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MATCH #12: 10. KURUMI TOKISAKI VS. 23. ANCHOVY
We are almost through Round One of the tournament, with only four more matches starting with today's match. We had a snoozer with the classic red-headed tsundere beating the classic cute youkai. Today we have a cool yandere facing a pasta tsundere.
"Ara ara Shido-kun!" Date A Live is a cool series that combines several seemingly distinct genres and tropes into an awesome package: mahou shoujo, rom-com, shonen action, mecha, lolis, aras, and the works. With such a strong variety, you have plenty of girls from this series alone worthy of being in the tournament: Tohka Yatogami, Origami Tobichi, Yoshino, and more. The series revolves around girls with power known as Spirits who threaten the world unless one special guy named Shido Itsuka takes the girls on dates and seals their power with a kiss.
The most popular of girls from Date A Live is the wielder of the time spirit Zafkiel, Kurumi Tokisaki, the twintail sporting a clock eye. Called "the Worst Spirit" for her brutality and misanthropy, Kurumi nevertheless carries a strong sense of justice using her spirit powers to help Shido and the gang, albeit aloofly and independently of the good guy organization, Ratatoskr. Toward the later part of the series, Kurumi reveals her romantic side to Shido as she learns there still a few good humans out there. Kurumi is the yandere with a heart of gold, which is why she is a contestant in this tourney.
** RR 23. Anchovy / Girls und Panzer **
Besides Darjeeling, Anchovy is the only GuP girl to get in the main tournament. Anchovy performed very well in her Royal Rumble match, having secured a ten point lead over her GuP rival, Yukari, soundly defeating the battle meido Hayasaka, and crushing the gun autist of Sword Art Online, Sinon. Can Anchovy use her superior Italio-Japanese tactics to face a crazy and in-love Battle Spirit?
From Fedi's leader of the Spice and Wolf fan club, WolfGirlsInWheatField and his Royal Rumble descritption:
"Anchovy (Chiyomi Anzai) is from the manga and anime series Girls und Panzer, where she is the Anzio Girls High School Sensha-dō (tank competition) team leader. Anchovy, nicknamed Duce by her fellow team members (a reference to Benito Mussolini), has guided her team to the top of the Sensha-dō rankings, in spite of their often subpar tanks in comparison to other schools.
She is aggressive and a natural leader when it comes time to battle with other schools, although Anzio is often bested and taken advantage of by its love of cooking pasta and other Italian dishes and ignoring Sensha-dō, something Anchovy struggles to control and which she sometimes enables.
Outside of Sensha-dō, she is kind and affectionate to her friends and even rivals, often asking if she can make some pasta for them. Duce! Duce! Duce!"
To vote, please make one and only post with only the name of the girl you want to vote for. (Kurumi or Anchovy) You may add an image to your vote post.
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