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Merxamers
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Azumanga Daioh's a good one. Recently picked up that set myself and while i thought the pacing was a bit better in the manga, it still made me laugh quite a bit. I think my favorite moments were when spoiler[Tomo accidently hits Yukari-sensei with her lunch pan], and whenspoiler[ Sakaki spends the day with that special island cat] (a triumphant moment on par with any other series).
In my recent viewing, I actually related more to Yukari and Minamo than the students, being almost 27. I feel myself in the same situation of trying to be the adult, but feeling like a kid too. Maybe that's a little deeper than the show intended though, lol. Not to criticize anything, because I love this column every week, but i kind of miss back when there would be multiple series reviews a week. Maybe there just aren't enough contributors to column anymore? Oh well; I still enjoy the content we do get. |
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Greed1914
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I'm planning on giving Azumanga Daioh another shot. I stopped watching it years ago because I grew bored after borrowing the first couple DVDs. However, I feel like my tastes have changed a fair amount since then, and I've been enjoying similar shows lately. | ||||
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Raebo101
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Except for Luci Christian's ham-tastic performance as Miss Yukari! I'd actually give the Japanese version a shot if Luci Christian didn't make Miss Yukari (one of my favorite characters) so fun https://www.youtube.com/ |
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Cain Highwind
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Yeah Azumanga Daioh is a real classic. I had an English teacher in High School (who also ran the school newspaper) VERY much like Yukari both in personality AND appearance. It's scary! She was also a young, single woman with long wavy brown hair who was also friends with one of the female gym teachers. Sadly I had graduated HS and moved LONG before I first watched AD. Really wish I could've shown her this show.
Also, yeah, Luci Christian as Yukari is fantastic! I remember being so excited when she was cast for Funimation's One Piece dub because the first thing I thought of was her Yukari voice and went man, that's PERFECT for Nami! The only thing I can't stand about the dub is Chiyo's voice. It just sounds so grating to me compared to her sweet and adorable voice in Japanese. |
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Brand
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Azumanga Daioh is one of the only shows where I like both the dub and sub pretty much equally. Both have their strong points. And I've watched this show both ways many times. | ||||
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Animegomaniac
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I can't read the manga without hearing that voice myself. Even more than the voice, I think she captures something in just her tone, haughty but somehow deserving to be so. She's right, not because she's a teacher but because she's right... especially when she's wrong. Reading the manga in chunks turns the whole work into rapid fire comedy which works a lot better with hit or miss jokes. When comedy goes wrong in the anime, they don't just dwell on it, they draw it out. A slow reaction shot is turned into a very slow double take is turned back into a really very slow reaction shot from someone else; Two minutes later, we're sill on the same gag. That's its worst. At its best, it's even more absurd than the usually background less manga. I do recommend it but it's just not as energetic as it should be. Not lifeless, just kind of... lazy maybe? "The material's good so we don't have to work hard to sell it." About those repeating storylines, does that mean the usual yearly school activities, the "yet another" cultural/sports festival thing? Most series could barely manage one- School Rumble managed to double down on its cultural festival by doing two at once for some reason- because they only focus on the second year student. Here, it's the full course high school experience and for me, it's the variations that make them work; New friendships and bonds forging new outcomes as well the value of experience in order to improve their previous failings. Wow, it's almost like they were learning. In a high school, how did that happen? |
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Thread_Alchemist
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Azumanga has a special place in my heart. It was the first anime I ever watched at a convention. It was a fan-subbed version and I didn't know what was going on.
About a year later I saw a box at Best Buy that had the yellow father cat on it and remembered the show. I followed the show on DVD and I love it so much. All of the other shows like it never really stuck with me as much as AzuManga did. Non Non Byori has come close. |
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Zin5ki
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Everyone here, I expect, has a certain fondness for Azumanga Daioh.
I first saw it in late 2007 when I first discovered anime. It may be one of those titles that endears simply through what doesn't happen, rather than what does. By being so listless in its pacing, its more eventful moments become all the more memorable—the Okinawan doughnut, the Barbecue Cup and the costume at the school festival all remain dear little trinkets amid a most fancy-free series. |
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yotsubafanfan
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Azumanga Daioh was the first anime I ever saw and it was also the first anime my twin sister and I ever bought! (We bought the ADV DVD set many many years ago back when Best Buy still sold anime.) it's one I can watch over, and over, and over again and still enjoy. As a fan of slice of life anime I always try to find one that can top this, and all have failed. The only ones I can say that I've seen that have met the standards for comedy I've set thanks to Azuamanga Daioh are Nichijou and Polar Bear Cafe. If you love the manga "Yotsuba&", Lucky Star, or Nichijou then you HAVE TO WATCH THIS! It's truly a classic in the Slice of life genre of anime. | ||||
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EricJ2
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Actually, it's the other way around:
Later gently-oddball attempts at "Crazy Girls Slice-of-Life" that came along afterwards didn't catch on because they just didn't have the predatorily out-of-nowhere genius that Azumanga Daioh's jokes did. Like Sakaki suddenly chomped by the Biting Cat, every time the show starts to get on the edge of "cute", Tomo, Ms. Yukari or Mr. Kimura do something utterly and completely WRONG to catch us off guard and safely spoil the tone. This was one of the great game-changing anime comedies: AzD always gets compared to Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters discussing the world on a baseball field or 5-cent psychiatric booth--And anyone who watched that recent CGI Peanuts Movie made without Schulz's oddball philosophy for observing the world, our absurdity of behavior, and the pathos of almost supernatural bad-luck, can understand the basic idea behind why Not All Crazy-Afterschool-Girl Shows Are Created Equal. Lucky Star thought they were "slice-of-life" by having Konata talk about games and chocolate cornets, but depicting the other characters as nice realistically airheaded schoolgirls made it seem more a show for girls rather than a show about how odd everyone could be. Like Yuyushiki, you can't just put a room of odd subject-wandering Osakas in with a cute Chiyo and hope philosophy comes out. |
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varmintx
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I was already an adult when I first watched AD. At the time, the idea of watching a show about a bunch of high school girls seemed absurd, but hearing so much praise for it, I decided to give it a chance. At the start, I was reasonably amused. Then, Okaka showed up. She doesn't have to say a word. Her deer-in-the-headlights facial expressions alone were enough to crack me up. I watched the first disc again about a year ago. It holds up. I'd have kept watching it if I had the time, but I can't get around to watching new anime much less ones from over a decade ago. | ||||
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ninjamitsuki
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I was still a kid when I first read the manga, and the anime was one of the first I bought on DVD. It still holds up incredibly well.
I would disagree about the music, I really love the playful recorder background music in the show. Last edited by ninjamitsuki on Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:41 am; edited 1 time in total |
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maximilianjenus
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too abd there's nto a cahcne of a enw ova or somethign that animates the new manga chapters rom the anniversary books; mostly because of the SPOILER getting out of the closet moment, which became my favorite azumanga moment by how azumanga it was.
are you gay? the corrent word is lesbian ... not that I am one |
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animefan1238
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Azumanga Daioh is "old reliable" for me. I have bought the DVDs as they were coming out and have watched the show many times. When I was in college I noticed some of the conversations and antics reminded me of my friends in high school. The dub and sub are great as well as the story. No magical girls, no mecha, no teen angst, no end of the world plot. It's just high school girls doing things and dealing with life. It's a show/manga that's simple but it works so well. Might have to watch it again after reading the review. | ||||
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Joe Mello
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I'm pretty sure if AzuDai didn't hold up, it wouldn't be getting a Blu-Ray release in July. :3
/And that's the truth about grains |
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