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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 6087
2 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4863
3 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5379
4 your name. (movie) 8.96 1318
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6703
6 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7987
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10696
8 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12429
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9960
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.86 566
This rating only includes titles that have at least 14 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 (7.4818). 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 14)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4818)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7024 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.95 218
7023 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.47 80
7022 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.91 506
7021 Psychic Wars (OAV) 3.02 134
7020 EX-ARM (TV) 3.28 39
7019 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.42 29
7018 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.45 297
7017 Duel Masters (TV) 3.48 629
7016 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 726
7015 Ki*Me*Ra (OAV) 3.60 199
This rating only includes titles that have at least 14 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 (7.4818). 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 14)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.4818)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
35 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6087
36 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4863
37 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5379
59 your name. (movie) 8.98 1318
60 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6703
61 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7987
62 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10696
63 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.89 566
64 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12429
67 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9960
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 13516
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13096
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12429
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10696
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 9960
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10222
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10527
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10362
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9302
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9236
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 23809
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22574
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21358
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21137
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18747
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18156
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17159
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15798
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15653
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15613
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
+6996 Revue Starlight The Movie 8.09 25
+6991 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 23
+6966 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 7.99 24
+6518 Non Non Biyori Nonstop (OAV) 7.62 21
+6464 Teasing Master Takagi-san the Movie 7.96 34
+6435 INU-OH (movie) 7.79 29
+6378 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation (movie) 7.70 26
+6355 Vampire Vixen (OAV) 7.55 21
+6331 Ani Ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai! 3 (TV) 7.53 20
+6310 Aria the Crepuscolo (movie) 7.71 28
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
-6741 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8643
-6712 Hamtaro (TV) 4.63 3814
-6651 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4773
-6637 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7188
-6533 Beyblade (TV) 4.29 2483
-6526 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.73 2616
-6464 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2501
-6401 X (movie) 5.56 3570
-6364 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2548
-6362 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) 4.28 ±4.412 140
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.60 ±3.587 23
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.45 ±3.436 84
5 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.45 ±3.371 18
6 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.28 ±3.366 193
7 Vixens (OAV) 5.73 ±3.301 33
8 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.36 ±3.296 154
9 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.73 ±3.227 892
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 4.07 ±3.198 141
Only includes titles with at least 14 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.