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Anime Top 10

Best Rated (bayesian estimate)
Worst Rated (bayesian estimate)
Best Rated (weighted average)
Most Popular
Most Viewed
Most Underrated
Most Overrated
Most Diverging Opinions

Top 10 Best Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.13 575
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6146
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4900
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.01 5397
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6714
6 your name. (movie) 8.93 1380
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10743
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.91 8013
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12494
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.87 576
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.4766). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are great. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4766)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7575 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7574 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7573 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7572 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7571 EX-ARM (TV) 3.17 41
7570 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7569 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7568 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.49 302
7567 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 730
7566 Ki*Me*Ra (OAV) 3.58 200
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.4766). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are awful. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4766)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
46 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.17 575
47 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6146
48 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4900
50 Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (movie) 9.02 4
51 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5397
74 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6714
75 your name. (movie) 8.94 1380
76 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10743
77 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8013
78 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.90 576
The rating is an average of the scores given by voters, weighted to give less importance to users with unnatural voting patterns. Titles with less than 4 votes are removed from the list but are still counted in the ranking. This explains why there may be gaps in the "#" column.

Top 10 Most Popular (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.72 13538
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13140
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12494
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10743
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 10003
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.55 10239
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10547
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10408
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.84 9331
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9255
The most popular titles are determined with a simple summation of all votes. Titles with many votes will tend to be at the top, but this is modified a little by the ratings. In other words, the popularity is the straight average score of a title (the value in the rating column) multiplied by the number of votes.

Top 10 Most Viewed (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.64 23868
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22668
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21450
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21184
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18809
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18238
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17193
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15820
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15723
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15679
The "seen by" column indicates the number of people who have added the title in MyAnime, either in "seen some", "seen all", or "will not finish" categories. The rating displayed here is the same weighted average as the Top 10 Best Rated by weighted average, but is only displayed for reference and doesn't have anything to do with the order of the titles.

Top 10 Most Underrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
+8022 In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie) 8.15 17
+7794 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 7.98 18
+7432 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.99 24
+7253 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.13 30
+7230 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7224 Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (movie) 7.62 17
+7205 (The) Colors Within (movie) 7.74 21
+7100 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.84 26
+7087 Blue Giant (movie) 7.96 30
+7038 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.69 22
This is a list of the titles that deserve to be seen more. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would climb in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Overrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
-7271 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8660
-7252 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3825
-7175 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4785
-7145 Pokémon (TV) 5.52 7209
-7082 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2493
-7067 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2625
-7002 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2504
-6896 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2554
-6895 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1796
-6892 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2630
This is a list of the titles that didn't deserve to be seen as much as they have been. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would drop in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Diverging Opinions (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Musashi (TV) 4.25 ±4.398 141
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.99 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.43 ±3.534 27
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.43 ±3.436 84
5 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.45 ±3.371 18
6 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.32 ±3.369 197
7 In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie) 8.15 ±3.296 13
8 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.38 ±3.274 157
9 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 ±3.234 895
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 3.95 ±3.207 146
Only includes titles with at least 13 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.