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.
Finals
The eight group winners and the eight repechage winners face each other in single elimination playoffs determined by a new random draw.
Championship Match
23/11 EST
Madoka Kaname 
Sayaka Miki
Semifinal
Semifinal 1 (20/11)
- 116 votes - Kyoko Sakura - Eliminated
- 191 votes - Madoka Kaname
Semifinal 2 (21/11)
- 164 votes - Main Character (Mankind has Declined) - Eliminated
- 256 votes - Sayaka Miki
Two Madoka character survived the semifinals: Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki.
Quarterfinals
Quaterfinal 1 (15/11)
- 182 votes - Kyoko Sakura
- 86 votes - Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi (Henneko) - Eliminated
Quaterfinal 2 (16/11)
- 272 votes - Madoka Kaname
- 250 votes - Kuroneko (Oreimo) - Eliminated
Quaterfinal 4 (18/11)
- 162 votes - Mami Tomoe - Eliminated
- 256 votes - Sayaka Miki
Three Madoka character survived quaterfinals: Kyoko Sakura, Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki
Last 16
16-1 (06/11)
- 185 votes - Kyoko Sakura
- 125 votes - Sawa Okita (TARI TARI) - Eliminated
16-3 (08/11)
- 272 votes - Madoka Kaname
- 145 votes - Ayase Aragaki (Oreimo) - Eliminated
16-7 (13/11)
- 250 votes - Mami Tomoe
- 141 votes - Miho Nishizumi (Girls und Panzer)- Eliminated
16-8 (14/11)
- 187 votes - Sayaka Miki
- 82 votes - Yoshino (Date a Live) - Eliminated
Four Madoka characters survived Round of 16: Madoka Kaname, Kyoko Sakura, Mami Tomoe, and Sayaka Miki
Playoffs
Before the finals, there was a repechage round. At the end, Madoka Kaname win this round and clasified to the final rounds.
Round 1
- 88 votes (30.77%) - Akana Akaza (Yuru Yuri!) - Eliminated
- 198 votes (69.23%) - Madoka Kaname
Round 2
- 192 votes (67.37%) - Madoka Kaname
- 93 votes (32.63%) - Kuroko Shirai (To Aru Kagaku No Railgun) - Eliminated
Final Round
- 251 votes (65.23%) - Madoka Kaname
- 139 votes (35.64%) - Eru Chitanda (Hyouka) - Eliminated
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)
Group B (08/27):
- 293 votes (50.34%) - Homura Akemi
- 20 votes (3.44%) - Asuka Langley Shikinami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- 269 votes (46.22%) - Nanoha Takamachi (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
Group B (08/28):
- 207 votes (41.99%) - Yukari Akiyama (Girls Und Panzer)
- 249 votes (50.51%) - Madoka Kaname
- 37 votes (7.51%) - Taeko Hiramatsu (Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka?)
Group C (09/01):
- 69 votes - Chiaki Minami (Minami-ke) - Eliminated
- 168 votes - Aoi Futaba (Vividred Operation) - Eliminated
- 205 votes - Kyoko Sakura
Group H (09/18)
- 235 votes - Sayaka Miki
- 52 votes - Anastasia Nasuhara (Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai Yo Ne!) - Eliminated
- 104 votes - Haruka Minami (Minami-ke) - Eliminated
Five Madoka characters survived Round 1: Madoka Kaname, Homura Akemi, Sayaka Miki, Mami Tomoe, and Kyoko Sakura.
Round 2
Group A (09/20)
- 103 votes - Iwai Mushanokouji (Dansai Bunri No Crime Edge) - Eliminated
- 526 votes - Mami Tomoe
- 374 votes - Yozora Mikazuki (Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai) - Eliminated
Group B (09/22):
- 438 votes - Ayase Aragaki (Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai)
- 201 votes - Homura Akemi - Eliminated
- 413 votes - Madoka Kaname - Eliminated
Group C (09/28):
- 155 votes - Mihoko Fukuji (-Saki-) - Eliminated
- 107 votes - Tsukihi Araragi - Eliminated
- 362 votes - Kyoko Sakura
Group H (10/01)
- 281 votes - Sayaka Miki
- 189 votes - Teru Miyanaga (-Saki-) - Eliminated
- 106 votes - Airi Kashii (Ro-Kyu-Bu!) - Eliminated
Three Madoka characters survived Round 2: Sayaka Miki, Mami Tomoe, and Kyoko Sakura.
Round 3
Group A (10/05):
- 673 votes - Mami Tomoe
- 589 votes - Yuu Matsumi (-Saki-) - Eliminated
Group C (10/08):
- 429 votes - Kyoko Sakura
- 298 votes - Rikka Takanashi (Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!) - Eliminated
Group H (10/12):
- 309 votes - Sayaka Miki
- 140 votes - Shirai Kuroko (To Aru Kagaku No Railgun S) - Eliminated
Three Madoka characters survived Round 3: Mami Tomoe, Kyoko Sakura, and Sayaka Miki.
Group Finals
Group A (10/14):
- 503 votes - Mami Tomoe
- 230 votes - Toki Onjouji (-Saki-) - Eliminated
Group C (10/14):
- 491 votes - Kyoko Sakura
- 220 votes - Azusa Azuki (Henneko) - Eliminated
Group H (10/17):
- 280 votes - Sayaka Miki
- 183 votes - Eru Chitanda (Hyouka) - Eliminated
Three Madoka characters survived to the quarter finals: Mami Tomoe, Kyoko Sakura, and Sayaka Miki.
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:
| First Preliminaries | ||||||||
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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.