Best Anime of 2010: Tournament-style

[blkmage]

<23\Eva2.2222222222>

This is the reason I like Evangelion now.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

Abstaining. I really want to see Rebuild, but I have to get a copy of it first.

[TWWK]

I'm a pretty big Evangelion fan...but I'm gonna vote Working! here. I LOVED that show. It was funny, sweet and had some unique and fun characters. The setting was fun, each episode was better than the last, and it was completely new, unlike Eva.

Go Working!! Let's take down Goliath, people!

<29\Working!!>

[blkmage]

Working!!: 1
Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0: 4

Young boy, became a legend

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[SIZE="6"]Kuragehime vs. Shiki[/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Kuragehime (海月姫)[/SIZE]
KURARA
Rank: 4
Aired: Fall 2010
Studio: Brains Base
Director: Takahiro Omori
Cast: Hanazawa Kana, Saiga Mitsuki
Adaptation: Manga by Higashimura Akiko
[color="lime"]Voting Code: <4+Kuragehime>[/color]

[SIZE="4"]Shiki (屍鬼)[/SIZE]
They work just like in the movies
Rank: 8
Aired: Summer 2010
Studio: Daume
Director: Amino Tetsuro
Cast: Uchiyama Kouki, Ohkawa Toru, Okitsu Kazuyuki
Adaptation: Novel by Ono Fuyumi
[color="Lime"]Voting Code: <8+Shiki>[/color]

[color="Red"]Voting closes at 2300 EST.[/color]

[Atria35]

<4+Kuragehime>

Funny/sweet trap anime vs. badly-paced (though recently doing much better) vampire anime with strange hair?

It's a trap!

[Tancos]

<4+Kuragehime>

[MightiMidget]

I love them both, but....

<8+Shiki>

I love the trippy art, I love the music, I love the pacing, characters, everything about it. That plus I'm fairly sure it's going to lose so it needs at least one vote.

[Falx]

Didn't Working get two votes?

Anyway, abstaining from this, haven't seen either.

[ChristianKitsune]

<4+Kuragehime>
I'm voting for the Princess Jellyfish! It's a really refreshing anime, and very different from anything I've seen.

CLARA!

I haven't seen enough of Shiki to really adore it or hate it yet... I only got to like episode 7, but the art style just...really freaks me out! XD

[mechana2015]

<4+Kuragehime>

Wins, if only because the art style is consistent and enjoyable to look at.

[Fish and Chips]

<8+Shiki>

Gotta keep those vampires down man.

[blkmage]

Didn't Working get two votes?

Anyway, abstaining from this, haven't seen either.

The second vote came in after the deadline.

[MasterDias]

<8+Shiki>

It's actually pretty amusing that the two currently airing noitaminA shows wound up facing each other.

[blkmage]

<8+Shiki>

Both shows are good, but I'm kind of surprised that it's so close. I thought it would swing heavily towards one or the other.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

<4+Kuragehime> I haven't seen either yet, but Kuragehime is Brains Base, so I'll vote for it.

[blkmage]

Kuragehime: 5
Shiki: 4

No hipsters allowed.

***



[SIZE="6"]Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto vs. Bungaku Shoujo[/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (STAR DRIVER 輝きのタクト)[/SIZE]
Mecha-Utena
Rank: 11
Aired: Fall 2010
Studio: BONES
Director: Igarashi Takuya
Cast: Miyano Mamoru, Hayami Saori, Fukuyama Jun
Adaptation: Original by Enokido Yoji
[color="lime"]Voting Code: <11 StarDriver>[/color]

[SIZE="4"]Bungaku Shoujo (文学少女)[/SIZE]
Bibliophagy
Rank: 15
Aired: Spring 2010
Studio: Production I.G.
Director: Tada Shunsuke
Cast: Hanazawa Kana, Irino Miyu, Hirano Aya, Mizuki Nana
Adaptation: Light novel by Nomura Mizuki
[color="Lime"]Voting Code: <15 BungakuShoujo>[/color]

[color="Red"]Voting closes at 2300 EST.[/color]

[ChristianKitsune]

YAAAAY GO Jellyfish you're my underdog! :3

I'm voting for:
<11 StarDriver>
Because not only do I want to see this, but there is a fox in it....
/thread.

