Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

After several weeks of second place, Rosario + Vampire is the winner! I don't really have anything else to say at the moment, except that next week should be particularly interesting with both Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 back in the poll. Clearly we're not entering into a cycle of the same series time after time, which I find very encouraging.

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Code Geass	2 (11%)
Haruhi Suzumiya	0 (0%)
Rosario + Vampire	9 (52%)
Sailor Moon	2 (11%)
Urusei Yatsura	4 (23%)

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Where are they now?

Code Geass: Lelouch has just acquired his Geass, and is about to encounter Villetta.

Haruhi Suzumiya: Kyon has just met Haruhi for the first time (from his perspective, but let's not get into the John Smith mess quite yet).

Love Hina: Keitaro has been more or less accepted by the girls as the dorm manager, thanks in large part to his newfound talent for knowing everything happening within Hinata House. But he's also discovered his connection to the other seven through that same ability.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji is about to pilot for the first time, but is a very different person than the Shinji we are used to.

Ranma 1/2: Kasumi has become the Warrior of Love and Beauty, Sailor V! It is her duty to purify those possessed by monsters that take advantage of a person's sexual hangups to control them. Her very first encounter involves her youngest sister, Akane, who is purified of her hatred of immature perverted boys alongside the monster. Upon recovery, Akane and Ranma are engaged.

Sailor Moon: Usagi had just saved Naru in her first night as Sailor Moon.

Urusei Yatsura: Ataru was on his way home. On arriving he will find out about the aliens and the tag race.

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Removed From the Poll

Rosario + Vampire won this week, and so is removed from this week's poll. The current number of weeks these series will be removed are:

Ranma 1/2: Returned to the poll
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1
Love Hina: 2

Rosario + Vampire: 3

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Discussion of Latest Update

My original idea was to have a little Love Hina creep into Rosario + Vampire's plotline. Have Tsukune and Moka know each other from the time Moka attended human schools, and have him be the only human that ever treated her kindly at all. Have them make some form of promise and then they meet up at the school where they immediately re-establish their emotional connection with the only difference now being a pretty potent physical one as well.

I thought that might be fun to do. But, I have seen some other suggestions creeping in there that sound pretty tantalising as well. If Tsukune is to "be a better student" at a school for monsters, what would that mean for the only human there? What if he spontaneously developed some sort of unique special talent that a human should not have? Or, what if he had a silver tongue that was capable of convincing anyone of anything he said?

I can see potential in all four of these ideas, but would like to know what you may have to say about them.

In case it informs voting for next week, let's try and speculate on Tsukune's desires that might influence next week:

1: To be stronger
2: For nobody to guess his secret.
3: That the boys wouldn't be so jealous about the cute girl on his arm.

These are subject to alteration based on the way the episode plays out, and of course to any suggestions made here.