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

Our team of reviewers are following 24 anime series of the Spring 2016 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.

Errata: Last week's ranking included Big Order episode 2, but since it aired on April 22 we moved it to this week's ranking.

Episode Rankings for the week of April 22-28

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 aired 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
	4	#1.	Assassination Classroom season 2	14 15 16
	—	#2.	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable	1 2 3 4
	1	#3.	My Hero Academia	1 2 3 4
	2	#4.	Ushio & Tora	27 28 29 30
	2	#5.	Flying Witch	1 2 3
	6	#6.	Kiznaiver	1 2 3
	4	#7.	Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-	1 2 3 4
	7	#8.	One Piece	735 736 737 738
	8	#9.	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress	1 2 3
	no ep. this week		Shōnen Maid	1 2
	2	#11.	Haifuri	1 2 3
	1	#12.	Joker Game	1 2 3 4
	—	#13.	Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto	1 2
	6	#14.	Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song	14 15 16
	6	#15.	Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III	27 28 29 30
	6	#16.	Bungo Stray Dogs	1 2 3 4
	1	#17.	And you thought there is never a girl online?	1 2 3 4
	2	#18.	Twin Star Exorcists	1 2 3 4
	—	#19.	The Asterisk War season 2	13 14 15 16
	3	#20.	Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear	1 2 3 4
	—	#21.	The Lost Village	1 2 3 4
	—	#22.	Naruto Shippūden	455 456 457 458
	1	#23.	Ace Attorney	1 2 3 4
	1	#24.	Big Order	1 2

Series Cumulative Ranking as of April 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 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.	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress	1 2 3
	—	#2.	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable	1 2 3 4
	1	#3.	Assassination Classroom season 2	14 15 16
	1	#4.	Flying Witch	1 2 3
	—	#5.	My Hero Academia	1 2 3 4
	—	#6.	Ushio & Tora	27 28 29 30
	—	#7.	Joker Game	1 2 3 4
	—	#8.	Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III	27 28 29 30
	—	#9.	Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-	1 2 3 4
	1	#10.	Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song	14 15 16
	1	#11.	Bungo Stray Dogs	1 2 3 4
	—	#12.	Kiznaiver	1 2 3
	—	#13.	Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto	1 2
	—	#14.	One Piece	735 736 737 738
	2	#15.	Haifuri	1 2 3
	1	#16.	Shōnen Maid	1 2
	1	#17.	Twin Star Exorcists	1 2 3 4
	—	#18.	Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear	1 2 3 4
	—	#19.	And you thought there is never a girl online?	1 2 3 4
	—	#20.	The Asterisk War season 2	13 14 15 16
	—	#21.	The Lost Village	1 2 3 4
	—	#22.	Naruto Shippūden	455 456 457 458
	—	#23.	Big Order	1 2
	—	#24.	Ace Attorney	1 2 3 4

Notes

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

It's entirely normal to disagree with the rankings; you should not expect your tastes in anime to 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.

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, but it makes it easier to compare weeks if they each have 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, the season will get low rankings that are not indicative of the true overall quality of the series.