SF Babe Poll, Anime Edition
Round One
The nominees are:
Lafiel
Battleship captain and genetically-enhanced Abh royalty in Banner of the Stars, Abriel Nei Dobrusk Paryunu Lafiel perhaps grew up too quickly. Proud and prickly, she is fond of the human Jinto, though her usual term of endearment is "baka."
Nimya
Although there is advanced technology here and there in the world of Kino's Journey, there aren't any airplanes. Nimya wants to fly, and she's made a machine that might work. She's stronger than she looks.
Priss
The singer in a rock 'n' roll band, and also a hard-suited Knight Saber battling rogue "boomers" in Bubblegum Crisis 2040. Sullen and unfriendly, she nevertheless appreciates a nice pair of genes.
Stella
The blue-skinned bassist in an humanoid band, she's kidnapped along with her bandmates and transformed into one of Earth's hottest musicians in the inverted alien abduction story Interstella 5555.
Yuri
The Lovely Angel with blue hair. When there's trouble afoot, she and the red-haired Kei sort things out for the World Welfare and Works Association. Unfortunately, there's often some collateral damage -- never their fault, of course -- and they are consequently better-known as the original Dirty Pair.
Final standings
1. Yuri, 59 votes, 50%
2. Lafiel, 32 votes, 27%
3. Priss, 14 votes, 12%
4. (tie) Nimya and Stella, 6 votes each, 5%
On to round two
Notes
I intended this poll to be an adjunct to the TexasBestGrok SF babe polls, and I therefore restricted the choices to characters from science fiction series or movies, and science fiction only. Lum may be the archetypical anime babe, but although she's presented as a space alien, her tiger skin bikini reveals that she's actually a creature of Japanese folklore, and thus belongs to fantasy, not SF.
Perhaps it's because I didn't read enough comic books in my youth, but I've never considered super-powers to be legitimate science fiction. Much as I would like to have included A-Ko, I can't quite call her an "SF" babe. (I might loosen the restrictions in a future poll.)
I set a minimum age of 18 for all candidates -- this poll is about babes, not jailbait.
While a good figure is part of babehood, it's only one qualification and not the most important. Attitude also counts, as do character, personality, intelligence and independence. I tried to pick candidates exemplifying a variety of approaches to babeness.
This is not intended to be the definitive poll but rather the first in a series (assuming that there is enough of a response to make continuing it worthwhile). I could have listed Major Kusanagi, Kei and Yuri, Ryoko and Aeka, Priss and Faye Valentine all at once, but what would I do for an encore? Also, there's plenty I haven't seen, and I've therefore probably missed several outstanding candidates.
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