Alright, here are the brackets for the results of the Elite Eight.

And then there were four. I’m betting this wasn’t what all of you may have predicted to be the Final Four but that is what is great about this tournament.  It’s not a popularity contest and even us who are working on this blog had no idea who was going to make it until last night.  …I do have to say that my Final Four predictions were 100% correct but who’s keeping score.

Here are the highlights from each game starting from upper left bracket and going counter clockwise.

One Piece vs. D Grayman

Even before the D Grayman team’s first game of the season, Allen Walker gathered the players and spelled out their goal.  “Final Four,” he wrote on a dry-erase board.  That part of the teams mission is now complete.

D Grayman stopped overall No. 1 seed One Piece 64-52 to win a birth in the Final Four . Lenalee Lee had 19 points and 10 rebounds as the second-seeded Spartans played the pace game to perfection. “They were the better team,” One Piece’s Nico Robin said. “They were quicker than us, their defense was more physical and we couldn’t turn them over like we wanted to.”

Dragonball Z vs. Hellsing

Dragonball Z often overwhelms opponents with its size and strength. Harried by the blood thirsty Hellsing team, DBZ needed something else: speed.  Enter Krillin, who matched a career high with 23 points with out the use of even one distructo disc 3-point shot as the top-seeded DBZ team held off Hellsing 82-75.

“We took some bumps, we took some bruises, but here we are once again going to the Final Four, and I’m just elated,” DBZ coach Roshi said.  Among those banged up was Trunks, who bloodied a finger on his right hand scrapping for a loose ball on the floor in the second half. Trunks finished with 13 rebounds but only five points and no blocks, and held a bandage to his hand after the game.  “I’m getting it checked out, but I should be good,” Trunks said.

Afro Samurai vs. Slayers

It was physical. It was defensive. It was just the way they like it in the tournament.  With bodies clogging the lane and 3-pointers clanging off the rim, Lina Inverse made a half-court dash for a last-second basket to give the Slayers a 78-76 victory over the Afro Samurai team and send the adventurers to the Final Four.

The Afro Samurai team is the first No. 1 seed to leave the brackets this year despite 28 points from Afro Samurai and 20 points and 10 rebounds from Kuma.  Afro Samurai led 67-63 with 3:24 left, and 69-68 with just over 2 minutes to play, but the Slayers responded to the physical play by sinking 22 of 23 free throws, including 5-of-6 in the last 46 seconds.

Fullmetal Alchemist vs. Ouran High School Host Club

Alphonse Elric deferred to his teammates — just as he’d hinted he might.  This was no one-on-one matchup down low. Instead, the Fullmetal Alchemist team rolled past Tamaki and the boys from Ouran Academy with a total team effort. Edward Elric scored 19 points and top-seeded FMA team overcame a quiet game from Alphonse Elric to beat the team from Ouran High 72-60.

So there you have it, the Final Four match-ups:

D Grayman vs. DragonBall Z

Slayers vs. Fullmetal Alchemist

These should be some good games so stay tuned for more!

5 Responses to “San Gatsu no Madness – Elite Eight results”

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dokidoki on March 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pm says:

I hope Fullmetal Alchemist wins.

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Tyrenol on March 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm says:

Getting this out of the way: Le Chevalier D’Eon, Black Cat, Claymore, Trinity Blood, Glass Fleet, Darker Than Black, Negima, and Ouran HS Host Club. These are my favorite anime that had bit the dust (early on), and I was saddened.

But let me atleast analyze this from a hobbyist’s viewpoint. Despite saying that it’s not a popularity contest and it’s “just for lulz,” a lot of the “romance comedies” didn’t make it eather. And it’s a good thing that FUNi doesn’t license too many of these historically-proven flops like Geneon and ADV did.

I’ve been calling for better treatment of characters, better plots and sub-plots, more variety, and the minimizing of “self-insert / Mary-Sue” “dues ex machina” hack writing. The “betterment of anime,” overall.

Everyone else (who had been getting what they wanted) had complained about always seeing the anime they DO NOT LIKE at the top of the charts. I, myself, had gotten disgusted with DBZ after watching it for a while, and I’m not really that warm to FMA.

My hope is that the end results will be excepted and not “Oops! We destroyed it by accident! Sorry!” like a certain web page did when they found out that their favorite characters LOST.

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Prede on March 30th, 2009 at 10:20 pm says:

Slayers for the win!

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Mitamaking on March 31st, 2009 at 1:19 am says:

Got to pull for the low seed upset so Vill—- I mean Slayers, However I think FMA has it

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theghost808 on March 31st, 2009 at 7:43 pm says:

Seems my favorites were taken down quite early darn.