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yotsuba makes an important decision

#oh hey. two of the kids in this poll tournament. #a poll tournament I swear I will get back to one of these months! #my current excuse is tax season #rei ayanami #yotsuba

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#you know what? fair #yotsuba

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The Ultimate Character Design Tournament

Do you have a character where you think their design is absolutely peak? Or maybe the design is just really nice or pleasing to look at?

Well, why don't you see what the public thinks of them, and submit them into the Ultimate Character Design of All Time Tournament!

This tournament accepts characters from any franchise, popular or not, and even your own OCs (if you're daring enough to put them through this tournament!)

Submissions will be open until 4/28!

Only rules are:

No nudity or gore allowed in the submitted image.

Please vote for characters based on their design, not just if you happen to like the character more or not

You can submit as many characters as you like! But if I notice someone spam submitting the same character, I'm banning the character from the tournament

The form is completely anonymous. It will have you log in, but only so you can upload a file.

tagging other tournaments: @ultimate-word-tournament @look-how-they-massacred-them

#poll tournament

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Happy April everyone!!!

I was gonna make an April Fools joke announcing a winner for the tournament that was a character that wasn’t even in the running.

Instead I’m gonna start a quick little side poll.

Symphogear Adoption Poll!!!

Because I just binged the whole series and need an excuse to go feral. Here’s a bunch of the main characters.

Hibiki Tachibana, Tsubasa Kazanari

Chris Yukine, Maria Cadenzavna Eve

Shirabe Tsukuyomi, Kirika Akatsuki

Miku Kohinata, Elfnein

A bunch of teenage traumatized magical girls that have to save to world with the power of singing, holding hands, being gay, and comically oversized weapons.

The two with the fewest votes will be removed from the next poll.

I was going to write propaganda but about 200 words in I decided to maybe do it some other time. I’ll post gifs later.

#tournament poll #poll tournament #symphogear #adoption poll

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hi! welcome to the any character tourney! here’s the rules!

1. characters MUST be fictional! so obviously no real people. characters based on real people are allowed if their source is different enough from reality

2. problematic sources are allowed, this is any character tourney after all. please dont assume i support all sources included!

3. uhh ill add more if deemed necessary

good luck, have fun! submissions close april 30th (in australia)

@tournament-announcer (uhh idk who else to @, reblog if you want)

#you can submit as many characters as you like #and there's no space for propaganda (which means no infodumping but also makes it easier to submit your dozen favorite characters) #poll tournament

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Okay, honest question, who is Yotsuba?

OH HO HO ANON I AM ALL TOO HAPPY TO EXPLAIN :3

Yotsuba is a character from the greatest manga ever made, Yotsuba&!(or Yotsuba to! it translates weird, most fans just call it Yotsuba) which is a comedy slice-of-life manga about Yotsuba Koiwai, a five year old girl, and her very strange yet wholesome family and friends!

It's from the same mangaka who gave us Azumanga Daioh, though while that manga is told in a four-panel comic style and doesn't really have much of an overarching plot, Youtsuba is done in a traditional manga style and despite also being very episodic there is a bit of a throughline surrounding Youtsuba getting settled into the neighborhood she just moved to, growing up, and eventually, in the later chapters, getting ready to go to school for the first time. Also, there are storylines that take place over multiple chapters as well! Despite the fact that the manga has been releasing since 2003, the chapters are pretty sporadic and the comic has only really covered about one year of the character's lives, but it never really feels slow or aimless. It feels almost...timeless? I guess. It's really nice.

Anyway, the manga is legit one of the most wholesome, funny, heartwarming things I have ever read. Kiyohiko Azuma is a fucking MASTER of comedy(you may have seen screencaps from a Sailor Moon fan comic he made going around on tumblr in which Jupiter accidentally sends Venus shooting across a pool that made me laugh so hard I cried) and he balances it well with lots of slow moments with GORGEOUS artwork where you can really take in the scenery and all of it is seeped in a wonderful nostalgia for childhood that legit makes me super emotional.

