirei: Rejoice, young girl. You gain an entire day worth of nutrition from this.
  • After realizing Illya can't pay for her food, he threatens her to pay with her body (as a soup stock).
    Illya: A ramen chef shouldn't have this kind of bloodlust!!
• After Kid Gilgamesh bails Illya and Tanaka out, Illya is naturally suspicious of the Final Boss of the previous season turning over a new leaf... until Ko-Gil turns on the charm and calls her "Onee-chan". Illya's attitude does an immediate 180.
• The first side chapter of 3rei (third episode of 2wei Herz). "Things have been intense lately. So let's have a chapter on boys' love instead."
  • Particularly the revelation that cute, innocent lil' Mimi has become a complete and utter pervert. "And then they *** with their *** and they did the ***!"
  • And not only that, but the example picture when Chloe's explaining the boy's love genre is a silhouette of Kirei and Kiritsugu. There are no words.
  • For a second, smaller funny during the main one, we have the girls taking a peek at the manga Suzuka handed them to "explain what BL is", and Illya absolutely freaking out. And for the whole rest of the scene, as Illya and Chloe share dialogue, Miyu is intently reading the doujin in the background.
  • After Suzuka's elder sister explains that they know Boy's Love is a fantasy and will eventually settle down with a boyfriend, Mimi says she isn't planning on it. When told she's a little young to settle for forever alone, she explains:
    Mimi: I just think boys should love boys and girls should love girls!
    (Beat)
    Mimi: Why are you all running away!? WAIT!
• After Chloe has Illya pull herself together by making it so that she realizes her own strength in Chapter 8, she collapses from a lack of mana. So she takes it from Illya via kiss, pulling her down and them wrapping her legs around her back so she can't get away. She kisses her so hard she loses all three of the Class Cards she has installed at the time.
• In the next chapter, Gilgamesh pulls out a hot spring Noble Phantasm from the Gate of Babylon.
  • Tanaka copies what she had seen Chloe do after the rooftop battle to Illya to express her thanks, while Bazett blushing furiously and stated that their relationship and sexuality is not her place to comment.
• After discovering Illya has been kidnapped, Chloe and Bazett run to find Gilgamesh and make plans with him. They find him... lying naked in a canopy bed he presumably pulled out of the Gate of Babylon, ignorant of the crisis and complaining about needing his beauty sleep. Chloe, completely unamused, projects an oversized paper fan.
  Gilgamesh: Oh! I've seen those paper fans before! Wait, you're not seriously thinking of using such a tacky thing on my head-[SLAP!!]
  • Then there's his response:
    Gilgamesh: (rubbing a bump on his head) You know... when I'm an adult again the first thing I'm going to do is kill you.
• Everything about the period of time when Illya is stuck inside a stuffed doll is absolutely hilarious, demonstrating how just plain weird the Ainsworths are when the tone isn't nearly as serious. Especially Beatrice's otaku bedroom filled with nothing but self-made Julian merch and stuffed dolls stolen from Erika. Illya spends the entire time in there both utterly bewildered and utterly mortified.
  • When Illya finds Sapphire in the castle loft, they have to fight together when they’re discovered, and Stuffed Animal Illya gets a full transformation sequence.
• Shirou is freed and fighting with Kuro against Angelica. Along the way he noticed how Miyu is dressed in her magical girl form. His reaction sells it.
  Shirou: But... Um... What's with that lewd outfit of hers? I think big brother here may need to lecture her...
  • It's even better. Illya's Sapphire Install is just as revealing as Miyu's... which means Sapphire is a Covert Pervert!
  • The fact that the above is pointed out by Chloe of all people, whose combat outfit is basically a Chainmail Bikini with a cape. (It was a ploy to sneakily deliver some Class Cards to Illya, but still!)
• After cleaving the massive cube at the center of the crater with the mysterious sword^note which is actually Tanaka's hand, Illya declared that victory is in their hands now... only for the sword to revert into a literal hand. Hilarity ensues as Illya noticed that the hand is flashing a peace sign!
• After escaping from the reveal-tastic battle against the Ainsworths, everything related to the detached hand is hilarious. From Illya freaking the hell out as it skitters in pursuit of her, and obviously being given some major willies as it crawls all over her; to the hand surprise-groping Illya & Chloe in the bath.
  • Manga-only, when Illya & Kuro are bathing only to be 'attacked' by the hand, Ruby and Sapphire are floating outside the open bathroom window, with the former producing a video camera to record the girls bathing... and then Illya chucks the hand out the window and it smacks into Ruby (who she didn't even know was there). Sapphire cheerfully declares this "a new form of anti-peeping". (In the anime, Ruby and Sapphire don't appear, and the hand doesn't make it out of the window.)
  • When the hand finally has enough abuse, it scribbles out its owner's name... and misspells it because it doesn't have eyes. Fortunately the girls are quick to figure it out and realize why the arm has been kicking up a fuss:
    • "Nakata...? ...TANAKA!"
  • Right after Illya and Kuro remember that they left Tanaka behind at the school, they find her understandably cross and get chewed out while the severed hand slaps Illya across the back of the head repeatedly. Once they return the hand, Tanaka excitedly claims that she actually remembers something important. It's actually just a summarized version of all the exposition about the state of the planet that everyone else already knows about. Illya and Kuro call her a disappointment, much to Tanaka's dismay.
• Miyu, the ever-serious, ever-stoic member of the group... revealed to be a little girl who loves having her brother spoil her, and wearing cutesy animal-themed onesie pajamas. And then responding to discovering Illya & Chloe eavesdropping by turning bright-red and repeatedly thwacking Chloe over the head with a pillow.
• The interactions between Miyu's Shirou and Julian during the flashback sequence are comedy gold, complete with trolling each other. It's like Shirou and Shinji in main continuities, except this Shirou can retort back.
