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Just got done watching Selector destructed WIXOSS.

Man, lots of conflicting feelings about this one.

The recap frankly was kinda painful to sit through. Recap movies in general are annoying, and even more so when they lack a proper framing device. This movie had nothing of the sort, and the result was the sort of recap I dislike the most--just cutting up the series into the smallest bits and scenes possible, to the point where it loses all meaning and impact, so new viewers gain nothing from it and returning fans are just reminded of what a better way to experience these events the tv show was. It was just...pretty bad.

It also kind of confirms the nagging suspicion I've had that as much as I really truly definitely enjoyed WIXOSS when I first watched it, I may in fact not actually consider all the melodrama and other such facets of the writing to be all that good in the first place. It was more of a really enjoyable trainwreck--not in a storytelling sense as much, I don't think it's bad, just like...I just like seeing all these characters suffer and shit? But going through it all again, and in this far inferior format is just....eh. Kind of boring as hell. If it hadn't already lost its impact from the shitty recap format the metal breakdowns are still not as fun to watch the second time around.

It also doesn't help that they cut all but like, one second of Chorizo's screentime. I don't think she or Eldora had any lines in the entire thing. Weak ass, Selector destructed WIXOSS! Chorizo is best character! Chorizo deserves better!

Chorizo was actually mostly irrelevant to the main plot so I understand why Chorizo was cut, but I am not happy about it regardless!

BUT! But. But. The recap, the endless, obnoxious recap may have taken something like an hour, but it did eventually come to an end. And the new content? All good shit. Midoriko and Hanayo talking was like the highlight of my evening. And all the LRIGs hanging out with their Selectors...defs gives me hope that Hanayo may just steal Kazuki from incestgirl.

And watching Chorizo and Eldora hang out was great. Just wish they could have given them a damn line or two.

Stuff with Ulith was fine too.

Was kinda gay too?

Speaking of which, Tama and...Tama tho. "You smell nice." That damn Hanayo call back. lmao.

The ending, much as I enjoyed it, however, does only feed back into my gripes about it being a pretty shitty recap. Midoriko was basically nonexistent for the entirety of the film, until in the epilogue she starts talking like she mattered. Which she did, one guesses! In like, the show. The shots of Chorizo, Eldora and even irrelevant-even-in-show characters like Futase getting their happy endings are similarly odd for similar reasons. The movie itself never introduces these characters. Which is fine, because it's not like it had the time, but if later it's going to pretend they were part of the narrative that the movie itself followed....eghh.

A succinct summation of my opinion of this movie would probably be "should have really just done an OVA or something." The damn recap wasn't worth it.