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2012-11-04, 19:08 | Link #22 |
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Functionally, Taiga is the only one would it presently viable as all she needs to do is win ISML. While competition is tough there, it is the venue for older series to keep making their make. Best Moe and Saimoe are only the previous year, and unless the older series has a sequel, and remake, a movie, or OVA, they won't be back.
Unless Suiseiseki makes a major comback in ISML that is.
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2012-11-06, 00:38 | Link #23 |
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Does the J-Saimoe controversy have to do with nullifying foreign votes after Sanzenin Nagi's loss to Kanade a few years back? If that's so then I don't really see anything wrong with it if it was always meant to be a tournament exclusively for Japanese voters. Whether or not the voter base is sustainable at its current size is of course a different issue to consider.
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2012-11-06, 02:39 | Link #24 | |
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By controversy, do you mean the current voter loss crisis being faced by the original AST? I don't remember an instance where foreign votes were nullified - because foreign votes were already practically impossible to do after 2010. Before that, foreign votes were still being counted normally as regular votes. As for the topic, as I mentioned before this crisis being faced by the AST is another threat to the existence of the unofficial Triple Crown of Moe. Only ISML is still in good shape, and even then it may have already peaked in popularity, as mentioned by KholdStare.
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2012-11-06, 04:34 | Link #26 | |
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I remember there was a bit of complaint about that result because apparently the Japanese voters preferred Nagi but the foreign votes swung in favour of Rika. |
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These challenges faced by AST certainly promise a rocky future for the Triple Crown of Moe... provided KBM doesn't stop being a tournament first.
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2012-11-06, 09:42 | Link #28 |
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It's not like J-Saimoe can not survive without gaijin vote.
Suiseiseki,Hinagiku, Taiga, Mio are the only one who have won more than 1 Moe Crown. Hinagiku got troll in J-Saimoe every year even when gaijin still allow to vote. Mio and K-On seems to be done with J-Saimoe unless there's new season. Taiga has the best chance but with new anime and characters appear every year, the competition for ISML is getting tougher. Is Rozen Maiden Traumend the last Rozen Maiden season? Even if new season of Rozen Maiden come out, I still root that Junk Suigntou. Last edited by Archaeon; 2012-11-06 at 10:00. |
2012-11-06, 09:43 | Link #29 | |
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2012-11-06, 15:35 | Link #30 | |
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Anyway there are signs that she cheated in at least two rounds. |
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2012-11-06, 17:19 | Link #31 |
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I for one would love for Rozen Maiden to have another season (not just an OVA). I hear there are loads of material to animate. It's a shame, since bringing back Rozen Maiden would make saimoe...more interesting, to say the least. Plus, I really liked its story, and Traumend left us with a huge cliffhanger.
J-Saimoe can definitely survive without foreign influence, but the previous two years have been...weird. Both times it came down to one series dominating the Top 8, and the finale being same series. If this keeps up, regardless of what series actually dominates, then I don't know if the faction voting would be considered too extreme for even the most loyal AST followers. However, the more important thing is that AST shows that a sequel can put a series back in contention, and emerge with a winner. That, I guess, is sort of important to the triple crown, because it widens the pool of possibilities on the AST side.
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2012-11-21, 09:57 | Link #37 | |
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And the real boost from the new series wouldn't necessarily help for earlier phases of ISML. (See Karen and Tsukihi failing to make it before Nise could boost them).
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2012-11-21, 10:51 | Link #38 | |
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Saimoe is a shell of what it used to be with the omission of foreign voting. Whatever "hype" that went around it in the past -- gone. What could have been treated as some big "online festival" is reduced to some kind of insider cult group.
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