Your Anime Rankings
Best of Winter 2023
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.
For the last week we're comparing all the final episodes
With the week of March 26-31, the Winter 2023 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 Mar 19-25 or Mar 26-31. And the "prev week change" is the difference in position between the "final ep." column and the penultimate episode.The ranking doesn't include some episodes from the trailing end of the season streaming in April: BOFURI #11 and #12. For completeness' sake we'll update this ranking as the episodes are reviewed and rated in the coming days.
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 | #1. | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV |
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| 16 | #2. | Vinland Saga |
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| 2 | #3. | Tomo-chan Is a Girl! |
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| 7 | #4. | ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! |
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| 13 | #5. | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten |
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| 18 | #6. | Buddy Daddies |
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| 5 | #7. | Tsurune: The Linking Shot |
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| 5 | #8. | Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess |
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| 7 | #9. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
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| 8 | #10. | My Hero Academia |
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| 10 | #11. | Endo and Kobayashi Live! |
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| 14 | #12. | Trigun Stampede |
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| 4 | #13. | Ippon Again! |
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| 8 | #14. | Handyman Saitō in Another World |
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| 10 | #15. | Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack |
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| 1 | #16. | Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun |
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| 3 | #17. | In/Spectre |
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| 10 | #18. | Revenger |
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| 5 | #19. | Farming Life in Another World |
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| 5 | #20. | Campfire Cooking in Another World |
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| 1 | #21. | Chillin' in My 30s |
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| — | #22. | To Your Eternity |
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| 13 | #23. | The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague |
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| 2 | #24. | BOFURI Season 2 |
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| 9 | #25. | The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World |
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| 18 | #26. | One Piece |
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| 7 | #27. | Blue Lock |
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| 11 | #28. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
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| 2 | #29. | By the Grace of the Gods |
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| 1 | #30. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| 4 | #31. | Reborn to Master the Blade |
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| 4 | #32. | The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist |
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| 6 | #33. | Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity |
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| 1 | #34. | Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World |
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| 3 | #35. | High Card |
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| 7 | #36. | Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown |
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| 3 | #37. | The tale of outcasts |
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| 5 | #38. | Spy Classroom |
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| 2 | #39. | Kaina of the Great Snow Sea |
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| 1 | #40. | The Fire Hunter |
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| 1 | #41. | Giant Beasts of Ars |
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Series Cumulative Ranking for Winter 2023
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 Winter 2023 season. 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. | Vinland Saga |
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| — | #2. | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV |
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| — | #3. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
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| — | #4. | Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess |
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| — | #5. | One Piece |
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| — | #6. | My Hero Academia |
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| — | #7. | Tsurune: The Linking Shot |
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| 1 | #8. | Tomo-chan Is a Girl! |
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| 1 | #9. | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten |
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| 1 | #10. | Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack |
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| 1 | #11. | In/Spectre |
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| 1 | #12. | Buddy Daddies |
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| 5 | #13. | Handyman Saitō in Another World |
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| 2 | #14. | Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun |
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| 1 | #15. | Trigun Stampede |
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| 1 | #16. | Endo and Kobayashi Live! |
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| 6 | #17. | ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! |
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| 1 | #18. | Blue Lock |
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| 1 | #19. | BOFURI Season 2 |
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| — | #20. | Campfire Cooking in Another World |
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| 2 | #21. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
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| 1 | #22. | Ippon Again! |
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| 1 | #23. | The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague |
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| — | #24. | To Your Eternity |
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| — | #25. | Chillin' in My 30s |
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| — | #26. | Reborn to Master the Blade |
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| — | #27. | Revenger |
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| — | #28. | Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown |
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| — | #29. | The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist |
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| — | #30. | Farming Life in Another World |
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| — | #31. | By the Grace of the Gods |
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| 1 | #32. | Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World |
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| 1 | #33. | Kaina of the Great Snow Sea |
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| 2 | #34. | High Card |
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| 2 | #35. | The tale of outcasts |
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| 1 | #36. | The Fire Hunter |
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| 1 | #37. | Spy Classroom |
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| — | #38. | Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity |
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| — | #39. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| — | #40. | Giant Beasts of Ars |
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| — | #41. | The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World |
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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 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. 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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