Anime Network VOD Reports/Updates/Questions Thread (2017)

Update to Updates Received/Not Received 5/25/17 :: Spectrum :: Albany, NY :: Zip Code 12203

No change: Azumanga #24, Bakuon #7, and Chivalry #10 from 5/25/17 and everything from 6/1/17 is still missing.

Since there’s still no programming, how about a fourth irrelevant programming note?

In the absence of my regular shows, I watched Undefeated Bahamut Chronicles this weekend, along with some of the other shows I hadn’t been watching, and I found it a perfectly serviceable, watchable, painless little show. But does it strike anyone else that Bahamut seems like it was assembled out of bits and pieces of other shows? I mean, even more than most other shows are?

Now I know that this is a horribly unfair and stunningly unoriginal observation, because it’s largely an artifact of (1) the order in which I happened to encounter these shows, and (2) the fact that by their very nature tropes repeat; they get used and reused, alot–that’s how something gets to be a trope. And so I could play this same game with any number of magical girl or mecha or survival game or zombie or romance or my-magical-creatures-fight-your-magical-creatures shows. But still, consider: …

[details=long, with spoilers](With thanks to Wikipedia for the publication histories, and especially to tv tropes for helping me flog my failing memory of some of the finer details of these shows.)

…even just limiting ourselves to a few of the shows currently available on AN,

Lux, a soft-spoken white-haired boy abandoned by his family, is unfairly saddled with a huge debt and has to support himself by doing numerous odd jobs; he’s about to have a fateful meeting with a slim, blonde, pony-tailed tsundere (Hayate/Hayate the Combat Butler),

Estranged from his noble family, he bears the disparaging title, “The Weakest Undefeated” (Ikki, rejected by his prominent clan, dubbed “The Worst One” for his weak magic/Chivalry of a Failed Knight), but he happens to have a close relation with the headmistress of the Royal Dragon Knight Academy (Ikki/Hagun Academy/Chivalry again; also Kamito/Areishia Spirit Academy/Blade Dance of the Elementalers; Ichika/Infinite Stratos Academy/ Infinite Stratos ; even Kazami/Mihama Academy/Grisaia).

One day, Lux accidentally sees Lisesharte Atismata, the Crimson War Princess, naked in the bath (Stella, the Crimson Princess, changing in her room/Chivalry; Claire Rouge, former Princess, bathing in a forest lake/Elementalers).

The outraged Princess forces him to fight a duel (Stella/Chivalry), during which his skill with his substandard mecha is such that she is forced to resort to her supermecha’s special Divine Power (Ikki’s swordsmanship forcing Stella to resort to her A-rank Blazer powers/Chivalry).

The duel is interrupted by a rampaging monster, but Lux’s heroic actions are such that the Princess falls for him, and tends to his wounds (Stella, uh, “tending” to the bedridden Ikki after he defeats her in their duel and falling for him/Chivalry).

When the Princess asks Lux what he saw in the bath, he says “Everything. It was…pretty,” causing the Princess to flush in pleased embarrassment (when Stella accuses Ikki of having looked upon her lustfully, he apologizes, saying she was so beautiful he couldn’t tear his eyes away; cue Stella’s steam-out-the-ears explosion and flush of flattered embarrassment /Chivalry).

The mecha suits (Infinite Stratos and too many other predecessors to list) that give the Knights their power are summoned by swords called “devices” (Blazers’ powers manifest as weapons, most often swords, called “devices”/Chivalry; Spirit Contractors’ bound spirits take on the form of weapons, often swords, hence the “Bladedance” in Bladedance; the special IS suits are summoned by small objects worn by Ichika et al/Infinite Stratos).

As a result of the duel, Lux is enrolled as the only male student in the Academy (Ichika/Infinite Stratos, Kamito/Elementalers, Kazami/Grisaia).

His white-haired, soft-spoken, snarky little-sister-with-a-brother-complex Airi also attends the Academy (Ikki’s white-haired, soft-spoken, snarky little-sister-with-a-brother-complex Shizuku becomes a student at the Academy/Chivalry).

