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 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 others, this group was able to find fans in other parts of the world through their eroge and anime themes.

Unlike most anime directors, Takahata doesn't draw and never worked as an animator before becoming a full fledged director.

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 in anime or dubbing roles, in a video game the voice tracks are often recorded separately due to the way individual voice tracks are selected and played depending on a player's progress.

Unlike the anime, his death is not ambiguous: he is executed by Urizane for treason.

Unlike the comic Witchblade, which only induces bloodlust when in a violent confrontation and creates armor, the anime Witchblade entirely transforms Masane, giving her different eyes and hair, and will ultimately destroy her body.

* Unlike in the manga, Miki survives at the conclusion of the anime series.

Unlike the comic witchblade, which only induces bloodlust when in a violent confrontation and creates armor, the anime Witchblade entirely transforms Masane, giving her different eyes and hair, and will ultimately destroy her body.

" Unlike the giants of other robot anime, the megadeuses do not exhibit ninja-like speed nor grace or possess voice-activated special attacks ; but for what they lack in agility, they more than make-up in power.

: Unlike the manga, in the anime her soul is sent to the Hoshindai.

: Unlike the manga, in the anime her soul was sent to the Houshindai.

Unlike the Bomberman Bakugaiden anime of the late 1990s, this series is very true to the Bomberman video games.

Unlike in the original movie, he shows more focus on becoming a samurai and improving his skills greatly in the anime ( where in the original he was preoccupied with a love affair ).

Unlike the manga, the anime is centered around Kimiko Dewa, who abhors the nightly carnage by her insect killing robots.

Unlike the international dubs and like many broadcast anime in the USA, Magical DoReMi was heavily edited and localized for US audiences and a lower TV-Y rating.

Unlike the usual Di Gi Charat anime, it is a romance.

Unlike most giant robot anime, Dai-Guard performs on much more realistic physics, making it heavy, slow, and a hassle to control.

Unlike other Gundam Wing manga, which are not necessarily considered as being in continuity, Episode Zero has the distinction of being written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa, who was also the writer of the anime series, and thus carries a higher level of credibility.

Unlike most other Gundam Wing manga, G-UNIT does not feature any of the anime characters or Gundams, with the exception of a few brief cameos.

Unlike most other dubbed anime shows of the late 1970s, though, great care was used in choosing names to which English audiences could relate.

Unlike the problems with transliteration that were encountered with Belldandy ( resulting in Verdandi becoming " Belldandy " in the manga ), " Skuld " presented no difficulties for translators.

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.

Unlike most manga artists who specialize in a single genre, Clamp has created a diverse body of work.

Unlike many other Macross manga, Trash does not feature any mecha or combat, instead focusing on the characters themselves.

Unlike many other imprints, CMX pursued older manga along with popular new works, feeling that these stories deserved widespread distribution and a chance at an American readership.

Unlike in the manga, however, it seems that they don't need to shrink down in order to fit into the driver's section of the tanks.

Unlike other Pokémon in the series, Gengar originally appeared in the manga Capsule Monsters, an early concept by Satoshi Tajiri which evolved into the basis for the Pokémon franchise.

Unlike her manga counterpart, the Major has an androgynous face and rarely shows emotion.

Unlike the manga, Ryomou's dragon appears to be her own and not Ryubi's, and is black.

Unlike most anime, the episodes appear to be manga canon, as certain episodes refer directly ( through narration giving the volume number ) to events in the manga.

Unlike his predecessors, Berkeley and Locke, Hume rejects the idea that volitions or impulses of the will may be inferred to necessarily connect to the actions they produce by way of some sense of the power of the will.

Unlike some non-mammalian animals ( such as lizards that shed their tails, salamanders that can regrow many missing body parts, and hydras, flatworms, and starfish that can regrow entire bodies from small fragments ), once removed, human extremities do not grow back, unlike portions of some organs, such as the liver.

Unlike some of their continental European counterparts, the Monarch and her Governors-General in the Commonwealth realms hold significant " reserve " or " prerogative " powers, to be wielded in times of extreme emergency or constitutional crises usually to uphold parliamentary government.

Unlike the gradient and divergence, curl does not generalize as simply to other dimensions ; some generalizations are possible, but only in three dimensions is the geometrically defined curl of a vector field again a vector field.

Unlike fungi, oomycetes typically possess cell walls of cellulose and glucans rather than chitin, although some genera ( such as Achlya and Saprolegnia ) do have chitin in their walls.

Unlike religious coercion, it is a quite recent phenomenon, confined to some of the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

Unlike the violone, however, the fingerboard of the double bass is unfretted, and the double bass has fewer strings ( the violone, like most viols, generally had six strings, although some specimens had five or four ).

Unlike some of his forefathers in Greek philosophy ( i. e. Plato and the other metaphysicians ), Epictetus focuses his attention on how to practically apply oneself on a philosophical level.

Unlike the feel of pain, which can be fully absent in some human conditions, there is no such condition as congenital absence of fear ( although psychopaths are known to have a much lessened feeling of fear ).

Unlike the other islands of the archipelago, Fuerteventura has a shelf which at some points goes up to 30 km, making it an ideal place to practice this sport.

Unlike mathematical integers, a typical datum in a computer has some minimal and maximum possible value.

Unlike some proprietary protocols which combine sending and retrieval operations, sending a message and saving a copy in a server-side folder with a base-level IMAP client requires transmitting the message content twice, once to SMTP for delivery and a second time to IMAP to store in a sent mail folder.

Unlike some later Islamists, Salafists strongly emphasized the restoration of the Caliphate.

Unlike his early clocks it incorporates some original features to improve timekeeping, for example the grasshopper escapement.

Unlike Raynald's attacks on caravans, which may have had some military purpose, Guy attacked a group that was usually loyal to Jerusalem and provided intelligence about the movements of Saladin's troops.

Unlike Internet market the state of the mobile market in the country is very poor, while coverage is not really an issue all carriers practice archaic methods that carriers in many developed countries have long since abolished, general prices are very high compared to other CIS and even EU countries with no change in this segment in many years in fact in some cases the prices have even increased, mobile Internet access is in no better condition with very high prices and very low monthly caps compared to extremely well developed and cheap wired Internet access.

Unlike the DSM and ICD, some approaches are not based on identifying distinct categories of disorder using dichotomous symptom profiles intended to separate the abnormal from the normal.

Unlike some other classical figures ( Comte, Durkheim ) Weber did not attempt, consciously, to create any specific set of rules governing social sciences in general, or sociology in particular.

Unlike The Movies, some dedicated machinima software programs, such as Reallusion's iClone, have licenses that avoid claiming ownership of users ' films featuring bundled assets.

Unlike machine code which often retains some compatibility among different processors in a family, microcode only runs on the exact electronic circuitry for which it is designed, as it constitutes an inherent part of the particular processor design itself.

Unlike penicillin, macrolides have been shown to be effective against Legionella pneumophila, mycoplasma, mycobacteria, some rickettsia, and chlamydia.