I don't think the manga has ever really taken off in terms of popularity, at least not to the degree that it deserves imo, which is likely in part due to the creator being firm about it never getting an anime adaptation and the sporadic release schedule, but it's far from unknown. There's been an official(I think??) score released and plenty of figurines and merch. It's also birthed a lot of memes, and it def has the same issue as One Piece where if you read it and love it you will turn into a walking billboard and try to drag your friends and family in with you. It's just THAT good!

You may have seen art of or people cosplaying Danbo, a "robot" made of old cardboard boxes that Yotsuba adores (Totally a real robot btw, def doesn't have a middle schooler shoved inside there, that would be silly wdym /s)

And this pose from the back of one of the manga volumes featuring Yotsuba, her father, and their extremely tall friend Jumbo has been redrawn with other characters like 500000 billion times

And you've also probably seen this going around tumblr before (that's Fūka she's my favorite cringe fail daughter I would literally die for her).

Also, I would be doing a disservice if I didn't mention Yanda, who is a friend of Yotsuba's dad and also Yotsuba's nemesis. He's a loser who constantly gets dunked on by a toddler it's fucking hilarious.

But yeah it really is just like, a manga that feels like a hug, or a warm blanket or something, it's so comforting and funny and fantastic, I find myself re-reading it any time life gets to be too hard just bcs it's that good at distracting me and reminding me that live is worth living.

And also given that it's literally my favorite manga, I saved up a bunch of screencaps to use as reaction images after a read one time, and thus now it's my own little joke that if you send me anon hate I'm just gonna send you back a picture of this cutie

Bcs come on how can you be angry when you're looking at this???

Anyway here's some screencaps of the main supporting cast bcs I love all of them so much <3

YOU WILL READ YOTSUBA I AM NO LONGER ASKING

#yotsuba

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Round 2, Match 59: Fukuzawa Yukichi vs. Optimus Prime

Submitted kids:

Fukuzawa Yukichi: The entire detective agency (in order of acquisition— Ranpo, Yosano, Kunikida, Dazai, the Tanizaki siblings, Kenji, Atsushi, Kyoka)

Optimus Prime: Bumblebee, then depending on continuity, Cliffjumper, Smokescreen, Arcee, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, the Aerialbots, Sari Sumdac, Jack Darby, Miko Nakadai, Raf Esquivel, and possibly others

Propaganda under the cut!

Fukuzawa Yukichi:

1. “At about 32 he used to be an bodyguard for hire who only works alone then he met this 14 year old (Ranpo) who had no parents and was kicked out of the police academy. He ended up feeding him (I think Ranpo was homeless at this point not 100% sure tho. He is also a genius estimated iq as high as 200) and said he would help him free of charge (bodyguard) if he called. He ended up getting called and investigated something with him. Ranpo saw the world very plainly and cried to Fukuzawa about how scary it is. Fukuzawa helped Ranpo realize that not everyone is pretending not to know things they literally don't know what he does (big issue with Ranpo partly what he was crying about too i think. They have an entire episode (i think it's the first one in the 4th season) devoted to their backstory together which is black, white, and gray when it's from Ranpo's perspective until Fukuzawa helps him realize this and it turns colored. Fukuzawa ends up deciding he wants to create a detective agency (working with others!) with Ranpo not yet tho we still have one more kid first. Later when Fukuzawa's doing a bodyguard job he along with Ranpo end up rescuing a girl (Yosano!) from the man he was guarding (future mafia boss currently a doctor). Yosano ends up becoming a doctor for the detective agency when it's created. After it's created he ends up taking in another 14 year old (Kenji).

He also loves cats and has shoujo anime-esque cherry blossom flashbacks with his old childhood friend who asked him if he wanted to go to fight in war with him, Fukuzawa denied his request. They also have a like 15 min soft-lighting conversation while watching their memories of their childhood together in the latest ep.”

2. “This man literally created a whole detective agency for this one really smart boy (Ranpo) and taught him that he wasn't the one in the wrong but everyone else when he couldn't understand people. Then, he saves Yosano from the trauma this other guy was inflicting on her and brings her to the Agency. The Agency basically becomes the place where all his kids are. His special ability lets those in the Agency control their abilities so Atsushi and Kyouka don't have to be afraid of their out of control abilities anymore. He cares so much for all of them and during the Cannibalism arc when his life is literally on the line, they do everything in their power to save him.”

