and aired on Animax from 2002 to 2005 ; there were also several OVA produced based on the anime series.

Japan pan = bread ), serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday ( 2002 – 2007 ; features a clown-character named Pierrot Bolneze, heir to the throne of Monaco ; anime based on manga released 2004 – 2006 ).

Sunrise is especially known for their mecha anime series ( including Gundam ) such as Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 ( 1978 ), Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 ), the Armored Trooper Votoms and Aura Battler Dunbine series ( 1983 ), Blue Comet SPT Layzner ( 1985 ), Patlabor ( 1989 ), The Vision of Escaflowne ( 1996 ), The Big O ( 1999 / 2003 ), Overman King Gainer ( 2002 ), Zegapain ( 2007 ), and Code Geass ( 2006 / 2008 ).

The only exceptions were in 2002 and 2005, with winners Spirited Away, a traditionally animated anime film, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, a stop-motion animation film.

The Fruits Basket anime adaptation has also been well received, ranking third in Anihabara's list of top televised anime series in Japan for February 2002.

In the June 2002 issue of Animage magazine, the series was first in a list of the best twenty anime series in Japan.

It took the series over 2 years to be licensed, which is normal for anime licenses around 2002.

The Japanese anime version was first released on DVD in 2002, and then a full 10-DVD set in 2005.

In 2002, the song appeared in Osamu Tezuka's anime film Metropolis as performed by Atsushi Kimura.

It was originally released to DVD on 2 February 2002, and has since been broadcast across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax.

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is a magical girl anime series created by Ikuko Itoh in 2002 for animation studio Hal Film Maker.

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* Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation ( AG ), a season of the Pokémon anime, begun in 2002 and ended in 2004

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The network was launched in North America in late 2002 as mostly digital anime television subchannels and is marketed to multi system operators ( MSOs ) as both a Free and Subscription Video On Demand ( VOD ) programming service.

* Elfen Lied, a 2002 anime series

In 2002, the FLCL anime became available in the United States, giving the band more notoriety outside of their native country.

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The anime OVA adaptation of Alien Nine has been cited by fans and critics as an example of " vaporfilm " because of its unfinished status after four episodes ( extending halfway through the manga ) and its hiatus since 2002.

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The anime series was produced by Gonzo Digimation and originally aired in 2002 after its original air date was canceled because of the September 11 attacks.

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The character briefly returned in June 2002.

In 2002, Busey voiced the character Phil Cassidy in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, then again in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in 2006.

Carson appears as a supporting character in the The Berrybender Narratives ( 2002 – 2004 ), a series of four novels by Larry McMurtry.

In the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, the most successful film of her career to date, Dunst played Mary Jane Watson, the best friend and love interest of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire.

In May 2002, Moore was present as cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis to the television character she made famous on Mary Tyler Moore.

The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Older and Far Away " ( 2002 ) wears a red shirt ; writer Drew Greenberg confirmed that this " redshirt " reference was intentional.

As the captain of the Starfleet starship USS Voyager, she was the lead character on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, and later, a Starfleet admiral, as seen in the 2002 feature film Star Trek Nemesis.

His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character.

The most visible accomplishment so far is the recognition by the Patent Co-operation Treaty ( PCT ) of the innovative character and industrial applicability of the UNL, which was obtained in May 2002 through the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO ).

Robert Rankin used Humpty Dumpty as one victim of a serial fairy-tale character murderer in The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse ( 2002 ).

In the 2002 film The Time Machine, this scenario is shown where the main character builds a time machine to save his fiance from being killed by a mugger, only for her to die in a car crash instead ; as he learns from a trip to the future, he cannot save her with the machine or he would never have been inspired to build the machine so that he could go back and save her in the first place.

In 2002 another version of O was released, called The Story of O: Untold Pleasures, with Danielle Ciardi playing the title character.

Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in five more books, Deepsix ( 2001 ), Chindi ( 2002 ), Omega ( 2003 ), Odyssey ( 2006 ), and Cauldron ( 2007 ).

María Félix ( April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002 ) was a Mexican actress and the most iconic leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known for her larger-than-life, tough character in films.

In 2002, Hello Kitty lost her place as the top-grossing character in Japan in the Character Databank popularity chart and has never recovered.

Unlike Shakespeare's Lear, but like Hidetora and Sandeman, the central character of Uli Edel's 2002 American TV adaptation King of Texas, John Lear played by Patrick Stewart, has a back-story centred on his violent rise to power.

In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese's character is the head of Q branch, having inherited the title of quartermaster from his predecessor.

Rock, with the Rock character as a member of the U. S. 442nd Infantry regiment, and the unknown " Easy Company ", as well as Unknown Soldier, which takes place in Uganda in 2002, both change the character's background or setting.

The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity " committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.

The 2002 Pedro Almodovar film Talk to Her ( Hable con Ella ) has the chief character Benigno tell a story called The Shrinking Lover to Alicia, a long-term comatose patient whom Benigno, a male nurse, is assigned to care for.

* Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge ( 24 February 2002 ) brought " a dark new world based on new characters from Todd McFarlane " to Ultima Online with improved game artificial intelligence, in-game help, and improved character creation.

On the M * A * S * H * 30th Anniversary Reunion Television Special aired by Fox-TV in 2002, Rogers once spoke on the differences between the " Hawkeye " and " Trapper " characters, " Alan ( Alda ) and I both used to discuss ways on how to distinguish the differences between the two characters as to where there would be a variance ... my character ( Trapper John McIntyre ) was a little more impulsive ( than Hawkeye )".

In 2002, Cartman became the main protagonist of a series of promotional videos for the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, which are played on the big-screen TVs inside of Staples Center where the character ridicules the mascots of rival teams and reacts to various aspects of the game.

In 2002, Witherspoon provided the voice of the animated character Greta Wolfcastle in The Simpsons episode The Bart Wants What It Wants.