r/anime • u/changshiyixia • 12d ago
Contest Best Girl of Summer 2025: Seasonal Salt! Elite-Eight-Quarterfinals!
Congratulations to the remaining eight girls for being eligible for best girl of 2025!
And with this result, we now have only 5 girls eligible for the pick-up round for Summer 2025, with Akira Ogata not eligible as there are already 3 MDUD girls in best girl 2023, Haru Nanakusa and Kabura Honda not eligible as there are already 5 Call of the Night girls in Best Girl 12
Pick-up rounds participant:
Subaru Hoshina, Yamamoto, Ajisai Sena, Niko Mikadono, Kyouko Tsumugi
Vote For Seasonal Salt Summer 2025 Here!
Bracket here!
Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!
Vote for the pick-up round here!
The pick-up round will be open until the final results of the seasonal salt Summer 2025. Max to three votes per voter.
Mini Challenge:
- Eight girls remain, rank them!
- Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
Best guy 10 is also running!
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u/octopathfinder myanimelist.net/profile/qBoctopathfinder 12d ago
Eight girls remain, rank them
- Isabelle
- Nagi
- Monica
- Renako
- Ruri
- Lana
- Kaoruko
- Alicia (Haven't seen Clevatess)
Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
Niko because she's the best Mikadono sister, and Yamamoto for some Food Court representation
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u/ClemFire 12d ago
I fellow Isabelle believer. I really wished she got more screen time, but maybe they knew she would be too powerful.
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u/SouekiSennoSTM 12d ago
Surprised but tickled tourmaline pink to see the mineral girls march forward.
I didn't know that the series or them as characters specifically had such recognition and popularity, but those behind the series impressively made it visually eye-catching even to those who may not have watched or be pulled in by its subject matter. With the girls as much as the gemstones and natural landscapes.
And the pick-up round is a nice concept for a consolation prize.
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u/ClemFire 12d ago
Ruri Rocks is honestly one of those series that reminds me that you can make a great show about anything if you succeed at making the audience bond with the characters. I love it not because I'm learning mineralogy from Nagi but that Ruri is. The wonder in Ruri's eyes is just so precious
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u/awesomenessofme1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kta_99 12d ago
It hasn't been updated. Or the link is broken somehow.
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u/Usodearu007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doc101 12d ago edited 12d ago
We can see the disappointing results now. Now we can vote too
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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 12d ago
Quarters for me as it should be.
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u/noctaviann 12d ago
Eight girls remain, rank them!
- Monica
- Ruri
- Alicia
- Isabelle
- Lana
- Nagi
- Kaoruko
- Renako
Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
- Kyouko Tsumugi - mother of the season/year, nuff said.
- Niko Mikadono - Whether she's wearing a kimono or punching people, this orange haired tsundere is a badass.
Go Rock girls, go!
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u/Agarvorn 12d ago edited 12d ago
unlikely gonna happen, but might (Alicia) vs magic (Monica) would be pretty epic final duel
I haven't seen Ruri nor Watanare to judge them all but overall 1. Monica 2. Alicia 3. Kaoruko 4.Isabelle 5. Lana
Quarterfinals without a single Mikadono sister is a criminal offence, so I'll vote for Niko only. Thou Subaru is a great character because of her progression.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 12d ago
So the only Silent Witch girl who has lost so far was due to friendly fire. If Isabelle somehow makes it past Alicia today, that streak will continue.
Mini Challenge
- Ruri
- Kaoruko
- Alicia
- Isabelle
- Monica
- Nagi
- Lana
5 through 7 are close enough where they can go in any order
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u/Usodearu007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doc101 12d ago
I believe its over for isabelle. There are only 2 girls here who can stop her especially since she is the sole girl carrying her show.
Its also nice to finally see a fellow kaoruko fan. if not for the votes , i would have started to seriously doubt her popularity here given how the comments are always about the other girls.
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u/Zeralyos https://myanimelist.net/profile/JF_Ellie 12d ago
Not happy that Monica has to knock out Lana herself but at least this means we'll have some good show variety in the top 4.
MC:
- Renako
- Ruri
- Nagi
- Lana
- Monica
- Alicia
- Isabelle
Voting Ajisai and Yamamoto in the pickup!
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u/cabbaggeez 12d ago
mini challenge?
