Preamble
A few days back, we got a post asking for everyone’s top 10 anime.
I thought it would be fun to aggregate the data and see which are the most popular anime in this instance / community.
Note that I had to clean the data first, which means that there may be mistakes - either through typos or because I interpreted the data wrongly. Feel free to point any errors out.
I also had to make some assumptions and “adjustments” to make it work.
For example, some of us gave their top 10 anime in order - ranked from 1 to 10 - while others gave an unordered list. I had to ignore the ranking. Another significant one is that some of us gave more than 10 anime; I chose to take the first 10 anime in your listings.
There are many more such issues that data science nerds can poke at, but I’m not going to go in-depth as this is just for fun.
Also, I realized that this is essentially a community poll / ranking of top anime of all time using approval voting. The sample size is kind small with only 30 participants though.
Without further ado, here are the aggregate results:
Results
Peak (score: 6)
- Attack on Titan
- Frieren
score: 5
- Death Note
- Ghost in the Shell
- Chainsaw Man
- Samurai Champloo
- Mob Psycho 100
- Made in Abyss
- 86
score: 4
- DAN DA DAN
- SPY x FAMILY
- Cowboy Bebop
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- Steins;Gate
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War
score: 3
- Gurren Lagann
- Fate/Zero
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Kill la Kill
- K-On
- Nichijou
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Gintama
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Fruits Basket
- 100 Girlfriends
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Your Lie in April
- Spirited Away
- A Silent Voice
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Hunter x Hunter
score: 2
- Re:Zero
- Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
- Your Name
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- One Punch Man
- Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song
- Violet Evergarden
- Vinland Saga
- Trigun
- Suzume
- Summer Time Rendering
- Ping Pong the Animation
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Solo Leveling
- Skip and Loafer
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
- PSYCHO-PASS
- ODDTAXI
- Monster
- Mushoku Tensei
- My Hero Academia
- Oshi no Ko
- LOOK BACK
- Eureka Seven
- The Dangers in My Heart
- The Eccentric Family
score: 1
The rest of them (106 entries).
Thoughts
- Y’all have got good taste. Time to check out even more anime.
- Thanks for participating in the thread. I appreciate community activities like this.
Weird to see Death Note that high up. I rewatched it a while ago and I don’t think it holds up that well. The memes are great though.
I’m also surprised to see Frieren that high up. I loved the first cour, but the second cour was merely “good” imo. It felt a lot more like a generic action shounen thing. It’s also something that’s only had a small fraction of its story animated so far.
Apart from that, well, it’s clear that I need to take the time to watch 86.