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my god, it actually happened

Laguerra del Mundo
In This Cage

Three years ago, Laguerra del Mundo made VGMC for the first time. It didn't leave much of a mark on me at the time (or indeed the contest in general), at least not compared to the very solid and surprisingly catchy Rapal, but I considered it decent for what it was. On that occasion, it had the misfortune of facing Smiles and Tears, which I am definitely quite fond of. I'd already taken Laguerra there regardless in my favourites bracket but come match day, I couldn't go against Smiles and Tears.

The following year, in VGMCX, it had similar misfortune, being placed in a surprisingly solid B1 containing the likes of TBIYTC, KoaFC, eventual winner Despair of ELFERIA and others that I found to be surprisingly good as well (including its first round opponent, #X). It made it to round 3 that year, and I narrowly ended up picking its opponents over it in each of those rounds. Admittedly #X was a bit of a pity vote in retrospect, but hey. A vote's a vote.

Last year, it was cruelly placed against my own pet nom, Sai-Hate Galaxy, in R1, so naturally I couldn't vote for it there. Then it ran into Rising Up, a song from Tales of Zestiria. Not my favourite song from Zestiria that's been in the contests to date, but far from a pushover either. It was quite a close call. Then in round 3 it ended up facing off against Into the Light, which I'd taken to the bracket finals in my favourites bracket (despite also facing one of my noms in R1). It's appeal has worn off on me a bit since then, but I liked it quite a lot at that time. Finally, in the retirement round, it ended up against Whereabouts of Light. That one was especially tough to decide, but ultimately I wanted to see Whereabouts of Light retire more, being not only a solid song, but also the lone vocal song remaining.

So coming into this contest, I had voted against Laguerra no less than eight times. Slap on a few more for its matches against Besaid, Neo Kobe City and Deadman Falling (all three pretty high up there as some of my favourites in this contest) and here we are.

Mystic Pendulum is my second favourite song in the bracket after Sayonara, so had it been here, this would've just been yet another match where Laguerra had the misfortune of drawing yet another (rare!) song I like more than it despite the rest of the bracket being a bit of a travesty. Instead... we get this. A farce where I actually find myself taking it easily. How about that.

Oh yeah also the side bracket match is really good today.