Lux is assigned to be roommates with his all-grown-up childhood friend Philuffy (Ichika is assigned to share a room with his all-grown-up childhood friend Houki/Infinite Stratos).

There’s a schoolwide contest where whoever grabs the special red workorder sheet from Lux gets him exclusively to herself for a week (a contest where whoever grabs Ichika’s crown gets to be his roommate/Infinite Stratos).

Lux has a secret identity–he’s really the Black Knight who single-handedly toppled the corrupt and tyrannical Old Empire to pave the way for the New Kingdom (Kamito is really the legendary Bladedancer Ren Ashbell/Bladedance; also, if you stretch it just a little, Kazami, the secret government assassin/Grisaia; even Chifuyu, who is secretly the White Knight who saved Japan/Infinite Stratos).

Same of his female classmates delight in dressing (a futilely protesting) Lux up as a girl; he makes a pretty one (Hayate/Hayate the Combat Butler).

There’s more–a lot more, if we expanded the set of shows we’re comparing. For example, to add just one show from outside of AN, Unlimited Fafnir also has “the one lone male with powers/sent to the all-girl Academy for people with powers/where on the first day he accidentally stumbles upon a naked girl who will become a love interest/these powers manifest as materializing special weapons/and his powers are the very weakest/though he’s extremely skilled at combat/meanwhile, he has an (adopted) sister-with-a-brother-complex who’s also at the Academy/…” But I think that’s enough to make my point.

The weird thing is that while the original light novels of Infinite Stratos started in 2009, and Bladedancer in 2010, Chivalry and Bahamut started at practically the same time–Chivalry in July 2013 and Bahamut the very next month, in August 2013. Unlimited Fafnir also launched in July 2013. So the latter three apparently weren’t cribbing off each other. Guess it was just in the zeitgeist–or the tropes.
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As ever, thanks for your kind indulgence!

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School + Harem = 85% of ADV IP list. the only distributor with higher % would be JSoft or whatever.

Its just the main thing they do.

EDIT: that didn’t quote like it was supposed to but… Same, no changes in episodes.

I did notice a channel missing, as the one containing FXM On Demand was folded into another On Demand channel where it looks like NetFlix with all the stupid movie posters or whatever so you cant even read what shows are like HBO and Starz did to its On Demand channels. so they may be just waiting to convert TAN to useless garbage like all the other On Demand so you can’t read what it is you are trying to watch.

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I agree that making you (1) click on the pretty picture title tile to get to the list of episodes and then (2) on the episode to get (3) an abbreviated and less-useful description than you get on the old system is a pain. Like I’ve been saying, TWC/Spectrum goes by the programmer’s version of the old SNL Fernando philosophy, “It is better to look good than to work good.”

But they already folded TAN into their fancy On Demand portal on channel 1000, back when they launched it: it’s there in the A’s as one of the tiles under “Networks”. It’s just that–thank God!–they’ve left it on Cutting Edge and left Cutting Edge alone (so far). So maybe we’re safe for a while…

Or doesn’t it work this way on your system?

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Frontier FIOs 90505 (CA)

I don’t know if the 3 missing episodes from my last report were reloaded by Frontier (Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 04, Bodacious Space Pirates Ep 18, and Clamp School Detectives Ep 17) since their normal rotation meant they would have been removed last week.

However, last week’s updates were all loaded successfully so the schedule menu looks complete. Thank you.

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The report for this week & all follow-ups was compiled and sent to Anime Network today.

Users with missing episodes that have not reported since the last report:
None

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i dont have a channel 1000. but then i never understood half the ways you do things or find them either, because TWC was supposed to be a national lineup with the exclusion of the lowest number channels for “local” stations. Though i lost GritTV this weekend for something else, GritTV resided on 1241 for as long as it was around and when it left i went to Google, and found its website and found out it has TWC numbers all over the place for it, Channels: 999, 1246, 1256… nowhere did it say 1241. So TWC never finished its nation channel lineup which could have been part of the problem since back BEFORE they became partners in that “In Demand” company to provide On Demand to us all.

