This is the WMG for Azumanga Daioh
- So, for example, at the beach Tomo was flailing her arms and accidentally knocked the key out of Chiyo's hand into the weeds. Fifteen years later, the other girls tease Tomo that she did it on purpose, and that's what Azu shows us.
- This troper officially loves the series more now that she'll be re-reading it with this in mind.
- For further proof, this troper and his friends were remembering our own high school days...and I realized that it could be summed up semi-accurately as "Azumanga Daioh WITH BOYS". Seriously, some of the antics are freakishly similar, and got embellished in the same way. The "instant nickname"note thing in particular actually happenend.
- That One Player? Azu himself.
- Perhaps Sakaki's increased interaction with Kagura towards the end of the series proves that the attraction is mutual. She seems willing to open up to Kagura, sharing quite a few heartwarming moments with her.
- I wonder what the name of a traffic light fetish is?
- This would require him not to know that traffic lights changing is really easy to watch happening. Unless... he meant that he wants to watch them changing the bulbs...?
- In exactly the fashion of Shadow Star, the intro (and the anime at first) is happy and cheerful but audaciously foreshadows the future plot in deranged little clips. In the last part of the intro (beginning @ 1:17), a Chiyo-Chichi-The-ICBM is shown launched from an underground silo into the dark, blood-red sky, followed by Chiyo-Chan bringing down a literal curtain (the last frame) on the world.
- In volume 2 of the manga, some of the chapter breaks have a couple of the main students or teachers with their heights in centimeters. After the July special, we see that Neco Coneco has infinite height — which is curious but not terribly important to this — while Chiyo-chichi has the number 51461367522. If this is his height in centimeters, it's a few hundred thousand miles high. Alternatively... access code?
- The machine that makes the clones is called the Chiyomatic. It has to be.
- She will meet Rebecca Miyamoto in MIT and become rivals with her due to their diametrically opposed personalities. When they both return to Japan they enter a Dr Light/Dr Wily relationship. Each enters a high school as a teacher in a bet to show who is the better educator in one of a long series of one-upsmanship duels. Chiyo naturally returns to her alma mater.
- Where she will be reunited with
OsakaKasuga-sensei. - OH MY GAH! Someone remembered Osaka's name!
- Where she will be reunited with
- She will meet Rebecca Miyamoto in MIT and become rivals with her due to their diametrically opposed personalities. When they both return to Japan they enter a Dr Light/Dr Wily relationship. Each enters a high school as a teacher in a bet to show who is the better educator in one of a long series of one-upsmanship duels. Chiyo naturally returns to her alma mater.
- I disagree. When she's 16 years old she will perfect time travel, realise everything in the future is going to break and will attempt to stop it by enrolling into a local high school, assuming the name "Asahina Mikuru".
- This Troper finds that this statement makes entirely too much sense (based on the anime).
- There was a picture based on this. Chiyo changes her name to Penny and is adopted by Inspector Gadget.
- While Chiyo is in America, she'll meet Honey and between his brawn and her brains they'll become a Badass Adorable Battle Couple and Fight Crime.
- She'll join the Advanced Natural Talents?
- Osaka already is a murderer. She smothered Chiyo's father with the orange cat-thing, and his ghost took its shape to enter dreams.
- That doesn't explain why Sakaki imagines the orange cat as well...unless she was a witness to the murder but was so thoroughly traumatized that she suffered retrograde amnesia shortly thereafter. Now the only memory she subconsciously retains of the incident is the orange cat and its connection to Chiyo's father.
- She also killed Mr. Horikoshi from Osaka and now the ghost of this poor chap is following her and wound up on a photo behind Sakaki somehow.
- So would you say Osaka qualifies as an Uncanny Valley Girl then? She does seem kinda similar to Ryoko Asakura at times.
- I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Though I think Kagura is a swimming instructor at the same school as Osaka, Nyamo and Yuakari
- So her Action Girl fantasies of being Fujiko Mine are, in a way, satisfied.
- Better yet, the reason she joins Interpol is because of her desire to be Fujiko. She has a thing for Lupin, and what better way to meet him than to help Zenigata track him down.
- Tomo becomes a Warehouse 13 agent (she's a bit like a male Pete) with Claudia as her boss. Hell, why not Yomi as well?
