Your Anime Rankings
Best of Winter 2024, Mar 11-17
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 March 11-17
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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| — | #1. | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End |
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| 1 | #2. | The Apothecary Diaries |
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| 7 | #3. | Delicious in Dungeon |
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| 5 | #4. | Gushing Over Magical Girls |
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| 3 | #5. | The Dangers in My Heart |
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| 1 | #6. | Undead Unluck |
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| 4 | #7. | One Piece |
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| 13 | #8. | The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic |
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| 5 | #9. | A Sign of Affection |
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| 13 | #10. | Mashle: Magic and Muscles |
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| 1 | #11. | Villainess Level 99 |
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| 5 | #12. | Solo Leveling |
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| 16 | #13. | Classroom of the Elite |
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| 1 | #14. | The Unwanted Undead Adventurer |
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| 19 | #15. | Sengoku Youko |
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| 3 | #16. | The Witch and the Beast |
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| 9 | #17. | Banished From The Heroes' Party |
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| 1 | #18. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| 8 | #19. | Shangri-La Frontier |
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| 6 | #20. | 7th Time Loop |
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| 3 | #21. | Ishura |
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| 5 | #22. | Doctor Elise |
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| 2 | #23. | Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki |
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| — | #24. | Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! |
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| 5 | #25. | Chained Soldier |
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| 4 | #26. | Ragna Crimson |
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| 3 | #27. | Meiji Gekken: 1874 |
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| 15 | #28. | The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey |
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| 2 | #29. | 'Tis Time for ''Torture,'' Princess |
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| 10 | #30. | The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil |
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| 23 | #31. | Bang Brave Bang Bravern |
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| 5 | #32. | Metallic Rouge |
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| 17 | #33. | Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- |
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| 1 | #34. | Bucchigiri?! |
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| 7 | #35. | Sasaki and Peeps |
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| 3 | #36. | My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered |
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| 5 | #37. | Fluffy Paradise |
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| 5 | #38. | The Demon Prince of Momochi House |
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| 1 | #39. | Tales of Wedding Rings |
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| 1 | #40. | The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids |
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| 5 | #41. | Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of March 17
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 |
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| — | #1. | The Dangers in My Heart |
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| — | #2. | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End |
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| — | #3. | The Apothecary Diaries |
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| 2 | #4. | One Piece |
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| 1 | #5. | A Sign of Affection |
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| 1 | #6. | Shangri-La Frontier |
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| — | #7. | 7th Time Loop |
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| — | #8. | Delicious in Dungeon |
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| — | #9. | Mashle: Magic and Muscles |
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| 1 | #10. | Undead Unluck |
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| 1 | #11. | Villainess Level 99 |
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| 2 | #12. | The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic |
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| 1 | #13. | Solo Leveling |
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| 1 | #14. | Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki |
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| 1 | #15. | Ragna Crimson |
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| 3 | #16. | Bang Brave Bang Bravern |
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| — | #17. | Sengoku Youko |
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| 1 | #18. | The Witch and the Beast |
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| 1 | #19. | Gushing Over Magical Girls |
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| 1 | #20. | The Unwanted Undead Adventurer |
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| 3 | #21. | Doctor Elise |
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| — | #22. | Classroom of the Elite |
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| 3 | #23. | Banished From The Heroes' Party |
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| 1 | #24. | The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey |
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| 1 | #25. | Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- |
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| 1 | #26. | Urusei Yatsura |
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| 1 | #27. | Metallic Rouge |
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| 3 | #28. | Meiji Gekken: 1874 |
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| — | #29. | Ishura |
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| — | #30. | Chained Soldier |
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| — | #31. | Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! |
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| — | #32. | Sasaki and Peeps |
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| — | #33. | Fluffy Paradise |
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| — | #34. | 'Tis Time for ''Torture,'' Princess |
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| — | #35. | Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga |
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| — | #36. | Bucchigiri?! |
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| — | #37. | The Demon Prince of Momochi House |
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| — | #38. | Tales of Wedding Rings |
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| 1 | #39. | My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered |
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| 1 | #40. | The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids |
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| — | #41. | The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil |
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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 Ranked pairs 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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