Pretty much as expected yesterday. Rena almost broke the thousand-vote mark, Hiro cruised in to a comfortable victory, and Akiko won as well over tight competition from Yoshinoya-sensei.

We've reached the halfway mark of the tourney, and things are going pretty well so far. Interest has increased from last year, none of the big names have bowed out save by losing to another big name, and the usual 2ch carping about foreigners only voting for shows they've seen is somewhat muted this year. (Or rather, it's expressing itself in "at least look at the promotional links in the voting threads!", which is pretty reasonable, I suppose - there's some cute stuff in there.)

No voting today, so I'll do a quick preview of the bottom half of the tourney bracket. Last year, it was something of a wasteland - all of the popular series were concentrated in the first few blocks, and so voting definitely lagged in the later half of the round. Shouldn't be a big problem this year, though...

Block E has a first-round matchup between Athena from Aria and Shinku from Rozen and Ayumu from Hayate taking on Akira from Lucky Star. Out of the four Strikers characters in that block, Teana runs up against Nunnally from Geass (blind wheelchair moe?) and Signum is matched up against Henrietta from Zero's Familiar and Setsuna from Negima in what promises to be a close three-way round.

Block F is heavy on Seto no Hanayome, with Maki vs. Iinchou in one round (glasses/shy/clumsy versus a tiny moe assassin) and San herself taking on Shion from Higurashi in another. Not the strongest characters in the block, but the other matches are either big name versus two unknowns, or three characters hardly anybody cares about.

Block G's first match is Rein Zwei from Strikers versus Ayu from Kanon, which is easily in the running with Maria vs. Kagami for the match of the first round; I'm hoping for each character to take home a four-digit vote total. There's also two Gurren vs. Higurashi matches, one putting Rika against Nia and another with Mion against Darry; they'll also be held on the same day!

Finally, in block H, we can look forward to Eri from School Rumble versus Kuroi-sensei from Lucky Star... with one of the elder Hiiragi sisters in the same round to split the LS vote. Karen and Otoha from Sky Girls ended up in the same match (sorry, girls, but the third is Louise...) Mai from Kanon may get a run for her money from Mawari from Seto, and Alicia from Aria, Reinforce I, and Margery Daw all ended up together as well.

Yesterday's results:

1位　694 votes Minase Akiko@Kanon
2位　539 votes Yoshinoya-sensei@Hidamari Sketch
3位　228 votes Kamisaka Haruhi@Happiness!

1位　992 votes Ryuuguu Rena@Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
2位　327 votes Miyamoto Iroha@Sumomomomomomo ~World's Strongest Bride~
3位　301 votes Aisaka Sayo@Negima!?

1位　710 votes Hiro@Hidamari Sketch
2位　361 votes Shigure Ama@SHUFFLE! MEMORIES
3位　218 votes Kikuchi Makoto@iDOLM@STER XENOGLOSSIA

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