Board 8 > Save My Favourite Anime Series IV: The Results

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After last year's contest which took forever to run, until Lefty threw in a helping hand, things went a little bit more smoothly this year.

I liked this contest a good deal, the top 3 shows are excellent and my fav anime managed 2nd.

As usual, the top 20 this year are automatically in next year.

The 2016 AOTY winner came 19th, funny when the 2015 AOTY winner came 19th. Oh and both were backed heavily by Koala IIRC.

The next Save My I'll be holding, will be the very weird Save My Anime and Visual Novel character replacing Save My Favourite Square Enix character.


Year 1

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood>Cowboy Bebop 186>161

Year 2

Cowboy Bebop>One Piece 215>157

Year 3

Baccano>Steins;Gate 115>110

Year 4

Hunter x Hunter (2011)>Monogatari 140>128


This makes Hunter x Hunter our first ever Weekly Shonen Jump winner and 2nd overall Shonen series to win the top prize.

ShonenFAQs indeed.

So, what did you guys think of this version of HxH? Favourite arcs?

Results:

01. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
02. Monogatari
03. Non Non Biyori
04. Love Live! School Idol Project
05. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
06. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
07. Digimon Savers
08. Baccano!
09. Monster
10. Steins;Gate
11. Rurouni Kenshin
12. Azumanga Daioh
13. Saint Seiya
14. Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
15. From the New World
16. School Rumble
17. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
18. Yu Yu Hakusho
19. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
20. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
21. Mushishi
22. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
23. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
24. Clannad
25. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
26. Yuru Yuri
27. Death Note
28. Attack on Titan
29. FLCL
30. Kill la Kill
31. Shokugeki no Soma
32. Ergo Proxy
33. Hibike! Euphonium
34. The Tatami Galaxy
35. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
36. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
37. Dragon Ball Z
38. Code Geass
39. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
40. Haibane Renmei
41. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
42. Diamond no Ace
43. School-Live!
44. Naruto
45. Scrapped Princess
46. Black Lagoon
47. Digimon Adventures
48. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
49. Nana
50. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (Oregairu)
51. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
52. Gabriel Dropout
53. Chihayafuru
54. Kaiji
55. Trigun
56. Usagi Drop
57. Fullmetal Alchemist
58. Cardcaptor Sakura
59. New Game
60. Gunbuster
61. Mobile Suit Gundam
62. Yu-Gi-Oh!
63. Ace Attorney
64. Spice and Wolf
65. Erased
66. Boku wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai!
67. Cowboy Bebop
68. Kill Me Baby
69. One Piece
70. Gintama
71. Toradora!
72. Samurai Champloo
73. Cromartie High School
74. Mawaru Penguindrum
75. Great Teacher Onizuka
76. Goldenboy
77. Working!!
78. Dragon Ball
79. Highschool DXD
80. Parasyte -the maxim-
81. Black Butler
82. Martian Successor Nadesico
83. Little Witch Academia
84. Flip Flappers
85. Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
86. Planetes
87. Digimon Tamers
88. Claymore
89. Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior
90. GetBackers
91. Elfen Lied
92. No Game No Life
93. Paranoia Agent
94. Kuroko's Basketball
95. Dragon Ball Super
96. Masamune-Kun's Revenge
97. Space Battleship Yamato
98. Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman
99. Outlaw Star
100. Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team
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Once again, an amazing run for Savers, the most underrated Digimon season. I couldn't have made it happen without all the other people who worked significantly harder for a considerably longer period of time.

Humbled.
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Dunno, it feels like Digimon always has its own internal contest.

Whoever wins goes deep.
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Heh, yeah. I noticed that as well.
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I would have said the same applies to WSJ, but last year their top ranked show was Saint Seiya at 16th.

In a way, it's more shocking for that to beat Death Note, DBZ, One Piece, Kenshin and the rest than a Digimon show placing high.
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So close... but still a good run.

Now to check out these other top finishers. Started NNB last night and it's pretty good so far.
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Now this is the most deserving winner for a save my I have ever participated in.
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Want to say fuck the hater(s) who came in and spite voted against monogatari after not voting in a single round beforehand. Still I love both shows a lot so happy with the winner and how far monogatari got.

After such a close loss though time for a 2014 Spurs esque revenge tour next year to come back and win it all WHO IS WITH ME
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pjbasis posted...

Though I main Haruhi

maybe if you showed up and traded for Haruhi it could win

just a THOUGHT
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I'm not thrilled about HxH beating Monogatari, but I got the best run I could ask for from my favorite anime. Can't really complain; it was a fun contest.
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Guess my ODDS ANALYSIS ended up being pretty strong even with the top 10 fav placing....10th
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Good winner. Would've been a better winner if it had fewer Chimera Ants though

Guess I should watch Monogatari now.
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for the record

all-time STATZ for champions

Baccano! - 93.74
Cowboy Bebop - 78.20
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 78.00
Hunter x Hunter - 65.86

that 72nd in II really did a number on HxH - without that, it'd be right in between Bebop and Brotherhood at 78.14
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I'm curious to see stats on the number of individual voters vs how many times they voted in the finals.

From a quick look it seemed HxH had more but Monogatari had more dedicated voters.
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Great winner IMO

Now to watch a bunch of shows and find a new main for next year
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Menji posted...

I'm curious to see stats on the number of individual voters vs how many times they voted in the finals.

From a quick look it seemed HxH had more but Monogatari had more dedicated voters.

I am nearly positive that is correct
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th3l3fty posted...

pjbasis posted...

Though I main Haruhi

maybe if you showed up and traded for Haruhi it could win

just a THOUGHT

Hunter was such a strong secondary I decided to wait till one was left before I tried to pay attention to the contest.
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I've accepted that Love Live will never get above 4th place. Still placing in 4th for 2 years in a row due to sheer dedicated voters is a damn good feat!

And what an amazing run for Non Non Biyori, easily the biggest surprise of the contest.

New Game placed the lowest out of all the anime I actively supported out of all of the years, but that's probably because this year I sort of stopped caring about doing trades.

Well, next year will be Is the Order a Rabbit. I also gotta remember to get Bleach back in.
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Still gonna support Steins;Gate next year but HxH was a good choice too. Actually just watched it recently so glad that it won, was probably the best chance it had too. Same could be said for Monogatari though! We'll have to see next year!
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I missed the whole contest aside from the final. I dunno how I never noticed a round.

whoo favorite show

What are the highest placements for DBZ and Digimon Tamers? I'll probably make those two my highest priorities next time.
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DBZ - 5th/83 (I)
Tamers - 6th/100 (II)
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Savers looked like it could make the final, but then Inviso prioritized Haruhi. Even if Savers made it to the final, there was no way it was beating much of anything.
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