The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Feb 12-18

Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Winter 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.

Due to scheduling issues, Naruto Shippūden could not be included in this week's ranking. It will be retrofitted in next week's graphs.

Episode Rankings for the week of February 12-18

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. For the first week we compared the first episode of each series, even if they aired during the second week. That's why several episodes appear missing from "Jan 8-14"; they were ranked in "first ep." instead. 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
	10	#1.	Gintama	304 305 306 307 308 309 310
	1	#2.	ERASED	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	1	#3.	KonoSuba	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#4.	One Piece	725 726 727 728 729
	—	#5.	Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash	1 2 3 4 5 6
	6	#6.	Haikyu!! Second Season	14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#7.	Assassination Classroom	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	1	#8.	Lupin the Third - Part 4	14 15 16 17 18 19 20
	6	#9.	GATE	13 14 15 16 17 18
	3	#10.	Durarara!! ×2 The Third Arc	27 28 29 30
	1	#11.	Snow White with the Red Hair	13 14 15 16 17 18
	11	#12.	Haruchika – Haruta & Chika	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	no ep. this week		Dagashi Kashi	1 2 3 4 5
	10	#14.	Mr. Osomatsu	13 14 15 16 17 18 19
	5	#15.	Myriad Colors Phantom World	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	1	#16.	Heavy Object	13 14 15 16 17 18
	3	#17.	Dimension W	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#18.	BBK/BRNK	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#19.	Schwarzes Marken	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#20.	Luck & Logic	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#21.	Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū	1 2 3 4 5 6
	9	#22.	Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	14 15 16 17 18 19
	2	#23.	Utawarerumono: The False Faces	13 14 15 16 17 18 19
	2	#24.	Girls Beyond the Wasteland	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	3	#25.	Active Raid	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	2	#26.	Prince of Stride: Alternative	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	pending review		Naruto Shippūden	444 445 446 447 448

Series Cumulative Ranking as of February 18

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.	Gintama	304 305 306 307 308 309 310
	—	#2.	ERASED	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	5	#3.	One Piece	725 726 727 728 729
	3	#4.	Haikyu!! Second Season	14 15 16 17 18 19
	—	#5.	Durarara!! ×2 The Third Arc	27 28 29 30
	2	#6.	Lupin the Third - Part 4	14 15 16 17 18 19 20
	1	#7.	Mr. Osomatsu	13 14 15 16 17 18 19
	5	#8.	KonoSuba	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#9.	Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#10.	Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#11.	GATE	13 14 15 16 17 18
	3	#12.	Snow White with the Red Hair	13 14 15 16 17 18
	3	#13.	Assassination Classroom	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	3	#14.	Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	14 15 16 17 18 19
	3	#15.	Dimension W	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#16.	Heavy Object	13 14 15 16 17 18
	—	#17.	Dagashi Kashi	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#18.	Schwarzes Marken	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#19.	Utawarerumono: The False Faces	13 14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#20.	Prince of Stride: Alternative	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	—	#21.	BBK/BRNK	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#22.	Myriad Colors Phantom World	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	—	#23.	Girls Beyond the Wasteland	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	—	#24.	Haruchika – Haruta & Chika	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	—	#25.	Luck & Logic	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#26.	Active Raid	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	—	#27.	Naruto Shippūden	444 445 446 447 448

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.