Ironically, I was biased on which direction the Star Date went here. The flow of the episode had been fine up until that point in which it appeared they'd plotted many different ideas and jumbled them all together. So for the first part, Sheryl is examining things whilst Alto is just barreling off in search of something (looking in different directions and supporting AR fans here) then returns to her side at noticing he'd lost her (off screen). Then they are spending time together honestly. And then we return to him once again searching for something and not paying attention to her. The whole direction of the episode seemed torn between the two girls here, as Alto was put in the middle of "search for Ranka" or "spend the day with Sheryl." And quite frankly, the animators and directors couldn't pick one so they did both infrequently. And like everyone above says, it failed miserably...
