stereo anime

Out of 88 entries in Japan, this one ranks 13. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

The directory counts 23 opens against this stream. That is well above Japan's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

This is a English station in a country whose directory presence is led by Japanese. Seven entries in Japan broadcast in English, which is a small group and a coherent one, and browsing it is a different experience from browsing the country.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

The stream is served from radio.stereoanime.com, which no other entry in Japan uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.