ISML 2020/Seasonals

All ISML 2020 seasonal contests.

Character eligibilty

 * Character must be biologically female. If the character is genderless or undefined, they will only be accepted if they exhibit predominantly feminine characteristics, or if the majority of the audience considers them to be female.
 * Character must be human or anthropomorphic.
 * Character must appear in a series with any new ANIMATED installment PREmeIERING, AIRING, or RELEASED within the following dates:
 * Winter: January 1 - March 31
 * Spring: April 1 - June 30
 * Summer: July 1 - September 30
 * Fall: October 1 - December 31
 * Animated installments include the following media: TV seasons/episodes, Film releases (Theatrical or BLU-RAY), Original video animation (OVA), and Original net animation (ONA).

Character is ineligible if:


 * she is already qualified for 2020's preliminary / regular season or tournament of champions
 * she has won the "Seasonal Diadem" before
 * she has made past the nominations in any of the previous FOUR seasonal contests.

Format

 * Nomination stage - Nominations are either done in the main website, or in the ISML forums. Top 24 (or more) contestants will advance to the next stage.
 * Elimination stage - All qualified nominees will be subject into a single approval voting match. Top 16 contestants will advance to the bracket stage, and will be seeded according to the amount of votes they got in this stage. Remaining contestants are eliminated.
 * Bracket stage - Single-elimination bracket. Seed order is 1-16, 8-9, 4-13, 5-12,  2-15,  7-10,  3-14, 6-11. The winner of the bracket's final wins the Seasonal Diadem and will automatically qualify for next year's tournament, skipping that year's nomination stage.
 * Eliminated contestants will play in the loser's bracket to determine lower places. The last 4 remaining girls will fight in an instant-runoff voting match to decide 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places.

Qualified
Characters who made their first appearance in an ISML contest are labeled in bold.

Bracket
Main

Consolation

Qualified
Characters who made their first appearance in an ISML contest are labeled in bold. Eliminations:

Bracket
Main

Consolation

Qualified
(Results in ISML forum) OLD - Old Debutant. For seasonal contests, an old debutant is someone who first appeared in an anime installment before this season. This means that they had chances to qualify in a prior ISML seasonal or main tournament, but failed. [Note 1] Great Pretender was released ahead of time in Netflix on 2 June 2020. The series started airing on TV on 8 July 2020. This means that the anime had an ONA release during Spring. Because of this, Abigail Jones is classified as an old debutant, as she was technically eligible for Spring qualification. [Note 2] Also known by her alias name Chizuru Mizuhara. [Note 3] Houkago Teibou Nisshi premiered in 7 April, but went on a hiatus after episode 3. The series restarted broadcast on 7 July, with episode 4 airing on 28 July. [Note 4] Saekano the Movie: Finale Blu-ray disc JP release date: 23 September 2020. [Note 5] ISML name: Mira Yu (Japanese name.) [Note 6] Railgun T was delayed multiple times due to COVID-19 pandemic; its first release in Summer was episode 16, aired on 24 July. Furthermore, both Rakko Yumiya and Ryouko Kuriba debuted in Summer because they made their first relevant animated appearances past episode 16. [Note 7] The Millionaire Detective premiered in 9 April, but went on a hiatus after episode 2 due to COVID-19. The series restarted broadcast on 16 July, with episode 3 airing on 30 July.

Elimination round
Sapphire Gem Rounds The Summer Elimination Round occured during the Sapphire Gem round, which was subjected to a re-count. As a result, the votes of each contestant were also changed, affecting the positions of several girls, and consequently, their match-ups for the round of 16. More details here.

Bracket

 * The positions of  #15 vs #10 and #14 vs #11  were swapped in order to streamline the bracket flow.

Qualified
The nomination round took place from 2020 Dec 26 until 2021 Jan 1.

[Note 1] Kud Wafter is an international release, making the show eligble for this season. [Note 2] Hanyou no Yashahime characters will be entered under the Inuyasha series franchise. [Note 3] ISML English name is initially named "Ippanjin" (Japanese name of "Ordinary Person"). [Note 4] ISML name: Tsukasa Yuzaki (married family name).

Elimination round
Playoffs Day 1