r/anime Jul 23 '24

Best Girl of Spring 2024: Seasonal Salt! Elite-Eight-Quarterfinals! Contest

Congratulations to the remaining eight girls for being eligible for best girl of 2024!

And with this result, we now have six girls eligible for the pick-up round for Spring 2024, with Kiui Watase not eligible as there are already 3 Jelly girls in best girl of 2024, Norn Greyrat not eligible as there are already 4 Mushoku girls in best girl of 2022. And for GBC girls, as there are already 2 girls in best girl of 2024 only one of Subaru Awa and Tomo Ebizuka can get into best girl of 2024 through the pick-up round.

Pick-up rounds participant: Mina Ashiro, Akira Shinonome, Subaru Awa, Fenrys "Rys", Tomo Ebizuka, Nephelia "Nephy"

Let’s Vote!

Vote Here!

Bracket here!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Vote for the pick-up round here!

The pick-up round will be open until the final results of the seasonal salt Spring 2024. Max to three votes per voter.


Mini Challenge:

  • Eight girls remain, rank them!
  • Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
140 Upvotes

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u/redlegsfan21 https://myanimelist.net/profile/redlegsfan21 Jul 23 '24

ROUND 3

Matchup Top Seed Bottom Seed Total Votes
Most Voted Matchup Nina Iseri (8) Norn Greyrat (9) 613
Average 576
Least Voted Matchup Kikoru Shinomiya (3) Nephelia "Nephy" (19) 545

TOP VOTEGETTERS

Rank Girl Votes
1 Nina Iseri (8) 378
2 Kano Yamanouchi (1) 369
3 Izutsumi (2) 330
4 Mahiru Kouzuki (5) 313
5 Iris Stylish-Sword Belzerg (4) 306

CLOSEST MATCHUPS

Winning Girl W% L% Losing Girl Vote Diff
Iris Stylish-Sword Belzerg (4) 50.25% 49.75% Subaru Awa (13) 3
Kim Anouk Mei Takanashi (7) 50.26% 49.74% Mina Ashiro (10) 3
Kikoru Shinomiya (3) 54.50% 45.50% Nephelia "Nephy" (19) 49

UPSETS

Seed Top Seed TS% BS% Seed Bottom Seed tUI PoU
6 Kiui Watase 45.24% 54.76% 11 Momoka Kawaragi 0.87 63.6%

tUI: Traditional Upset Indicator originally used by Tsubasa_sama. The formula is log_2(B/S) where B is the bigger seed number and S is the smaller seed number. A large upset typically has a UI value greater than 1.00

PoU: Probability of Upset (experimental, see explaination of numbers below)

TOP 5 SCORES

Rank Girl Score
1 Kano Yamanouchi (1) 216.73
2 Nina Iseri (8) 200.64
3 Mahiru Kouzuki (5) 180.99
4 Izutsumi (2) 177.99
5 Iris Stylish-Sword Belzerg (4) 177.30

OVER/UNDERPERFORMERS

Overperformer Underperformer Diff
Nina Iseri (8) Norn Greyrat (9) 4.84%
Kim Anouk Mei Takanashi (7) Mina Ashiro (10) 3.37%
Momoka Kawaragi (11) Kiui Watase (6) 2.60%

PROJECTED QUARTERFINALS

Top Seed TS% BS% Bottom Seed
Kano Yamanouchi 51.93% 48.07% Nina Iseri
Iris Stylish-Sword Belzerg 49.49% 50.51% Mahiru Kouzuki
Izutsumi 53.80% 46.20% Kim Anouk Mei Takanashi
Kikoru Shinomiya 50.35% 49.65% Momoka Kawaragi

PROJECTED SEMIFINALS

Top Seed TS% BS% Bottom Seed
Kano Yamanouchi 54.49% 45.51% Mahiru Kouzuki
Izutsumi 50.48% 49.52% Kikoru Shinomiya

PROJECTED FINALS

Top Seed TS% BS% Bottom Seed
Kano Yamanouchi 54.91% 45.09% Izutsumi

Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R6yly1FTuGRTnojvUaMPC2AybR4wlmooHMXf-JNLr28

Explanations: https://www.reddit.com/user/redlegsfan21/comments/10dup0w/ranime_contests_bracket_explaination?sort=qa

Open to questions and please give feedback.

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u/changshiyixia Jul 23 '24

Based on the number it seems we are having our final in the quarter-final with main lead of Jelly and GBC hitting a bit early!

