ISML 2013

Nomination Period

Please see: ISML 2013 Nomination

Preliminary

Nova

Preliminary Phase 1

Arena	Contestants
Nova 1	Hasegawa Kobato
Nova 2	Kashiwazaki Sena
Nova 3	Kirigaya Suguha
Nova 4	Nibutani Shinka
Nova 5	Chitanda Eru
Nova 6	Shiina Mashiro
Nova 7	Mikazuki Yozora
Nova 8	Yui (SAO)
Nova 9	Touwa Erio
Nova 10	Kuroyukihime
Nova 11	Takanashi Rikka
Nova 12	Yuuki Asuna

Preliminary Phase 2

Arena	Contestants
Nova 1	Ayano Keiko (Silica)
Nova 2	Aoyama Nanami
Nova 3	Yuzuriha Inori
Nova 4	Oshino Shinobu
Nova 5	Natsume Rin
Nova 6	Noumi Kudryavka
Nova 7	Yuuki Mikan
Nova 8	Misaki Mei

Preliminary Phase 3

Arena	Contestants
Bracket A	Takanashi Touka
Bracket B	Makise Kurisu
Bracket C	Araragi Karen
Bracket D	Shirakiin Ririchiyo
Bracket E	Honma Meiko
Bracket F	Roromiya Karuta
Bracket G	Kanzaki H. Aria
Bracket H	Akemi Homura
Bracket I	Momo Belia Deviluke
Bracket J	Nyarlathotep
Bracket K	Kotegawa Yui
Bracket L	Araragi Tsukihi
Bracket M	Kirishima Shouko
Bracket N	Konoe Subaru
Bracket O	Sanka Rea
Bracket P	Kurasaki Fuuko (Sky Raker)

Stella

Round 1

Arena	Contestants
Stella 1	Tachibana Kanade
Stella 2	Eucliwood Hellscythe
Stella 3	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)
Stella 4	Aisaka Taiga
Stella 5	Akiyama Mio
Stella 6	Misaka Mikoto
Stella 7	Nakano Azusa
Stella 8	Nagato Yuki
Stella 9	Yui-nyan
Stella 10	Shana
Stella 11	Nakamura Yuri
Stella 12	Suzumiya Haruhi

Round 2

Arena	Contestants
Stella 1	Konjiki no Yami
Stella 2	Saber
Stella 3	Louise Vallière
Stella 4	Tousaka Rin
Stella 5	Victorique de Blois
Stella 6	Kuroi Mato
Stella 7	Kousaka Kirino
Stella 8	Sengoku Nadeko
Stella 9	Illyasviel von Einzbern
Stella 10	Charlotte Dunois
Stella 11	Katsura Hinagiku
Stella 12	Hirasawa Yui

Round 3

Arena	Contestants
Stella 1	C.C.
Stella 2	Sakagami Tomoyo
Stella 3	Last Order
Stella 4	Nymph
Stella 5	Izumi Konata
Stella 6	Iwasawa Masami
Stella 7	Fujibayashi Kyō
Stella 8	Holo
Stella 9	Senjougahara Hitagi
Stella 10	Hirasawa Ui
Stella 11	Furukawa Nagisa
Stella 12	Aragaki Ayase

Contestant Level and No.

Stella
	1	2	3	4	5
Tier 1	Tachibana Kanade	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)	Eucliwood Hellscythe	Nakano Azusa	Aisaka Taiga
Tier 2	Akiyama Mio	Kousaka Kirino	Misaka Mikoto	Nakamura Yuri	Shana
Tier 3	Saber	Hirasawa Yui	Suzumiya Haruhi	Konjiki no Yami	Sengoku Nadeko
Tier 4	Nagato Yuki	Katsura Hinagiku	Kuroi Mato	Senjougahara Hitagi	Sakagami Tomoyo
Tier 5	Victorique de Blois	Charlotte Dunois	Tousaka Rin	Iwasawa Masami	Louise Vallière
Tier 6	Last Order	C.C.	Furukawa Nagisa	Fujibayashi Kyou	Illyasviel von Einzbern
Tier 7	Izumi Konata	Aragaki Ayase	Holo	Hirasawa Ui	Nymph
Wild Card	Yui