• The snowball fight with Illya and Miyu vs. Kuro and Tanaka. The former are on the ropes, as Kuro has Tanaka on her side (turns out Tanaka has an astoundingly good throwing arm), but then Illya calls in... Angelica, who uses her displacement magecraft to send all of the opposing team's snowballs back at the opposing team. Then to add insult to injury, Illya calls in Bazett, who can pitch snowballs hard enough to smash through walls.
  • Even better is that Angelica and Bazett entered the snowball fight in the same way a servant would be summoned by their Master, in this case Illya, for a Holy Grail War.
    Chloe: (referring to how Angelica came when Illya called her) She actually got summoned?!
    Bazett: (after Illya asks her to join in) Bazett Fraga McRemitz shall answer to your summoning.
• In the wake of 45's snowball fight, Chapter 46 starts with Illya, Kuro, Tanaka, and Miyu soaking wet. Rin has to hurry them into the baths before they freeze. Later in the chapter, we get to see the brief shot of the butch, short-haired, suit-favoring Bazett utterly mortified at being put into one of Luvia's (rather frilly) dresses.
  • Angelica in girl's clothes being so atomically hot that she gets called a male virgin killer. Miyu takes this seriously, thinking Shirou will actually die if he looks at her, and the outfit prompts the return of Illya's "switch". Later during an otherwise serious moment, everyone present sans Tanaka and Bazett can tell that Shirou is ogling her.
    Shirou: O-Oh… right, that you did.
    Miyu: (Was he checking her out…?)
    Luvia: (He was checking her out…)
    Rin: (He was definitely checking her out…)
    Illya: (He was sooo checking her out…!)
    Chloe: (You were checking her out too much, Onii-chan…)
    Bazett: ?
    Tanaka: My stomach, it cries.
  • When Shirou inevitably pokes his head in, the girls all but slam the door in his face. When he complains, the girls tartly point out that it might be fine if it were just him and Miyu, but not when they're all in there. He accepts the argument, but then he opens his mouth again to point out he usually helped Miyu get dressed. His sister cracks open the door, wearing a Death Glare and a Luminescent Blush and asks him to stop saying the details since the person he's explaining this to is Chloe.
• Illya and Tanaka having Heartwarming Moments in the bath — which is swiftly interrupted by one girl after another joining them in the bath until all the girls in the household are crammed into the one room. As the last page of the chapter foreshadows, it's going to be the last funny moment for a while.
• After a long climactic battle with Darius that has yet to actually end, Illya's classmates return in Chapter 61 to give an injection of humor long overdue even if it is just Illya being in a Lotus-Eater Machine:
  • Tatsuko with a tan and having undergone offscreen Character Development from a Cloud Cuckoolander to a Proper Lady that keeps spouting motivational quotes.
  • Their justification for the above: that Illya has been gone for five years! While the students are obviously joking, the story's author is not: Hiroyama is poking fun at his own Schedule Slip, as the 3rei anime debuted five years ago as of manga Chapter 61.
  • Taiga with a tan, which is a little less cute than Tatsuko. And she's also spouting motivational quotes.
• After a series of big reveals and dramatic posturing... comes a chapter of utter hilarity in the middle of what is basically the end of the world.
  • Illya suddenly gets hit with a large exposition dump required to explain what Tanaka really is and what everyone's next course of action is. Unfortunately, this exposition boils down to greater Nasuverse lore — and the Nasuverse is one of fiction's most infamous and prominent cases of a Kudzu Plot. Much like an uninitiated viewer, Illya ends the discussion more confused than when it began.
  • Tanaka admitting that she actually doesn't care if humanity gets destroyed or not (but it would be nice if they could save humanity if that was possible), which Ruby notes is entirely in-character for Gaia.
  • In order to enact their plan, Ruby poisons Illya to put her body into a state of pseudo-death, separating her body from her consciousness. Illya is livid, and Gil-kun finds this hilarious.
  • When explaining the plan to Illya, and elaborating their roles on sending her consciousness to the past, Ruby, Gil and Tanaka inexplicably have an explosion behind them.
  • Also, the method they use to send Illya to the past is almost point-for-point how Chaldea does the rayshifting procedure. All they're missing is a coffin.
• While Illya and Tanaka explore the past, Gil-kun and Ruby have nothing better to do than tear verbal strips off of each other.
  Gil-kun: "Just so you know, I'm really being respectful when I say that having you as a conversation partner is hell incarnate."
• Illya as a fairy finds Pandora in the past... and we're reminded that even Pandora was an (actual) child once.
  • Pandora's personality before the existential dread set in was a Smug Super, boasting about how she's superior to ordinary humans. If we hadn't seen her perk up in the preceding chapter, she wouldn't be recognizable.
  • Illya's fairy form prevents her from speaking properly unless she pours all of her will into it. At one point as Pandora is going to sleep, what's the very first thing Illya manages to say clearly? "Don't you have a single friend?" Pandora snaps wide awake and goes on a tirade lasting the better part of an hour.
  • Later, as Illya gets moved forward through time 100 years, she has to ask that same question to confirm her identity to Pandora. She's not impressed.
• Beatrice, of all people, undoes the Laser-Guided Amnesia caused by Illya's Ret-Gone as simply as stating her name. Despite the many hopeful implications and connotations it has, it's hard not be amused by the resident Blood Knight antagonist being the one to get things back on track, and so bluntly and abruptly.
  • She first does it for Miyu, Sapphire, Bazett, and Julian, who all have a solid minute of recollection and freaking out over how they forgot about The Heart of the heroes. She does it again for the rest of the cast and their reaction is the exact same. Beatrice blithely asks if this is going to be a trend.

