Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Azumanga Daiou Japanese: あずまんが大王 THE ANIMATION English: Azumanga Daioh: The Animation More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 26 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Apr 9, 2002 to Oct 1, 2002 Premiered: Spring 2002 Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:25 (JST) Producers: Genco, Lantis, Imagica, TV Tokyo Music, Cosmic Ray, King Records Licensors: ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks Studios: J.C.Staff Source: 4-koma manga Genre: Comedy Themes: CGDCT, Gag Humor, School Duration: 24 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 8.041 (scored by 166,705 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #5972 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #647 Members: 382,774 Favorites: 8,070 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Jun 19, 2007 jet2r0cks Recommended It seems to me that people who have seen Azumanga Daioh are divided into two groups. The first group consists of people who enjoyed it, and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. The other consists of those that thought it was boring and nonsensical. I find myself right in the middle. It wasn’t so bad story wise – usually I’m all for “anything goes” anime. The problem I had with it was that it wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be. I had a few laughs now and then, mostly thanks to Osaka, but there were times when I thought the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 12, 2010 AuNaturel Recommended Azumanga Daioh took me by complete surprise. I discovered it from a YouTube clip where she meets "Chiyo's father" and I thought it was the funniest thinger I have seen in a long time. I asked around and was wondering if it would interest me. After researching it for a bit I decided that yes, I would watch it. I sure am glad I looked at the related videos that day, that clip eventually led me to watch the awkwardly hilarious slice of life anime known as Azumanga Daioh. Story : This is a slice of life anime, and what that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 27, 2008 Ranivus Recommended Azumanga daioh is one of the funniest animes i have ever seen PERIOD! Azumanga takes place during the high school years of a handful of girls. No its not a girls only school but the only main characters are ALL girls. The entire cast all run the gamut of moe-ness. Ranging from super chibi to a girl that thinks she's not cute. The story is basically a slice of life anime basically meaning it a Seinfeld-esqe sitcom surrounding high school girls. Theres no real story element, and thankfully no multiple part episodes are around here. Just short simple and hilarious situations that can be finished in ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 20, 2009 ColdBeans Recommended STORY The comic formula is hilarious. Many scenes will make you scratch your head and wonder "eh?" while simultaneously laughing, while other scenes make you laugh by repeating the same thing over and over and over and over, far past the point where you think it should have just stopped the joke. The best ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 3, 2007 Kopanda Recommended Azumanga Daioh epitomizes innocent, playful and unexplainable comedy. The humor which mainly comprises of repetition, slapstick and awkward placings of pauses, makes this unique Slice of Life anime an instant classic. The series does not revolve around a plot, character development and exploration, nor does it discuss social trends or fantastic adventures, simply put Azumanga is about mood. The viewers of the series play as much a part of the series as the wonderful, quirky, eccentric and blissfully honest characters that star in it. The nostalgic and anti-serious mood evident throughout every episode will put every single viewer into a state of pure and innocent ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 25, 2009 Lirael Not Recommended Preliminary (12/26 eps) I'd like to begin this by saying sorry to those who loved it, as I can see there are a lot who do. It's just that I look for something more in anime. I'd heard this anime lacked plot, focussed more the slice of life qualities, and had little point to it. I was ready for that. But I didn't expect the truth in these points to be as extreme as it was. (I would also like to let readers know that I've seen half of this anime. I may not have watched it all, but I did give it a chance.) Plot: Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 21, 2009 Retro8bit Recommended Azumanga Daioh will probably always remain one of the top comedy anime titles of all time, and with good reason too. Even if it does ends up being a different experience than most would think right off the bat. Story: 7/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 19, 2015 Moog Recommended Ah yes, Azumanga Daioh, the anime responsible for spawning a metric fuckton of high school comedies trying to mimic the magic of this show. Some uninformed people might be tempted to call Azumanga Daioh "generic high school comedy," but in the early 00s it was far from that, and to this day it still stands as the pinnacle of the slice of life genre. Slice of life is a tricky genre to get right, because essentially it tries to capture mundane realism in an entertaining fashion, and many shows don't get the latter right at all; nobody wants to watch an anime of something lame that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 23, 2010 immortalrite Recommended Out of all the comedy I have ever seen or care to remember, there has never been quite anything like 2002's Azumanga Daioh. Simply put, no anime to date has made me laugh longer, harder, and more frequently than this series. Undoubtedly a "guilty pleasure" if there ever was one, at least in the sense that on the surface, it smacks of everything which I would normally find immature, annoying, and mundane. However, along with its surprisingly powerful endearing qualities, I quickly discovered how perfectly Azumanga succeeds as a pure and simple comedy in virtually every way possible, and remains to this day the hands-down ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 17, 2016 LeaderTGW Recommended Biggest mistake younger me made was dropping Azumanga Daioh half way through episode one way back in 2005. It wasn't until late 2009 that I watched it through and enjoyed it and as of this year I had time to re-watch and and LOVED IT! Going back on it, I didn't think too