Nova
	1	2	3	4	5
Tier 1	Yuuki Asuna	Kuroyukihime	Takanashi Rikka	Hasegawa Kobato	Shiina Mashiro
Tier 2	Kashiwazaki Sena	Yuzuriha Inori	Chitanda Eru	Mikazuki Yozora	Kirigaya Suguha
Tier 3	Nibutani Shinka	Ayano Keiko (Silica)	Aoyama Nanami	Takanashi Touka	Noumi Kudryavka
Tier 4	Natsume Rin	Yuuki Mikan	Oshino Shinobu	Makise Kurisu	Touwa Erio
Tier 5	Araragi Karen	Shirakiin Ririchiyo	Misaki Mei	Nyarlathotep	Momo Belia Deviluke
Tier 6	Honma Meiko	Kanzaki H. Aria	Roromiya Karuta	Araragi Tsukihi	Kirishima Shouko
Tier 7	Akemi Homura	Kotegawa Yui	Kurasaki Fuuko (Sky Raker)	Konoe Subaru	Sanka Rea
Wild Card	Yui (SAO)

Regular Season

Aquamarine

On the Nova side, there are many new faces this year. One of the strongest faction in Preliminary, Sword Art Online ,found themselves unable to keep up with their excellent Preliminary Result, while the two Haganai girls are going well with their recent boost from the second season. Two unexpect upset among the Tier 1 happened in Round 7 was Shiina Mashiro > Takanashi Rikka and Hasegawa Kobato > Yuuki Asuna . Rikka was the winner of the Diadem of Autumn last year after crashing Mashiro at the final round, Asuna was the winner of the Diadem of Summer last year and also the winner was the match of diadem winners. The result put her as the strongest new blood from last year, while Kobato was placed 14th in the Final League. In the end, Hasegawa Kobato was placed 1st with the highest SDO in Nova.

On the Stella side, unlike last year, where she was faced with low SDO disadvantage, the former Aquamarine Necklace Winner Tachibana Kanade found herself holding the historical high SDO of 103.046, which was more than enough to combine with her strength. Despite the problem of split voting in the Hanazawa faction and many people wanted a new winner for Aquamarine Necklace. The severe disadvantage of low SDO in other contestants and K-ON! and Railgun faction out of running plus Kanade's own overwelming strength, lead the match into an completely onsided one, granting Tenshi the first necklace of the year again with no surprise and Kanade officially become the first repeat winner of Aquamarine Necklace.

Period Standing Top 14 Contestants
Rank	Nova	Stella
1	Hasegawa Kobato	Tachibana Kanade
2	Shiina Mashiro	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)
3	Kuroyukihime	Aisaka Taiga
4	~~Yuuki Asuna~~	Kousaka Kirino
5	~~Takanashi Rikka~~	~~Misaka Mikoto~~
6	~~Chitanda Eru~~	~~Akiyama Mio~~
7	~~Kashiwazaki Sena~~	~~Eucliwood Hellscythe~~

Aquamarine Necklace Match Result
Rank	Contestants	Votes	SDO	FNS
1	Tachibana Kanade	3052	103.046	66.546
2	Shiina Mashiro	1471	94.898	47.151
3	Kuroyukihime	1051	88.457	40.573
4	Hasegawa Kobato	808	95.793	40.455
5	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)	1194	80.179	39.323
6	Aisaka Taiga	1387	71.132	38.343
7	Kousaka Kirino	516	66.234	27.522

Necklace Winner: Tachibana Kanade

Amethyst

Despite her heavy deplete in strength after the end of Shakugan no Shana final season, Shana is refused to give up her dream of obtaining all 7 colours of necklace. But with one lose in the first round, she barely just got into the Necklace Round as a wildcard. After Tenshi's success in repeat necklace winning, her Hanazawa sister Gokou Ruri is also eager to do so. Clearing her path towards the Necklace Round with no problem, Ruri also obtained the highest SDO on the way. With Oreimo on air making Ruri stronger and stronger as each match went by, the black cat successfully obtain the necklace with an onesided match just like what happened in Aquamarine, making 2013 the first year with 2 repeat necklace winners.

