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[[File:CowboyBebopClip.jpg|link=Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|rightframe| Not even the word "[[Computer Equals Monitor|computer]]" is correct.]]

When journalists [[Did Not Do the Research|fail to do the research]] on the anime and manga they're reviewing, [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch AtFailure]] His([[Media ComputerResearch Failure]]) is the result.

* The former [[Trope Namer]] is from ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' and a rather incorrect newspaper picture caption (see the page pic). The character pictured is not named "Cowboy Bebop" and is actually female. She goes by "[[Tomboyish Name|Ed]]" for most of the show. "Bebop" in the anime's title refers to the main characters' ship, the ''Bebop'', as well as the music style featured in the soundtrack. "Cowboy," the slang term for "bounty hunter" used in the world of the series, refers to the main characters' profession.

* In a mix of this and [[Covers Always Lie]], the ''text at the back of the VHS covers'' of the Finnish release of ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' is infamous for making little to no sense. The back of the first VHS, for example, claims that [[Blatant Lies|the show takes place in Alaska and the people raise bearhounds to protect themselves from ferocious grizzly bears]].<small><ref> The show takes place in Japan, only one character in the main character's home village raises bearhounds and the bears are either brown or Asian black bears, not grizzlies.</ref></small>

* One gossip magazine during the 2003 Finnish accusations of pedophilic content in the recently arrived ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' manga (the usual story and accuracy). It opened by calling the comic ''Dragon Balls'' and went from there.

** The most hilarious research failure was how the [[Moral Guardians]] commented how the neighbouring country of Sweden is free of such vile products... when their most sold comic that year was none other than ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''.

** Speaking of ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' and pedophilia, there's the case of Lloyd de Mause and "psychohistory". In his attempt to prove that all human history has been cases of child abuse, he used the phallic humor in ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' ("That poor dragon...", Goku's tendency to "check" to make sure people are male or female, etc.) and the underage male nudity to somehow prove that [[Windmill Crusader|all Japanese mothers masturbate their sons]]. Okay, that's all fine, but because of Goku's [[Noble Savage]] origins, he referred to Goku as Tarzan throughout!

* ''[[TV Guide]]'' years ago that reported on the popularity of the anime at the time. While not negative in tone, the writer openly admits his bafflement, titling the article "Fusion Confusion" and claiming "It's harder to understand than computer schematics." He also credits Goku with protecting us from "the ferocious Saiyan", a statement that's not too ''wrong'', per se. He then adds that he only understands as much from reading some fan sites. He lists Goku's sons as "Gohan and Gotan", and closes by saying that he watches the show for its "fantastic" animation. Well, there's far worse media coverage examples in this list, but this one is amusing as well as heartwarming in a "He's trying his best" sort of way. It also demonstrates the principle of the Generational Gap, where "grown-ups" just can't get "kid's stuff", something we see time and again in this list.

* A French article about manga had a picture of Krillin/Kuririn from ''[[Dragonball|Dragon Ball Z]]'' with a legend along the lines of "When little Trunks goes mad, there's going to be hell to pay!".

* An article from a Scandinavian country advertised ''[[Code Geass]]'' as a comedy series about a delightful youth named Rerouch who became the King of Britannia through use of his mystical Geass, which allowed him to gain control over any individual whose [[Death Note (Manga)|name he had written down in a black note book]]. Unfortunately Rerouch is countered by a revolutionary named Jeremiah Suzaku who fights against Rerouch by using a mecha named [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA]]. At some point, you have to wonder if they actually deliberately made this crap up because no sane human being could possibly get this much wrong if they had seen even 30 seconds of the show.

** The website of the German network that aired ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' provided us with hilariously ill-researched character descriptions. To provide a few examples: Yami was banned because he tried to seize the throne of the pharaoh with his shadow powers, Shizuka is blind, Anzu ([[Ms. Fanservice]] in the early manga) is eleven years old and has been the boss of a cheerleader-group for years, and Seto became the CEO of [[Kaiba Corp]]KaibaCorp by beating Gozaburo at another game of chess, not to mention that he's two years older than everybody else. Suprisingly subverted with Bakura, whose sister Amane they mention.

*** Said German network, [[RTL 2]], never really seemed to cared too much about their animes anyway. When ''[[Attack NumberNo. One1]]'' (''Mila Superstar'' in Germany) aired, the summary on their webpage was actually for ''[[Attacker You]]'' (Mila e Shiro in ''Italy''! The show never even made it to Germany) and the summary for ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' used the names from the Italian translation. Really makes you wonder what the heck was going on there.

