Izumi rides the Hayate train to victory over Konomi and a barely-there Sia, while Konata triumphs over Nayuki. Surprisingly low vote total for the Konata/Nayuki match - both characters actually lost votes from round one. Nayuki also had a relatively large number of fake votes for an early round, while Konata had virtually none. Interesting, that... either the Lucky Star people didn't consider Nayuki a threat, or the emphasis on other characters and resulting reduction in Konata-time on screen is hurting her popularity. (Could be beneficial in the long run, though, if there's significant voting strength there but not voting; they can always pile in when Konata hits Isumi next round. On the other hand, if they're really not there...!)

Hayate's characters are really having an advantage of the voting schedule, with a character in each of the first five days of voting in round 2. Today, Miki from Hayate takes on Tomoe from Rozen, with Yukari from Shana in as a wild card. Three secondary characters from shows with strong voting blocks, but Tomoe was MIA in the last OAV, so it's been a long time since she's shown up. Then again, we haven't seen the school (or Miki) in quite some time in Hayate. Yukari, of course, has been gone since very early in Shana, but if you think of her as "also Shana", that could account for some of her popularity here... and the new season of Shana is just around the corner, which could light her fire just in time.

My instincts tell me to go with Konoka in B2-3. I don't trust them, though, because I haven't seen any Manabi Straight, and Hidamari Sketch does bad things to my eyes. (Abnormal character aspect ratio, owwie.) The promotional pics people are posting of Manabi just make me want to hit her, for some reason - I think I'm associating the safety helmet with old Mega Man gaming sessions. On the other hand, I've always liked Konoka as one of the few Negima characters worth the ink to put her on the page. So personal prejudices are definitely slanted that way; the fact that her round 1 performance also topped the other two, and none of them really have a meta-game reason to do well or poorly, doesn't argue against that.
Yesterday's matches:

1st place - 730 votes - Izumi / Hayate the Combat Butler
2nd place - 521 votes - Konomi / ToHeart2 OVA
3rd place - 208 votes - Sia / Shuffle! Memories

1st place - 824 votes - Konata / Lucky Star
2nd place - 674 votes - Nayuki / Kanon
3rd place - 178 votes - Ellis / El Caldazor

Today's matches:

A2-3
<<花菱美希＠ハヤテのごとく！>>(Hanabishi Miki@Hayate the Combat Butler)
<<平井ゆかり＠灼眼のシャナ>>(Hirai Yukari@Shakugan no Shana)
<<柏葉巴＠ローゼンメイデン オーベルテューレ>>(Kashiwaba Tomoe@Rozen Maiden Ouverture)

B2-3
<<近衛木乃香＠ネギま！？>>(Konoe Konoka@Negima!?)
<<稲森光香（みかん）＠がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート！>>(Inamori Mika(Mikan)@Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!)
<<沙英＠ひだまりスケッチ>>(Sae@Hidamari Sketch)

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