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The Best and Worst of Spring 2018, May 20-26

by Daniel DeLorme,

Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Spring 2018 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 legally streaming in North America and 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 May 20-26

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
— #1. HINAMATSURI
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #2. MEGALOBOX
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #3. Lupin the Third: Part 5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #4. Steins;Gate 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 #5. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
— #6. Golden Kamuy
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
2 #7. Food Wars! The Third Plate
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
— #8. My Hero Academia (season 3)
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
7 #9. Sword Art Online Alternative: GGO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
12 #10. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
7 #11. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #12. Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory
1
2
3
4
5
6
2 #13. Comic Girls
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
3 #14. PERSONA 5 the Animation
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
4 #15. High School DxD Hero
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
2 #16. One Piece
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
3 #17. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
8 #18. Tokyo Ghoul:re
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
5 #19. Tada Never Falls in Love
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #20. Black Clover
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
2 #21. Record of Grancrest War
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
2 #22. DARLING in the FRANXX
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
16 #23. GeGeGe no Kitarō
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 #24. Real Girl
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2 #25. Magical Girl Ore
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #26. Caligula
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1 #27. Cutie Honey Universe
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Series Cumulative Ranking as of May 26

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. MEGALOBOX
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #2. HINAMATSURI
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #3. Lupin the Third: Part 5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #4. Steins;Gate 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
— #5. Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory
1
2
3
4
5
6
— #6. My Hero Academia (season 3)
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
— #7. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
— #8. Golden Kamuy
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
— #9. Food Wars! The Third Plate
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
2 #10. Sword Art Online Alternative: GGO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1 #11. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #12. DARLING in the FRANXX
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
— #13. Tada Never Falls in Love
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
4 #14. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1 #15. Record of Grancrest War
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1 #16. PERSONA 5 the Animation
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #17. High School DxD Hero
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1 #18. One Piece
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
2 #19. GeGeGe no Kitarō
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #20. Comic Girls
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2 #21. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
1 #22. Tokyo Ghoul:re
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 #23. Real Girl
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #24. Black Clover
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
— #25. Magical Girl Ore
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
— #26. Caligula
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
— #27. Cutie Honey Universe
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Notes

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

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 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.

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