Period Standing Top 14 Contestants
Rank	Nova	Stella
1	Shiina Mashiro	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)
2	Kuroyukihime	~~Tachibana Kanade~~
3	Takanashi Rikka	Eucliwood Hellscythe
4	~~Kashiwazaki Sena~~	Misaka Mikoto
5	~~Yuuki Asuna~~	Shana
6	~~Nibutani Shinka~~	~~Aisaka Taiga~~
7	~~Hasegawa Kobato~~	~~Akiyama Mio~~

Amethyst Necklace Match Final Result
Rank	Contestants	Votes	SDO	FNS
1	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)	2412	98.874	57.080
2	Shana	1544	85.357	43.894
3	Shiina Mashiro	1379	90.262	43.879
4	Eucliwood Hellscythe	1135	83.365	39.140
5	Kuroyukihime	890	86.466	37.723
6	Misaka Mikoto	1619	61.583	36.719
7	Takanashi Rikka	1020	71.990	34.198

Necklace Winner: Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)

Ruby

As Amethyst passed by, the Regular Season is reaching towards its midway.

The Novas has becoming more and more unstable with many upsets and characters rising and falling in strength of big gaps, leading a high inflation of SDO towards lowest ranking Tier 1 character Asuna. Facing her daughter, the Nova wildcard, Yui, from the same series in the last round. she successfully secured her 7 wins and a spot towards Ruby Necklace Match. The former Summer Diadem winner, Takanashi Rikka, recovered from her bitter defeat in Aquamarine, took down Kuroyukihime in Round 7, leaving Shiina Mashiro the only loseless character left on stage as Ruby Period close in.

Meanwhile over in the Stella side, with the airing of Railgun, Mikoto has picked up her former strength, defeating Aisaka Taiga. But her luck is out on this period with weak matchups leading to low SDO. The unexpected inter-series upset of Akiyama Mio over her Kouhai Nakano Azusa, plus the strong match up allow her to gain the highest SDO from the Stella side.

However, K-ON! has had their time and their strength is falling. With two Hanazawa characters already out with their respective necklaces, and Taiga and Mikoto suffering from low SDO. Yuuki Asuna managed to be the first Nova to obtain a necklace this year despite the overwelming performance from Mikoto.

Period Standing Top 14 Contestants
Rank	Nova	Stella
1	Yuuki Asuna	Akiyama Mio
2	Takanashi Rikka	~~Tachibana Kanade~~
3	Shiina Mashiro	~~Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)~~
4	Kuroyukihime	Misaka Mikoto
5	~~Hasegawa Kobato~~	Aisaka Taiga
6	~~Aoyama Nanami~~	~~Eucliwood Hellscythe~~
7	~~Kashiwazaki Sena~~	~~Kousaka Kirino~~

Ruby Necklace Match Final Result
Rank	Contestants	Votes	SDO	FNS
1	Yuuki Asuna	1874	110.125	57.881
2	Misaka Mikoto	2059	77.072	48.954
3	Akiyama Mio	1020	96.918	43.830
4	Takanashi Rikka	1077	82.203	39.569
5	Shiina Mashiro	1106	76.473	37.987
6	Aisaka Taiga	997	55.988	29.927
7	Kuroyukihime	718	63.707	29.348

Necklace Winner: Yuuki Asuna

Emerald

With the necklace win from Yuuki Asuna in the last period, the Nova are getting ready to challenge the Stella again. Mashiro, now the only loseless character in Nova, successfully secured her title by defeating Kuroyukihime in the last round. The unstable strengths of Nova characters continued with many unexpected upsets between two characters with big ranking gaps.

Two undefeated character, Tachibana Kanade and Gokou Ruri, remained undefeated through Emerald. This period has proved the first time ever Shana, the representative of Kugi and Tsundere in ISML, lost in a inter-seiyuu match to her Kugi sister Aisaka Taiga. Mikoto, despite growing stronger from the airing of Railgun anime, is having trouble with her opponents performing badly, leading to a low SDO. The second powerhouse from OreImo, Aragaki Ayase , has proved herself to be the first Tier 7 character to enter a necklace round.

