History Headscratchers / AzumangaDaioh

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** In Japan it is common for parents to pay the rent for small one person apartments that are located near colleges. This is why Sakaki says "it's too far to commute" (by public transit). Japanese people would have picked up on the implication.

* Remember the individual reactions of everyone the next morning after Nyamo's drunken lecture. Osaka, Tomo, Kagura, and Yomi treat her with a newfound respect, bowing to her and formally thanking her for the lecture. Chiyo asked for clarification. What did Sakaki do? She blushed and fled from view as soon as she saw Nyamo come down the staircase. She appeared to be just as intrigued as everyone else had been the night previous. Why was Sakaki's reaction the morning afterward so much different than the other girls? Sakaki may be reserved, but I would hesitate to call her shy or timid, and is rarely, if ever, shown to be the type to flee a situation, even if it's awkward.

* Remember the individual reactions of everyone the next morning after Nyamo's drunken lecture. Osaka, Tomo, Kagura, and Yomi treat her with a newfound respect, bowing to her and formally thanking her for the lecture. Chiyo asked for clarification. What did Sakaki do? She blushed and fled from view as soon as she saw Nyamo come down the staircase. She appeared to be just as intrigued as everyone else had been the night previous. Why was Sakaki's reaction the morning afterward so much different than the other girls? Sakaki may be reserved, but I would hesitate to call her shy or timid.

** Remember the individual reactions of everyone the next morning. Osaka, Tomo, Kagura, and Yomi treat her with a newfound respect, bowing to her and formally thanking her for the lecture. Chiyo asked for clarification. What did Sakaki do? She blushed and fled from view as soon as she saw Nyamo come down the staircase. She appeared to be just as intrigued as everyone else had been the night previous. Why was Sakaki's reaction the morning afterward so much different than the other girls? Sakaki may be reserved, but I would hesitate to call her shy or timid.

** Presumably, with great difficulty. She is just so wildly ahead she managed to wrangle an exception. I don't know about how the specific rules work in Japan, but I rather expect creative LoopholeAbuse could bypass them, and the people who would ordinarily block it gave it a pass since Chiyo is clearly qualified academically. Her family is also rich enough that they could arrange to track down any obtuse loopholes and get appointments with whoever could help exploit them.

** There's a couple of possibilities. First, Chiyo almost certainly got in via a somewhat unusual manner, thus technically qualifying as a transfer student and providing an opening to explain the presence of a 10-year-old. Second, many schools have a picnic or open house or ceremony prior to the beginning of classes, which Chiyo may have missed. She also likely didn't take the entrance exam in a group with them, although that probably provided little opportunity for socializing. Third, many of the students know each other from before they came to the school.

** 'sha gym teccher. Good body, lossa muscle. Ken drink moren shtupi' [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yukkuri]]... Annish weak shake, shtupi' cheap [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yukkuri]]...[[hottip:Verbose Translation: She is a gym teacher. With her well-toned musculature, increased metabolism, and lower body fat than Yukari, who is lazy and tends to eat a lot when she can afford to do so, Nyamo's muscles absorb alcohol far more readily. This leaves less alcohol circulating in the bloodstream for her liver and brain to absorb, and likely helps to alleviate the effect (if my recollection is correct, which it probably isn't, Minamo also had a history of heavy alcohol use and can likely weather a hangover more easily than a less experienced person with a similar hangover). In addition to the previous points about Minamo's metabolism, Yukari is not particularly refined when it comes to her tastes in... well, anything, and is quite frugal (some might say miserly, when it comes to things aside from korean barbecue). The gourmand that she is, Yukari likely purchased inexpensive, low-quality sake with an alcohol content lower than a more finely distilled rice wine.]]

** Osaka is implied to be [[HollywoodHomely pretty plain looking]], (which is hard to believe considering how damn [[{{Moe}} adorable she is.]]) so that might have something to do with it. Whats worse is that he avoids Osaka for that and the other obvious reason, but show's ''incredibly'' blatant intrest in Chiyo-Chan.

** We only ever see **one** of her tests. She might've be an avarange (or maybe even a good) student in the other subjects.
** Also, with her extensive knowledge of kanji and the likes, she might be good in Japanese classes for a change. I do not know about the Japanese system, but most educational systems allow for a student to equalise bad grades with sufficient ones, so...

** That still doesn't explain why she drank it the first place. RuleOfFunny, obviously.

** This may also be just another minor tweaking of reality done for the sake of the show. Keep in mind that Chiyo's situation (being allowed to skip a few grades) may not seem so odd to Westerners but it's something that basically ''doesn't happen'' in Japan. So the Yukarimobile being allowed on the road may be the same sort of deal (and I don't know precisely how Japan handles bad driving, but I suspect that in real life Yukari would have been pulled over and had her license revoked long ago with the way she drives).

** This may also be just another minor tweaking of reality done for the sake of the show. Keep in mind that Chiyo's situation (being allowed to skip a few grades) may not seem so odd to Westerners but it's something that basically ''doesn't happen'' in Japan. So the Yukarimobile being allowed on the road may be the same sort of deal.