International Saimoe League 2011

[KholdStare]

Oy, some people will be very disappointed. :P At least you'll see them in exhibition, maybe.

[Game8910]

Seeing how Lelouch is nowhere to be seen yet, i know for sure he is in the last batch

[Chiibi]

Originally Posted by wontaek

No, you can suggest in this thread or 2012 version of this thread, but if you do so, we recommend that you present us some strong verifiable reasons, if possible. For characters in currently running TVA, there won't likely be useful polls, so you can't help but say '*** is popular. May be we should have him/her.' and we would respect that, but for characters from series that aired in 2010 or before, you can easily find polls, sales numbers, awards, and other information to back up your claim that 'aaa has good recognition value/bbb should be made known to more people. aaa/bbb should be good candidates to be exhibitted.', so giving us those other information will increase chance for the character you recommend to be exhibited.

Okies.

Spoiler for Nonimation:

I nominate Takuto Kira from Full Moon Wo Sagashite (2002-03) on the grounds that he is the most moe bishi from a shoujo anime series ever, in my and many other peoples' opinions.
Popularity on MAL: http://myanimelist.net/character/1805/Takuto_Kira (443 adds on "favorites" lists. You only get ten favorite characters, so I'd consider that a little significant)
Fan club on MAL: Members: 136
Other polls: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/673...onpoll2009.jpg
Popularity on Anime Planet: http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/takuto-kira
Probably doesn't seem like enough but in the year 2002, before the manga had even ended, Takuto won Ribon magazine's character popularity poll with a whopping 1,394 votes! This poll was taken only in Japan. It is notable that this was the first time a love interest character's popularity beat the heroine's popularity in an Arina Tanemura series and it's unlikely for a Ribon magazine heroine to lose to another character in her own series at all...
This character, like his series is quite underrated, I feel, or most people have forgotten about him over the years but should he reappear in a saibish tournament, I think a lot of voters will go "OH YEAH, HIM!" and might vote for him.

[ppaaccoojrf]

Well, I'll be kind of disappointed if Aikawa Ayumu doesn't make it. He won an exhibition this year after all. And as I said earlier, Touma and/or Accelerator. Firo/Filo from Baccano! too.

And I don't personally mind, but I'd be surprised if there's no one to pierce the heavens, nor anyone to dazzle the stage.

[Ichuki]

I'm surprised Zoro or Luffy or Takakura Shouma or Goku/ Kakarot haven't appeared yet

[Chaos2Frozen]

Perhaps it's better to apply some kind of age restriction, like say shows up to two or three years ago Otherwise there's a long list of male characters to go through

(but in any case)

Spoiler:

Touma (Raildex), Accelerator (Raildex), Narumi (KamiMemo), Sugiseki (Seitokai), Toori (Horizon), Narukami (Persona4), Makoto (Denpa Onna), Haruaki (C3), Takanashi (Working), Yuji (Shana), Saito (ZnT), Ryner (DenYuuDen), Yuuno (Nanoha), Chrono (Nanoha), Oz (Pandora Hearts), Kiritsugu (Fate/Zero), Eitarou (Macademi Wasshoi), Alto (Macross Frontier), Ōka (Kyōran Kazoku Nikki), Nurarihyon (Nurarihyon)

...You know, off the top of my head

*cough*

[Chiibi]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Perhaps it's better to apply some kind of age restriction, like say shows up to two or three years ago

Nooooooooo some are so good the age shouldn't matter!!

Kinomoto Sakura's anime is from the 90s and she was still in ISML. Thus I don't think an age restriction should be applied to male characters if it wasn't applied to the female ones.

[ppaaccoojrf]

Oh my god, I forgot about Sugisaki. Him too. I'll be disappointed if he doesn't make it.

As for the currently airing shows, I did remember them but I don't see it happening. In any case, the ones I'd like to see are pretty much the ones you mentioned, plus Satou from Ben-To and Yamato from Majikoi!!. Maybe throw in Kanji from P4 too.

[Ithekro]

Top eight fom SaiGAR 2008 perhaps? The ones that never got to finish their fighting because it was cancelled?

[Sphire]

Originally Posted by KholdStare

Group 9
-Roy Mustang @ Fullmetal Alchemist
-Harima Kenji @ School Rumble
-Hijikata Tōshirō @ Gintama

!#@$@#
Harima!?!? This just got serious. Of course...looks like a tough group...

