The History of MyAnimeList's #1 Anime
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- [12 DAYS OF ANIME: Season 3, Day 8]
A comprehensive numeration of every anime that has held the #1 spot on MyAnimeList at some point.
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FMA 03 losing it’s high score due to brotherhood is kinda sad imho, people should judge it on it’s own merit instead of comparing the two
Yeah, it’s the one sad part of getting remakes (the good ones). There’s a lot of fans who will treat the first anime as irrelevant and obsolete. Though there’s also fans like me who loved Brotherhood so much I watched everything I could related to the franchise including the 03 anime and movie tie ins. Between the two, I preferred 03 and the movie ending over Brotherhood. Even though I do still love Brotherhood for being the complete manga version and the happy ending. Still, I loved the brothers ending and found it very fitting of the series.
19:32 I fucking exploded with laughter after remembering that this actually happened. Anyways, good work putting together a thorough timeline of the top MAL scores. I was curious whether Brotherhood's #1 was actually as uninterrupted as I had imagined it being for most of the 2010s, since I wasn't using MAL back then.
damn, a 40-minute video during 12 days of videos? huge respect for the time and effort this must have taken
He either prepared the videos in advance by himself which is quite impressive indeed or this is a team of people paid by roles (writer, editor, narrator etc.) to create the videos, which is still impressive but not unusual. Impressive video anyways, loved it
The idea of this video being so effort-heavy that it makes it look like I have multiple people helping me might be the best comment I've gotten this year lmao
@@emberreviews1364 you earned it! keep going at it and I wish you a successfull 2023 my friend :)
This is actually criminially underrated, really good video! It also got a few laughs out of me, seeing how many times Gintama took the number 1 spot. Thanks for putting all of this effort into this :)
I almost wanna watch it just out of spite for vote manipulators
Logh breifly taking the top spot overall and still sitting on top of all OVA’s is a testament to its greatness.
So frieren is basically the only non-sequel who held top-1 for more than a month in the last 10 years. Interesting
That is really interesting. If/when I make an update I'll have to add in weird stats like that.
@@emberreviews1364if it stays there over a month after the last episode I would be surprised
@@emberreviews1364 you could make the update around the time of the next anime awards to see whether this show can maintain its position and popularity
@@emberreviews1364 you could make the update around the time of the next anime awards to see whether this show can maintain its position and popularity
@@emberreviews1364 you could make the update around the time of the next anime awards to see whether this show can maintain its position and popularity
frieren being there for so long now must appriciated
I'm pretty certain Clannad: After Story was the #1 anime at one point as well. It probably didn't get captured in the Wayback Machine, but there's a featured article on MAL that states: "before the powerhouse that is Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Clannad: After Story was the highest-rated TV anime on MAL for some time." Great video!
I would say "The Sequel Effect" is more commonly referred to as "survivorship bias"
What is it exactly and how does this relate to the sequel effect?
@@ryanaing5302 "Survivorship bias (or survivor bias) is a cognitive fallacy in which, when looking at a given group, you focus only on examples of successful individuals (the “survivors”) in the selection process rather than the group as a whole (including the “non-survivors”)."
But that does not explain why certain JoJo parts are rated lower
@@TheApostelicPrincess JoJo parts aren't necessarily "sequels" in the traditional sense as some of them follow completely different characters in a completely different setting, and I feel like discussions of what everyone's favorite part is tend to be pretty split. For every part of JoJo, you could probably find someone who thinks said part is their favorite.
Now it's Frieren
I'm pretty sure San-Gatsu no Lion 2nd Season has the highest score recorded for a slice of life
I went back to check and yeah 3-Gatsu's peak was a 9.11. Guess I just didn't notice it cause I just forgot about it and it didn't even come close to #1 so it was out of my field of view.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention Spy x Family shooting up to Number 2 though. It is what some would call a slice of life despite being about a spy infiltrating a school with the help of an assassin and a telepath.
