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 5467
2 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.09 4340
3 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.07 5063
4 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6587
5 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.94 7657
6 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10312
7 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.90 426
8 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 11938
9 (The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) 8.88 2684
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9636
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 (7.5181). 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 7.5181)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
5048 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 2.14 189
5047 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.73 491
5046 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.91 49
5045 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.97 122
5044 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.32 274
5043 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.42 696
5042 D.I.C.E. (TV) 3.44 145
5041 Duel Masters (TV) 3.44 619
5040 MD Geist (OAV) 3.46 452
5039 Reign: The Conqueror (TV) 3.56 696
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 (7.5181). 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 7.5181)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
25 Kimi no Na wa. (movie) 9.25 21
26 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.10 5467
27 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.09 4340
28 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.07 5063
50 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6587
51 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.95 426
52 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.94 7657
53 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10312
54 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 11938
55 (The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) 8.89 2684
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 13257
2 Death Note (TV) 8.87 12630
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 11938
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10312
5 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.57 10074
6 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9636
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.32 10315
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10010
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.87 8932
10 Bleach (TV) 7.96 9065
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 23230
2 Death Note (TV) 8.80 21642
3 Bleach (TV) 7.79 20627
4 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 20495
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18145
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 17536
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.19 16736
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.50 15460
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.87 15055
10 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15004
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
+5308 Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin (movie series) 8.00 22
+5089 Kimi no Na wa. (movie) 8.59 35
+5042 Persona 3 the Movie #4 Winter of Rebirth 7.69 20
+4883 Doukyusei -Classmates- (movie) 8.28 38
+4815 Stand By Me Doraemon (movie) 7.63 23
+4811 Persona 5 the Animation -The Day Breakers- (special) 7.52 19
+4809 Minami-ke Natsuyasumi (OAV) 7.50 18
+4795 Aoyama Gōshō Tanpen-shū (OAV) 7.70 26
+4781 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (movie) 7.91 34
+4668 Aria the Avvenire (OAV) 8.25 45
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
-4818 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.37 8471
-4762 Hamtaro (TV) 4.61 3749
-4746 Pokémon (TV) 5.48 6985
-4732 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.29 4659
-4579 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.67 2559
-4572 Beyblade (TV) 4.22 2426
-4536 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.01 2471
-4511 X (movie) 5.55 3505
-4440 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.38 2517
-4426 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.42 2546
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) 7.07 ±3.750 18
3 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.43 ±3.645 15
4 Vixens (OAV) 5.41 ±3.528 22
5 Bosco Daibōken (TV) 7.15 ±3.455 17
6 Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban: ? (movie) 7.30 ±3.410 39
7 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.68 ±3.386 82
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) 7.33 ±3.335 121
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.