* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

Unlike the anime and manga ( some based on the stories in select volumes ), they are more action-adventure oriented and have more of a shōnen demographic, taking the familiar characters of Doraemon and placing them in a variety of exotic and perilous settings.

Doraemon, Nobita, and the other characters also appear in various educational manga.

* Kairi Sanjō and Yukari Sanjō, fictional characters from the manga series Shugo Chara!

It usually refers to printed manga, but can also refer to any type of visual work depicting copyrighted characters, including video games, animation, and CG artwork.

Some manga artists create hentai dōjinshi with characters from their own manga, such as Maki Murakami creating dōjinshi of Gravitation.

The Chinese characters used to write the word manga in Japanese can be translated as " whimsical drawings ".

Anything non-offensive and featuring female characters may class as shōjo, such as the light shōnen comedy manga and anime Azumanga Daioh.

Unlike the first manga, it focused more on the interaction of the characters and severely toned down the violence to the point that the mecha are not used for battle at all and Escaflowne only appears near the end of the series.

Though collectors often focus on dōjinshi based on particular manga, any male character may become the subject of a yaoi dōjinshi, even characters from non-manga titles such as Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, or video games such as Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, real people such as politicians, or personifications such as Hetalia: Axis Powers, or complementary items such as salt and pepper or peanut butter and jelly.

" Sailor outfits, along with other styles of school uniform, play an undeniably large role in otaku culture as evidenced by the large amount of anime, manga, and dōjinshi featuring characters in uniform, Sailor Moon being one of the most popular examples.

The extraordinary events, the historical characters and the culture of the twenty years which go from Minamoto no Yoritomo's birth to the assassination of the last of his sons have been throughout Japanese history the background and the inspiration for countless poems, books, jidaigeki TV dramas, Kabuki plays, songs, manga and even videogames ; and are necessary to make sense of much of what one sees in today's Kamakura.

* Takenori Akagi and Haruko Akagi, two sibling characters from the basketball manga and anime Slam Dunk

It refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein pre-pubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner.

In 2006, Juné released an English translation of Mako Takahashi's under the title " Almost Crying ", a non-erotic shotacon manga ; the book contains several stories featuring pubescent male characters, but their relationships are nonsexual.

Some gay men's magazines which offer a particularly broad mix of pornographic material occasionally run stories or manga featuring peri-pubescent characters.

Slash-like fiction is also written in various Japanese anime or manga fandoms, but is commonly referred to as shōnen-ai or yaoi for relationships between male characters, and shōjo-ai or yuri between female characters respectively.

The Japanese manga artist Naoko Takeuchi released a series of official posters depicting five of the main characters from her manga series Sailor Moon mimicking Mucha's style.

Iconic characters from Japanese manga and anime have also become symbols for pop art such as Speed Racer and Astro Boy.

Miyuki Kobayakawa, one of the principal characters of You're Under Arrest !, was featured as a goddess character in a four-panel gag strip in the manga.

* In the 2006 film Hot Fuzz, one of the characters is mentioned to be an extra in Straw Dogs, and a farm is owned by the Treachers, making it Treacher Farm.

Various recurring characters came and went, notably Dennis Paladino as a mob boss named Donnie " Dogs " DiBarto ; John Byner as Cotton Dunn, a cunning but likable con artist ; Scott Atkins as Officer Perry, a rookie cop ; Kim Morgan Greene as Mellisa Cassidy, a late night radio talk show host, sex therapist, and old flame of Chris's ; Danny Gans as Roger, a coroner who frequently ( and unsuccessfully ) tried to get Rita to go out with him ; Marie Marshall as Solange, a local photographer with a faux French accent who crossed paths with Chris and Rita in the second season ; and Lucy Lin, who played forensic expert Dr. Noriko Weinstein.

In the 2009 movie Hotel for Dogs, Friday, one of the main characters is a Jack Russell, played by the dog actor Cosmo.

Many anime and manga characters are depicted wearing eyepatches, such as Badou Nails from Dogs: Bullets & Carnage, and Mei Misaki from Another.

