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lemurs
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I thought Puar was a female shapeshifting cat-thing.
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Patches
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Jaken is not a kappa. He doesn't have a shell or the tuft of hair on his head and his legs are too short. It's never specified what he actually is, but there were kappa in the Inuyasha manga that didn't look much of anything like him.
Ah-Un is Sesshoumaru's team's animal sidekick, not Jaken. Jaken is Sesshoumaru's team's version of Shippou: useless in a fight, and spends most battles off to the side snarking everyone else. Hell, until he picked up Kohaku, everyone on Sesshoumaru's team was useless (and even Kohaku's competency seemed to drop substantially once he joined up). It's also generally kind of hard to judge who counts as an "animal" sidekick when the team lead is a dog. |
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dtm42
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Cubone doesn't count since the breed's backstory is implausible to the point of being impossible.
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ANN_Lynzee
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I know he isn't a cat, which is why he is "useless" as a cat. I'm pretty sure Jaken is inspired by a kappa, at least in his appearance and as another mythological reference (p.s. don't look up the original legend of demon dogs) The entry on James' Gyarados was supposed to be comedic but maybe it wasn't blunt enough. |
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KENZICHI
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I never liked the episodes with Nanami as the main so I tend to avoid them. I can't recall Chu Chu really stopping her schemes in the anime, but I know he was sort of useful in the manga particularly with the chilly incident. Oh wait... didn't he cause that? |
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Greed1914
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Yeah, that was a great one. Poor old Magikarp. |
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tasogarenootome
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Poor Puar. He was one of my favorites early on, even if he was annoying.
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Gina Szanboti
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Being useful in thwarting isn't necessarily the same as actually thwarting (that's probably the oddest sentence I'll write all day). But yes, he was instrumental in the curry fiasco, among other incidents. |
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penguintruth
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Hey, Puar saved everybody's lives once by turning into scissors.
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immblueversion
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Imagine everything that makes Medusa a horrible mother with an added dash of teen incest. |
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EricJ2
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(And speaking of the Pen-Pen avatar...) 
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TheAncientOne
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Especially considering that how the link to the poll for that column was worded:
Medusa, of course, isn't only a poor excuse for a parent, but also literally a witch. What pushed Ragyo over the top was no doubt no just a certain scene that made a lot of people uncomfortable, but a certain action that falls under the major spoiler category. |
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clipeuh
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He may be a useless slacker but Meow did bring IMO the best episode of Space Dandy season one with the story about his father. The show needs more episodes like that in season two.
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Animegomaniac
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Interesting poll results, the newest thing versus something actually worth remembering and still just barely won; A clear loss for Ragyo. I could have voted for her if her plan had any sense of meaning and not just in relation to her daughter; Experiment, experiment, kill all humans!. It's a tough transition to justify and they really didn't care to try.
Medusa was a cold blooded mother of a mother and she always will be. Sadly, Chamo from Negima! isn't useless as he's the ermine fairy who controls Negi's pactio system. Without him it's just a bunch of middle school girls getting busy with a ten year old boy. With him... It's a bunch of middle school girls getting busy with a ten year old boy for a reason. And not just that one! In his spot, I'd recommend Mokona but oddly enough, only the original one from Magic Knight Rayearth and not the one from Tsubasa. Even though she only appears in Tsubasa because of the earlier series, she has an actual job to do there. In Rayearth, she's a... She does... She's there to... She's a cross between a slime and a rabbit? I don't have anything else. |
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penguintruth
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Pen Pen isn't a sidekick. He's the star! 
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PERFECT choice, lmao! 
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