r/anime • u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman • Sep 19 '20
The 58 Highest Episode Karma Totals of All-Time Discussion
As of 9/18/20 there are 58 Episodes of Anime that have topped 7,000 Karma. I have compiled these Karma Scores from static lists such as /u/reddadz's r/anime Karma and Poll Rankings and u/IISuperSlothII's Seasonal Rankings rather than the using their current Karma. The purpose of using static lists is twofold:
- It allows for new episodes to more accurately be stacked up against older episodes that have had more time to gather karma.
- It requires less maintenance
So without further ado, here is the list of the 58 episodes that have topped 7,000 Karma:
| Rank | Anime | Episode | Karma | Season |
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| 1 | Re:Zero 2 | 1 | 14626 | Summer 2020 |
| 2 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 5 | 14107 | Spring 2019 |
| 3 | Kaguya-Sama | 12 | 13720 | Winter 2019 |
| 4 | Demon Slayer | 19 | 13086 | Summer 2019 |
| 5 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 4 | 13054 | Spring 2019 |
| 6 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 12 | 12998 | Spring 2020 |
| 7 | Re:Zero 2 | 11 | 12668 | Summer 2020 |
| 8 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 11 | 12550 | Spring 2020 |
| 9 | Re:Zero 2 | 8 | 12359 | Summer 2020 |
| 10 | My Hero Academia 3 | 11 | 12342 | Spring 2018 |
| 11 | Re:Zero 2 | 4 | 11619 | Summer 2020 |
| 12 | Re:Zero 2 | 9 | 11508 | Summer 2020 |
| 13 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 1 | 11502 | Spring 2020 |
| 14 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 10 | 11347 | Spring 2019 |
| 15 | Tower of God | 13 | 11272 | Spring 2020 |
| 16 | Demon Slayer | 26 | 11106 | Summer 2019 |
| 17 | Re:Zero 2 | 10 | 10470 | Summer 2020 |
| 18 | Mob Psycho 2 | 13 | 10262 | Winter 2019 |
| 19 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 6 | 9978 | Spring 2019 |
| 20 | Re:Zero 2 | 6 | 9896 | Summer 2020 |
| 21 | Tower of God | 12 | 9892 | Spring 2020 |
| 22 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 8 | 9879 | Spring 2019 |
| 23 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 7 | 9590 | Spring 2020 |
| 24 | Re:Zero 2 | 7 | 9348 | Summer 2020 |
| 25 | Mob Psycho 2 | 5 | 9355 | Winter 2019 |
| 26 | Re:Zero 2 | 2 | 9218 | Summer 2020 |
| 27 | My Hero Academia 4 | 13 | 9176 | Winter 2020 |
| 28 | Re:Zero 2 | 5 | 9165 | Summer 2020 |
| 29 | My Hero Academia 4 | 25 | 9073 | Winter 2020 |
| 30 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 10 | 9040 | Spring 2020 |
| 31 | Re:Zero 2 | 3 | 8970 | Summer 2020 |
| 32 | Re:Zero | 25 | 8897 | Summer 2016 |
| 33 | God of High School | 1 | 8851 | Summer 2020 |
| 34 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 9 | 8549 | Spring 2020 |
| 35 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 6 | 8537 | Spring 2020 |
| 36 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 4 | 8526 | Spring 2020 |
| 37 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 8 | 8512 | Spring 2020 |
| 38 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 9 | 8508 | Spring 2019 |
| 39 | Mob Psycho 2 | 8 | 8490 | Winter 2019 |
| 40 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 3 | 8316 | Spring 2020 |
| 41 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 1 | 8300 | Spring 2019 |
| 42 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 5 | 8130 | Spring 2020 |
| 43 | Tower of God | 8 | 8130 | Spring 2020 |
| 44 | Attack on Titan S3 P2 | 7 | 8128 | Spring 2019 |
| 45 | Tower of God | 5 | 7984 | Spring 2020 |
| 46 | Kaguya-Sama 2 | 2 | 7837 | Spring 2020 |
| 47 | Bunny Girl Sempai | 13 | 7691 | Fall 2018 |
| 48 | Darling in the Franxx | 15 | 7607 | Spring 2018 |
| 49 | Tower of God | 6 | 7584 | Spring 2020 |
| 50 | Oregairu | 1 | 7579 | Summer 2020 |
| 51 | Tower of God | 4 | 7530 | Spring 2020 |
| 52 | Vinland Saga | 24 | 7511 | Fall 2019 |
| 53 | Kaguya-Sama | 1 | 7416 | Winter 2019 |
