Your Anime Rankings
Best of Summer 2023, Aug 12-18
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
Episode Rankings for the week of August 12-18
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) |
prev week change |
this week rank |
anime series |
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| — | #1. | One Piece |
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
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| 13 | #2. | Rurouni Kenshin |
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7
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| 5 | #3. | Undead Murder Farce |
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7
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| — | #4. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
51
52
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56
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| 3 | #5. | My Happy Marriage |
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2
3
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7
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| 2 | #6. | Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead |
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5
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| no ep. this week |
Jujutsu Kaisen |
25
26
27
28
29
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| 5 | #7. | Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War |
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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| 3 | #8. | Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts |
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 9 | #9. | Helck |
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2
3
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5
6
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| 4 | #10. | Mushoku Tensei II |
0
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6
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| 5 | #11. | Dark Gathering |
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2
3
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6
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| 3 | #12. | Horimiya: The Missing Pieces |
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2
3
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7
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| 9 | #13. | Reign of the Seven Spellblades |
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3
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5
6
7
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| 6 | #14. | The Duke of Death and His Maid |
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 4 | #15. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
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| 7 | #16. | The Dreaming Boy is a Realist |
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2
3
4
5
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7
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| 5 | #17. | Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero |
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7
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| 1 | #18. | Masamune-kun's Revenge R |
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7
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| 11 | #19. | The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses |
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7
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| 7 | #20. | Reborn as a Vending Machine |
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7
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| — | #21. | The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen |
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7
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| 3 | #22. | The Devil Is a Part-Timer!! |
13
14
15
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18
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| 1 | #23. | Sweet Reincarnation |
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 4 | #24. | TenPuru |
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2
3
4
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6
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| 3 | #25. | Spy Classroom |
13
14
15
16
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18
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| 2 | #26. | Liar Liar |
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7
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| 8 | #27. | Yohane the Parhelion |
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7
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| 8 | #28. | Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence |
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3
4
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6
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| no ep. this week |
The Great Cleric |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| 1 | #29. | The Gene of AI |
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 3 | #30. | My Unique Skill Makes Me OP at Level 1 |
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2
3
4
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7
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| 1 | #31. | Atelier Ryza |
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3
4
5
6
7
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| no ep. this week |
My Tiny Senpai |
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2
3
4
5
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| no ep. this week |
Am I Actually the Strongest? |
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2
3
4
5
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| 2 | #32. | Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds |
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #33. | Rent-A-Girlfriend |
25
26
27
28
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31
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| 11 | #34. | Classroom For Heroes |
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3
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6
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of August 18
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | #1. | Jujutsu Kaisen |
25
26
27
28
29
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| — | #2. | One Piece |
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
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| — | #3. | My Happy Marriage |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #4. | Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead |
1
2
3
4
5
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| — | #5. | Bungo Stray Dogs |
51
52
53
54
55
56
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| — | #6. | Mushoku Tensei II |
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| — | #7. | Undead Murder Farce |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #8. | Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War |
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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| — | #9. | The Duke of Death and His Maid |
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 6 | #10. | Rurouni Kenshin |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #11. | Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts |
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 1 | #12. | Horimiya: The Missing Pieces |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #13. | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale |
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
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| 1 | #14. | Helck |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| — | #15. | Dark Gathering |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| 2 | #16. | Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #17. | Masamune-kun's Revenge R |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #18. | Reign of the Seven Spellblades |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #19. | Yohane the Parhelion |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #20. | The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #21. | Reborn as a Vending Machine |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #22. | The Devil Is a Part-Timer!! |
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 1 | #23. | Spy Classroom |
13
14
15
16
17
18
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| 1 | #24. | The Gene of AI |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #25. | Sweet Reincarnation |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #26. | Atelier Ryza |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #27. | TenPuru |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| — | #28. | Liar Liar |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #29. | The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #30. | Classroom For Heroes |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| — | #31. | The Dreaming Boy is a Realist |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| 1 | #32. | My Tiny Senpai |
1
2
3
4
5
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| 1 | #33. | Rent-A-Girlfriend |
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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| 2 | #34. | Am I Actually the Strongest? |
1
2
3
4
5
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| 1 | #35. | The Great Cleric |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| 1 | #36. | Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence |
1
2
3
4
5
6
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| — | #37. | My Unique Skill Makes Me OP at Level 1 |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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| — | #38. | Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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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.
