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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) 9.20 456
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6124
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.03 4884
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5391
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6710
6 your name. (movie) 8.94 1356
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10728
8 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8005
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12471
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 (7.4794). 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 7.4794)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
7376 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.92 220
7375 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.39 81
7374 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.93 508
7373 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 134
7372 EX-ARM (TV) 3.15 40
7371 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.33 30
7370 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
7369 M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.48 301
7368 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 728
7367 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 (7.4794). 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 7.4794)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
43 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV) 9.25 456
44 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6124
45 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4884
46 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5391
71 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6710
72 your name. (movie) 8.96 1356
73 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10728
74 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 8005
75 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.89 572
76 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12471
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 13534
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13128
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12471
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10728
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9991
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10233
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10540
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10395
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9320
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 23845
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22630
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21411
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21167
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18787
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18208
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17177
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15814
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15699
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15660
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
+7468 (The) First Slam Dunk (movie) 8.11 22
+7385 Blue Giant (movie) 7.95 21
+7218 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.97 24
+7182 Pokémon Concierge (ONA) 7.89 23
+7039 Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (movie) 7.72 20
+7030 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 8.03 29
+7001 Nekketsu Saikyo Gozaurer (TV) 7.88 26
+6952 Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!! 7.71 21
+6765 Revue Starlight The Movie 7.97 33
+6678 Detective Conan - Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (special) 7.61 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
-7075 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8653
-7054 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3822
-6980 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.33 4783
-6954 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7201
-6884 Beyblade (TV) 4.29 2492
-6868 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.74 2620
-6804 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2502
-6705 X (movie) 5.56 3572
-6699 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.36 2551
-6698 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 ±3.234 894
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.