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Spring Anime Season Kickoff and Discussion Thread [Week 14] (ani.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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Happy Monday and happy April Fool's Day! I hope everybody is able to find some new shows to enjoy this season! Feel free to use this thread to talk about any anime-related topic you want, including the new lineup of shows for the Spring season. For reference, here is a list of all the shows this season.

Just as another reminder, as of today, the bot is going to be making all the episode discussion threads going forward. For more information on the bot and how to request a thread that was not created, see the wiki!

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

While you're at it, rikka has some understandable teething problems:

Re:Monster https://anilist.co/anime/169417/ReMonster

Has already dropped episode 1, but I don't see a rikka post for the episode.

It's in some folks' plan-to-watch lists that were acknowledged by @rikka in earlier posts.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Alright, I am on mobile, so I tried requesting the thread via pm. I got a message back saying that the episode 1 hasn't aired yet. I will fix it when I get home this evening.

I am guessing that the episode airtime in the api might have been wrong initially and wasn't updated. I will try to reverse engineer the bug.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This has been fixed, and as far as I can tell, the next episode is scheduled correctly. No idea exactly what happened there, but in rikka's database, the episode 1 airtime was scheduled to be the 4th rather than the 1st. I am going to have to dig into the code a bit and figure out what happened.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's a case of TV air date, which is different from stream date.

In Re: Monster's case, the air date is still April 5th, but it started streaming 3 days earlier on the 2nd

That is according to IMDB, under Trivia https://m.imdb.com/title/tt31514720/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

And of course, most of us aren't in Japan waiting for it to show up on our TVs...

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, taking a close look at the code and some older, snapshotted versions of rikka's db, I think I figured out what happened. If anybody is interested in a very technical explanation, see below the line break. tl;dr is that the api was initially wrong, but was fixed too late for rikka to catch it.

Alright, technical explanation time. rikka polls the api for upcoming show times every 15 minutes. In order to make the query manageable to process, part of that query filters out any episode air times in the past from the point in time the query is made. So, any episodes scheduled to air in the next X days from the time the query is made are added or updated according to the result of the query.

What happened in this case is that originally Re:Monster episode 1 was scheduled for April 4th at 15:00 GMT according to the AniList api. The actual time that the first episode was released digitally came and went with this incorrect api result still in place. Then, some time after the correct airing time, AniList corrected their episode air time to March 31st at 15:00 GMT (the correct time). However, because this correction didn't happen until after the 31st at 15:00, rikka was filtering out this result from its api call. This prevented rikka from getting the updated time and making the discussion post.

I have an idea of how to resolve this edge case in the future. However, it is something that will take a bit of effort. I am going to bump this up the list of improvements to get in place before next season. This show's air times seem to be correct going forward.