Best Girl Contest

The Best Girl Contest is an annual character popularity tournament hosted by moderators in the r/anime subreddit and conducted through the AnimeBracket website. As the name suggests, it is a contest where users vote for their "best anime girl" in a massive single-elimination bracket. Traditionally held from June to July, the first Best Girl contest happened in 2014, making it the oldest r/anime tournament and preceding all other tournaments held in the subreddit. Best Girl also has the highest number of participants; thus, it's pretty much the only contest many redditors give a shit about.

Editions

Best Girl Editions
Edition	Host	Winner	Runner-up	Final Date (UTC-04:00)	Bracket Link
Best Girl 1	Jordy56	Kurisu Makise Steins;Gate	Holo Spice & Wolf	2014 July 20	AB Link
Best Girl 2		Yukino Yukinoshita Oregairu	Saber Fate/stay night	2015 Aug 05	AB Link
Best Girl 3	ShaKing807	Mikoto Misaka A Certain Magical Index	Megumi Tadokoro Shokugeki no Souma	2016 July 04	AB Link
Best Girl 4		Rin Tohsaka Fate/stay night	Yui Yuigahama Oregairu	2017 July 08	AB Link
Best Girl 5		Rem Re:Zero	Aqua Konosuba	2018 July 19	AB Link
Best Girl 6		Asuna Yuuki Sword Art Online	Winry Rockbell Fullmetal Alchemist	2019 July 12	AB Link
Best Girl 7		Kaguya Shinomiya Kaguya-sama	Mai Sakurajima Seishun Buta Yarou	2020 July 20	AB Link
Best Girl 8	mpp00	Mai Sakurajima Seishun Buta Yarou	Shouko Nishimiya Koe no Katachi	2021 July 16	AB Link
Best Girl 9		Ai Hayasaka Kaguya-sama	Vladilena Milize Eighty-Six	2022 July 19	AB Link
Best Girl 10		Kurumi Tokisaki[1] Date A Live	Marin Kitagawa Sono Bisque Doll	2023 July 30	AB Link
Best Girl 11		Holo Spice and Wolf	Megumin KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!	2024 July 17	AB Link

Notes
^[1] Kurumi Tokisaki was disqualified due to bot voting manipulation.

Trivia

Elite Eight

As of July 2022, there are 37 girls who have appeared in at least the quarter-finals in the Best Girl contest (out of a possible 72).

Best Girl Elite Eight Performances
Name	Win	2nd	SF	QF
Kurisu Makise	BG1	0	0	0
Yukino Yukinoshita	BG2	0	0	0
Mikoto Misaka	BG3	0	0	1 (BG2)
Rin Tohsaka	BG4	0	0	2 (BG2, BG3)
Rem	BG5	0	0	1 (BG4)
Asuna Yuuki	BG6	0	0	1 (BG1)
Kaguya Shinomiya	BG7	0	0	0
Mai Sakurajima	BG8	1 (BG7)	0	0
Ai Hayasaka	BG9	0	1 (BG7)	0
Holo	BG11	1 (BG1)	5 (BG3, BG5, BG7, BG8, BG9)	2 (BG4, BG6)
Aqua	0	1 (BG5)	2 (BG6, BG8)	1 (BG7)
Yui Yuigahama	0	1 (BG4)	1 (BG2)	2 (BG8, BG9)
Megumin	0	1 (BG11)	0	4 (BG7, BG8, BG9, BG10)
Shouko Nishimiya	0	1 (BG8)	0	2 (BG5, BG6)
Saber	0	1 (BG2)	0	1 (BG3)
Megumi Tadokoro	0	1 (BG3)	0	1 (BG2)
Winry Rockbell	0	1 (BG6)	0	0
Vladilena Milize	0	1 (BG9)	0	0
Hitagi Senjougahara	0	0	3 (BG1, BG2, BG3)	0
Ryuuko Matoi	0	0	1 (BG4)	2 (BG1, BG5)
Shinobu Oshino	0	0	1 (BG4)	1 (BG1)
Himeko Inaba	0	0	1 (BG1)	0
Ochako Uraraka	0	0	1 (BG5)	0
Mikasa Ackerman	0	0	1 (BG6)	0
Mio Akiyama	0	0	1 (BG9)	0
Emilia	0	0	0	3 (BG4, BG7, BG8)
Mayuri Shiina	0	0	0	2 (BG5, BG6)
Chika Fujiwara	0	0	0	2 (BG7, BG8)
Yoko Littner	0	0	0	1 (BG1)
Taiga Aisaka	0	0	0	1 (BG2)
Eru Chitanda	0	0	0	1 (BG3)
Chiyo Sakura	0	0	0	1 (BG3)
Suruga Kanbaru	0	0	0	1 (BG4)
Tohru	0	0	0	1 (BG5)
Jibril	0	0	0	1 (BG6)
Kyouko Hori	0	0	0	1 (BG9)
Miko Iino	0	0	0	1 (BG9)

Distinctions

• Holo, widely considered the strongest girl to have never won a Best Girl yet, has the most Elite Eight appearances with eight; she only missed the stage once on Best Girl 2 when she lost to Hitagi Senjougahara in the sixth round. Holo also has the most semi-finals appearances with five.
• Mikoto Misaka is the lowest seed to win Best Girl, or any /r/anime major tournament for that matter, having won Best Girl 3 as seed #53. That final also had the lowest-ever seed to finish runner-up, the #42 seed Megumi Tadokoro.
• Kaguya Shinomiya set several records in her historic Best Girl 7 victory: first champion to originate from a manga, first royal roader (win in debut appearance) since Best Girl 1, and first #1 seed to win the tournament.
• Mai Sakurajima is the first girl to appear in two finals, losing in Best Girl 7 before winning it on Best Girl 8.
• Best Girl 8 was the first edition to feature no new quarter-finalists. In other words, all 8 remaining girls from that year have already reached the Elite Eight beforehand.
• Ai Hayasaka's victory in Best Girl 9 again set several records like Kaguya did: first champion with no romantic involvement, first series to win two Best Girl contests, and overtaking Mai Sakurajima as the most dominant champion to date as she never went below 58% vote shares in all of her matches.

Winners Gallery

BG1 - Kurisu

BG2 - Yukino

BG3 - Mikoto

BG4 - Rin

BG5 - Rem

BG6 - Asuna

BG7 - Kaguya

BG8 - Mai

BG9 - Hayasaka

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