Gulp.

Kagami managed to edge out Maria in the big round of the day, by almost 200 votes. Kagami's vote total was well over 1300. MARIA also got over 1100. That makes yesterday's voting not only the heaviest so far, but with almost a twenty percent jump over the previous top voting round. Then again, this is the sort of clash of the (moe) titans you'd expect in a block final or in the final bracket, not the first blippin' round! Can't say I would argue with the result - not only is Kagami's tsundere attitude cute (and, given that it's not involved with a romantic relationship, not annoying to the viewer), but she's definitely a much larger part of Lucky Star's charm than Maria is of Hayate's. (Darn those inconvenient male leads...)

Voting was very heavy in the other rounds, but we should take the totals with a grain of salt there - Shiori didn't really draw almost a thousand votes, and there's no way that Barasuishou and Carim managed to pull 1500 between the two, except that the bigger match already had the voters voting. This does put both the Misaka sisters in, however.

Nothing of the same kind of caliber today, more's the pity. Don't really expect today's matches to be close, even. Akiko has a huge advantage in D-4 - her attraction as the a MILF cannot be denied, and should be enough to fend off Yoshinoya-sensei easily. Rena had a great performance last year, and Higurashi's revival as a summer series is only going to increase her appeal (and, frankly, her murderous tendencies were pretty clear in last year's tourney, so the only potential negative is the episode where she was middle-aged...) D-12 will be a bit closer, but Hidamari Sketch has been drawing decent vote totals, and both Ama and Makoto were barely able to qualify for the tourney at all, so a good performance by them would be a monumental upset.

Yesterday's results:

1位　814 votes Barasuishou@Rozen Maiden Ouverture
2位　702 votes Carim Gracia@Mahou Syoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
3位　424 votes Aiko@Renkin Sankyuu Magical? Poka~n

1位　986 votes Misaka Shiori@Kanon
2位　639 votes Aoi Nagisa@Strawberry Panic
3位　549 votes Hiiragi Matsuri@Lucky Star

1位　1356 votes Hiiragi Kagami@Lucky Star
2位　1161 votes Maria@Hayate the Combat Butler
3位　153 votes Akira E. Ferrari@ARIA The NATURAL

Today's matches:

D-04
<<水瀬秋子＠Kanon>>(Minase Akiko@Kanon)
<<吉野屋先生＠ひだまりスケッチ>>(Yoshinoya-sensei@Hidamari Sketch)
<<神坂春姫＠はぴねす！>>(Kamisaka Haruhi@Happiness!)

D-08
<<竜宮レナ＠ひぐらしのなく頃に>>(Ryuuguu Rena@Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
<<巳屋本いろは＠すもももももも 〜地上最強のヨメ〜>>(Miyamoto Iroha@Sumomomomomomo ~World's Strongest Bride~)
<<相坂さよ＠ネギま！？>>(Aisaka Sayo@Negima!?)

D-12
<<ヒロ＠ひだまりスケッチ>>(Hiro@Hidamari Sketch)
<<時雨亜麻＠SHUFFLE！ MEMORIES>>(Shigure Ama@SHUFFLE! MEMORIES)
<<菊地真＠アイドルマスター XENOGLOSSIA>>(Kikuchi Makoto@iDOLM@STER XENOGLOSSIA)

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