Not that I missed the dates because I spent too much time at home, but I’m just here to share something. Someone stole my story idea. (Audience: Who?) Well you’re about to find out.
Apparently I was reading the new season previews for Anime, and came across this show. The synopsis sounds very familiar…
According to Random Curiosity: (where I go most often for Anime reviews)
“A popular card game among teenagers, it’s been said there are special cards that possess a will of their own. Known
as LRIG cards, these cards can only be heard and possessed by girls known as “selectors,” who fight in an alternate
dimension in order to have any wish of theirs granted. As hope, desire, and greed combine and WIXOSS starts taking a dangerous turn, Kominato Ruko joins the fight as the newest of the selectors.”
It’s called “Selector Infected WIXOSS” (read as wɪkˈsəʊˌesˈaɪz if you understand) (Audience: WTH was that anyway?) (Phonetics?), and according to the writer that this show bears many similarities to APoL, if you guys would know, is the story I’m currently STILL DOING on since a few years ago… (Audience: Yeah slow huh…) Ok whatever. Anyways, the similarities include “special cards that possess a will” and can only be used by “selectors” and actually “fight in an alternate dimension in order to have any wish of theirs granted”, and what’s more, someone “joins the fight as the newest” of the people. Sounds familiar? Here’s the further breakdown:
WHAT’S SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR
- “special cards”, as with APoL Cards too, they are special
- “selectors”, as compared to Yielders and Abusers, or generally Users
- (most similarly) “fight in an alternate dimension”, which is a Duel in my story. And;
- “to have any wish of theirs granted”, which is the Final Card in a Duel.
But just in case you think I’m already giving in to their ideas:
WHAT’S DISTINTIVELY DIFFERENT
- The Cards in APoL do not possess any Will of their own. They create effects via taking in a User’s Will
- Users in APoL do not only consist of cute girls. That’s why this is an original Anime, produced by people driven by loli-perverted audiences, that is the feature of Anime. APoL is NOT like that..
- The Duel’s ultimate objective is to weaken the opponent in order to FORCE UPON to earn what they desire to do, not just purely for wishing something to happen, which is vague in some situations. (I swear this is the most difficult to refute)
- WIXOSS is in the Psychological genre. APoL is more slice-of-life, mystery and a little action.
- WIXOSS has monsters. APoL is all about humans and everything around them.
In conclusion, this show is unlike APoL, but has sparked much interest in similarity for me to mention it here… I swear someone read my story. The production team.
Does that mean I’ll watch the show? Does that mean I’ll stop APoL because there’s someone using the idea already? No. Stories are about inspiration, and they originate from watching, imagining and reading from others. So you know what I may do? I may just watch this show a few episodes to see how I can integrate some of their ideas into my story. Haha. You can say it’s cheating, but for a much larger scale story like mine (haha spoilers?) I’ll need more material and solid theories in place. If you’re interested in APoL but need a serious psychological twist (if you don’t know about the genre go Google this Anime called “Aku no Hana”) then I’m not recommending this show. Because it wasn’t my idea.
Haha anyways, keep the inspiration universal, people. APoL also started, developed and is developing because of the Anime I’ve watched too…
[P.S.: Cya guys, and I won’t forget to say about how Miuna drowned in Nagi no Asukara and the wonderful futurescope of Golden Time. Oops I’ll talk more in the weekend. Oh it’s the weekend already, haha]
