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1* {{Adorkable}}: Sakurai's ShrinkingViolet tendencies make her very cute.
2* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3** In one episode, Yuuko's wallet is lost when she gives it to Mio for safekeeping in an amusement park. [[YankTheDogsChain Later she manages to retrieve her wallet back only to find out her money was gone]], and then she makes a face that can be best described as a combination of ThousandYardStare and DullEyesOfUnhappiness. [[CosmicPlaything Was Yuuko cursing her own constant misfortune]]? [[SuppressedRage Was she angry at Mio for being careless, but unable to express her anger properly]]? Or was Yuuko trying to invoke ForgivenButNotForgotten trope, but Mio was too dense to be aware of it?
4** Is Yoshino a good-natured [[TheGadfly prankster]] or a BitchInSheepsClothing {{Jerkass}}?
5%% Suddenly, giving Yoshino AdaptationalVillainy feels like a good idea for a DarkFic...
6* AmericansHateTingle: The Professor is disliked by Western fans, who don't gravitate towards the bratty TokenMiniMoe archetype nearly as much as the Japanese fanbase does.
7* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Despite the fairly simple character designs, everything else about the anime is absolutely gorgeous, even by Creator/KyotoAnimation's already high standards. The backgrounds are very highly detailed, seeing real-time perspective shifts in a 2D plane is not uncommon (although some [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CG is used]] where it would be otherwise too difficult and expensive to animate by hand, see below), and the frames-per-second rate is remarkably high for this sort of anime.
8* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the soundtrack consist of beautifully composed orchestral music that perfectly fits the situations of comedy, sadness, madness, or just ordinary moments of everyday.
9* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[OnceAnEpisode Almost once an episode]] with the Helvetica Standard segments which indulge in ArtShift and ''frequently make no sense at all''.
10* DelusionConclusion: An early episode (Chapter 25) sees Yuuko, Mio, and Mai stuck in a broken elevator and undergoing HeroicBSOD. Although later episodes make it clear that they got out eventually, we never actually see how. This resulted in fans speculating that subsequent episodes were actually the DyingDream of one of the trio stuck in the elevator.
11* DiagnosedByTheAudience: A sizable portion of fans interpret Mai Minakami as autistic thanks to her flat affect, her high intelligence, her inability to pick up on social cues, and her fascination with pranks, the latter of which is often read as a special interest. Such interpretations also portray her hobby of carving statues as a stim.
12* FanNickname:
13** "[[SmallGirlBigGun Gun]]dere" for Misato, due to being such a massive {{Tsundere}} towards Sasahara that she shows her ''tsun'' side by shooting him with various kinds of firearms.
14** "Eh-chan" for Haruna Annaka, for her habit of responding to weird situations with [[BigWhat "EHHHHHHH?!"]].
15* FriendlyFandoms: The relationship between this show's fandom and ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'''s fandom, both due to them being similar in name and due to them [[SliceOfLife sharing the same genre]]. Both will argue about which show they think is better, but the arguments never get heated, and both fandoms seem to respect each other and their respective shows. If someone has only seen one show and not the other, fans will often urge them to watch the other as well.
16* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
17** Fans in North America and Europe -- where ''Nichijou'' is one of the most popular comedy anime -- are often surprised to hear how badly the anime bombed in Japan and how similarly poorly the manga has sold. The manga ranked 49th in sales for 2011, and the anime [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-10-01/animator-shunji-suzuki-confirms-nichijo-r-15-itsuten-low-sales lost a lot of money for Kadokawa.]] It actually got to the point that Creator/{{Funimation}} decided to take an extra step and re-release the series with an English dub.[[note]]Generally speaking, Creator/{{Funimation}} will always dub their anime, but there are rare cases that they don't due to low expectations on sales and will almost never do dubbed re-releases.[[/note]]
18** It's also well-liked among Southeast Asian audiences (more particularly Indonesian and Malay) due to subtle references to their language and incorporate of Malay/Indonesian puns into the Japanese language (such as kuma and beruang).
19* HilariousInHindsight:
20** Three of the voice actors doing major roles in ''Literature/FateZero'' turn up within the same scene together during [[TheCameo the airship sequence]] of Episode 21 as [[RedShirt a bunch of red shirts]], namely [[Creator/JojiNakata Kirei]], [[Creator/AkioOtsuka Rider]] and [[Creator/ShowHayami Tokiomi]]. [[spoiler: The first two are killed by the ImagineSpot Mio within a minute of each other.]]
21** The [[ISeeDeadPeople medium]] who is asked to contact "soap" and after getting a response, Tsuyoshi asks if that could [[Characters/ModernWarfare really be someone's name]].
22* MemeticMutation:
23** It's rather popular to photoshop other characters in the Nichijou art style. [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19019855 Some]] [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=20090966 examples]] [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19154023 for your]] [[http://blog-imgs-29.fc2.com/c/h/o/cholaret/20110409022545fb3.jpg viewing pleasure.]] This is known as [[http://preview.tinyurl.com/3v8hkwu "Nichijou OP Parody"]] on the popular Website/{{Pixiv}} art site. (See also AnimeOpeningParody for animated examples)
24*** Even the creators started doing this. One on the back of a box set has the protagonist of [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Persona 3 and 4 on it.]]