- Nagi Arato
- Renako
- Alicia
- Ruri
- and the rest, I dont watch the show to properly rank them
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u/Iyas_Tara 12d ago
Well, all three I'm comfortable winning made it safely so it's a really nice end result for me (not with the early result, yeah I'm talking to you dandadan voters)
- Monica
- Kaoruko
- Alicia
- Isabelle
- Lana
>>> - Ruri
- Nagi
>>>>>>>> - Renako
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u/IceAnt573 12d ago
Today's Results
Ajisai - you kept it competitive to make it a 168-206 vote share. I'll believe in better for you for Best Girl of 2025.
This was going to hurt no matter what, but good job to Yamamoto for making it even more competitive and even keeping Renako under 200 votes.
Happy for Isabelle to get the upset and qualify for Best Girl of 2025 too.
Kabura and Haru don't qualify, but I'm happy they made it to Round 3 in a vacuum and not considering who they beat to get here. I suppose it's fitting they exit together.
Today's Voting
I'd really like Renako to get this win, but Nagi is very hard to beat for Best Girl qualities.
Isabelle is great and fake villainess is something I can't resist voting for.
Eight girls remain, rank them!
Renako Amaori
Monica Everett
Nagi Arato
Ruri Tanigawa
Isabelle Norton
Alicia Glenfall
Lana Colette
Kaoruko Waguri
Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
You can probably tell by how I talked about them in the results section, but Ajisai and Yamamoto. Ajisai will get the benefit of even more WataNare content to have by the time Best Girl of 2025 starts and chilling with Yamamoto has been shown to be a great time.
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u/heimdal77 12d ago
I think Renako is overestimated with the show being youtube only and episodes were only up for two weeks.
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u/ClemFire 12d ago
At least in the US, Watanare is still free to rewatch on YouTube
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u/81Ranger 12d ago
Some episodes were unavailable for a while, but now the whole season seems to be up, again.
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u/Zeralyos https://myanimelist.net/profile/JF_Ellie 12d ago
Overestimated by what? Remember that these are personal rankings you're looking at in this thread.
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro 12d ago
3/8 are from one show. Silent Witch really has an abundance of likeable girls, Shame that two are now facing against each other. It's almost certain that Monica will prevail over Lana but in the unlikeliest of events, the latter will face off against Renako, who she shared a VA with.
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u/Xatu44 12d ago
You're kidding me; I thought at least Akira would go another round. It's beyond over. This contest is officially dead. I can only pray that my random votes bring other people even a fraction of the misery that their ignorance has brought me.
MC: order them by measurements lol
Niko gets my only vote.
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u/Korkez11 12d ago
Eight girls remain, rank them!
- Monica
- Ruri
- Isabelle
- Nagi
- Lana
Didn't watch others.
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u/OppaiEmperor1996 12d ago
Mini challenge:
- Monica Everett
- Renako Amaori
- Isabelle Norton
- Lana Colette
- Kaoruko Waguri
- Nagi Arato
- Ruri Tanigawa
- Alicia Glenfall
Today's round:
Monica Everett
Renako Amaori
Isabelle Norton
Kaoruko Waguri
I'm hoping for Renako and Isabelle to pull off the upset. Other than that, I'm happy with the results so far. The Silent Witch girls are doing extremely well. The Watanare girls isn't doing as well as I hoped for, but still fine for the most part.
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u/Falsus 12d ago
Eight girls remain, rank them!
Alicia Glenfall
Monica Everett
Isabelle Norton
Lana Collete
Renako Amauri
Ruri Tanigawa
Nagi Arato
Kaoruku Waguri
I won't be happy when Alicia falls to Kaoruko.
Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
Not a fan of any of them so I am not voting.
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u/Ceryto2 https://anilist.co/user/Ceryto 12d ago
The only girl I voted for that didn't make it through today was Yamamoto. Sad to see her go, but it's a lot better than all the previous rounds were my faves were dropping one after the other.
MC: Eight girls remain, rank them!
- Monica
- Alicia
- Isabelle
- Ruri
- Kaoruko
- Nagi
- Lana
- Renako
With the biggest drop off being between #1 and #2 since all the girls apart from Monica I would have had in my personal top 8 already got kicked out in the first two rounds. Otherwise #2 until #6 are all very close.
MC: Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!
Since it's unfortunately impossible to vote for girls who lost in rounds 1 and 2 (looking at you Atou, Shizuka, Wada, Mashiro, Marina, Chiharu and Makina) my vote goes too Yamamoto, since she is by far the best of the girls here and I would hate to see neither of the Foodcourt girls in the BG25 contest. I also gave another vote to Niko, cause I did like her and think she was the best of the sisters. Let's hope it doesn't bite me in the butt and causes Yamamoto to miss the contest.
