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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) 9.15 539
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6139
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4894
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5394
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
6 your name. (movie) 8.93 1376
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10740
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8010
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12485
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 (7.4776). 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 7.4776)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7502 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.91 221
7501 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7500 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7499 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7498 EX-ARM (TV) 3.17 41
7497 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7496 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7495 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.48 301
7494 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 729
7493 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 (7.4776). 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 7.4776)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
43 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.19 539
44 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6139
45 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4894
46 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5394
47 Delicious in Dungeon (TV 2) 9.01 4
70 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
71 your name. (movie) 8.94 1376
72 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10740
73 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8010
74 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 13537
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13132
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12485
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10740
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9998
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10236
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10541
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10401
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9326
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 23859
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22646
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21432
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21171
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18796
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18221
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17180
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15817
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15718
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15670
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
+7959 In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie) 8.15 17
+7730 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV) 7.98 18
+7364 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.98 24
+7186 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.06 29
+7164 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7159 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.87 25
+7126 Blue Giant (movie) 7.92 27
+7081 Shashinkan (movie) 7.59 17
+7043 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.75 23
+7013 Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (movie) 7.56 17
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
-7199 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8654
-7180 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3821
-7101 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4784
-7075 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7204
-7009 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2493
-6997 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2621
-6930 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6823 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1796
-6822 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2552
-6821 X (movie) 5.56 3576
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 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 ±3.235 894
10 Vixens (OAV) 5.66 ±3.219 34
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.