3. “My guy just CANNOT stop adopting kids. He went from lone wolf assassin to Dad of Many. His first (adopted) child, Ranpo, basically forced him to adopt him (he was like “I’m a teenager with no family or home. You GOTTA adopt me. Because I say so.”) From there he kept accidentally adopting every orphan he came across. Honestly the detective agency is more like a glorified orphanage except they let their kids carry guns.”

4. “A former Goverment assassin who stopped once he realized he was starting to enjoy killing people, Fukuzawa is looking for a job when he bumps into Ranpo, a genius capable of figuring out any mystery, who can’t understand how the world works. Taking Ranpo under his wing Fukuzawa tries a white lie that Ranpo has a special ability and manages to let Ranpo interact with the world without fear for the first time in years since he can know understand the problem wasn’t everyone acting like they couldn’t figure out things but that no one was as smart as him. They found the Armed Detective Agency specifically to use Ranpo’s abilities to help people and to have jobs.

He then saves Yosano from Mori, his ex something who after using her special ability to heal any injury as long as the person is about to die during the War, wanted to use it take control of their local mafia. Instead Fukuzawa and Ranpo rescue her and let her recover from her trauma and come into herself.

He then goes on to provide a place for Kunikida to fulfill his ideals, Dazai a place to do good after his own past in the mafia, Kenji a place to help people, Tanizaki and Naomi (siblings that don’t seem to have any guardians) work to support them, and Atsushi a place to work on his own trauma by protecting people. Fukuzawa later let’s Kyouka, another defection from the mafia, stay and work at the agency so she can help people and not have to kill them anymore. The entire Armed Detective Agency live in dorms that Fukuzawa provided. He also is very protective, putting everything on the line to help members of the Agency escape any danger he knows of. Like when Atsushi is kidnapped he bribes Ranpo to find him and sends Kunikida to rescue him. He sees any danger to the agency and its members as something for him to stop.”

Optimus Prime:

“#VOTE OPTIMUS HE'S THE DAD OF ALL TIME AND HAS ISSUES”

#poll #tournament poll

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Welcome To The Fictional Orphan Smackdown!

You ever wanted to pit a bunch of people who've gone through terrible (or not terrible, depending on the circumstance) loss against each other to see who's the best? Well, now you can!

There is no proper basis for who the "best" orphan is in this specific poll. Is it based on who's written better? It is based on who you like more? It is based on who would win in a fight? That's up to you!

Before we get started, here are some basic rules on who is qualified as an orphan for this specific poll:

Both biological parents must be dead.

Surrogate/adoptive parents as well as parental figures may still be alive.

If adoptive parents are dead, that counts as an orphan.

If a character has unorthodox parentage (ex. made in a lab, created directly by a diety, ect) and the characters they consider parental figures are dead, that is an orphan.

If they have no confirmed parents, but are theorized to be an orphan, I would have to see the evidence for that theory and judge from there.

On some level, this character should probably be affected by being an orphan (not a requirement, but it will help your chances).

Of course, there will be edge cases and I'll try to judge everything case-by-case, so even if you don't think a character qualifies, submit them anyway! I can't garuntee they get in, but the worst thing I can do is not put them in the bracket :)

Tournament size will be determined by how many submissions I get.

Reblog to help me spread this bracket around! Also here's the obligatory exposure tags:

@video-game-kids-tournament @animateddadbracket @best-bud-bracket @foundfamilyadoptionagency @he-would-not-fucking-say-that @mommydaddyproblemscauser @ninjago-parents-tournament @who-do-i-know-this-man @your-old-sins-tournament @haveyouseenthismovie-poll @haveyouwatchedthisshow-poll @haveyoureadthisbook @moon-swag-tourney @annoyingblondebracket @most-hated-blorbo-bracket @favoritepokemontournament @tragicsibsshowdown @ultimate-good-dog @ultimate-good-luck @cringefaillosershowdown @cringefaillosersummit @weird-song-bracket @wlw-webcomic-bracket @shinypokemonshowdown @foundfamilyadoptionagency @vocaloidsongtournament @blue-hair-and-pronouns-tourney @doll-tournament @fellfirst-fellharder-fight @gentle-giant-swag @worst-mother-throwdown @sigma-showdown @the-ballerina-battle @masked-character-competition

#poll tournament

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TRAGIC SIBLING SHOWDOWN YEAR TWO!