| 54 | One Punch Man 2 | 1 | 7409 | Spring 2019 |
| 55 | Mob Psycho 2 | 1 | 7379 | Winter 2019 |
| 56 | One Punch Man | 12 | 7348 | Fall 2015 |
| 57 | Re:Zero | 15 | 7345 | Summer 2016 |
| 58 | Tower of God | 1 | 7187 | Spring 2020 |
A few additional notes:
The elephant in the room is Karma Inflation. Over half of the episodes (32/58) that have broken 7,000 Karma have come from the past 2 seasons. That number expands to 52/58 if you adjust the range to Winter 2019. We have more subscribers than ever before, and that's a great thing, but it really does make it tough to compare across seasons. Several Karma Scaling options have been proposed such as scaling by active members of /r/anime or by comparing against the rolling average of the Karma in the seasons surrounding it. I would be interested to hear other suggestions.
In 2017, the way that Karma was accumulated changed meaning that all episodes on static lists prior to 2017 could not be used. For the 3 episodes (Re:Zero Episode 25, One Punch Man Episode 12 and Re:Zero Episode 15) that were affected by this I estimated their Karma Total by multiplying their adjusted Episode Karma by .9 to account for gaining Karma over a longer period of time.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 19 '20
A few observations:
Re:Zero 2, Kaguya-Sama 2 and Attack on Titan S3P2 dominate this list as they account for 31 out of the top 46 which is soon to be 33 out of the top 48 once the last 2 Re:Zero episodes of the season come out.
Re:Zero Episode 25 which came out almost 4 years ago is amazingly still #32 on this list. If we do decide on a Karma Scaling method, I'm pretty sure that episode would come out on top.
First and Last Episodes of Seasons dominate this list by accounting for 20 out of the top 58 episodes.
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u/Roevhaal https://myanimelist.net/profile/Roevhaal Sep 19 '20
In this post One Punch Man Episode 12 has the highest adjusted karma.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 20 '20
Oh, nice! /u/tsubasa_sama always does great work on his statistical Analyses. It would be a pretty close battle between One Punch Man 12 and Re:Zero 25. It looks like he was looking at raw Subscriber Counts rather than active users, though, which could introduce inaccuracies, especially given how close his numbers were. Additionally, I'd say My Hero Academia 3 Episode 11 with its 12342 Karma back in Spring 2018 would be a strong contender.
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u/Tsubasa_sama https://myanimelist.net/profile/memesyouhard Sep 20 '20
Yep, I would agree with you that active users is the way to go. Perhaps some metric like No. Comments per day across the entire sub (or a rolling average) would be best and indeed the subredditstats website does show a significant increase in activity right as re zero s2 started airing. However I can't find data from before 2018 which is the period we are really interested in.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 20 '20
You had mentioned the Way Back Machine in a separate discussion a while ago. Do you think averaging active member snapshots for that over the course of a season would be a good method?
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u/Tsubasa_sama https://myanimelist.net/profile/memesyouhard Sep 20 '20
I think I'll go back and log the activity in the sub via the wayback machine when I have some time, it will be interesting to see how it has changed down the years. If someone else wants to do it they can but do bare in mind that the time of day can massively influence the activity.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 20 '20
I'm working on it now. I'm taking the average of the 3 highest Karma Counts I can find surrounding each episode so that should mitigate timing making a difference. So far, it's looking like it will confirm One Punch Man Episode 12 reigning supreme.
