Inaugural eJapan Chrysanthemum Cup - Final Results

Day 3,449, 22:06 • Published in Japan Russia • by shirosakura




Welcome to the Inaugural eJapan Chrysanthemum Cup!



The first in many initiatives sponsored by the SOS Brigade and inspired by recent events in a certain shounen anime, the Chrysanthemum cup is a new contest among champions in eJapan. For nearly eight years, eJapan and the rest of the world has participated in a monthly contest to crown our nation's Empress. The ceremonial title was created to bring together the community and to honor the women that we revere from within the community. The Chrysanthemum Cup will be the first time that the Empresses of our nation are placed in a special election of their own.

After two long months, it's finally over! 77 battles for the Chrysanthemum Throne are here and it's all come down to this! Missed out on a couple of picks from earlier? Check out the bracket on the tournament page here for the full standings!

Our 2017 Chrysanthemum Empress, as bestowed upon her by Her Majesty Empress Oraizan is...



Flandre Scarlet, from Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil!

Flandre Scarlet is the youngest of the Scarlet sisters and a vampire who has lived at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for over 495 years. She has never been taken outside the bounds of the Scarlet Devil Mansion (due to emotional instability), or rarely leaves the building itself, and as she herself never tried going outside for the respect she has to her sister, she was raised knowing nothing about the outside world.

Flandre is normally nice and quiet. She was described as "rather nuts", and although she doesn't often get angry, she is quite strange, which makes it difficult for others to understand her.



Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities, such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of oni and the nimbleness of tengu, as well as a vampire's bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, thought not as quickly as she would like to. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace. Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses. Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates.

She has red eyes and short blonde hair, which is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. Wears a red skirt and vest, with a yellow neckerchief and a pink shirt underneath. Also wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached. Her wings appear to be made of iron and prism shards. She carries a matching metal wand with her, which is apparently the mythical Lævateinn. Arranged from her back to the tip of her wings her 8 crystals are presented as follows: Light Blue, Blue, Purple, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Light Green and Light Blue again. Has longer hair than her older sister Remilia





Coming into second place is Samus Aran from the Metroid series!

Samus Aran is an ex-soldier of the Galactic Federation who turned into a galactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered exoskeleton that is equipped with weapons such as directed-energy weapons and missiles. Throughout the series, she executes missions given to her by the Galactic Federation while hunting the antagonistic Space Pirates and their leader Ridley, along with the parasitic energy-draining organisms called Metroids. Samus has appeared in every Metroid video game and has also been featured in media outside of the series, including in the Super Smash Bros. series and in the comic book version of Captain N: The Game Master. She is well known as one of the earliest female protagonists in video game history and has remained a popular character over a quarter-century after her first appearance

Thank you to everyone who participated and voted and made this event a huge success! Hopefully next year's will be just as fun!