Saturday, June 28, 2014

Quality Maniac: Eyeshield 21, Japan, Mangaka and Left-hand traffic.



So Eyeshield 21 I really like this Anime and Manga.  Great plot line it follows the typical Karate kid start little bullied kid who actually is good at sports I waited the whole series until the end to finally get that moment when the bigger football players protects Sena.

Spoiler: Yes ofc, the 3 brothers becomes his friends and so but my moment favorite off the field moment was easily when Sena and Monta wants to have a table at McDonalds and some teenagers are like "oooH this shitty kid is angry hohoho" and then Gaou, Agon (the 2 most violent/scariest players in the whole series + Shin the nice scary) comes and tell those teenagers that are gonna kill them if they dont let them have the table. 
 I was also really looking forward to see how Agon would interact with the others in the all star team, I just really liked his character. Ofc the best character is Hiruma Ya-HA


I recently started watching it and as the Anime stops before its over I  of course started reading the manga.

And in the end of the series I found this very obvious mistake which I am sure are in other mangas as well I haven't thought about it before but now since I saw it in this manga I will look for it more.


Its one thing that when they are in America everyone speaks perfect Japanese. That can be ignored for the story, still it was kinda weird how Panther's grandma called them Japanese boys in English while otherwise talking perfect Japanese...

But this image here from chapter 313. This is something I am sure more Japanese mangaka does.
 Agon here drives a car in New York. Notice how he drives on the left side like it was Left-hand traffic like its in Japan. Even more obvious is this mistake if one looks at the car itself.
 Because arguably Agon is a crazy gangster kind of character so he could drive to the left even do the US has Right-hand traffic. He just stole that car, so its not like he follows the law.

But, but. The car clearly has the wheel on its right side like how cars are in Japan and other Left-hand traffic. The car should have it on the left like how cars are manufactured for the US.

I haven't gone back in the series but this issue is probably in the first trip to the US as well.

The plot line is slight off too I my opinion as well, because Agon had a lot of "fans"(whores) home in Japan but how did he get the number to that women in New York there is no indication he knows anyone in NY even more so that he has a booty call so easily available but w.e