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yugiohmangavsanime:

So, in the manga during Battle City, Anzu/Téa is only ever shown wearing one outfit, and it’s this one:

This is despite the fact that Battle City stretches over the course of two days, but it makes sense since the overnight of the tournament was spent on the Kaiba Corp blimp and I doubt any of the characters planned to need a change of clothes.

It should be noted that while the outfit shown above is shown as a white shirt and pink skirt, these colors appear to be a change made by the Bunkoban release, which release the entire manga in full color.  During the original run of the manga, a handful of color pages showed Anzu’s outfit as instead a yellow shirt and red skirt.  Here’s an example of the original outfit color from Duel 170 as it was originally shown in Weekly Shonen Jump compared to its Bunkoban recoloring.

Anyway, the anime started off the Battle City tournament with Anzu wearing her outfit from the manga with its original coloring, albeit with one very noticeable difference.

For some unknown reason, the “SPIRIT” message on her shirt was removed.  And no, this wasn’t an edit made by 4Kids.  I grabbed the above screenshot from the original Japanese version of the anime.

This change is odd because the shirt was left completely unchanged in the intro during this season

(Which, ironically, did get removed in 4Kids’ version of the intro.  So much for 4Kids being completely free of blame for removing SPIRIT)

But this isn’t my main point.  My main point is that, for seemingly no reason, Anzu changes outfits in the middle of the day during the first day of Battle City.  Starting in the episode where Jonouchi starts his duel against Insector Haga, Anzu switches over to this outfit:

And this is probably Anzu’s best known outfit, as she wears it for the entire remainder of Season 2 and all of Season 3, which includes the Virtual World and the final rounds of Battle City.

It’s just so weird because there was no change of day in-universe.  Anzu apparently just spent the morning wearing one outfit and then in the afternoon decided to change clothes to wear for the remainder of the day.

I don’t have a problem with the anime putting the characters in different clothes from what they wore in the manga.  Jonouchi wears completely different clothes in the anime version of Battle City after the manga just had him in his school uniform.  But it’s bizarre that they would give themselves a continuity headscratcher like this one.

(For that matter, Honda also suddenly changed clothes in the same episode that Anzu did.  His is a reversal of what happened to Anzu though.  In his case, he switched into his manga clothes after he had previously been wearing different clothes earlier that day)