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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
1Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.08634
2Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.076159
3Steins;Gate (TV)9.034904
4Clannad After Story (TV)9.015401
5Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966715
6your name. (movie)8.921392
7Spirited Away (movie)8.9210753
8Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.918016
9Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8912500
10Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV)8.86578
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 (7.4731). 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 7.4731)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
7757Hametsu No Mars (OAV)1.91221
7756Skelter+Heaven (OAV)2.3581
7755SD Gundam Force (TV)2.93508
7754Psychic Wars (OAV)2.98134
7753EX-ARM (TV)3.1342
7752Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie)3.3230
7751Duel Masters (TV)3.48628
7750M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV)3.49302
7749Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV)3.49732
7748Ki*Me*Ra (OAV)3.58200
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 (7.4731). 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 7.4731)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
43Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.11634
45Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.076159
46Steins;Gate (TV)9.034904
47Clannad After Story (TV)9.025401
48Thunderbolt Fantasy: Tōriken Yūki Saishūshō (movie)9.006
74Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966715
75your name. (movie)8.931392
76Spirited Away (movie)8.9210753
77Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.928016
79Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV)8.90578
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)8.7213540
2Death Note (TV)8.8613150
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.9312500
4Spirited Away (movie)8.9610753
5Princess Mononoke (movie)8.9210013
6(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.5510242
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.2910551
8Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.3210413
9Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV)8.849334
10Bleach (TV)7.949261
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)8.6423881
2Death Note (TV)8.7722687
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8921468
4Bleach (TV)7.7721197
5Naruto (TV)7.4118819
6Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.2118254
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.1517201
8(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.4815828
9Spirited Away (movie)8.9215739
10Princess Mononoke (movie)8.8615698
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
+8150In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.1518
+7905Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV)8.0120
+7632Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)7.9924
+7497Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage8.0327
+7407Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV)7.9527
+7399Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (movie)7.9026
+7292Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine (movie)7.6319
+7217Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie)7.6922
+7105Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!!7.7727
+7078(The) First Slam Dunk (movie)8.2039
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
-7452Dragon Ball GT (TV)5.388663
-7432Hamtaro (TV)4.643828
-7356Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998)5.334789
-7317Pokémon (TV)5.527218
-7264Beyblade (TV)4.302496
-7251Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.742630
-7185Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV)5.032505
-7077Duel Masters (TV)3.481795
-7076Pilot Candidate (TV)5.372554
-7068Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11)5.412633
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)4.25 ±4.398141
2Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)7.99 ±4.07414
3Chargeman Ken! (TV)5.47 ±3.50728
4Bondage Game (OAV)5.43 ±3.41685
5Apocalypse Zero (OAV)4.35 ±3.385198
6Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV)7.45 ±3.37118
7In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.15 ±3.29613
8Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2)7.36 ±3.272156
9Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.74 ±3.233896
10Garzey's Wing (OAV)3.95 ±3.207146
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.