After the realease of Gen Urobuchis Puella Magi Madoka Magica back in 2011 there wasnt a big number of new animes that attempted to deconstruct popular anime genres targetted mainly towards kids like Madoka did with magical girls despite the shows success. One of the exceptions was Mari Okadas Selector Infected WIXOSS that tried to do the same with card game animes. The first problem is despite the show attempting to gave the Madoka treatment to card anime game it seems like Okada or anybody else in the production staff havent watch a single epiosde of a card game anime in their entire life. While Madoka uses some of the most common elements and tropes you can find an any magical girl anime specially the Pretty Cure franchise down to the color coding of the cast. To make matters worse we barely see any of the games in the anime most of the events related to them happen offscreen. So if you came to this anime hoping at least for epic battles with nice animation Im afraid Ill have to tell you to keep movin. You are not gonna find it here. Okadas territory is teenage melodrama thats the reason her most popular anime is Ano Hana. And to be fair theres tons of it here too but most of the characters feel underdeveloped and unsympathetic so the watcher has a hard time trying to get invested in whats happening. Some characters will simply make you want to not root for their desires to came true despite it was probably Okadas intention to be otherwise like Yuzuki wanting to bang his own twin brot...sorry i mean made a gender reversal OreImo well take later about this. Others will make you feel like their problems are not as hard as they want you to present them so you dont have another solution that risk everything in a magic cards game like in the case of Hitoe I dont have any friends except the ones from my old town who still wrote me letters and i made two pretty easy in a span of a few episodes Uemura seriously chica it doesnt seem that youre doing that bad on your own why did you enter a card game?. And dont forget our MC who is supposed to be like Madoka a girl who doesnt know which wish to ask to make it become true but she enters in the game anyway despite she learns how dangerous it is because why not. At least when you become a magical girl you save peoples lives but here is basically a bunch of people risking their lives for wishes that in most cases are pretty selfless. Like i wrote above theres an incest subplot in this anime and it makes this show pretty uncomfortable to watch. On of the main character has been in love with her twin brother since she was just a little kid and has enter the game hoping that if she wins it her wish will be granted. And its pretty obvious that Okada wants us to root for her downright to incluiding a secondary female character whos the twin brothers classmate and later girlfriend than acts all jealous of the relationship her boyfrined has with his sister and when she calls it out she acts all bitchy she wont gonna take her side. Well Okada let me tell making a douchey character something thats true doesnt make the thing less true it only shows youre desperate to make us agree with the characters you want us to agree because you can think of any other way to fo it because theres no way some sane will do it. Definitely a skip.