Asuna (Sword Art Online)

Asuna Yuuki is the main female protagonist of Reki Kawahara's light novel series Sword Art Online.

Contest profile
Asuna is one of the most famous girls in the 2010's, maintaining a strong presence in the major saimoe tournaments. In ISML, she is a perennial Tiara contender and a regular necklace winner, having won five necklace rounds plus a circlet from winning the 2014 Nova postseason round. In addition to that, Asuna has never missed the postseason in all of her Main Tournament appearances, reaching the quarter-finals in 2014 and 2018, and securing a third-place finish in 2017.

The Lightning Flash is one of the powerhouses in China's Bilibili Moe owing to the anime's immense popularity in the country, which was demonstrated by her  third-place finish in its inaugural edition. In 2017, her championship run was cut short in the quarter-finals, after she faced a rampaging Shielder hell-bent on destroying anyone who opposes her path towards the championship.

Sword Art Online is infamous for being widely panned in the Western anime community, and one of its discussion centers, the r/anime subreddit, generally shares its sentiments. Although she made the quarterfinals in r/anime's Best Girl 1, her subsequent runs were lacking in strength because of her association with SAO, and her reputation as a "baby's first waifu".

However, in an ironic twist of fate, her first ever major tournament win would come from Reddit, not a Chinese-majority contest such as ISML or BMoe. After the first season of SAO's Alicization aired in late 2018, Asuna suddenly sprouted into the minds of anime watchers, which resulted in her highest-ever seed (#4) in 2019's Best Girl 6. Her closest match in the contest would occur in the round of 32, where she narrowly won against an r/Animemes-supported Zero Two brigade. Asuna then blew out all of her remaining opponents en route to her championship, supported by a whole slew of circumstances that made the perfect storm for her to cement her place in the salts of fame.

ISML Record
Record:

Main Tournament
ISML 2013


 * Nova 5th (32-0-3)


 * Postseason Phase 1 Nova Division
 * Yuuki Asuna > Yui (SAO) (5903-2866)
 * Yuuki Asuna > Hasegawa Kobato (4785-4754)
 * Shiina Mashiro > Yuuki Asuna (5943-5224)
 * Postseaon Phase 2 Final League
 * Nakano Azusa > Yuuki Asuna (5370-5187)
 * Yuuki Asuna > Kashiwazaki Sena (6826-4713)
 * Yuuki Asuna > Kuroyukihime (5507-5057)
 * Aragaki Ayase > Yuuki Asuna (6941-6586)
 * Yuuki Asuna > Nakano Azusa (7421-7376)

ISML 2014


 * Nova 4th (32-0-3)

Nova Swiss Rounds (Phase 1) - seed 4


 * Win vs (13) Azusa Azuki, 3691 -  2224
 * Win vs (5) Kuroyukihime, 3702 -  2277
 * Win vs (8) Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi, 3458 -  2486
 * Win vs (10) Nanami Aoyama, 4006 -  2930

Finals Bracket (Phase 2) - seed N1


 * Win vs (S8) Shana, 3827 -  2830
 * Loss vs (S4) Mashiro Shiina, 3990 - 4045


 * Loss vs Taiga Aisaka, 3000 - 3202
 * Win vs Yoshino, 4753 -  3955
 * Loss vs Kurumi Tokisaki, 4571 - 4753

Final postition: 10th

ISML 2015
Stella Swiss Rounds -


 * Win vs (13) Yui (Angel Beats), 3691 -  2224
 * Win vs (12) Eucliwood Hellscythe, 3702 -  2277
 * Loss vs (16) Ayase Aragaki, 2436 - 4060
 * Loss vs (3) Eru Chitanda, xxx -  xxx

Tara Playoffs (Phase 2) - seed S4


 * Loss vs (N5) Yoshino, 2771 - 4896 


 * Loss vs x, xxxx - xxxx
 * Win vs x, x -  x

Final position: 6th

Best Girl Contest
Best Girl 1 (2014) - seed 8


 * Win vs (505) Nino, 3059 -  513
 * Win vs (264) Rea Sanka, 3880 -  1194
 * Win vs (120) Nui Harime, 4472 -  1796
 * Win vs (57) Mio Akiyama, 4262 -  2975
 * Win vs (25) Mikasa Ackerman, 4887 -  4050
 * Win vs (24) Homura Akemi, 5791 -  5773 (18 votes difference!)
 * Loss vs (17) Holo, 4404 - 6751

Best Girl 2 (2015) - seed 25


 * Win vs (488) Hitei, 6591 -  2118
 * Win vs (281) Sawako Yamanaka, 6637 -  2817
 * Win vs (104) Rei Ayanami, 6150 -  4483
 * Win vs (40) Haruhi Suzumiya, 6398 -  6033
 * Loss vs (8) Yoko Littner, 5402 - 7018

Best Girl 3 (2016) - seed 44


 * Win vs (469) Yui Kurata, 3607 -  1417
 * Win vs (213) Meme, 4344 -  2758
 * Loss vs (85) Yui Hirasawa, 3256 - 3379

Best Girl 4 (2017) - seed 43


 * Win vs (470) Riko Suminoe, 6795 -  2782
 * Win vs (299) Masuzu Natsukawa, 6144 -  3433
 * Win vs (86) Tooru Hagakure, 6249 -  5365
 * Loss vs (22) Darkness, 4667 - 8723

Best Girl 5 (2018) - seed 59


 * Win vs (469) Nepgear, 5387 -  3256
 * Win vs (213) San, 5220 -  4133
 * Loss vs (70) Shizuka Hiratsuka, 4042 - 6114

