The Best and Worst of Spring 2022
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.
For the last week we're comparing all the final episodes
With the week of June 24-30, the Spring 2022 season is now over. But many of the series already ended the previous week, so we're adding an extra "final" week where all the last episodes are ranked against each other. With this we can see which series ended on a strong note and which ones ended more weakly. That means the "final ep." column is a repeat of the last episode from Jun 17-23 or Jun 24-30. And the "prev week change" is the difference in position between the "final ep." column and the penultimate episode.Episode Rankings for the final episodes
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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| 2 | #1. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic- |
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| 1 | #2. | Ya Boy Kongming! |
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| 11 | #3. | Ascendance of a Bookworm |
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| 10 | #4. | Komi Can't Communicate S2 |
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| 14 | #5. | Aharen-san wa Hakarenai |
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| 4 | #6. | Spy×Family |
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| 2 | #7. | Legend of the Galactic Heroes S3 |
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| 4 | #8. | One Piece |
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| 4 | #9. | Delicious Party♡Precure |
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| 1 | #10. | The Demon Girl Next Door |
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| 12 | #11. | Love After World Domination |
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| 4 | #12. | Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- |
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| — | #13. | Date A Live IV |
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| 1 | #14. | Dance Dance Danseur |
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| 1 | #15. | Healer Girl |
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| 13 | #16. | Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club S2 |
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| 3 | #17. | Aoashi |
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| 5 | #18. | The Executioner and Her Way of Life |
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| 7 | #19. | Skeleton Knight in Another World |
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| 1 | #20. | Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie |
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| — | #21. | Deaimon |
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| 15 | #22. | The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs |
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| 3 | #23. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| 4 | #24. | Heroines Run the Show |
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| 4 | #25. | In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki |
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| 6 | #26. | I'm Quitting Heroing |
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| — | #27. | A Couple of Cuckoos |
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| 4 | #28. | The Dawn of the Witch |
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| 7 | #29. | CUE! |
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| 5 | #30. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline Part 2 |
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| 8 | #31. | RPG Real Estate |
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| 3 | #32. | Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost |
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| 3 | #33. | Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. r=1-sinθ |
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| 10 | #34. | Tomodachi Game |
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| 2 | #35. | Greatest Demon Lord Reborn as a Typical Nobody |
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| 1 | #36. | Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! |
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| 6 | #37. | The Rising of The Shield Hero S2 |
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Series Cumulative Ranking for Spring 2022
Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. With the last episode duplicated in the "final ep." column, it means that the votes for the last episode of each series are counted twice, which intentionally gives a boost to series that ended strongly. This somewhat compensates for the fact that the first episode of each series has more votes, which favors series that started strongly.So this is it, the final ranking, the winners and losers of the Spring 2022 season. 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. | Spy×Family |
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| — | #2. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic- |
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| 1 | #3. | Legend of the Galactic Heroes S3 |
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| 2 | #4. | Ya Boy Kongming! |
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| 1 | #5. | Komi Can't Communicate S2 |
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| 3 | #6. | Ascendance of a Bookworm |
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| 1 | #7. | The Demon Girl Next Door |
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| 2 | #8. | Delicious Party♡Precure |
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| 1 | #10. | Love After World Domination |
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| 1 | #11. | Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- |
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| 5 | #12. | Aharen-san wa Hakarenai |
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| 3 | #13. | Dance Dance Danseur |
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| 1 | #14. | Deaimon |
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| 1 | #15. | The Executioner and Her Way of Life |
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| 1 | #16. | Heroines Run the Show |
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| 1 | #17. | Healer Girl |
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| — | #18. | Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie |
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| 2 | #19. | A Couple of Cuckoos |
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| — | #20. | Aoashi |
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| — | #21. | Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club S2 |
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| 1 | #22. | The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs |
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| 1 | #23. | Skeleton Knight in Another World |
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| 1 | #24. | I'm Quitting Heroing |
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| 1 | #25. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| 6 | #26. | Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. r=1-sinθ |
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| — | #27. | Date A Live IV |
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| — | #28. | CUE! |
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| 2 | #29. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline Part 2 |
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| 1 | #30. | In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki |
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| 1 | #31. | Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost |
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| 2 | #32. | The Rising of The Shield Hero S2 |
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| — | #33. | The Dawn of the Witch |
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| — | #34. | Greatest Demon Lord Reborn as a Typical Nobody |
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| — | #35. | RPG Real Estate |
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| — | #36. | Tomodachi Game |
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| — | #37. | Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! |
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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 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. 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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