The Best and Worst of Spring 2022, May 20-26
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 May 20-26
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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| 4 | #1. | Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- |
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| 1 | #2. | Spy×Family |
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| 6 | #3. | Ya Boy Kongming! |
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| 4 | #4. | Legend of the Galactic Heroes S3 |
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| 1 | #5. | Love After World Domination |
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| 4 | #6. | Dance Dance Danseur |
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| 6 | #7. | One Piece |
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| 9 | #8. | Healer Girl |
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| 7 | #9. | Delicious Party♡Precure |
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| 3 | #10. | Komi Can't Communicate S2 |
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| 3 | #11. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| 17 | #12. | Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club S2 |
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| 10 | #13. | I'm Quitting Heroing |
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| 10 | #14. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic- |
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| 4 | #15. | Heroines Run the Show |
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| 6 | #16. | Aharen-san wa Hakarenai |
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| 4 | #17. | Deaimon |
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| 6 | #18. | A Couple of Cuckoos |
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| 6 | #19. | Aoashi |
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| 11 | #20. | The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs |
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| 20 | #21. | The Demon Girl Next Door |
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| 4 | #22. | Ascendance of a Bookworm |
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| 4 | #23. | Skeleton Knight in Another World |
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| 8 | #24. | RPG Real Estate |
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| 2 | #25. | CUE! |
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| 3 | #26. | Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. r=1-sinθ |
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| 2 | #27. | The Executioner and Her Way of Life |
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| 3 | #28. | The Rising of The Shield Hero S2 |
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| 5 | #29. | The Dawn of the Witch |
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| 4 | #30. | Tomodachi Game |
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| 13 | #31. | Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost |
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| 1 | #32. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline Part 2 |
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| 8 | #33. | In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki |
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| 1 | #34. | Greatest Demon Lord Reborn as a Typical Nobody |
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| 15 | #35. | Date A Live IV |
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| — | #36. | Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of May 26
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. | Spy×Family |
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| — | #2. | One Piece |
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| — | #3. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic- |
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| 1 | #4. | Legend of the Galactic Heroes S3 |
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| 1 | #5. | The Demon Girl Next Door |
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| 2 | #6. | Ascendance of a Bookworm |
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| — | #7. | Love After World Domination |
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| — | #8. | Komi Can't Communicate S2 |
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| — | #9. | Ya Boy Kongming! |
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| — | #10. | Deaimon |
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| — | #11. | Dance Dance Danseur |
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| — | #12. | Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- |
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| 3 | #13. | Heroines Run the Show |
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| — | #14. | A Couple of Cuckoos |
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| 2 | #15. | Delicious Party♡Precure |
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| 1 | #16. | The Executioner and Her Way of Life |
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| — | #17. | Aharen-san wa Hakarenai |
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| — | #18. | Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. r=1-sinθ |
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| — | #19. | Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie |
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| — | #20. | Aoashi |
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| — | #21. | Healer Girl |
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| 1 | #22. | Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club S2 |
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| 1 | #23. | The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs |
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| 1 | #24. | Skeleton Knight in Another World |
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| 3 | #25. | Date A Live IV |
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| — | #26. | I'm Quitting Heroing |
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| — | #27. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| — | #28. | CUE! |
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| 1 | #29. | In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki |
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| 1 | #30. | The Rising of The Shield Hero S2 |
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| 2 | #31. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline Part 2 |
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| — | #32. | The Dawn of the Witch |
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| — | #33. | Greatest Demon Lord Reborn as a Typical Nobody |
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| 1 | #34. | RPG Real Estate |
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| 1 | #35. | Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost |
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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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