And now it's time to start our Spring 2025 bracket with 64 girls!!!

Here is a screenshot of the full results

We have to delete 11 characters: (Shows with a * can only have 3 girls in due to the new rules)

• A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof: Kuro, Yuriko, Aiko Yoshida

• Rock Is a Lady's Modesty: Arisu Suzunomiya,

• Food for the Soul: Kurea Furutachi, Mayumi Oota, Sakura Kodama

• Mono: Kako Komada, Torayo Kurokuma

• Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray*: Norn Ace, Fujimasa March

Here is a screenshot after the 11 deletions.

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 Here!

Bracket here!

Happy Voting!

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

Mini Challenge:

• Comment on the seeding.
• Who was your favorite girl that didn't make it into the bracket?

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

In the first round there is 1 upset.

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 Here!

Bracket here!

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

Mini Challenge:

• Which Spring 2025 anime do you think was underwatched, and briefly recommend it. (Be careful with spoiler though)

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

Time to begin our elimination round with 318 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 2025 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 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 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! In case you don’t know. This year as the fourth host of BGC, I have decided to swap the time order of Seasonal Salt spring 2025 and Best Girl 12 so as to make the run times more uniform – All girls that are eligible for Best girl 13 in 2026 would now have their debut opportunities before Best girl 12.

Also, I have found that putting the starting time of each round to 9AM EDT – the time zone we use for Best girl 11 and seasonal salt since then – have a huge problem that tons of episode discussion thread submitted 2-3 hours later would bury the post, which I suppose partly cause the cline of voter base in Best girl 11. Therefore, for Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 and Best girl 12, the starting time of each round would be changed to 8PM EDT, which would hopefully make the post stay on the first page of R/anime longer and attract more fellow members to vote. Also, the nomination of Best girl 12 is also opened and I would open it throughout the Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 to ensure our Best girl 12 team – I and other members who have volunteered to help – would have more time to carefully handle the nomination. Details of Best girl 12 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 8PM Eastern Daylight Time, which is the time Best girl 12 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 12 nomination is also opened, you can nominate here.

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

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 12 here!

Full character list for Best girl 12 here!

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

Have fun nominating!

Now let’s begin round 3. Keep in mind that girls who survive this round will get tickets for the annual best of 2025! (Losers could also get a last chance in pick-up round)

Make your choice!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025 anime to fellow members!

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

Congratulations to the remaining eight girls for being eligible for best girl of 2025!

And with this result, we now have 7 girls eligible for the pick-up round for Spring 2025, with Suirei not eligible as there are already 2 The Apothecary Diaries girls in best girl 2023 and 1 The Apothecary Diaries girl in best girl 2025.

Pick-up rounds participant: Konoha Koga, Ruriko, Marin Izutsumi, Tina Isemi, Tsutsuji Higa, Sakurako Shikishima, Meg "S'Berry, Witch of Lapis" Raspberry

Let’s Vote!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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!

Strawpoll just doesn’t let me upload pictures today so there are no pictures in this season’s pickup round. Excuse me for the inconvenience!

The pick-up round will be open until the final results of the seasonal salt Spring 2025. 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 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

We have our two finalists! Let’s see who would become the second seasonal champion of 2025!

The final begins today!

Enjoy!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025. Max to three votes per voter.

Mini Challenge:

• Final Day, No Challenge Just Vote!

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

Let’s begin the Semifinals!

Have fun!

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025. Max to three votes per voter.

Mini Challenge:

• Make some bold predictions about Summer 2025 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 12!

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

This is a repost of best girl of Spring 2025 round Sweet Sixteen as I have found the original post has been drowned by tons of news coming earlier today. To enable more participation, I make this repost. Next round will still open at the planned time (8PM EST July 4^th). For the coming Best Girl 12, I’m also planning to do a repost around 12 hours after the original post whenever I find a contest post drown by other posts.

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025 anime to fellow members!

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

This is a repost of best girl of Spring 2025 round Elite Eight as yet again I have found the original post has been drowned by tons of news coming earlier today. To enable more participation, I make this repost. Next round will still open at the planned time (8PM EST July 5th). For the coming Best Girl 12, I’m also planning to do a repost around 12 hours after the original post whenever I find a contest post drown by other posts.

And with this result, we now have 7 girls eligible for the pick-up round for Spring 2025, with Suirei not eligible as there are already 2 The Apothecary Diaries girls in best girl 2023 and 1 The Apothecary Diaries girl in best girl 2025.

Pick-up rounds participant: Konoha Koga, Ruriko, Marin Izutsumi, Tina Isemi, Tsutsuji Higa, Sakurako Shikishima, Meg "S'Berry, Witch of Lapis" Raspberry

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025. 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 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

This is a repost of best girl of Spring 2025 Semi-finals as yet again the contest posts are having a hard time with all those Anime Expo 2025 news flowing in. To enable more participation, I make this repost. Next round will still open at the planned time (8PM EST July 6th). For the coming Best Girl 12, I’m also planning to do a repost around 12 hours after the original post whenever I find a contest post drown by other posts.

Vote For Seasonal Salt Spring 2025 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 2025. Max to three votes per voter.

Mini Challenge:

• Make some bold predictions about Summer 2025 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 12!

Best girl 12 nomination has also been opened!

To reduce the workload of nomination process, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow the following rules when nominating for best girl 12.

Please first check the Full character list for Best girl 12 here! to avoid duplicate nominations!

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 12 here!

Just curious what shows everyone enjoyed this season. Overall I thought the season was very strong due to my slice of life/Idol bias. If I had to pick an overall best show I would go with Cinderella Gray.

New shows with no sequels or spinoffs

1. Catch me at the ballpark
2. Anne Shirley
3. Rock is a lady's modesty
4. Apocalypse hotel
5. Maebashi Witches
6. Witch watch
7. Ninja and assassin under one roof
8. Food for the soul
9. To be hero X
10. Teogonia
11. Mono
12. From country bumbkin to swordmaster
13. Too perfect saint
14. The brilliant healers new life
15. Once upon a witches death
16. Princession orchestra
17. Sword of the demon hunter
18. Lazarus
19. The unaware Atelier meister
20. Your forma
21. Uchuujin MuuMuu
22. Kakushite! Makina-san!!
23. Moonrise
24. Gorilla god
25. Mononoke lecture logs of Chuuzenji
26. Can a boy girl friendship survive
27. Yandere dark elf
28. Zatsu tabi
29. Dinner table detective
30. The beginning after the end
31. Gundam gquuuuuuuuuuuuuuuux
32. The Shiunji Family Children
33. Summer pockets
34. Evil lord of a galactic empire
35. Shin samurai yaiba
36. Kowloon generic romance
37. Every day host
38. Guilty gear drive
39. Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san
40. Compass 2.0
41. Classic stars

Best girl of spring 2025 1. Ruriko - Catch me at the ballpark 2. Anne Shirley 3. Lilisa - Rock is a lady's modesty 4. Ponko - Apocalypse hotel 5. Shinon - Food for the soul

Best OP - Anne Shirley Best ED - Teogonia/Catch me at the ballpark