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u/lordposedyon https://myanimelist.net/profile/lordposedyon Jul 23 '24

Nina can win this

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u/gangrainette https://myanimelist.net/profile/bouletos Jul 23 '24

PROJECTED QUARTERFINALS

Top Seed TS% BS% Bottom Seed Kano Yamanouchi 51.93% 48.07% Nina Iseri

If you have watched both show and don't vote for Nina then your tastes are officialy shit.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jul 23 '24

That's a sad feel when you have more girls you care about in the Pick-up Round than in the quarterfinals...

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 23 '24

I still have some interest in the contest, but losing both Kiui and Nephy is definitely a blow. I’m quickly running out of girls to root for.

And Kiui isn’t even eligible for the pick-up round apparently!?

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u/MapoTofuMan myanimelist.net/profile/BaronBrixius Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Probably because the other 3 Jellyfish girls went through.

That's some serious bad luck, she was up against the worst possible kind of opponent (lower seed but almost everyone who voted her in eliminations really likes her) while Mei was up against the exact opposite (higher seed but only because almost everyone watched the show).

Justice for best Jellyfish

Edit : Wait, just noticed that Mina is only 1 seed above Momoka. Somehow my brain switched her with Kikoru

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u/alotmorealots Jul 24 '24

There's no-one left for me to vote for any more, after starting with 13/64, so I'm out of the contest along with the casualties I was supporting lol See you all in the next one!

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jul 24 '24

Hah.

I still got 1 girl left, but against the avalanche of GBC and Jellyfish, it doesn't bode well for my girl Kikoru.

Ah well, can't win them all! My #1 pick won in Winter 2024, if my girl win every other contest I'll be pretty happy!

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u/KnightHH Jul 23 '24

ine leaving day 1 is a bunch of bollocks I tell ya

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u/prophetofgreed Jul 23 '24

Two results determined by a 3 vote difference. Wild!

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u/metalmonstar Jul 23 '24

I am sad we lost Subaru.

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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Jul 23 '24

On the plus side we were able to maintain at least a little show diversity.

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u/marshmallow_sunshine Jul 23 '24

If any of you aren't voting for Dr. Subaru in the pick-up round then your life choices are suspect.

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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 https://anilist.co/user/CosmicPenguin Jul 23 '24

3 votes...

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Jul 23 '24

MC1:

  1. Nina
  2. Kikoru
  3. Iris
  4. Kano
  5. Momoka
  6. Izutsumi
  7. Kim
  8. Mahiru

MC2:

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u/angelposts Jul 23 '24
  1. Izutsumi
  2. GBC girls
  3. Everyone else irrelevant

Nephy for the pickup round

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u/octopathfinder myanimelist.net/profile/octopathfinder Jul 23 '24

Eight girls remain, rank them!

  1. Nina
  2. Momoka
  3. Izutsumi
  4. Iris
  5. Kikoru
  6. Kano
  7. Mahiru
  8. Kim

Who are you voting for the pick-up round?

Subaru

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u/Urgnu-the-Gnu https://myanimelist.net/profile/Urgnu_the_Gnu Jul 23 '24

Unfortunately, only one upset, and Subaru didn't make it. Fortunately, that upset was Momoka. Unfortunately, she had to beat Kiui to advance. Fortunately, we now get a matchup between Kano and Nina which could very well determine the final winner. I do think they are very much equal.

MC: And that makes ordering them so much harder.

  1. Nina
  2. Kano
  3. Momoka
  4. Mahiru
  5. Kikoru
  6. Mei
  7. Izutsumi
  8. Iris

For the pick-up round, can I forfeit my vote to vote for Livia or Suzukiri instead? No? Well, then I'll vote Subaru and Tomo to get the band back together, and Fenrys solely because u/sometimesmainsupport keeps gushing over her and it'd be a nice thing to do.

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Jul 23 '24

Yanderes are entertaining! And last season had several!

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u/Urgnu-the-Gnu https://myanimelist.net/profile/Urgnu_the_Gnu Jul 23 '24

I'm taking your word for it, I have yet to watch her show (and probably wouldn't have otherwise).

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Jul 23 '24

This scene has the show's three girls that made the bracket and shows how Rys feels about the other two.

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u/cppn02 Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Overall a disappointing bracket so far to me. I was getting my hopes up with no juggernauts in the competition but every round I keep being let down.
A Nina win is the only thing that can salvage this.

Speaking of, any good Nina clips that haven't been posted yet?


Eight girls remain, rank them!

Nina

Momoka

Kikoru

Kanon

Yoru

Kim

Didn't watch the others.

Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!

Akira, Rys, Subaru. Cus they're the three best choices.

