Saint Seiya

Saint Seiya (1986)

123 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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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

Continuity mistake: During the fight, the quantity of blood on Seiya's face changes often. For instance, when Shiryu says "Well, Seiya?" asking him to surrender, the rivulets of blood halt at the cheekbones, but the following shot shows thick streams of blood down to his chin. (00:11:35)

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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

Continuity mistake: When Pegasus is flying through the air after Dragon's punch, the forearm guard is cracked but whole, while in the next close-up it shows a big hole. This mistake happens again when he is lying on the mat, and the hole patches up, leaving room to a mosaic of cracked pieces that stay in place. (00:12:20)

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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Seiya is spread on the mat in a different position between the wide shot that follows Tatsumi's reaction to Saori's words, and the closer shot with Shiryu conveniently revealing the properties of his armor. Similar mistake a bit later, with the quantity of blood in front of him wildly changing - and no blood was seen in the aerial shot. (00:12:55)

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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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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Character mistake: Shun says explicitly that a Saint's body is no different from any ordinary human's. That's quite funny, considering that in the previous episode Hyoga fought creating temperatures of -100 °C (consistently, to defend himself, and aggressively to freeze Ichi), which would have messed up really badly both contestants.

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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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