Selector Infected WiXross2
Where do I even begin? First of all
FUCKING STOP USING X TO SYMBOL THE K SOUND OF CROSS, JAPAN. THAT ISN'T HOW THE SYMBOL WORKS. YOU WANT IT TO BE A CROSS? DON'T FUCKING ADD ROSS YOU DIPSHITS. FUCKING STOP IT. JUST. STOP.
Okay good, now let's get more into why this show is already a flaming ball of shit. First of all we're ripping off Yugioh and Madoka here, and with that comes the litany of sins that are already part of those shows, but there's something that happens in this episode I'd really, really like to talk about instead:
The completely irrational way in which the psychotic stalker girl gets their addresses. She "corners" them in a wide as fuck open place and just says "I'm not letting you leave until I get your addresses!" There are THREE of them. One of 'em's a dude. If they wanted to beat her into a fucking bloody pulp, rip out her sternum and use it to play ping pong with her empty fucking skull they could, because bitchlord here is outgunned. Not that they'd need to resort to physical violence, mind you. All they'd have to do is walk away, because holy shit they're in a public place and lil bitchy, despite her Sonic the Hedgehog warping power, cannot possible impede they're exit.
BETTER STILL, they could have boy over here hold the girl while the two Selectors just fucking leave. She can't need his address, and he could just stand their and breathe on her.
So much breathing.
Anyway, so psychotic stalker bitch lord somehow manages to extract their addresses for NO REASON and it's just shown me how completely I don't understand how anime people think. Because this shit happened in Sword Art Online with Heathcliff and Asuna and I really do not understand why or how this happened.
Also, I would be remiss in this rant if I didn't point out the terribly written incest subplot! Like way to reinforce that incest is great Japan by having a group of children with no faces mocking our adorable heroine as a child when she said she wanted to marry her brother. Now, its normal for kids to say silly stuff like this. My nephew's said he wants to marry his mommy times beyond counting. He also has said he has a grandson and that he owns a monkey named Lightning McQueen. Kids are wacky, but that's not the point. The problem is the way this scene is framed. By having faceless adversaries mocking a defenseless child for something she cannot control the writer aims to generate sympathy in the audience and thereby reinforce that the thing the little girl is being mocked for is good and okay. Don't believe me?
Journey with me here for a moment:
Once upon a time there was this
extremely popular, genre forming, wildly influential masterpiece little show called
Great Mazinger. It starred, among others, this young woman named Jun Hono, who was half Japanese, half African. In the scene above Jun, as a child, is, yes, being mocked by a band of faceless children for something entirely beyond her control. The point of the scene and the episode was to help Japanese people understand that race isn't bad, and that nobody should be discriminated against, thought less of, or treated worse because of their race.
If that sounds at all familiar to you its because that's what the writer is trying to say with WiXross: that incest is somehow okay, nobody should be thought less of, and that, essentially, wanting to fuck your family is totally hot. Except that unlike race there are actual, serious problems with promoting and permitting incest.
So the enormous question of "What kind of show is Wixross?" is now answered for me in part: A bankrupt show. Both creatively and morally, given the shameless theft of other show's plots and the absolutely insane incest propaganda its shaping up to be.