First Impression – Selector Spread WIXOSS
It’s ti-ti-time to get your Batteru on!!
OH YES! My favorite dark drama is back to fill me with more delicious tears, but after that first season ending how will the second season top that? I can’t wait to see what sadness Okada Mari brings for this next half of WIXOSS!
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Well, I like bread and butter, and I like toast and jam. But let’s see just how well Selector’s can spread….let’s get to it Fosh!
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How can I hold all these questions?
Yuzuki-“Oh god my head hurts from all these damn questions.”
WIXOSS is notorious for causing all my social media sites to explode with people praising it or simply losing their minds whenever a WTF moment happens; however most of the time I tend to think about all the questions in my head because I am very I addicted to the WIXOSS world and all the characters that live in it. So what about those questions? For starters let us get the biggest one out of the way shall we? How do we think Ruuko will get Tama back? Will she find her randomly at some tournament and do you think she will attempt to make some kind deal with whoever has Tama? And will she even BATTERU with her new creepy ass partner? I suppose she has no choice in that and which character is going to get screwed this season and get turned into a LRIG? I think it will be one of the new characters, but hey anything is possible right? Before I wrap up my section on this post does anyone else besides myself think that Ruuko will become a LRIG in the middle or near the end of this new season? For some reason I can totally see that playing out as the “trade” for Tama or is she going to be perfectly safe and sound? I certainly hope something dramatic happens with Ruuko this season.
Story time with Mr. Skylion
BEST CHARACTER EVAR
From the onset, we are treated to a reprise of the first episode of Infected, the original series; but this is taking on a much different metre. This time we have Iona!LRIG giving us the narration. And like the original, this one is based much upon fulfilling the Selector’s wish. But something is holding our star Ruuko back. It’s quite chilling to see the faintest glimpse of Iona taking over Tama’s role. But at the same time, it has the hint of forlorn hope to it. As with the last series, we don’t fully know Iona’s true motives or what she has planned. But you can bet the rest of the series will give us just enough as episodes pass by to keep us enticed.
But for now, we take a back seat, as Ruko, in a shopping trip with Hitoe and Yuzuki!LRIG tries to settle in to the normal life. Well, as normal as shopping with a friend that’s now a card. Which brings us to Ru’s sighting of the white scrunchy, and the how it reminds her of Tama’s absence. I love how they cut from that to Yuzuki know full well that Iona!LRIG was in Ru’s bag, unseen, but surely felt by just that much lack of presence. But when she does finally reappear, she knows just the right buttons to push. All for the sake of continued battle. Until they can both find a wish both of them can believe in, perhaps?
It’s easy to see Iona painted as the villain, they don’t really brush her in any other colors, do they? But if I know anime, they will probably play with that role as much as they can. A simple villain is not that interesting; much more so to see a character reveal more anti-protagonist or anti-antagonist ideals. This is precarious, as the footing the plot stands on can crumble if the pacing isn’t played right. But as they showed the last season, the program lives by playing with that. The moments of reveal and flashback were some of my favorite things about the show, and I hope they continue to do so here.
FK YA EXTRA CARDS
Ruuko-“AHHHHHHHHHH!!” Cupcake-chan-“I want to be your friend Ruuko!”
Eldora has to have her pre-battleru snack.
Better do as she says Ruuko! DO IT NOW!!
BEST END.
End thoughts
Yeah I gave us a lot of questions to chew on, but hey it’s always fun to theorize about certain events unfolding right? Before I talk about my thoughts it was great to hear Satomi Arai as Eldora cause oh my god I have missed her addictive voice…now for my thoughts on the episode! Sadly we did not get a whole lot of new information because they are setting things up for new character appearing while Ruuko thinks about the loss of Tama! I just can’t wait to see how she gets ahold of Tama, but for some reason I can’t shake the thought of her being turned into a LRIG at the cost of saving Tama and the other girls who have no idea about the cost of winning; however I still think Ruuko will do the whole Madoka-ish style wish to reset the world which I could totally see playing out near the end or do you see it differently? I guess she could erase the game from existence? Anyway I hope everyone is in for a wild WIXOSS ride because I know I am!
