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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) 9.26 342
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6122
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4881
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5390
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6710
6 your name. (movie) 8.94 1355
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10725
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8003
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12465
10 (The) Apothecary Diaries (TV) 8.87 255
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 (7.4792). 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 7.4792)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7268 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.94 220
7267 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.45 81
7266 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 507
7265 Psychic Wars (OAV) 3.02 134
7264 EX-ARM (TV) 3.23 40
7263 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.42 30
7262 Duel Masters (TV) 3.48 629
7261 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.49 728
7260 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.50 301
7259 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 (7.4792). 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 7.4792)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
42 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.33 342
44 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6122
45 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4881
47 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5390
75 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6710
76 your name. (movie) 8.96 1355
77 (The) Apothecary Diaries (TV) 8.95 255
78 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.92 11
79 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10725
80 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8003
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 13532
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13126
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12465
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10725
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9987
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10232
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10539
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10393
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9318
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 23838
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22626
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21402
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21163
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18781
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18202
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17174
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15810
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15693
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15651
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
+7205 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.87 21
+7142 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 24
+7005 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.73 20
+6955 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 8.02 29
+6910 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.87 26
+6690 Revue Starlight The Movie 7.95 33
+6621 Detective Conan - Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (special) 7.60 22
+6517 Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger (TV) 7.84 33
+6510 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation (movie) 7.78 31
+6489 Vampire Vixen (OAV) 7.60 24
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
-6980 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8650
-6951 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3822
-6886 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4783
-6873 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7199
-6777 Beyblade (TV) 4.30 2491
-6766 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2619
-6706 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6624 X (movie) 5.56 3570
-6603 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2550
-6598 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2624
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) 4.27 ±4.398 141
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.49 ±3.534 27
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.45 ±3.436 84
5 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.33 ±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 ±3.234 894
9 Vixens (OAV) 5.70 ±3.219 34
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 4.00 ±3.204 145
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.