The Best and Worst of Winter 2022, Mar 12-18
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 March 12-18
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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| 3 | #1. | Teasing Master Takagi-san |
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| 3 | #2. | Princess Connect! Re:Dive |
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| — | #3. | My Dress-Up Darling |
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| 10 | #4. | The Case Study of Vanitas |
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| 4 | #5. | Ranking of Kings |
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| 2 | #6. | Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt |
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| 6 | #7. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
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| 3 | #8. | Akebi's Sailor Uniform |
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| 1 | #9. | Miss Kuroitsu |
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| 6 | #10. | Slow Loop |
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| 3 | #11. | Arifureta |
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| 5 | #12. | Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 |
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| 7 | #13. | Sabikui Bisco |
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| 4 | #14. | Sasaki and Miyano |
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| 4 | #15. | CUE! |
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| 4 | #16. | In the Land of Leadale |
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| 8 | #17. | Police in a Pod |
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| 1 | #18. | Love of Kill |
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| 1 | #19. | How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom |
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| 3 | #20. | Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest |
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| — | #21. | Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man |
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| 2 | #22. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| 8 | #23. | Total Fantasy Knockout |
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| 2 | #24. | Yashahime - The Second Act |
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| 1 | #25. | Girls' Frontline |
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| 1 | #26. | Tribe Nine |
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| 1 | #27. | World's End Harem |
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| 1 | #28. | Platinum End |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of March 18
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. | Ranking of Kings |
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| — | #2. | My Dress-Up Darling |
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| — | #3. | Teasing Master Takagi-san |
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| — | #4. | Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 |
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| — | #5. | The Case Study of Vanitas |
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| — | #6. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
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| — | #7. | One Piece |
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| — | #8. | Princess Connect! Re:Dive |
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| — | #9. | Akebi's Sailor Uniform |
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| — | #10. | Sabikui Bisco |
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| — | #11. | Sasaki and Miyano |
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| — | #12. | Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt |
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| — | #13. | Slow Loop |
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| 3 | #14. | Arifureta |
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| 1 | #15. | How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom |
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| 1 | #16. | Total Fantasy Knockout |
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| 1 | #17. | Miss Kuroitsu |
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| 1 | #18. | Police in a Pod |
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| 1 | #19. | Yashahime - The Second Act |
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| — | #20. | In the Land of Leadale |
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| — | #21. | Love of Kill |
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| — | #22. | CUE! |
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| — | #23. | Tokyo 24th Ward |
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| 1 | #24. | Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man |
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| 2 | #25. | Requiem of the Rose King |
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| — | #26. | Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest |
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| — | #27. | Tribe Nine |
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| — | #28. | Girls' Frontline |
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| — | #29. | World's End Harem |
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| — | #30. | Platinum End |
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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.