Oath Under Snow

• Everytime Shirou and Julian had their snark-to-snark combat.
  • The first time the viewer meet Julian, he's looking at Shirou with contempt and saying this gem of a line:
    "What are you doing, grinning like a fool over there? You disgust me."
  • After Shirou saw Erika (a little girl) at an elementary school he quips that she's rather cute. Julian's expression is that of pure disgust.
  • Shirou explains Erika's appearance, making Julian startled and spill his hot tea to his crotch. Shirou asks if he's alright, and he answers like a true Ainsworth:
    (face full of pain) "Hell no it doesn't."
  • After Julian changes his wet clothes, he sat far away from Shirou. Then he told Shirou his personal belief about lie, but Shirou only has this for response:
    "You're sure becoming talkative when wearing gym clothes."
    (slamming the table) "Shut up!!"
• When Shirou passes on a clothes shop, we can see Neko-Arc and Seihai-kun pajamas.
• Also, everytime Kirei appears on-screen, the viewers are laughing. Even more when he said his signature "shounen", even when the scene is serious.
• Shirou quips that Kirei made him buy a pair of useless Black Keys for a high price, definitely referencing the Craft Essences of Fate/Grand Order, specifically when they used to be in the general pool and everyone hated getting them.

Prisma Phantasm

• The madness apparently starts by Kotomine Kirei (a.k.a. the Ramen Shop Owner) opening his doors to all customers for a festival. Ruby and Sapphire worriedly point out that this is disturbing the natural order, setting up the typical Phantasm madness.
• A couple of What If? scenarios pop up to see what would happen if Suzuka or Nanaki made the contract with Ruby instead. Both are quite gung-ho about wanting Ruby's power, which unnerves Ruby, and rightfully so: Suzuka was only interested in using magic to draw her doujinshi faster, while Nanaki decides to wipe out all organized crime in Japan because they messed with her sister.
  • All of Illya's classmates get Kaleid costumes and try to behave like a superhero team... but keep botching their introduction. Taiga comes out to fix it... and apparently, her outfit is so bad that it got a Pixellation censor (badly; anyone remotely familiar with the Magical Girl genre can tell it's a Sailor Scout outfit). The students are immediately grossed out.
• "Dark Sakura's Room" makes a return, this time with her "interviewing" her brother Shinji (who still has Assassin installed), with the apparent desire to rehabilitate him. She starts by installing Lancelot and enacting an Extreme Mêlée Revenge... obscured by a Relax-o-Vision of Sakura in swimwear.

