The Best and Worst of Fall 2021, Dec 10-16
by Daniel DeLorme,Our team of reviewers are following 28 anime series of the Fall 2021 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.
Don't forget to head over to Your Score to rate the episodes you've watched this week
Episode Rankings for the week of December 10-16
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. | Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation |
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| 3 | #2. | Mieruko-chan |
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| — | #3. | The Heike Story |
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| 14 | #4. | Restaurant to Another World |
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| 2 | #5. | Blue Period |
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| 9 | #6. | Night Beyond the Tricornered Window |
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| 6 | #7. | The aquatope on white sand |
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| 2 | #8. | Lupin the 3rd Part 6 |
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| 7 | #9. | Ranking of Kings |
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| 1 | #10. | My Senpai Is Annoying |
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| 8 | #11. | Yuki Yuna Great Mankai Chapter |
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| 9 | #12. | Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut |
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| — | #13. | The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! |
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| 2 | #14. | The World's Finest Assassin |
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| 5 | #15. | Komi Can't Communicate |
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| 1 | #16. | The Faraway Paladin |
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| 1 | #17. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
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| 2 | #18. | One Piece |
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| 5 | #19. | Digimon Ghost Game |
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| 12 | #20. | Banished From The Heroes' Party |
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| — | #21. | Sakugan |
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| 13 | #22. | takt op. Destiny |
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| 3 | #23. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline |
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| 2 | #24. | Muv-Luv Alternative |
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| 2 | #25. | Yashahime - The Second Act |
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| 1 | #26. | Platinum End |
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| — | #27. | The Fruit of Evolution |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of December 16
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. | Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation |
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| — | #3. | The Heike Story |
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| 2 | #4. | 86 Season 2 |
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| — | #5. | The aquatope on white sand |
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| — | #7. | Blue Period |
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| 3 | #8. | Mieruko-chan |
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| 3 | #9. | Lupin the 3rd Part 6 |
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| — | #10. | Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut |
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| 3 | #11. | The Faraway Paladin |
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| — | #12. | Komi Can't Communicate |
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| 1 | #13. | My Senpai Is Annoying |
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| 1 | #14. | The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! |
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| — | #15. | Restaurant to Another World |
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| — | #16. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
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| — | #17. | Yuki Yuna Great Mankai Chapter |
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| — | #18. | Banished From The Heroes' Party |
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| — | #19. | The World's Finest Assassin |
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| — | #20. | takt op. Destiny |
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| — | #21. | Sakugan |
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| 1 | #22. | Night Beyond the Tricornered Window |
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| 1 | #23. | Digimon Ghost Game |
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| — | #24. | AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline |
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| — | #25. | Yashahime - The Second Act |
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| — | #26. | Muv-Luv Alternative |
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| 1 | #27. | Platinum End |
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| 1 | #28. | The Fruit of Evolution |
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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.