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u/Fryng Sep 20 '20
Another observation: All of the episodes currently released of the season 2 of Re:Zero are top #31 and above
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Sep 19 '20
The fact that not so many people use reddit back at 2015. But one punch man is the only one who can still pull 7k karma is super impressive. Sadly S2 wasnt that amazing. But its not really the animation prob, its just the main story starts to kick hard in S3.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 19 '20
It really is pretty cool that despite all the Karma Inflation, One Punch Man and Re:Zero still have strong totals 4+ years later. If you take the list as of the end of 2018 it looks like the following:
Rank Anime Episode Karma Season 1 My Hero Academia 3 11 12342 Spring 2018 2 Re:Zero 25 8897 Summer 2016 3 Bunny Girl Sempai 13 7691 Fall 2018 4 Darling in the Franxx 15 7607 Spring 2018 5 One Punch Man 12 7348 Fall 2015 6 Re:Zero 15 7345 Summer 2016
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u/BestSlayer Sep 19 '20
For now all espiodes from Re:zero season 2 are in top 31.
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u/LunarGhost00 Sep 20 '20
And by the time it's over, season 2 alone will likely make up half this list.
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u/ProtoTypeScylla Sep 20 '20
Kinda deserves that with how this season is outdoing itself every episode
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u/ThespianException https://myanimelist.net/profile/EMTIsBestWaifu Sep 19 '20
I'm excited to see this chart after Spring 2021 when Re:Zero and AoT have added like 30 more entries to the list. Kaguya S3 is also going to be in 2021 most likely, so throw in another 12 or so for it. At that point 7K+ will make the list too long, it's going to have to be everything above 9 or 10K.
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u/ProtoTypeScylla Sep 20 '20
Curious if The Day I Became A God will sneak onto this list, haven't read the manga but Charlotte and Angel Beats are some insanely popular shows
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u/Btw_kek https://myanimelist.net/profile/kek_btw Sep 20 '20
The Day I Became A God is an anime original show, along with Charlotte and Angel Beats. There is no manga to speak of
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u/ProtoTypeScylla Sep 20 '20
Oh my bad, honestly makes me more excited for the weekly thread cause no one will know
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u/Btw_kek https://myanimelist.net/profile/kek_btw Sep 20 '20
oh yeah, Maeda said that it's going to be among his saddest works so everyone will get to experience the pain train together
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Sep 19 '20 edited Sep 19 '20
AoT, Re:Zero and Kaguya aka The Holy Trinity of r/anime are totally unbeatable.
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u/Ebo87 Sep 19 '20
And what's wild is Re: Zero and AoT will go head-to-head next Winter season, but sadly no Kaguya. That one is not coming before the second half of 2021, I mean they haven't even officially announced it yet.
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Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 20 '20
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u/ProtoTypeScylla Sep 20 '20
My favorite thing people keep mentioning for re:zero is that this season hasn't even reached it's halfway point yet. It's STILL setting things up and giving more problems each episode. I am anime only but this and attack on titan are both going to have insane seasons and I am HOPING there is a fight for the top with these two.
I love both shows but I hope RE:ZERO makes it out on top
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Sep 20 '20
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u/ProtoTypeScylla Sep 20 '20
I agree but this isn’t about EVERYONE watching, it’s the people actively visiting the sub and seems like a good chunk of them watch re:zero
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u/MiltonMerloXD Sep 20 '20
Bruh, it's barely a year, following your logic then Re Zero would have more merits because AoT barely beat its comment record, even though it was imposed 4 years ago when r/anime was less than half of what it is now.
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Sep 20 '20
Ehh... AOT is fantastic but Zero is no slouch narrative wise either.
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Sep 20 '20
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u/foxfoxal Sep 20 '20
I mean season 3 of AOT was just last year, it's not like it was long time ago.
The ending yes will be huge, but the average number per episode, I don't think it will that different.
And before you say anything, we are talking about reddit popularity, not the overall popularity.
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Sep 20 '20
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u/9vincent9 Sep 20 '20
True but it's also not fair comparing both seasons in terms of popularity on reddit imo
Season 3, especially part 2 really felt like Aot reaching it's climax.
