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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) 9.09 607
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6153
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4903
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.01 5399
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6716
6 your name. (movie) 8.92 1389
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10750
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.91 8014
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12498
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 (7.4751). 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 7.4751)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7657 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7656 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.35 81
7655 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7654 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7653 EX-ARM (TV) 3.17 41
7652 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7651 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7650 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.49 302
7649 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 732
7648 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 (7.4751). 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 7.4751)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
41 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.12 607
43 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.08 6153
44 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4903
46 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5399
69 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6716
70 your name. (movie) 8.93 1389
71 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10750
72 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8014
73 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.90 578
74 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12498
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 13539
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13147
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12498
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10750
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 10010
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.55 10239
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10549
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10412
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.84 9332
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9258
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 23874
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22678
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21458
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21192
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18813
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18246
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17197
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15824
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15736
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15694
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
+8030 In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie) 8.15 18
+7778 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 8.01 20
+7504 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.99 24
+7296 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7216 Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine (movie) 7.62 18
+7099 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.14 35
+7064 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.84 28
+7061 (The) Colors Within (movie) 7.75 25
+7043 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.69 23
+7003 Blue Giant (movie) 8.03 35
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
-7353 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8663
-7334 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3828
-7257 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4785
-7224 Pokémon (TV) 5.52 7215
-7164 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2495
-7150 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2628
-7085 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2504
-6978 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2554
-6977 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1797
-6973 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2631
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) 5.48 ±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 ±3.234 895
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.