WIXOSS | |
Promotional image for the selector infected WIXOSS anime series, featuring Ruko (front), Tama (on Card) Chiyori, Hitoe, Yuzuki, Akira, and Iona (back, left to right).
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ウィクロス (Wikurosu) |
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Genre | Dark fantasy, Supernatural, Psychological |
Anime television series | |
selector infected WIXOSS | |
Directed by | Takuya Satō |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Music by | Maiko Iuchi |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, TVA, AT-X, BS11 |
Original run | April 3, 2014 – June 19, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 |
Manga | |
selector infected WIXOSS -peeping analyze- | |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Illustrated by | Manatsu Suzuki |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Ultra Jump |
Original run | July 19, 2014 – May 19, 2015 |
Volumes | 2 |
Manga | |
selector infected WIXOSS -Re/Verse- | |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Illustrated by | Meki Meki |
Published by | Square Enix |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Big Gangan |
Anime television series | |
selector spread WIXOSS | |
Directed by | Takuya Satō |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Music by | Maiko Iuchi |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, TVA, AT-X, BS11 |
Original run | October 4, 2014 – December 20, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime film | |
selector destructed WIXOSS | |
Directed by | Takuya Satō |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Music by | Maiko Iuchi |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Released | February 13, 2016 |
Runtime | 91 minutes |
Anime television series | |
Lostorage incited WIXOSS | |
Directed by | Katsushi Sakurabi |
Produced by | Tomo Yamaguchi Jun Fukuda Yuichiro Siji |
Written by | Michihiro Tsuchiya |
Music by | Maiko Iuchi |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | BS11, Tokyo MX, KBS, SUN, TV Asahi Channel 1 |
Original run | October 7, 2016 – December 23, 2016 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime | |
Lostorage conflated WIXOSS | |
Released | October 2017 – scheduled |
WIXOSS (wikurosu, short for "Wish Across") is a Japanese multimedia franchise produced as a collaboration between Takara Tomy, J.C.Staff, and Warner Entertainment Japan. The franchise revolves around the eponymous trading card game and follows girls known as Selectors who battle against each other in order to have their wishes granted. The trading card game by Takara Tomy launched in Japan in April 2014. A television anime series by J.C.Staff, titled selector infected WIXOSS, aired in Japan between April and June 2014, with a second season, selector spread WIXOSS, airing between October and December 2014. A compilation film, titled selector destructed WIXOSS, was released on February 13, 2016. A sequel anime series, titled Lostorage incited WIXOSS, began airing in October 2016. Several manga spin-offs, a novelisation, and a smartphone app have also been produced.
WIXOSS is a popular trading card game in which players battle against each other with fighters known as LRIGs (ルリグ Rurigu?, "girl" spelled backwards), using cards to support them. Certain LRIGs are able to communicate with their owners, and the girls chosen to wield them are known as "Selectors" (セレクター Serekutā?). Selectors are given the chance to have any wish granted by winning battles against other Selectors, but should they lose three times, their wish will be reversed into a curse instead.
The main series, selector infected WIXOSS, follows a girl named Ruko Kominato, who becomes a Selector after receiving an LRIG that she names Tama. As she and various other Selectors battle it out for the sake of their wish, Ruko finds herself drawn into the dark, sinister world of WIXOSS, discovering that, win or lose, there is always a price to pay.