Updates Received/Not Received 7/21/22 :: Time Warner Cable :: Albany, NY :: Zip Code 12203
Once again, the long version will be shorter than
The short version:
I think I got everything I was supposed to get this week–and then some!–on Cutting Edge and On Demand (but of course it’s hard to when we still don’t have a posted schedule), EXCEPT that we got To Love Ru #5 instead of To Love Ru Darkness #5. [sigh] And they were doing so well…
A minor thing is that Sakamoto #2 was given its own separate tile on On Demand–I guess he’s so awesome one tile just wasn’t enough;
The “and then some” I received was second copies of Cardfighter #5, #6, #7, and #8, so now all of these are merged episodes. In all cases, the actual episode content is the same for each pair, so it’s not really a problem for the viewer. But for the sake of the bundling crew who might hypothetically (though I doubt actually) read this, I note the bungling, er, I mean bundling errors in the metadata that resulted in the system thinking these were all supposed to be separate episodes:
#5: the two episodes differ only in their runtimes, one given as 24 minutes and the other as 25 minutes, and the fact that the new one has its promo and Groaning Mecha;
#6: differ only in that the new one doubles the names of the cast and director in the blurb;
#7: doubles the names of the cast and director in the blurb, and the two episodes have different expiration dates–the new one has the right 8/18 date (so, to be fair, this probably wasn’t a bungle at all but a successful date fix);
#8: differ in that one has “New” in the blurb and the other does not; I don’t know if the two differ in their expiration dates;
#5, 6, & 7 are all separable by Ye Olde Kludge and Ye Hokey Pokey Kludge on Cutting Edge and Ye Newer Kludge on On Demand;
#8 is only separable via Ye Hokey Pokey Kludge on Cutting Edge and not on On Demand at all–which is why I don’t know if the two merged episodes have different expiration dates, since I can only access an episode’s expiration date by way of On Demand.
(At the Sentai Academy Sports Festival, they’re all too busy trying to figure out what “kludges” are and how to do them from where they are inside the episodes to fight; only Sakamoto #2, Chihayafuru #24, the new copy of Cardfighter #5 and the errant episode To Love Ru #5 have their promos and mechas.)
The long version:
Received:
Cardfight in a Dress 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b
Chihayafuru III 24
The Demon Girl Next Door 3
Heavens’ Memo Pad 5
Joshiraiku 5
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Natsu no Arashi! 13
Run with Wind #5
Sakamoto 2
Shikizakura 12
To Love Ru (First Season) 5
To Love Ru Darkness 6
Tsukipro 10
Utano 2000% 10
Missing in Action:
To Love Ru Darkness 5
Has Promo and Groaning Mecha:
Cardfighter 5
Chihayafuru 24
Sakamoto 2
To Love Ru 5
Missing Promo and Groaning Mecha:
Everything else
Arriving Unexpectedly:
To Love Ru 5
Lingering Beyond Their Expiration Date:
Chihayafuru III 16
Comments:
None
Persiflage:
Extra Credit: “One week. One teeny-weeny week.”
Clue #2: For one episode(i.e., for one week), the series’ main character has a teeny-weeny butler–but it was not that week, nor was it Herve Villechaize, nor does the butler say the line, since he never speaks.
Thanks!