History Manga / Nichijou

The manga began serialization in the December 2006 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine ''Shōnen Ace'' and ran until 2015, with 10 volumes to its name (plus a "''Volume X''" which collects miscellaneous magazine chapters and unused concepts and three ''Helvetica Standard'' books compiling illustrations, comic strips, and store bonuses). An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/KyotoAnimation premiered on Japanese television in April 2011 and went for 26 episodes, preceded by an "Episode 0" OVA by sub-studio Animation Do released a month prior. It suffered from bad ratings from the start though, due to its rather [[WidgetSeries unusual content]] and unlucky premiere date choice[[note]]It aired on the heels of the 2011 Touhou Earthquake & Tsunami and faced stiff competition from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''[[/note]]. Add to this the poor sales, caused partially by Kadokawa highly overpricing the DVD and BD sets, and one can see this turned into an unusually disappointing entry in [=KyoAni=]'s line-up.

* MagicSkirt: Oh so much. Three glaring examples are when Yuuko does a fliptake after making several horrible puns (What nice tenki (weather) today... I MIGHT BUY A TEN KEY PAD!) and yet her skirt magically stays up. Another is her time spent as the coffee shop. Several angles show her throwing herself around in frustration at being unable to buy an expresso, and most of them are at her legs yet her skirt is always protected by a wonderfully convenient impossibely cast shadow. The last major one is when Mio does a 50-foot jump into the water.

* TrainingMontage: Possibly parodied in Chapter 59/Episode 79. When Mio can't do the high jump properly, Yukko agrees to train her. This results in a training montage featuring clips of Mio and Yukko jumping set to inspirational music, and includes a clip of Mio being given inspirational words by the Kendo instructor about what hard work can do. Mio then tries the high jump one last time; but instead of getting it right, it results in her failing even more spectacularly then before.

** Annaka is very prone to this; "Eeeehhh?!" is practically her CatchPhrase, and became her ImageSong. She even has a sort of "Big What tennis match" with Takasaki-sensei in Chapter 62/Episode 15.

** Also happens during the [[spoiler: Dog and Pen Laser scenes]] regarding the laser fired due to pain. We are given a dramatic circle shot before Yuuko's laser [[spoiler: takes out the rest of the planets]] because she accidentally ''stabbed herself with a pen''.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Mio's wood cubes ''and'' [[spoiler: Mi-chan's 'mud pie']] (as revealed in Episode 21).

** Nano, justifiedly - she is a robot after all.

** At the beginning of Episode 8, Nano accidentally activates a RocketPunch, and she's seen chasing after it while Yuuko and Mio walk to school. Her right hand then flies across the sky during Sasahara's segment (causing him to write a haiku about it), and comes back again later to sock Misato in the head. [[CallBack It's also the primary reason why there's no rock-paper-scissors segment that week - that's her rock-paper-scissors hand]].

*** In this same storefront, you can see Annaka's large bow, and the wrestling mask used by Mio's stalker in Nichijou's prototype chapter.

** [[spoiler: After some rough patches at the beginning, Mai's relationship with the Professor becomes this as of chapter 100.]]

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The formerly final chapter ends with future versions of Yuuko, Mio, Mai and Nano going to dig up a time capsule that contains letters they'd written to their adult selves back when they were teenagers. To Mio's dismay, it turns out that the sapling Yuuko buried just above the letters has grown into a massive tree and completely enveloped the capsule, making it impossible to reach.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Ms. Nakamura]] is seen looking for Sakamoto in Episode 3 after the Professor and Nano adopt him. The [[spoiler: Kendo assistant instructor]] turns up to offer Mio sage words of advice in Episode 18.

** In Chapter 206, the new daifuku mascot makes a wooden statue of a daifuku warrior. This is a clue that [[spoiler: it's Mai in the suit!]]

** The background artists certainly felt like they had fun working on this show. Take the second episode - the Go-Soccer club has recruitment posters up on the classroom walls, there's a 'don't sweat it in the hallway' poster up in the hallway, the convenience store has [[BlandNameProduct Wou~i Ocha]] [[note]]parody of 'Ooo-i Ocha', the first sound representing a shout across a field[[/note]] and 'Overcooked Soup' (the black one being sold for 100 yen - cheaper than the others!), the list goes on.

* IronButtmonkey: Yuuko - considering the universe that she lives, she needs to be. Sakamoto also counts, to a lesser extent.

** From the manga: a FlashForward chapter (186) shows [[spoiler:Ms. Sakurai]] wearing a wedding ring. Chapter 190 features a cupid accidentally dropping an arrow on [[spoiler: Ms. Sakurai's]] head while [[spoiler:Mr. Takasaki]] is in front of her. This arrow is later accidentally transferred to [[spoiler:Sasahara, who's looking down the barrel of a cannon...]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: Semi-averted for Nano in Episode 13 - the Professor allows her to go to school, which was the status quo in the manga from the start... Although outside of two gags early on, all of Nano's scenes in the manga involve the laboratory in some way.

