Unlike many anime titles, viewers weren ’ t expected to have knowledge of Asian culture — character names, signs, and the like were primarily in English to begin with — or have seen any other anime series prior.

Unlike other common energy storage in prior use such as wood or coal, electricity must be used as it is being generated, or converted immediately into another form of energy such as potential, kinetic or chemical.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

Unlike the period prior to the war, immigration was now directed at Europe and more specifically to the United Kingdom and Ireland, not from the United States, which was the largest source of immigration before the war.

Unlike the original variety native to Northern France, Louisiana andouille has evolved to be made mainly of pork butt, not tripe, and tends to be spicy with a flavor far too strong for the mustard sauce that traditionally accompanies French andouille: prior to casing, the meat is heavily spiced with cayenne and black pepper.

Unlike canvas work, crewel embroidery requires the use of an embroidery hoop or frame on which the material is stretched taut and secured prior to stitching.

Unlike prior versions of the API, Direct3D 10 no longer uses " capability bits " ( or " caps ") to indicate which features are supported on a given graphics device.

Unlike affinity chromatography techniques, a solvent head at the top of the column can drastically diminish resolution as the sample diffuses prior to loading, broadening the downstream elution.

Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances ' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.

Unlike other significant characters, he has no magical knack, but, prior to meeting Alvin, he was made invincible by means of a tattoo given to him at birth ( similar to Achilles ).

Unlike zombies, which are often depicted as mindless, part of a hivemind and / or under the control of some magician, a lich retains independent thought and is usually at least as intelligent as it was prior to its transformation.

Unlike prior Macintosh models, which were all compact Macintosh designs, the Macintosh II models were " modular " systems which did not include built-in monitors and were expandable.

Unlike most annual awards, the distinction did not take into account players ' performances in the prior year, but their contributions on a career-basis.

Unlike prior reporting periods, the government did not engage in severe abuses of religious freedom.

Unlike prior reporting periods, some of Khartoum's English-language newspapers featured lengthy articles on Christian themes.

Unlike on the computer adaptive test prior to August 2011, the examinee is free to skip back and forth within sections.

Unlike Stipe Mesić few months prior, Marović's Sarajevo hosts, members of Bosnia's 3-man rotating Presidency weren't moved to reciprocate with any kind of an apology.

Unlike other government ministers who are appointed by the President of Ireland on the advice of the Taoiseach, with the prior nomination of Dáil Éireann, Ministers of State are appointed by the cabinet, on nomination of the Taoiseach.

Unlike prior and following deaths in the franchise, the death of Remmick is shown in detail with gore / splatter effects, as parts of his body explode due to phaser fire or get ripped apart while the parasite breaks out of his torso, similar to the Alien movies.

Unlike prior models, these Fujitsu systems are not compatible with IBM's and cannot run z / OS, but the announcement has customers wondering if Fujitsu will take the next step in re-entering the ( now growing ) market.

Unlike in prior years, no award was given for Worst New Star.

Unlike the San Joaquin Valley, which in its pre-irrigation state was a vegetation-hostile desert, the somewhat less arid Sacramento Valley had significant tracts of forest prior to the arrival of settlers of European ancestry.

Unlike prior dockings, no flyaround of the station by the orbiter was conducted, but orbiter was stopped three times while backing away to collect data from a European sensor device designed to assist future rendezvous of a proposed European Space Agency resupply vehicle with the International Space Station.

Unlike reality television franchises, international game show franchises generally only see Canadian adaptations in a series of specials, based heavily on the American versions but usually with a Canadian host to allow for Canadian content credits.

Unlike other versions of the character, Shea's Lex has a full head of hair for the majority of the series.

Unlike the other versions, the PlayStation version actually showed the gun being held in the player's hands.

Unlike the many self-created versions, which consist of over 50 or even 70-plus movements, the true pole form is quite compact and focused on practicality.

Unlike other versions of the show, panelists were not provided with jokes.

Unlike the other helpers he takes no further part in the action, suggesting he was added to the romance later under the influence of the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia.

Unlike concert timpani, marching versions had fiberglass shells to make them light enough to carry.

Unlike in the " normal " Trek universe, where Forrest and Archer are close friends, the mirror versions of the characters did not get along well at all.

Unlike Santa Claus and, to a lesser extent, the Easter Bunny, there are few details of the tooth fairy's appearance that are consistent in various versions of the myth.

Unlike all later DOS versions, the DATE and TIME commands were separate executables rather than part of COMMAND. COM.

Unlike Astro Boy, where the opening theme music was the same in both the Japanese and American versions ( with only the lyrics changed ), the Japanese and American versions of The Amazing 3 had different theme music, as well as considerably different opening and closing segments.

Unlike European versions, CJK Unicode fonts, due to Han unification, have large but irregular patterns of overlap, requiring language-specific fonts.

Unlike the first edition, the print versions did not contain illustrations.

( Unlike the book and most movie versions, this rabbit hole appears to be dark and spooky.

Unlike other areas of Wales that have Anglicised versions of place names, such as Caerdydd to Cardiff, Cwmbrân ( meaning Crow Valley in English ) is the official name in both Welsh and English ; it has simply been common practice to ignore diacritics in written English.

Unlike the earlier Shonen Jump versions, instances of cigarettes are removed from the Hikaru no Go graphic novels so that they can be labelled as appropriate for everyone.

Unlike other versions, his S-shield is not reversed.

Unlike third generation minicomputers, which were essentially scaled down versions of mainframe computers, the fourth generation's origins are fundamentally different.

Unlike the other versions of Spider-Man, Mary Jane does not appear to be a focus point of one of Pete's girls.

Unlike most of the Turkish cities that use different versions of regular butter in their regional cuisine, Urfa is, together with Antep, Mardin and Siirt a big user of clarified butter, made exclusively from sheep's milk, called locally " Urfayağı " (" Urfabutter ").

Unlike the symbolic interactionist framework, the many theories derived from symbolic interactionism, such as role theory and the versions of Identity Theory developed by Stryker, and Burke and colleagues, clearly define concepts and the relationships between them in a given context, thus allowing for the opportunity to develop and test hypotheses.

Unlike The Isness, which featured almost 100 musicians over the course of it and the various alternative versions and remix albums, Alice in Ultraland featured a fairly solid band lineup throughout, which extended to live shows which the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables from 2005 onwards.