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agreed, not many anime are as comfy as azu
my favorite will always be osaka

the music was relaxing.

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I really love how early Tomo looks. To me everyone looks better with Azuma's old style, but I think Tomo is the one that looks the best. The only girl I'd say looks much better with his more modern styles is Chiyo, definitely.
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Checked OP and
Tomo>Osaka>Yukari>Kagura>Chiyo>Yomi>Nyamo>Sakaki>K*ori

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I keep thinking about this anime despite not having watched it in a while, probably because it serves as a point of comparison for the many similar anime that are never quite as good. It makes me wonder how Azumanga Daioh succeeds where others fail. The show's understanding of comedic structure (inherited from the manga) certainly helps. For some reason, even an elementary grasp of comedy is absent in a lot of anime, especially similar moe or slice-of-life shows, and Azumanga Daioh hits it out of the park there, but what I can't figure out is what makes the characters so interesting. Especially in the manga, they always felt fairly realistic even with their exaggerated personalities. They fall into recognizable archetypes for the most part, but something keeps them from being boring or one-note. My best guess is that it's the way they interact with each other, acting different depending on who's around. The dynamics between the characters almost take precedence over their individual dispositions. As someone with a passing interest in writing, but little no working knowledge, I find it engaging to consider. What do you think?

I am absolutely in love with the style of the drawings in Azumanga Daioh and in all early 2000s animations in general, both Japanese and overseas.
The colours are warm, the drawing style is cute but not too much simplified, the atmosphere especially is always centered with parts of the daily life.
There is also this overfixation with the colour blue wich gives the idea of future and technology but it's not too dark or repeated wich makes it fine and immune to any exageration, second only to "Aria, the animation" kind of blue.

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SOME PEOPLE say that Osaka is a KILLER
THEY are WRONG
SHE HAD to use the KNIFE
SHE HAD to throw CHIYO into the WATER
CHIYO HAS NO PARENTS
(THEY'VE NEVER BEEN SEEN ONCE IN ANY EPISODE)
CHIYO'S REAL FATHER IS AN ELDRIGE ABOMINATION
HE'S EVEN APPEARED IN OSAKAS AND SAKAKI'S DREAMS LIKE A DEAMON WITHOUT THEM EVEN TALKING TO EACHOTHER
HOW IS A CHILD THAT SMART, HUH KINDA REMINDS ME OF WILBUR WHATELEY. MAKE DEALS WITH DARK GODS= GET STRANGE POWERS
FATHER IS NOT A REAL CAT/GETS WORSHIPED BY CHARACTERS BY MAKING CLOATHING AND TOYS IN HIS NAME JUST LIKE A CULT WOULD DO
FATHER = DEVIL
CHIYO = DEVILSPAWN
OSAKA DID NOTHING WRONG

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I dont remember what fuckin episode since its been a while but Sakaki was in a crossover with i think Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai

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Google says episode 11

so some bitch approaches sakaki, asks her if she's in a club, brings up the club she's in and then walks away after saying its boring, what type of bitch move is that? why wouldn't you want more members in your club? sakaki even wanted to join in the first place...

Has anyone read the 4-koma? Also if you watched the manga do you prefer sub or dub?

>expensive melons are polite gifts to bring on formal visits.
>watermelon smashing (apparently its called Suikawari)
what's with the melon addiction?

The manga is presented in chronological order while the anime is split up and kinda randomized. something interesting i noticed is a scene in the manga where Osaka is wearing an Ultraman mask. Also, sometimes cats are rendered in hyper-realistic fashion which in the anime cats are cartoony 100% of the time. Another thing is osaka speaking French to tadakichi the only word she knew tho was "please"

i finished reading azu, it felt like there was more content there then the anime. not to say the anime was bad but it just was longer. id recommend the manga. there was roughly four extra azu related mangas, made to celebrate the anniversary of the series. one was basically a bonus story, another was a fan anthology of short azu stories made by diffrent authors, there was a second fan thing and another was a crossover with fist of the north star.

I really enjoyed the bizare dream like quality azumanga goes into like reality and fiction blends into this altered state of some type. It's made me obsessed with finding anime/manga that blurs the line of reality although ive found nothing yet besides one manga so far but it was a horror manga and not a comedy like azu

The title Raspberry heaven implies that there is an opposite, A Hell. but if thats the case what would the title be? What's the opposite of a raspberry?