With branching chat options and cinematic scenes that need to be animated adding in a slew of new characters to cover every single love interest option is daunting and undoubtedly going to be a far more intricate and time consuming process than they imagined.

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In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.

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The DVD bundles the first five episodes of the TV series onto a single disc, allowing viewers to quickly become familiar with the cast of characters and even get a bit more into the core storyline with episodes 4 and 5.

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Our favorite characters fly faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings in a single bound, beat the bad guys and stroll away with nary a scratch.

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With a single tap, readers can see all passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon's community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.

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And courts have sometimes failed to properly apply the legal requirements for trademarks, choosing to base their decisions on the outstanding celebrity and unique recognition of fictional characters, or lack thereof, instead of focusing on their inherent distinctiveness and ability to act as a single source identifier for the applicable goods or services.

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