* An Italian TV guide summarized ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'' as "the story of a boy and his five dragons".

* An interesting example [https://web.archive.org/web/20100310195614/http://telkku.com/tiedot?oid=20080719093518 here]. If the link is broken (or you don't speak Swedish at all), it talks about ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', in which Yugi's grandfather is kidnapped by ''Pegasus''...Which was the plot of ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', not of GX.

## Mispronouncing it as "Nerutu", despite featuring clips with the correct pronunciation "Nah-Ru-Toe"

## Despite avoiding calling it "Sand Ninjas", the reporter says that it is ABOUT''about'' Sand Ninjas.

## Relying on [[YouTube]] clips to inform themselves about the show.

* ''TV Guide'' once described ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]] in Love'' as "Police partners hunt an escaped convict," which is technically accurate, but didn't even bother mentioning that they're [[Space Police]], or that there's time travel, alien princes, or any other elements that are fundamental to the plot.

* A reviewer of the ''[[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|Digimon Adventure]]'' movie apparently never actually saw it, as she claimed that "the original Digidestined children are abducted by Diaboromon, and a new group of kids must save them". The same malicious lie was perpetrated by the back of the VHS and Fox Kids' official site. Diaboromon never abducted anyone. He just stalked a twelve-year old boy and then tried to blow up the world. Then, when the new kids get involved, it isn't even to deal with Diaboromon. It's to deal with Antylamon/Kerpymon.

*** One issue had an article about ''Trinity Blood'' with an asidea picture that incorrectly identified Count Gyula as Cain.

* An [http://www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/15/Opinion/Japanese.Anime.Destroying.American.Society-3032463.shtml?reffeature=recentlycommentedstoriestab article]{{Dead link}} on the ''Oregon Daily Emerald'' criticizing anime for destroying American society says that ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'', and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (which at first is spelled "Yugio", but after that, "sorry, Yu-Gi-Oh!") all began life as trading card games. In reality, while they all have had card games, none of them started out as that. ''Pokémon'' began life as a pair of Game Boy games created by Game Freak (and the card game came to the U.S. just a few months ''after'' the video game was released there), ''Digimon'' was originally a virtual pet (hence "Digimon", or Digital Monsters), and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' started out as a manga written by Kazuki Takahashi.

* While reviewing a ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2½]]'' fighting game for the [[PC EngineTurboGrafx-16]], ''GamePro Magazine'' must have thought Ranma to be some sort of [[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe (Animation)|transforming superhero]], having summarized the title character's background thus:

{{quote| "[Ranma] fell into a well where a [[Action Girl|great female warrior]] had drowned. Now, [[Just Add Water|when he gets wet, he gets wild]]! Bad guys learn not to spit when Ranma's around."}}

** An issue of ''[[Game Players Magazine]]'' did something similar when previewing the ''Ranma'' SNES game. They said the series was about "a family of fighters where the kids are trained by their parents. The kids become masters and beat up would-be bullies."

* During a ''Trainer's Choice'' quiz during the Hoenn season of the Pokemon''Pokémon'' anime, they asked which Pokémon evolved into Seviper. The answer was Arbok. Arbok doesn't evolve at all, and Seviper doesn't evolve from anything, so breeding Seviper doesn't get an Ekans (which evolves into Arbok). While this was quickly picked up as ammo against [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] (who, as in the movie example above, either didn't notice or didn't change the mistake) it later turned out that they got quiz questions and answers from Pokémon USA -- ''the company in charge of the franchise in the United States''. Apparently, the employee they stuck with that role hadn't paid enough attention to the episodes in early Hoenn where Jessie releases her Arbok and then catches a Seviper.

** According to ''TV Guide'' and the Comcast information guides, the plot of ''Pokémon: The First Movie'' has Ash and friends battling Mewtwo and the scientist that created him -- despite the fact that Mewtwo killed said scientist within the first few minutes of the film.

* [http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=2306346&postcount=3799 A caption on this] names the green-haired girl in the picture (from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'') "Rena", who is actually a different girl with orange hair; the girl in the picture is Mion. Also, she doesn't have a split personality; you could say that it's slightly implied at first, but those implications were dashed against the rocks in the arc before the DVD being advertised.

