Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Fall 2016 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.

Episode Rankings for the week of November 12-18

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rank anime series 8 #1. Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 3 #2. Yuri!!! on Ice 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 no ep.

this week Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 #4. Haikyu!! 3rd Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 #5. Sound! Euphonium 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 #6. March comes in like a lion 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 #7. Flip Flappers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 #8. Poco's Udon World 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 #9. JoJo: Diamond Is Unbreakable 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 6 #10. Drifters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 #11. Izetta: The Last Witch 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 #12. WWW.WAGNARIA!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #13. Keijo!!!!!!!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #14. Bungo Stray Dogs 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 7 #15. Magical Girl Raising Project 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 #16. One Piece 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 2 #17. Girlish Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 #18. Brave Witches 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 #19. Occultic;Nine 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 #20. All Out!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 #21. Kiss Him, Not Me 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #22. Nanbaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 #23. ClassicaLoid 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 #24. Trickster 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #25. Lostorage incited WIXOSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #26. Twin Star Exorcists 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 no ep.

this week Naruto Shippūden 478 479 480 481 482 483

Series Cumulative Ranking as of November 18

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rank anime series 2 #1. Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go 1 2 3 4 5 6 — #2. Sound! Euphonium 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #3. Yuri!!! on Ice 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #4. Haikyu!! 3rd Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #5. March comes in like a lion 1 2 3 4 5 6 — #6. Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 — #7. JoJo: Diamond Is Unbreakable 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 1 #8. Flip Flappers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #9. Bungo Stray Dogs 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 — #10. Izetta: The Last Witch 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #11. Poco's Udon World 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 #12. Girlish Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 — #13. Drifters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #14. WWW.WAGNARIA!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #15. Keijo!!!!!!!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #16. Magical Girl Raising Project 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #17. One Piece 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 1 #18. Brave Witches 1 2 3 4 5 6 — #19. Naruto Shippūden 478 479 480 481 482 483 — #20. All Out!! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #21. Kiss Him, Not Me 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 #22. Twin Star Exorcists 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 — #23. Lostorage incited WIXOSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #24. Nanbaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #25. ClassicaLoid 1 2 3 4 5 6 — #26. Trickster 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 — #27. Occultic;Nine 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes

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.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.

Disclaimer: the rankings are just an average of opinions, published for entertainment and information purposes. ANN makes no claims regarding statistical significance.

It's entirely normal to disagree with the rankings; you should not expect your tastes in anime to match the average expressed by the rankings. Also, the rankings indicate relative quality (A is preferred to B), not absolute quality (B is good/bad). So while the titles are ranked from 'best' to 'worst', sometimes the difference between #1 and #10 can be very thin.

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.

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, but it makes it easier to compare weeks if they each have the same number of series in the ranking.

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.