Best Girl 6 (2019) - seed 4


 * Win vs (509) Yukina Himeragi, 4212 -  1090
 * Win vs (253) Megumi Katou, 4194 -  2225
 * Win vs (125) Akane Tsunemori, 5681 -  3090
 * Win vs (68) Alice Nakiri, 6166 -  9312
 * Win vs (29) Zero Two, 8089 -  8058 (31 votes difference!)
 * Win vs (13) Mayoi Hachikuji, 6763 -  4657
 * Win vs (23) Jibril, 9450 -  6434
 * Win vs (9) Mikasa Ackerman, 10552 -  6602
 * Win vs (6) Winry Rockbell, 11937 -  6996

Bilibili Moe 2015
Round of 128 Groups

Bracket Stage


 * Win vs Kotori Itsuka, 56,744 - 37,633
 * Win vs Kurumi Tokisaki, 54,290 - 54,133 (157 votes difference!)
 * Win vs Kanade Tachibana, 55,653 - 53,098
 * Loss vs Rin Tohsaka, 61,945 - 59,023
 * Win vs Chiyo Sakura, 59,929 - 56,634

Bilibili Moe 2017
Round of 128 Groups

Bracket Stage


 * Win vs Annie Leonhart,  143,062 - 34,223 (TLV: 2221 - 125)
 * Win vs Zero (Grimoire of Zero), 138,972 - 47,004 (TLV: 1330 - 325)
 * Loss vs Mash Kyrielight, 141,698 - 169,489 (TLV: 11,296 - 22,626)

Anime Saimoe Tournament
2013


 * Asuna Yuuki > Yukari Hinata > Kyouko Suehara (176-113-51)
 * Asuna Yuuki > Ayano Sugiura > Umi Sonoda (209-168-61)
 * Akari Akaza > Asuna Yuuki (270-159)

2014



Honours
Bilibili Moe

Contest Wins
Total Wins : 26


 * 1) Best Girl 6: Starting salt in another contest ★
 * 2) ISML 2012 Summer Diadem
 * 3) Anitown Moe Tournament 2012 Summer
 * 4) (ACG 178.com) 2012 Summer Female Character Popularity Contest
 * 5) 2015 DM123 AnimeFans Saimoe
 * 6) Aminoapps Torneo Kawaii V.1 (2017)
 * 7) Sakura Bloom(Anime Shop) Waifu War 2018
 * 8) ACGN Miss Anime 2018
 * 9) Bilibili Mini Moe 2019
 * 10) Tiangshidongman Moe 2019/20
 * 11) FACEBOOK Anime Nikki Torneo de waifus 2019
 * 12) Calendario Fabrio Torneo de Parejas 2019 (w/ Kirito)
 * 13) 2019 FACEBOOK Eliud Posting Torneo de waifus 2
 * 14) Tiangshidongman Moe 1st ToC
 * 15) Anime Trending 2012 Grand Run-off polls
 * 16) FACEBOOK Daring 32 Teams Torneo de waifus 2020
 * 17) FB Torneo de waifu el emision verano 2020
 * 18) Facebook Torneo De Waifus Otono 2020
 * 19) Animesy Mangas Roy Kun Luna Torneo de waifus 2020(Facebook)
 * 20) Otokami Producciones Como la REINA VERANO 2020
 * 21) Shido-senpai torneo de waifus 2021
 * 22) Torneo de Waifus de EVACON Nicaragu 2021
 * 23) Anime New World 2021
 * 24) Facebook Anime Girl Cup 2021
 * 25) Facebook We don't 模因(muyin, lit. modeling) torneo de Waifus 2021
 * 26) FB Cre: Cao Fennik chung ket 2022

Runner-up Lists
List of runner-up finishes = 27
 * 1) Anitown Moe Tournament 2012 ToC
 * 2) Jiazuman(家族漫, lit. Anime Family) Community Moe 2012
 * 3) FB Moe League 2013
 * 4) Japan Animation Federation's 2nd Comic Competition
 * 5) Animefans Saimoe Tournament 2014
 * 6) 4th Weibo Saimoe ToC
 * 7) Baidu Harem Moe 2015
 * 8) AnimeGirls Saimoe 2015
 * 9) 1st Youqing Xiaozhan(=Blog for Friendship) Constellation Moe 2017
 * 10) Anime Amino's Best Girl/Waifu Competition 2015 (Challonge)
 * 11) Aminoapps @Anime-kun Torneo de waifus 2017
 * 12) Anime World Most Beautiful Girl Contest 2019
 * 13) Facebook Waifu War Quoc Thang 2020
 * 14) Anime News Research Waifu of Summer 2020 Tournament
 * 15) Animes y Mangas Roy Kun Luna 2020
 * 16) Facebook Torneo de waifus 2020
 * 17) FB @No Anime No Life Waifu Tournament Pt.1 (2020)
 * 18) Tsuki Zekay Torneo de best waifu 2020
 * 19) Battle of Waifu Your Isekai Heart Waifu 2020
 * 20) El torneo Migajas de Itsuki News 2021
 * 21) 2021 Torneo de waifus Yugen S2
 * 22) Go Toumemes Torneo de waifus 2021
 * 23) Manh Dio Vote Best Waifu 2021 - Thichcoianimevamanga
 * 24) ALS-AMG Fanpage the Best Waifu 2021
 * 25) FB Quan Whisky Waifu League Paris 2021
 * 26) @Yesi la Otaku Td la Mejor Waifu 2021
 * 27) Facebook @The Gioi Anime Vote Waifu 2022