Saimoe 2013
The Anime Saimoe Tournament is an annual contest held by 2ch to determine the most moe girl of the year. The tournament is not meant to directly measure popularity (despite common misconceptions) but rather focuses on each character's moe appeal, and is intended to be a festival in which fans can promote shows, characters, artwork, and other material they enjoyed. After Mami Tomoe's victory in 2011, the Madoka Magica cast returns to participate in the 2013 tournament.
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Current Match
Group B (8/27): Homura Akemi vs. Asuka Langley Shikinami (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Nanoha Takamachi (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
Round 1: Upcoming Matches
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Main Tournament
The 288 characters that passed the preliminaries were divided into eight groups and brackets for main tournament through a random draw, which took place shortly after the end of the last preliminary round. The winner of each group advances to the finals.
This year, the 32 characters who came second in a match against a Group Winner are shuffled into the Losers Block. The 8 winners of this block compete with the winners of each regular group in the finals.
Round 1
Group A (08/24):
- 214 votes (50.47%) - Mami Tomoe
- 42 votes (9.91%) - Wakaba Saegusa (Vividred Operation)
- 168 votes (39.62%) - Koneko Toujou (High School DxD)
Preliminaries
The preliminaries consist of several rounds in which large groups of characters are voted on at once. Each voter can vote for up to 10 characters per round. The 14 highest scoring characters advance to the main tournament, and the remainder of the top 40 get another chance to qualify through the second set of preliminary rounds. In the second preliminary round, the characters who are in the top 16 of their respective groups advance to the main tournament. Everybody else is eliminated.
Characters qualified for the main tournament:
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| Group 8 | Group 11 | Group 15 | ||||||
| 1st | 219 |  Homura Akemi
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1st | 205 |  Sayaka Miki
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1st | 209 |  Madoka Kaname
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| 3rd | 202 |  Kyoko Sakura
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2nd | 206 |  Mami Tomoe
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Characters eliminated from the tournament:
- Junko Kaname (Group 10: 38th Place; Second Preliminary Group 3: 85th Place)
- Charlotte (Group 15: 21st Place; Second Preliminary Group 1: 54th Place)
- Walpurgis Night (Group 15: 40th Place; Second Preliminary Group 4: 100th Place)
- Kazuko Saotome (Group 10: 44th Place)
- Hitomi Shizuki (Group 6: 28th Place; Second Preliminary Group 3: 37th Place)
How to vote
See Anime Saimoe's Voting Guide for detailed instructions.