Azumanga Daioh concentrates on other aspects of co-eds' lives: working together on class projects, going shopping together, holding karaoke and slumber parties, and in the final episodes deciding on what future careers to try for. Unlike most other girl-oriented high school anime series, Azumanga Daioh has no fantasy element other than the TV-comedy exaggeration of humorous situations (it is fun to watch the insensitive Yukari mishandling her classes, but let's hope that no real school system would retain a teacher like her for long), and there are no first-love situations.
teacher who is most sensitive and intelligent and the English teacher who is crass and oblivious) and we follow along with them as they grow intellectually and emotionally during the three years until their graduation. Ed teacher Miss Minamo - in a casting against type, it is the P.E. The girls gradually become comfortably familiar with each other and their classmates and teachers (particularly English teacher Miss Yukari and Phys. Staff, broadcast April 8 through September 30, 2002) are each divided into five mini-episodes in emulation of the manga's newspaper comic strip format, although the mini-episodes are connected into a single story to encompass a particular test or sports event or seasonal activity.
The sixth begins as Kaori, another classmate of Tomo, Yomi and Sakaki who has a schoolgirl crush on "Miss Sakaki, but she is replaced due to a homeroom shuffle by Kagura, who is similar enough to both Sakaki and Tomo to become a friend of one and a rival of the other.Įach of the DVD volumes covers a half-year of school.
These three middle-school classmates are joined in their high school freshman homeroom by two transferees Chiyo-chan, a 10-year-old prodigy promoted directly from elementary school, and Ayumu, who has just moved to Tokyo from Osaka and is promptly nicknamed "Osaka" by Tomo. Yomi is the studious "brain, irritated by being constantly interrupted by Tomo. Sakaki is so physically huge and taciturn that everyone stereotypes her as athletically minded and anti-social, not realizing she is painfully shy. Tomo is hyper energetic and rambunctious, always leaping into action without thinking things out. Six girls go through the three years of high school together. It has been described as a situation comedy, but it is really a personality comedy more like Charles Schulz's Peanuts - a good American rival for the title of "the greatest comics ever."
This is the first of three such titles reviewed this month.Īzumanga Daioh literally means "the greatest comics ever." This is arguably justified in that seldom have a manga (a Japanese newspaper comic strip rather than the usual comicbook series) and its anime adaptation been so popular with almost no action. There seem to be an increasing number of anime schoolgirl romantic comedies being released in America. V.1, 3 & 4, five episodes/125 minutes v.2 & 5, four episodes/100 minutes v.6, three episodes/75 minutes. V.1, Entrance! V.2, Festivals! V.3, Rivals! V.4, Friends! V.5, Seniors! V.6, Graduation! Azumanga Daioh literally means "the greatest comics ever." © A.D.V.
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