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| - Shunsaku Ban is a manga character known principly from the series Astro Boy. With a round-face, and wearing tweed-suit, he is used for many characters in the assorted non-connected works of Osamu Tezuka. The character's most popular names in Japan are Shunsaku Ban(伴 俊作Ban Shunsaku), or Higeoyaji(ヒゲオヤジ, "Mustache-Daddy" or "Mr. Mustachio"). In the English translations of Tezuka's various television cartoon series he is known as Percival (or Victor) Pompous, Albert "Daddy Walrus" Duncan, and Wally Kisagiri.
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| - Shunsaku Ban is a manga character known principly from the series Astro Boy. With a round-face, and wearing tweed-suit, he is used for many characters in the assorted non-connected works of Osamu Tezuka. The character's most popular names in Japan are Shunsaku Ban(伴 俊作Ban Shunsaku), or Higeoyaji(ヒゲオヤジ, "Mustache-Daddy" or "Mr. Mustachio"). In the English translations of Tezuka's various television cartoon series he is known as Percival (or Victor) Pompous, Albert "Daddy Walrus" Duncan, and Wally Kisagiri. A popular secondary character in the Astro Boy series, the character has been used as a regular figure in many varied titles such as Black Jack, Jungle Emperor, Metropolis, etc., as part of the artist's Osamu Tezuka's Star System, where many non-connected strips feature the same re-characterized figures. While there is a different voice actor for each varied anime title, in Japan his most famous seiyū is Kazuo Kumakura, and in America, Gilbert Mack.
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