The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of October 22-28

Our team of reviewers are following 24 anime series of the Fall 2015 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season.

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 popular enough to be reviewed are being ranked, so the bottom of the list might represent 'watchable' rather than 'bad'. See the notes for further details.

Episode Rankings for the week of October 22-28

Next to 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. Click 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	#1.	Noragami Aragoto	1 2 3 4
	4	#2.	Gintama	292 293 294 295
	2	#3.	One-Punch Man	1 2 3 4
	16	#4.	One Piece	712 713 714 715
	2	#5.	Haikyu!! Second Season	1 2 3 4
	5	#6.	Owarimonogatari	1 2 3 4
	3	#7.	The Perfect Insider	1 2 3
	1	#8.	Ushio & Tora	14 15 16 17
	—	#9.	Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen	1 2 3 4
	6	#10.	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	1 2 3 4
	6	#11.	Young Black Jack	1 2 3 4
	4	#12.	Mr. Osomatsu	1 2 3 4
	1	#13.	Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-	1 2 3 4
	1	#14.	Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign	13 14 15
	6	#15.	The Asterisk War	1 2 3 4
	—	#16.	Chivalry of a Failed Knight	1 2 3 4
	2	#17.	Heavy Object	1 2 3 4
	7	#18.	Concrete Revolutio	1 2 3 4
	7	#19.	K: Return of Kings	1 2 3 4
	3	#20.	Garo: Crimson Moon	1 2 3
	2	#21.	Dance with Devils	1 2 3 4
	—	#22.	Comet Lucifer	1 2 3 4
	5	#23.	Attack on Titan: Junior High	1 2 3 4
	—	#24.	Naruto Shippūden	432 433 434 435

Series Cumulative Ranking as of October 28

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 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	#1.	One-Punch Man	1 2 3 4
	1	#2.	Haikyu!! Second Season	1 2 3 4
	2	#3.	Owarimonogatari	1 2 3 4
	—	#4.	Noragami Aragoto	1 2 3 4
	1	#5.	Gintama	292 293 294 295
	1	#6.	Ushio & Tora	14 15 16 17
	2	#7.	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	1 2 3 4
	—	#8.	Mr. Osomatsu	1 2 3 4
	—	#9.	Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen	1 2 3 4
	2	#10.	The Perfect Insider	1 2 3
	1	#11.	K: Return of Kings	1 2 3 4
	1	#12.	Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-	1 2 3 4
	2	#13.	Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign	13 14 15
	—	#14.	One Piece	712 713 714 715
	—	#15.	Concrete Revolutio	1 2 3 4
	—	#16.	Comet Lucifer	1 2 3 4
	—	#17.	Young Black Jack	1 2 3 4
	—	#18.	Heavy Object	1 2 3 4
	—	#19.	Dance with Devils	1 2 3 4
	1	#20.	Chivalry of a Failed Knight	1 2 3 4
	1	#21.	The Asterisk War	1 2 3 4
	2	#22.	Attack on Titan: Junior High	1 2 3 4
	—	#23.	Garo: Crimson Moon	1 2 3
	—	#24.	Naruto Shippūden	432 433 434 435

Notes

Disclaimer: the rankings are just an average of opinions, published for entertainment and information purposes. It's entirely normal to disagree with the rankings; it's not expected that your tastes in anime should match the average expressed by the rankings. Also, the rankings indicate relative quality (A is preferred to B), not absolute quality (B is good/bad). So while the titles are ranked from 'best' to 'worst', that doesn't necessarily mean the best title is 'great' or the worst title is 'awful'.

The rankings are computed using the Schulze 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 weekly ranking works a little differently than last season. If a series has no episode, we use the rating data for the previous week's episode in order to compute the ranking. This is not officially counted as a "position" in the ranking, but it makes it easier to compare weeks if each week has the same number of series in the ranking.

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, it will get low rankings that are not indicative of the true overall quality of the series.