After developing many images as ideas, he discussed them with the scenario designer before selecting Sudowoodo's finished design.

Official Nintendo Magazines Thomas East included Sudowoodo's name in a list of the five best Pokémon names because it makes him laugh.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.

The main role of the bacterial step is the regeneration of this reactant.

Prince Albert had an active role in these improvements, overseeing the design of parterres, the diversion the main road north of the river via a new bridge, and plans for farm buildings.

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.

The role of horsemen did however remain secondary to that of the hoplites or heavy infantry who comprised the main strength of the citizen levies of the various city states.

Its main role was to attack the enemy flanks and rear.

Chakras play an important role in the main surviving branch of Indian Vajrayana, Tibetan Buddhism.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

During the Cold War, the main role of the CVBG in case of conflict with the Soviet Union would have been to protect Atlantic supply routes between the United States and Europe, while the role of the Soviet Navy would have been to interrupt these sea lanes, a fundamentally easier task.

His main role was rapid demobilization of millions of soldiers, a slow job that was delayed by lack of shipping.

The withdrawal of Betty Hutton due to pregnancy left the main role to be re-cast, and Day got the part.

" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.

* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.

* Etna, a main character in the Disgaea series of console role playing games

Axis fighter aircraft focused on defending against Allied bombers while Allied fighters ' main role was as bomber escorts.

In the January 25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament to Hamas, and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the role as the main opposition party.

A seminal work by Dyson came in 1966 when, together with Andrew Lenard and independently of Elliott H. Lieb and Walter Thirring, he proved rigorously that the exclusion principle plays the main role in the stability of bulk matter.

The role of the UK Ministry of Defence, which at one time was Gibraltar's main source of income, has declined, with today's economy mainly based on shipping, tourism, financial services, and the Internet.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

To be sure, the Bulgarians and the Serbs played an important role in the defeat of the main Ottoman armies.

Although formally organised party politics plays no role in the States of Jersey assembly, members often vote together in two main blocs – a minority of members, holding broadly progressive views and critical of the Council of Ministers versus a majority of members, of conservative ideology, who support the Council of Ministers.

Adrien Brody, the main actor, spent time with activists to understand his role better.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

* 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.

Watanabe's main inspiration for Cowboy Bebop was Lupin III, a crime anime series from the late 1970s through the mid -' 80s.

The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

* The anime film Spirited Away is set in a bathhouse for kami, and a main character is the spirit of a destroyed river.

* In the manga and anime One Piece, one of the main protagonists, " Black Leg Sanji ," uses kicking techniques very similar to Savate.

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

* Negi Springfield, the main anime character from Mahou Sensei Negima

* Sana Kurata, the main character of the anime Kodomo no Omocha

* Van ( Gun X Sword ), the main character of the anime Gun X Sword

The Mi-Go are one of the main enemies of humanity in the role-playing game CthulhuTech, which combines Lovecraft's fiction with tropes and themes from mecha anime.

* Apollo, the main character of the anime series Genesis of Aquarion

*" Oro ...", the exclamation of the main protagonist, Himura Kenshin of the manga / anime Rurouni Kenshin, whenever he is ( acting ) confused.

It saw the return of the main cast, along with several popular characters from the manga who had not appeared in any of the previous anime.

* The main character of the anime / manga Prince of Tennis, Ryoma Echizen, owns a playful, mischievous and surprisingly smart Himalayan cat named Karupin ( or Kalpin in the English translation ), to whom he's very attached.

* In the anime and manga Pandora Hearts, one of the main characters, Alice, had a pet cat that died, but returns 100 years later as a chain in a realm created by one of Alice's memories.

: The main character of the anime, whose head is a bun made by Uncle Jam.

While in the manga they appeared only in the first two volumes, later replaced by Shuutaro Mendou, in the anime they are among the main characters ( particularly Megane ), filling they roles alongside Mendou.

* Edward Elric, the main protagonist in the anime / manga series, Fullmetal Alchemist

The first title was published in 1986 and there are currently nine main-series titles, numerous spin-off games, and nearly every game in the main series has either an anime or manga adaptation, or both.

* Haman Karn is a main character in anime ZZ Gundam and the manga Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of a Young Comet

*" Birdy " the main character in Birdy the Mighty manga and anime

The main characters are similar to their manga counterparts, but side characters become underdeveloped ; some did not appear in the anime at all.