I'm pleasantly surprised to say, even though it was close for Tsukasa, both the Amane twins came through and won their matches! Eleven votes to ten, and thirteen votes to six, Iroha Tamaki has been eliminated from the main bracket and will join the Losers' Bracket! On the other hand, sadly, Felicia Mitsuki's time in this tournament has ended.

And now, I've got some matchups I'm excited for! Today, we got the Holy Quintet going directly against each other! On the main bracket, we have Lady Homura Akemi against Sayaka Miki, and on the losers' bracket, we have Rena Minami against Ren Isuzu!

Rules are the same as always: Vote for who YOU want to win (Vote Homura! Vote Homura now! VOTE HOMURAAAAAAA), and losers get a chance at third place. If a girl gets eliminated a second time, their time in this tournament ends.

Vote in this Strawpoll for Lady Homura VS Sayaka! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Rena VS Ren!

Voting closes tomorrow at 11:00 AM PHT (GMT+8:00).

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Image Sources

Lady Homura: Art by getsung, image found in Pixiv

Sayaka: Could not find artist, image found in Zerochan

Rena: Art by paru rari, image found in Zerochan

Ren: Art by H@neSa, image found in Zerochan

Lightning round! Lady Homura has arrived and has something for you: One. Single. Question.

I'm lying, I just want to homupost and admire her because she did nothing wrong and Kyubey got off easy. Also cuz I have nothing better to do.

Vote between: Glasses Homura, Cool Homura, Devil Homura, or even Tamura! Which variant is your favorite? Vote on one of them, vote on two of them, vote on three of them, OR VOTE ALL OF THEM!!!

P.S. This in no way affects the actual tournament. Again, I just wanted to homupost. Now vote. VOTE NOW OR I'M PUTTING A KYUBEY COSTUME ON YOU AND OFFERING YOU UP TO LADY HOMURA TO ENSLAVE.

Vote for your favorite Homura(s) here in this Strawpoll!

Voting ends tomorrow at 11:00 AM PHT (GMT+8:00).

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Image Sources:

Moemura: Art by Sugano Manami, image found in Zerochan

Coolmura: Art by cloudyman, image found in Danbooru

Homurakuma: Art by roro, image found in Danbooru

Tamura: Puella Magi Homura☆Tamura, Chapter 6

Well, well, well. I honestly DID NOT THINK it would be this close. A difference of ONE VOTE on each side, and initially, the other half of the field was winning. I'm pleased to see that we appreciate the Crescent Memoria girls in this house (sorry, Sumire).

But, alas, the votes have decided that, ten votes to nine, and nine votes to eight, Fuka Higure has been eliminated from the main bracket, and Tsuruno Yui's time in this tournament has ended. Fuka will join the Losers' Bracket from here on out.

This time, it's a matchup of the same Magia Record characters from round one, only the opponents have been swapped around! In the main bracket, we have the winners: Tsukasa Amane against Iroha Tamaki, and on the losers' bracket, we have Tsukuyo Amane against Felicia Mitsuki!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Tsukasa VS Iroha! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Tsukuyo VS Felicia!

Voting ends at 11:00 AM PHT (GMT+8:00).

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Image Sources:

Tsukasa: "Suspicious Seventeen" portrait in Magia Exedra

Iroha: "Rains Too Shall Pass" portrait in Magia Exedra

Tsukuyo: Art by たけのこ(uya), image found in Zerochan

Felicia: Art by Suzu nyan01, image found in Zerochan

The previous match ended in a near-complete sweep in favor of our dear Madoka. Eleven votes to one, Kaede Akino has been eliminated from the main bracket, and will join the others in the Losers' Bracket to fight for third place.

Today, I have some VERY good matchups! In the main bracket, we have Fuka Higure against Yachiyo Nanami, and on the losers' bracket, we have Tsuruno Yui against Alina Gray!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Fuka VS Yachiyo! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Tsuruno VS Alina!

Voting ends tomorrow at 11:00 AM PHT (GMT+8:00).

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Image Sources

Fuka: "Final Fatebloom" Kioku in Magia Exedra

Yachiyo: "Absolute Rain" Kioku in Magia Exedra

Tsuruno: Art by rurumagi, image found in Zerochan

Alina: Art by Li0A4, image found in Zerochan

And with that, Round 1 has been wrapped up, and the girls selected to go on to Round 2 and the Losers' Bracket have been selected! The last two candidates are as follows, having not been beaten out by Nagisa and Sana: Kanagi Izumi and Oriko Mikuni!

The Losers' Bracket matches will begin after this match has decided its winner, and will go hand-in-hand with the remaining matchups of this round.

I'll share a quick timeline of how I plan to make the posts for the appropriate matchups from here on out:

Main Bracket Round 2, Losers' Bracket Round 1 -> Main Bracket Quarterfinals, Losers' Bracket Round 2 -> Losers' Bracket Round 3 -> Main Bracket Semifinals, Losers' Bracket Quarterfinals -> Losers' Bracket Semifinals & Finals -> Main Bracket Finals

NOTE: During Round 3, the semifinals and finals of the Losers' Bracket, the main bracket matches will be put on hold.

