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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) 9.08 629
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6157
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4905
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.01 5402
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6716
6 your name. (movie) 8.92 1392
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10751
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.91 8016
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12500
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.86 578
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 (7.4737). 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 7.4737)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7695 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7694 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.35 81
7693 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7692 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.98 134
7691 EX-ARM (TV) 3.13 42
7690 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7689 Duel Masters (TV) 3.48 628
7688 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.49 302
7687 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 732
7686 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 (7.4737). 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 7.4737)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
41 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.12 629
43 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.08 6157
44 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4905
45 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5402
46 Thunderbolt Fantasy: Tōriken Yūki Saishūshō (movie) 9.00 5
69 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6716
70 your name. (movie) 8.93 1392
71 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10751
72 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8016
73 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.90 578
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 13541
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13150
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12500
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10751
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 10011
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.55 10241
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10551
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10412
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.84 9335
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9259
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 23881
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22685
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21467
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21195
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18817
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18251
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17199
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15827
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15738
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15696
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
+8101 In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie) 8.15 18
+7853 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 8.01 20
+7574 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.99 24
+7565 Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage 8.04 25
+7364 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (movie) 8.04 29
+7358 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7286 Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine (movie) 7.62 18
+7108 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.69 23
+7061 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.18 38
+7058 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.77 27
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
-7390 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8663
-7371 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3828
-7294 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4787
-7257 Pokémon (TV) 5.52 7219
-7202 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2496
-7189 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2630
-7123 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2505
-7015 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2554
-7015 Duel Masters (TV) 3.48 1796
-7007 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2633
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) 5.47 ±3.507 28
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.43 ±3.416 85
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 ±3.233 896
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.