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Best Supporting Character Tournament: Post-Mortem

Sticking with Kuu for being the far more mature character with the more far reaching impact.

Strange to see Wakaba supporters be so critical of a character plays a very similar role, but in much more rawer, in your face, and less refined way.

As others have said, Gai's strength lies in the fact that he has a tremendous amount of influence for having screen time in the first volume of the show. He serves as an inspiration, and a parody of pure hearted, but rather simpleminded and brash hero. And he he does a mighty good job at highlighting both the strengths and weakness of that character type in a parody like fashion.

Akio is a fun character, who's humorous and has Okazaki man up from time to time in his serious mode. However, compared to other supporting characters like Ushio he is much less effective at doing what moe does best, which is to illicit emotion and have a hard hitting and sometimes melodramatic impact that fans of the genre love.

I'd argue that the moment itself would be of limited importance if the character hadn't received some prior build-up or, moreover, if there was no long term impact (causal or thematic) as a result of what happened. There are far too many characters who always stayed in the background and didn't come out into the open to do anything remotely noteworthy until the very last minute, which provides little or no emotional investment for both the audience and the rest of the cast, but I believe that isn't the case here. Euphemia does belong to an existing character type but the specifics, in my opinion, can and do make a difference.

I feel she's more supportive and drives the plot and character relations along situationally. Granted yes she does provide important points where she moves the plot along but I feel on her own she is not as full as a character as Tanda is. I think his impact is more based on his character and not on the situation like with Euphemia.

I don’t see how Euphy is different from the rest of peace-loving princesses, trying to achieve something she believes in is what I expect from this type of character.

...I'd still want to hear more about what makes Tanda stand out from other characters with a similar personality, role or character type.

However, when we are disqualifying character like Aramaki is much more background, but clearly a part of the main group, Ami can't be here either.

2. Must not reasonably be considered one of the primary protagonists, primary antagonists, or a member of the primary duo or ensemble. (Examples of series which have an ensemble rather than a true lead include Tokyo Majin, Yokazura Quartet, Red Garden, and Baccano!) As a rule, being listed in the top character group in the cast listing on ANN's Encyclopedia page for the title is an indication that the character is a primary protagonist or primary duo/ensemble member.
2a. In cases where there is a primary ensemble but there is still technically one lead character (e.g. Sailor Moon), the ensemble takes precedence and eliminates all involved characters.

I didn't really want to dwell on what Psycho 101 wrote, given his own request, but I don't agree with that argument either.

If you don't want to dwell on what I said given my request then why are you mentioning me/it at all?