- There is at least one fanfic on fanfic.net detailing this. Its rather good, if you can hunt it down.
- Yomi is her M (M for Muse)
- So her Action Girl fantasies of being Fujiko Mine are, in a way, satisfied.
- Pigtail fetish? Maybe Osaka is the alternate universe version of Paul from Wayside School.
- Maybe she just thinks they're weird.
- Maybe she just wants them to herself. Remember her New Year's dream where she killed Chiyo for them?
- In Osaka's defense, it was an accident.
- Actually, it was to save Chiyo Chan from being controlled by them
- Maybe she just wants them to herself. Remember her New Year's dream where she killed Chiyo for them?
- This could be taken further; Kamineko isn't hungry for her flesh, but her pain. The cat loves to tease, then dash her hopes, with a little physical pain as garnish. Could be taken to a spiritual level, with Mayaa appearing to be her guardian.
- This could even be tied into Tomo and Yomi's discussion about living in the post-war era. Remember, Mayaa first appeared in the episode set on Okinawa, where Japan lost the final battle. It is actually possible that Sakaki's story is some sort of weird metaphor for Japanese history, at least in some spiritual way.
- Let's see...Sakaki=Japan, Kamineko=America (he's mean to her, but she does provoke him...), Mayaa=Britain, which fought the Japanese at Okinawa when the Americans were on Iwo Jima and which convinced the American government not to destroy Japan entirely? That actually works.
- Kagura did ask once whether Sakaki's hand smelled like fish.
- This could even be tied into Tomo and Yomi's discussion about living in the post-war era. Remember, Mayaa first appeared in the episode set on Okinawa, where Japan lost the final battle. It is actually possible that Sakaki's story is some sort of weird metaphor for Japanese history, at least in some spiritual way.
- Didn't Chiyo say the family with the gray cat moved away?
- That was to say why Kamineko was now in power of the street cats; a power shift.
- I don't remember in the anime proper, but in his first couple appearances in the manga, his mouth is closed. He could've suffered the injury after those, though.
- Indeed, his mouth is always open in the anime, but in his early appearances in the manga it's closed. I believe it's suggested he has some sort of mental breakdown (although I forget what the exact cause is, it probably involves high-school girls) which causes his subsequent expression.
- His mouth is closed ONCE IN THE ANIME. We see it closed in the family photo she shows the girls when he proves that the woman they encountered is indeed his wife. ... and he's smiling! Maybe it was taken years before the anime started, and he got a nose injury shortly after that photo, and his mouth never closed since.
- To be specific, his mouth is shut during the first three strips he appears in ("CAUSE I LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS!") and the following two ("Tuck your gym shirt into your shorts"). It is open at all times afterwards. It's probably Art Evolution, similar to how Chiyo-chan's pigtails go from shaggy to teardrop-shaped.
- Indeed, his mouth is always open in the anime, but in his early appearances in the manga it's closed. I believe it's suggested he has some sort of mental breakdown (although I forget what the exact cause is, it probably involves high-school girls) which causes his subsequent expression.
- He had a stroke and lost control of his facial muscles (yet somehow still has no problem talking intelligibly).
- He was starting to get wrinkles and has frequent botox appointments.
- Another piece of supporting evidence is Chiyo-chichi (the weird flat cat thing). He must be some kind of supernatural entity, because he's appeared independently in more than one character's dreams, with the same claim about being Chiyo's father. Maybe he's the ghost of Chiyo's father, dropping by once in a while to thank Chiyo's friends for looking out for her.
- ...Wooooow. I can buy that.
- Perhaps his strange reaction to the color red is from his particularly bloody murder? I dunno.
- Purely in the interest of throwing fuel on a fire: in the manga, Chiyo-chichi spazzes out about the idea that Sakaki had made hats based upon his head, saying "If you cut me from here [indicating a line below his eyes but above his mouth] upwards, what would happen? ... To die in such a hated way ..."
- There IS a Japanese folktale about a vengeful female ghost who had been raped and killed with her face slashed all the way across. This seems to be plausibly the basis for Chiyo's reaction.
- Well there is some evidence against this in that the door of her house is clearly being held open by something when she leaves for school and the same something can close the door as well.
- Perhaps, given the wealth Chiyo-chan enjoys, she has a butler taking care of the estate and assuming guardianship of Chiyo-chan. The others would then assume the parents are just never around when they visit. Or that they're in different parts of the mansion.
