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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) 9.15 527
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6134
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4890
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5392
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
6 your name. (movie) 8.93 1372
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10735
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.91 8009
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12479
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.86 573
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 (7.4779). 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 7.4779)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7492 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7491 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7490 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7489 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7488 EX-ARM (TV) 3.17 41
7487 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7486 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7485 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.48 301
7484 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 728
7483 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 (7.4779). 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 7.4779)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
40 Ranma ½ (TV 2024) 9.75 4
43 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.19 527
44 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6134
45 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4890
46 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5392
47 Delicious in Dungeon (TV 2) 9.01 4
70 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
71 your name. (movie) 8.95 1372
72 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10735
73 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8009
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 13536
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13127
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12479
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10735
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9994
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10235
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10539
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10398
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9323
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9249
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 23856
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22639
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21427
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21171
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18795
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18218
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17179
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15815
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15711
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15666
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
+8107 Look Back (movie) 8.18 15
+7754 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 7.95 17
+7349 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.98 24
+7311 HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (movies) 7.86 22
+7217 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.06 28
+7201 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.87 24
+7152 Blue Giant (movie) 7.88 25
+7147 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7024 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.74 23
+7016 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.68 21
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
-7189 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8655
-7170 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3821
-7091 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4782
-7065 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7202
-7000 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2493
-6987 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2621
-6920 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6816 X (movie) 5.56 3575
-6813 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1796
-6812 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2551
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) 7.98 ±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) 4.31 ±3.366 196
7 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.38 ±3.274 157
8 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 ±3.235 894
9 Vixens (OAV) 5.66 ±3.219 34
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 3.98 ±3.204 145
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.