Pokota (Japanese: ポコタ Romaji: pokota), full name Posel Korba Taforashia (Japanese: ポセル＝コルバ＝タフォーラシア Romaji: poseru koruba tafōrashia), is a sorcerer and prince of the kingdom of Taforashia. He is one of the main characters of Slayers REVOLUTION and EVOLUTION-R. His Japanese voice actress is Yumiko Kobayashi.
History
Pokota was born a human, but when he was an adolescent, the Durum sickness plagued Taforashia. The king, Pokota's father, became very ill. Rezo, the Red Priest, appeared and sealed the residents of Taforashia in sleeping chambers to isolate them until a cure was found. Rezo sealed Pokota's human body in a chamber, but he used a magical vase to transfer Pokota's spirit into his current form, an animal-like creature about 2 feet tall.
Near the end of Evolution R it is shown that Pokota is a stuffed animal after his ears are blown off revealing stuffing inside his ears. In the closing credits he is shown with a girl sewing new ears on. Because Shabranigdu took over Rezo who possessed Pokota's human body at the time, his human body was destroyed by Lina Inverse's Giga Slave. Thus, Pokota will never regain his human body.
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Pokota as a human
Pokota's primary physical characteristics are his large ears that function as his primary set of arms and hands, even though he has a smaller set of arms on his torso. He uses these ears to cast spells, make gestures, and glide through the air. His left ear has a gold ring near its four-fingered "hand," resembling a bracelet. In addition to flying, Pokota can also walk or run on his two short legs.
Pokota has short, beige-colored fur, a mohawk of lavender-colored hair and green fur on the ends of his ears. Beginning at his neck and ending part-way down his torso is a zipper that he opens to remove a replica Sword of Light from inside his body. He wears a red cape.
As a human, Pokota has long, lavender hair with a mohawk in the front. He wears a gold hoop in his left ear, and his clothes are for the most part green.
Skills
Pokota did not lose his abilities when Rezo transferred his spirit to his current body. He is a skilled sorcerer with magic powers comparable to Lina Inverse. He is able to easily cast the Dragon Slave, which few are able to do, in addition to being able to cast more common shamanistic and white magic spells. While he uses the arms on his torso to make the gestures necessary for casting spells, the hand-like ends of his ears release the spells themselves.
Pokota is the creator of the anti-magic tanks that Ruvinagald and Gioconda stole — their anti-magic capabilities are based on incomplete, yet still effective, Zanaffar armor. He also created a replica of the Sword of Light, which he stores inside the zippered area of his torso. The sword is not totally reliable, though, and sometimes it fails to activate or will spontaneously die. It was able to put a crack in Duclis' Zanaffar armor, that, while incomplete, resisted damage by conventional magic.
In his current form, Pokota is very fast and is able to make a quick escape. He can also glide through the air with his ears.
Relationships
Pokota has an established relationship with Duclis, who was also once human and in Slayers REVOLUTION was a friend of the Taforashia family. It is unclear what Duclis' exact connection to the royal family is, as he is never called by any title, but he and Pokota were friends before the two were transformed and Duclis began experimenting with Zanaffar armor. After Duclis' alignment with Gioconda, he and Pokota fought. Duclis briefly turned against Gioconda to awaken a perfected Zanaffar to destroy the countries that didn't stop Gioconda from stealing aid for Taforashia, so Pokota became his enemy again.
