TV Series · 2004 · TV Series · 2000s
Monster
Scored from 132 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A Japanese anime series based on Naoki Urasawa's manga, following Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a gifted neurosurgeon working in Germany who saves the life of a young boy over that of a politician. Years later, Tenma discovers the boy he saved has grown into a remorseless killer, and he sets out across Europe to stop him, becoming entangled with detectives, former East German operatives, and the dark secrets of the child's past.
Released in 2004, Monster is an animation, crime and drama television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 132 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 158 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Monster lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 132.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
