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I Worship His Shadow - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: While Stanley is at his post as a guard, a woman comes onto his screen requesting clearance for a prisoner transport dock. Stanley puts his hand up onto his mouth thinking, but when the camera cuts to an angle showing the front of him, his arms are both suddenly down at his side. (00:11:55)

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Beware of the Bird! - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Edward and Tracy open the lid of the chest in the tower, Benger puts his hand on Tracy's shoulder and Edward has both his hands on the lid. In the next shot, he now has one hand on it.

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The Heart Is an Arrow - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Alina is trying to escape both the Crows and General Kirigan's men through the streets of the town of Ryevost. While in an alleyway, she kicks in the door to a building, only to still be outside when she emerges from the other side of the door - when she looks back inside of the door she just emerged from, it leads to the interior of a building, not the alley she just came from.

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Nanatsu no Taizai - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth starts weeping, her bodysuit is torn above her left breast with a single tear. Post-credits Meliodas asks her to join him; now that torn spot is split in two - the first time the bit of fabric that separates the two spaces was already severed. (00:17:40 - 00:22:30)

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Home Groan - S3-E21

Continuity mistake: In episode 3-10, Gary's mother Lois is the victim of fraud. He mistakes his mother as a shooter of the conman. The headline specifically states the shooter is an Illinois woman. However in this episode convicts escape to Gary's hometown of Hickory, Indiana. The episode depicts his parents residing there, as though they have always been there.

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The Cave - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Will Parry visits his grandparents, the grandmother is sitting on the sofa next to Will's grandfather. The grandmother's position keeps changing from sitting right next to him to being further apart.

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Seiya - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Seiya gets bullied by the three thugs, one of them pulls Patricia's drawing out of his wallet. The folded piece of paper is held differently between shots. (00:05:45)

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