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Most Improved Character Tournament: Post-Mortem

How about "Best Ending"? And by that I mean the ending to a series as a whole. Anime is kinda notorious for it's open endings that leave things unresolved, but the truely great conclusions deserve some recognition.

I didn't want to say this before but I was sorely tempted to break the couple of draws. You know, cast a vote at the last minute to make sure someone won rather than the matchup ending as a draw. Of course I ended up not doing that. Given the final and semi-finals it probably wouldn't have changed the rankings much anyway. (Remember, I was trying to come last in the Minigame, not first.)

Speaking of which, look at all the people who got lower scores than me in the Minigame:

gGultra
Vaisaga
CrowLia
Beltane
The Naked Beast
Getchman
Psycho101

That was very mean of them, stealing my thunder like that.

Oh, and congrats to marie-antoinette for coming second.

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I do like my fight scenes, but there's at least three problems inherent in doing a tournament about them. Firstly, many of the best fight scenes are at the end of the show or movie they feature in; you know, the big 'ole no-holds-barred give-everything-you-have unleash-secret-ultimate-technique final battle. And that means spoilers. Secondly, people have to be able to find and watch the fights, since the recommendations of other people are useless in understanding how incredible the music and animation and choreography were. This means everyone has to hunt down and watch every fight scene (and where are they going to do that easily), plus it makes justifications moot.

Thirdly, it is a pretty subjective topic for the sort of tournament Key wants to do. For example, I could watch the final battle of TTGL and claim that it was one of the worst battles in Anime because of how ridiculous and moronic it is. But we all know that certain segments of the fandom will watch that same battle and furiously masturbate to it because of the animation and the music and whatnot. To use another example, I could claim some of the fights in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu are absolutely brilliant because they're so hilarious and genre-subversive. But other people could dismiss those comedic fights because they prefer high action content done seriously and realistically - like in Sword of the Stranger - over fights that go the humourous route.

(and where are they going to do that easily)

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I do like my fight scenes, but there's at least three problems inherent in doing a tournament about them. Firstly, many of the best fight scenes are at the end of the show or movie they feature in; you know, the big 'ole no-holds-barred give-everything-you-have unleash-secret-ultimate-technique final battle. And that means spoilers.

Secondly, people have to be able to find and watch the fights, since the recommendations of other people are useless in understanding how incredible the music and animation and choreography were. This means everyone has to hunt down and watch every fight scene (and where are they going to do that easily), plus it makes justifications moot.

Thirdly, it is a pretty subjective topic for the sort of tournament Key wants to do. For example, I could watch the final battle of TTGL and claim that it was one of the worst battles in Anime because of how ridiculous and moronic it is. But we all know that certain segments of the fandom will watch that same battle and furiously masturbate to it because of the animation and the music and whatnot. To use another example, I could claim some of the fights in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu are absolutely brilliant because they're so hilarious and genre-subversive. But other people could dismiss those comedic fights because they prefer high action content done seriously and realistically - like in Sword of the Stranger - over fights that go the humourous route.