** Yuuko is sent to stand in the hallway after forgetting her homework at home - the homework she ''remembered to do all by herself, for once''- and a dog appears standing next to her. It puts its left paw on her shoulder. A universe out to get her, yet a small dog is ironically the one to throw her a bone! The dog, later identified as Buddy, would go on to do this multiple times for Yuuko; see RunningGag.

** Episode 14 proves ''why'' this is such a big deal, as it changes the dynamic of the school scenes to match the manga. Then it turns it up a notch with a full-scale shouting match between Yuuko and Mio, and the revelation that [[spoiler: Go-Soccer is ''an actual sport'']]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And there's a new opening.]]
** Chapter 172 of the manga is this for being the first [[spoiler: FlashForward story, revealing that the Professor is now old enough to go to Yuuko's old school, Nakamura is living with her and Nano, and Yuuko herself is returning to Japan after an absence]]!

* AnachronicOrder: The manga likes to skip around its timeline repeatedly. Some chapters only take place a couple weeks/months before others, but other chapters flash back to the main girls' middle school years, or skip forward to their young adult selves.

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Yuuko's preferred brand of humor, usually with Mai. She's not very good at it, and Mai (her preferred partner) is ''exceptional'' at being stoic.

* MythArc: The anime adds a very light one with Nano wanting to be a normal girl and convincing the Professor to let her go to school to make new friends. This is helped by the manga not showing Nano at school for long stretches of time, allowing her to not not attend school for over half the episode count without affecting anything. Nano enrolling is notable enough to warrant a new OP / ED set, and the final episode has her accept the key on her back for the emotional climax.

* In the manga, Mio is able to tell that she's dreaming when [[TheStoic Mai]] runs in and acts like an expressive, extroverted GenkiGirl.

** Which she then "borrows" to put on a crow in Episode 17. Sakamoto gets it back later.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mio occasionally gets so mad at Yuuko that she rants about the stupid things the latter has done. Yuuko does it to her once in a while as well, usually in an epic, HamToHamCombat style.

** The anime is currently divided between two main plotlines and multiple minor plotlines. The stories around Yuuko, Mio, and Mai and the story at Shinonome Laboratories are presented in equal measure. The running plot about the Go-Soccer Club is presented less than a minute at a time. The teachers' romance and Misato/Sasahara also get their day, but infrequently.

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The formerly final chapter ends with future versions of Yuuko, Mio, Mai and Nano going to dig up a time capsule that contains letters they'd written to their adult selves back when they were teenagers. To Mio's dismay, it turns out that the sapling Yuuko buried with the letters has grown into a massive tree and completely enveloped the capsule, making it impossible to reach.]]

** Yuuko's losing her shoes in Episode 14. She kicks off one, it lands on a car which promptly drives off. While giving chase, she stumbles and loses the other shoe, which a dog runs away with.

* GrandFinale: The anime invents two brand new stories to serve as this in the final two episodes. In the penultimate episode, after Mio has her breakdown over Sasahara, Yuuko, Nano and Mai devise a charming way to give her a "Voucher to be friends for eternity" on her way back home. In the final episode, the Nano finally accepts herself as both a robot and a person, and all six main characters are under the same roof for the very first time .

* LifeSavingMisfortune: PlayedForLaughs, but still: One manga chapter has Mio blow all of her money trying to buy a chopping board from an uncooperative vending machine, only to end up with a miniature version of said board. A few chapters later, Nakanojou unknowingly strikes a nail so hard it flies straight towards Mio; since she had stored the board in her school uniform's pocket, it stopped the nail from ''piercing her heart'', to her horror.

* NoNameGiven: The Professor and Misato's two friends Fecchan and Weboshi.

** In manga chapter 141, Yuuko is repeatedly pulling out the retractable vacuum cleaner cord and experiencing euphoria when it snaps back into position. She gets told off by her mother... who proceeds to do the exact same thing.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While the manga jumped all over the series timeline before generally settling on one continuity, the anime attempts to make a chronological order starting from before Nano is admitted into high school and continuing on through her first year of school (ep. 14 onwards). Sakamoto is also introduced earlier, which makes him available for Shinonome household shenanigans, and some skits are reordered and placed in different parts of the year.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 13. [[spoiler:Nano will go to school.]] Definitely worthy of a DynamicEntry.
** Episode 14 proves ''why'' this is such a big deal, as it changes the dynamic of the school scenes. Then it turns it up a notch with a full-scale shouting match between Yuuko and Mio, and the revelation that [[spoiler: Go-Soccer is ''an actual sport'']]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And there's a new opening.]]

* GrandFinale: The anime uses Nano accepting her key as this for the final episode, and it's the only time the anime has all six main characters are in the same location. To a lesser degree, the previous episode counts as well, where the girls affirm their lasting friendship through Mio.

