The second season of Lostorage incited WIXOSS.
The peaceful days turn out to be short-lived as the shadow of another Selector Battle looms large.
Kiyoi Mizushima is the first to notice that things are amiss, and she makes her move to put an end to
the cycle of darkness.The Battle this time includes a new card, "Key," and has been set up with rules
different than before. With both the mastermind and their motive shrouded in mystery, the darkness
grows ever deeper and more menacing. Suzuko Homura, Chinatsu Morishita, Hanna Mikage, Ruuko Kominato,
Yuzuki Kurebayashi, Hitoe Uemura, and Akira Aoi, the Selectors gather once again.
(Source: Anime News Network)
I wasn't quite a fan of how the first Lostorage anime looked and I really liked the general art style of the Selector series so the first Lostorage season was quite a downgrade for me. This series is definitely an improvement from the first Lostorage series in terms of visuals. The art style looks much better (even though I still do prefer the look of the first Wixoss series) and the animation and backgrounds looked quite nice at times. The music of this series is always great and this entry to it is no exception. Unlike certain other entries to the series like the second it also uses it's soundtrack well and instead of randomly starting and/or ending it. The antagonists were quite underwhelming as they didn't really provide any new and interesting dynamics with the protagonists and they're motivations in general wasn't too interesting. Even Incited Wixoss was better at this. While I enjoyed having the protagonists of the original season back, given that all their character arcs are resolved and finished you don't really any growth of them here and Akira's character as a whole is just all over the place to be honest. They also don't get to really shine as characters but like I said I did like having them back as this season was supposed to be the finale of the series as a whole and having them back for it was probably for the better. For the characters that debuted within the first Lostorage season they had more of an actual story. Specifically the 2 main characters from it, I thought it was a nice resolution to their story from the first season. I actually liked the plot despite its flaws. Without a doubt the true main character of this final season was Mizushima Kiyoi AKA Piruluk from the first series despite never being an "actual" character in the first anime which I thought was a really good thematic choice. It's not the most thought provoking character direction I've seen (even just from this series) but having the character who took part the most in the so called cycle of darkness even as a minor side character in the main story to be the one in the center of fighting probably the best path this series could have taken for its finale. While this anime did quickly adapt the manga in which we see Kiyoi's backstory and learned more about her character for the people that never read it in one episode it is quite obviously a rushed version of the story and reading the manga definitely provides a much better experience. Really I would say, you NEED to read Selector Infected WIXOSS -Peeping Analyze- before watching this anime and for you to really enjoy it. It's definitely not the best entry in the series in terms of story but overall I thought it was worth the watch. Instead of a standalone story it's definitely more of an epilogue for most of the entries in the series so far and it did a great job at it. I was quite satisfied by where the characters ended up in the en and I was a little emotional at the end.