Didn't bother posting about it before, but I finished the first season earlier today, so...
Selector Infected Wixoss - #1-12 (S1 end)
(WARNING: Unmarked spoilers ahead)
Having just finished watching Magical Girl Raising Project, seeing another show with a reluctant protagonist who mostly gets taken along for the ride while reacting to how those around her suffer in various ways was kind of odd. I mean, the shows aren't even remotely comparable because Wixoss at least bothered to flesh its smaller cast out and did some okay things with them, but even then it never felt like that much of a good show to me, sadly.
One of the reasons I don't think I got to care all that much about it was that most of the actiong and plot points felt like random ass-pulls, with the card game itself not even mattering in the grand scheme of things. Out of the whole cast, the only duelist with a known set of abilities was Akira, but the rest only had flashy attacks that did damage or something. Battles were always about LRIGs firing off energy blasts at each other at random while their masters talked back and forth for a while, and then one of them woud win because. Tama somehow "evolved" after her first victory, but that never happened again because... I dunno.
Then there was Ruuko's whole character, who even had the same Madoka-ish realization that the wish she wanted to make was one to save everybody else, only in Ruuko's case her wish was for naught (at least for this season). I guess things might end up getting better by the end of the second season (and/or movie?), but by now the show has Yuzuki trapped as a card, her former card engaging in an incestuous relationship with her brother after taking over her body (I was honestly not expecting that to work out in the end), Akira having become an unhinged psychopath... and I guess Hitoe's still okay somehow.