- Maybe Chiyo-chichi ascended at some point? That would allow everything above to be true while taking Chiyo's cheerful personality and apparent lack of trauma into account. I can see her being very proud of her father if that's the case.
- Did the government pay for this?
- Yes. And he flies at Mach 100.
- Did the government pay for this?
- Alternatively Chiyo is an orphan but the rest of the cast (at the very least Nyamo and Yukari) deludes her into thinking her parents are alive, no one could bring themselves to tell her.
- It does raise the question though who Nyamo bows to when she thanks for the car hired by Chiyo's parents.
- Nobody. She chose to play along rather than try to act as a psychiatrist.
- It does raise the question though who Nyamo bows to when she thanks for the car hired by Chiyo's parents.
- I think I remember hearing Chiyo's mother calling for her from offscreen once. Though, if I'm remembering correctly, Chiyo was the only one in the room, so it might've been her imagination.
- However, she said that her parents ordered the car for the second summer house trip. I doubt that a twelve-year old girl could convince a company to dispense a car to her house. Apart from cleaning said house, keeping the stock up, etc.
- As said above: "synthesizing voices on the phone and paying people to pretend to be her parents." And for the work, there are maids and cleaning services after all. It's not like she wouldn't have inherited all of it.
- There has to be some legal guardian looking after her. Even if she managed all of the household work, someone involved in delivering food or other regular stuff would notice a ten to twelve year old girl who seems to always answer the door and takes all the stuff into her home without help. Some store owner would get concerned about her always shopping alone if she shops outside. And that's only the people she doesn't know. What relatives would leave an eleven year old girl on their own? Either they never visit and don't know about the circumstances, Chiyo is the last of her line, or on a more sinister note, Chiyo has very good reasons for avoiding her relatives. Yukari hovers above reality occasionally, but she'd start to wonder why her parents never show up to parents meetings. Failing that, Nyamo would certainly notice the parents absence at sports events. And after all that, one of the five teenage friends she has would ask the "Where are your parents?" question at some point. Get round that one. Of course, maybe thats why Chiyo is so quick to ask to go out or suggests holidaying at the beach house. After that, there's the issues of billing, registering with new schools, taxes, and other stuff no child could do for age reasons, and finally just the fact that there's this strange little girl who you never see the parents of. Someone would ask a question for which an answer didn't exist. Finally, there's going to university. Another massive stumbling block... On the other hand, to throw further fuel on this fire, consider Chiyo's personality. She's constantly cheerful and smiling, thats for sure, but she's also hugely self-reliant and responsible. She has a job, always pulls her weight in projects, even in things like sports where she's physically outmatched, has more common sense than the vast majority of teenagers and many adults, and she's a friggin genius. Its obvious she's both smart and works hard. Concievably, she could pull this off by being careful who she talked to and mastering just about every kind of fraud in the book... the question is, why would she? Are there reasons she has to?... sinister things are a foot in WMG today!... er... just got hit by the Fridge Logic... as to why she mentions her parents... she's lying to us? (Ok now we're moving out of unlikely and into meta.)
- The answer to everything in this paragraph is that her father is either Heihachi/Kazuya Mishima or Gendo Ikari...
- Or alternatively, the answer to everything in that paragraph is that her parents are just really neglectful, but Chiyo's alright with that because she assumes they give her space because she's really mature/smart. I could see her folks just ceasing to raise her when it became apparent they didn't need to. Maybe they treat her like a roommate instead of a daughter.
- As said above: "synthesizing voices on the phone and paying people to pretend to be her parents." And for the work, there are maids and cleaning services after all. It's not like she wouldn't have inherited all of it.
- Chiyo is actually a God who just likes to surround herself with Bishoujos. Probably because the class is so incredibly funny she wanted to be a part. Her Dad is a self insert of the Author, who is quite literally the thing closest to a father for a In story God. After they graduated she went "abroad", well probably because she doesn't want to spend too long on a planet with only so much action.
- Something here sounds a little familiar.
- If we go with a "Chiyo is a Haruhi" theory, you could say that she was born into a family with abusive parents who she hated, and so they conveniently died. She has butlers, maids, and Tadakichi taking care of her, and tons of money to live off of, etc. Anything she wants where she wants something that would require a parent she can create a convenient substitute for, possibly Chiyo-chichi.