Well, I cannot leave without mentioning the lovely duo of Chiyori and Eldora. Even when swamped by recap waves, both of them kept cranking up the volume. I think that Satomi Aria is perfect as the madcap LRIG. She delivers those lines with such perfection, and plays off Mako Morino’s chuuniWIXOSS riffing (this character is still her first role) very well. If it has to be recap, make it madcap! Or at the very least hit the heart of the matter, as Iona!LRIG does when playing Ruuko along. You know, if you can wish to be a card, you can wish for an awful lot.
Preview
Best girl appears next week.
About Tag Team
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POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Mmm… Delicious Caek. Delicious Fruit Caek.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Cake is part of a balanced diet <3
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Yeah, diabetes is a myth. 😉
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Totally….
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
We’ll go with that.
Until someone comes and proves it isn’t a myth.POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 386 comments
Well..cake does have a lot of sugar, so if anything we can get a hyper balance diet off of it. Though if diabetes is a myth would cake still be a lie?
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Someone is high on rum…
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Sorry, pal. I’m gonna have to cut you off.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Delicious Fruit Caek is better than Orange-Pomelo-Pomegranate-Apple Icecream.
The Caek is not a Lie.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Which is why I’m cutting off. It’s too intoxicating.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
All aboard the card based suffering train! We’re going for a second round and the infection is spreading. A little recappy (if that’s even a word), however, it’s good to see WIXOSS again.
Me? I’m fascinated yet very intimidated by that kind of world because to get what one desires, a steep price has to be paid in exchange. Which is why it baffles me that in spite of hearing the downsides of participating as a Selector, Chiyori can still maintain her upbeat state of mind. Clearly she has no sense of danger yet.
Ooh, Iona sure is greedy wanting Ruuko all to herself and wanting her to share her ideals. Learn to share you selfish, battle crazed brat!
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Woooooooo Wooooooooooooo! I love the suffering train <3
Yeah the girls gotta be careful for what the wish for or else they will get screwed! I hope Ruuko's real wish works out for her, but I have a feeling that will not be the case...
Iona is quite greedy indeed~
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Gen’ei wo kakeru Taiyou.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Let’s see if WIXOSS has enough to take up its mantle.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Sadly we will never see GeneiTaiyou S2 (as per discussion in ep13 thread) because sales bombed. T_T
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
That’s sad to know. Gen’ei wo kakeru Taiyou was an awesomely dark and emotional anime with a villain you’d love to hate.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Unfortunately, it did have initial pacing issues which I think put off the viewers. Also comments like “Madoka ripoff” did not help.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
I’m a huge fan of Mari Okada working these feels, she knows how to hit your just square.
Iona is just so fascinating. She has a plan just beyond wanting to be an LRIG…that is a means to an end for her. It’s like she has seen the Eldritch Light. She’s like a classic Lovecraftian character that can see the strings.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Oh? I am surprised you haven’t tried M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane she wrote that its a decent mecha series.
Iona for the win! I love watching her <3
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
I gave M3 the three episode rule minus one. It just didn’t jive with me.
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 386 comments
amen Skylion, I don’t know but fosh Made me watch it.. and end result, Ehh didn’t much care for anything really, Like you it didn’t really jive with me either.. felt blah and I only liked the book girl because voice that is all.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I can see there would be things in M3 that wouldn’t grab people’s attention. Since that and WIXOSS have a common author, imagine how even more screwed up it would be if there a Lightless Realm for Selectors who’ve lost three times. Hmmm… Now that I think about it, that sounds akin to the Shadow Realm from Yu-Gi-Oh!
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 386 comments
man you..you…YOU! took the words right out of my mouth Baka! but well said, well said
/quiet-slow-clap
also now for some reason I got that song stuck in my head.. you know the one..yes that one..-.-
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 386 comments
This is one series I am looking forward to, It’s quite a series, what at first seem like a normal card game battle, turns into magical wishes that have a certain twist on them depending on the wish. The first season was interesting to see how our characters will do after learning the secret of the wishes and what it means to win, and what a ending we had there.
Now that it’s back I am very curious to see how Ruuko will end up using Iona to batteru, but as much as she was hesite to fight the first time after figuring everything out, so in a way we already seen this play out with her and tama. So with that hopefully this one will pull me in just like the first season and Batteru ON Girls, Still love this word!
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
For now I think it will be a question of how will LRIG!Iona used Ru to batteru…
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 386 comments
True my friend very true, she can and probably be persuade very easily by LRIG!Iona. Batteru Go!