  The scene inside the studio is very gruesome, so enjoy these pictures of beautiful girls instead.

  • Sakura has her outfit stitched up where Shinji ripped out her heart in Oath Under Snow. The stitch is in the shape of a heart.
• When Shinji's actual rehabilitation starts, it turns out to be doing odd jobs around Fuyuki City, with apparently no one caring that there's a skull-faced tentacle Assassin man running around. He turns out to be shockingly competent at all of them... but then inevitably gets thrown out because he can't put a lid on his sex jokes.
  • Special mention goes to when he was filling in at the school infirmary. His solutions are easily the most half-assed (if still sensible) in this case, but Illya's classmates still shower him with praise because Caren is worse.
  • The rehabilitation ends with Sakura coming to pick Shinji up... whereupon he cracks a sex joke again to get across that he's learned that Good Feels Good. Unfortunately, Sakura is upset that his potty mouth specifically wasn't fixed (or was she just looking for an excuse?). Cue another Extreme Mêlée Revenge.
• Kirei racks up an increasing amount of victims across the movie with his mapo ramen. In order: Irisveil^* who was jealous that Kiritsugu was closer to him than her, Rin and Luvia^* they brought milk to offset the spice, but Kirei confiscated it for being outside food, Gilgamesh^* who quickly realized something was wrong here, but Kirei wouldn't let him leave without eating, Miyu^* who tried to avenge Illya's suffering in 3rei and had a Hope Spot when her ramen bowl was smaller, only for Kirei to reveal there was twice as much spice and calories in it, and Taiga^* who nearly managed to down the whole bowl, until Kirei gave her mapo water.
• Ruby shows Illya a What If? scenario if the Ainzworths all had a Gender Bender... with their original voices intact.
  • Erika looks mostly the same. The only difference is the boy's hair.
  • Julian looks suspiciously like Suzuka with her hair down.
  • Beatrice looks like some kind of rock star, complete with a delinquent's clothing and half-shaved head.
  • Angelica almost looks exactly like the original plainclothes Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night... until we get to her hair that's reminiscent of Polnareff's, made worse by it still having the Gilgamesh Install adornment. And when she starts taking care of Erika...
    Illya: I feel like Mimi would enjoy watching these two.
  • Darius almost enthralls Illya with how beautiful she is, complete with a Shower Scene. But when she gets dressed... she still comes out looking like a "gross old man", only now with Grail-Kun panties and Opaque Nerd Glasses. Ruby points out this is probably karma.
• "All-Out Kick the Can." What starts as an innocent game between the protagonists spirals out of control because of (what else?) Rin and Luvia using magic to screw with each other. Throughout the game, Miyuverse Shirou and Angelica get into another fight, Bazett is fighting against the Class Cards that Luvia summoned, and Kirei is trying to goad Erika into unleashing her full power. The madness is capped off by Illya stabbing Kirei with Rule Breaker before Erika can be convinced (and looking quite distraught about it, but hey, she finally got her revenge).
• The movie ends with Sapphire deciding Ruby still needs to be the butt of a joke for all the chaos she had a hand in. She drops her off at Kirei's restaurant where he uses her as experimental soup broth.

Bonus

First season

• Illya having her magical girl outfit temporarily changed into the Beast Mode Cat Girl outfit, or as she calls it, "Pervert girl", by Ruby. Down to forcibly having her frozen and having her pictures taken.
• Dinner, Bath, or Sella?
  • Shirou's WTF reaction is what sells it.

