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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
When he said magic is like "science" in this show, he means that the Nasuverse typically does have very elaborate descriptions how magic works, and sometimes the descriptions are methodical to the point of being scientific.
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You can be very methodical without being particularly scientific. The way the Catholic church goes about selecting a new Pope is highly complex and methodical. But I doubt many would call it "scientific". "Scientific" implies more than just "complex and methodical", imo.
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Additionally, magic in the Nasuverse has been known to be limited.
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Someone should tell Gilgamesh that.
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Even this is a spinoff and the flying was played off as something humorous,
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It was partly humorous, but it was also pointing out how the strength of one's imagination is very important to being a good magic-user.
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there still is a technical description for why Ilya can fly.
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It's a very basic description that anybody can understand. And it's much more like art than like science. Calling it a "technical description" is making it out to be much more complex than it actually is.
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Miyu who couldn't imagine what it's like to fly...
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Because personalized human flight (at least the way Illya does it) does not conform to science.
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... still developed her own method of "flying" by concentrating mana underneath her feet to create a sort of platform that lets her walk on air.
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Because jumping from one platform to another
does conform to science.
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Sapphire specifically mentioned that Miyu's method uses about the same amount of mana as Ilya's flying and that neither is inherently better than the other.
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When it comes to mana use. But I would argue that Ilya's method is better
overall because it's smoother, more versatile, and potentially faster (flight speed tends to be faster than running speed or jumping speed).