* BrickJoke: Several.

** At the beginning of Episode 8, Nano accidentally activates a RocketPunch. Her right hand then flies across the sky during Sasahara's segment (causing him to write a haiku about it), and comes back again later to sock Misato in the head. [[CallBack It's also the primary reason why there's no rock-paper-scissors segment that week - that's her rock-paper-scissors hand.]]

** Right in the first episode there's the objects that go flying in the explosion at the start and, more significantly, the poor boy who only shows up atop a chimney at the end of the episode when you've forgotten all about him.
*** At the very beginning of the next episode, the boy walks in front of Mio, Yuuko and Mai as they play the stair game, showing he did, in fact, get down. Somehow...

** A dorayaki Tanaka pulls out of his afro for Sakurai-sensei resurfaces in an appropriate 'Short Thoughts' segment later on.

** In one episode, [[ButtMonkey Yukko]] tries to do a flip when two people are holding the other sides of a jumprope, only to fall right on her face. Then they accidentally hit her with the rope.
** In one episode, Mio runs up to two people holding onto a jumprope and jumps up, and then she bumps her head on the rope.
** One more episode has the teacher Izumi Sakurai attempt to jumprope. However, she touches the rope [[EpicFail the instant she runs in]], and she just starts frantically jumping with her eyes closed while the rope isn't even going.

* OnceAnEpisode: There are actually several of these in the anime:

** Then there's the Professor and Nano playing Rock-Paper-Scissors, only the Professor's modified Nano in a way that's either humiliating, or works things out in the Professor's favor. In later episodes, the two do a little dance instead. The segment made a comeback in Episode 26, in which [[spoiler:Nano finally wins! ...But Sakamoto accidentally covered the Professor's face, preventing her from seeing it.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Played positively in Episode 26 when Yuuko completely ignores accidentally pulling off Nano's arm, quickly giving it back to her and asking if she and her friends can visit Nano's house after school. Nano realizes the significance of this towards the end, since Yuuko would normally gush about her robotic features. That she didn't helps Nano realize that she has friends who truly care about her, robot or not.
* OrphanedPunchline: In the anime, Mai can be seen in the background of a short with some crows. In the manga, this is the punchline to the previous chapter where crows steal the principal's hairpiece, dentures, and a baseball player's cap.

* RocketJump: Misato pulls one off in the manga while running away from her sister.

* MilestoneCelebration: Chapter 50 of the manga has Yuuko give Nano a surprise visit at home, which has a surprisingly touching climax. It was the first time Nano had been seen with anyone from the regular cast since she was introduced over 40 chapters earlier.

* OrphanedPunchline: In the anime, Mai can be seen in the background of a short with some crows. In the manga, this is the punchline to the previous chapter where crows steal the principal's hairpiece, denchers and a baseball player's cap.

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: After Yukko fails miserably at ordering off the complicated new coffee list, she invites Mio to the same coffee shop to watch her fail, but Mio flawlessly recites one of these.

** Episode 21 features a RepeatCut of Takasaki-sensei giving Yuuko a light smack on the head with his class binder. As in, repeated over 50 times. In the manga, it went on for a few pages.

** While the girls are trapped inside an elevator, they start playing shiritori to pass the time: Yuuko's first word is Mikan (Orange). It takes their isolation-addled minds several seconds to realise that there's a problem. They also play shiritori in Chapter 190.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Nano is absolutely terrified of cockroaches and lightning (understandably, since she's a robot).

%%* AmusingInjuries

* AssShove: Mio, Mai, and Yuuko all play a game of [[ParlorGames Musical Chairs]] in Episode 175, but with a pointy bamboo shoot instead. While Mio intentionally set it up so that the rush of getting to the seat overpowers their common sense of not sitting on a pointy cone, Mio herself is foolish enough to get there first and subject herself to the pain. What makes it more humiliating is that the other two ''knew'' it was a fruitless endeavor and didn't bother indulging her.

* CherryBlossoms: Used to great effect at the start (and end) of the show.

* DreadfulMusician: Nano.

* EmotionlessGirl: Mai acts this way as a vehicle for her pranks.

* MakeMeWannaShout: When Yukko accidentally stabs her thumb with a pen, she lets out a scream so loud that it blasts through ''all of the planets''. She and Mio pull more of them when they get bitten by Mai's dogs (with Mio's blasting through a nearby building).

** Jumping rope. Except for Mai everyone who does it gets it wrong in some fashion.

* ImagineSpot:

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* LongTitle: One of the remixes of the opening song is called "Hyadain no Kakakata☆Kataomoi-C 'Forbidden Cats' sakamoto playing the Orchestronica REMIX".

* KansaiRegionalAccent: When Nano and the Professor first put on Sakamoto's scarf, they are eager to hear the voice of their adorable newly-adopted pet. To their shock and disappointment, he speaks using a gruff Osaka dialect.