- That may explain Chiyo-chichi's appearance in Osaka and Sakaki's dreams/daydreams as well. After all, those two are the ones who seem to be closest to Chiyo...
- Wouldn't she end up being taller if what she wanted came to pass?
- Maybe she actually does like being small, but she acts like she wants to be taller to purposely add to her cute girl-like personality?
- Chiyo is a Time Lord, and therefore Really 700 Years Old.
- Something here sounds a little familiar.
- Ah, clearly that means they are alive... but have tragically lost their minds, (violin music starts) being just sane enough to wave goodbye... with distraught little Chiyo looking after them and herself alone, because she's afraid if she tells anyone that she'll be taken away from them... secretly struggling with adult life while maintaining a brave face to the world...
- And this means Chiyo-Chan isn't human, and thus those aren't pigtails... those are her ears. They're attached to the same place on her head as her freaky ghost-cat father's are on his, and they occasionally perk or droop as befits her mood, like the ears of many animals, such as dogs and cats, do.
- Except we do actually see her with her hair down at least once.
- This troper counts thrice: the two times we see her in bed, and one occasion when Tomo imitated her by pulling her own hair into pigtails, which Chiyo mocked by undoing hers.
- Er... Osaka's right and they're really detachable?... Er, well, that one time... Yeah, I got nothin'.
- Well, if it works for the Ferengi...
- Except we do actually see her with her hair down at least once.
- Tadakichi is translated into English as a Mr, but there's nothing inherently masculine about "san". MOM???
- CANNOT UNSEE.
- In English, Chiyo calls Tadakichi-san a "perfect gentleman" (manga) or a "man of character" (anime). Is there anything inherently masculine about the term jinkakusha?
- This would also explain her Implausible Hair Color. Not quite the same shade, but the Cat-Thing is orange-ish.
- Or maybe he just has tenure
- Maybe she married him for his money. He has enough to freely make very generous donations to charity on a regular basis.
- He did donate 10,000 yen on New Years, Book 4, and wished for world peace... Frightened a miko, maybe?
- Or maybe her door swings both ways, and shares his schoolgirl fetish....
- See volume 4, page 78.
- Hmmm. In episode 4 he does use her nickname, Nyamo. Normally only Yukari calls her that. Suggests they know each other well.
- Perhaps, but he also calls Kaori "Kaorin" over her objections. On the other hand, Minamo doesn't object to it, even though she does tell Yukari to stop using it at school... but that could just be because she had more important things to yell at him about.
- Outside of that occasion he always calls her Kurosawa-sensei, so he was probably just being his inane-self and pulling his "Can I call you by your nickname?" stunt like he does with everyone (so in other words, *never* let him find out your nickname!). In any case, if anyone was ever involved in a love-letter incident with Kimura, then it was Yukari
- ...This makes more sense the more I think about it. The maniacal laughter...
- My favorite fan-theory is that he did it so the boys would respect and listen to him and the girls would be scared/revolted and listen to him. And that he only targets girls that would never return the 'feelings' i.e. Kaorin. This troper's own theory is that he does it to make girls realize that they are lesbians.
- It would also explain the pool water incident. He was telling Kagura to wear a swim suit to pick on her, and then asked her to get pool water to creep her out.
- FIIIIIIRST PLAAAAACE VIIIICTOOOORRYYYYY!
- This goes back to the theory that his wife is either on the schoolboard or he has a lot of money. Way I figure it he went into teaching to try and pass on knowledge to the next generation (from his actions he probably is extremely idealist) but became cynical in that regard when he realised that most school students really don't care and will most of the time choose the most self-serving route. Because he's basically stuck with his career decision and can't get fired, he acts like an ass to try to both vent out his frustration and find the humor in the situation.
- Alternatively, Kimura is putting on the act of Chivalrous Pervert in an attempt to endear himself to the students, however he is not quite smart enough to realize the combination of overdoing it and his slack-jawed, disheveled appearance give the impression of 'just plain pervert'.
- He has a strange form of Tourettes that makes him say perverted things that he doesn't mean, his expression is one of shock and embarrassment.
- He's actually a nice, if bland teacher. At one point, he imitated a character from a TV show he liked, "BECAUSE I LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS!", but noone got the reference. He continues to do it, because he's more popular now.
