The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Aug 26-Sep 1
by Daniel DeLorme,Our team of reviewers are following 28 anime series of the Summer 2017 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 August 26-September 1
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 (episode numbers as labels; clickable) |
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| 1 | #1. | Re:CREATORS |
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| 10 | #2. | Princess Principal |
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| 2 | #3. | Made in Abyss |
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| 4 | #4. | Gamers! |
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| — | #5. | Dragon Ball Super |
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My Hero Academia (season 2) |
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| 12 | #7. | Katsugeki! Tōken Ranbu |
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| 1 | #8. | New Game!! |
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| 6 | #9. | Tsuredure Children |
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| 4 | #10. | Knight's & Magic |
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| 7 | #11. | Magical Circle Guru-Guru |
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| 5 | #12. | Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul |
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| — | #13. | Restaurant to Another World |
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| 1 | #14. | Elegant Yokai Apartment Life |
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| 4 | #15. | Boruto: Naruto Next Generations |
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| 6 | #16. | Clean Freak! Aoyama kun |
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| 7 | #17. | The Reflection |
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| 9 | #18. | One Piece |
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| 9 | #19. | Sakura Quest |
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| — | #20. | Fastest Finger First |
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| 4 | #21. | A Centaur's Life |
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| 16 | #22. | Altair: A Record of Battles |
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| — | #23. | Classroom of the Elite |
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| 8 | #24. | Welcome to the Ballroom |
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| 4 | #25. | My First Girlfriend is a Gal |
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| 1 | #26. | Love and Lies |
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| 1 | #27. | In Another World With My Smartphone |
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Vatican Miracle Examiner |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of September 1
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) |
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| — | #1. | Made in Abyss |
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| 1 | #2. | My Hero Academia (season 2) |
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| 5 | #3. | Princess Principal |
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| 2 | #4. | Tsuredure Children |
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| — | #5. | New Game!! |
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| — | #6. | Sakura Quest |
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| — | #7. | Re:CREATORS |
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| 4 | #8. | Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul |
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| — | #9. | Gamers! |
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| — | #10. | Restaurant to Another World |
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| — | #11. | Dragon Ball Super |
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| — | #12. | Magical Circle Guru-Guru |
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| — | #13. | Knight's & Magic |
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| — | #14. | Welcome to the Ballroom |
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| — | #15. | Classroom of the Elite |
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| — | #16. | Altair: A Record of Battles |
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| — | #17. | Boruto: Naruto Next Generations |
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| — | #18. | Katsugeki! Tōken Ranbu |
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| 1 | #19. | Elegant Yokai Apartment Life |
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| 1 | #20. | A Centaur's Life |
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| — | #21. | Love and Lies |
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| — | #22. | Fastest Finger First |
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| — | #23. | Clean Freak! Aoyama kun |
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| — | #24. | My First Girlfriend is a Gal |
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| — | #25. | One Piece |
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| — | #26. | In Another World With My Smartphone |
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| — | #27. | The Reflection |
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| — | #28. | Vatican Miracle Examiner |
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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.
It's entirely normal to disagree with the rankings; you should not expect your tastes in anime to match the average expressed by the rankings. Also, the rankings indicate relative quality (A is preferred to B), not absolute quality (B is good/bad). So while the titles are ranked from 'best' to 'worst', sometimes the difference between #1 and #10 can be very thin.
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.
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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