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Anime Top 10

Best Rated (bayesian estimate)
Worst Rated (bayesian estimate)
Best Rated (weighted average)
Most Popular
Most Viewed
Most Underrated
Most Overrated
Most Diverging Opinions

Top 10 Best Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.20 482
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6126
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4887
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5392
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
6 your name. (movie) 8.94 1363
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10731
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8009
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12477
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.86 572
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.4791). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are great. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4791)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7423 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.92 220
7422 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7421 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7420 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7419 EX-ARM (TV) 3.15 40
7418 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.32 30
7417 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7416 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.48 301
7415 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 728
7414 Ki*Me*Ra (OAV) 3.58 200
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.4791). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are awful. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4791)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
43 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.25 482
44 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6126
45 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4887
46 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5392
70 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6712
71 your name. (movie) 8.95 1363
73 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10731
74 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8009
75 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.89 572
76 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12477
The rating is an average of the scores given by voters, weighted to give less importance to users with unnatural voting patterns. Titles with less than 4 votes are removed from the list but are still counted in the ranking. This explains why there may be gaps in the "#" column.

Top 10 Most Popular (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.72 13536
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13129
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12477
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10731
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9992
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10236
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10542
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10397
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9323
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9250
The most popular titles are determined with a simple summation of all votes. Titles with many votes will tend to be at the top, but this is modified a little by the ratings. In other words, the popularity is the straight average score of a title (the value in the rating column) multiplied by the number of votes.

Top 10 Most Viewed (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.64 23848
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22634
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21418
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21169
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18790
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18209
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17177
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15814
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15706
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15662
The "seen by" column indicates the number of people who have added the title in MyAnime, either in "seen some", "seen all", or "will not finish" categories. The rating displayed here is the same weighted average as the Top 10 Best Rated by weighted average, but is only displayed for reference and doesn't have anything to do with the order of the titles.

Top 10 Most Underrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
+7423 Blue Giant (movie) 7.95 21
+7351 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.06 24
+7265 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.97 24
+7155 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.89 24
+7075 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 8.03 29
+7072 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.95 27
+7018 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.72 21
+6989 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.74 22
+6805 Revue Starlight The Movie 7.97 33
+6776 Girls Band Cry (TV) 7.97 34
This is a list of the titles that deserve to be seen more. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would climb in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Overrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
-7120 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8654
-7101 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3822
-7023 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4783
-6999 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7203
-6931 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2492
-6915 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2620
-6851 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6750 X (movie) 5.56 3574
-6744 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2551
-6743 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 1796
This is a list of the titles that didn't deserve to be seen as much as they have been. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would drop in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Diverging Opinions (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Musashi (TV) 4.25 ±4.398 141
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.97 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.44 ±3.534 27
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.43 ±3.436 84
5 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.32 ±3.371 195
6 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.46 ±3.371 18
7 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.39 ±3.274 157
8 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 ±3.235 894
9 Vixens (OAV) 5.66 ±3.219 34
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 3.98 ±3.204 145
Only includes titles with at least 13 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.