When the cable box loads my option for On Demand is in that new popup on the left that blocks the shows EVERY time to box loads. otherwise its channels by number unless i set the guide to Networks A-Z, but i prefer numbers since the remote doesnt have an alphabet on it. :wink: and i limit it to only the channel i watch on my Favorites list. (or i can press B and hope to use that Nintendo Power Glove era typing interface to spell out the show name and find it.)


at this time, all the old shows set to expire, have done so… EXCEPT for Aohara x 06. Nothing new has appeared, even using the Nintendo Power Glove search feature.

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Well, that probably just means you’re sane and sensible. As for the rest…Wow! with that kind of a mismatch, no wonder my suggestions aren’t of much use.

Sorry about that…

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###Cox & Xfinity (Comcast) have their own schedules now.
(As of this writing, it was still being uploaded, Cox seems to be complete, Xfinity is a work in progress)

Report for June 8th 2017.

Received

Log Horizon Season 2 Collection 2

Not received

No schedule yet

Notes

None!

Comcast Xfinity Intercession City FL 33848

Thanks!:grinning:

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Updates Received/Not Received 6/8/17 :: Spectrum :: Albany, NY :: Zip Code 12203

The short version:

All but two shows have arrived on Cutting Edge, which I guess is an improvement over none; this time the laggards are Nyan Koi #9 and Phantasy Star #7; nothing has arrived on the On Demand side; the new and “improved” series listings…aren’t (see Notes).

The long version:

Received:

Azumanga Daioh 26

Bakuon 9

Chivalry of a Failed Knight 12

Matoi the Sacred Slayer 2

Mysterious Girlfriend X 10

Nurse Witch Komugi R 5

Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless 10 (then how come he’s listed here?)

Trinity Seven 7

Tsuritama 9

Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle 6

Missing in Action:

Nyan Koi 9

Phantasy Star Online 8

Still Missing from 6/1/17:

Everything (Help!)

Still Missing from 5/25/17:

Azumanga Daioh 24

Bakuon 7

Chivalry of a Failed Knight 10

Appearing Incongruously:

None

The Episode That Will Not Die:

AoharuxMachinegun 6

Notes:

  1. The new episode descriptions in the “improved” series listings are extremely hard to read–the contrast between the very faint text and the new white background is way, way too low. I was just talking about TWC following the Fernando school of programming–“It is better to look good than to work good”–but this doesn’t even look good…Nonfunctional! (at least with my eyes)

Thanks!

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Spectrum (TWC) Round Rock, TX 78681

Schedule for June 8, 2017:

Azumanga Daioh 26 - “Graduation Ceremony!” (FINAL EPISODE)
Bakuon!! 9 - "New Student!!"
Chivalry of a Failed Knight 12 - “Another One: The Uncrowned Sword King II!” (FINAL EPISODE)
Matoi the Sacred Slayer 2- "I Clad Myself in a God!"
Mysterious Girlfriend X 10 - "Mysterious Affair!"
Nurse Witch KOMUGI R 5 - "Trouble Rendezvous at the Study Session!"
Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless 10 - "Tanaka-kun’s Summer!"
Trinity Seven 7 - "Lost Technica and Problem Solving!"
Tsuritama 9 - "Striking Underwater!"
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle 6 - “The Homecoming of the Strongest!”
(RECEIVED)

Missing from June 8:
Nyan Koi! 9 - "Girls in the Water!"
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation 8 - “Turning Point!”

STILL MISSING from May 25
Azumanga Daioh 24 - "Yamamayaa!"
Bakuon!! 7 - "School Festival!!"
Chivalry of a Failed Knight 10 - “Witch of the Deep Ocean V.S. Raikiri!”

