A Love Live Game Developer Files for Bankruptcy. The Anime Is Not Free Here.

Odd Number, the developer of the Link! Like! Love Live! game, has filed for bankruptcy. Operating costs for the game left the company 10.32 billion yen in debt, as reported by Anime News Network.

Our index carries 22 entries with "Love Live" in the title. All 22 pages were fetched today, all 22 returned HTTP 200, and every one states no free episode. In the database, not one of the 22 carries a source row of any kind. That is what those 22 pages state, and it is better said plainly than worked around.

What the music genre states

Our index stores a genre list per entry, and 898 entries carry the genre "Music". All 898 of those pages were fetched today: 898 of 898 returned HTTP 200, with no failures. Of those, 17 state a free episode, and together the 17 pages state 130 episodes. That counts entries whose own page states a free episode. The live grid on our music article is built by a different query and shows a different number of covers, so treat the 17 as what those entries state.

Three runs of 26 episodes, about three minutes each

Three of the 17 are short-form series on one and the same channel, and 78 of the 130 episodes come from them.

• BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! PICO: 26 episodes, 180 seconds each
• OHMORI: 26 episodes, 185 to 189 seconds each
• FEVER: 26 episodes, 186 seconds each

Our index records 26 episodes for each, so each free run is the complete run we record.

All 78 videos resolved today, 78 of 78, across 78 distinct upload identities, with no video filed against two episode numbers and none under another series. Each upload's own episode number matches the number we store, on all 78. The country field on all three runs is empty, which in our data means no country restriction at all.

Every one of the 78 upload titles ends "(with English subtitles)". Six episodes were opened from each run today. On PICO, all six carry an authored English subtitle track alongside an automatic Japanese caption track. On OHMORI and FEVER, the six carry only the automatic Japanese track, and frame images from OHMORI episode 1 and FEVER episode 13 show an English subtitle line burned into the picture itself. Japanese audio with English subtitles in both cases: on PICO the subtitles are a track, on the other two they are part of the image. None of the three is an English dub.

The three sit on a channel named "BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Official". The word Official is part of that name and not a badge: the channel does not carry a YouTube verified badge.

A fourth run on the same channel

PASTEL LIFE is on that channel too, with 6 of 6 episodes free, the complete run our index records. It is not one of the 17: we file it under Slice of Life. Its page was fetched today and states 6 episodes, each running about 210 seconds. Both episodes opened today carry an authored English subtitle track alongside an automatic Japanese caption track: Japanese audio with a real English subtitle track again. Same empty country field, and its 6 videos resolved with no failures and matching episode numbers.