So my son is like crazy observant.

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

I recently bought him the latest copy of SJ, and he was reading it this morning. Immediately, he pointed out a rather odd discrepancy.



Let me zoom in here a bit.



What am I blathering on about, you ask?



KANKURO IS WEARING A CLOUD HEADBAND.

HOW DID WE NOT NOTICE THIS. and how did the nine-year-old find it first... -_-

Seriously, I actually went back to the original chapter reviews for this, and everyone was so distracted by OMG SASORI!! that we didn't notice this... little mistake... DAMMIT, KISHI, THEY'RE CALLED EDITORS. >__>;


Edited to clarify: These were also taken from chapter 464.


I initially thought as well that it could have been a rather sloppy hourglass, but then I went through the rest of the chapter... this is the only instance where Kankuro's emblem does not look like a proper Suna symbol. Kishi is either trolling us, or is suffering from severe editing fail.

Comments

[acediance.livejournal.com]

LOL. Kishimoto has made this mistake before in the Pain Invasion arc when he accidentally gave Pain a Leaf headband. (I can't remember exactly where it was, though.)

[frozenink.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that Pain was using that as a half-ass means of going incognito, buuuttt, I could be giving the man far too much credit.

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

LOL

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

...WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

~goes off to research for the lulz~

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

this does happen a couple times, no big deal; and it is not that easy to notice in the first place. it's not like when most people are reading are zooming at every single detail of the page.

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

I actually shrank the original page so it didn't take up too much space - the second image is actual size.

And as far as the swapped headbands go... well, I've had to realize that it's really simple: Kishi is a troll. XDDD

[eris4.livejournal.com]

Incredible! +__+
I'd never have been able to notice it, LOL. What an eyesight!

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

inorite!!

I know I didn't notice it at the time cough Sasori cough - I'm just surprised he picked it up so fast ^__^

[hopelesslover23.livejournal.com]

It could just be that he likes fucking with us. Wants to see who really notices this stuff...

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

...y'know, that actually makes more sense than an accident, if only because he actually has to draw these things.

Because everyone knows that Kishi is a troll.

[shiyaki-chan.livejournal.com]

A bit like Oda? He always draws this bear-guy (pedo bear? *grin*) in his pictures or manga chapters and only a couple of people notice

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds funny, like an in-joke... or perhaps a creepy version of Where's Waldo (Where's Pedobear?) >__>;

[inknose.livejournal.com]

lol! Well, I know how it feels to be so out of it that you mess up/leave out a vital characteristic from your drawings... xD

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

I think everyone has that problem periodically... of course, not everyone is a professional mangaka with millions of fans and shiny tankobon...

and HOW did Viz Media miss it??? I mean, it's in the English version of Shounen Jump for Pete's sake!!!



...that said, I think your art is shiny and made of win. So there.

[jaefire.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think Kishimoto actually DID draw a Suna headband, but he did it in a really messy, careless way (i.e., he didn't do a good job.

The Suna headband looks like this:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/stylinonline_2120_183626762

The Cloud headband looks like this:

http://www.mycuteshop.com/images/store/Naruto/NarutoCloudVillHeadband.jpg

Kankurou's headband clearly has the top section, and the bottom section looks like a really fat, crappy hourglass with a tiny, tiny middle section--but it DOES look like it was intended to look like an hourglass, because it's connected.

::shrug:: I'm sure people with disagree with me, which is fine. But I figure I'll put my opinion out there as food for thought.

[proudcockatrice.livejournal.com]

I second this interpretation. It does look more like a lazily drawn Suna headband than a Cloud one.

[terrible-t.livejournal.com]

I actually had the same thought before I made this post, like 'what if it was just a scribble' but then I realized 'this guy is supposed to be a professional whut' and had to make sure. I posted an edit with my findings - from the same chapter, in fact.

[bjorkubus.livejournal.com]

LOL I still remember when he forgot Kakashi's scar.

[bjorkubus.livejournal.com]

Found it (http://www.mangareader.net/93-28731-9/naruto/chapter-460.html)

[askerian]

Eh, it happens. He also forgot Itachi's face lines a couple times, when Itachi was emoing under the rain.

I think it might also not be him who inks all the lines, I know often backgrounds and black portions are filled in by assistants, and sometimes I guess he might ask the good ones who can copy his style to ink main characters in. I know some other mangakas who do that. Then again sometimes when you're inking/drawing stuff quickly because you've got a deadline coming in, it's easy to forget the little stuff, you don't have time to stare for a half-hour trying to make it all perfectly perfect. I could also see him doing the bodies first and then doing a second pass for little details like tattoos and scars and headbands, and if he's doing them all in a row he might mix up a few.

Long story short, in a manga that's published every week, this kind of small drawing weirdness is fairly common. Sorry I'm babbling, I haven't slept in way too long. XD;

[doodlebook.livejournal.com]

I remember there were naked people in the background corner of a panel once! Its when Team 7 is getting their first 'real' mission, and there were tiny naked people just chillin' in the corner of the mission center...