Kai's Procrastination

Once again, I am feeling very lazy, and I'm doing this post instead of studying for my calculus test tomorrow! It's a very good feeling, you should try it sometime! I believe that the current undefeateds will remain undefeated, with the only match up I doubt being Saber vs Fuko. I'm pretty sure that will be close. Here are my votes for Round 5; once this round is finished, I shall predict the FINAL Core 16 (if I'm not feeling lazy =P)...

ARENA 01: Tōsaka Rin [Ikaros]

ARENA 02: Fujibayashi Kyō [Maria]

ARENA 03: [Sakurano Kurimu] Fujibayashi Ryō

ARENA 04: Sunohara Mei [Fate Testarossa]

ARENA 05: [Fukuji Mihoko] Nakano Azusa

ARENA 06: [Takamachi Nanoha] C.C.

ARENA 07: Furude Rika [Nagato Yuki]

ARENA 08: Hiiragi Kagami [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 09: Louise Vallière [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 10: [Shiina Minatsu] Ichinose Kotomi

ARENA 11: [Senjōgahara Hitagi] Hiiragi Tsukasa

ARENA 12: [Sanzen'in Nagi] Furude Hanyū

ARENA 13: [Akaba Chizuru] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 14: Suzumiya Haruhi [Abstained] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 15: [Aisaka Taiga] Saginomiya Isumi

ARENA 16: [Shana] Kawashima Ami

ARENA 17: [Asahina Mikuru] Katsura Hinagiku

ARENA 18: Ibuki Fūko [Saber]

ARENA 19: [Sengoku Nadeko] Haramura Nodoka

ARENA 20: [Misaka Mikoto] Kushieda Minori

ARENA 21: [Minami Chiaki] Izumi Konata

ARENA 22: Hirasawa Ui [Holo]

ARENA 23: Akiyama Mio [Illyasviel von Einzbern]

ARENA 24: [Konjiki no Yami] Sakagami Tomoyo

ARENA 25: Hirasawa Yui [Nymph]

ARENA 26: Maetel [Abstained] Nausicaä

Posted by Kairuz at 11:14 PM 0 comments  

The top 25 are looking pretty good. Mikoto is doing very well for her first ISML season and she's kept the 1st seed for two rounds already! Will she keep it a third time? She goes up against Konata this round, who is currently 12th seed. Mikoto seems to be getting a lot of votes for, and little votes against, which is a good thing. Other undefeated gals include Taiga, Yuki, Nadeko, Mio, Saber, Azusa, Shana, Hinagiku, and Kyo. Hinagiku still keeping her head up high, despite being the 9th place seed after Shana, who topped her in prelims. Shana, however, seems to get more votes for her than against her (a whopping +6697 difference compared to Hinagiku's +4279 difference), but that COULD be because of the easy pickings that she was match up with (I still think the Shana vs Fate match up was such a bad starter for Fate >_<). Anyways, a bit lazy to finish up this supposedly informative paragraph, and I have quite a bit of psychology homework so I'll post up my votes and call it a night.

I'll get to posting things OTHER than the ISML... whenever I feel like it. This is my procrastination, but you can help me do that for you as well! d(^_^)b

ARENA 01: Asahina Mikuru [Ikaros]

ARENA 02: Hirasawa Yui [Saber]

ARENA 03: [C.C.] Hiiragi Tsukasa

ARENA 04: Furukawa Nagisa [Abstained] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 05: [Aisaka Taiga] Nakano Azusa

ARENA 06: Akiyama Mio [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 07: Holo [Shana]

ARENA 08: Maria [Konjiki no Yami]

ARENA 09: [Fukuji Mihoko] Saginomiya Isumi

ARENA 10: Nagato Yuki [Sakurano Kurimu]

ARENA 11: Suzumiya Haruhi [Fate Testarossa]

ARENA 12: Fujibayashi Kyō [Abstained] Sakagami Tomoyo

ARENA 13: Louise Vallière [Takamachi Nanoha]

ARENA 14: Hiiragi Kagami [Sanzen'in Nagi]

ARENA 15: Sunohara Mei [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 16: Senjōgahara Hitagi [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 17: Kawashima Ami [Minami Chiaki]

ARENA 18: Ichinose Kotomi [Furude Hanyū]

ARENA 19: [Tōsaka Rin] Katsura Hinagiku

ARENA 20: Haramura Nodoka [Kushieda Minori]

ARENA 21: [Furude Rika] Fujibayashi Ryō

ARENA 22: Hirasawa Ui [Illyasviel von Einzbern]