Didn't even think about him in.

[wontaek]

Originally Posted by Chiibi

Okies.

Spoiler for Nonimation:

I nominate Takuto Kira from Full Moon Wo Sagashite (2002-03) on the grounds that he is the most moe bishi from a shoujo anime series ever, in my and many other peoples' opinions.
Popularity on MAL: http://myanimelist.net/character/1805/Takuto_Kira (443 adds on "favorites" lists. You only get ten favorite characters, so I'd consider that a little significant)
Fan club on MAL: Members: 136
Other polls: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/673...onpoll2009.jpg
Popularity on Anime Planet: http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/takuto-kira
Probably doesn't seem like enough but in the year 2002, before the manga had even ended, Takuto won Ribon magazine's character popularity poll with a whopping 1,394 votes! This poll was taken only in Japan. It is notable that this was the first time a love interest character's popularity beat the heroine's popularity in an Arina Tanemura series and it's unlikely for a Ribon magazine heroine to lose to another character in her own series at all...
This character, like his series is quite underrated, I feel, or most people have forgotten about him over the years but should he reappear in a saibish tournament, I think a lot of voters will go "OH YEAH, HIM!" and might vote for him.

Nice post. Will keep Takuto in our mind.

[Chiibi]

Originally Posted by wontaek

Nice post. Will keep Takuto in our mind.

Thank you very much!

Top eight fom SaiGAR 2008 perhaps?

There was a SaiGAR tournament!? O.O

Kamina would have won that in five minutes.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Chiibi

Nooooooooo some are so good the age shouldn't matter!!

Kinomoto Sakura's anime is from the 90s and she was still in ISML. Thus I don't think an age restriction should be applied to male characters if it wasn't applied to the female ones.

Then I suggest a much, much longer list of contestants Especially if we're going to include some side characters into the mix

(Okay I'll admit, I'm only saying this because not all the characters I like made it yet )

Originally Posted by Chiibi

There was a SaiGAR tournament!? O.O

Kamina would have won that in five minutes.

The whole thing felt apart pretty quickly though, not sure of the details.

Hopefully this one would fare better and maybe even become a regular thingy.

[Ithekro]

Final 8 in SaiGAR 2008 were:

Claire Stanfield (Baccano!)
Medicine Seller (Mononoke)
Jeremiah (Orange) Gottwald (Code Geass)
Giovanni (Pokémon)
Lord Genome (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
Michishio Nagasumi (Seto no Hanayome)
Shark Fujishiro (Seto no Hanayome)
Hosaka (Minami-ke)

Kamina was defeated by Lord Genome in the group finals.
http://cjblackwing.wordpress.com/category/saigar/


If I recall the favorates by that point were Hosaka (as he was starting to take the place of Archer in context) and whoever won the fight between Lord Genome and Giovanni. Claire Stanfield had the most votes in the group finals after Hosaka, but it was a one-side (and heavily proxied) match against Rena Ryuguu. That was the last match of SaiGAR as the guy running it pulled the plug after that match.

[Sphire]

^Surprised seto no hanayome was up there. Damn those were the days

[Ithekro]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...ghlight=sAIgar

Has the local history of SaiGAR 2008
(the 2007 history is someplace)


The thing that is really missing that I can't find are the images of the brackets for both years.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Sphire

^Surprised seto no hanayome was up there. Damn those were the days

It's only been 3 years, but since then I've been following ALOT more shows with greater efficiency that it felt more like 6

[Soliloquy]

I cannot believe they forgot Guts or Himura Kenshin. Is there something I don't know about or have I just missed the name? Ironically when the OVA or something is coming soon for the show they are the main characters in. At the same time I'm pleasantly surprised Hosaka has the upper hands considering the competition here, I did not expect that.

[Sphire]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

It's only been 3 years, but since then I've been following ALOT more shows with greater efficiency that it felt more like 6

haha so true, so true.

[KholdStare]

Originally Posted by Soliloquy

I cannot believe they forgot Guts or Himura Kenshin. Is there something I don't know about or have I just missed the name? Ironically when the OVA or something is coming soon for the show they are the main characters in. At the same time I'm pleasantly surprised Hosaka has the upper hands considering the competition here, I did not expect that.

Be careful what you ask for...