2023 Masterpost

we're so back baby! Nominations are open!

Now some ground rules for the competition itself and nominations:

Only Fictional Characters Allowed!

Only submit a character set once! Please no cheating, We will do our best to include as many as I can

That being said we're still going to limit it to 2-3 sets from one source

As well as the finalists and semi-finalists cannot compete again, so sorry to ed, al, shadow, maria, jason todd, dick grayson, chara, asriel, and the ro'meave brothers, but they can't get in this year

Tragic Siblings are pretty self explanatory but its any tragic, estranged, or the like siblings!

HARD RULE ONE: no harrassment, being vitrilolic, so hateful or anything of the like or you will be blocked. We had a situation last year with a certain fandom and we DO NOT want any repeats of it. It genuinely killed both of our interests in the source and we aren't letting that situation happen again

HARD RULE TWO: Shipping any of the siblings involved in this is an instant block as well, this applies all around the board for all kinds of siblings!

Nominations will stay open until the March 19th

#poll tournament

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this scene really highlights one of the most impressive parts of yotsuba to me, which is how effectively its able to recreate for an adult audience the sense of wonder that very young children have towards the world, giving us a taste of just how strange and interesting seemingly normal things are to someone as young as yotsuba. the way the geese are quietly built up to through strange sound effects, and how the camera shows their approach in detail, how it lingers on yotsubas reaction and lets us take in just how new and exciting this is to her, before hitting us with a double page spread of that same thing on an overwhelming scale... its masterful

#yotsuba #yotsuba koiwai #essay

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Here is the bracket!

Matches were determined randomly with characters with multiple submissions seeded into opposite ends of the brackets.

I literally shouted “No!” When some of these were rolled

Bracket 1

1

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Rio Ranger (Your Turn To Die)

2

The girl (fear and hunger)

Bernadetta von Varley (Fire Emblem)

3

hal 9000 (2001 a space odyssey)

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

4

Hod (Lobotomy Corporation/ Library Of Ruina)

Gin Ibushi (Your Turn To Die)

5

Charger (Voidpets)

Oscar Pine (RWBY)

6

fred jones (scooby doo mystery incorporated)

Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

7

Hunter (The Owl House)

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

8

Jane Doe (Ride the cyclone)

Zhang Chengling (Word of Honor)

Bracket 2

1

Kyusaku Yumeno “Q” (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

2

Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Lillie (Pokémon)

3

Hitori "Bocchi" Gotou (Bocchi the Rock!)

Kai Satou (Your Turn To Die)

4

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Mai Chang (Fullmetal Alchemist)

5

Arven (Pokémon)

“Tails” miles prower (Sonic)

6

Cove Holden (Our Life: Beginnings & Always)

Caspar von Bergliez (Fire Emblem)

7

Shijima Tsukishima (Shimeji Simulation)

Mizuki Okiura (AI: the Somnium Files)

8

Ashe Ubert (Fire Emblem 3 Houses)

The Collector (the owl house)

Bracket 3

1

Freminet (Genshin Impact)

Rob (the amazing world of Gumball)

2

Liir Thropp (Wicked)

Kenzie Martin (Parahumans)

3

Isaac Moriah (The Binding of Isaac)

Essek Thelyss (critical role)

4

Angela (Lobotomy Corporation/ Library Of Ruina)

Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)

5

Suletta Mercury (Gundam)

Shilo Bathroy (Just Roll With It)

6^

Cassandra Cain (DC Comics)

Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail)

Gyutaro (Demon Slayer)

