Anime fans have yet again been busying themselves about a grand ranking of the most “overrated” anime that they can dredge from their notoriously short memories, but even amongst fellow anime fans their choices are proving controversial indeed…
The ranking, with votes (33,001 in total):
1. Puella Magi Madoka Magica [1409]
2. Ano Hi Mita Hana [1248]
3. K-ON! [1222]
4. Bakemonogatari / Nisemonogatari [1215]
5. Ore no Imouto [1206]
6. Infinite Stratos [1161]
7. To Aru Series [1084]
8. Fate/Zero [1040]
9. Steins;Gate [995]
10. Angel Beats! [919]
11. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai [907]
12. Haruhi [889]
13. Inu x Boku SS [849]
14. Ben-to [800]
15. Kami Nomi Zo Shiru Sekai
16. Macross F [771]
17. Uta no Prince-sama [749]
18. Mawaru Penguindrum [749]
19. Working!! [746]
20. Persona 4 [739]
21. Bleach [727]
22. Dog Days [712]
23. Baka to Test [695]
24. Ro-Kyu-Bu! [683]
25. Hanasaku Iroha [677]
26. Hidan no Aria [651]
27. One Piece [644]
28. Tiger & Bunny [639]
29. Daily Lives of High School Boys [627]
30. Neon Genesis Evangelion [601]
31. Gintama [579]
32. Blue Exorcist [572]
33. Naruto [464]
34. Mirai Nikki [443]
35. Natsume’s Book of Friends [440]
36. No. 6 [426]
37. Guilty Crown [424]
38. gdgd Fairies [422]
39. Nichijou [397]
40. UN-GO [371]
41. Toriko [322]
42. Ika Musume [288]
43. Kimi to Boku [280]
44. Sora no Manimani [243]
45. Chihayafuru [235]
46. Jewel Pet Tinkle [226]
47. Usagi Drop [197]
48. Nurarihyon no Mago [190]
49. Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi [180]
50. Yondemasu-yo, Azazeru-san [168]
An assault of this magnitude on the beloved greats of the anime world has not passed without comment – indeed, there is a certain amount of long-voiced irritation about the pathetically short attention spans they seem to illustrate:
“No way are these ‘overrated’ – they are just the anime with the most viewers to make a fuss about them.”
“They are just ordered by popularity! Especially after 5, they are just popular ones which accumulated lots of haters.”
“It’s more about popularity than overratedness really.”
“What it is is a ‘anime I hate but which are popular anyway’ ranking.”
“Another hater ranking! They always end up turning into popularity rankings anyway.”
“They are all selling rather well in any case.”
“It’s meaningless as these rankings are just determined by the proportionate numbers of their fans.”
“How Bleach can be overrated when nobody rated it in the first place is an interesting question…”
One thing about this list is that it was by “poll” not freeform response. The total votes cast in the entire poll, is equal the sum of votes for all 50 shows. This tells us that the author pre-selected which 50 shows HE considered “over-rated”. Other polls which allow free-form voting give very different results.
Madoka is overrated because the japanese like to masturbate to guro and thighhigh socks. And that’s whay they’ve obsessed over Mami’s death
Ao no exorcist shouldn’t be on this fucking list.
Therefore I call this bullcrap.
There are a lot of good anime’s on it.
Haters be hating.
I agree with this list. Madoka is the most overrated anime of all times.
Umm… That reads like a list of recent anime. Any shows anyone has heard of that is *not* on that list?