Your Anime Rankings
Best of Summer 2024
by Daniel DeLorme,
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. The week of Sep 23-30 is a special 8-day week (with two Mondays) to close off this 92-day season. And there were X shows with an episode on each of the two Mondays: [...].
For the last week we're comparing all the final episodes
With the week of September 23-30, the Summer 2024 season is now over. But many of the series already ended the previous week, so we're adding an extra "final" week where all the last episodes are ranked against each other. With this we can see which series ended on a strong note and which ones ended more weakly. That means the "final ep." column is a repeat of the last episode from Sep 16-22 or Sep 23-30. And the "prev week change" is the difference in position between the "final ep." column and the penultimate episode.Episode Rankings for the final episodes
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) |
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| — | #1. | Oshi no Ko |
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| 1 | #2. | Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master |
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| 15 | #3. | Pseudo Harem |
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| 2 | #4. | NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a |
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| 2 | #5. | My Hero Academia |
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| 1 | #6. | Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf |
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| 5 | #7. | The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies |
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| 1 | #8. | Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! |
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| 1 | #9. | MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season |
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| 7 | #10. | Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian |
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| 12 | #11. | The Ossan Newbie Adventurer |
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| 4 | #12. | Mayonaka Punch |
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| 10 | #13. | One Piece |
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| 13 | #14. | VTuber Legend |
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| 4 | #15. | The Elusive Samurai |
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| 12 | #16. | Wistoria: Wand and Sword |
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| 3 | #17. | Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest |
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| 11 | #18. | Suicide Squad ISEKAI |
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| 14 | #19. | Twilight Out of Focus |
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| 1 | #20. | Senpai is an Otokonoko |
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| 3 | #21. | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime |
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| 7 | #22. | The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses |
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| 11 | #23. | Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary |
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| 11 | #24. | No Longer Allowed In Another World |
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| 12 | #25. | 2.5 Dimensional Seduction |
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| 2 | #26. | I Parry Everything |
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| 1 | #27. | The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human |
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| 3 | #28. | Shy |
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| 6 | #29. | Mission: Yozakura Family |
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| 2 | #30. | Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin |
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| 5 | #31. | Dungeon People |
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| 4 | #32. | Days With My Stepsister |
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| 1 | #33. | ATRI: My Dear Moments |
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| 6 | #34. | Dahlia in Bloom |
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| 6 | #35. | My Deer Friend Nokotan |
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| 11 | #36. | Failure Frame |
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| 3 | #37. | Tower of God |
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| 4 | #38. | Narenare -Cheer for you!- |
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| 1 | #39. | Bye Bye, Earth |
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| 1 | #40. | Love Is Indivisible by Twins |
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| 3 | #41. | Quality Assurance in Another World |
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| — | #42. | Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? |
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| — | #43. | Plus-Sized Elf |
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Series Cumulative Ranking for Summer 2024
Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. With the last episode duplicated in the "final ep." column, it means that the votes for the last episode of each series are counted twice, which intentionally gives a boost to series that ended strongly. This somewhat compensates for the fact that the first episode of each series has more votes, which favors series that started strongly.So this is it, the final ranking, the winners and losers of the Summer 2024 season. 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 |
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| — | #1. | Oshi no Ko |
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| — | #2. | Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master |
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| 1 | #3. | Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf |
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| 1 | #4. | MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season |
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| 3 | #5. | NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a |
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| 1 | #6. | Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! |
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| 1 | #7. | My Hero Academia |
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| 2 | #8. | One Piece |
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| 3 | #9. | The Elusive Samurai |
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| — | #10. | Suicide Squad ISEKAI |
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| 3 | #11. | Pseudo Harem |
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| 1 | #12. | Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian |
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| 1 | #13. | Wistoria: Wand and Sword |
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| 1 | #14. | Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest |
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| — | #15. | Senpai is an Otokonoko |
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| — | #16. | Twilight Out of Focus |
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| 2 | #17. | The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies |
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| — | #18. | Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary |
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| 1 | #19. | Mayonaka Punch |
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| — | #20. | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime |
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| — | #21. | Days With My Stepsister |
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| — | #22. | The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses |
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| 4 | #23. | The Ossan Newbie Adventurer |
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| 1 | #24. | No Longer Allowed In Another World |
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| 2 | #25. | Bye Bye, Earth |
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| — | #26. | ATRI: My Dear Moments |
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| — | #27. | VTuber Legend |
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| — | #28. | I Parry Everything |
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| 3 | #29. | Dungeon People |
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| 4 | #30. | Shy |
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| — | #31. | Mission: Yozakura Family |
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| 1 | #32. | Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin |
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| 1 | #33. | Dahlia in Bloom |
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| 8 | #34. | Quality Assurance in Another World |
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| — | #35. | Tower of God |
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| 1 | #36. | Failure Frame |
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| 1 | #37. | The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human |
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| 1 | #38. | My Deer Friend Nokotan |
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| 3 | #39. | Narenare -Cheer for you!- |
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| — | #40. | 2.5 Dimensional Seduction |
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| — | #41. | Love Is Indivisible by Twins |
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| — | #42. | Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? |
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| — | #43. | Plus-Sized Elf |
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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.
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