And with that out of the way, let's get on to today's matchup! We have Madoka Kaname VS Kaede Akino!

[Vote in this Strawpoll to decide your winner!](https://strawpoll.com/jVyG2GzGQZ7)

Voting ends at 11:00 AM PHT (or GMT+8:00).

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Image Sources

Madoka: Art by HOXINO, image found in Zerochan

Kaede: Art by ricopin ch, image found in Zerochan

A total sweep on both sides this time! Seven votes to two, and one vote to eight, Liz Hawkwood and Sumire Yoake have been eliminated from the main bracket!

The following girls are guaranteed a spot in the first round of the Losers' Bracket:

1. Yui Tsuruno
2. Alina Gray
3. Felicia Mitsuki
4. Tsukuyo Amane
5. Rena Minami
6. Ren Isuzu

For the last two eliminated in this round, the remaining spots are still up for grabs! The contenders holding strong for this spot are Oriko Mikuni and Kanagi Izumi.

And with that, our final matchup for Round 1 is Mami Eater Nagisa Momoe against Mitama Yakumo, and Sana Futaba VS Jeanne d'Arc (forgive my wrong spelling in the bracket)!

Same rules as always. Vote for who you want to win, losers get a chance at third place!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Nagisa VS Mitama! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Sana VS Darc!

Voting ends tomorrow at 11:00 AM JST. Starting tomorrow, I'll be switching to a different timezone, as I will be taking a flight back home.

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Image Sources

Nagisa: Art by rurumagi, image found in Zerochan

Mitama: Art by paru_rari (Twitter not cooperating with me today, gonna give you their account link for Twitter instead this time)

Sana: Art by HARURI, image found in Zerochan

Darc: Image by nanaca mad, image found in Zerochan (Please get her out of here, it's a pain finding fanart, or ANY art in general, of her to match up 😭, also sorry for low image quality)

Well, since this sub decided to narrow down the amount of characters in post titles, as well as change its flairs (now IDK which one to pick, so I picked the one furthest away from... anything actually relevant to any story...), I had to shrink it down as much as I could. All that aside, I decided to change up voting cut-offs, cuz I think I'm tired of being late in the afternoon all the time 💀

Anyway, despite the diminishing amount of votes I got this time, the winners have been decided, and thus, four votes to one, and four votes to three, Rika Ayano and Kirika Kure have been eliminated from the main bracket!

Today, I have a very interesting matchup. We have Kyoko Sakura going against Liz Hawkwood, and Sumire Yoake going against Mabayu Aki!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Kyoko VS Liz! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Sumire VS Mabayu!

Voting ends tomorrow at 11:00 AM JST.

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Image Sources

Kyoko: Art by SuperPig, image found in Zerochan (I had to triple-check to make sure it's not AI, thankfully it didn't say so when I checked on Pixiv, usually it tells us if it's AI-generated)

Liz: Art by ike seika, image found in Zerochan

Sumire: Art by 未明, image found in Pixiv

Mabayu: Art by aroze, image found in Danbooru

Didn't get many votes this time, but at least they weren't tied up again. Mami VS Oriko was pleasantly close, though! Seven votes to six, and nine votes to two, Oriko Mikuni and Koito Asako have been eliminated from the main bracket!

Today, we have Rika Ayano against Mifuyu Azusa, and Kirika Kure against Mel Anna!

You know the rules. Vote for who you want to win, losers get a chance at the losers' bracket for third place! Sorry I was late, I had to get my passport renewed today.

Vote in this Strawpoll for Rika VS Mifuyu! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Kirika VS Mel Anna!

Voting ends tomorrow at 4:00 pm JST.

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Image Sources

Rika: Splash art for the "Brilliant Beam" Kioku in Magia Exedra

Mifuyu: Art by rurumagi, image found in Zerochan

Kirika: Art by コメット , image found in Pixiv

Mel Anna: "Help Me Momoko!" portrait in Magia Exedra

Well, Fuka VS Alina ended in a tie, but it seems that the poll colors decided Fuka won. Sorry, Alina lovers (I love her too)!

Eleven all, and seven to fourteen votes, Freakylina Gay Alina Gray and Ren Isuzu have been eliminated from the main bracket.

The next matchups feature the Amane twins going against the Mikazuki Villa! Tsukasa Amane VS Felicia Mitsuki, and Iroha Tamaki VS Tsukuyo Amane!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Tsukasa VS Felicia! || Vote in this Strawpoll for Iroha VS Tsukuyo!

Voting ends tomorrow at 4:00 pm JST. I'll probably move the ending time once more after this, probably 2:30 pm at the earliest, to suit my schedule. Sorry!

