Originally Posted by
OverMaster
Character building and arcs can be achieved through hundreds of other ways than doing changes that you'll then undo. Abuse the resource (which granted I'M NOT SAYING HAS HAPPENED HERE YET) and you end up with a Dragon Ball, where nobody evolves from any mass character deaths because everyone knows they just have to spend an afternoon collecting the Plot Device Balls to get back to the status quo. Or a Marvel/DC situation, where characters keep pretending every death is a major tragic blow even when everyone but Batman's parents have returned from the grave at least more than twice.
My position remains the same; if Hiroyama sticks with this, my respect for his mad cojones, pissed off as a Miyu fan as I am. But he won't get so much of a pass from most of the audience. If he doesn't, well, congratulations of making us wait years of delays for an arc that ends up with everything back to normal but "Illya is more mature now, I swear".
Unless Illya actually fucking snaps for good and starts acting like Stay Night Illya from now on even if Kuro and Miyu come back. Then you have my attention. But we all know it won't happen and "she totes changed" will be a hail to the flag right before we head back into more of the same.