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) 9.10 5439
2 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.09 4307
3 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.07 5045
4 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6579
5 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.94 7644
6 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10301
7 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.91 414
8 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 11915
9 (The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) 8.88 2671
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9626
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 (7.5207). 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 7.5207)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
4980 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 2.17 187
4979 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.72 490
4978 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.90 48
4977 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.97 122
4976 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.32 271
4975 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.42 696
4974 D.I.C.E. (TV) 3.44 145
4973 Duel Masters (TV) 3.44 619
4972 MD Geist (OAV) 3.45 449
4971 Reign: The Conqueror (TV) 3.55 696
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 (7.5207). 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 7.5207)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
31 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.10 5439
32 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.10 4307
33 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.08 5045
54 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6579
55 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.95 414
56 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.95 7644
57 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10301
58 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 11915
59 (The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) 8.89 2671
60 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.87 9626
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) 8.73 13250
2 Death Note (TV) 8.87 12602
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 11915
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10301
5 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.58 10067
6 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9626
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.32 10298
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 9991
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.87 8921
10 Bleach (TV) 7.96 9056
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) 8.66 23200
2 Death Note (TV) 8.80 21581
3 Bleach (TV) 7.79 20596
4 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 20453
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18115
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 17492
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.19 16704
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.51 15446
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.87 15031
10 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 14974
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
+5366 Doukyusei -Classmates- (movie) 8.21 22
+4762 Stand By Me Doraemon (movie) 7.63 23
+4747 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (movie) 7.91 33
+4727 Aoyama Gōshō Tanpen-shū (OAV) 7.71 26
+4651 Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune (movie) 7.91 36
+4648 Girls und Panzer (movie) 8.38 46
+4636 Miss Hokusai (movie) 7.86 35
+4602 Ring ni Kakero 1: Sekai Taikai-hen (TV) 7.69 29
+4539 Hozuki no Reitetsu (OAV) 7.60 27
+4530 Natsume Yūjin-Chō: Nyanko-sensei to Hajimete no Otsukai (OAV) 7.62 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
-4756 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.37 8457
-4695 Hamtaro (TV) 4.60 3744
-4679 Pokémon (TV) 5.48 6979
-4664 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.29 4651
-4511 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.67 2557
-4504 Beyblade (TV) 4.22 2425
-4470 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.01 2472
-4449 X (movie) 5.56 3501
-4375 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.38 2515
-4366 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.42 2543
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) 4.23 ±4.411 140
2 Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Mori wa Ikiteiru (movie) 7.01 ±3.796 17
3 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.41 ±3.755 14
4 Vixens (OAV) 5.41 ±3.528 22
5 Bosco Daibōken (TV) 7.15 ±3.455 17
6 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.61 ±3.413 83
7 Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban: ? (movie) 7.28 ±3.406 39
8 PoPoLoCrois (TV) 5.98 ±3.349 19
9 Ikkyū-san (TV 1975) 6.92 ±3.349 23
10 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.34 ±3.333 121
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.