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Image Sources

Tsukasa and Tsukuyo: "Dreaming With Tsukuyo" Puella Pictura, in Magia Exedra

Felicia: Art by paru rari, image found in Zerochan

Iroha: Art by Ka-no, image found in Zerochan

Okay, I don't know how this happened, but I'm pleasantly surprised to say: Kaede extreme diffed Tsuruno by ONE VOTE to win! 13 votes to 12, Tsuruno has been eliminated from the main bracket.

Now, I decided to make Round 1 go a little faster, so we're doing double matchups! This time, we have Fuka against Alina (which is a VERY neat matchup IMO), and Ren against Yachiyo!

Personally, I've got a lot of hope that Yachiyo makes it far in this tournament. She's a model, it's only fair she gets through a bit. Fuka, too! She's super pretty!

Rules are the same. Vote for who you want to win, losers get a chance for third place, only 8 of the Round 1 losers get to join the losers' bracket, yada yada, Lady Homura is beautiful, and all that.

Vote in this Strawpoll for Fuka VS Alina!

Vote in this Strawpoll for Ren VS Yachiyo!

Voting ends tomorrow 5:00 pm JST!

-Image Sources-

Fuka: Magia Exedra News (I think?)

Alina: Art by samidare, image found in Danbooru

Ren: Art by myushu, image found in Danbooru

Yachiyo: Art by Mochizuki Mochi, image found in Zerochan

Komaki, unsurprisingly, faced a crushing defeat against Madoka. Honestly, the only reason Komaki got more than 20% was because not many people voted. Eleven votes to three, Komaki Asako has been eliminated from the main bracket.

So, the next matchup will be Kaede Akino VS Tsuruno Yui! Rules are the same as last time:

1. The girl with the most votes wins.
2. Vote based on who you find more attractive, whether it be out of beauty, cuteness, or whoever you like more! (It'll probably be the last one.)
3. There will be a Losers' Bracket, where the eliminated girls fight for third place. Following Round 2, Match 1, the matches in that bracket will begin, and only the eight losing girls with the most votes from Round 1 will participate (which means Komaki won't get a second chance, probably).

Go on and vote for your winner here! Voting ends tomorrow 6:00 pm JST. I'm giving a little less time for now, since I'm on a bit of a schedule for my stay in Japan, dearly sorry about that.

Image Sources

Kaede: paru_rariri on Twitter

Tsuruno: htr底辺, image found on Zerochan

P.S.: Do share this with others if it can't hurt, I'd like to see these matches become closer.

I've been holding this idea in for months, and I really wanna start this now that I'm free!

So, I'll get the rules out there quick:

1. The girl with the MOST votes will be considered the winner. Yes, vote for who you want to win!
2. Vote based on who you believe is more attractive, based on however you'd like. Beauty, cuteness, or if you just like the character better, do that too!
3. There will be a Losers' Bracket, where the eliminated Magical Girls will compete for third place. The matches there will begin following Round 2, Match 1. The eight girls with the most votes eliminated in Round One will participate in the Losers' Bracket, while the other half stay eliminated.

Vote for your winner here! Voting ends 7:00 pm JST.

Image Source Komaki: 1st Anniversary: Mura Kuroe, Portrait in Magia Exedra Madoka: Artist is Ekita Kuro, website I got it from

I WAS IN HYSTERICS WHEN EGO TOLD EVERYONE RIN WAS GETTING PUT OUT

GGs Rin, you are sucking major ass right now, your stocks are collapsing, and you VS Kaiser might no longer be a 50/50 to me

Didn't get her after 100 pulls, but the guaranteed 5* single pull clutched up and got me Lady Homura. Immediately 120'd her magic level and Kioku level, then slapped her onto the shrine. Now I need Madokami or Summer/New Year-doka and the shrine is truly complete.

I believe this should go without saying, but

Lady Homura is the best.

Shit all over Kyubey because why not, Castorice from HSR because Chiwa Saito (voices the Homu too!) is BY A COSMICALLY LARGE MARGIN my favorite seiyuu, and Mabayu because she's my spirit animal and deserves more love.

also madohomu at the end because the homu is gay and you'd have better luck convincing me pineapple on pizza is better than pepperoni on pizza

MY LADY, TAKE IT ALL. TAKE ALLLL MY GODDAMN MAGIA STONES. JUST PLEASE, PLEEEEEASE COME HOOOOOME!!!!

I got Wallpaper Engine today and have been experimenting with it. It was one part of my disappointment to know I couldn't set a video as a wallpaper, but I found it EXTREMELY INFURIATING that when I tried adding a color gradient to my audio visualizer (via pulling an effect out from the workshop), only one bar actually changed color (see to the right of the circle image near the bottom right corner).

Anyone have advice? Tips? I tried pulling visualizers directly from the workshop, but I either couldn't figure out how to modify their colors, or the background was directly built-in with the visualizer, which, obviously, I refuse to have. Thanks!

Idk, I just felt like sharing this. I got the last pellets in the middle of Last Man Standing, and I was PRAYING that the dude didn't lose too quickly.

A neat little shrine made for OUR, yes, OUR Lady Homura, with a Madoka slapped in the middle (because there's no fifth Homura unit yet).