Media Research Failure/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

** And funnily enough, ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' wasn't actually about a card game - it was about gaming in general.

* While reviewing a ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'' fighting game for the [[Turbo Grafx 16]], GamePro Magazine must have thought Ranma to be some sort of [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|transforming superhero]], having summarized the title character's background thus:

** 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 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 [[4Kids! 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.