ARENA 23: [Akaba Chizuru] Saten Ruiko

ARENA 24: Ibuki Fūko [Nymph]

ARENA 25: [Misaka Mikoto] Izumi Konata

ARENA 26: Tabitha [Hecate]

Posted by Kairuz at 8:40 PM 0 comments  

Yes folks, I did it. I ABSTAINED on some match ups. Go cry me a river. I know why I did it for Mio vs Ui (Down with K-ON!). For the other match ups... I really had no idea who to vote for, and I have some faves for this necklace so why not stop my non-faves from getting points? I'm devilish like that. Too lazy to write descriptions, but the exhibition was one that I could actually vote for!

ARENA 01: Sunohara Mei [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 02: Fukuji Mihoko [Aisaka Taiga]

ARENA 03: Maria [Sakagami Tomoyo]

ARENA 04: Haramura Nodoka [Shana]

ARENA 05: Kawashima Ami [Holo]

ARENA 06: [Tōsaka Rin] Asahina Mikuru

ARENA 07: [Nagato Yuki] Fujibayashi Ryō

ARENA 08: Izumi Konata [Illyasviel von Einzbern]

ARENA 09: [Sengoku Nadeko] Kushieda Minori

ARENA 10: [Saber] Nymph

ARENA 11: Hiiragi Tsukasa [Abstained] Louise Vallière

ARENA 12: Ichinose Kotomi [Abstained] Sanzen'in Nagi

ARENA 13: [Saginomiya Isumi] Nakano Azusa

ARENA 14: Minami Chiaki [Misaka Mikoto]

ARENA 15: Hirasawa Yui [Ibuki Fūko]

ARENA 16: Akiyama Mio [Abstained] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 17: [Ikaros] Katsura Hinagiku

ARENA 18: Fujibayashi Kyō [Abstained] Konjiki no Yami

ARENA 19: [Furude Hanyū] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 20: [Takamachi Nanoha] Senjōgahara Hitagi

ARENA 21: Furude Rika [Sakurano Kurimu]

ARENA 22: [Shiina Mafuyu] C.C.

ARENA 23: Hiiragi Kagami [Akaba Chizuru]

ARENA 24: Fate Testarossa [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 25: [Furukawa Nagisa] Suzumiya Haruhi

ARENA 26: Excel [Niche]

Posted by Kairuz at 10:04 PM 0 comments  

These... were... AMAZING match ups. Some of the match ups were just plain obliteration, very much expected winners; some were VERY close, and I must commend the characters for being popular/appealing to the voters. Here are some matches that I deem noteworthy:

Misaka Mikoto vs Saten Ruiko
Mikoto kicked some butt this round! Tripling her opponent's votes is a tall feat, and the 3494 votes she received bumped her up to 1st place this week! We may see her do well on her premiere season!

Aisaka Taiga vs Louise Valliere
Speaking of kicking butt, Taiga did too! She doubled Louise's votes, effectively pushing Taiga to SECOND PLACE. That is something, but wait until you see...

Fate Testarossa vs Kawashima Ami
Fate did awesome this round. After a rough defeat against Shana in the first round that left her in last place, Fate came back with 2927 to 2156, a nice 800 vote cushion. This win gave Fate the Place Jump of the Round award, pushing her 29 places into 21st place.

Takamachi Nanoha vs Fujibayashi Ryo
This was a very close match. I was rooting for Nanoha in particular, but both girls are very popular. The White Devil wins by around 300 votes, bumping her 12 spots to 23rd place, dropping Ryo from 4th place to 32nd place.

Koniji no Yami vs Katsura Hinagiku
The current wearer of the Heavenly Tiara showed why she won the title this round against her opponent, doubling Yami's votes 3369 to 1545. Hinagiku keeps her 8th place spot with this win.

Other noteworthy match ups that I'm too lazy to type a short description about include:

• Hirasawa Yui (2412) vs Sengoku Nadeko (2677) [Close match up!]
  
