The Best and Worst of Winter 2019, Feb 26-Mar 4
by Daniel DeLorme,Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Winter 2019 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.
Boogiepop and Others aired episodes 10-13 on Feb 23, in-between the regular episodes of Feb 22 (ep 9) and Mar 01 (ep 14). Originally this ranking was published with only episode 10 but we've updated it to include episodes 10-14 (although episodes 10-13 could arguably be considered part of the previous week).
Episode Rankings for the week of February 26-March 4
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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4 | #1. | Run with the Wind |
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— | #2. | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind |
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7 | #3. | Dororo |
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3 | #4. | The Promised Neverland |
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2 | #5. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War |
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3 | #6. | Boogiepop and Others |
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6 | #7. | Mob Psycho 100 II |
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17 | #8. | ENDRO! |
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7 | #9. | One Piece |
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6 | #10. | My Roommate is a Cat |
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4 | #11. | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime |
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5 | #12. | The Rising of The Shield Hero |
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5 | #13. | A Certain Magical Index III |
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1 | #14. | Sword Art Online: Alicization |
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4 | #15. | Fairy Tail: Final Season |
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7 | #16. | Black Clover |
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5 | #17. | Boruto: Naruto Next Generations |
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1 | #18. | GeGeGe no Kitarō |
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13 | #19. | Kemurikusa |
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6 | #20. | The Quintessential Quintuplets |
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3 | #21. | The Morose Mononokean II |
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— | #22. | The Price of Smiles |
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3 | #23. | Domestic Girlfriend |
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3 | #24. | Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka |
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1 | #25. | Girly Air Force |
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— | #26. | Karakuri Circus |
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— | #27. | W'z |
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Series Cumulative Ranking as of March 4
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 |
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— | #1. | Mob Psycho 100 II |
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— | #2. | The Promised Neverland |
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— | #3. | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind |
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1 | #4. | Run with the Wind |
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1 | #5. | Dororo |
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— | #6. | Kaguya-sama: Love is War |
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— | #7. | My Roommate is a Cat |
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— | #8. | The Rising of The Shield Hero |
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1 | #9. | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime |
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1 | #10. | Fairy Tail: Final Season |
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2 | #11. | Sword Art Online: Alicization |
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— | #12. | Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka |
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4 | #13. | Boogiepop and Others |
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1 | #14. | The Quintessential Quintuplets |
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— | #15. | ENDRO! |
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2 | #16. | GeGeGe no Kitarō |
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1 | #17. | One Piece |
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— | #18. | Boruto: Naruto Next Generations |
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— | #19. | A Certain Magical Index III |
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— | #20. | Domestic Girlfriend |
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— | #21. | Kemurikusa |
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— | #22. | The Morose Mononokean II |
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— | #23. | The Price of Smiles |
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— | #24. | Girly Air Force |
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— | #25. | Black Clover |
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— | #26. | Karakuri Circus |
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— | #27. | W'z |
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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.
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.
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