2010-11-07, 11:01
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Don't kill me for this, Azunyan fans:
What allowed Azunyan to win Saimoe 2010? Sure, she's small and cuddly, I'll admit. My heart still melts every time I watch her and Azunyan-Mark2 yawn-together and the latter jumping in her lap and being petted. And Episode 9 of season 1 is still regularly played on my PSP to get the "Aww" feeling of her being hugged and having cat ears for the first time. But the criteria of "Saimoe" is "cuteness" right? If anything, Azunyan is an uptight and overly serious girl that is so eager to grow up that most of the time she can really come across as cold, crabby, grouchy, and much too mature to be truly "cute." Likable, yes. Small and Cuddly yes. Adorable.... maybe. She is just too cold, mature and serious to come across as someone who would win a contest for being sweet, innocent and endearing. 
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2010-11-07, 14:54
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Singapore
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Azusa's traits that you mention are the very traits that make me view her as moe. It's how she tries so hard to portray an image of maturity and seriousness but yet always succumbs to the band's antics and ends up dropping the facade. Yes, it's easy to label her as "cold, crabby, grouchy and much too mature", and I myself tend to hate the characters that are srs bsns all the time, but for Azusa, if you were to look beyond the veneer, you can see that deep inside she, just like the likes of Yui and Ritsu, is a typical teenager that wants nothing more than to have a fun time. The way she tries to manage between the two complete opposites of her image of maturity and the band's childishness is personally very endearing.
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2010-11-07, 20:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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Besides, Azusa is as much moe as any other character -- don't confuse "moe" with "cuteness" ... the emotion "moe" is much more complex than the observation "she's cute".
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2010-11-07, 22:05
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 43
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Maybe people just wanted to be able to say 'Yes We Nyan!', perhaps?
By the way, we have clubs on AS for Mugi and Mio, but I haven't seen one yet for Azu-nyan... (unless I missed it or something.)
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2010-11-07, 22:55
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 37
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Azusa tends towards the latter, in my opinion. She's a very serious person who has been thrown into a situation where she's essentially at the mercy of people who essentially do whatever the hell the want most of the time (Yui and Ritsu). The way she struggles with that isn't just cute, it's probably relateable to a lot of people who have been "the odd one out", so they really do feel for her. And as Zette points out, she also struggles with her own desire to loosen up. The fact she's a 150cm (4'11") Japanese schoolgirl who does her hair in twintails probably helps too. The only surprise of her Saimoe run to me was that she survived facing off with Mikoto and Mio. Normally, when two characters from the same show end up facing off in a 3+ character matchup in Saimoe, they need to come from a show much more popular than the shows the other characters come from. And Mikoto has a huge following because she's a Railgun character. But Azusa squeaked past because the K-On! faction put the vast, vast majority of their weight behind her rather than Mio - I can only assume someone tried to coordinate the vote somehow.
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2010-11-10, 16:19
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
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  and the only char's who I really remember is Hitagi/Kagami/Tsukusa since they have it on tanabata >.>.
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