Continuity mistake: The scoreboard at the beginning of the episode is different from the previous; Nankatsu is on the top row, it was the bottom row in 1-12. (00:02:40)
Sammo
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
No Easy Way - S1-E12
Other mistake: The same play-by-play commentator covers both the Nankatsu and the Meika matches, happening simultaneously in two different areas of Japan (and with no television coverage...of course, who does live commentary on elementary school matches anyway?).
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
No Easy Way - S1-E12
Character mistake: Nankatsu is referred to as Nankatsu FC, but in the first result the name of the club is spelled Nankatsu (in kanji) S.C. (00:10:55 - 00:13:15)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
No Easy Way - S1-E12
Other mistake: During the montage with the victorious march towards the semifinals, a Nankatsu supporter is waving a pure white flag instead of the team one. (00:11:00)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
No Easy Way - S1-E12
Other mistake: The perspective when Mr. Ozora tells Tsubasa "I'll let you go to Brazil" is wrong; it looks like he's standing right in front of him, but he's on the bleachers. (00:04:50)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Stupidity: Genzo suffers a possibly career-ending injury to his ankle. He goes to the doctor for that, and the doctor talks to him, and they discuss this important matter...without his parents or a legal tutor, teacher, coach (there's nobody present at the visit, and he walks out of the hospital on his own). He's eleven years old. His personal coach that follows him anywhere is nowhere to be seen in this episode, obviously because it would detract from the drama if he were around to explain stuff to Genzo's teammates or the main Nankatsu team coach.
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Audio problem: When the tryout team is heading back home led by the Nankatsu trio, their lines (even in the original Japanese version) do not match the mouth movement at all (Misaki's is animated to open randomly, and Tsubasa's moves too frequently). (00:20:40)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Factual error: Blanket statement for most of the series; 90% of the tackles and blocks shown in the anime would never fly in a real soccer match. Some are particularly outrageous and deserve separate mention, but in general everyone's defense is careless at best, and downright criminal at their worst. Take Kojiro Hyuga's introduction; his 'dribbling' involves shoving the opponent off and the challenges for the ball end up with the opponents bleeding and with torn socks. Any ref would stop this sort of 'play' right away.
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: Hyuga loses his baseball cap early during the dribbling, but it's back at his feet when he's standing savouring his triumph over Genzo in the box. (00:15:50 - 00:18:30)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Other mistake: The tryout match happens on a field with no audience at all. Hyuga just lies there on a bench without anyone saying anything to him. Both the coach and Misaki know who he is, but nobody noticed him when he was a hugely conspicuous presence. Of course his interference in the match is pure anime silliness; nobody bats an eyelid during his invasion, and he fetches the ball from the forward unnoticed, coming from the opposite goal area.
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Factual error: The world record for high jump from professional adult athletes is barely above 2 meters when we do not consider the Fosbury flop. An 11 years old kid here nonchalantly leaps over the goal net (which is around 2 meters, close to two and half if they use a professional one, slightly less for junior matches), from a big distance and landing on his feet on top of the bar...and it's just an effortless transition before he does the REALLY impressive stuff. These kids are not supposed to be superhuman. (00:14:50)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Revealing mistake: When the assistant coach blows the whistle to start the tryout match, coach Shiroyama blinks back into existence next to him during the same shot a second later. (00:14:00)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: Genzo picks up his injury falling with other 3 players. Forgetting the clumsy fall not fitting someone of his caliber in an easy catch, they fall at the wrong angle, wrong position/distance from the goal, and in the close-up, the offender 's foot stomps Genzo's ankle almost perpendicularly from above, but it's an angle of impact incompatible with their fall. (00:11:05)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: One of the players maimed by Hyuga holds his bleeding wound. In the next shot, there's no blood or tear on the sock anymore. (00:08:55)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Ishizaki is dribbling his friends who act as living posts, the one with the big unitooth and unibrow is wearing brown shorts in the first shot, then yells at him while wearing black ones. Less than a minute later Ishizaki gets angry because he can't take a break, and the same guy is sporting blue shorts. (00:04:40)
30th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see the Shuutetsu trio in action, Teppei Kisugi shoots at goal. The ball's POV shows it is headed towards the left side of the goal, but then in the next shot the goal is scored to the right of the keeper. (00:03:40)
29th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
No Easy Way - S1-E12
Other mistake: Morisaki is the substitute keeper, but he has the number 1 jersey (See next episode for an explanation about this part being prolly a mere continuity error). He also did not appear in the tryouts or the previous matches. He is wearing the Nankatsu Elementary school jersey but it's supposed to be a different character from that keeper - incidentally, in the match against Shuutetsu that keeper did at least a great save, better than anything Morisaki is able to do in these early episodes.
29th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Continuity mistake: The kids who were not picked in the tryouts are standing in front of the trio that was selected. One of the kids, the one on the far right, has in some shots a maroon shirt, in the side view maroon shorts. In the shot when they are all grinning at Ishizaki, one with a celeste shirt has suddenly red hair. (00:01:35 - 00:03:00)
29th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
The Verification Test - S1-E16
Other mistake: After Misaki's flashback, Tsubasa stops the football, that is animated with a weird flickering under his foot. (00:06:20)
29th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
The Verification Test - S1-E16
Continuity mistake: The sports magazine Taro Misaki is reading is yellow, then green. (00:04:20)
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