- The obstacle race scene where she repeatedly faceplants in white flour for fun in episode 15 may be a nod to drugs.
- Duuuude... that explains so much!
- Perhaps she's on Ritalin. If that's what she's like on the meds...
- Or she takes meds against depression. This troper takes them, and her pupils have dilated quite a bit as a side-effect (better than the headaches, nausea, derealization and fatigue from before, I guess).
- Perhaps she takes some sort of anti-hyperactivity medicine, similar to Ritalin. It could explain her weird behavior; it's a side-effect.
- Unless I'm gravely mistaken, Ritalin and such (Dexedrine, heck, even caffeine will do in a pinch) don't work that way, even for ADD or ADHD kids. Attention deficit disorders result from the relevant glands not producing enough dopamine: Ritalin and other stimulants are chemically similar and thus, in the proper doses, can supplement the deficiency. On meds, an ADD kid's behavior is pretty much indistinguishable from anybody else's.
- You seem to have never been on Ritalin for long periods of times. Yes, it can turn you into Osaka. Personal experience will vouch for this
- Considering that Osaka is never depicted as ever focusing on something we can remove Ritalin from theory. Anti-depressants maybe.
- My Brother takes ADD/ADHD medication, and he acts like a total Osaka when he doesn't take his medication. Maybe Oskaka is like my brother.
- Unless I'm gravely mistaken, Ritalin and such (Dexedrine, heck, even caffeine will do in a pinch) don't work that way, even for ADD or ADHD kids. Attention deficit disorders result from the relevant glands not producing enough dopamine: Ritalin and other stimulants are chemically similar and thus, in the proper doses, can supplement the deficiency. On meds, an ADD kid's behavior is pretty much indistinguishable from anybody else's.
- Alternately: Kimura is also an angel. He and his wife were sent down from heaven to give their daughter a loving family. As to why he's always after HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS; well, heaven has considerably more lax sexual mores than Earth
- Shades of Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan? I think he'd be a bit much for Belldandy to handle.
- Alternately: Mrs. Kimura literally is an angel. Being married to a being (somehow) married to an Eldritch Abomination looking creature, he uses an interest in high school girls, because honestly, why wants to sleep with an eye covered wheel?
- Forgive me, but that made very little sense at all. Could someone clear this up?
- That troper was saying that maybe his wife was an Ophan.
- Forgive me, but that made very little sense at all. Could someone clear this up?
- So Sakaki is Sakaki Sakaki?
- No, Sakaki is San Sakaki — no one calls her anything other than "Sakaki San".
- Kagura is at one point called "Kagura-san". Therefore both her last name and first name are "Kagura". QED.
- Her first name is Asamu, I think... she's introduced fully when she first arrives.
- No, you're thinking of Ayumu Kasuga (AKA Osaka).
- San can be added to both last names and first names: look at Miyuki-san.
- And she has an identical fraternal twin brother named, Oboro. Thus explaining why they look, sound, and act so much alike. If Kaorin ever saw them together, she'd likely die of blood loss.
- It still doesn't explain why Nyamo would be so embarrassed about that letter, since it's pretty ordinary for girls in a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship to do stuff like that. Yukari would have likely done some lovey-dovey stuff herself then. It would explain though why Nyamo has such a high tolerance for Yukari's childish behavior, since she might still have some of the old feelings for her.
- Nyamo's embarrassment has a couple of explanations, for one there's a bit of difference between not being ashamed of an old romance and wanting the kids you teach to know who you used to be into. Alternately, would you feel like owning up to having fallen for Yukari, to kids who've had her as a teacher?
- Or it could have been extremely recently. You see Nyamo get angered when Yukari mentions that she wasn't single last summer. Maybe she didn't want the students to know because they think of Yukari as odd. Perhaps they agreed to just be friends and never speak of it again? That also explains why they never mention the love letter to the rest of the group because that would mean acknowledging the relationship. Come to think of it, one would wonder how far they got in their relationship and damnit I'm aroused now.
- They may or may not have gone on a date
- There's been at least one Fanfic implying that the main reason Nyamo has stayed by Yukari's side for all these years is a lingering feeling on her.
