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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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.08632
2Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.076160
3Steins;Gate (TV)9.034905
4Clannad After Story (TV)9.015402
5Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966716
6your name. (movie)8.921392
7Spirited Away (movie)8.9210752
8Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.918017
9Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8912501
10Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV)8.86578
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 (7.4733). 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 7.4733)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
7753Hametsu No Mars (OAV)1.91221
7752Skelter+Heaven (OAV)2.3581
7751SD Gundam Force (TV)2.93508
7750Psychic Wars (OAV)2.98134
7749EX-ARM (TV)3.1342
7748Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie)3.3230
7747Duel Masters (TV)3.48628
7746M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV)3.49302
7745Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV)3.49732
7744Ki*Me*Ra (OAV)3.58200
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 (7.4733). 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 7.4733)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
#titleratingnb. votes
41Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV)9.12632
43Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV)9.086160
44Steins;Gate (TV)9.034905
45Clannad After Story (TV)9.025402
46Thunderbolt Fantasy: Tōriken Yūki Saishūshō (movie)9.006
72Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV)8.966716
73your name. (movie)8.931392
74Spirited Away (movie)8.9210752
75Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV)8.928017
76Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV)8.90578
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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)8.7213541
2Death Note (TV)8.8613151
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.9312501
4Spirited Away (movie)8.9610752
5Princess Mononoke (movie)8.9210012
6(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.5510242
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.2910552
8Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.3210414
9Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV)8.849335
10Bleach (TV)7.949261
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)
#titleratingseen by
1Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)8.6423880
2Death Note (TV)8.7722686
3Cowboy Bebop (TV)8.8921467
4Bleach (TV)7.7721197
5Naruto (TV)7.4118818
6Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)8.2118253
7Elfen Lied (TV)8.1517200
8(The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)8.4815827
9Spirited Away (movie)8.9215738
10Princess Mononoke (movie)8.8615696
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)
#titleratingseen by
+8109In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.1518
+7865Natsume's Book of Friends: The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree (OAV)8.0120
+7586Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)7.9924
+7457Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage8.0327
+7416Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (movie)7.9025
+7367Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV)7.9527
+7256Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine (movie)7.6319
+7173Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie)7.6922
+7108(The) First Slam Dunk (movie)8.1837
+7068Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!!7.7727
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)
#titleratingseen by
-7448Dragon Ball GT (TV)5.388662
-7428Hamtaro (TV)4.643828
-7352Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998)5.334787
-7313Pokémon (TV)5.527219
-7260Beyblade (TV)4.302495
-7247Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.742630
-7181Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV)5.032505
-7074Pilot Candidate (TV)5.372554
-7073Duel Masters (TV)3.481796
-7064Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11)5.412632
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)
#titleratingnb. votes
1Musashi (TV)4.25 ±4.398141
2Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie)7.99 ±4.07414
3Chargeman Ken! (TV)5.47 ±3.50728
4Bondage Game (OAV)5.43 ±3.41685
5Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV)7.45 ±3.37118
6Apocalypse Zero (OAV)4.32 ±3.369197
7In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (movie)8.15 ±3.29613
8Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2)7.38 ±3.274157
9Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV)4.74 ±3.233896
10Garzey's Wing (OAV)3.95 ±3.207146
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.