Saint Seiya

Saint Seiya (1986)

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Moero! Pegasus Ryuseiken - S1-E2

Other mistake: When Seiya tumbles back on his feet after delivering the fatal blow to Geki, his upper left side of the torso is all painted metallic, but there's a section in between the armpit and the sash that should be his red shirt (you can see it in the correct color during the animation, and turn of the wrong color when it stops). (00:20:45)

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Moero! Pegasus Ryuseiken - S1-E2

Other mistake: In the ending shot of the tournament bracket showing the potential future opponents, the two saints' names are written the wrong way, as "DORAGON" and "ANDOROMEDA", instead of Dragon and Andromeda. (00:22:00)

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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

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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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Other mistake: The Lushan waterfall is show as enormous and hundreds of meters tall, but when the camera is behind the waterfall and Shiryu punches it repeatedly to train, we see his arms going through it as if had a depth of a few centimetres. (00:06:50)

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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Other mistake: Seiya parries a punch from Shiryu, but his fist breaks the armor's vambrace. During the initial hit, Shiryu's knuckles are colored flesh, but of course he is wearing the gauntlet of his armor. Similarly, when the armor breaks, it shows skin in the gaps, but the rest of the arm behind the shattering piece of forearm guard is colored red like Seiya's bodysuit. (00:11:55)

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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Other mistake: In the dramatic rendition of Seiya tricking Shiryu into punching his own shield, he did not flip the shield around the arm, but it's the whole arm to be turned in an impossible, elbow-breaking direction. (00:16:00)

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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Other mistake: Tatsumi suggests to stop the fight because if the contestants get seriously hurt, it would reflect poorly on the Graude Foundation, but the speaker of the tournament announced just in the earlier episode that fights can end in a contestant's death. Bit late to worry about PR issues, when it's already marketed as a fight to the death. (00:19:15)

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Kiseki no fukkatsu! Yuyo no cosmo - S1-E5

Other mistake: The Pegasus saint is proclaimed the winner. There is a shot of him seen from the back, right fist raised in victory. Looking at the wide shot that precedes it, it's quite funny to notice the pose but with the character positioned the wrong way; his left arm is hovering perfectly horizontal 1 meter above the ropes instead of being supported by it. (00:13:00)

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Kiseki no fukkatsu! Yuyo no cosmo - S1-E5

Other mistake: The dragon on Shiryu's back fades as he approaches death; it should then be already heavily faded, considering that since the punch that supposedly stopped his heart, Seiya has been visited by doctors arrived ringside, stretchered out, put back on his feet, etc. (00:17:00)

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Shito! Kyofu no kokushiken - S1-E11

Audio problem: Hyoga butts in with "What did you say you just saw, Ikki?", but Ikki was THINKING that phrase about seeing the battle, not saying it out loud - unless he was practicing ventriloquism without an audience. (00:21:50)

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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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