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''South Park'' is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. The ongoing narrative revolves around four children, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick, and their bizarre adventures in and around the fictional and eponymous Colorado town. The town is also home to an assortment of characters who make frequent appearances in the show such as students and their family members, elementary school staff, and recurring characters.〔 Stan is portrayed as the everyman of the group, as the show's official website describes him as "a normal, average, American, mixed-up kid".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/characters/stan-marsh )〕 Kyle is the lone Jew among the group, and his portrayal in this role is often dealt with satirically.〔 Stan and Kyle are best friends, and their relationship, which is intended to reflect the real-life friendship between ''South Park'' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is a common topic throughout the series. Cartman—loud, obnoxious, and obese—is sometimes portrayed as the series' main antagonist and whose anti-Semitic attitude has resulted in an ever-progressing rivalry with Kyle.〔 Kenny, who comes from a poor family, wears his parka hood so tightly that it covers most of his face and muffles his speech. During the show's first five seasons, Kenny would die in almost every single episode before returning in the next without explanation. Stone and Parker perform the voices of most of the male ''South Park'' characters.〔〔 〕〔 Mary Kay Bergman voiced the majority of the female characters until her death in 1999.〔 Eliza Schneider (1999–2003), Mona Marshall (2000–present), and April Stewart (2003–present) have voiced most of the female characters since.〔 A few staff members such as Jennifer Howell, Vernon Chatman, John Hansen, Adrien Beard have voiced the other recurring characters. ==Creation and inception== Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone originally conceived the idea of a ''South Park''-like show with four children characters, but with a talking stool named Mr. Hankey as the show's main character and planned to call it ''The Mr. Hankey Show''.〔 Eventually, Parker and Stone adapted their original idea into a show revolving around the South Park town and four children with Mr. Hankey in a minor supporting role in a future episode. Comedy Central later expressed interest in the series, and picked it up. The premiere episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", debuted on Comedy Central on August 13, 1997, while Mr. Hankey would debut in the tenth episode, "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo". In tradition with the show's cutout animation style, the characters are composed of simple geometrical shapes and uninflected patches of predominantly primary colors. They are not offered the same free range of motion associated with hand-drawn characters, as they are mostly shown from only one angle, and their movements are animated in an intentionally jerky fashion.〔〔〔 Ever since the show's second episode, "Weight Gain 4000", all the characters on the show have been animated with computer software, though they are portrayed to give the impression that the show still utilizes the original technique of cutout animation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of South Park characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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