It was in the original draft of the script, but since it never made it to #1 I ended up cutting it, plus I would definitely see it much more as an action/comedy and not slice of life.
Thanks for the informative video. I didn't realize that Death Note and Gurren Lagann were so dominant in the late 2000s before FMA Brotherhood arrived.
I feel like Steel Ball Run will break records and force the entire website to change their score system permanently
It doesn’t matter because FMAB fandom have some billions or trillions of accounts 😤
@@chrispolo25 SBR has power of Infinity
Infinity is above billion/trillion
AGREED
19:46 We NEED underdogs like Pengu overthrowing Brotherhood tyrant xD
how many people do actually claim that brotherhood is thier fav anime???
also gintama having the top 2 spots at one time was insane tbh
Me and also 3 million other people in MAL. But my main favorite is Steins Gate which is 2 so np.
Holy shit. Criminally underrated vid
Gintama I love this series too since I got into in 2016
If FMAB would fall for good, i would love it if subsequent Kaguya installments, AOT, or a resurging Mob would replace it. In terms of popularity, I feel like CSM's ending could cement it's spot at the permanent #1 tho.
Great overview of MAL's top list history
I was actually kinda shocked that season 3 of Mob didn't even come close to the top. But yeah it anything either more CSM or Bleach will probably do it.
Chainsaw Man is too divisive of an adaptation to be number 1. A lot of manga fans of Chainsaw Man don’t like the adaptation. I do think that AOT season 3 part 2 deserves it more than FMA Brotherhood.
In 2025, Steel Ball Run will permanently change the whole score system because it would bring every Top Anime to their knees by surpassing even 9.5
@@TheApostelicPrincess If the adaptation is as good as the manga deserves, it WILL be an all time great. That top spot is RESERVED
@@IAMA1 I believe it will force the website to change their score system permanently
Great job putting this together!!! I wonder if behind all these trends, if there's been any shift in the MAL user base. Is it mostly new anime fans? Or is it mostly millennials who grew up watching Bleach/Death Note/etc.? 🤔 idk
There are definitely a lot of major fandom events that could be behind a lot of this history (rise of Crunchyroll, AniList gaining more traction, Attack on Titan existing, etc.)
28:38 It deserved number 1 spot, cmon, it's Interspecies Reviewers xD.
Also how did MAL "fix" voter manipulation and why they didn't fix Brotherhood rating then?
Yeah the fact that the manga has a lower rating despite being superior is pretty telling. Like people agree that the first part of the series is rushed, but they will still rate the anime higher, which doesn’t make sense.
@@thomasffrench3639 Just wait until SBR gets a perfect adaptation
If they blend CGI with animation perfectly it should dethrone FMAB permanently
Fantastic video!
Yeah honestly I would probably trade the current list in for the 2006 list. Good times.
Also, I gotta say, I don't know why Pingu in the City became a meme. I never found the meme of it being the greatest anime ever as all that funny.
I still remember the memes popping up at the time and thinking "uh, sure ok I guess"
It was meant to stick it to Brotherhood fanboys
Having Death Note at number 1 is worse than having Brotherhood at number 1.
That was a fun video, really good production and quite interesting!
Let's gooo Frieren
You should do this for manga. "Berserk is number 1....then berserk takes the throne...Berserk has the highest score across both manga and anime to date..."
It’s weird to see Chainsaw Man at the top, because the adaptation is super divisive.
I fear the same for Steel Ball Run, they should collab with KyoAni for CGI
I didn’t see Fullmental alchemist orginal series back in 2014 for the first time and brotherhood in 2016
Fantastic video
Got here randomly through TikTok, great video
Wow, this history lesson was enthralling. Time to still not watch half of the current top 20.
Gintama Vs fmab was when I started going to anime parties. It was the first time I met weebs. I didn't know people like that existed. I would love learning about drama between weebs. You'd think with so many shounen anime they would through fists but no. Those weebs thought they had superior intelligence and would doxx each other show embarrassing texts and being passive aggressive in general over the fattest chick imaginable.