Despite the even bigger Vote Difference, Mikoto was unable to upset Rikka's high SDO, with a difference of 1.38 in necklace socre, Takanashi Rikka followed Asuna's step and took away another necklace for Nova.

Period Standing Top 14 Contestants
Rank	Nova	Stella
1	Takanashi Rikka	~~Tachibana Kanade~~
2	Shiina Mashiro	~~Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)~~
3	Hasegawa Kobato	Misaka Mikoto
4	Kuroyukihime	Aragaki Ayase
5	~~Kashiwazaki Sena~~	Shana
6	~~Yuuki Asuna~~	~~Aisaka Taiga~~
7	~~Nyarlathotep~~	~~Nakano Azusa~~

Emerald Necklace Match Final Result
Rank	Contestants	Votes	SDO	FNS
1	Takanashi Rikka	2242	102.309	57.624
2	Misaka Mikoto	2992	74.564	57.624
3	Shiina Mashiro	1381	86.808	43.424
4	Shana	993	68.273	33.175
5	Hasegawa Kobato	546	79.055	32.080
6	Kuroyukihime	701	70.294	30.785
7	Aragaki Ayase	677	47.308	22.872

Necklace Winner: Takanashi Rikka

Topaz

The Round 1 of this period has proved itself to be the most intense round of the year in Regular Season, with the amount of votes almost doubled from the usual 7000-8000 voters. It is the first time ever, the undefeated Tenshi, Tachibana Kanade, lost a match in her Regular Season journey, leaving her Hanazawa sister Gokou Ruri to be the last loseless character standing in Stella. The upset of Izumi Konata over Holo also marked the first time in the history of ISML that the last finisher in Regular Season is not winless. Then finally, the time has came for the Nova 1st Shiina Mashiro to shine. With the highest SDO ever in this year, Mashiro managed to win the Necklace Round without much trouble.

Period Standing Top 14 Contestants
Rank	Nova	Stella
1	Shiina Mashiro	Eucliwood Hellscythe
2	~~Takanashi Rikka~~	~~Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)~~
3	~~Yuuki Asuna~~	Aisaka Taiga
4	Hasegawa Kobato	Misaka Mikoto
5	Kuroyukihime	Kousaka Kirino
6	~~Chitanda Eru~~	~~Shana~~
7	~~Yuzuriha Inori~~	~~Aragaki Ayase~~

Topaz Necklace Match Final Result
Rank	Contestants	Votes	SDO	FNS
1	Shiina Mashiro	3118	112.380	65.382
2	Eucliwood Hellscythe	1930	93.961	48.603
3	Misaka Mikoto	2511	64.853	44.104
4	Aisaka Taiga	1560	83.144	41.684
5	Kousaka Kirino	652	72.605	41.684
6	Hasegawa Kobato	607	65.472	27.260
7	Kuroyukihime	789	50.695	23.964

Necklace Winner: Shiina Mashiro

Post Season

Post Season Phase 1

Sapphire

Eru

Yui

Shiina Mashiro

Diamond

Yui

Mio

Tachibana Kanade (Tenshi)

Yui

Post Season Phase 2

Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)

Final Standing
Rank	Name	Series
1	Gokou Ruri (Kuroneko)	Ore no Imouto
2	Tachibana Kanade	Angel Beats!
3	Eucliwood Hellscythe	Kore wa Zombie desu Ka?
4	Misaka Mikoto	Toaru Majutsu no Index
5	Shiina Mashiro	Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo
6	Aragaki Ayase	Ore no Imouto
7	Yuuki Asuna	Sword Art Online
8	Nakano Azusa	K-ON!
9	Takanashi Rikka	Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
10	Kuroyukihime	Accel World
11	Aisaka Taiga	Toradora!
12	Hasegawa Kobato	Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
13	Aoyama Nanami	Sakurasou no Pet na Kanajo
14	Kousaka Kirino	Ore no Imouto
15	Yuzuriha Inori	Guilty Crown
16	Kashiwazaki Sena	Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai

Bold: Necklace Winner