Yahello and welcome back to kinda neet i just spent weeks lost inside the infinite cells of a
glorious spreadsheet and i've come out the other side with the answers to all of life's questions
most importantly what is the objective best anime of all time let me show you what i found i scoured
the internet for as many top 10 anime lists as i could possibly find with a few pieces of strict
criteria first the rankings must be based on user submitted scores and second they must
have at least 1000 reviews to get a reasonable sample size this narrowed down my options to
my anime list kitsu anime planet anime database anime news network ranker anilist and imdb which
hilariously had the last airbender as number one but we'll just pretend we didn't see that
next i painstakingly went through and manually assigned each anime an inversely correlated score
meaning the number one highest rated anime on each website got a score of 10 while the number
10 spot gets a score of 1. that way i can add them all together and have the highest score win
but here's where i ran into my first problem why should the over 1 million reviews of steins gate
on my anime list be worth the same as the measly 10,000 on anime database to weigh the websites
more fairly i assigned each of them a number between 1 and 3 based on the amount of users they
had which then becomes a score multiplier making the number 1 spot on my anime list worth 30 points
while the most an anime from say kitsu could get is 10. and it's a good thing too they have some
questionable taste their entire top 10 list is made up of only three franchises
demon slayer attack on titan and my hero academia and somehow hilariously the number one is a demon
slayer recap movie i'm not sure how this could possibly be better than the original show but
that's not for me to judge you do you kitsu but other websites have similar issues as well
on my anime list seven of the top 20 highest rated anime are all gintama
clearly this says a lot about the quality of these shows if i wasn't so busy studying
quantum physics i'd probably give gintama a watch but i also don't think it would be fair to just
ignore duplicate entries altogether so it was at this point where i split the spreadsheet in two
one that combines the multiple entry scores together into a number that's over 142.
this one obviously favors the anime with more seasons and movies but you'll see later on that
it's actually less important than you might think the other only allows for a franchise to appear
on a website's list a single time excluding any further appearances entirely this made room for
a ton of new anime to be added to the tournament in kitsu's case we got all the way down to the
22nd highest rated anime just to have a complete top 10 list with kimi no na goat just barely not
making the cut getting beat out by the promised piece of norman can go it was at this point where
i considered giving up on my quest all together but i still had a faint glimmer of hope left
i now had two slightly different list orders that needed to be combined together
to form the one list to rule them all and in the weebness so i had to come up with some sort of
advanced mathematical formula that could oh yeah i guess i could just disclaimer alert disclaimer
i really wish this went without saying but this is the internet so anime ratings are not the end-all
be-all of a show's quality you're allowed to like whatever you want nanika nanika trust me i'm gonna
hate the results of this list more than anyone so without further achoo let's dive in to the 100%
accurate objective list of the best 35 anime ever made you can't argue with math the first thing
i noticed was a shocking lack of studio ghibli movies you have to go all the way down to number
27 to find spirited away and then 33 for princess mononoke other films that people do seem to enjoy
aside from demon slayer recap movies are the disappearance of haruri suzumiya coming in at
a pathetic number 35 your name in the number 18 slot and now for the highest rated anime film
ever made a silent voice in the number 11 position if this list were up to me i think both of those
should have made the top 10 but hey i didn't invent math but if i did i would have made it to
that monogatari didn't get a heart under blade breaking number 25 and interestingly the only
season that made the list was Owari my guess is that the last arc is being used to represent the
entire journey of some of the best written anime characters to ever grace us with their fan service
i mean artistic expression and with that i think it's finally time to count down the 10 highest
rated anime of all time number 10 the somewhat obscure supernatural adventure mushishi which has
been living for generations in a dark forgotten corner somewhere in my never-ending watch list
this was one of the more surprising entries for me but i was happy to see that this list
wasn't going to become the thing that us weebs fear most a popularity contest number 9 naruto
as expected naruto is about as universally enjoyable as an anime can get featuring
three of the strongest ninja known to anime and also sakura as much as i loved hate on shonen
and i mean love this show did kick off the dominoes that led me to become the weeb i am today
boom so i can't really be too upset about its placement number eight demon slayer which
i'm actually a bit surprised wasn't higher up considering it's unprecedented popularity over
the last few years and it's multiple entries into the list and despite my overwhelming pretentious
urges i actually really enjoy seeing nezuko and those other dudes that follow around slaying dead
pop stars and number 7 stein's gate the second domino in any weeb's journey the classic story
of a time-traveling mad scientist named number 7. stein's gate another anime that all weebs should
watch number 7 stein's gate pretty much the gold standard for anime science fiction it was all but
inevitable that this timeline would lead it to the number 7 spot but by far the biggest
surprise was number 6 which was an anime that i had never actually even heard of before but
it showed up in almost every single top 10 list legend of the galactic heroes a political space
drama with 110 episodes of japanese style 80s camp which has been referred to by a random mal user as
straight up one of the worst pieces of fiction i have ever seen after watching 48 hours of it but
even his one star wasn't enough to bop it out of the top ten number five is wrong as expected maybe
i'll just sit down instead no not oregairu but it is one of the only romance anime to make the list
fruits basket maybe this is just a canadian thing but please let me know if you've ever once heard
someone use fruits as the plural of fruit it bothers me far more than it probably should
but it's not legos it's not animes and it's certainly not waifus because there's only one
the number four spot is where scores really start to jump and it belongs to gintama which seems to
have a fairly quiet fan base aside from a few memes and clips i see floating around i really
never hear anyone talking about it but the sheer amount of highly rated entries makes me tempted to
give it a try our bronze medal winner coming in at the number three spot hunter x hunter which out of
all the anime to make the top 10 i think deserves the number one spot the last arc of this show
is quite literally a cinematic masterpiece that had my palms sweating more than that
time a girl accidentally made eye contact with me on the train as far as shonen are concerned
its character development is in a league of its own and every single episode in its 148 long run
is just as important as the last our sweet boy gon doesn't even know the meaning of the word filler
what's that and it is crazy impressive that it managed to beat out gintama despite only
consisting of one long season and also prominently featuring a perverted clown
speaking of perverted clowns number two is an anime that isn't actually related i just
couldn't think of a better segue attack on titan a show with very high highs but also very low boring
lows it's pushed to the boundaries of anime world building and raised the bar for catchy ops i
don't even need to risk this video getting claimed because you're already humming it
and last but also certainly least and i mean that possibly the most overrated anime i have ever seen
in the number one spot beating attack on titan by only five points
breaking the law of equivalent exchange full metal alchemist brotherhood math sucks but if you like
spreadsheets as much as i do make sure to check out this video here where i break down the actual
formula that my anime list uses to arrive at these ratings see you neets next time