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"Azumanga daiô" (2002): :  -- A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.

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School goes crazy
Plot:
A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers. full summary
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Absolutely, categorically fantastic. more (24 total)

Cast

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Tomoko Kaneda ... Chiyo Mihama (26 episodes, 2002)
Yuki Matsuoka ... Ayumu Kasuga / ... (26 episodes, 2002)
Chieko Higuchi ... Tomo Takino (26 episodes, 2002)
Rie Tanaka ... Koyomi Mizuhara / ... (26 episodes, 2002)
Yu Asakawa ... Sakaki (26 episodes, 2002)
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Series Directed by
Hiroshi Nishikiori (26 episodes, 2002)

Nishikiori Hiroshi (unknown episodes)
 
Series Writing credits
Kiyohiko Azuma (26 episodes, 2002)
Tomoyasu Okubo (4 episodes, 2002)
Ichiro Okouchi (3 episodes, 2002)
Aya Yoshinaga (2 episodes, 2002)

Series Produced by
John Ledford .... executive producer (unknown episodes)
Mark Williams .... executive producer (unknown episodes)
 
Series Original Music by
Masaki Kurihara (unknown episodes)
 
Series Art Direction by
Chikako Shibata (unknown episodes)
 
Series Sound Department
Cesar Inserny .... sound designer / sound mixer (26 episodes, 2002)

Yota Tsuruoka .... sound (unknown episodes)
 
Series Animation Department
Takashi Wada .... animation director (unknown episodes)
 
Series Other crew
Carole Pavlik .... production assistant (unknown episodes)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Azumanga Daioh (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Japan:24 min (26 episodes)
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USA:TV-PG | Germany:12 (episodes 1-7, 20-26) | Germany:6 (episodes 8-14) | Germany:o.Al. (episodes 15-19) | New Zealand:PG | South Korea:12 | Australia:PG | Canada:PG | UK:12 (part 1) | UK:PG (part 2) | Australia:MA
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The family names of Yukari and Nyamo are Tanizaki and Kurosawa respectively. Junichiro Tanizaki was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, while Akira Kurosawa was a highly respected and extremely influential motion picture director. more
Quotes:
Chiyo Mihama: [Over the phone talking to Yomi] You shouldn't grow careless and fall asleep naked. You bad girl. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Azumanga daioh (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Raspberry Heaven more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Absolutely, categorically fantastic., 3 July 2006
10/10
Author: huxleyhobbes from United Kingdom

I usually try to avoid hyperbole - I've studied enough English to know how overdone it can be. And in this case I will avoid hyperbole as well. I can quite honestly say that Azumanga Daioh is the best anime I've ever seen, and probably the best show.

Scratch that, actually. The number of *things* of any form which can match Azumanga can be counted on the fingers of both hands.

In every single episode, I found myself laughing out loud, going "Awwww, sooo cute!", and smiling with just... happiness. This is an idiosyncratic show, but also an incredibly poignant and touching one. I can think of nothing else which touches me so deeply that it makes me cry a tenth as often as And does. In that sense, it is the best feel-good panacea I have ever come across, or heard of. It's possible I am forgetting a Norse myth which spoke of something better, but I doubt it.

The show is also, of course, incredibly funny. Whilst there is the occasional joke lost in translation, or which benefits from a little knowledge of Japanese culture, the vast majority of the humor is accessible to anybody who cares to watch it. It has more classic lines than anything except perhaps Monty Python.

Put simply, this show has everything necessary to be a classic. It is for Azumanga Daioh that anime and television and efficient, modern distribution methods exist. If you have any soul, any joy in your body, I cannot recommend this enough. Import it, track it down in stores, do whatever you can to get a hold of it. Well, anything except theft. Everyone involved with the creation of this masterpiece deserves every penny they are paid, and several edifices to their greatness besides.

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