Your Anime Rankings
Best of Winter 2023, Feb 19-25
by Daniel DeLorme,
Let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season, based on the polls you can find in our Daily Streaming Reviews and on the Your Score page with the latest simulcasts.
Keep in mind that these rankings are based on how people rated individual episodes of the current season, not on the overall quality or popularity of the series. Only the titles legally streaming in North America and popular enough are being ranked, so the bottom of the list might represent 'watchable' rather than 'bad'. See the notes for further details.
Don't forget to head over to Your Score to rate the episodes you've watched this week
Last week was the finale of Eminence in Shadow, with 7 episodes streaming this season. That's not quite enough episodes to compare against other series, so next week we'll remove Eminence from the ranking.
Episode Rankings for the week of February 19-25
Along the actual ranking for this week's episodes, this graph chronicles the change in position from week to week. While some series are stable, others swing wildly in the rankings depending on the strength of each episode. When a series has no episode for a given week, the previous week's episode is used instead as a placeholder. The first episode of each series is considered as part of the first week, even if it really streamed during the second week. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.| ranking change from week to week (episode numbers as labels; clickable) |
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The Eminence in Shadow |
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| — | #1. | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV |
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| 9 | #2. | My Hero Academia |
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| 1 | #3. | Vinland Saga |
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| 3 | #4. | Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess |
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| 4 | #5. | Tomo-chan Is a Girl! |
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| 1 | #6. | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten |
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| 19 | #7. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
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| — | #8. | Buddy Daddies |
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| 6 | #9. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
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| 5 | #10. | Handyman Saitō in Another World |
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| 9 | #11. | One Piece |
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| 1 | #12. | Tsurune: The Linking Shot |
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| 18 | #13. | Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun |
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| 2 | #14. | Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack |
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| 4 | #15. | The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague |
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| — | #16. | Trigun Stampede |
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| 11 | #17. | In/Spectre |
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| 8 | #18. | Endo and Kobayashi Live! |
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| 6 | #19. | Blue Lock |
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| 2 | #20. | Farming Life in Another World |
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| 20 | #21. | Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown |
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| 7 | #22. | To Your Eternity |
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy II |
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| 7 | #23. | Campfire Cooking in Another World |
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| 11 | #24. | ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! |
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BOFURI Season 2 |
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| 6 | #25. | Revenger |
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| 10 | #26. | Chillin' in My 30s |
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| 2 | #27. | Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World |
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| — | #28. | By the Grace of the Gods |
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| 5 | #29. | High Card |
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| — | #30. | Reborn to Master the Blade |
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| 5 | #31. | Ippon Again! |
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| — | #32. | Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity |
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| — | #33. | The tale of outcasts |
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| 1 | #34. | Giant Beasts of Ars |
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| 2 | #35. | Kaina of the Great Snow Sea |
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| 2 | #36. | The Fire Hunter |
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| 16 | #37. | The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist |
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| 2 | #38. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| 8 | #39. | The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World |
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Spy Classroom |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of February 25
Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. As we reach closer to the end of the season, each series' rank will start to solidify and we'll get a look at the real winners and losers. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.| ranking change from week to week (episode numbers as labels; clickable) |
prev week change |
this week rank |
anime series |
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| — | #1. | The Eminence in Shadow |
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| — | #2. | Vinland Saga |
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| 2 | #3. | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV |
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| 1 | #4. | One Piece |
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| 1 | #5. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
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| — | #6. | Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess |
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| — | #7. | My Hero Academia |
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| — | #8. | Tsurune: The Linking Shot |
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| — | #9. | In/Spectre |
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| — | #10. | Buddy Daddies |
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| 5 | #11. | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten |
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| 5 | #12. | Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack |
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| 2 | #13. | Handyman Saitō in Another World |
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| 4 | #14. | BOFURI Season 2 |
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| 7 | #15. | Tomo-chan Is a Girl! |
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| 3 | #16. | Trigun Stampede |
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| 3 | #17. | Blue Lock |
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| 3 | #18. | Endo and Kobayashi Live! |
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| 7 | #19. | Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun |
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| 1 | #20. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
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| 1 | #21. | Campfire Cooking in Another World |
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| 1 | #22. | Ippon Again! |
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| — | #23. | The Misfit of Demon King Academy II |
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| — | #24. | ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! |
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| — | #25. | Reborn to Master the Blade |
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| — | #26. | Revenger |
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| — | #27. | Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown |
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| — | #28. | The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist |
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| — | #29. | Kaina of the Great Snow Sea |
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| — | #30. | To Your Eternity |
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| — | #31. | The Fire Hunter |
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| 1 | #32. | The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague |
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| 2 | #33. | By the Grace of the Gods |
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| — | #34. | Chillin' in My 30s |
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| 3 | #35. | High Card |
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| — | #36. | The tale of outcasts |
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| — | #37. | Spy Classroom |
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| — | #38. | Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World |
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| 1 | #39. | Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity |
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| 1 | #40. | Giant Beasts of Ars |
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| — | #41. | Farming Life in Another World |
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| — | #42. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| — | #43. | The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World |
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Notes
Disclaimer: the rankings are just an average of opinions, published for entertainment and information purposes. ANN makes no claims regarding statistical significance or invulnerability to spam.
The rankings are computed using the Schulze method, with the variation that unrated titles are considered as abstentions instead of lower than the rated titles. This roughly means that if, out of all people who rated both A and B, 60% preferred A, it will be ranked higher than B.
The rankings indicate relative quality (A is preferred to B), not absolute quality (B is good/bad). While the titles are ranked from 'best' to 'worst', sometimes the difference between #1 and #10 can be very thin. So if your favorite is near the bottom of the list, don't take it personally. It doesn't mean it's a bad show, it just means that ANN readers, on average, have preferred the ones above.
If a series has no episode for a given week, we use the rating data for the previous week's episode in order to compute the weekly ranking. This is not officially counted as a position in the ranking (it has no impact on the cumulative ranking), but it makes it easier to compare weeks if they each have the same number of series ranked.
It should be noted that long-running series (and sequels) have an advantage in the sense that only people who like the series are still watching it, and they are likely to give each episode a high rating. But if such a series is going through a low-quality filler arc, the season will get low rankings that are not indicative of the true overall quality of the series. Conversely, there are fewer people rating the show so it's less likely to have enough votes to qualify for the ranking.
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