As for the various misspellings, the Japanese aren’t very good spellers anyway even with English. (They have improved in recent years but still far from good.) I’d say all the typos are perfectly normal for the Japanese production crew.

In any case the anime is great and this details really dont matter for the show be enjoyable.

But the FACT is: the reproduction of Brazil is this anime was almost entirely wrong.

If it’s wrong, we have to say this. I think that we can’t try to avoid de criticism. We are not scolding the production team. We are just showing the mistakes. LOL.

If the anime was just inspired on Brazil, O.K. But the marketing of the anime is all about Brazil. Just go to official website to see the brazilian map e photos about the country.

But I belive that in the next episode the show will be better. Well, thereare some artworks in the website that shows an landscape that looks like Rio de Janeiro (very similar).

In the website there are photos of Recife, the city where I live. Here we have a lot of baroque buildings and things from the 16 sentury. We are one of the oldest cities here in Brazil (much older than São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro). I hope that they can show thess historicals things that we have here.

Of course it’s not going to look exactly like it should if it were actually Brazil, simply because that would require a lot of in depth research on the subject which would cut into the production budget. It is rare to see any foreign settings portrayed in anime with a high degree of accuracy. The only reason that anime that are set in Japan look more like the real thing is because that’s what they know & it’s cheaper & easier to research a location if needed.

Japan is not one of the most multicultural countries around, maybe even a little xenophobic, mostly due to the fact that they are kinda separated from outsiders due to geography & a history of isolationism. So coming across people that are completely knowledgeable in foreign subjects is kind of rare even today. Finding & hiring a gaijin consultant just for the art direction of a totally untested series with a first time director would be expensive, not to mention kinda pointless since it’s primary intended audience (Nipponjin) probably wouldn’t notice or care very much anyway.

Sometimes it’s difficult to understand that so much can change by just crossing a line on a map. Thinking like that it’s actually pretty easy to see their reasoning when they combined so many elements of various Latin American countries. Most L.A. countries speak Spanish (& written Portuguese is very similar to Spanish), & the people, buildings, & cars probably all look pretty much the same. Even if it is stereotypes they aren’t that far off … for the most part (kinda like all Americans are tall, blonde, blue-eyed, & wear cowboy hats … or Black Rap stars). Besides they are all speaking Japanese & I find it harder to believe that the entire country of Brazil can speak fluent Nihongo… ne?

If you can’t get over the fact that it’s not an “authentic” Brazil, just think of it as a fictional country that combines all of Latin America together in a big wannabe US style melting pot of multi-ethnic harmony. We’ll call it los Estados Unidos de América Latina (the United States of Latin America).

I think it’s better to be happy that they concentrated so much more effort on making the show enjoyable rather that worrying about the fact that they are slightly off on some of the finer details of the supposedly portrayed country. The story, soundtrack, & artwork are wonderful regardless. From what I have seen so far (2eps) it looks like it will be a great series. I am not going to fault the art guys for not making it a perfect representation. I still managed to figure out that it was probably Brazil even with the “mistakes”.

I would be willing to bet that a lot of Americans don’t even know that Portuguese, not Spanish, is the main language in Brazil let alone that the architecture is wrong… even more so for most Japanese

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The language (portuguese) is brazilian; the songs too. But there are some mistakes, like the name o the cat, “Blanco” (White). It’s spanish. In portuguese would be “Branco”. LOL.

The buildings too. Their style are from Mexico. In Brazil we almost dont have that kind of buildings. LOL.

It’s a good anime. But I think that they should use spanish language because almost all the things in the anime refers to Mexico or Cuba, not to Brazil. LOL.

It’s like that game… “Samba de Amigo”. Ok, samba is from brazil, but maracas not. Maracas is from other latin america countries. Here we just don’t have these things. We can’t dance samba with maracas. LOL.

I think that they just FAIL about this. LOL.