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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) 9.14 533
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6137
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4892
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5393
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
6 your name. (movie) 8.93 1373
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10736
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.91 8009
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12481
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.86 574
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 (7.4778). 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 7.4778)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7496 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7495 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7494 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7493 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7492 EX-ARM (TV) 3.17 41
7491 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7490 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7489 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.48 301
7488 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 728
7487 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 (7.4778). 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 7.4778)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
44 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.18 533
45 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6137
46 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4892
47 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5393
48 Delicious in Dungeon (TV 2) 9.01 4
71 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
72 your name. (movie) 8.94 1373
73 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10736
74 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8009
75 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.89 574
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 13129
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12481
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10736
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9995
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10235
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10540
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10399
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 23857
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22642
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21429
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21172
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18795
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18220
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17180
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15815
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15713
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15667
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
+7720 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 7.98 18
+7355 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.98 24
+7208 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.87 24
+7183 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.06 29
+7154 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7108 Blue Giant (movie) 7.88 26
+7077 Look Back (movie) 8.32 35
+7055 HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (movies) 7.85 26
+7026 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.74 23
+7019 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
-7193 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8655
-7174 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3821
-7095 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4783
-7070 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7202
-7003 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2493
-6991 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2621
-6924 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6817 X (movie) 5.56 3576
-6817 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1796
-6816 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2552
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.