Due to the grotesque, unsettling mood effect peculiar to wide-angle lenses, films making use of such perspective distortion can often be placed in one of two categories: Grotesque and surreal satire and fantasy, also to some extent black comedy ( Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Orson Welles, Dr. Strangelove ) on the one hand, and serious, more realistic films with a particular edge for social criticism on the other, whereas social conventions, collective society, and / or the motives and acts of leaders are portrayed as grotesque and absurd, and often also feature tyrannical characters with conformist values who act out in an extremely hostile and prejudiced way towards individualism and outsiders ( Paths of Glory, Straw Dogs, The Offence ).

Her success in television led her to star in films such as Jaws: The Revenge and most notably providing voices for the characters of Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go To Heaven.

In the Red Dwarf role-playing game, Felis Sapiens and Canis Sapiens ( better known as Evolved Cats and Evolved Dogs ) are races the player can pick for their characters.

One of the characters ' favorite catchphrases was " Jawesome ", and their favorite food consists of Hamburgers, Hot Dogs and French fries ( although they're capable of eating just about anything — even if it's not food ).

Two of his more memorable performances were in Reservoir Dogs as Nice Guy Eddie and True Romance as Nicky Dimes ( both characters in scripts written by Quentin Tarantino ).

As well as appearing in the novels they have also been incorporated into the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game appearing initially as hero characters for the Dwarf army and then later in the Dogs of War army book.

He also began in 2012 a new online Vladrushka story arc, Let Running Dogs Lie, co-starring the famous public-domain underground characters Octobriana and Projunior, among others.

All voices in the North American version are performed by Lani Minella, who has voiced many different video game characters in her career, with her voice appearing in such games as Diablo II, Half-Life, Soul Calibur III, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, and more.

Originally, Jim Shooter had planned to do a " crossover " including all of Defiant's titles and characters, but because of the failure of the company only Warriors of Plasm # 13 and Dogs of War # 5 ever saw publication.

Some of the characters in the Fluppy Dogs and the voice actors that played them were:

During their hibernated sleep on the way to the planet, the characters in Diamond Dogs share dreams which reference the films Cube and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Infrageneric classification focuses on inflorescence, flower characters and whether a species is monoecious / dioecious, as in the Sauer ( 1955 ) suggested classification.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

The game was given a large amount of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving how the characters each acquired his / her vehicle.

The proposed encoding does not use the lexical encoding model used in the existing ISO-IR / 169 registered character set, but instead applies the Unicode and ISO character-glyph model to the Bliss-character model already adopted by BCI, since this would significantly reduce the number of needed characters.

* Michael Everson's First proposed encoding into Unicode and ISO / IEC 10646 of Blissymbolics characters, based on the decomposition of the ISO-IR / 169 repertoire.

Datasets are tables consisting of molecular, morphological, ethological and / or other characters and a list of operational taxonomic units ( OTUs ) which may be genes, individuals, populations, species, or larger taxa that are presumed to be monophyletic and that are presumed to form, all together, one large clade ; phylogenetic analysis reconstructs the branching pattern within that clade.

Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters ' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, ethnicity, and even information about the historical period / era, geographic location and time of day, as well as the season or weather of the theatrical performance.

The key way characters progress is by earning experience points ( XP / EXP ), which happens when they defeat an enemy or accomplish a difficult task.

According to Longman and Dillard, the book includes two ' characters ', Qoheleth / Solomon and the narrator.

In the late 1970s, fiction that included a sexual relationship between two of the male characters of the media source ( first Kirk / Spock, then later Starsky / Hutch, Napoleon / Illya, and many others ) started to appear in zines.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

Some fantasy-type films might also include quasi-religious or supernatural characters such as angels, lesser gods, fairies or in the case of live action / animation hybrids cartoon characters.

" Other characters are renamed: Hamlet is Rude Boy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are androgynous helpers known simply as R and G, Gertrude is the madam of a brothel, Horatio becomes H and continues to be Hamlet's best friend / confidante, and a chorus of Ophelias serves as guide.

" Between seasons 8 and 12 ( under former show runner / executive producer Neal Baer ), the show has had characters change or even die as sort of a dramatic plot twist.

* On the characters and of singularities / by Heisuke Hironaka

ISO / IEC 8859 sought to remedy this problem by utilizing the eighth bit in an 8-bit byte to allow positions for another 96 printable characters.

The ISO / IEC 8859-n encodings only contain printable characters, and were designed to be used in conjunction with control characters mapped to the unassigned bytes.