a poll tourney between faceless characters

Rules

No real people, please! (Fictional depictions of historical figures are fine.)

This should go without saying, but this tournament is intended for masculine and androgynous women. While I deeply appreciate your femme blorbos, this isn't the place for them.

Butch/etc transfem characters are absolutely allowed! TERFs aren't wanted here.

You may make more than one submission, but you may only make one submission per character. I don't want to be spammed.

Propaganda is allowed and in fact encouraged, but be nice! Keep it focused on praising your character of choice, not knocking the other one down.

A note on seeding: because the vast majority of the submissions are characters I've never heard of before, I will not be able to guarantee that they will be fairly seeded since I simply don't know how big their fanbases are. I will try to reasonably spread out the few characters that I have heard of (with the exception of characters from the same source material, who will be put against each other in the first round), and I will also spread out characters from different types of source material (ex: I won't put two live-action characters against each other in round one. That said, I've gotten such a disproportionate amount of anime characters, I won't be able to spread those out so I won't bother trying that with them lol), but that's about all I can think of. If you have any other suggestions for seeding, feel free to send them in.

Bracket details + transcript here

Tagging other tournaments since I gather that's common practice. Apologies if you don't want to be tagged, and if you want to be removed, lmk

Hello hello !! I'm Jinx and my main is @monkiiekid

I've been thinking about making one of these and finally found an idea to latch onto. Definitely helps that these games have been my main fixation recently

with that out of the way some things to note:

for Bakamitai there will be a preliminary poll to decide which version makes it to the main bracket, same for Machine Gun Kiss

will probably also do some preliminary polls to decide on the Japanese or English version of the Yakuza: Like A Dragon songs

some videos for the karaoke songs are a bit spoilery, so I'll do my best to mark those spoilers !!

im also including the four dance songs from Lost Judgment because thats the closest we are getting to Yagami karaoke and also to get a better bracket number and also I said so

I'll probably be making the bracket in the next few days so I'll post that when its done !!

the main inspiration for this specific topic is @bangerbattlethemes but doing a tournament at all was inspired by all the lovely blogs ive seen sprout up such as, but not limited to: