Block G voting starts today with a bang; with the possible exception of Maria vs. Kagami, G-1 is the match of the round. Both Ayu from Kanon and Reinforce Zwei from Strikers won their respective first prelim, with only a single vote separating their totals. No clue which way it's going to go - it's starting off balanced on a knife edge, so even a few votes from some uninvolved faction could tip it. If anything, I have to give the edge to Ayu. Rein started off almost impossibly cute (the picture of her eating a cherry tomato the size of her head ought to be in the dictionary under "moe"), but she's played very little role in recent episodes, somewhat upstaged by her antagonist-counterpart, the Etna clone. Ayu, well... Kanon was old before the remake ever ran, so her fandom definitely hasn't dropped off just because she hasn't been on the screen this week. Further spoiling the issue is Kamu - even though Utawarerumono isn't exactly the biggest vote-getter, her third-place finish in the first prelim proves that she's in possession of quite a few fans. If she pulls more heavily out of one of the other girls' fan-bases, the other one will win...

G-5 has another Kanon character, Sayuri. Not my personal fave, but she's much more moe than her nearest competition, Revy, who's... busty, sure, but a bit too obnoxious to really be moe. Or maybe Revy's just in the wrong kind of show? Combine that with Ayu's coat-tails from G-1 and it's a landslide.

G-9 gives us Yakumo from School Rumble versus Ayane from Nagasarete and Mana from Sola. Interestingly, both Ayane and Mana qualified from the same first prelim round, with Ayane coming out on top. Yakumo finished a different round with considerably more votes... but it was the last round of the first prelim, while the other two were in an early round, so we have to take the vote totals with a grain of salt. I have to say that I like the character Yakumo, but at the same time, School Rumble hasn't had the drawing power that it did last year.

Today's matches:

G-01
<<リインフォースII＠魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS>>(Reinforce Zwei@Mahou Syoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS)
<<月宮あゆ＠Kanon>>(Tsukimiya Ayu@Kanon)
<<カミュ＠うたわれるもの>>(Kamu@Utawarerumono)

G-05
<<レヴィ＠BLACK LAGOON The Second Barrage>>(Revy@BLACK LAGOON The Second Barrage)
<<柊杏璃＠はぴねす！>>(Hiiragi Anri@Happiness!)
<<倉田佐祐理＠Kanon>>(Kurata Sayuri@Kanon)

G-09
<<塚本八雲＠スクールランブル 二学期>>(Tsukamoto Yakumo@School Rumble Second Term)
<<あやね＠ながされて藍蘭島>>(Ayane@Nagasarete Airantou)
<<石月真名＠sola>>(Ishizuki Mana@sola)

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