Revealing mistake: When the duel begins, the Shadow Duelist goes first. He has five cards in his left hand and draws a sixth card from his deck. He then places the sixth card next to the fifth card, and then picks up the fifth card in his hand, but the sixth card remains in the same position, without its position being affected by the fifth card being picked up. (00:12:32)
Revealing mistake: After the Shadow Duelist summons Infernal Queen Archfiend, Jaden says, "An Archfiend monster?" and the shot cuts back to the Shadow Duelist saying with that card on the field, every monster with Archfiend in its name gain 1000 attack points. In this shot, take note of the cards he is holding in his hand. He only appears to be holding onto two of the cards, but every other card in his hand appears to be held perfectly fine despite him not holding onto them. (00:12:41)
Continuity mistake: When Jaden tells the Shadow Duelist to leave his friends out of this, he draws a card with his right hand. When he does this, his left hand is lowered, but when it cuts to a close-up of the cards in his hand, his left hand is suddenly raised to be level with his right hand. (00:14:00)
Revealing mistake: After the Shadow Duelist has activated the effect of Terrorking Archfiend and the flame has landed on the ball labelled 2, just as he says, "Mirror Gate is shattered", the card shown on his duel disk is misshapen, where two corners of the card are curved, instead of being straight. (00:16:23)
Continuity mistake: Jaden picks up a card from a deck which is revealed to be a Level 1 monster. He then places it on the table, still face up, on top of two other cards. When the shot cuts, it is suddenly face down, and the two other cards have disappeared. Then over a minute later, in the close-up of Professor Banner picking a card up from the deck, one of the monsters has reappeared next to the Level 1 monster. (00:02:29 - 00:03:43)
Continuity mistake: When Chumley hands Jaden his duel disk, Jaden puts it on and his deck of cards cannot be seen inside it. Jaden then walks over to face the Shadow Duelist, where his deck is suddenly inside the duel disk. Then a few seconds after that, he puts the deck of cards in the duel disk. (00:12:13)
Revealing mistake: When Jaden says he's started hearing voices again, it cuts to a close-up of a flashback showing Jaden holding the Winged Kuriboh card. The shot appears to be flipped as the LIGHT symbol on the card, as well as the illustration of the card is reversed, compared to every other time this card is shown. (00:03:20)
Continuity mistake: After Jaden has picked up the Level 1 card, in the shot of Syrus saying to Jaden he really lucked out, there is one card on the table in front of Chumley. A couple seconds later, when the shot focuses on Chumley and Syrus after Jaden begins the story, there are suddenly two cards in front of Chumley. (00:02:29)
Continuity mistake: When Syrus finishes his scary story, Jaden places the card Syrus was using face down on the table. In the next shot, the card is suddenly face up and has been replaced with a different one. Then in the shot after that, it is suddenly face up at a different part of the table. (00:02:23)
Continuity mistake: When Banner tells the trio that shadow duels are duels played with powerful mystical items, Jaden's hands are on the table, but when the shot cuts, Jaden suddenly has his right hand on his chin. (00:04:25)