[Atria35]

I helped nominate it, and haven't seen the other, so

<15 BungakuShoujo>

[blkmage]

<11 StarDriver>

I really like Bungaku Shoujo. I like the concept and I liked the first volume. Heck, I even liked the OVAs and the movie. But that's only because I have the necessary grounding from reading the first novel. The story that's presented in the movie requires so much prior investment in the characters that it doesn't work as a standalone movie and that's where I think it fails.

Star Driver is something I've been pushing and praising since before the first episode. It's got the perfect storm of the right people working on it and so far it hasn't disappointed me. Maybe I am a bit too forgiving, but this thing is totally my cup of tea. It combines the best of various genres that I like, it breaks a bunch of tropes, and it also does something that not many shows do now, which is having an episode structure that it strictly adheres to.

A show like Durarara!! is all about what's going to happen and what the characters do. Because the plot and much of the mechanics of the world of Star Driver is so structured and almost predictable, it becomes a show about why these things happen.

[Falx]

<11 StarDriver>

While it isn't my cup of tea and I am actually no longer watching it, at least it didn't have characters that I outright despised.

[MightiMidget]

<11 StarDriver>

Haven't seen the other, but love SD. =)

[blkmage]

<11 StarDriver>

While it isn't my cup of tea and I am actually no longer watching it, at least it didn't have characters that I outright despised.

But you're supposed to despise Miu; they even got Hirano Aya to voice her, dohohohoho.

[MasterDias]

<11 StarDriver>

Star Driver is pretty good. Haven't seen Bungaku Shoujo.

[blkmage]

Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto: 5
Bungaku Shoujo: 1

Book Girl and the Galactic Pretty Boy

***

And there you have it, the first round is over. And here is your Round of 16:

Ties
Now that we have some datums, ties will no longer be broken immediately by the power of randomness. Instead, we'll be using total score differential from here on out. Unless, of course, that's also a tie.

Matchups
Randomness was just for seeding. They'll be heading down their respective brackets in the normal way. This also means that you can trace out possible future matchups and vote accordingly taking into account the above.

9 December: Sora no Woto vs. FMA: Brotherhood
10 December: Summer Wars vs. Katanagatari
11 December: Black Rock Shooter vs. Cross Game
12 December: Ookiku Furikabutte: Summer Tournament chapter vs. Tegami Bachi
13 December: Eve no Jikan vs. HEROMAN
14 December: The Tatami Galaxy vs. Tamayura
15 December: Durarara!! vs. Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0
16 December: Kuragehime vs. Star Driver

We'll be taking a break today. Voting for the next round will begin in approximately 24 hours.

[Atria35]

Oh, man. This is gonna have such hard matchups! I'm honestly torn on how I'm going to vote on some of them.

[Midori]

Oh I am so not looking forward to the day after tomorrow.

[Fish and Chips]

For those of you who prefer to think visually, here's something I whipped up in a couple minutes.

Translated some of the titles where applicable because I love you Blkmage. ♥♥♥

[Falx]

15th is going to be the hard one for me.

Everytime I make up my mind to vote for EVA 2.22 I think of a reason to vote for DRRR!! instead.

Garghlkglg

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

I think I'm going to have be hoping for Summer Wars to win this, though I doubt it can beat out Brotherhood. I don't think it's going to be hard for me until round 3, however.

[blkmage]

Round 2 begins.

[SIZE="6"]Sora no Woto vs. FMA: Brotherhood[/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Sora no Woto (ソ・ラ・ノ・ヲ・ト)[/SIZE]
"K-ON! with Guns"
Rank: 12
Aired: Winter 2010
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Director: Kanbe Mamoru
Cast: Aoi Yuuki, Endo Aya, Kitamura Eri, Kobayashi Yuu, Kanemoto Hisaka
Adaptation: Original work
Defeated: K-ON!!
[color="Lime"]Voting Code: <12~SoraNoWoto>[/color]

[SIZE="4"]FMA: Brotherhood (鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST)[/SIZE]
"Just like the manga"
Rank: 2
Aired: Spring 2009
Studio: BONES
Director: Irie Yasuhiro
Cast: Park Romi, Kugimiya Rie
Adaptation: Manga by Arakawa Hiromu
Defeated: House of Five Leaves
[color="lime"]Voting Code: <2;FMA:Brohood>[/color]

[color="Red"]Voting closes at 2300 EST.[/color]