Thursday, December 10, 2009

Merry Chirstmas - see you later all!



Merry Christmas all. Unfortunately, I chose a bad time to state this now - but I'm shutting down the blog due to inactivity for now. Well, not completely shutting down - only that the blog will not be updated with any new posts for probably awhile. Heck, this post took two months.

When I finally get my head back together to put together some new blog posts, the site will be active again.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Taiga wins Saimoe



Congratulations to Taiga Aisaka for winning Saimoe. She is the first champion ever to complete the "MTmoe" Triple Crown of the MegaTokyo Anime Grand Prix, the Korean Best Moe (this link will probably change), and the crown jewel - Saimoe. This will probably be a feat that will never be repeated, quite frankly.

Also, Omedetou to Rie Kugimiya. It's been a long long time coming for her to finally get a character to the top - especially after what happened two years ago when Nagi came oh so close to winning it all.

AGP will be in half a year, and the early Saimoe winner predicting can begin once again.

Monday, October 05, 2009

SaiMoe 2009 - Countdown to One



I won't be posting on the blog for awhile. Instead, I'll continue to give match analysis over on the MegaTokyo forums. So instead, I'll be leaving this image above for those who want to track the SaiMoe 2009 results. The above image is updated by Aya Reiko - a forum member (moderator?) over at the AnimeSuki forums.

Now, off to do other things...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

About Saki in Saimoe...




Saki is still in line to have 6 out of 8 characters in the top 8 but...

To quickly quote myself from the MT forums:
Saki has 6 characters who could end up Top 8 still (which would obviously be a Saimoe record). However, some of the matches don't really favor them anymore and there are no double votes to help them from this point forward. You really have to give it that "Any Given Sunday" attitude to each match.

And these matches are not easy for most of them - Today's match is probably the 2nd easiest to win for the Saki faction, quite honestly.

Kana vs Isumi does not favor Kana. This is practically the test match to the major Nodoka v Nagi match later on.

Momoko has to go against Louise - a perennial threat every year to win and has a bit of that "Suiseisuki" hate-love factor going on.

Koromo draws Amu-chi - and Shugo Chara's recent Season 2 ending is going to give Amu a big boost (she had her best cheer-up monologue of the series in the last episode, IMO) while Koromo was not really featured at the end of Saki.

Lastly, Nodocchi has to face Nagi who just knocked out Saki two days ago. I'm sure more then anything the Hayate faction would love to shift the balance of power to their favor by knocking out Saki's strongest character in the tournament.

The only match where a Saki character is expected to outright win is when KYAPTEN goes off to obliterate poor Eruruu out of the tournament forever after her usefulness of kicking out both Haruhi characters is gone.

This oesn't mean that 6 out of 8 characters will come out of one series is impossible - but the odds of that happening are very slim. I would believe at most 4 end up in the top 8.


Also a quick mention here - Rie Kugimiya still have 4 characters in the tournament (none of them got eliminated last round.) It could be possible that we could see all four go on to the top 8 - and depending on how the match pairings come out when the top 8 face off - we could see a top 4 all KugiRie final four. Which IMO would be a amazing feat were it to actually happen.

And also - Hayate despite losing a number of people last round including one of its strongest in Hinagiku - is still a threat out there that needs to be looked out for.

SaiMoe 2009 Sweet Sixteen

We've finally reached the 2009 SaiMoe block finals. Here is a quick analysis of each match - and picks.

Introducing your top 16 girls of anime for the past year in Japan:










There isn't a order to the madness yet, but as we get closer to that final match date of October 17th, we'll know who is at the top and who is just mid-tier.