The Best and Worst of Fall 2018, Oct 1-28

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 October 22-28

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)	prev week change	this week rank	anime series
	1	#1.	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind	1 2 3 4
	5	#2.	Sword Art Online: Alicization	1 2 3 4
	8	#3.	Bloom Into You	1 2 3 4
	11	#4.	Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers 2	1 2 3 4
	1	#5.	SSSS.Gridman	1 2 3 4
	2	#6.	Run with the Wind	1 2 3 4
	6	#7.	Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai	1 2 3 4
	1	#8.	Golden Kamuy	13 14 15
	1	#9.	Banana Fish	13 14 15 16
	8	#10.	Double Decker! Doug & Kirill	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#11.	IRODUKU: The World in Colors	1 2 3 4
	12	#12.	Goblin Slayer	1 2 3 4
	8	#13.	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	1 2 3 4
	11	#14.	Fairy Tail: Final Season	278 279 280 281
	4	#15.	Zombie Land Saga	1 2 3 4
	2	#16.	A Certain Magical Index III	1 2 3 4
	11	#17.	Karakuri Circus	1 2 3
	1	#18.	Boarding School Juliet	1 2 3 4
	3	#19.	GeGeGe no Kitarō	26 27 28 29
	5	#20.	Radiant	1 2 3 4
	—	#21.	Release the Spyce	1 2 3 4
	10	#22.	Black Clover	52 53 54 55
	3	#23.	Boruto: Naruto Next Generations	76 77 78 79
	2	#24.	Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu	1 2
	2	#25.	Tokyo Ghoul:re	13 14 15
	6	#26.	Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san	1 2 3 4
	11	#27.	One Piece	855 856 857 858

Series Cumulative Ranking as of October 28

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.	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind	1 2 3 4
	—	#2.	Banana Fish	13 14 15 16
	—	#3.	Golden Kamuy	13 14 15
	1	#4.	Zombie Land Saga	1 2 3 4
	2	#5.	Sword Art Online: Alicization	1 2 3 4
	7	#6.	Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers 2	1 2 3 4
	1	#7.	Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai	1 2 3 4
	4	#8.	Karakuri Circus	1 2 3
	—	#9.	Bloom Into You	1 2 3 4
	2	#10.	IRODUKU: The World in Colors	1 2 3 4
	—	#11.	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	1 2 3 4
	—	#12.	SSSS.Gridman	1 2 3 4
	3	#13.	A Certain Magical Index III	1 2 3 4
	—	#14.	Run with the Wind	1 2 3 4
	—	#15.	Goblin Slayer	1 2 3 4
	—	#16.	Fairy Tail: Final Season	278 279 280 281
	2	#17.	GeGeGe no Kitarō	26 27 28 29
	1	#18.	Black Clover	52 53 54 55
	1	#19.	One Piece	855 856 857 858
	1	#20.	Boarding School Juliet	1 2 3 4
	2	#21.	Double Decker! Doug & Kirill	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#22.	Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san	1 2 3 4
	1	#23.	Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu	1 2
	—	#24.	Release the Spyce	1 2 3 4
	—	#25.	Radiant	1 2 3 4
	—	#26.	Boruto: Naruto Next Generations	76 77 78 79
	—	#27.	Tokyo Ghoul:re	13 14 15

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.