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'.
Series that lack enough user votes will not qualify for the ranking.
See the notes for further details.
For the last week we're comparing all the final episodes
With the week of June 24-30, the Spring 2026 season is now over.
But many of the series already ended the previous week, so we're adding an extra "final" week where all the last episodes are ranked against each other.
With this we can see which series ended on a strong note and which ones ended more weakly.
That means the "final ep." column is a repeat of the last episode from Jun 17-23 or Jun 24-30.
And the "prev week change" is the difference in position between the "final ep." column and the penultimate episode.
The ranking doesn't include some episodes from the trailing end of the season streaming in July:
The Ramparts of Ice #14.
For completeness' sake we'll update this ranking as the episodes are reviewed and rated in the coming days.
Episode Rankings for the final episodes
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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#1.
Witch Hat Atelier
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#2.
Dorohedoro
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#3.
Nippon Sangoku The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
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#4.
One Piece
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#5.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
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#6.
Needy Girl Overdose
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Akane-banashi
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#8.
Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk
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#9.
An Observation Log of My Fiancée
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#10.
A Hundred Scenes of Awajima
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#11.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
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Go For It, Nakamura-kun!!
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Dr. Stone: Science Future
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#14.
Farming Life in Another World 2
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#15.
Classroom of the Elite 4th Season
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#16.
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3
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#17.
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch
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#18.
Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun
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#19.
The Beginning After The End
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The Ramparts of Ice
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#21.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
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#22.
Daemons of the Shadow Realm
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#23.
Yowayowa Sensei
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#24.
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
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#25.
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring
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#26.
MARRIAGETOXIN
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#27.
Always a Catch!
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#28.
Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
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#29.
Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!?
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#30.
The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King
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#31.
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods
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#32.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
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#33.
Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
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#34.
Kill Blue
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#35.
MAO
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#36.
Snowball Earth
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#37.
Strongest Job is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage
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#38.
Killed Again, Mr. Detective?
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Series Cumulative Ranking for Spring 2026
Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes.
With the last episode duplicated in the "final ep." column, it means that the votes for the last episode of each series
are counted twice, which intentionally gives a boost to series that ended strongly.
This somewhat compensates for the fact that the first episode of each series has more votes, which favors series that started strongly.
So this is it, the final ranking, the winners and losers of the Spring 2026 season.
Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.
ranking change from week to week
(episode numbers as labels; clickable)
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anime series
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#1.
Witch Hat Atelier
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#2.
Dorohedoro
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#3.
Nippon Sangoku The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
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#4.
Akane-banashi
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#5.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
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#6.
Needy Girl Overdose
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#7.
One Piece
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1157
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#8.
A Hundred Scenes of Awajima
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#9.
The Ramparts of Ice
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#10.
An Observation Log of My Fiancée
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#11.
Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun
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#12.
Daemons of the Shadow Realm
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#13.
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3
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#14.
Dr. Stone: Science Future
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#15.
MAO
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#16.
Farming Life in Another World 2
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Wistoria: Wand and Sword
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#18.
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
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#19.
Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk
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#20.
MARRIAGETOXIN
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#21.
Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!?
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#22.
Always a Catch!
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#23.
Classroom of the Elite 4th Season
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#24.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
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#25.
Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
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#26.
Kill Blue
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#27.
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring
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#28.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
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#29.
Go For It, Nakamura-kun!!
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#30.
The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King
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#31.
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods
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#32.
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch
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#33.
Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
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#34.
The Beginning After The End
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#35.
Snowball Earth
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#36.
Yowayowa Sensei
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#37.
Killed Again, Mr. Detective?
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#38.
Strongest Job is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage
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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 Ranked pairs 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.
Conversely, there are fewer people rating the show so it's less likely to have enough votes to qualify for the ranking.