STILL MISSING from June 1:
Azumanga Daioh 25 - "Onwards, Entrance Exams!"
Bakuon!! 8 - "Winter Break!!"
Chivalry of a Failed Knight 11 - "Another One: The Uncrowned Sword King I!"
Matoi the Sacred Slayer 1- “I’m Possessed!” (FIRST EPISODE)
Mysterious Girlfriend X 9 - "Mysterious!"
Nurse Witch KOMUGI R 4 - "Everyone’s Ninjas at the Edo Mansion!"
Nyan Koi! 8 - "The Passionate Private Running Coach!"
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation 7 - "Disappearance!"
Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless 9 - "Welcome to Wickey-D’s!"
Trinity Seven 6 - "Dark Mage and Big Event!"
Tsuritama 8 - "Joyous Fighting!"
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle 5 - "A Girl’s Wish!"
Young Black Jack 12 - “The Season of Mania!” (FINAL EPISODE)

Still hanging around
Aoharu X Machinegun, Ep 6 - exp. 3/2

Title Changes for current shows

Azumanga0101
Azumanga0102
Azumanga0103
Azumanga0104
Azumanga0105
Azumanga0106
Azumanga0107
Azumanga Daioh 08
Azumanga Daioh 09
Azumanga Daioh 10
Azumanga Daioh 11
Azumanga Daioh 12
Azumanga Daioh 13
Azumanga Daioh 14
Azumanga Daioh 15
Azumanga Daioh 16
Azumanga Daioh 17
Azumanga Daioh 18
AzumangaDaioh 19
AzumangaDaioh 20
Azumanga Daioh 21
Azumanga Daioh 22
Azumanga Daioh 23


Azumanga Daioh 26

Bakuon 01
Bakuon 02
Bakuon 03
Bakuon 04
Bakuon 05
Bakuon 06


Bakuon 08

Chivalry 01
Chivalry 02
Chivalry 03
Chivalry 04
Chivalry 05
Chivalry 06
Chivalry 07
Chivalry 08
Chivalry 09


Chivalry 12


Matoi 02

GirlfriendX 01
GirlfriendX 02
GirlfriendX 03
GirlfriendX 04
Girlfriend X 05
Girlfriend X 06
Girlfriend X 07
Girlfriend X 08

Girlfriend X 10

Komugi R 01
Komugi R 02
Komugi R 03

Komugi R 05

NyanKoi 01
NyanKoi 02
NyanKoi 03
Nyan Koi! 04
Nyan Koi! 05
Nyan Koi! 06
Nyan Koi! 07

PhantasyStar 01
PhantasyStar 02
Phantasy Star 03
Phantasy Star 04
Phantasy Star 05
Phantasy Star 06

Tanakakun 01
Tanakakun 02
Tanakakun 03
Tanakakun 04
Tanaka-kun 05
Tanaka-kun 06
Tanaka-kun 07
Tanaka-kun 08

Tanakakun 10

TrinitySeven 01
Trinity Seven 02
Trinity Seven 03
Trinity Seven 04
Trinity Seven 05

Trinity Seven 07

Tsuritama 01
Tsuritama 02
Tsuritama 03
Tsuritama 04
Tsuritama 05
Tsuritama 06
Tsuritama 07

Tsuritama 09

Bahamut 01
Bahamut 02
Bahamut 03
Bahamut 04

Bahamut 06

Young Black Jack 01
Young Black Jack 02
Young Black Jack 03
YoungBlackJack 04
YoungBlackJack 05
YoungBlackJack 06
YoungBlackJack 07
Young Black Jack 08
Young Black Jack 09
Young Black Jack 10
Young Black Jack 11

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TWC
looks the same here


Schedule and main website is kind of borked. there is NO providers list, so if i didn't already have TWC bookmarked i would have no way of seeing what providers are available.

this results because common advertisements use the same schema for naming their ads.

http://anstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/images/providers/AN_CableProvider_Spectrum-TIMEWARNER_300x250.jpg

so the image like this dont appear with an adblocker on

because this portion of the url “_300x250.” is being caught by the adblocker to prevent shockwave and HTML5 ads from playing video and audio files everywhere like the WWWizard from Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode.