The sequel effect does kind of make these comparisons not worth it but I still watched the whole video anyway so...
It would be cool if someone was able to do some statistical analysis on how sequels are rated compared to their original in general and come up with a general deflater factor that could be applied to make a more fair comparison with first seasons.
I use AniList myself these days although I mirror my scores to MAL, but I wonder how MAL scores compare to the other old sites of Anime-Planet and AniDB.
But HTF would you explain the low ratings of other JoJo Parts
Ichigos entrance is peak shounen
I read somewhere on Reddit, Gintama was purposefully downvoted by many because they didn't understand the anime!
Its probably not a great amount of people that did it to Gintama but its not uncommon for some popular anime to be targeted by some people.
Bleach Tybw deserves number 1 it’s been insane
Damn this is the longest video for sure but I don’t use myanimelist
Gintama really is the goat huh
I ask for a sequel for this video !!!
Bleach is GOATed
I think MAL's ranking is getting violated lately.
This is because over the last few years a massive amount of new anime watchers started to rank the animes & 2 things happen from this:
They generally rate too high or too low, thus a 7/10 previously getting 9/10 these days or a previous 6/10 might be getting 1/10 now.
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A lot of emphasis they put on animation quality over the entire story. This hurts the older animation or low budget production with less fps.
Not entirely true, I keep seeing monster rising up even though it was released 20 years ago and animation is not up to the modern standard
You couldn't have predicted it ofc, but recently there's been another anime to overthrow Brotherhood fanboys, idk how long it's gonna be but still nice to see
Yeah Brotherhood should probably be like an 8.5
@@thomasffrench3639 If FMAB should be 8.5 then AoT should be like 4.5
Still never saw school rumble even I know people like that show but some mentioned on this video I saw them
Mal doesn't count the negative scores of anyone who doesn't complete at least 3 4ths of a show, so people like me who don't even get through the first 11 episodes of Brotherhood because how much I hate them in comparison to the original don't get to effect it's score. That's what's rigging things in Brotherhood's undeserved favor.
that's a lmao from me
I actually prefer that. It might bother you because FMA has a lot of episodes, but I’d hate for someone to watch 1 episode of a 12 episode anime and rate it lowly not because it’s a bad show, but because it’s just not their type of genre. Not their cup of tea. I don’t think this person’s 1 score should count towards the official MAL score. I’d rather not hear about how good or bad a SOL anime is from a SOL hater who doesn’t see any value in genres they don’t personally enjoy. Sometimes it might be interesting, but it’s not usually helpful for someone who does enjoy SOL and wants to know how this one compares to others.
@@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr I gave a high score to the original FMA, this is something I merely don't like the genre of.
@@Kuudere-Kun I prefer 03 more than FMAB. too. I’m not saying these types of fans can never have a change of heart on particular series. Even potentially a change in view towards a genre they previously weren’t fans of. I know they can. I’ve been there, done that.
Love is war is Probably the only anime you can say is the best of its kind without any competition. It's the absolute goat
I wouldnt say so. Gintama is a better comedy. And even for romance id put your lie in april or clannad which also doubles as a comedy
@@shiroyasha59 your lie in april💀? Clannad better comedy? Then every show a comedy show. Dr stone has better comedy than clannad
I actually really didn’t like Kaguya. Don’t understand the love. I dropped the series in s1. Couldn’t stand the narration and it was not what I’d call funny at all.
Kaguya S3 is especially good. It’s the only season I’ve watched where I immediately watched it again afterwards.
@@josephscottlawrence Yep i finished the manga recently. And it's insane too. The anime i rewatched right after finishing is Sonny Boy
Yoo bad you made this before Oshi no Ko came out
FMAB is now 9.10 thanks to those fanboys, the retaliation was amazing
Great 👍🏻 video nice 👍🏻 hype!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAL is just a FMAB fan club and it's so annoying
Fma2003 is great fight me
FMA is at max average
damn at max?😂