This article will cover r/anime's seasonal contests for the year 2021.
It's the same tournament format as before: 2 days of nominations, 2 days of qualifying/seeding rounds, and 64-player single-elimination bracket. The winner of the final match gets the "Best Girl of [season]" title. In addition, all girls who reach the quarter-finals of each seasonal will qualify for the "Best Girl of 2021" contest.
Nomination rules
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- Only female characters that have appeared in [their respective seasonal] TV anime or that appeared for the first time in a multiple cour show during this period are allowed. They can be animals/creatures as long as they can talk with human characters, are main characters themselves or are part of an anime mostly consisting of non-human characters.
- Movie characters are allowed as long as its first BD release with English subtitles occurred during the season at hand. Check the r/anime discussion threads to make sure when they came out.
- TV Sequels/multiple cour girls that aren't appearing for the first time are NOT allowed.
- Exceptions: For multiple cour girls, If they failed to make it into the bracket for the previous season, they may be renominated again.
- For sequels and remakes, if their last TV appearance was over 15 years ago they may be nominated.
- Characters with Non-TV Animeography in the last 15 years can only have a max of three works since then.
- Limit to 4 Characters per franchise, these will be determined in the elimination round. Absolutely no exceptions to this rule.
- Check MAL's lists to see all 2021 TV anime from each season. (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.)
- Make sure the image links end in .png, .jpg or .jpeg, any other link may not work even if the site accepts it.
- Please don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime, if they make it into the bracket they won't be allowed if their show gets a sequel and they get screentime then.
Winter
Rounds 1-3
(TBD)
Elite Eight
| Winter Elite 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Kyouko Hori
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908 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 |  Ghislaine Dedoldia
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442 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Kyouko Hori
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794 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 |  Eris Greyrat
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610 | 12 |  Kumoko
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660 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Kumoko
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786 | 1 | Kyouko Hori
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771 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 |  Roxy Migurdia
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663 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Roxy Migurdia
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825 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 |  Neiru Aonuma
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325 | 2 | Roxy Migurdia
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781 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 |  Ai Ohto
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631 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ai Ohto
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677 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 |  Rika Kawai
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290 | |||||||||||||||||
Spring
Elite Eight
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| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Vivy
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| 8 |  Elizabeth
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| 4 |  Anju Emma
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| 5 |  Sayu Ogiwara
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| 2 |  Vladilena Milize
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| 7 |  Estella
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| 3 |  Nagatoro-san
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| 6 |  Azusa Aizawa
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