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Before posting the final ranking, I want to go some stuff for anyone who might be interested.

I talked about this a few times during this project, but here's a reminder of how my ranking works. I always keep a certain number of anime in each tier. I'm very close to reaching 300 shows, which, when organized from 10 to 1, will have tiers of 10/20/30/40/50/50/40/30/20/10. This means that one third of the shows I've seen will be considered roughly average, and anything that reaches the top or bottom extremes is either really good or really terrible. Whenever I watch a new anime, I slot it into the list. I've kept up with this ranking ever since I first started watching anime. This might seem like a colossal waste of time, but I work a job where I often spend hours sitting at a desk with nothing to do. Stuff like this helps me pass time!

Shows often shift around in the ranking. Sometimes that's because a new one was added to the tier. Since there can only be ten 10/10s (at least right now), finding a new favorite means a current 10/10 needs to fall to a 9, and then a current 9 needs to fall to an 8, and so on. It isn't always the anime ranked lowest in the tier that slides down, either. I enjoy reexamining the various shows in each tier and trying to determine the weakest link. There are also times where I move anime around in the ranking because my opinions have changed, or for a variety of other reasons. It's a living document. This might not make sense to a lot of people. I mean, why should finding a new 10/10 retroactively downgrade my opinion of a completely different show? I imagine most people just rank something a 7 on MAL or wherever and then they never think about it again. For me, though, aside from giving me something to do to kill time at work, I enjoy shifting anime around. It gives me a reason to think about them again, even years later.

My way of ranking things also means that my true favorites slowly rise, my most hated slowly fall, and everything else slowly slides towards the middle. That's pretty much what happened as I put together this final ranking. I spent quite a long time writing up a post detailing every single change (including minor shifts like Re-Kan and Iroduku swapping positions or exactly which shows were bumped from a 7/10 to a 6/10), but I eventually realized no one cares about any of that except me. In the full ranking posted below, there will be some differences. Some are even significant, like Children of the Whales falling from a 9/10 to a 7/10 (I assumed it would be a 9, then, when I finally rewatched it, it was too late to rank it any lower than a 9. The same thing happened with Parasyte). However, I'm only going to go into detail for the 36 new additions listed below.

3- Searching for the Full Moon
(Recommended by Mega_Mana)

This was my favorite recommendation and it reached the coveted top 5. It mixed together so many different moods and genres, and it handled them all so well, that the result was something truly special.

28- Talentless Nana
(Recommended by Cody11533)

This show had a great concept and handled it well. It landed right below Kakegurui. The two aren't very similar, but they left me with similar feelings due to both having interesting protagonists who got into neat situations.

53- Raven of the Inner Palace
(Airing anime)

This anime had great supernatural elements and a lot of great character development. It landed next to Kakuriyo, another anime with those same aspects.

54- Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
(Recommended by CoolCly)

This anime also had a great concept and a super fun mystery. It landed ahead of The Girl in Twilight, another anime with a concept that really appealed to me.

69- BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense
(Recommended by WhiteLens)

This fun anime about an overpowered girl in a VR video game was both interesting and hilarious, which earned it a spot between Blend-S (which fell from the 8/10s) and D-Frag, another comedy about video games.

72- The Little Lies We All Tell
(Airing anime)

This comedy anime also landed near D-Frag and The Demon Girl Next Door. Much like those two, it had a style of humor that really appealed to me.

73- Sasami-san @ Ganbarenai
(Recommended by MacArrowny)

This anime was just so wonderfully weird, but also wound up telling a compelling story about interesting characters. It landed near Arakawa Under the Bridge, mostly because both shows left me with a similar vibe.

83- Romantic Killer
(Airing anime)

This anime was a wonderful rom-com that used the genre's expectations for a lot of great situations and humor. It landed right below My Dress-Up Darling, another fun rom-com that avoided the dramatic pitfalls a lot of shows in this genre fall into.

88- Monster
(Recommended by MartinFF7 and LordoftheMorons)

This was an interesting story, and I'm really glad I finally got a chance to watch it. It didn't wind up being one of my favorites like it did for a lot of people, but I certainly enjoyed it. It landed right below Death Note, mostly because both shows were about exploring interesting characters in deadly situations.