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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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.076165
2Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.07660
3Steins;Gate (TV)9.034914
4Clannad After Story (TV)9.015402
5Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966715
6your name. (movie)8.921398
7Spirited Away (movie)8.9210758
8Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.918019
9Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8912507
10Princess Mononoke (movie)8.8610020
This rating only includes titles that have at least 12 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 (7.4717). 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 12)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4717)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
7918Hametsu No Mars (OAV)1.89221
7917Skelter+Heaven (OAV)2.3281
7916SD Gundam Force (TV)2.92507
7915Psychic Wars (OAV)2.95134
7914EX-ARM (TV)3.0542
7913Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie)3.2230
7912Duel Masters (TV)3.47628
7911M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV)3.48302
7910Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV)3.49732
7909Ki*Me*Ra (OAV)3.56200
This rating only includes titles that have at least 12 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 (7.4717). 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 12)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4717)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
37Journal with Witch (TV)9.404
40Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.10660
42Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.076165
44Steins;Gate (TV)9.034914
45Clannad After Story (TV)9.025402
69Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966715
70your name. (movie)8.931398
71Spirited Away (movie)8.9210758
72Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.928019
73Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8912507
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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)8.7213542
2Death Note (TV)8.8513156
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.9312507
4Spirited Away (movie)8.9610758
5Princess Mononoke (movie)8.9210020
6(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.5510245
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.2910554
8Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.3210417
9Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV)8.849341
10Bleach (TV)7.949264
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)
#titleratingseen by
1Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)8.6423890
2Death Note (TV)8.7722698
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8921481
4Bleach (TV)7.7621204
5Naruto (TV)7.4118826
6Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.2118263
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.1517209
8(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.4715835
9Spirited Away (movie)8.9215750
10Princess Mononoke (movie)8.8615712
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)
#titleratingseen by
+8235In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.1818
+7837Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV)8.0623
+7669Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)8.0225
+7493Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV)7.9727
+7491Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage8.1030
+7434There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... ~Next Shine~ (movie)7.6719
+7329Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom (movie)7.5416
+7315Bullet/Bullet (ONA)7.5918
+7230Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie)7.6923
+7204Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!!7.7927
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)
#titleratingseen by
-7595Dragon Ball GT (TV)5.388669
-7593Hamtaro (TV)4.643828
-7504Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998)5.334790
-7454Pokémon (TV)5.527227
-7421Beyblade (TV)4.302497
-7407Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.742630
-7339Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV)5.022505
-7237Duel Masters (TV)3.471795
-7222Pilot Candidate (TV)5.362554
-7209X (movie)5.563580
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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Musashi (TV)4.23 ±4.398141
2Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)8.02 ±4.07414
3Chargeman Ken! (TV)5.42 ±3.50728
4Bondage Game (OAV)5.41 ±3.41685
5Apocalypse Zero (OAV)4.34 ±3.385198
6Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV)7.45 ±3.37118
7In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.18 ±3.29613
8Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2)7.36 ±3.272156
9Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.74 ±3.232895
10Garzey's Wing (OAV)3.92 ±3.199147
Only includes titles with at least 12 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.