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 furigana, which indicate pronunciation, kunten indicate Japanese grammatical structures absent from the kanbun, as well as showing how words should be reordered to fit Japanese sentence structure.

Unlike other parts of the Japanese Empire, the local Japanese administration recognized the benefits of utilizing the traditional government to their advantage, given the extreme adherence the natives followed towards their clans and traditions.

Unlike most Japanese weapons, there were no specific rules about exact measurements and proportions for nagamaki.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

Unlike the KMT troops, CPC shunned conventional warfare and instead engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese.

Unlike the Chinese, some Japanese were even able to climb the rungs of society by setting up businesses or becoming truck farmers.

Unlike, for example, the Japanese monarchy, Chinese political theory allowed for a change in the ruling house.

Unlike most people in East Asia, Japanese people generally do not celebrate Chinese New Year ( it having been supplanted by the Western New Year's Day in the late 19th century ); although Chinese residents in Japan still do.

Unlike North American baseball, Japanese baseball games may end in a tie.

Unlike American pro teams, Japanese professional baseball teams are usually named after their corporate owners / sponsors rather than the cities or regions in which they play.

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 some of these other similar systems, Japanese era names are still in use.

Unlike the Germans and Japanese, Italians were not subjected to prosecutions by Allied tribunals.

Unlike Japanese and Chinese Toxicodendron verniciflua resin, Burmese lacquer does not cause allergic reactions ; it sets slower, and is painted by craftsmen's hands without using brushes.

Unlike the games, the anime contains darker themes such as war, blood, violence, and death ( although mostly in the Japanese version ), though it still maintains most of the cheerful and surreal themes from the games.

Unlike its Chinese and Japanese counterparts, the kumiho is always malevolent.

Unlike American cards of the same era, the cards utilized traditional Japanese pen and ink illustrations.

Unlike other cups and balls routines the Japanese magician would usually work inside, and to music.

Unlike previous Japanese trains, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and all subsequent Shinkansen lines were standard gauge ( between the rails ).

Unlike most other Japanese department stores, the east block of Tokyu Department Store does not have retail space in the basement because of this.

Unlike the case of the Japan, the emperor's regime in traditional Chinese political theory allowed for a change in dynasty, and an emperor could be replaced by a rebel leader.

Unlike other coins during the Roman Empire, the quadrans rarely bore the image of the emperor.

Unlike in the West, where secular and religious powers co-existed and fostered a tradition of pluralism, the traditional Chinese legal system, as a tool of the sovereign, has never encountered strong counterparts, and therefore never tolerated the existence of any alien powers and legal rules other than those of the emperor.

Unlike previous emperors who had seized power in military coups d ' état ( Vespasian and Septimius Severus, both from traditional middle-class Equestrian stock ), the barracks emperors tended to be low-class commoners ( often from outlying parts of the empire ); the first barracks emperor, Maximinus Thrax, had begun his military career as an enlisted soldier.

Unlike most butterflies, the purple emperor does not feed from flowers but instead on the honeydew secreted by aphids, sap oozing from oak trees, and on dung, urine and animal carcasses.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Unlike office holders ( magistrates ) who could be impeached and prosecuted for misconduct, the jurors could not be censured, for they, in effect, were the people and no authority could be higher than that.

Unlike the typical hijackings of land vehicles or ships, skyjacking is not usually committed for robbery or theft.

Unlike McCaffrey's black crystal transceivers, Le Guin's ansibles are not mated pairs: it is possible for an ansible's coordinates to be set to any known location of a receiving ansible.

Unlike the typical idea of an arcology-clean, healthy, and safe for the environment, " hives " are portrayed as dirty, diseased, overcrowded and the area around them as highly polluted.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

Unlike the NES or Sega Master System, there were few add-on peripherals for the 7800, though its backwards compatibility feature allowed it to be compatible with most Atari 2600 peripherals.

Unlike in the United States, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Industry Canada have not set any requirement for maintaining AMPS service in Canada.

Unlike integrated archival and compression tools like PKZIP, WinZip, and WinRAR, the Unix tools ar, tar, cpio ( for " archiver ", " tape archiver " and " copy in / out " respectively ) act as archivers but not compressors.

Unlike modern websites and online services that are typically hosted by third-party companies in commercial data centers, BBS computers ( especially for smaller boards ) were typically operated from the SysOp's home.

Unlike in soccer, the convention in rugby is for the home side to accommodate its guests when there is a clash of kit.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

Unlike self-balancing binary search trees, the B-tree is optimized for systems that read and write large blocks of data.

Unlike other eastern Indonesian islands, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese displayed no enthusiasm for Christianity or the Europeans who brought it in the sixteenth century, and no serious attempt was made to Christianise the Bandanese.

Unlike precious metals such as gold or platinum, gem diamonds do not trade as a commodity: there is a substantial mark-up in the sale of diamonds, and there is not a very active market for resale of diamonds.

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

Unlike many earlier Lisps, Common Lisp ( like Scheme ) uses lexical variable scope by default for both interpreted and compiled code.

Unlike Association Croquet, there are no additional turns for hitting other balls.

Unlike the Muslim world, which has a geo-political and cultural definition that provides a primary identifier for a large swath of the world, Christendom is more complex.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Unlike the penis, the male variant of the clitoris, it usually does not contain the distal portion or opening of the urethra and is therefore not used for urination.