[Saimoe 2008] The Conclusion

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Sorry, no introductory post. After almost half a year of qualification, preliminaries, groupstage and playoff matches, Japanese Anime Saimoe 2008 has finally ended yesterday with the final match featuring the Hiiragi sisters from Lucky Star. Unique feat, but overall not that enthralling to many people. First, the result of the final match:

Final
1位　1037票　柊かがみ＠らき☆すた(Hiiragi Kagami@Lucky*Star)
2位　976票　柊つかさ＠らき☆すた(Hiiragi Tsukasa@Lucky*Star)

Kagami should take the final match easily, considering she has every possible trait to make her superior than Tsukasa (tsundere, loli, twintail, what else you could ask :3). But the graph tells otherwise, as Tsukasa gave a tough day for Kagami until the end hour of voting.

Overall table for groupstage and playoff:
Groupstage
Playoff

This year has been one of the boringest Saimoe in my book, particularly past the group stage. Mainly because of the total domination of KyoAni's faction in the playoff. 5 out of 8 (Tomoyo, Nagisa, Fuuko, Tsukasa and Kagami) qualified, and "just as planned", the Hiiragi sisters made it to the finals to settle things up. While I'm not dislike KyoAni characters, this somehow took away the spice of Saimoe. Just look at the total amount of votes (not only in the final match, but most of playoff matches in the link given), it's way below average count of 1000+ votes as seen in previous year Saimoe. Seems like many people don;t give a damn about the the latter stage of this year Saimoe after seeing some of the top dog were eliminated early, like the unlucky Maria, the last year finalist Nagi and Rika, (HnG) and even Fate (Nanoha StrikerS), beaten by Fuko (Clannad) :3
As for me, I started to lose my interest in this year Saimoe since the loss of Horo against Tamaki in semi final group E match. Although, she compensate it by winning Korean Best Moe :D