Saimoe update 8/3
Hm... Manabi indeed won yesterday's round handily (with a fairly low vote total), but that makes Momo's fifth-place performance interesting. Almost a quarter of the people voting for Manabi either didn't like Momo, or had enough other favorites in the round to push her off their ballot - assuming Momo didn't get any non-Manabi votes, which I'm not sure we can do. Uma's in from Magical Pokan, "Cat Girl" from Gegege no Kitaro takes fourth, and a Wang and a Zhang from Mai Otome tie for fifteenth.
Favorites today include Yutaka from Lucky Star, Matsuri from Strawberry Marshmallow, and Makoto (big ver.) from Kanon. Hard to tell who has the edge here... Matsuri had a much larger vote total in the first round, but there's a lot of Lucky Star voters out there, and Yutaka went from barely-debuted character to Konata's little sister in the meantime, packing her full of fresh-baked little sickly girl moe. But it's not like the name Kanon doesn't have any draw - I think Makoto (big ver.) is the only named female character from the show who didn't get in the top eight in her round.
Also in strong contention are Mikoto from School Rumble, Sanae from Sumomomomomomo (man, I could get really tired of typing out that name), Iori from Idolmaster, Mai from Mai Otome, and perhaps Eika from Sky Girls or Sasara from To Heart 2.
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If 16 get in, Matsuri is a lock. You have to see the show to understand just how absurdly, unbelievably, preposterously, overdosedly kawaii Matsuri is.
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Steve, you sound like you fell for into a TRAP ;p
Posted by: Xellos-_^ at August 03, 2007 06:53 PM (12gxe)
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Agreed with Steven. I don't mind having sexually ambiguous characters in a show - goodness knows they've been doing that for years - but I'm tired of the "here's a sexy girl except she's a guy LOL YOU ARE GAY for liking her!" trick. Good shows don't need to score cheap points off the audience like that.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at August 04, 2007 01:00 AM (LMDdY)
Well, one of my favorite shows did blind-side me with a trap, but once I learned about it, on later rewatchings I can see that they gave hints about that character, and it did make sense. There was a legitimate reason why that man was masquerading as a woman. (I'm intentionally being very vague, including trying not to give any hints about which series it is, in order to avoid spoilers.)