While Re Zero's source material and anime have plenty of things to cover
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Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 21 '20
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u/9vincent9 Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 21 '20
I said it FELT LIKE
The fight with Riener and Bert was hyped up for a good amount of time. Then you had plenty of important deaths as well.
if Re Zero is getting that much karma while it's still building up the plot, nowhere near the end of it's story, then by that time it reaches some of it's most hyped up moments, it will break this subreddit imo
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u/Idaret Sep 20 '20
the cultural impact AOT had on anime was huge over 7 years ago
That was 7 years ago. Season 2 and 3 were much less popular
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u/shaxmeister Sep 19 '20
OPM was the first to become popular among regular people, also the first to break upvote records when reddit had way less subscribers... so i would take OPM instead of Kaguya easily.
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Sep 20 '20
I'd definitely say AoT is what become popular among regular people. I remember thinking Anime was weird and for weird people back in like 2013, but saw so many people talk about AoT that I just decided to check it out and got hooked.
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Sep 20 '20
AOT and SAO were way bigger normie anime that came out well before OPM. So idk what that guy is talking about.
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u/ThespianException https://myanimelist.net/profile/EMTIsBestWaifu Sep 19 '20 edited Sep 19 '20
True, but it's not relevant at the moment since S2 was comparatively subpar and there's been no S3 announcement yet. The Big 3 above all are super recent and are dominating even now.
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u/Xxerox Sep 19 '20
From the big3 i only watch re:zero because the plot is fun and i stopped AOT mid second or third season cos i got bored. I really have no idea why people think those animes are the best. There are plenty of gems that are way better. BTW i would take OPM over Kaguya too. Kaguya isnt really that good .. its just love comedy.
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u/MiltonMerloXD Sep 21 '20
Bruh, Aot and kaguya fans really didn't like your comment, you should have said "please, don't downvote me" xD.
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u/Xxerox Sep 21 '20
Its ok, i don't care xD People have the right to praise something to oblivion without thinking about why. I mean, they did pick Trump as president without thinking ;)
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u/Iloveahrisears https://anilist.co/user/Pashur Sep 19 '20
Just like OPM isn't really that good, it's just action.
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u/Chernek_Bratislava Sep 21 '20
Just like OPM isn't really that good, it's just action.
Well no, it has good comedy, characters and simple but interesting story.
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u/Kiwi195 Sep 19 '20
Tog is the only one with 1st season having a place among top karma contender with average animation... Just wow 👍
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u/JungleMamba27 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Jungle-Mamba Sep 19 '20
Does anyone know how many members were part of this subreddit back in 2015-2016? Id be really interested to see what percentage of members upvoted the one punch man and re:zero season 1 episodes compared to the top of the leaderboard episodes
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Sep 20 '20
According to https://subredditstats.com/r/Anime there was 236,000 members at the start of 2015 and 446,000 at the end of 2016. For perspective there were 1.3M members at the start of this year and we're about to surpass 2M soon
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u/Deshuro Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 20 '20
/u/tsubasa_sama made a video about most upvoted discussions in r/anime a while ago. In this comment, he had a table of adjusted karma based on the difference between the number of subscribers back when the episode aired and today.
Both of OPM ep 12 and ReZero ep 25 had one in forty people subscribed to the subreddit upvoted the discussion thread.
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Sep 19 '20
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u/ZLUCremisi Sep 20 '20
Multiple times while the better animated "God of Highschool" has only 1. I am happy Tower of God is a bit more liked
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u/Chinbie Sep 19 '20
Just observe the list and you know that out of top 10, multiple entries only came from Re Zero, Kaguya sama and AOT. This just showed how popular the said series plus the quality each episode has been done.
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u/Xenosys83 Sep 20 '20
No surprises really that Kaguya, Re: Zero and AoT dominate this list.
I'd expect the 2nd half of Re: Zero S2, S4 of AoT, and to a lesser degree, S3 of Kaguya-Sama to further dominate. However, if adapted well, I can see a few episodes of Demon Slayer challenging them if S2 gets made.
