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Best of Winter 2026, Feb 5-11

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.

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Episode Rankings for the week of February 5-11

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)	prev week change	this week rank	anime series
	—	#1.	Journal With Witch	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#2.	Golden Kamuy	50 51 52 53 54 55
	3	#3.	Fate/strange Fake	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#4.	You and I Are Polar Opposites	1 2 3 4 5
	12	#5.	The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#6.	Frieren: Beyond Journey's End	1 2 3 4
	3	#7.	Shiboyugi	1 2 3 4 5 6
	4	#8.	Hell's Paradise	1 2 3 4 5
	13	#9.	The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#10.	The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#11.	Trigun Stargaze	1 2 3 4 5
	4	#12.	Sentenced to Be a Hero	1 2 3 4 5
	21	#13.	Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None	1 2 3 4 5 6
	7	#14.	Kaya-chan Isn't Scary	1 2 3 4 5
	10	#15.	Oshi no Ko	1 2 3 4 5
	15	#16.	You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!	1 2 3 4 5 6
	6	#17.	The Holy Grail of Eris	1 2 3 4 5
	15	#18.	There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her	1 2 3 4 5 6
	10	#19.	Champignon Witch	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#20.	Fire Force	13 14 15 16 17
	8	#21.	Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider	14 15 16 17 18
	1	#22.	Wash It All Away	1 2 3 4 5 6
	9	#23.	Tamon's B-Side	1 2 3 4 5 6
	8	#24.	In the Clear Moonlit Dusk	1 2 3 4 5
	6	#25.	Gnosia	13 14 15 16 17
	1	#26.	Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#27.	Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1	48 49 50 51 52 53
	13	#28.	My Hero Academia: Vigilantes	14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#29.	Roll Over and Die	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#30.	Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed	1 2 3 4 5 6
	13	#31.	Chained Soldier	1 2 3 4 5
	8	#32.	Hana-Kimi	1 2 3 4 5 6
	no ep. this week		To Your Eternity	13 14 15 16
	4	#33.	Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#34.	Dead Account	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#35.	Scum of the Brave	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#36.	Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube	14 15 16 17 18 19
	—	#37.	The Darwin Incident	1 2 3 4 5 6

Series Cumulative Ranking as of February 11

Each week's ranking takes into account the scores given to previous weeks' episodes. As we reach closer to the end of the season, each series' rank will start to solidify and we'll get a look at the real winners and losers. Click on the numbers to highlight a particular series.

ranking change from week to week (episode numbers as labels; clickable)	prev week change	this week rank	anime series
	—	#1.	Journal With Witch	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#2.	Frieren: Beyond Journey's End	1 2 3 4
	—	#3.	Golden Kamuy	50 51 52 53 54 55
	—	#4.	Fate/strange Fake	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#5.	Shiboyugi	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#6.	You and I Are Polar Opposites	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#7.	Sentenced to Be a Hero	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#8.	Oshi no Ko	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#9.	Hell's Paradise	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#10.	Champignon Witch	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#11.	Trigun Stargaze	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#12.	The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#13.	The Holy Grail of Eris	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#14.	Tamon's B-Side	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#15.	Fire Force	13 14 15 16 17
	6	#16.	In the Clear Moonlit Dusk	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#17.	Gnosia	13 14 15 16 17
	1	#18.	Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1	48 49 50 51 52 53
	2	#19.	The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#20.	Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider	14 15 16 17 18
	3	#21.	Chained Soldier	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#22.	Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#23.	My Hero Academia: Vigilantes	14 15 16 17 18 19
	4	#24.	Kaya-chan Isn't Scary	1 2 3 4 5
	1	#25.	Wash It All Away	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#26.	Roll Over and Die	1 2 3 4 5
	3	#27.	There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her	1 2 3 4 5 6
	3	#28.	Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord	1 2 3 4 5 6
	5	#29.	Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None	1 2 3 4 5 6
	2	#30.	Scum of the Brave	1 2 3 4 5
	2	#31.	The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom	1 2 3 4 5
	7	#32.	To Your Eternity	13 14 15 16
	7	#33.	Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube	14 15 16 17 18 19
	1	#34.	Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed	1 2 3 4 5 6
	1	#35.	Hana-Kimi	1 2 3 4 5 6
	9	#36.	The Darwin Incident	1 2 3 4 5 6
	—	#37.	Dead Account	1 2 3 4 5
	—	#38.	You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!	1 2 3 4 5 6

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.