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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 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6071
2 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4852
3 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5370
4 your name. (movie) 8.97 1292
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6701
6 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7982
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10681
8 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12416
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9953
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.85 564
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 (7.4846). 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 7.4846)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
6978 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.94 216
6977 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.41 78
6976 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.89 505
6975 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
6974 EX-ARM (TV) 3.25 38
6973 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.40 28
6972 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.42 295
6971 Duel Masters (TV) 3.46 629
6970 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 725
6969 Ki*Me*Ra (OAV) 3.58 199
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 (7.4846). 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 7.4846)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
33 Suzume (movie) 9.10 7
34 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.08 6071
35 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4852
36 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.03 5370
61 your name. (movie) 8.99 1292
62 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6701
63 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7982
64 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10681
65 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12416
66 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.89 564
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 13513
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13083
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12416
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10681
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 9953
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10218
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10521
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10351
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9299
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9229
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 23795
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22538
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21329
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21120
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18728
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18135
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17147
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15786
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15625
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15600
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
+7112 Revue Starlight The Movie 8.06 21
+7062 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 7.94 20
+6925 Teasing Master Takagi-san the Movie 7.98 23
+6919 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.98 23
+6918 Pui Pui Molcar (TV) 7.93 22
+6887 INU-OH (movie) 7.78 19
+6603 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - Prologue (special) 7.70 21
+6536 Detective Conan - Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (special) 7.64 20
+6521 Tatami Time Machine Blues (ONA) 7.75 24
+6464 Aggretsuko (ONA 5) 7.67 22
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
-6690 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8638
-6668 Hamtaro (TV) 4.63 3813
-6599 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.32 4771
-6583 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7180
-6487 Beyblade (TV) 4.29 2480
-6479 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.72 2618
-6419 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2500
-6342 X (movie) 5.56 3568
-6317 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2549
-6311 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2619
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) 4.26 ±4.412 140
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.98 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.55 ±3.587 23
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.45 ±3.443 84
5 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.45 ±3.371 18
6 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.25 ±3.356 192
7 Vixens (OAV) 5.75 ±3.339 33
8 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.34 ±3.292 152
9 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.72 ±3.226 893
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 4.04 ±3.193 141
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.