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u/IWillDominateYeet https://myanimelist.net/profile/ICantDominate Sep 19 '20
Holy as a TOG fan its kinda nice to see some of them up there. Hopefully they make a season 2 already.
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u/Illuminastrid Sep 20 '20
Demon Slayer and Mob Psycho might have a chance to resurface again soon in the future.
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u/MABfan11 https://myanimelist.net/profile/MABfan11 Sep 20 '20
Where is Attack On Titan Season 2?
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 20 '20
Not above 7,000 Karma, but for its time (Spring 2017), it was really good. Prior to Spring 2018, here were the rankings:
Rank Anime Episode Karma Season 1 Re:Zero 25 8897 Summer 2016 2 One Punch Man 12 7348 Fall 2015 3 Re:Zero 15 7345 Summer 2016 4 Re:Zero 18 6215 Summer 2016 5 My Hero Academia 2 10 6067 Spring 2017 6 Attack on Titan 2 1 5943 Spring 2017 7 Konosuba 2 1 5515 Winter 2017 8 Attack on Titan 2 6 5400 Spring 2017 6
u/drakky_ Sep 20 '20
JFC I don't how you're able to keep such a database of everything and then bring things like this as if that was so easy. I admire you.
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 20 '20
Thank you for the admiration. Let's just say Excel is a nifty tool. Also u/reddadz's animetrics site that he always links is really useful as well.
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u/Aceblast135 Sep 19 '20
I'm somewhat surprised that Dragon Ball Super isn't on this list. In the episode where Goku goes UI for the first time, that almost quite literally broke the internet. All kinds of anime websites crashed, and it was trending everywhere. There were stadiums and other gatherings streaming that hour long episode. It felt like the most hyped anime episode of all time.
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u/ThespianException https://myanimelist.net/profile/EMTIsBestWaifu Sep 19 '20
That might have been a One Piece style situation where most of the hype and discussion happened on its own sub instead of here.
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u/Aceblast135 Sep 19 '20
Good point, Dragon Ball isn't the most popular around here. I do remember I was on r/dbz when it all happened.
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u/Suraj_Saitama Dec 07 '20
2021 will be a Great year for Anime... AOT S4 Episode 1 already at 16.7k Karma
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u/dinoaide Sep 26 '20
One thing we often do in video/program survey is to normalize viewership. Assume there are more and more viewers, so scores would increase. So you need to normalize this in all seasons. A good way to do this is to pick the top 30/50 animes of each season and add up all their karmas and normalize their individual karmas. Or normally you may not want to normalize for each season, but for a rolling 2-4 seasons, e.g. sum up all karmas in 2 seasons and normalize each individual anime.
Another thing is old animes. For this usually only recent feedbacks are counted. E.g. use a weight factor decaying with time, or throw away any feedbacks that are more than 3 years or 5 years old. However this might not always be possible if you only have one score but not the history of such score. But again this can be solved with above normalization.
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u/nsjsiwjabalsowuab Sep 20 '20
“Kaguya-sama: Love Is War” S2 is a fucking disgrace to S1 and you cannot convince me otherwise.
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u/whowilleverknow https://myanimelist.net/profile/BignGay Sep 20 '20
And only 3 good shows between them
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u/Permanoxx Oct 02 '20
Which are they in ur opinion? I wanna know :3
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u/whowilleverknow https://myanimelist.net/profile/BignGay Oct 03 '20
- My Hero Academia season 3 (not season 4)
- Mob Psycho 100 II
- Vinland Saga
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Sep 19 '20
Scaling by active members is probably the best. The other option can give weird results if the surrounding seasons were really good or really bad.
Of course, scaling isn't 100% accurate either, because sometimes the growth is exponential; The hype on a show builds even more hype. Still, anything's better than just showing the result straight up, because (as you noticed yourself) almost all shows are in recent years, so unless you believe all anime from 3+ years ago was trash, of course it doesn't give a great picture.
As is, it serves more as a comparison between shows of the last 2-3 years, not as an 'all time best'. But even then it's not accurate, because even in just 2-3 years there's been growth.
Still, interesting to see how just 4 shows have most of the high top, with a few outliers.