Azumanga Daioh

Maybe she was just really polite, even in Osaka?

I can't wait to learn how to make my own free anime.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

Okay, when this◊ is one of the main illustrations for Cloud Cuckoolander, my curiosity is piqued.

On the other hand, I'm held back because I've never really seen any anime. At all.

Azumanga Daioh is a great introductory anime!!

It was the first anime series I watched through to its completion, and I own all of the DV Ds!

Watch it and you will be hooked! It is something to watch again and again.

High school girls and their teachers doing ridiculous things for the lulz, having fun times and adventures, and adorable yet evil cats. What's not to like?

edited 30th Nov '12 2:47:04 PM by Ruise

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.

That character is a great example of a Cloud Cuckoolander, but I'm not sure what you'd think of the other characters in this particular series.

Sasaki is arguably even more of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander.

Say, is the manga any good? I managed to blitz through the entire anime in a few days a couple of months ago.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

The manga has better joke timing, in my opinion. The anime often had to stretch out the gags to hit the five minute mark. Also, there's more manga material than has been animated.

Where would be the best place to view it?

You can probably find it at the usual online manga sites. I don't really have a preference in that regard.

I meant the anime.

Girrrl *

, just look around. Google is your friend.

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.

Well, this was surprisingly easy to get into. Seriously, why is getting into new works such a hang-up for me? I sat on this episode link a good 36 hours before finally clicking play. The entire first episode was quite entertaining.

Also, Osaka and Tomo share personality traits with a furry character I'm trying to develop, so that was a plus — as far as giving me ideas for what such a character would be like.

We all know what happened to ADV, so which DV Ds are barebones and/or out of print and worth shelling out a few more bucks for (on Ebay or Amazon)?

You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything. — Talking Heads, 1977

I have a question about the new supplemental sections of the manga. I recently got the Omnibus for Christmas after having picked it out in a Japanese bookstore that also included English translated manga. I picked it out even though I already have the original set of 4 manga volumes because I thought that the Omnibus included the new supplemental manga strips. Unfortunately, it turned out that I have not been able to find any of the new strips in the Omnibus. Have those ever been officially translated into English anywhere?

(It was still worth it to get the Omnibus because it does have more consistent translations throughout, such as keeping Yukari as an English teacher through the whole manga, whereas the set with individual volumes that I have shows her as a Spanish teacher in the first volume. Since I don't need two versions of what is pretty much the same exact manga, I'm selling my older set on eBay. If anyone is interested, PM me and I can try to find where my dad listed it because he's the one with an eBay account.)

Far as I'm aware, no, the Supplementary Lessons were never officially translated to English. Yen Press considered releasing the Omnibus with the redrawn versions, but ultimately decided on retranslating the originals to get it out quicker. They're still open to releasing the newer edition though, if demand warrants it.

I forgot how funny this was.

I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.

I found a fan translation of the extra strips online somewhere once, but we don't talk about that sort of thing here anymore.

I couldn't conceive a dream so wet; your bongos make me congo.

Yeah, that reminds me: when Yen Press went to retranslate/reissue the manga, they considered bringing over the redrawn version instead of the original; they decided against doing so supposedly because the audience here was already used to the original, and there would've been extra work involved in translating the Supplementary Lessons, but noted that if there were enough support for the move, they'd consider doing so.

Sorry for derailing a conversation,but somehow came into my mind:

Meshuggah's "Combustion" + Yukari's driving scene (post-scarred chiyo)

It's either hilarious or stupid.

or mildly interesting.

edited 1st May '15 11:40:32 AM by Elpanados45

So after seeing so many trope images on this very wiki, I decided to go check the anime out.

...and then I wound up going through the anime itself, the Very Short Movie (actually the first one I watched) and the original web animation (if I got the terminology right). And some fan translations of the Supplementary Chapters.

Overall, I found the series as a whole to be really very amusing, in addition to the general sweetness of it all (penguin costume, anyone?). You Belong, and that... kind of does strike a chord with someone who's been an outsider for almost all of his life.

Now I'm interested in getting my hands on the Yen Press omnibus, and their translation of the Supplementary Chapters if they do make one. And I wonder if I can name a fictional automotive racing team/crew Team Sea Slug...

EDIT: Is it just me, or is there really some CG in the web animation?

edited 30th May '15 10:30:28 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

Random question: What would a grown-up version of Chiyo be like?

... Good question. I would like to know as well.

Well, here◊ is one fan artist's impression of what a 19-year-old Chiyo would look like. And another◊ that is apparently more "Americanized".

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

I prefer the first one. Though I'm still wondering what she'd be like in terms of personality. I like to imagine she wouldn't be as easily pushed around and abused as she use to be, something Tomo and maybe Yukari would likely find out the hard way if they ever reunited with her.

edited 29th Aug '15 1:38:59 PM by marston

Why does nineteen year old Chiyo looks fourteen?

edited 29th Aug '15 3:35:26 PM by Arha

Perhaps partly because of the tendency for a considerable number of Japanese women to be Older Than They Look around that age IRL, and partly as a perpetuation of the canonical Running Gag that she's tiny compared to her school peers.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.