Saint Seiya

Saint Seiya (1986)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Hyoga is underwater holding his dead frozen mother's hand, the rose is in a spot of her hair away from any other flower. In the close-up of the cadaver, there is a wreath of pale pink flowers touching the rose he just put down. (00:07:25)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Other mistake: Hyoga is just a couple meters away from the hole in the ice he used to kiss his mother's corpse. He is still on all fours after having just crawled out of the hole, but he's got a fuzzy warm blanket on his back, that came literally from nowhere. He did not have it lying it around when he made the hole, and he does not have telekinesis; it's a bit hard to picture someone throwing a blanket on himself while crawling. (00:08:00)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: In the close-up of the Cygnus armor awakening to welcome Hyoga as their knight, the swan is drawn in a totally different way from before (much narrower eyes, double row of feathers, different angle of the beak). (00:09:40)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Factual error: When the camera pans across the boxes from networks all over the world broadcasting the Galaxian wars, clocks have nonsensical hours; it's 10:20 wherever "ACO" is from, but 5:05 in "MHK" land. Timezones don't work that way. (00:10:45)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Other mistake: During the presentation of the Golden Cloth, you can count 9 boxes with Bronze armors at the base of the column, but there should be just 8 of them. That's because of the 10 scheduled fighters, Ikki is missing, but Hyoga as well; he appears in this episode but the organization does not know he made it back to the arena until the very last moment, and they even announce his absence to the crowd a bit later in the episode. (00:12:00)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Other mistake: During the fight with Ichi, in a couple of spots, the most noticeable one being when the claws penetrate into his arm, Hyoga is protected by the armor in a spot the armor is not designed to cover. (00:15:35)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Other mistake: A big deal is made of Hyoga freezing Hydra Ichi's arm solid so he can't hit with his fist and claw again ("I put your arm on ice, you'll never be able to use it again")...and yet a few moments later, after successfully delivering a knee strike, Ichi taunts him pointing the finger of the supposedly ice-sealed, frostbitten arm. (00:18:30 - 00:19:05)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: In the sequence where Hyoga defeats Ichi breaking his armor with the extreme cold of his Diamond Dust, in one intermediate bit the coloring artist did something wrong and didn't fill the leg with the green color of the suit, but rather the pale skin color of Ichi's. So, for a second it seems that Ichi is in his underwear, or Hyoga froze his pants off. (00:21:05)

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Plot hole: The tide of the fight turns when Hyoga revealed that he was never affected by Hydra's poison because nothing can break the defenses of his Cloth. But the claws DO make huge holes, that are then nowhere to be seen by the end of the episode, and yet, a plot point from later in the series, Cloths do not have self repairing abilities - not at that time of the series at least.

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Cygnus! Hyogen no senshi - S1-E3

Plot hole: Saori Kido's presentation does not make a lick of sense. Assuming it happens through some odd holographic mechanism never seen before or after, it's day 3 of the tournament, so it appears extravagant that only then she'd start telling the audience what the Galaxian Wars are. Second.it's day 3 of the tournament.and the third match. That means that they have been packing a stadium with dozens of thousands of people, who come over for ONE match that lasts a few minutes. That's a real stretch, to say the least. There's also a minor but kinda funny matter; the way the cameras are shown pointing, the whole world is tuned into an uninterrupted upskirt shot of Saori Kido delivering her solemn speech.

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Kiseki no fukkatsu! Yuyo no cosmo - S1-E5

Trivia: When Seiya falls down during the victory celebration and the three kids scream (the shot that comes before the one where Miho drops the picture) you can see briefly in the audience between the kids an easter egg appearance of Magical Princess Minky Momo, a character from a different anime. (00:13:50)

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