- The feeling may be reciprocrated. In that episode where Yukari and Nyamo are having dinner with that chick and her two single co-workers, Yukari may have said they were boring to drop hints and Nyamo. That, and it seems she scared then off. maybe deliberately.
- Holy crap, that's it!
- Pretty much confirmed by Word of God, as this is his Author Avatar. I guess he appeared in Yotsuba&! too, in a few panels, but not sure about it.
- He appeared on the front of Fuuka's shirt. The other characters comment on her lack of fashion sense.
- And as a stuffed toy, to which a cup-and-string telephone is tied so each end can be in a house.
- This raises another question: Why does the Azuma appear directly in this show, but not Yotsuba&!? Perhaps the Azumanga Daioh universe is less stable, prompting more intervention?
- So Azuma chose to be voiced by Norio Wakamoto? Good taste.
- Pretty much confirmed by Word of God, as this is his Author Avatar. I guess he appeared in Yotsuba&! too, in a few panels, but not sure about it.
- Alternatively, the Chiyo-chichi we see is an avatar of a super intelligent psychic with the powers of levitation and dream travelling. Chiyo inherited the intellect but not the psychic abilities. He is watching from afar, but a terrible incident caused him to appear as he does on-screen, although he still has the physical form of a human. He looks different in actuality, but the rendition appears as so because the camera cannot capture it accurately. Fearing for his daughter, he left her up for adoption and has been watching her through her friends ever since. When he appears in the reality of the characters, he is there to indirectly ensure Chiyo stays out of harm's way. It was the Chiyo-chichi that got them enough time to finish the second culture festival preparations and led the Maya to rescue Sakaki and Chiyo. The dolls shaped like him are talismans through which he exerts the power to ensure his daughter's safety. If he does show up and Chiyo appears to have been hurt anyway, it was to test her guardians for a future peril; for example, he flies by the school just before Chiyo is hit on the head with a baseball from a great distance, but she was none the worse for it in the next scene thanks to the quick response from her friends.
- Theory one: A nefarious cloning experiment.
- The Patriots have cloned Nyamo and Yukari to create the prefect slice-of-life high school teachers!
- Theory two: Both Nyamo and Yukari got knocked up when they were 14 or thereabouts, each had a daughter strongly resembling themselves at about the same time, and both were adopted away and by coincidence wound up in the same class in school.
- Nyamo and Yukari knocked each other up
- Possible Sequel Hook: By the end of the series, they will enter high school as freshmen. They enter the same school and get their respective lookalike teacher for homeroom. Or the reverse. Does hilarity ensue or not?
- It's not inconceivable that the Azumanga Daioh universe is cyclical or temporally recursive. * Blink Dawg checks all the volumes for Ourobouros symbolism*
- * pictures Sakaki in Samurai armor and with a katana* Sweet.
- Further evidence of this is Sakaki's hair. Daughters of samurai families grew their hair long and never cut it. Sakaki has rather long hair.
- Also, her inability to connect with cats is a result of actions by her ancestors. When he or she was in mortal combat with a cat demon and won, the demon cursed with his dying breath that his brothers would forever torment their line, and their descendants would be inevitably drawn to cats even though they would be hated by them. Since the demon was specifically a iriomote cat demon, only an iriomote cat could accept Sakaki and lift the curse. Then Sakaki met Maya and the rest is history.
- I demand to see fanfic of that. And fanart of the battle.
- Enjoy. http://cartoonlion.deviantart.com/art/A-Samurai-s-Battle-132835442
- We never find out her full name. I propose that she is Ishikawa Sakaki, daughter of Goemon. He has a weakness for beautiful women, and fathered an illegitimate daughter at some point. He sends a portion of his income to her, explaining her possible wealth. Sakaki inherited her fathers pure genetic badassery (which we already know goes back 13 generations) as well as his quiet stoic nature.
- ...That is awesome. I demand it become fanon now.
- Me too. Sakaki with a sword.....droool.
- Thought she had some sort of autism, but yet, your theory might be plausible.
- Actually Osaka is pretty much textbook ADHD-Primarily Inattentive, formerly known as ADD.
- They have been friends since grade school, long enough for Tomo to tell stories about themselves.
- Despite continued physical abuse to one another, they still consider each other friends.
- Almost all of the yelling in the series is between them.
- Yomi allows Tomo to copy her homework and even hang out in her bedroom at night.
