User blog comment:Ultraprime2/Fairy Tail Wiki - Anime vol. 3: Spring 2016/@comment-2214433-20160702134519/@comment-7418318-20160728155528

Thanks for telling me that Fate Kaleid wasn't total shit after all as I initially thought.

I sat down and struggled my way through the first episode completely (and a struggle it was), but starting from episode 2 it was actually quite entertaining.

As you said some episodes were just painful to watch, but there was only one instance where I couldn't help myself and just had to skip ahead (when Illya got that ridiculous "How to be a big sister" list...). "Coincidentally" the hard to watch episodes are those there were special/OVA chapters in the manga...

Surprisingly enough they didn't tone down the fanservice compared to the manga but actually actually upped it. No close-ups of tounges in the manga when Tatsuki took off a bit too much on the way to the beach she was actually hit by a car in the magna instead of accidentally stripping.

They also tend to downplay the pain and sadness a bit more in the anime, but despite all that the anime is still very faithful to the manga. Speaking of pain, the ending of 2 Herz was the only place so far that really disappointed me. It was clear from the setting that the damage to Illya's body wouldn't amount to much anyway, but jsut a moment of dizzyness and then being fine again is just too little, especially when you know that they dropped one of Kuro's lines from the manga in which she wonders how Illya can endure the pain since it feels like her body is being ripped apart (at least I don't remember that line being said... I could misremember).

But despite all it's flaws it's absolutely worth watching I think... as long as you're not a child. Just like Madoka (I can't believe I'm actually making that comparison...) despite it's packaging of all-out MOE magical girl series, this is adult material or at the very least 16+ stuff for sure. Don't show it to your children (not that anyone around here has any, but whatever :P ).

So far dreirei (3rei) makes a good impression after the first four episodes to me. I can't wait to see some of the upcoming fights animated. :3