* An [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc/review/overman-king-gainer/dvd-complete-collection Anime News Network review] of ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' criticizes the opening for being silly in a series that has a "High serious nature". King Gainer is a comedy which just happens to have been made by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who is best known for his serious anime like the Gundam franchise.

* A Hungarian TV spot for [[D .Gray Man-man]] began summarizing the story along the lines of "Under the spreading darkness of the evil god Akuma..." According to the channel's forum, the producer doesn't speak Japanese but still had the promo made before a single episode was translated. The error was later fixed, though.

* Back in 2005, a mother looked through a volume of the ''[[Peach Girl]]'' manga, which happened to have a date rape scene. Cue an [https://web.archive.org/web/20120506075734/http://www.clickorlando.com/money/5497816/detail.html article] claiming that ''Peach Girl'' is about girls being drugged and gang-raped and that Tokyopop only publishes porn comics marketed toward children.

* A store in Amazon.com sells ''[[Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo JosJoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' ''gashapon'' (small collectible figurines) of some [[Psychic Powers|stands]] from Part 3 (Hierophant Green, Silver Chariot and The World to be specific). But what makes them an example of this trope? Their names. Respectively are now Green character, Silver Villain and [[They Just Didn't Care|Johnny Joestar]].

* A relatively minor one, a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130817083642/http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,326181790001_2008417,00.html video] by [[Time (magazine)|TIME Magazine]] interviewing female fans at Comicon mentioned an anime/ manga called ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Access Powers Hitalia]]''. The misspelling is made more confusing because they showed official images, such as the cover of the English release of the DVD, with the title spelled out right on them.

* A book that listed the main protagonists and antagonists of well-known manga claimed that the main-character of ''[[Xxx Holic (Manga)|Xxx Holic×××HOLiC]]'' was Yuka Ichihara, a fifteen year-old part-timer at the magic shop who despite her age drank a lot of alcohol. Although they got her being a [[Hard -Drinking Party Girl]] right, Yuko, is in fact the fully mature owner of the shop.

* A recent midwest US article claimed that the local library would show "two or three episodes of an anime series, such as [[Full Metal Panic|Full Metal Panic!]], '''[[CLAMP (Creator)|CLAMP]]''' or [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]." Clamp has made a manga called ''[[CLAMP School Detectives]]'' which can conceivably be shortened to just ''Clamp''...

* According to the Verizon television listings, one of the shows on the current [[FU NimationFUNimation]] Channel lineup is "[[D .Gray Man (Manga)-man|Dr. Gray Man]]."

* The American Family Association wrote an article on the dangers of video games and this somehow segued into [[Hentai|h-games]]. This would've been fine and all....except the article misspelled it as 'hentia'. Again, wouldn't have been a problem except the article KEPT ON spelling it in that manner. [[Did Not Do the Research|Did not do the research]], indeed.

* One [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] promo has Sonic the Hedgehog giving a synopsis of [[Dragonball Z Kai|Dragon Ball Z Kai]]...and apparently [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTvabHR-9E Piccolo's a Saiyan.]

* ''Bleeding Cool'', a comic book news website, has an article called "Swap File", where they show different background items being used in two separate comics. A [http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/30/swipe-file-clamp-and-brightest-day/ recent one] showed that a [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Clow Reed circle]] was used in one of the ''[[Brightest Day]]'' spin-off covers. Not so bad. The bad part is when they show clips and pictures from Cardcaptor Sakura and kept saying it was from ''[[Tsubasa]]''. Readers were quick to correct them on their mistake.

* There have been some articles on anime sites that refer to Chiba from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' as "Saorin Chiba". "Saorin" is a nickname, as putting -rin to the back of a name is common for girls in Japan; her name's just "Saori".

* On February 18th 2012 The Sunderland Echo, a British local paper, had an article about the city's upcoming [[Fan Convention|Anime Convention]], Sunnycon and how [[Chris Sabat]] and [[Veronica Taylor]] were guests. It was accompanied by [http://cheezburger.com/View/5859625472?utm_source=trans&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=transglobal this image] ...yeah no, that's not [[Dragonball Z|Vegeta]]. Then at said convention, said guests were asked if they'd be happy to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_cYXa9jY6E&feature=youtu.be swap lines].

* ''[[The Borrower Arrietty|The Secret World of Arrietty]]'' was slammed on Fox News for being made to be pro Occupy Wallstreet ... wait, what? Considering the book it was based on was written in the 1960s and the film itself is now 2 years old the complaint was rather ... awkward. Of course, one must remember this ''is'' Fox News we're talking about.

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