- Yomi trusts Tomo enough to ask her to tape a television show.
When Tomo is about to tell a story from their past early in the anime, Yomi calls her out on it, as if to stop her. When she instead chooses to tell the moldy bread incident, Yomi takes Chiyo with her away from the scene, breathing a sigh of relief in the process off-screen. As for why she didn't tell something more interesting, either she knows enough not to open old wounds like that or she simply forgot. The latter is more likely, as Yomi denotes that Tomo "has always been like that". The former is supported by the few times when Tomo leverages Yomi into allowing her to copy her homework simply by reminding her of their friendship.
- No one's brought up them being lesbians yet? In the Azumanga section of FanFiction.Net, there are probably almost as many Tomo/Yomi Slash Fics as there are Konata/Kagami fics in the Lucky Star section. Both couples have a similar Boke and Tsukkomi dynamic. Lest we forget Azumanga is noted on the Cast Full of Gay page...
- More fuel to the fire: Tomo has made references to Yomi sleeping in the nude. How would Tomo know about that?
- Um...where is that from? It would help with our...wild mass guessing.
- When they were planning on going to Magical Land, Yomi bought a guidebook and stayed out late reading it on a bench. She caught a chill, then a fever which kept her from going when they planned. The first person she is shown telling is Tomo. When the rest of them went to ML (instead of visiting the sick), Chiyo called Yomi to find out how she was doing, and chided her for falling asleep naked. Tomo was the first one Yomi thought of who would tell Chiyo that ("Koyomi's Ordeals").
- It's entirely possible that Tomo is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but the series doesn't usually involve situations depressing enough for the Heart Of Gold part to shine through. Yomi would logically have seen that side more often than us.
- More fuel to the fire: Tomo has made references to Yomi sleeping in the nude. How would Tomo know about that?
- Regardless of their actual relationship, there is evidence that either Yomi is, in fact, into girls, or she has some sort of strange combination of an inferiority complex (mostly her weight), narcissistic personality disorder (mostly her need to lord her intelligence over Tomo, likely a result of all the other stuff about which she is insecure), and masochism (being the Tsukkomi to Tomo's Boku character type). That is, the reaction she had at the final-year sports festival to Kaorin saying, "You look so cute in your cheerleading outfitnote Disclaimer
- Perhaps Yomi developed deep feelings for Tomo at the end of grade school, and that's why she is willing to put up with all of Tomo's antics. We don't see Tomo's heart of gold moments towards Yomi.
- This has now entered my personal cannon as a fantastic starting point for humanising the man, the tragedy is he never even considers that what he says could be interpreted sexually because in his mind he's talking about his daughter.
- The daughter does appear in the manga during one of the sports festivals, albeit off-screen.
- She appears on-screen in the anime, I'm afraid. Same episode as we see the photo.
- Kimura loved his wife a lot. He must have loved his daughter~ But his daughter died, so Kimura tries to get every cute girl to become his lost daughter. He isn't a pervert, but a man with a broken heart. He probably has been trying for 5 years. Later, he will probably focus on Sakaki.
- He wasn't wishing for world peace! He was wishing his daughter luck in the afterlife! Or maybe asking the shrine's patron god to bring her pocket money.
- Maybe Kimura had another daughter before the one we're shown. For extra drama, maybe she's long dead or died only recently but if she were alive, she'd be the girls' age. Maybe he focuses on Kaorin specifically because she reminds him of her. Maybe she looks or acts like his daugter, or they have some other similarity, perhaps they have the same birthday, or Kimura's first daughter had a crush similar to the one Kaorin has on Sakaki. Or all of the above. His other advancements are something that he sees as fatherly and may just be a desperate cry for help.
- Is it really theft if she doesn't mean to take it, and, indeed, doesn't even want it? Being tall has ruined her self-image... Why would she do that to herself?
- Maybe it's all a trick to confuse the viewer. Maybe she's faking everything, and wants to be even taller!
- Not really. Social skills are too good, and she shows WAY too much facial expressions. I could go on, but in short: No, she doesn't have autism, not even Asperger's.
- She might have a mild form of Asperger's.
- Not even Asperger's.
