A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.
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- TriviaThe title of the show is essentially meaningless. The comic strip on which the show is based was written by Azuma Kiyohiko, and "Azumanga" is an amalgalm of his name and "manga", the Japanese word for comic books. "Daioh" comes from "Dengeki Daioh" ("Great Electric Shock King"), the monthly Japanese comic anthology in which the comics originally ran.
- Quotes
[Osaka is looking around the classroom, turning her head, eyes wandering in a crazy pattern, unfocused]
Kaorin: Osaka? What are you doing?
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga: [still moving her eyes and head about] You know those tiny bubbles inside your eyes you sometimes catch? Yeah, I'm trackin' 'em down as we speak.
Kaorin: [dumbfounded] ... I see. Goooood luck with that.
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga: [distantly, carrying on] Uh-huh. Uh, thank you...
- ConnectionsFeatured in AMV Hell (2004)
- SoundtracksSoramimi Cake
Lyrics by Aki Hata
Music and Arrangements by Hikaru Nanase (as Masumi Itô)
Vocals by Oranges and Lemons
Courtesy of Lantis
Scratch that, actually. The number of *things* of any form which can match Azumanga can be counted on the fingers of both hands.
In every single episode, I found myself laughing out loud, going "Awwww, sooo cute!", and smiling with just... happiness. This is an idiosyncratic show, but also an incredibly poignant and touching one. I can think of nothing else which touches me so deeply that it makes me cry a tenth as often as And does. In that sense, it is the best feel-good panacea I have ever come across, or heard of. It's possible I am forgetting a Norse myth which spoke of something better, but I doubt it.
The show is also, of course, incredibly funny. Whilst there is the occasional joke lost in translation, or which benefits from a little knowledge of Japanese culture, the vast majority of the humor is accessible to anybody who cares to watch it. It has more classic lines than anything except perhaps Monty Python.
Put simply, this show has everything necessary to be a classic. It is for Azumanga Daioh that anime and television and efficient, modern distribution methods exist. If you have any soul, any joy in your body, I cannot recommend this enough. Import it, track it down in stores, do whatever you can to get a hold of it. Well, anything except theft. Everyone involved with the creation of this masterpiece deserves every penny they are paid, and several edifices to their greatness besides.
- huxleyhobbes
- Jul 2, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Azumanga Daioh
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime24 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3