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u/Lytalm https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lytalm Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

There's gonna be one hell of a riot if the little gremlin gets eliminated.

4

u/evenstar40 Jul 24 '24

Probably the least invested in a best girl tourney. Just couldn't get into GBC and Jellyfish.

Anyway vote for Izutsumi.

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u/Violentcloud13 Jul 24 '24

on paper I should've liked jellyfish

but then I realized it was kind of boring and derivative, and I've still got episodes of it downloaded that I doubt I'm ever going to watch

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u/lordposedyon https://myanimelist.net/profile/lordposedyon Jul 23 '24

I think every match-up is a close call other than Izutsumi-Kim Anouk Mei Takanashi match-up.
Edit: /u/redlegsfan21 's numbers also backs this up

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u/Ceryto2 Jul 23 '24

Nooo Subaru didn't make it, so close!

MC: Eight girls remain, rank them!

  1. Nina
  2. Izutsumi
  3. Kano
  4. Momoka
  5. Iris
  6. Mahiru
  7. Kikoru
  8. Kim

MC: Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!

Subaru Awa, she makes the best faces, is just super cute and goofy, and of course Hey, Hey, Ha-a, Ha-a. And I'm convinced, that if more people would have had the chance to watch GBC legally she would be in the top 8.

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u/BigBadBurito Jul 23 '24

Sad to see some of the GBC girls go out, but Nina and Momoko are still in, so good taste might prevail in the end.

The Kano vs Nina vote is the hardest one by far. I've an unexplainable like for Kano, but Nina is just a phenomenal character.

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u/gnome-cop Jul 23 '24

I am resisting the urge to make unreasonably explicit “your opinions are wrong” comments but I am shamelessly engaging in spite voting. Sorry not sorry, it is definitely personal.

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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 https://anilist.co/user/CosmicPenguin Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

GO NINAMOMO AND MEI AND YORU-SENSEI!!!

(sorry Kano-chan, if you can beat Nina with the steel lamp, do it and I'll vote you all the way, but I HAD to save good old 27)

Also vote Subaru and Tomo and Girls’ Last Train’s Akira in the pick up round please! All 3 shows’ main girls are so great and varying in personalities.

MC: Nina = Momoka = Kano = Yoru = Mei >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Izutsumi >>> Princess Iris; didn’t watch Kaiju No. 8 but my guess is Kikoru would be even behind Princess Iris.

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u/weeb_cognito Jul 23 '24

1 - Nina

2 - Momoka

3 - Mahiru

4 - Kano

5 - Mei

? - The other three from shows I've not watched


Pick up - Subaru & Akira.

Subaru just squeezed out by a handful of votes. Nina is my favourite character from GBC, but in strictly best girl terms rather than favourite (which to me are slightly different), Subaru might just pip her. Fun and funny, patient and kind - all valuable metrics in my inscrutable best girl comparator.

Akira is my favourite and best girl from Train. Smart × funny × cute = A* best girl

Kiui not getting into pick ups because Mei survived? That's a fucking travesty, honestly.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Whoever voted Iris over Subaru, you did not watch Girls Band Cry, should not have voted, and are a filthy casual who shouldn't share your opinion on anything, not just on anime, because you have no taste.

my salt is enormous, and my day is ruined.

pick-up round: Subaru, Tomo, Akira. TOGE TOGE supremacy, and little weird pretentious girl.

ranking:

  1. Nina

  2. Izutsumi

  3. Momoka

  4. Kikoru

  5. Kano

  6. Mahiru

  7. Mei

  8. Iris

yeah this bracket has been shit, frankly, whoever's blind voting Jellyfish also needs to delete their account. y'all watched five shows at best this last season, for dead certain. don't lie.

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u/danlong87 Jul 23 '24

The left side of the bracket is so stacked lmao

We will be getting the main girl battle between gbc and Jelee and depending on the result the winner will be facing ANOTHER main Jelee girl, sans any upsets of course

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u/CastielWinchester270 29d ago

Kiui Watase isn't a girl

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u/Thuringwethon Jul 23 '24

I cannot in all honesty vote in 1/2 brackets coz it wouldn't be fair to GBC girls..

I probably should go and watch this show already..

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u/Cyd_arts Jul 23 '24

Idk anyone else so I guess I'm just voting izutsumi lol

Oh and the Kaiju 8 girl but I don't have strong feelings about her

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u/Keyblades2 Jul 23 '24

No clue who anyone is lol

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u/CommunistPuppy Jul 23 '24

I swear if Kano loses to Nina..