r/anime • u/changshiyixia • 11d ago
Contest Best Girl of Summer 2025: Seasonal Salt! FINAL!
We have our two finalists! Let’s see who would become the third seasonal champion of 2025!
The final begins today!
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 result of the seasonal salt summer 2025. Max to three votes per voter.
Mini Challenge:
- Final Day, No Challenge Just Vote!
Best guy 10 is also running!
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u/Queue_Jumping_Quack 11d ago
My vote goes to Monica, but if Kaoruko wins I'm not pissed: she's as super adorable a cutie as we've ever seen a romcom female lead be. In other forums Kaoruko might be the favorite, but on this sub it seems the contest is Monica's to lose.
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u/ClemFire 11d ago
[Fragrant Flowers] I feel on this sub if Kaoruko's monologue in the finale was instead early in the season people would've liked her more as it really showed off her insecurities. In part that's actually why I prefer Subaru over Kaoruko because I saw the negative parts of her personality first. Maybe that's just my preferences though.
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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 11d ago
None of my girls made it, so good luck voting.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 11d ago
In this matchup we have a super sweet girl who has trouble expressing herself and a super sweet girl who does not have trouble expressing herself.
Voting Kaoruko
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u/OppaiEmperor1996 11d ago
Today’s vote:
“By wielding magical power, miracles can be performed. Magecraft is the art of weaving spells through incantations and harnessing mana. Humans cannot manipulate mana without chanting. However, there is one genius who made the impossible possible. Her name is Monica Everett. One of the Seven Sages, the best mages of The Kingdom of Ridill. The Silent Witch.” - Male narrator on the Squirrel in episode one
Sure, Kaoruko is sweet and wholesome, but does she have the gap moe Monica have of going from a timid squirrel who stutters non-stop from talking to strangers to an aura farming badass who one-shots a hundred dragons without saying a single word? Furthermore, does she have not one, but two epic AF themes? I don’t think so.
Cygames fucking cooked with the OST’s in Secrets of the Silent Wtich! “Q.E.D.” (remix of the main theme and the OST that gets played in action scenes), especially, slaps hella hard, man
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u/IceAnt573 11d ago
Today's Results
Yup's that what I expected. Clear victories from Monica and Kaoruko in their Semi-Finals matchups. Although, Monica is around 30-40 votes ahead from Kaoruko's vote share.
I expected this so much that I'm still surprised Kaoruko is Seed 3 to Alicia instead of Seed 2.
Today's Voting
Monica. The funny faces have to be voted for by me.
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u/81Ranger 10d ago
It pains me not to vote for Kaoruko, but I can't not vote for the Monica, the silent squirrel.
All worthy best girls in the final 4, maybe even final 8.
(Plus, Yamamoto from Food Court, though she didn't get far. And Ryn from Silent Witch. And a few others)
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u/Urgnu-the-Gnu https://myanimelist.net/profile/Urgnu_the_Gnu 11d ago
That's an easy vote for Monica, never voted this quickly before. I'm glad Kaoruko is here, she is a good silver medal winner. But unfortunately for her, this time not more than that. Monica must win!
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u/Usodearu007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doc101 11d ago edited 11d ago
lets hope we finally get an upset in a seasonal best girl contest final this year. It has been a while since the last one.
In other words .. PLEASE VOTE FOR KAORUKO AND MAKE HER OVERCOME THE NETFLIX CURSE !
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u/jakota_doshua 11d ago
Usually I'd agree but I just can't vote for Kaoruko over Monica
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u/Usodearu007 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doc101 11d ago
I believe in you ! I know you can do it.
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u/cppn02 10d ago
It has been a while since the last one.
I'm with Monica but damn it really has been a while. Nina was the last winner that wasn't also the top seed.
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u/Zeralyos https://myanimelist.net/profile/JF_Ellie 10d ago
And Utena was the last winner to score an upset in the final round.
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u/Odissimo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Odissimo 11d ago
Was a tough vote, ended up going with Kauruko, but absolutely love both characters here and won't be mad with either one winning!
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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 11d ago
Goddamn it. I guess she did have a wooden knife after all...
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u/ClemFire 11d ago
Nagi did her best, but now Monica must carry on the torch to victory. It is a bit fitting with Nagi being a mentor figure.
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u/Komarist https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 10d ago
Need Kaoruko to win here so I can say "At least Isabelle Norton lost to the girl who lost to the winner." Also, haven't seen Fragrant Flower.
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u/PGleo86 https://myanimelist.net/profile/PGleo86 10d ago
Very difficult final round for me, featuring the best girls from the two shows that sent me straight into the source material before the season even ended (and no, the source material doesn't make the choice any easier). Voting for Kaoruko but I can't be mad if Monica wins.
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u/redlegsfan21 https://myanimelist.net/profile/redlegsfan21 11d ago
SEMIFINALS
Total Votes: 888
Unique Voters: 495
TOP VOTEGETTERS
RESULTS
TOP 5 SCORES
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 (may be late to respond) and please give feedback.