Best Girl 5

Best Girl 5: Legend of the Galactic Waifu was organized by r/anime moderator ShaKing807 with voting and results conducted in the AnimeBracket website. The competition ran from June to July 2018 and ended with the #2 seed Rem winning the championship over #1 seed Aqua -- the first such final fought between the highest seeds in the tournament's history.

Unlike last year's contest, this year's subtitle is named after Legend of the Galactic Heroes, a highly-regarded space opera anime.

Rules & Tournament Format
Voting poilcy
 * You must register or login to a reddit account in order to vote.
 * Accounts must be at least 2 months old.

Nomination
 * Lasts 3 days
 * Enter name, series, image URL address
 * Image links must come from MyAnimeList or Anilist, otherwise the nomination will be deleted
 * Characters who have made their animated debut in 2017 Summer or later are NOT allowed. (This means NO DarliFra in particular; get fucking rekt Zero Two fans)
 * Best Girl champions    and Best Character winners   are also NOT allowed.
 * Check the entrants list first to prevent repeat nominations

Eliminations
 * Voters will choose the characters they want to participate in the main bracket stage.
 * All nominees are divided into 4-6 groups depending on total amount
 * Each group lasts 1 day
 * Approval voting - Vote whoever you like; there is no limit.
 * 512 players with the highest adjusted votes will advance to the main bracket.

Main Bracket
 * 512 players, single-elimination
 * Seeded by results in the previous stage
 * Rounds 1-6 are split into 4 groups per round; each group lasts one day
 * Quarter-finals and beyond will last one day each
 * A consolation match for third-place, if available, will be held in a separate website.
 * If a match is tied, the higher-seeded contestant wins.

Bracket
Due to the website's limited default horizontal space, the first two rounds (512 and 256) are shown in simple tables, while rounds 3 and beyond will appear as brackets.