Talk:Lostorage incited WIXOSS/@comment-1151457-20161012092453/@comment-27590489-20161012160101

I didn't feel it was like Madoka at all. Maybe just because it dealt with "wish granting with some nasty fine print" but it takes a lot more than a similar (and very common) schtick to make me say something's a copy. Though I'm not one of those "Fate Testarossa looks like Sailor Moon" types. I look pretty deep into the stuff I like.

To me it felt the most to me like Steins;Gate, which makes sense considering the staff. I think the worst thing that could happen to the anime is it turning into YuGiOh. If the show had outlandish character designs for the main regular humans and nonsense battles of luck then the drama would've been hindered the story and mood. We get a wacky character in Chorizo and the LRIGs all have highly stylized designs.

Basically, Wixoss isn't your usual shounen card game anime. It's a drama that uses the card game as a vehicle for it's narrative, and in pulling in anime fans to the anime, it gets them interested in the card game (myself and others here, for example) and that of course sells cards. Which blows my mind as a marketing strategy considering that the message we can all take away from the anime is "whatever you do, DON'T PLAY THIS CARD GAME OR YOU'LL SUFFER!" LOL