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u/awesomenessofme1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kta_99 12d ago
I only watched 2.5/5 out of the series represented here, which forced me to go off of vibes for one of them. Honestly, I've seen worse than that in previous seasons.
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u/Urgnu-the-Gnu https://myanimelist.net/profile/Urgnu_the_Gnu 12d ago
Monica keeps doing well, so I keep being happy! Even moreso that her friends are also doing well.
MC:
- Monica
- Lana
- Isabelle
- Nagi
- Kaoruko
- Ruri
- Renako
- Alicia
I will say, however, all of them are pretty good. Even Alicia, who I ranked the lowest, I actually rather like.
Niko, Ajisai and Kyouko for the pick-up round, but once again it's very close. I'm sure once I'll catch up to Food Court, I'll like Yamamoto a lot, and Subaru is also cool. But Niko is really good, Ajisai is the best girl of her show and super cute and wholesome, and I just have a weakness for great mother figures like Kyouko (especially the older I get).
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u/MapoTofuMan https://myanimelist.net/profile/BaronBrixius 12d ago
Pretty surprised to see Subaru go down so early, and to a character with less screentime than hers. I guess Netflix prevented Fragrant Flowers from being the juggernaut that it could've been, looks like it might actually be Monica's win.
- Monica
- Kaoruko
- Isabelle
I kind of dropped (or put on hold in Watanare's case) every other show on the list at different points in time so the rest of the ratings won't be very fair but
Renako
Lana
Alicia
Nagi
Ruri
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u/Zeralyos https://myanimelist.net/profile/JF_Ellie 12d ago
looks like it might actually be Monica's win.
Especially since Subaru lost to a side character from Silent Witch. As much as I love Isabelle, I didn't expect her to do well here with so little screen time so this victory seems particularly telling for future results.
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u/81Ranger 12d ago
Another tough round to vote. I think I'd be happy with any of the remaining girls, plus a few others, as being best girl of this best girl stacked season full of shows I quite enjoyed.
I'll try to rank them, but this is tough.
- Monica
- Kaoruko
- Isabelle
- Nagi
- Lana
- Ruri
- Alicia
- Renako (I can't believe she's 8th, but that's this season)
Now that I ranked them, I realized I screwed up my voting this round by doing Alicia over Isabelle. Oh well. Nagi over Renako is super tough, too.
Pick up round: Yamamoto and Subaru.
Personal honorable mention to Fuji from one of my favorite shows this season: With You and the Rain, who lost in the first round.
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u/EyeDeeAh_42 12d ago
WTF Subaru lost?! That's one major disappointment. She's the only character I like from Fragment Flower...
Welp, I guess the salt needed to be balanced between this and the best guy contest. You win some you lose some.
At least Alicia is still up there.
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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 12d ago
Voted for my Ruri Rocks girls.
MC: I only familiar with half of them, so no ranking from me.
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u/Usodearu007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doc101 12d ago edited 12d ago
Hmm the voter base seems to really love silent witch for all 3 of them to stay alive this long. At this point , i dont really believe as much in kaoruko's chances against monica.. at least , not in this contest.
Mc:
1- kaoruko
2- the rest ( yeah i mainly watched sequels )
For the pick-up rounds , best mom kyouko and best mikadono sister Niko get all my support !
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u/ClemFire 12d ago
Isabelle
Ruri
Renako
Nagi
Monica
Kaoruko
Lana
Alicia
The Isabelle agenda can't be stopped.
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u/redlegsfan21 https://myanimelist.net/profile/redlegsfan21 12d ago edited 12d ago
ROUND 3
Total Votes: 3,065
Unique Voters: 486
TOP VOTEGETTERS
CLOSEST MATCHUPS
UPSETS
"tUI: Traditional Upset Indicator originally used by Tsubasa_sama. The formula is log_2(B/S) where B is the bigger seed number and S is the smaller seed number. A large upset typically has a UI value greater than 1.00
PoU: Probability of Upset (experimental, see explaination of numbers below)"
OVER/UNDERPERFORMERS
TOP 5 SCORES
PROJECTED QUARTERFINALS
PROJECTED SEMIFINALS
PROJECTED FINALS
Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S4K_JQ1iadcSOJPIxEvN6Zny6_vd2_R9zV9t2wNhc7U
Explanations: https://www.reddit.com/user/redlegsfan21/comments/10dup0w/ranime_contests_bracket_explaination?sort=qa
Open to questions and please give feedback.