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Greetings, and welcome to Anime Versus. Like it's predecessors, Anime Versus will pit two competitors against each other each week, to see which one PPTers prefer. To vote, please select the anime you like best from the poll at the top of this topic, then feel free to discuss your choice below. The winner of the week will move onto the next round, and will face a new challenger anime. Should an anime win for six weeks straight, it will be removed from the competition and placed into the Anime Hall of Fame.

Last week, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon defeated His and Her Circumstances by sixteen votes. This week it will face a new shoujo competitor

The Competitors


Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

versus


Air

Series Information:

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (a.k.a Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, a.k.a. Sailor Moon) is a mahou shoujo (magical girl) series produced by Toei and originally created by Takeuchi Naoko (manga). With 200 episodes, it originally aired in Japan from 3/7/92 to 2/8/97, with four of the five seasons having been translated and shown on American television.*

Tsukino Usagi was your average junior high student. Well, maybe a bit below-average. Between failing grades, a tendency toward oversleeping, and a near-terminal case of clumsiness, she hardly seems like the first choice for a guardian of justice. But when a black cat named Luna gives her a transformation brooch, Usagi finds out that she is the magical warrior, Sailor Moon. As her dear friends and fellow Senshi gather around her, she’ll face evil forces, true love, and her own destiny.

Primary Seiyuu for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon**
--Mitsuishi Kotono as Tsukino Usagi/Sailor Moon/Princess Serenity (Excel – Excel Saga, Souma Kagura – Fruits Basket, Mireille Bouquet – Noir, Arisugawa Jury – Revolutionary Girl Utena)
--Hisakawa Aya as Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury (Kaoru Miki – Revolutionary Girl Utena, Kurosawa Minamo (‘Nyamo’) – Azumanga Daioh, Skuld – Ah! My Goddess, Chloe – Noir)
--Tomizawa Michie as Hino Rei/Sailor Mars (C-ko Kotobuki – Project A-Ko, Kasuga Manami – Kimagure Orange Road, Yamazaki Linna – Bubblegum Crisis, Kanzaki Sumire – Sakura Wars)
--Shinohara Emi as Kino Makoto/Sailor Jupiter (Presea – Magic Knight Rayearth, B-ko Daitokuji – Project A-Ko, Azalie – Orphen, Mizuki Kaho – Cardcaptor Sakura)
Fukami Rika as Aino Minako/Sailor Venus/Sailor V (Spoor – Banner of the Stars, Myung Fang Lone – Macross Plus, Hayami Daiko – New Cutey Honey, Imamura Suzu – Fullmoon wo Sagash*te)


Air is a slice-of-life drama produced by Kyoto Animation and aired in Japan from 1/6/05 to 3/31/05 (13 episodes).**

Kunisaki Yukito grew up hearing tales of a winged girl who flew through the skies. Before her death, his mother told him that it was the mission of their family to find that girl and save her. Taking this to heart, Yukito travels the country searching for her while performing puppet shows to obtain the money necessary to survive. During his travels, he arrives in a small town with many mysterious and troubled young women, each with her own dilemmas the he must help to resolve. The issues of one of the girls, young Misuzu, causes him to wonder if perhaps she is the link he needs to find the girl in the sky.

Primary Seiyuu for Air
--Ono Daisuke as Kunisaki Yukito (Enju – Rozen Maiden: Traumend, Kidaf – Scrapped Princess, Kobayashi – Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu, Katakoka Masaya – Jigoku Shoujo)
--Kawasaki Tomoko as Kamio Misuzu (Tenjou Utena – Revolutionary Girl Utena, Kaana – NieA_7, Shindou Hikaru – Hikaru no Go, Chiriko – Fushigi Yuugi)
--Hisakawa Aya as Kamio Haruko (Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury – Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Sohma Yuki – Fruits Basket, Rem Savarem – Trigun, Rimelda – Madlax)
--Yuzuki Ryoka as Tohno Minagi (Kishyuu Arashi – X, Yamanaka Ino – Naruto, Akimoto Yoiko – Koi Kaze, Shimizu Takako – Chobits)
--Okamoto Asami as Kirishimi Kano (Hoshino Asuka – Sentimental Journey)
--Nishimura Chinami as Kannabi no Mikoto (Randy – Maze, Mia Guillem – Kaleido Star, Ijimama Kiiro – Iczelion, Aska – Magic Knight Rayearth)

*Information from http://www.animeacademy.com
**Information from http://www.animenewsnetwork.com


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Hall of Fame
Fullmetal Alchemist (won weeks 4 through 9)

Future Competitors (in no particular order & subject to change):
Magic Knight Rayearth
Marmalade Boy
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Hikaru no Go
Shaman King
Infinite Ryvius
Chobits
Love Hina
Miracle Girls
.hack//SIGN

Previous Competitors:
Trigun (Lost week 1 to Cowboy Bebop)
Ranma 1/2 (Lost week 2 to Cowboy Bebop)
Ayashi no Ceres (Tied with Cowboy Bebop week 3, lost to Fullmetal Alchemist week 4)
Bleach (Lost week 5 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Read or Die: The TV (Lost week 6 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Prince of Tennis (Lost week 7 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Serial Experiments: Lain (Lost week 8 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Cowboy Bebop (Won weeks 1 & 2, tied Ayashi no Ceres week 3, lost week 9 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Retired to Hall of Fame)
His and Her Circumstances (Lost week 11 - Shoujo Showdown - to Sailor Moon)

I have barely seen any of Air as a show, but have seen a ton of stuff about it on fan art sites (Japanese and Korean only since I don't like American fan art for the most part). I was instantly intrigued by it. I really hope I'm not the only one to vote for it

I vote Air simply for making you depressed, then releasing specials to make you depressed again, then releasing a movie to finish you off with a bout of depression

I should so make that the summary.

I never did get to see Air, so I'm voting for something I actually watched.

I'm going to have to say Sailor Moon again. Although the art for for Air looks amazing, the plots sounds much to depressing for me, and I prefer the humourous stuff anyway. =P

Sailor Moon wins 13 to 6.

Thanks for voting, everyone. Week 12 will be up shortly.