:rage:

you don’t need the image dimensions in a file, to form a template, or anything like that, you need only a single image and let the browser handle resizing via the common

<img width="300" height="250" src="http://anstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/images/providers/AN_CableProvider_Spectrum-TIMEWARNER.jpg">

or

<img style="width:300px;height:250px;" src="http://anstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/images/providers/AN_CableProvider_Spectrum-TIMEWARNER.jpg">

or

<style>img#TWC{width:300px;height:250px;}</style> <img id="TWC" src="http://anstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/images/providers/AN_CableProvider_Spectrum-TIMEWARNER.jpg">

OR

<style>img.provider{width:300px;height:250px;}</style> <img class="provider" src="http://anstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/images/providers/AN_CableProvider_Spectrum-TIMEWARNER.jpg">

let’s practice good web design policy :wink: company logos should NOT follow advertising naming shema


tl:dr; anyone not seeing the provider list when you click the "On Cable" tab on the schedule pages, be sure to check if you have blocked common ad dimensions and disable this adblocking rule:

_300x250.

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@shadzar

On the Main Anime Network page, there’s two ways to get to the Provider List:

And you can always get there from the Forums:

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Spectrum formerly Time Warner Cable. Phoenix, NY 13135.
This assesment pretty much sums up what is going on.

Missing from June 8:
Nyan Koi! 9 - "Girls in the Water!"
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation 8 - “Turning Point!”

STILL MISSING from May 25
Azumanga Daioh 24 - "Yamamayaa!"
Bakuon!! 7 - "School Festival!!"
Chivalry of a Failed Knight 10 - “Witch of the Deep Ocean V.S. Raikiri!”

STILL MISSING from June 1:
Azumanga Daioh 25 - "Onwards, Entrance Exams!"
Bakuon!! 8 - "Winter Break!!"
Chivalry of a Failed Knight 11 - "Another One: The Uncrowned Sword King I!"
Matoi the Sacred Slayer 1- “I’m Possessed!” (FIRST EPISODE)
Mysterious Girlfriend X 9 - "Mysterious!"
Nurse Witch KOMUGI R 4 - "Everyone’s Ninjas at the Edo Mansion!"
Nyan Koi! 8 - "The Passionate Private Running Coach!"
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation 7 - "Disappearance!"
Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless 9 - "Welcome to Wickey-D’s!"
Trinity Seven 6 - "Dark Mage and Big Event!"
Tsuritama 8 - "Joyous Fighting!"
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle 5 - "A Girl’s Wish!"
Young Black Jack 12 - “The Season of Mania!” (FINAL EPISODE)

Still hanging around
Aoharu X Machinegun, Ep 6 - exp. 3/2

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Optimum/Cablevision in Wall Township, New Jersey 07719.

Note: Schedule page for some reason each week is no longer from a to z when switch to print verison.

Received from 6/8/17 update:
Beyond the Boundary 1
Cobra the Animation 10
Den-noh Coil 18
From the New World 22
Bodacious Space Pirates 23
Say I Love You 8
Urara Meirocho 2
Amagi Brilliant Park 9
CLAMP School Detectives 22
ClassicaLoid 14
Flip Flappers 10
Mysterious Girlfriend X 10
Haikyu!! Three 1
Long Riders! 6
Magic of Stella 9
Nyan Koi! 9
Tsuritama 9
Utano Princesama Legend Star 13

List errors:
To Love Ru 8 suppose to expire 11/30/16 and hasn’t.

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Thank you for noticing this. Will ask about it.

No problem. Something I notice cause it easier for me to use print version then the other version.

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I agree, I use that A LOT.

Time Warner, 27545 (Knightdale, NC)

It’s been a while but I I did notice today that nothing from last week ever showed up, as well as the three missing episodes from the week before that were mentioned above. I figured it was still worth mentioning despite others reporting the same problem though.

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right, the problem is those images you see are blocked because they are standard ad naming shema as i said :wink: so i dont see the logos for the providers unless unblocking that _300x250. rule because that is one of the sizes used for HTML5 media ads and flash ads with lots of audio. ~~~~_300x250.swf so the _300x250.jpg is getting caught with it. its bad naming format form whoever uploaded it or Amazon since it gets caught by an adblocker. :wink: just thought whoever did it might want to know, or users having problems would want to know WHY they cant see the providers images.

but this isnt VOD related…


TWC another daily update to the cable box, no change from yesterday on TAN shows at this time.
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