2wei

• Illya and Chloe argue the finer points of bras and how they effect breast size/growth
  • Liz fails to see a correlation.
  • Illya trying to fit Sella's bra at the end counts as well.
• Ruby tricking Chloe and Miyu into wearing their own versions of the Beast Mode Cat Girl costumes, and even making them "act" like real cats, down to Miyu doing a cute "nyan" that turns Illya's switch on.
• Ruby enters simulation mode to see how other female characters would act as magical girls. She starts with Sella, who would use magical powers for housework, then Liz, who would use Ruby as a remote and to heat ramen. Then Taiga, and finally Bazett. Only Ruby's reaction to the last one is shown.
• Illya, using Chloe's ability to materialize clothes out of the latter's mana, immediately decides to show Shirou her new outfit, while ignoring a warning from Chloe. Kuro then finishes telling Ruby that those materialized clothes on Illya would disappear should she move a certain distance away from her. Cue a shocked Shirou getting a gaze at a fully nude Illya...
• Suzuka's sister wishing to see a tomboyish maid whose outfit doesen't suit her, as inspiration for a manga she's doing. Cue her encountering Bazett working at a maid cafe. The kicker is when Bazett tries to spoonfeed her, which the former treats like a summary execution. At the end, she regrets wishing that she had encountered that maid, and realizes that fiction should stay that way.
• Tatsuko's entire Heroic BSoD following Nanaki curb-stomping her father in his own dojo. This culminates in her, after watching a brawl between Rin, Luvia, Nanaki and her older sister (with Illya and Kuro just watching from the background), concluding that "violence doesn't achieve anything" and achieving enlightenment (complete with glowing gold and her Idiot Hair turning into a halo) at end of the two-parter special.

3rei

• Kuro and Bazett's entire ordeal during the time Illya was lost. It involved Bazett constantly giving Kuro tree roots and branches for food, making out for mana, and doing nothing but sitting on the mountain they arrived at for three days.
• In the anime on one of the Blu-Ray specials, Ruby's attempted peeping on Illya and Chloe in the bath is a separate event from the severed hand madness. In this case she is free to give the audience a happy dose of Fanservice by recording all of the heroines with her camera, including Bazett and the newly-recruited Angelica. During her monologue she compares Rin and Luvia unfavorably to the other five girls... and is caught by Rin and Luvia, who were in earshot and are thoroughly nonplussed. If Ruby takes back the comparisons, then she admits that she was peeping on them. Cue Snowy Screen of Death, capped off by Sapphire deleting the video.

Oath Under Snow

• The Blu-Ray release is accompanied by a special six minute segment called "Dark Sakura's Room", with (obviously) Sakura as the host. The entirety of it is Sakura poking fun at her lack of presence compared to the manga and various other misgivings to a bewildered Shirou.

OVA

• The girls discuss what they overheard between Taiga and another teacher and mistake it as Taiga betting her body over who wins at the next School Festival.
  Suzuka: So to sum it up, if we lose *dramatic pose* Taiga will become his meat-slave!
  * everyone looks at her like she's really stupid*
  Suzuka: Wha... isn't it called like that? Ahem, then let me restate: if we lose *dramatic pose* Taiga will become his sex— *Smash Cut to Starlog*

Crossovers

PRISMA☆ILLYA x Mahjong Soul

• Just in case it needs to be made clear: that title is not a typo. Illya, Miyu, and Chloe learn to play Mahjong. Gil-kun is along for the ride.
• The (non-canon) PV consists of Illya, who has never played the game before and has no idea what she's doing, assembling Pure Nine Gates (which gives so much score that it's often an Instant-Win Condition) completely by accident. Chloe, Gil-kun, and Ichihime (one of the natives) are so dumbfounded that they can only respond with a group Head Desk.
• The event consists of the girls sans some recent memories participating in a "Holy Mahjong War" where they must win Mahjong games to claim "Jyanshi Cards" from other participants and use them to activate an "omnipotent wish-granting device". The card titles? Diviner, Teacher, Caster, Gunner, Dancer, Brother, and Sister. The girls' reaction mirrors the audience's.
• Gil-kun makes his presence known when the girls are being accosted by A-37. Why? A-37 has the Gunner Card and is way too reminiscent of Kiritsugu. Looks like he's still sore about Fate/Zero.
• A-37 is then joined by Natsuhiko, who is way too reminiscent of Shirou, right down to the clothes, appearance, and demeanor. And yes, he has the Brother Card. The parallels and coincidences are so ridiculous that even Meta Guy Chloe mentally checks out.
• Illya and Miyu are playing against the holders of the Dancer and Caster Cards. Unfortunately, the holder of Caster calls people "onee-sama" out of habit. Illya the Cool Big Sis Wannabe thus spends half the game with her brain melted.
• As usual, the overseer for the Holy Grail War is the member of a Church... and also as usual, she's actually a participant. The girls waste no time calling her out on this.

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