much about how I took this show for granted. I initially and still do see it as a "generic slice of life comedy that follows the lives of certain individuals." However! there's so much more to it than that. With Azumanga Daioh, although it has that "I've seen shows like this thousands of ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 6, 2013 5camp Recommended This was always going to be an interesting one to review. Azumanga Daioh is frequently held up by people such as myself as a cutesy 4-koma adaptation that is actually good and therefore proof that I don’t unconditionally hate moe comedies. But Azumanga was made long before those series became a commonplace and diluted the market with their terribleness. I was genuinely unsure what returning to it would reveal. Was there some secret trick Azumanga pulled that all subsequent series failed at, or will I regard Azumanga with the same disdain at disgust I usually reserve for stuff like A-Channel? People often say that Azumanga doesn’t ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 19, 2014 literaturenerd Recommended A short review for a little series that punches above its weight: Azumanga Daioh was based not on a traditional manga or a light novel, but on a 4 panel newspaper comic. If you remember how hard the Dilbert cartoon failed in the 1990s, you know that pulling this kind of adaptation off is NOT an easy task. For an anime, it is almost unheard of. No, Boondocks doesn't count as an anime! Azumanga, unlike some other newspaper adaptations like Kill Me Baby, actually manages to translate the silly humor and excellent character chemistry that made the newspaper comic work on to the screen. Azumanga is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 13, 2008 vytah Recommended I don't quite understand why everyone advertises Azumanga as a comedy anime. Yes, it is a comedy, but that's not the show's primary value. I enjoyed it very much, mostly due to fact that I had graduated from high school one year before watching. Azumanga lets you to forget about your problems and go back to the happy school days. So, if you are a highschooler, you've got some kind of Azumanga in your real life and you might find it boring. But it's simply NOSTALGIC. Funny and cute, too. Ideal for relaxing. Who should watch it? Read more Open Gift Report
May 9, 2010 ZeDesu Recommended Azumanga - the first genre of anime everyday life (for me) that wants to stand up and applauded for the high level of humor, Kawai, children's spontaneity, character, ease of viewing and good mood ... Story: 7 (Stories there is no per se, there are separate inserts, pictures which becomes interesting to watch this creation) Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 9, 2017 jal90 Recommended Let's begin with some backstory. I first watched Azumanga Daioh in 2009. Back then I was an anime newbie and this would be my first completed series, which needless to say, was an absolute success. I adored every bit of the show and became really invested in it. And this didn't end there because over the years it has only become more and more obvious how deeply it shaped my tastes and perhaps my entire attitude towards the medium. Two conclusions should be inferred from the above paragraph. One, I'm a fanboy. Two, I came late to the party. When I discovered the show, it was ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 24, 2007 maybelletea Recommended Ohh, what to say... there was a point where I really did love Azumanga Daioh the anime, even though I liked the manga more. But now, I just can't like it as much, when I like the manga that much more. I mean, I would rather read the manga than watch the anime. I'm in the minority here, but that's okay, I realize most people think the anime is amazing. Story The story is something either people really like, or really dislike. Some people believe it's genius, while other believe it's annoying and boring. Personally slice-of-life is my favorite of genres, so it suits me well to ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 3, 2008 elc1247 Not Recommended Preliminary (4/26 eps) Overall: Everyone was talking about Azumanga Daioh, saying "OMG check it out its funny stuff!" so I took a look see, and I have to say, I am very disappointed... I seriously dont see how all these people can call Azumanga Daioh a truly funny or great series... People might say, "oh you dont get the jokes", but I get them, they just are not funny... its a series of EXTREMELY weak jokes that some kids would laugh to, maybe is funny because all the jokes are so bad its funny how bad they are? I dont know, Lucky Star, Inukami, Seto no Hanayome, and ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 9, 2022 ShotgunHelmet Recommended When producing a slapstick-comedy-slice-of-life-high-school-anime, you COULD dump duffel bags of money onto the floor of the animation department, dispense to each employee a drip feeder of amphetamine salts, and look over them with a knowing grin and a sparkle in your eye that says, "it's a long shot, but, God willing, it just might work." And, in return, you would get Nichijou. Azumanga Daioh takes the opposite approach. Held together by twigs and glue in comparison to the more modern, sleek, slice-of-life anime, Azumanga Daioh is nonetheless the ur-"cute girls doing cute things" series, and its purity of essence is still unparalleled twenty years after ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 12, 2013 Toucanbird Recommended Azumanga Daioh - Azumazing Show! It's hard to believe that 11 years have passed since this breathtaking series came along and became the staple for anime comedy for the past decade. You can tell that shows like Nichijou, Lucky Star, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, Acchi Kocchi, and many other anime comedies were built around the realistic high school sketch comedy that this series has inspired. Going into this series, I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about it since I didn't particularly care for the animation style, but I soon learned that this series goes far beyond it's cheap animation. Azumanga Daioh's plot is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 21, 2010 yuki2nagato Mixed Feelings I'd heard that Azumanga Daioh was a comedy that no one should miss so I started watching. Art: The art in Azumanga Daioh is decent, not bad but nothing really ground-breaking either. Sound: The voice acting was just about equivalent to the art of ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
