Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Oath Under Snow

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Oath Under Snow
Theatrical release poster
Japanese	劇場版Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ 雪下の誓い
Hepburn	Gekijō-ban Fate/kaleid liner Purizuma ☆ Iriya Sekka no Chikai
Directed by	Shin Ōnuma
Produced by	Hayato Kaneko
Written by	Kenji Inoue Hazuki Minase
Based on	Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!! by Hiroshi Hiroyama and Type-Moon
Starring	Noriaki Sugiyama Kaori Nazuka Rikiya Koyama Natsuki Hanae Noriko Shitaya
Music by	Tatsuya Kato Technoboys Pulcraft Green-Fund
Production company	Silver Link
Distributed by	Kadokawa Animation
Release date	August 26, 2017 (2017-08-26)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Oath Under Snow (Japanese: 劇場版Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ 雪下の誓い, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Fate/kaleid liner Purizuma ☆ Iriya Sekka no Chikai) is a Japanese animated fantasy film adaptation of the manga series by Hiroshi Hiroyama, released on August 26, 2017.^[1] Shin Ōnuma and Silver Link returned from the anime series to direct and produce the film, respectively.^[2]

Plot

A young Shirou Emiya and his adoptive father Kiritsugu travel to Fuyuki in order to investigate the Sakatsuki family, who are rumored to be harboring a child with powerful magic abilities. However, they arrive to find the city engulfed in a massive black vortex which is banished by a mysterious light. They enter the ruins of the city where they find and rescue Miyu, the child they are looking for. Kiritsugu explains that Miyu has the power to grant wishes unconditionally, and that the storm was most likely caused when she was inadvertently exposed to humans thoughts and desires. Kiritsugu declares that he will use her power to save humanity. Shirou and Kiritsugu take Miyu back to their home, where Kiritsugu makes it clear to Shirou that they should only consider her a tool and not a human. Regardless, Shirou begins to bond with Miyu and Kiritsugu passes away before he can learn how to use Miyu's powers.

Five years later, Shirou is living as a regular high school student with Miyu as his adopted younger sister and attends school with his classmates Julian and Sakura. During this, it appears that Miyu's powers have disappeared with age as Kiritsugu had originally feared. Shirou decides it's finally time to let Miyu experience the world outside their home, with Miyu saying she wants to see the ocean. Feeling guilt for his past actions, he takes her to the ruins of her original family's home where he admits that he and Kiritsugu originally took her in to exploit her powers, not save her. Julian then arrives, telling Shirou that he had been looking for Miyu for the past five years in order to finish the ritual he had started. Shirou realizes that Julian was the cause of the vortex that consumed Fuyuki and attempts to protect Miyu, but is easily defeated by Julian and his followers and left for dead while Miyu is kidnapped.

Shirou then wakes up in the care of a local priest, Kirei Kotomine. Kirei explains that Julian is part of the Ainsworth family, an ancient family of mages who foresaw the end of humanity and sought to obtain the wish granting Holy Grail to avert it. However, their four past attempts to obtain it in a ritual called the Holy Grail War ended in failure, with the Fourth Grail War resulting in the vortex that destroyed much of Fuyuki. However, this time, Julian plans to use Miyu as a sacrifice to start the Fifth Grail War. Kirei tells Shirou where Julian's hideout is, but Shirou is unable to penetrate its magical defenses. Sakura then visits him and informs him that the Fifth Grail War has started, and the participants have been given special Servant Cards that can imbue them with the power of a Heroic Spirit. She offers one to Shirou to give him a way to rescue Miyu, but admits that she would rather see him leave the city and not get involved in the War due to her feelings for him. They are then attacked by her older brother Shinji, who holds the Assassin Card. Sakura is killed and Shirou uses her Archer Card to empower himself and kill Shinji, who is revealed to merely be a puppet sent by Julian.

With his Archer Card, Shirou begins hunting down the other Servant Card holders and killing them, who are all revealed to be Julian's puppets as well. Julian observes Shirou's progress along with Miyu, who now only sees herself as a tool to be used and does nothing to stop Julian's plans. Kirei congratulates Shirou for winning the Fifth Grail War and directs him to an ancient cave where Miyu is being held. Julian confonts Shirou and tries to talk him out of taking Miyu back, explaining how she is a necessary sacrifice to save humanity. Shirou counters by pointing out that for all four hundred years of their existence, the Sakatsuki family never used their wish granting powers for personal gain, but only to wish for their children to grow up healthy.

Shirou continues on and finally reunites with Miyu. He decides to use his wish to send Miyu to a different world where she can find happiness. As the wish takes effect, Shirou confronts the holder of the real Archer Card. Having used his Card to make his wish, Shirou is forced to fight the real Archer with his own abilities. While Shirou is eventually overpowered and defeated, he manages to buy enough time for the ritual to complete and Miyu is transported away.

Miyu then wakes up in an alternate Fuyuki that has not been ravaged by disaster, where she meets Star Sapphire, Magical Ruby, Rin Tohsaka, Luviagelita Edelfelt, and Illyasviel von Einzbern for the first time.

Voice cast

Production

The film was first announced on September 21, 2016 when the finale of the anime's fourth season, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei aired; this was confirmed by the episode's end title card. On February 10, 2017, the anime's Twitter account confirming its title as Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Oath Under Snow.^[3]

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)