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Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
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Selector Infected WIXOSS
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Selector and Madoka both take the formula that is normal for Anime of the card game genre and magical girl genre and places a dark twist on it involving the fulfillment of wishes happening. On top of these wishes having a darker side to them there is the fact there is a “pure” character, a character that happens to have a positive outlook on life and easily be able to make friends with people. The characters also don't have a wish because they can't think of anything to actually wish for. There is also quite a bit of slice of life elements as well as
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Recommended by Yemi_Hikari
If you like one you will surely like the other :
• Both are about young girls with wishes
• Both deal with dramatic wishes
• Both have the drama teenager feels
• Both are about sacrificing everything for friendship
• Both have at least a character centered in a love romance
• Both are dark magical girls.
• Madoka may be a little darker dealing with real death and real combats
• Wixoss is lighter with card fights but real person also fighting.
Spooky dreams of potentially prophetic nature, cute girls pained by the smaller and larger hardships of their youthful existence, and a curious "thing" that can grant any wish upon meeting certain requirements.
Cute girls, story that starts cute and nice, then gets darker.
Both have nice art.
Both shows star a cute innocent girl who joins a battle of some sort to get a wish granted, even though she doesn't really have a wish. It turns out that this battle is even more dangerous than it seems as the mascots of the shows are keeping secrets. What follows next is a psychological thriller about cute girls making friends and having terrible things happen to those friends. WIXOSS even tries to rip off Madoka's ending until going for a "screw you, we have more planned" thing.
Wishes. The main theme for both shows. And teenage girls are the only ones involved in all this. Madoka has a mahou shoujo system while WIXOSS has the LRIG system, which are very identical as such one may grant a wish should certain requirements are fulfilled and there is a fair price to pay should one be involved.
With that said, both started out pretty light-hearted before turning into something really dark.
The Madoka vibes are strong in WIXOSS, if you love that sort of thing.
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Recommended by Lord_Odous
-starts out to be a simple and happy story and later on turns out to be a dark one.
They are both very dark psychological shows that involve fighting for your life for a wish. they differ however in fighting. Selector is based around a card game that the girls have to play in order to have their wish come true. While Madoka gives them their wish but in return they become magical girls who fight witches. They both offer some dark plots and memorable characters. They were both amazing animes and easily in my top 10.
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Recommended by Oreo_luver
They're ALOT like eachother. Both have the magical powers that are granted to young girls without revealing the dark side of the contract until it's too late. Both have naive MCs Both have characters that forget about their past relationships while their friends are endlessly fighting for them. Both have "higher powers" using the girls for their own agendas. Definitely recommend both, if you like one of them, you'll probably like the other. Madoka is a bit more colorful while WIXOSS have a more depressing tone from the start, but they're both really similiar at the core.
Both have very similar plots- A group of girls discover new powers (transforming into Magical Girls in Madoka, Becoming a Selector in a card game in WIXOSS), and struggle to decide whether fighting is the right thing to do. There are a lot of moral dilemmas over their situations, and there's a lot of crying in both shows. There are also a lot of similar plot points later in their respective series, to the point where some scenes are nearly identical.
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Recommended by suikashoujo
- Very depressing, annoying characters that make you want to claw your eyes out.
- Both involve wishes.
- Psychological involving little girls.
- MC is depressed 80% of the time and constantly repeats lines.
- Both are to do with a sort of magic.
Both are about group of girls who get in contact with a fairy common anime theme (card game/mahou-shoujo). It all starts nice and innocent but gets darker later.
- Both take a popular anime genre (Selected Infected = Card Game and Madoka Magica = Magical Girl) and do a much more darker take on it
- Both have all the main characters as girls, with few male support characters
- Both focus on the psychological affects of the Card Game/ Being a Magical girl on the main characters.
Both are shoujo.
They both have girls having some power and going into another world.
Both main characters don't really have wishes and are really strong and cute.
Both are a little mysterious and somehow scary??
Selector is about alive cards and mahou shoujo madoka is about transforming.
You should totally watch this!! It will certainly blow your mind away.
- Both are supernatural genre and include a strategy game where once you're in you can't get out unless you win or lose.
- Both get darker and sadder
- Character stereotypes are very similar; girls in the main role
- The storyline is also similar with many twists
- Nonetheless, both are very good anime, worth watching.
Both anime are dark and have a cast of cute girls. At first, both shows seem to have simplistic plots. However, through dark turns and plot twists, they become more intense and the stakes become very high. Furthermore, the topic of wishes is discussed in each show: in Madoka Magica, girls can have a wish granted to become a mahou shoujo. In SIW, girls who are known as selectors can have their wish granted by winning enough card battles. However, in both shows, using this power comes with significant consequences. Overall, Madoka Magica and SIW are basically downward spirals of despair. If you liked one,
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They give off the same type of vibe, and both surround around similar themes (Jealousy, Grief, etc.)
Selector Infected involves cards though.
Yes how many times are people going to make this comparison/recommendation I know but it's really true. It's very good. This was like Madoka Magica except it didn't reach the same depths of morbidity as Madoka such as death. In some ways, these girls reach a fate worse than death. But it doesn't feel as intense. All the Selectors are girls just like all the Magical Girls are girls (naturally) and they can get wishes granted and become tainted. The wish granters in both shows don't explain all the rules to having wishes granted. They're both very enjoyable and you'll absolutely like one if
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Recommended by Drizzy_Dan
Young girls fighting something that seems to be more than meets the eye.Wishes also have a lot to do with the story. They both have very innocent/sweet moments to balance out the more horrific ones as well.
