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Best of Summer 2024, Aug 5-11

Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts.

Keep in mind that these rankings are based on how people rated individual episodes of the current season, not on the overall quality or popularity of the series. Only the titles legally streaming in North America and popular enough are being ranked, so the bottom of the list might represent 'watchable' rather than 'bad'. See the notes for further details.

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Episode Rankings for the week of August 5-11

Along the actual ranking for this week's episodes, this graph chronicles the change in position from week to week. While some series are stable, others swing wildly in the rankings depending on the strength of each episode. When a series has no episode for a given week, the previous week's episode is used instead as a placeholder. The first episode of each series is considered as part of the first week, even if it really streamed during the second week. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.

ranking change from week to week (episode numbers as labels; clickable)	prev week change	this week rank	anime series
	2	#1.	Oshi no Ko	12 13 14 15 16 17
	5	#2.	MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season	1 2 3 4 5 6
	no ep. this week		Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master	14
	2	#3.	One Piece	1111 1112 1113 1114 1115
	3	#4.	The Elusive Samurai	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#5.	Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest	1 2 3 4 5 6
	6	#6.	Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!	1 2 3 4 5
	no ep. this week		Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf	14 15 16 17 18
	5	#7.	The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies	1 2 3 4 5
	no ep. this week		My Hero Academia	148 149 150
	6	#8.	NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a	13 14 15 16 17 18
	6	#9.	Pseudo Harem	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#10.	Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian	1 2 3 4 5 6
	7	#11.	VTuber Legend	1 2 3 4 5 6
	15	#12.	Wistoria: Wand and Sword	1 2 3 4 5
	no ep. this week		Senpai is an Otokonoko	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#13.	Twilight Out of Focus	1 2 3 4 5 6
	5	#14.	Suicide Squad ISEKAI	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#15.	Days With My Stepsister	1 2 3 4 5 6
	18	#16.	Failure Frame	1 2 3 4 5 6
	6	#17.	ATRI: My Dear Moments	1 2 3 4 5
	20	#18.	Mayonaka Punch	1 2 3 4 5
	7	#19.	The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses	13 14 15 16 17 18
	1	#20.	I Parry Everything	1 2 3 4 5 6
	9	#21.	Bye Bye, Earth	1 2 3 4 5
	13	#22.	Dahlia in Bloom	1 2 3 4 5 6
	16	#23.	No Longer Allowed In Another World	1 2 3 4 5
	9	#24.	Dungeon People	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#25.	My Deer Friend Nokotan	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#26.	Mission: Yozakura Family	14 15 16 17 18 19
	no ep. this week		That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	62 63 64 65
	3	#27.	Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary	1 2 3 4 5
	no ep. this week		The Ossan Newbie Adventurer	1 2 3 4 5
	8	#28.	Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin	1 2 3 4 5 6
	no ep. this week		Shy	13 14 15 16 17
	—	#29.	Narenare -Cheer for you!-	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#30.	Quality Assurance in Another World	1 2 3 4 5 6
	14	#31.	Tower of God	1 2 3 4 5 6
	17	#32.	2.5 Dimensional Seduction	1 2 3 4 5 6
	no ep. this week		Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World	1 2 3 4
	2	#33.	The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human	1 2 3 4 5 6
	5	#34.	Love Is Indivisible by Twins	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#35.	Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#36.	Plus-Sized Elf	1 2 3 4 5 6

Series Cumulative Ranking as of August 11

Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. As we reach closer to the end of the season, each series' rank will start to solidify and we'll get a look at the real winners and losers. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.

ranking change from week to week (episode numbers as labels; clickable)	prev week change	this week rank	anime series
	—	#1.	Oshi no Ko	12 13 14 15 16 17
	—	#2.	Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master	14
	3	#3.	MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#4.	NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a	13 14 15 16 17 18
	1	#5.	Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#6.	Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf	14 15 16 17 18
	1	#7.	My Hero Academia	148 149 150
	1	#8.	One Piece	1111 1112 1113 1114 1115
	4	#9.	The Elusive Samurai	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#10.	Twilight Out of Focus	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#11.	Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#12.	Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#13.	Wistoria: Wand and Sword	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#14.	Mayonaka Punch	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#15.	The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#16.	Suicide Squad ISEKAI	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#17.	Days With My Stepsister	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#18.	The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses	13 14 15 16 17 18
	—	#19.	Bye Bye, Earth	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#20.	Senpai is an Otokonoko	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#21.	Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#22.	Pseudo Harem	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#23.	Dahlia in Bloom	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#24.	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	62 63 64 65
	—	#25.	Quality Assurance in Another World	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#26.	No Longer Allowed In Another World	1 2 3 4 5
	9	#27.	VTuber Legend	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#28.	Mission: Yozakura Family	14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#29.	Tower of God	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#30.	Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#31.	ATRI: My Dear Moments	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#32.	Narenare -Cheer for you!-	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#33.	Dungeon People	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#34.	Love Is Indivisible by Twins	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#35.	The Ossan Newbie Adventurer	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#36.	My Deer Friend Nokotan	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#37.	2.5 Dimensional Seduction	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#38.	I Parry Everything	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#39.	Shy	13 14 15 16 17
	—	#40.	Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World	1 2 3 4
	2	#41.	Failure Frame	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#42.	Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#43.	The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#44.	Plus-Sized Elf	1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes

Disclaimer: the rankings are just an average of opinions, published for entertainment and information purposes. ANN makes no claims regarding statistical significance or invulnerability to spam.

The rankings are computed using the Ranked pairs method, with the variation that unrated titles are considered as abstentions instead of lower than the rated titles. This roughly means that if, out of all people who rated both A and B, 60% preferred A, it will be ranked higher than B.

The rankings indicate relative quality (A is preferred to B), not absolute quality (B is good/bad). While the titles are ranked from 'best' to 'worst', sometimes the difference between #1 and #10 can be very thin. So if your favorite is near the bottom of the list, don't take it personally. It doesn't mean it's a bad show, it just means that ANN readers, on average, have preferred the ones above.

If a series has no episode for a given week, we use the rating data for the previous week's episode in order to compute the weekly ranking. This is not officially counted as a position in the ranking (it has no impact on the cumulative ranking), but it makes it easier to compare weeks if they each have the same number of series ranked.

It should be noted that long-running series (and sequels) have an advantage in the sense that only people who like the series are still watching it, and they are likely to give each episode a high rating. But if such a series is going through a low-quality filler arc, the season will get low rankings that are not indicative of the true overall quality of the series. Conversely, there are fewer people rating the show so it's less likely to have enough votes to qualify for the ranking.