While Ogiue garnered a decent number of votes (212), she failed to make it into the top 9 for her preliminary day. Ogiue placed 12th overall for her initial group, which means she qualifies for the second preliminaries.

I was hoping Ogiue would get in on the first try, but I also have to keep in mind that 12th place is significantly better than her placing last year, which was 20th place.

Ogiue failed to make it to the main tournament last year, so I am hoping at the very least for her to get that far. From the looks of things she already stands a much better chance, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Here’s how it goes down.

First, the vote is over at the official Anime Saimoe 2008 website. Go get a voting code here. Voting ends at midnight the next day in Japan. You can keep track of the time in Japan using this site.

It takes some time to get the voting code so don’t get your code at the last minute. Once you do obtain it, the code will look something like this: [AS00-animemoe-XX]

When you get to the voting thread, make a new post with your code at the top of the post and the characters you want to vote for underneath. You must enter the characters the correct way. In the case of Ogiue it is <<荻上千佳＠げんしけん2>>

They’d also like you to include a reason for your voting. English is fine, as the whole point is to show your support your characters.

The final result will look something like this:

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[AS00-animemoe-XX]

<<荻上千佳＠げんしけん2>>
I love Ogiue. Her character moved me in ways I thought not possible.

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You’re allowed up to 5 characters but we all know that isn’t necessary right!

Here is the voting thread as of now (updated 7/22/08 12:30AM EST). This is subject to change at any moment as it is very possible for this thread to become locked and voting to be continued in a following thread in the voting board on 2ch.

Oh, and proxies aren’t allowed.

So let’s get Ogiue into this tournament proper. Together. For Modern Society and the study thereof.