Lostorage Incited WIXOSS

Having moved away due to family circumstances, Suzuko Homura returns to her hometown, nostalgic about the cheerful childhood she shared with Chinatsu Morikawa. Forever sealed with a promise of friendship, those days remain a bright memory to Suzuko, yet she has lost contact with Chinatsu during their time apart.

Ready to start anew, Suzuko endeavors to put the past behind her and make new friends at school, but she struggles to do so. Meanwhile, Chinatsu is working multiple shifts to support her family as she continues her studies, and the mounting pressure to meet high expectations soon becomes overwhelming. Amid their respective situations, both girls begin playing the popular card game WIXOSS and discover that they have been chosen as Selectors—players whose memories are now represented by gold coins and must battle other Selectors to earn five of them.

Guided by their LRIG avatar cards, which are created from the user's memories, the two learn that inconsistently partaking in duels or losing all their coins will result in a grim outcome. Resolved to protect what they hold dear, Suzuko and Chinatsu prepare for the battles ahead and fight for the chance to reclaim themselves.

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Homura, Suzuko Main

Hashimoto, Chinami Japanese

Morikawa, Chinatsu Main

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Mikage, Hanna Main

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Piruluk Supporting

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Lil Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Nanashi Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Satomi, Kou Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Carnival Supporting

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Shirai, Shouhei Supporting

Sugawara, Shinsuke Japanese

Hajimari no LRIG Supporting

Hino, Mari Japanese

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

Miyagi, Souji Assistant Producer

Sakurabi, Katsushi Director

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Jan 17, 2021

taamashi

Recommended

A game that can end up granting your most desirable wish or leave you with only the feeling of despair, welcome to WIXOSS.
This being the first season I watch from the WIXOSS saga I must say I'm not disappointed, most of the users that have been keeping up with the saga will probably disagree with me as they have already seen the previous ones. It wasn't particularly the anime that I've enjoyed the most but it somehow managed to get entertaining and being an overall passable anime.

The main story about this friendship getting torn apart got completely dramatized in my opinion, generating such conflict ... over a misunderstood perception of friendship I'd say was unnecessary. But in the end, the dependence they both have for each other ends up being something good. They both end up being someone they look up to. It really ends up showing some values to put it in a way. The side stories were not that bad either and it got interesting seeing the character development shown in this anime. Although this didn't quite incite me to continue with the rest of the seasons, I'd overall rate it a 7.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 1, 2021

9sayaka

Mixed Feelings

~~SPOILERS~~

Very hard to get into. It's almost too kind to call it a train wreck because that would imply that there was some velocity; something good about this anime to begin with.

The show was completely bland, uninteresting, and uninspired until around episode 8 or 9 where we finally get some of the payoff scenes I had grown to expect from the franchise. Sadly enough however, this rising tension and emotional buildup were not sustained through to the end, as it eventually just goes back to being the same uninspired trash that the series had been up to that point. It was just a flash in ... the pan that got my hopes up for nothing.

Lostorage Incited Wixoss felt uninspired compared to the original. Shallow characters across the board, not to mention the boring protags and one of the most generic bad guy characters I've ever seen felt like a major step back compared to how good and genuine the characters were in Selector Infected. It was very difficult to feel any sense of sympathy for the trials these characters suffered because they were just that shallow. This lack of character building is the hugest differentiation between this and the original series. The original series put time and effort into making you care about the characters, which in turn gave the plot meaning. In this type of story, if the writers don't nurture an emotional attachment to the characters, then the story does not really have any weight to it.

To put it in the most basic terms, how can the authors expect me, the viewing audience, to care if the characters lose their memories? The backstory given to the side characters was glossed over at best, most of the time being non-existent. I felt bad for their suffering only out of principle.

The main characters, even though they got more attention, were almost worse than the side characters. Basically just one girl fighting for the "power of friendship" and the other fighting to lose the "weakness of friendship." Yes, it actually is THAT nauseatingly edgy.

Everything else was ok I guess. Soundtrack was passable I suppose. Nothing really stood out. Animation was very lazy at points. If I had a nickel for every time they reused shots of the stairs and brewing machines in the coffee house, I'd probably have... a couple bucks?... Okay, maybe not the best analogy, but it was lazy. No excuses.

Surprisingly, I actually liked the ending of the series. Not the final battle, that was complete bullshit, but the actual conclusion of the story was actually kind of sweet. As generic as it was, it still put a smile on my face and made the entire journey up to that point almost feel worth it.

One other thing I have to point out though, something that really pissed me off, is how they just seemed to make up the rules of the game as they went in this one. While neither this anime or the series that came before it explain the actual rules of Wixoss, they still set the parameters for the rules of the survival game they are playing. That's not the case in Lostorage Incited Wixoss. The coin system and how betting coins worked wasn't fully explained, which made it difficult to understand the risk of betting your coins.

Along these lines, as a competitive tcg player, I was mortally disappointed to see yugioh-esque "gotcha!" tactics being used. Some examples:

"I'll attack the ground instead of you to avoid your effect"
"You're a little girl, so I'll just throw the game"
"I'll bet MY coin on YOU!" (honestly, how did they even get away with this one)
and my favorite
"I refuse to attack you because moral high ground"

And I swear to god that Chinatsu uses Berserk more than Yugi uses the Dark Magician... Like seriously, come on. She's one of the smartest characters in the show, and she wins with the same combo every time. Like, I understand that it's a combo deck, but come on. Its lame as hell to watch.

Final thoughts. All ranting aside, the way-too-shallow characters were the anchor around the neck of Lostorage Incited Wixoss. It gets a 6/10 because there were a few good payoff moments that helped offset the underdeveloped characters, and the world building the show does serves as a nice companion to Selector Infected/Spread.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 17, 2017

HirasawaLucky

Not Recommended

this is most disappointing entry in the Wixoss franchise. for your information I have Watched Selector Infected and Selector Spread Wixoss.the first episode of selector infected wixoss is much more better for the first impression than lostorage series,if you rewatch selector infected wixoss, and you can feel the thriller. and the script for this series is very boring, It was dramatic but the story itself fell short, not like the previous two wixoss series when the best screen writter mari okada as Series Composition on two previous wixoss series, and not the same director.

for the artwork, studio pablo did not handle the ... background art for this series, so the background is not as beautiful as the previous series, the background was hand painted not digitally.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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