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The Best and Worst of Fall 2018, Dec 17-23

by Daniel DeLorme,

Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Fall 2018 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season.

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 to be reviewed are being ranked, so the bottom of the list might represent 'watchable' rather than 'bad'. See the notes for further details.

Episode Rankings for the week of December 17-23

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 aired during the second week. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.
ranking change from week to week
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1 #1. Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers 2
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1 #2. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
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10 #3. Bloom Into You
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3 #4. SSSS.Gridman
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2 #5. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
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#6. Fairy Tail: Final Season
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series
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Run with the Wind
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7 #8. Zombie Land Saga
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15 #9. Goblin Slayer
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1 #10. Black Clover
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6 #11. Golden Kamuy
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7 #12. Sword Art Online: Alicization
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14 #13. Boarding School Juliet
1
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7 #14. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
76
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87
6 #15. GeGeGe no Kitarō
26
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33
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36
4 #16. One Piece
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865
#17. Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
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2 #18. Banana Fish
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11 #19. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
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10 #20. IRODUKU: The World in Colors
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2 #21. A Certain Magical Index III
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4 #22. Double Decker! Doug & Kirill
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9 #23. Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu
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10
2 #24. Release the Spyce
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#25. Radiant
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#26. Karakuri Circus
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11
3 #27. Tokyo Ghoul:re
13
14
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of December 23

Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. 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. Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers 2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#2. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#3. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#4. SSSS.Gridman
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#5. Bloom Into You
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
4 #6. Run with the Wind
1
2
3
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5
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7
8
9
10
11
#7. Golden Kamuy
13
14
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23
3 #8. Banana Fish
13
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24
1 #9. Zombie Land Saga
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
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12
1 #10. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
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2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1 #11. Sword Art Online: Alicization
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#12. IRODUKU: The World in Colors
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#13. Goblin Slayer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
#14. Fairy Tail: Final Season
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
#15. GeGeGe no Kitarō
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
#16. A Certain Magical Index III
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
4 #17. Boarding School Juliet
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
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12
1 #18. Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
4 #19. Black Clover
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
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61
62
63
2 #20. Karakuri Circus
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
2 #21. Double Decker! Doug & Kirill
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
2 #22. Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1 #23. One Piece
855
856
857
858
859
860
861
862
863
864
865
#24. Release the Spyce
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#25. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
#26. Radiant
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
#27. Tokyo Ghoul:re
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23

Notes

Disclaimer: the rankings are just an average of opinions, published for entertainment and information purposes. ANN makes no claims regarding statistical significance.

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.


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