The Anime Saimoe Tournament 2009, a tournament organized by 2ch annually to pick the finest, the most influential if not the most welcomed female character of the year 2009, has ended just a few weeks ago. The Saimoe Tournament is a tournament that is held annually by the fans for the fans and winner goes down in the hall of fame. Notable past winners include Kinomoto Sakura of Cardcaptor Sakura (2003), Suiseiseki of Rozen Maiden (2006) and Hiiragi Kagami of Lucky Star (2008). The winner of the Anime Saimoe Tournament 2009 is none other than the main female protagonist of Toradora!, Aisaka Taiga.

Taiga fans rejoice! Kugimiya Rie fans rejoice! Tsundere fans rejoice! Lolicons rejoice!

While it is undeniable that Taiga has her own bastion of fans and admirers, as I have not watched Toradora! yet, I have nothing good to say about Taiga's crowning as Saimoe. This is because I can see that her winning was a controversial one - she was up against Hirasawa Yui in the final. Taiga won with a slim 54 votes majority against Yui.

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I realised that I have not made a single post in this blog throughout January. Minus the resolutions for 2008 post which was meant for the whole year round, I had written nothing else regarding animes. Well, I could come up with some excuse, but now that I think of it, the excuse that I'm probably going to be using is "I'm too busy with life". Predictable, eh? I'd just feel ashamed of myself if I were to use that lame excuse again considering that I've used it many times last year. And so, no more excuses. It's better to look forward to the future than and work hard to look behind at the past and be disturbed by it.

The awards of the last two months had failed to take place due to me having some unavoidable activities on the dates of the awards, and therefore, I'm including both the two month's potential winners into this month's awards. Although there are three months, but there'll only be one winner for each award based on their exposure and viewer's acceptance. Clannad, Midori Days and Nodame Cantabile would be the main contenders in this awards. Here it goes:

( Best Male Character: Sawamura Seiji (Midori no Hibi) )
( Best Female Character: Ibuki Fuko (Clannad) )
Best Villian: None
Best Non-Human Character: None
( Best OP: Allegro Cantabile Sound by Suemitsu & The Suemith (Nodame Cantabile) )
( Best ED: Dango Daikazoku by Chata (Clannad) )
( Best Quote: Under the cut )
( Best Scene: Under the cut )
( Best Seiyuu: Mai Nakahara )

(I know it's a bit early but who cares?)

Merry Christmas to all of the readers of Yamaki's Anime Blog!


P.S. Feel free to use the above video for next year's Saimoe. Fuko definitely deserve a place in the tournament.

I need a life, and yeah, if you guys were wondering what happened to our RAA last month, well, I had an argument with my sister which got me banned from the internet by my father. Long story. Friend me in my personal kristalyamaki livejournal if you want to read any of those, but other than that, there's no major change in life for me. It's the school holidays for us here in Malaysia, yes, but I'm stuck at home, playing Pokémon FireRed (Read: an improved version of Gameboy Color's Pokémon Red. Why did they even bothered to make an improved version?) on my computer. What else can I do without the internet? Well, I've made an AMV during my absence online so come back for that two days from now. (I'm premiering the AMV on 20th December which is two days from now, duh.)

Right now I'm downloading episode 11 of Clannad on Azureus. Can't do that when I don't have the internet. I've just finished (watching) episode 10 and it was a boring episode with that genius girl, (what was her name again?), Kotomi. Her voice could be one of the roughest together with another Clannad girl, Tomoyo and their voice actresses must be around 40 something with a really sore throat. I personally prefer girls with sweet voice, regardless of their looks. Even Kyou, the evil twin of Ryou who is also the monitor of a class (I forgot which one) in Clannad seemed attractive enough. So... I'm not going to talk about any one of them. Instead, I'll be focusing on the outgoing Clannad girl who had most of the focus and limelight throughout the start of the series till episode 9 - Fuko. She didn't make any appearance at all in episode 10, so I'd assume that episode 9 would be her last episode. Bless her. I wouldn't want to see anyone distributing wooden starfishes around school, in my school at least. Usually a permission is needed from the school to distribute such items or else it would most likely be confiscated. =\

Never mind that anyways.

Okay, going into the main topic. If you know nothing about Fuko and what she had been doing with the wooden starfishes she'd been distributing around, read this and you might have a basic idea, at least.

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It was really painful seeing Fuko passing out wooden carved starfish to everyone in her school, hoping that they'll attend her sister, Ibuki-sensei's wedding. It was even more painful seeing that Ibuki-sensei didn't know what her younger sister had done for her and refuses rumors that Fuko has been in school, and her reason was - Fuko's lying on a bed in the hospital in a coma.

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