• Holo (2479) vs Nakano Azusa (2623) [Another close match up]
  
• Sunohara Mei (1498) vs Shana (3701) [Shana won but dropped down to 6th place =O]

Posted by Kairuz at 10:22 PM 0 comments  

The first round is now over, and in the core for the Aquamarine necklace is as follows:

1. Shana (Shana) [Fated to win? We shall see!]
   
2. Ui (K-ON!) [Uh, how?]
   
3. Ilya (Fate/Stay Night) [Yay~!]
   
4. Ryou (CLANNAD) [Twas expected of the twins...]
   
5. Kyou (CLANNAD)
   
6. Mio (K-ON!) [Eh, she's popular...]
   
7. Mikoto (Railgun)
   
8. Hinagiku (Hayate no Gotoku) [Comeback? We'll see.]
   
9. Azusa (K-ON!) [The nyan is too much...]
   
10. Taiga (Toradora) [The tsundere is doing well!]
    
11. Yuki (Haruhi) [A bit lacking, but still up there.]
    
12. Minori (Toradora)
    
13. Ruiko (Railgun) [Wish she were higher up.]
    
14. Nadeko (Bakemono) [Doing better than Hitagi.]
    
15. Mikuru (Haruhi) [Will it last?]
    
16. Kurimu (Seitokai no Ichizon) [The cute president will go places, just watch.]
    

• Fuuko (CLANNAD)
• Holo (Spice and Wolf)
• Rin (Fate/Stay Night)
• Konata(Lucky Star) [GAG...]
• Yui (K-ON!) [How? She doesn't have the appeal of the others!]
• Louise (Zero no Tsukaima)
  
• Ami (Toradora)
  
• Saber (Fate/Stay Night) [She could be higher!]
  
• Nymph (Sora no Otoshimono) [Doing better than her counterpart Ikaros.]
  

Posted by Kairuz at 9:34 PM 0 comments  

Hello there again. For those who care, ISML has launched their first round of the Aquamarine Period! It's just the first round and there's already a few hard match ups, the first being...

Shana vs Fate Testarossa
I had trouble with this match up, considering they're both two very popular girls and I do like them both... Shana has an awesome regular season record but Fate has had the Tiara before; the question now is will Shana's success continue in this year's ISML or will Fate receive her second Tiara this year?

Sakurano Kurimu vs Takamachi Nanoha
Ah, the white devil against the recently released cute-girl-that-never-gets-anything-done (imo). Kurimu and a few of her office mates, including the Shiina twins, made it into the regular season. They want to make their name known around and the best way to start is to have their student body president win a few matches. However, the little president is up against a veteran who knows how things work, winning Saimoe in 2005. Nanoha's back to possibly retrieve the Aquamarine necklace from the current holder of the necklace, Sakagami Tomoyo, who she lost to in the previous season's Aquamarine Period, leaving the necklace far out of reach.

Sakagami Tomoyo vs Katsura Hinagiku
Speaking of Sakagami Tomoyo, she comes in with a bunch of her schoolmates from the qualifiers, as they did in the previous season. However, Tomoyo arrives this season to defend her Aquamarine necklace, but not without resistance. Katsura Hinagiku, winner of the Tiara from last year, is back to defend her title as champion. These two have had quite a history from the last two seasons, with Tomoyo beating Hinagiku twice in 2008, while Hinagiku returns the favor in 2009. Will they meet again once more, if not multiple times?

Other brackets of interest include:
Fujibayashi Kyo (both Fujibayashi twins made it through) vs Ikaros (did VERY well in the qualifiers, could lead to some upsets)
Shiina Mafuyu vs Aisaka Taiga (only because I think both of them are cute in their own ways)
C.C. vs Hirasawa Yui (two very popular girls, I believe it could go either way)
Suzumiya Haruhi vs Saber (another set of very popular girls)
Hirasawa Ui vs Fukuji Mihoko (CLANNAD, a well known anime, vs Saki, a less well known anime; I'm interested to see how Saki does with Mihoko and Nodoka in the regular season)
Nakano Azusa vs Ichinose Kotomi (yet ANOTHER set of very popular girls)

Many K-ON!, CLANNAD, and Lucky Star candidates made it through, and in my opinion, K-ON! and Lucky Star shouldn't have had too many candidates go through. Clannad was a very good anime, but it's quite popular and has quite a few candidates as well. And as much as I like it, I'm against voting for characters that will most likely win. Here are my votes (Note: Arena 26 was an exhibition match. I did NOT know where those two came from.) :

ARENA 01: [Shana] Fate Testarossa

ARENA 02: Fujibayashi Kyō [Ikaros]

ARENA 03: [Shiina Minatsu] Holo

ARENA 04: Sakurano Kurimu [Takamachi Nanoha]

ARENA 05: Asahina Mikuru [Konjiki no Yami]

ARENA 06: Shiina Mafuyu [Aisaka Taiga]

