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Let’s begin the Semifinals!

Have fun!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 Here!

Bracket here!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Vote for the pick-up round here!

The pick-up round will be open until the final results of the seasonal salt Spring 2026. Max to three votes per voter.

Mini Challenge:

• Make some bold predictions about Summer 2026 seasonal salt!
• I have asked you many times but I swear that this is the last time before it actually takes places, make some bold predictions about Best girl 13!

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here! Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

Congratulations to the remaining eight girls for being eligible for best girl of 2026!

And with this result, we now only have 6 girls eligible for the pick-up round for Spring 2026, with Patrasche not eligible as Re:ZERO girls have had multiple appearances in previous best girl brackets and Agott Arklaum not eligible as there are already 3 WHA girls in best girl of 2026.

Pick-up rounds participant: Kotoko Ijichi, Kei Amane, Asa, Kanan Takakiyo, Kimie Arashiyama, Poemu Kohinata

Let’s Vote!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 Here!

Bracket here!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Vote for the pick-up round here!

The pick-up round will be open until the final results of the seasonal salt Spring 2026. Max to three votes per voter.

Mini Challenge:

• Eight girls remain, rank them!
• Who are you voting for the pick-up round? Talk about your reason!

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here! Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

Now let’s begin round 3. Keep in mind that girls who survive this round will get tickets for the annual best of 2026! (Losers could also get a last chance in pick-up round)

Make your choice!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 Here!

Bracket here!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Mini Challenge:

• Recommend a Summer 2026 anime to fellow members!

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here!

Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

In the first round there is 1 upset.

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 Here!

Bracket here!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Mini Challenge:

• Which Spring 2026 anime do you think was underwatched, and briefly recommend it. (Be careful with spoiler though)

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here!

Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

Time to begin our elimination round with 300 Nominations!

For the elimination rounds, vote for ALL the characters you want to appear in the bracket (protip: CTRL + F is helpful). It doesn't matter if they are next to each other, no matchups happening yet. This is important because more votes = higher seeding and in the cases of shows with 4 or more girls, it means beating out their co-characters to qualify.

Any questions you have or mistakes that need to be corrected, please comment them below! (As there are many sequels this season I have tried my best to delete those ineligible for this seasonal but if you find any of the enchants have participated in brackets of past seasonals just point it out and I would get the deletion done).

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 Here!

Full character list here!

Happy Voting!

Have fun voting and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Mini Challenge:

• Give me your seed predictions!

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here!

Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

Lovers of BGC and lovers of seasonal salt (I’m sure most of you are also lovers of BGC!), Welcome back to the seasonal salt before best girl 13!

Just like last year, we would have Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 before best girl 13 so as to make the run times more uniform – All girls that are eligible for Best girl 14 in 2027 would now have their debut opportunities before Best girl 13.

The starting time of each round for Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 and best girl 13 would stay at 9AM EDT.

Also, the nomination of Best girl 13 is also opened and I would open it throughout the Seasonal Salt Spring 2026 to ensure our Best girl 13 team – I and other members who have volunteered to help – would have more time to carefully handle the nomination. Details of Best girl 13 nominations are discussed at the bottom of this post.

So now is the time for our: Seasonal Salt!

Here's the quick rundown of the contest for those who aren't familiar with it. Through the next week we will decide who r/anime's favorite new girl of the previous season was. Rounds will be posted daily at about 9AM Eastern Daylight Time, which is the time Best girl 13 would run each day this year.

Bracket rundown:

• 64 total girls
• 1 nomination round
• 1 elimination round
• 1 bracket group

Please remember to check the rules in the nomination page and who is already in the contest before nominating!

Nominate characters here!

Full character list here!

Best girl 13 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

We have uploaded all the girls who have more than 50 adjusted votes after elimination in Best girl 12 to the entrant lists of best girl 13. We are aiming to restrict the total number of entrants around 2,000-2,500 (Last year we end up with more than 4,000 entrants which made the elimination voting process a little bit miserable) so those with fewer than 50 adjusted votes are not copied from best girl 12.

Therefore, we urge you to only nominate those who play a major part and don't nominate characters who have almost zero screentime and almost zero hope of entering the bracket!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 13.

For character names: using the name on the character's myanimelist page. (i.e. First Name + Family Name).

For series names: using the English series names on the anime's myanimelist page. Specifications like second season shall not be included.

For pictures: using a picture from the anime version. Most characters that have the potential of getting into the bracket have a picture from the anime version on myanimelist/anilist.

Nominate for Best girl 13 here!

Full character list for Best girl 13 here!

Have fun nominating and don't forget to upvote the post if you love the seasonal salt!

Have fun nominating!