Young girls are gifted, or rather tricked into acquiring supernatural powers which requires them to battle enemies to fulfill a greater purpose. Both anime start out innocently enough but soon diverge into something surprisingly dark with an atmosphere that also gets gradually darker along with its characters.
If you liked one of these two then you should definitely watch the other. Both seem just cute anime with cute girls and cute, girly concept. Well... no!! they both have a dark concept with psycholigical and dramatical story, wich girls and boys can enjoy.
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Recommended by _Cristina_
Well, they both start off cute, but then turn a bit darker. Both is about wishes too, but Madoka magica gets them instantly, while WIXOSS-selectors strive for them.
They are not super similar, but i think you would like it if you liked madoka magica.
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Recommended by Dorobou_neko
Both start out cheerful and get darker as the series goes on and both involve granting the wishes of young girls. In the beginning they may seem like the typical series for their respective genre but later unfold into something more.
You are greeted with a cast of cute girls playing card games, to later find that there's more to it behind its initial appearance. There's a constant sort of over-your-shoulder and sinister feeling throughout the story, surprising you with dark twists that keep you on your toes.
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Recommended by katsue-maki
Both start out light hearted and fun but quickly dive into dark themes. Both are revolutionary in their themes and I only wish selector infected WIXOSS would be more popular. If you love any of the mentioned anime then trust me, you'll definitely find the other very appealing.
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Recommended by TomLedingham
Similarities:
- Involve young girls taking part in battles (supernatural themes)
- Cute animation style
- The themes are both rather dark and sad, revealing an unfortunate truth behind having a desire for a wish to be fulfilled
- Highly enjoyable, will leave you saying 'just..one..more..episode'
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Recommended by bakaoneechan
Both animes are about girls suffering and stuff for their wishes, madoka still better than the other, but is a good anime for me <3
Both protagonists are pretty much in the same situation, as they can make a wish but they don't want anything (and they are the ones with the "potential"). Their friends make wishes but that just make them suffer even more; also magical girls costumes.
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Recommended by donadosite
Both of these anime revolve around girls who have come across supernatural phenomenons and are striving to make a wish come true. There are many plot twists in both that will make you want to keep watching, but I found the plot of Selector Infected WIXOSS to be more unique and interesting due to the fact that it's about a card game. There aren't nearly as many card game anime as Magical girl anime, especially one with such an intricate plot (although that's my personal opinion). This is definitely an anime to add to your watch list if you like anime that are between
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They both are dark series which follows girls in the road to make a wish come true.
In terms of narrative structure the similarities are very apparent. The both focus on a primarily female cast with a problem that only impacts females and the story begins light-hearted and quickly takes a dark turn. They both also contain those big shocking moments that you wont see coming. Both of them share a non-absolute antagonist, with neither antagonist through the series being truly evil so to say. It's clear to me that WIXOSS was heavily inspired by Madoka Magica and the end result shows this. Not a bad thing at all though as both are fantastic shows and totally worth your time.
In both series, the girls can ask for a wish; they must to fight against each others,
and the principal character wants to save everyone.
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Recommended by silverspoons
Both anime are similiar in:
- Main female characters.
- Girls and battles for a dreams and wishes.
- Stories depressing .
- Psychological situations where you have to think about which is the correct decision.
Both series:
-Involve Faustian contracts made in the form of wishes
-Transition from a relatively innocent, playful tone to a much darker one
-Are incredibly easy to binge-watch
In my opinion, MSMM has stronger visuals and music, but WIXOSS has stronger characters.
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Recommended by Synoptic93
Both anime series center around a group of girls fighting to make their wishes come true, but evetually start to fall into despair. Both series present a series of twists and unexpected outcomes, and they can get pretty intense. It is very hard to describe either of these without getting spoilery, but I will say that characters and motives are similar in quite a lot of ways.
Both animes start like girls with magical powers but then turn to a dark side
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Recommended by Diamondhila
WIXOSS has the same theme of something that is seemingly innocent, not being so.
The girls must also fight for the sake of their wishes, as in Madoka.
Heavily driven by normal human emotion.
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Recommended by MidnightBirdie
Wixoss has barely anything to do with magical girl in its regular sense, but both essentially boil down to teenage girls being promised one wish granted, however in exchange they're obliged to fight using the bestowed superpowers. and so they do, not aware of the real stakes.
Teenagers are selected and forced to fight in return of having one of their wishes granted. If they lose or choose not to fight, something really bad will happen. Main characters are similar, and everyone suffers a lot. Wixoss is not a mahou shoujo anime like Madoka, but the LRIG characters also transform.
Both MC's find themselves doing something that seems harmless at first, then realizes the true nature of the magical entity they are messing with.
The main theme for both anime is "Wish and sacrifice"
What price do you have to pay in order for your wish to be granted? This question will be answered in these 2 anime.
Both anime twist the generic formula of a Card and Magical Girl Anime. Both feature characters who do not have a wish at first and only make a wish after the experience they went thru.
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Recommended by TheRockzSG