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Best of Summer 2023, Aug 5-11

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.

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Episode Rankings for the week of August 5-11

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

Series Cumulative Ranking as of August 11

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
	—	#2.	One Piece	1067 1068 1069 1070 1071
	1	#3.	My Happy Marriage	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#4.	Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead	1 2 3 4
	2	#5.	Bungo Stray Dogs	51 52 53 54 55
	—	#6.	Mushoku Tensei II	0 1 2 3 4 5
	—	#7.	Undead Murder Farce	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#8.	Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War	14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#9.	The Duke of Death and His Maid	13 14 15 16 17
	1	#10.	Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts	12 13 14 15 16 17
	2	#11.	Horimiya: The Missing Pieces	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#12.	Sugar Apple Fairy Tale	13 14 15 16 17 18
	—	#13.	Helck	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#14.	Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#15.	Dark Gathering	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#16.	Rurouni Kenshin	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#17.	Masamune-kun's Revenge R	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#18.	Reign of the Seven Spellblades	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#19.	Yohane the Parhelion	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#20.	The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#21.	The Devil Is a Part-Timer!!	13 14 15 16 17
	1	#22.	Reborn as a Vending Machine	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#23.	The Gene of AI	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#24.	Spy Classroom	13 14 15 16 17
	—	#25.	Sweet Reincarnation	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#26.	Atelier Ryza	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#27.	TenPuru	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#28.	Liar Liar	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#29.	Classroom For Heroes	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#30.	The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#31.	Am I Actually the Strongest?	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#32.	The Dreaming Boy is a Realist	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#33.	My Tiny Senpai	1 2 3 4 5
	7	#34.	Rent-A-Girlfriend	25 26 27 28 29 30
	2	#35.	Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#36.	The Great Cleric	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#37.	My Unique Skill Makes Me OP at Level 1	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#38.	Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds	1 2 3 4 5 6

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.