7

Furina de Fontaine (Genshin Impact)

Molly Blyndeff (Epithet erased)

8

Nona (The Locked Tomb)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Bracket 4

1

Pearl Fey (Ace Attorney)

Wanderer (Genshin Impact)

2

Falst (Aurora Webcomic)

Kokichi Oma (Daganronpa V3)

3

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)

Shane (Stardew Valley)

4

Nahida (genshin inpact)

Ortho Shroud (twisted wonderland)

5

Natural Harmonia Gropius “N” (Pokémon)

Gregg Lee (night in the woods)

6

Emil Sinclair (Limbus Company)

Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)

7

Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece)

Zuko (Avatar the Last Airbender)

8

Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Shin-Ah (Yona of the Dawn)

#round 1 still has a few days left #go vote over there while waiting to see if I ever post anything related to my own poll again

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Things I have realized while watching the polls come out: 1: I don't watch nearly as much anime as I think I do 2: No one voting seems to watch the anime I watch

Lmao mood. I've felt both those sentiments as well 😂

#tumblr polls

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You know what? Time to get back in for some very niche polling...

We'll be voting for the best Riley out there! I'll change my username and pictures accordingly in the next days

#not super relevant to this bracket but I think it's funny

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Children fighting. I can sell this!

#my hero academia #I feel kinda sorry for the movie kids #also Kota to a lesser extent #this poll just isn't fair #thank god the poll results don't affect the ice cream!

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Paladin Tourney - Submissions OPEN!

Welcome, one and all, to the Paladin Tourney! Here, we will pit our beloved knights in shining armor against each other to determine who is Tumblr's favorite paladin!

I'm loosely defining "paladin" as any character who is, or who resembles, a paladin or knight, in either appearance or personality. They may wear the iconic shining armor, have an oath that they're fiercely determined to keep, or just have the vibes.

Tourney rules:

Be kind. You're welcome to make propaganda for or against characters, but don't attack people over who they vote for. Being racist, ableist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted gets you blocked.

Please don't submit characters from Harry Potter, Attack on Titan, Vivziepop, or South Park. No OCs either, sorry. I probably won't accept submissions from real life unless you can make a good case for them in the propaganda section.

You can submit multiple characters, but please don't submit the same character multiple times unless you need to add or change something. Fill out the form separately for each character unless you want them to go together as a team.

If there's something wrong or you have tips for improving the tourney, please let me know! I've never run a Tumblr tournament before so I don't really know what I'm doing.

Submission form: https://forms.gle/T5B8xVSi5BxvkEMq6

Inspiration/Tagging for exposure (I'd appreciate it if you reblogged but of course you don't have to!): @tournament-announcer @wearepaladin @pinkhairswagtourney @annoyingblondebracket @the-ballerina-battle @bnuuy-bracket @stinky-fuck-swag @cringefaillosersummit @jerktournament @fictional-actors-bracket @platonic-pals-punchout @overworkedblorbobattle @spookygirlautumnbracket @battleoftheicyfreaks @battle-of-the-bowlcuts @retirement-home-rumble @our-favourite-orcs @besttropeveershowdown @best-bff-brawl @generic-anime-boy-bracket @arrowtossingtournament @elementspecificcharatourney @doomed-bythe-narrative @transhet-tourney

#poll tournament

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Magical girls. They're famously known for being frilly. But which mahou is the frilliest? That's what this tournament is here to find out!

The rules are simple:

Submit your mahou using this form here!

You are welcome to submit power-ups and alternate forms, but be sure it specify you are submitting those forms if you do!

Magical boys are also welcome. They can be frilly too, if they want.

If you are submitting Sakura Kinomoto (or any other mahou that has a wide variety of costumes), please specify which outfit of hers you're submitting her with. Images would be very helpful here!

After the initial submission phase, there will be preliminary polls in case we get multiple submissions for different forms of the same mahou.

Utena is still not a magical girl show, and will not be considered for the tournament. Thank you.

Submissions will be open until HALLOWEEN (October 31st, for those who don't celebrate)!

Have fun and stay frilly!

#tournament polls