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Twelve findings

Quirks in the data

Everything on this site is read from Crunchyroll's own catalogue listings. These are the oddities in them.

01

1.2%

Almost nothing is in every catalogue

27 titles out of 2,234 reach all 123 markets. Every other title is absent from at least one country.

Five of the twenty-seven

02

9

Shows that belong to one country

Five countries hold something nobody else lists, and not one of the nine is marked withdrawn anywhere else. They are simply absent. Five are held by the United States; the other four are one each in India, New Zealand, Lebanon and Nepal.

  • United States flagUnited States5
  • India flagIndia1
  • New Zealand flagNew Zealand1
  • Lebanon flagLebanon1
  • Nepal flagNepal1
Held by exactly one country

03

24 of 25

A catalogue for a country with no service

Crunchyroll runs no consumer service in Japan, and the catalogue answers for it anyway: 25 entries, 24 of them withdrawn. The survivor is a short film from 2002. Japan is left out of every statistic on this site for that reason.

  • Japan flagJapan
Mizu no Kotoba, the one still marked playable

04

4,690

Listed, and not for watching

Listings marked unavailable, spread across 47 distinct titles that are catalogued country after country and playable in none. 37 of the 47 launched between 2007 and 2013, and the commonest tags among them are J-Music with 14 and Reviews with 8.

Five of the forty-seven

05

209

Shows with no episodes

Records reporting an episode count of zero, among them One-Punch Man and Initial D. A further 250 report zero seasons. The largest count in the catalogue is One Piece at 1,432.

Three of the zero-episode records, and the longest show in the catalogue

06

1970

The year thirty-five shows last aired

Their last-seen date reads 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z. None of these shows existed then; the field is empty and reads as zero. It is why this site says nothing about when a title left a country.

Six of the thirty-five

07

2

The same film, filed twice

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle I is catalogued as G8DHV7809 in 121 countries and as GMTE00383960 in one, with no country holding both. Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE does the same, dated 2014 and 2015. Both are counted here as one title.

The merged film, and the two Re:RIDE entries

08

3

One genre, two spellings

Shonen tags 216 series and Shounen tags three more. They are the same word, so three shows sit in a category of their own because of a missing letter. The two are folded together here, and Shonen reads 219.

The three filed under the second spelling

09

37

Genres, three of them with one show

Cosplay, Crime and Korean describe a single series each. Family and Food have two apiece. The largest tag, Action, has 745.

Cosplay, Crime and Korean, in full

10

1

An audio track with no language

One series lists its audio as "en-US" and "", an empty string where a language code should be. It is the only record in the catalogue that does it.

11

3

Artwork in three file formats

Posters arrive as .jpg 123,972 times, .png 39,236 and .jpe 16,087. Nothing in the record marks which is which, and the three are mixed within a single country's listing.

Two served as .png, two as .jpe

12

"4.8"

Every rating is text

Scores arrive quoted, as text rather than numbers. Sorted as written, 10 comes before 9 and 4.8 before 4.85.

The range they span: 4.9 down to 1.6, among titles with more than five thousand votes

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