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Sun 18 Mar 2012
Anime Power Rankings: Winter 2012 Week 11
Posted by kevo' under Anime, Anime Power Rankings
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| Rank | Anime | Studio | Episode | Change |
| 1 | Nisemonogatari (season finale) | SHAFT | 11 | – |
| 2 | Chihayafuru | Madhouse | 23 |  2 |
| 3 | Ano Natsu de Matteru | J.C. Staff | 10 |  1 |
| 4 | Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou | Sunrise | 10 | 1 |
| 5 | Mouretsu Uchuu Kaizoku | Satelight | 11 | – |
On the cusp: Natsume Yuujin-chou Shi, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Mirai Nikki, Another
Last week’s results, about the Anime Power Rankings
While Nisemonogatari was certainly one of the most hotly debated series, I have to admit that this sequel did not live up to its predecessor’s strong reputation, Bakemonogatari. Nisemonogatari seemed to play around more with erotic scenes, and the characters that we know and love from Bakemonogatari played minor roles in this season. But the animation, dialogue, and visual quality were still on par and strong, and I did enjoy it nevertheless.
Ephemeral Dreamer (Ephemeral Dreams)
Usually, I try to refrain from making any personal opinions about the results of the Anime Power Rankings. After all, the results are an accumulation of what the community has to say about anime, and the collective opinions on shows. However, I do have something to say about this week. In my opinion, the Anime Power Rankings came within the margin of one ballot of making the biggest mistake of its existence. Nisemonogatari scraped by Chihayafuru by a mere 3 points to take the first spot this week. In my own opinion, I believe the finale of Nisemonogatari is nearly perfect. I could not have asked for a better, more poignant balance from an episode of -monogatari. It’s everything that I initially expected from Nisemonogatari: crisp dialogue juxtaposed with an absurdly bloody action scene, simple and effective characters, non-black-and-white conflicts, and Araragi standing up for his shit. I think I’m in the minority from my brief dialogue with other viewers, but I freaking loved the ending. Excuse me as I go be giddy in the corner.
Also, Lerxst from Anime Afterlife Podcast won Power Rankings bingo for the second time this season. Lucky bastard 
as much as I would love to bash on Nise, I do feel that this (and last) episode was pretty well done.
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I’m probably one of the few people that enjoyed Nisemonogatari much more than Bakemono. It felt like a more focused package overall, less of an introduction and more of a continuation. Kaiki was also a fantastic villain, one that I enjoyed seeing work his languid machinations. Plus it gave us Platinum Disco which I’ll contest is the best -monogatari song to date, so if anything there’s that to take away.
I completely forgot about Chihayafuru once again, but I know that it was probably the series’ strongest episode thus far. Feel kind of bad for that. Ah well, I got 3/5 overall!
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I live in a world where no one watches Aquarion LUST but me
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kevo' Reply:
March 20th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Hey, Aquarion is probably one of my two favorite shows this season. <3
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I think I hit a full house this week. 3 shows making the top 5, and the other 2 being shows where only I voted for them.
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I’m not going to argue with your opinion or anything, but I will say that when this page was loading, I was really, REALLY hoping that Nisemono wouldn’t get #1 this week. There were so many good episodes this week, with Chihayafuru high among them, that I really thought one of them should get the top spot over something so divisive.
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Interesting, so besides missing a “perfect season” by 1, Nisemonogatari also barely “won” in its final entry by just 3 points. I’m curious, how close were the other weeks when it took 1st place? Were any other very close weeks or even closer ones?
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kevo' Reply:
March 19th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Sure. Here are the abbreviated stats of Nisemonogatari’s performances this season.
Week 1
1st Nise: 92 (APR scoring record)
2nd Chihayafuru: 67
Week 2
1st Nise: 79
2nd Nichibro: 66
Week 3
1st Nise: 86
2nd Nichibro: 63
Week 4
1st Nise: 73
2nd Thermae Romae: 54
Week 5
1st Nise: 64
2nd Nichibro: 54
Week 6
1st Nise: 91
2nd Nichibro: 62
Week 7
1st Nise: 93 (APR scoring record)
2nd Chihayafuru: 74
Week 8
1st Nise: 87
2nd Nichibro: 77
Week 9
1st Chihayafuru: 66
2nd Ano Natsu: 62
3rd Nise: 53
Week 10
Nise: 72
Ano Natsu: 59
Week 11
Nise: 63
Chihayafuru: 60
Ano Natsu: 58
I expect it to be awfully close next week, especially with a slew of anticipated season finales.
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lvlln Reply:
March 20th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Interesting to see how wide a range there is in the #1 spot takers each week. 93 in week 7, and 63 in week 11. I’ve asked this before, and I’m still curious, though, which episode of which show has the record when controlled for the number of voters, since the voter rolls have increased over time? That is, if you divide the points by the total # of voters, does Nise week 7 still have the record?
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kevo' Reply:
March 20th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
The number of total potential voters did not significantly change over the course of the season (I think around 6 or 7 new people joined). The number of people participating each week does fluctuate, and that statistic I will have to manually dig up. I …guess I’ll get on that?
It’s times like this where I wish I had watched Bakemonogatari…so I could watch Nisemonogatari.
Anyways, 3 out of 5 is in the rankings, so not bad. However, I wonder how the rankings will look like when all of the spring shows start airing as the winter shows are getting ready to end…
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Last Exile actually had the best episode this week, but no one’s watching it so you have to take my word for it.
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Tbh, I could have hit bingo three weeks running if I hadn’t voted for Bakuman 2 last week
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kevo Reply:
March 19th, 2012 at 9:54 am
You would also been the first person to get bingo in order this week if you voted Nisemono #1 this week
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Am I just so much of an RPGfag that I was the only one that actually liked what happened in Persona 4 within this latest episode? I know half of the people watching the show here were only in it for the filler, but a show being able to pull off a downer moment and an uplifting moment within the same episode has to be doing something at least somewhat admirable.
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I really can’t help but think my vote made a huge difference, considering that I haven’t voted in APR for a very long time. It would be an amazing feeling if that’s true, knowing that.
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