25** Yuuko and Mio giving a blank stare at Mai in Episode 2 was one of the earliest popular reaction image.
26** [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/841/992/414.gif The scene where Mio performs a dragon screw move on Sasahara's goat]] made the rounds on the internet in GIF form for a while.
27** Playing the Helvetica Standard theme over videos featuring SurrealHumor, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEB1_yQ3ruc this.]]
28** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCK3Fs9Tlgc Shake It Saturday.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]A counterpart to the "[[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Out of Touch]] Thursdays" meme surrounding ''Manga/LuckyStar'', fans noticed that "Shake It" by Metro Station syncs up uncannily well with the ''Nichijou'' anime's OP, leading to a similar edit being created for the sake of being reposted every Saturday by dedicated fans.[[/labelnote]]
29** Part 96 from Episode 22 where Professor is crying out loud in front of fainted Sakamoto is lately becoming a popular reaction meme, and due to Sakamoto seemingly looked flatted, it has mutated to run that idea for any flattened objects.
30** ''Procrastination''.[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://youtu.be/khK_afMwAdA A fan video]] by prolific web animator Peargor depicting Yuuko, Mio, and Mai reenacting the ending sequence for ''Manga/{{Joshiraku}}'', complete with Misato shooting Mio in time with the machine gun sounds. The video quickly exploded in popularity thanks to the catchy music and the parody's surprising appropriateness for ''Nichijou'', with many viewers admitting that, true to the video's title, they couldn't stop watching it.[[/labelnote]]
31%%* {{Moe}}:
32%%** Sakurai-sensei.
33%%** The Professor as a CatGirl.
34%%--->'''Nano:''' Professor, [[InvokedTrope that's probably moe!]]
35%%*** Hell, the Professor, full stop.
36%%** Nano and Sakurai-sensei ''together'', as seen in Episode 14.
37%%** Misato provides the requisite {{Tsundere}} moe.
38%%** Most female characters qualify for this in some way or other. Even Nakamura-sensei, who was noted a few times in-universe to be cute.
39* QuirkyWork: Despite how the title means "Ordinary Life", the series has a very odd and sometimes surreal sense of humor; the world the characters live in [[CloudCuckooLand has a lot of oddities of its own]], and often seems tailor-made for setups to jokes. There are also several jokes that make more sense to Japanese viewers.
40* RainbowLens: Many fans interpret Nano as a trans allegory based on her insecurity over her physical differences, fear of being exposed as a robot, and wish to be accepted as a normal girl.
41* SignatureScene:
42** The one scene everyone's heard about is the one where the Principal performs a SuplexFinisher on a deer. Hell, it's the page image for the SuplexFinisher page. It was also the scene used to [[https://youtu.be/yfC_alWYcPk announce Yuuko's English VA.]]
43** Mio unleashing a CurbStompBattle on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30Y572EmCk three people and a goat]] is probably the most famous scene in the anime, due to both the fluid animation and how unexpected it is.
44** The entire Part 96 in Episode 22 for its sheer amount of over-the-top hilarity and it's widely regarded as the series' pinnacle.
45* SignatureSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDv8oZoo7-c "Helvetica Standard Sono 2"]] is easily one of the most recognizable tracks from the soundtrack due to its use in the ''Helvetica Standard'' meme.
46* SpiritualSuccessor: The show is often viewed by some to be one of the closest things to an anime based on the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series, since it is a comedic SliceOfLife series with a focus on SurrealHumor and wacky characters with unique gimmicks who often find themselves in odd scenarios in an equally odd setting.
47* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
48** The end of Episode 3 features one of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five".
49** Nakamura-sensei's leitmotif owes a bit to the ''Film/JamesBond'' theme.
50* TearJerker:
51** In the "Small thoughts" segment of Episode 10, a teacher is talking about how people respond to either praise or punishments. A girl at the distance thinks: "I react to praise... but I never am..."
52** The scene in Episode 13 where: the Professor allows Nano to go to school is more of a heartwarming moment, but for all the problems Nano deals with, a lot of viewers will feel tears welling up.
53** If you watched the OVA after the anime, the ending song can be really bitersweet.
54* ValuesDissonance: Sasahara's [[MockMillionaire pretensions of being from nobility despite actually being the son of a farmer]] doesn't make much sense outside Japan, where owning land is a bigger deal due to being a small country in terms of land mass, and it likely pokes fun at the stereotype of Japanese farmers having inflated self-worth because of this. In the US, at the least, farmers are known for living simpler lives. Amusingly, this also makes it funnier by having him be the polar opposite of that interpretation.
55* TheWoobie:
56** Don't you just wanna give Sakurai-sensei a hug?
57** Same goes for Nano, big time.
58** Via FridgeHorror and FanWank, [[https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/49479693/ courtesy of /a/:]] Yuuko.

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