Saimoe 2007

What is Saimoe excatly? Its a tournament held every year to figure out which female character is the most moe. There are 3 moe tournaments going on right now: Saimoe(Japan), Korean Saimoe, and Touhou Seimoe. Since I haven't introduced you guys to the Touhou series, I'll only post about Saimoe and K. Saimoe.

Saimoe 2007
Korean Saimoe
Touhou Seimoe

Saimoe is not a simple popularity poll. If it is so, it's easy; they only make a decent CGI site. The essence of Saimoe is to express your moe; voting is only of secondary importance, apart from the present situation of Saimoe. In the Leaf Key Saimoe which was the origin of Anime Saimoe there was an examination of moe comments. If the comment was judged to be inappropriate in the light of moe spirit by Saimoe staff, the vote was eliminated, needless to say the vote without comments. In this year's Saimoe there are quite a few people which bring the votes without moe comment into question. In fact the total votes count become 1/2~1/3 if the votes without comment are eliminated. So let's write your moe comment with your vote and make the atmosphere of Saimoe warm up!

-ando (AnimeSuki forum)

Saimoe brackets list + Part 2

Now if you look at the list, you would notice two things. One would be "WTF I don't know most of these anime!", and the second would be "Where the hell is Sakura, Orihime, *insert Naruto/Bleach female character here*!?"

To answer #1, the characters chosen to be in Saimoe must have their respective series/movie/OVA aired and/or released in Japan between July 1st 2006 and June 30th 2007. That means that most of the series there are pretty new. But wait a second.. Naruto and Bleach are still airing! Ill just go on and say that Naruto and Bleach has lost some popularity in Japan during the last year. To add to that, not many people find female characters from those series to be moe when compared to other characters such as Shana, Nanoha, Suiseiseki, Kagami, and others.

How to vote (Must have Japanese font enabled!!)
Voting on the K. Saimoe and Touhou Seimoe is pretty easy since all it requires at most is to pick a choice from a list and press vote. However, voting on Saimoe is a little bit more complicated.

Saimoe voting instructions - also found here with images (click on show to see picture tutorial)
1. First click on the 1st link you see in the Saimoe page.

2. Clicking you there would put you into a page with 4 links. In order to vote, you need to have a code. To get that code, click on the 3rd link.



3. Here is where it kinda gets confusing but Ill try my best to explain. Once you get to the page where you get your code, you'll see alot of confusing numbers. The only number you need to pay attention to is the bottom number. This number is the time when your supposed to refresh the page to get your code. To find out what time to refresh, subtract 1 hour from it.

Example: The bottom number says 7:58 so that means you need to refresh the page at 6:58 for the code.

4. Once you get your code. Copy the whole thing including the [[ ]]
Example code: [[AT0721-Lzyg8c6D-Qb]]

5. Now you need to go back to this page and click on the last link. This will lead you to multiple voting threads. Go to the most current thead with less than 1001 votes. While your at it, open the first link on the previous page in a new window/tab. This page contains the current characters available for voting.



6. Your almost done now! Go to the bottom of the voting thread where you would find three input boxes: Two small ones and 1 big box. Ignore the two small boxes and paste your code inside the big box. Now go to the character page which you previously opened up in a new window/tab, copy the character's name you want to vote for (<< >> included) and paste it in the box.

Important: Also post a comment along with your code + character! Your vote wont be counted if it doesnt have comments.



7. Click send, confirm your vote in the next page, and your done!


When looking at the instructions, it seems to be very complicated, but voting is actually easy once you do it. Its basically get code, find voting thread, post code + character in voting thread, click send, and done. The only thing that makes it complicated is the links and the waiting for code. Hopefully this would get you people to vote along.

This year's Saimoe had alot of upsets. The three most important ones I believe are:

Fate's (Nanoha) loss to Suigintou (Rozen Maiden) in Round 3 - If someone was to win this year's Saimoe, it was Fate or Kagami. Fate was on the lead for most of the time until Gin suddenly received a huge amount of votes in the last hour. This is the second time Fate lost to a Rozen after her loss to Suiseiseki in the 2006 Finals.

Kagami's (Lucky Star) loss to Rena (Higurashi) in Round 3 - this one is a very huge upset since many have already predicted that Kagami would win this year's Saimoe. Fake votes were considered the culprit for Kagami's loss since it led many to believe that Kagami was on the lead, although in truth it was Rena who was ahead.

Shana's (Shana) loss to Nagi (Hayate) in Block A Finals - this was interesting since Im a Shana fan myself. I thought that Shana's bento move on ep. 2 would have gotten her the victory over Nagi, but the Hayate faction didn't choke this time. At least Shana lost to Nagi and not to someone else.


Anyways heres today's matchup:
Saimoe Block F Finals: Suiseiseki (Rozen Maiden) vs Tsukasa Hiiragi (Lucky Star)
K. Saimoe Elite 8 Group 2: Suiseiseki (Rozen Maiden) vs Fate T. Harlaown (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)

Two matches involving "desu". I think that Fate will win on K. Saimoe for revenge on Saimoe 2006. On the other hand, Suiseiseki will advance to the Elite Eight in Saimoe 2007 unless enough Kagami supporters vote for the last Hiiragi sister remaining on Saimoe.