ARENA 07: [Sakagami Tomoyo] Katsura Hinagiku

ARENA 08: [Tōsaka Rin] Maria

ARENA 09: Izumi Konata [Akaba Chizuru]

ARENA 10: [C.C.] Hirasawa Yui

ARENA 11: Nagato Yuki [Senjōgahara Hitagi]

ARENA 12: Akiyama Mio [Sanzen'in Nagi]

ARENA 13: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Furude Hanyū

ARENA 14: Suzumiya Haruhi [Saber]

ARENA 15: [Haramura Nodoka] Fujibayashi Ryō

ARENA 16: [Kushieda Minori] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 17: [Sengoku Nadeko] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 18: Hirasawa Ui [Fukuji Mihoko]

ARENA 19: Hiiragi Tsukasa [Ibuki Fūko]

ARENA 20: [Nymph] Minami Chiaki

ARENA 21: Furude Rika [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 22: Nakano Azusa [Ichinose Kotomi]

ARENA 23: [Misaka Mikoto] Hiiragi Kagami

ARENA 24: Kawashima Ami [Sunohara Mei]

ARENA 25: Saginomiya Isumi [Louise Vallière]

ARENA 26: [Akeno Mihoshi] Noda Megumi

Where are your votes? =P

Posted by Kairuz at 9:52 AM 0 comments  

And the final list is out! There are some interesting candidates this time around, from popular anime to some lesser ones. Fate Testarossa and Katsura Hinagiku, previous winners of the Heavenly Tiara, come back to fight for the Tiara again. Many contestants from K-ON! and Clannad made it through (Azusa, Mio, the Fujibayashi sisters, Nagisa), while some contestants were the only ones who made it from their anime, like Holo from Spice and Wolf, Konjiki no Yami from To-Love Ru, and Louise Vallière from Zero no Tsukaima. I'm actually glad a few of these lesser known characters made it from these anime and that not too many popular ones made it through. A few candidates from recently released anime from the past year made it through as well, such as those from Saki, Sora no Otoshimono, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, and Seitokai no Ichizon.

In my opinion I really want someone other than Hinagiku to win this year. It would be awesome to have someone from an anime that was released this past year to win the Tiara, but the world is pretty picky in terms of anime, mostly aiming for the really popular ones. I'm really rooting for the underdogs, as I seem to almost always root for the underdog on pretty much everything I vote for. Good luck to all candidates!

By the way, sorry if the picture is small, only one I could find, haha. ^_^"

Posted by Kairuz at 12:45 AM 0 comments  

AHHH. This was almost impossible for me to vote for. So many candidates that I wanted to go through, but this is looking to be exciting. There will undoubtedly be a few upsets, a few that I'm hoping will happen, haha! Here are my votes for this last voting period of Phase III:

ARENA 01: Amae Koromo [Ikaros] Katagiri Yūhi Kotegawa Yui Nishizawa Ayumu Shirai Kuroko Sōseiseki

ARENA 02: Hanato Kobato Hinamori Amu Hirasawa Ui Index L. Prohibitorum Sawatari Makoto [Sonozaki Mion] Suigintou

ARENA 03: Enma Ai Kinomoto Sakura Kurata Sayuri Nymph [Suiseiseki ] Uiharu Kazari Yūki Mikan

ARENA 04: [Alice] Amamiya Yūko Konjiki no Yami Ryūgū Rena Sangō Shizuku Segawa Izumi Tainaka Ritsu

ARENA 05: [Chii] Evangeline A.K. McDowell Fujibayashi Ryō Kawasumi Mai Nogizaka Haruka Shinku Yagami Hayate

ARENA 06: Aizawa Sakuya Kotobuki Tsumugi Louise Vallière Minase Nayuki Ryōgi Shiki [Sonozaki Shion] Tsuruya

ARENA 07: Fate Testarossa Holo Nakano Azusa Sanzen'in Nagi Sengoku Nadeko [Senjōgahara Hitagi] Tōsaka Rin

ARENA 08: Akaba Chizuru Asahina Mikuru Furude Rika [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Saten Ruiko Sunohara Mei Takamachi Nanoha


...And that's it for my votes in the ISML! Aquamarine Period - Round 1 will begin at 1500 GMT, Sunday, 21 March 2009

Posted by Kairuz at 7:53 PM 0 comments  

Finally, a new post! Haha, it's been a while, been updating this blog with non-interesting stuff, but here's a new post at last!

Posted by Kairuz at 6:34 PM 0 comments  

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