- She shows absolutely no meaningful signs of any kind of autistic spectrum disorder. Not even the fake Hollywood kind. Just go down any given list of symptoms: No social engagement issues. No language acquisition problems. No apparent developmental disorder. No lack of empathy. No obsessive preoccupations. No repetitive behaviors.
- It's possible. There's a reason AS is a spectrum disorder, you know, and people who do have AS (e.g. this troper) can learn those social skills in time.
- Not even close, you are correct its a spectrum, but even mild autism would be significantly worse than her current social skills, the spacing out and random tangent thoughts all point pretty solidly to ADHD-Primarily Inattentive type, and by solidly I mean textbook to the point of making me strongly suspect the author has or has lived with someone with this disorder.
- Looking through the DSM-5's diagnostic criteria for ASD, Osaka appears to meet enough qualifiers to fit a low-level diagnosis, assuming these were present in early life: abnormal socioemotional reciprocity, abnormal use of gestures, difficulty understanding certain social contexts, echolalia, special interests, and sensory sensitivities. Many of these noticeably impair her ability to fit in with neurotypical society— many autistic people can socialize with neurotypical peers, but imperfectly, something Osaka demonstrates, and plenty of IRL autistic viewers frequently relate to her. So under current psychological standards, she could plausibly be autistic; since the DSM-5 allows a dual diagnosis of autism and ADHD, it's even possible for her to have both.
- She might have a mild form of Asperger's.
- It might explain her aggressive nature and Jerkassness.
- I disagree. If Tomo acts just like her father-as has been mentioned elsewhere-it's entirly possable that it really is 'just a game' to both him and her. It sorta ties into the theory of Kimura being perceived as a pervert on accident.
- Regarding the yukata thing: That was a reference to a scene in a play called "Yoi de wa nai ka?" (Isn't It Good). Tomo's family is just strange and classically educated.
- According to the Hidamari Sketch translator's notes, it's an apparently common skit to pretend to be an evil warlord chasing a beautiful woman. In the skit, the warlord pulls the obi, which not only makes the wearer of the yukata twirl around, but also makes it much easier for it to come off. How far these skits go, I'm not sure, though.
- I've actually wondered if Sakaki is asexual, mainly because of her extreme shyness and her embarrassment at Nyamo's "lecture". Kagura seems to give off slight Les Yay vibes around Sakaki, if you asked me.
- Not sure about Kagura, but Sakaki is definetly not, at least in the anime. In episode 5, the first summer vacation episode, Sakaki leaves to go upstairs when the girls tell scary stories. But when Tomo switches to dirty stories, Sakaki turns around and goes back to the table, and when it looks like Nyamo and Yukari are going to talk, she even goes so far to (stealthily) edge closer to them.
- This troper is Asexual and would react like that too. It sounds pretty interesting and it fuels curiosity.
- If Sakaki didn't want to hear it, she would of walked away, like she did with the scary stories in episode 5
- Not sure about Kagura, but Sakaki is definetly not, at least in the anime. In episode 5, the first summer vacation episode, Sakaki leaves to go upstairs when the girls tell scary stories. But when Tomo switches to dirty stories, Sakaki turns around and goes back to the table, and when it looks like Nyamo and Yukari are going to talk, she even goes so far to (stealthily) edge closer to them.
- I remember Kagura telling Chiyo that she couldn't see herself getting married, but she followed that up with "not yet, anyway." Not sure if that helps or hurts the theory. Maybe it depends on whether you think the "yet" may mean she'll find it foreseeable in the future, or if she doesn't know, or if she just doesn't want to explain the concept to a 12-year-old.
- This is why she acts in such a masculine manner, and presents herself with a masculine haircut; but also hangs out (as far as we see) only with females. Also, she secretly fancies Sakaki.
- Come to think of it, she does treat Osaka with a bit more respect than normal. She does her Jerkass routine with everyone else, including her ten-year-old classmate, but with Osaka she acts more like a real friend would.
- Or maybe she just doesn't want to die.
- This troper thought Tomo choosing Osaka (and only Osaka) to watch the sunrise was significant, although not in a romantic sense. Additionally, in the main series, Tomo doesn't try out for Yomi's college of choice (which would seem natural), but Tomo and Osaka team up to get into their college of choice. Since they both succeed, it's easy to see them being roommates.
- I think that Tomo might have some respect for Osaka. Tomo acts jerkishly toward Yomi and Chiyo because she's jealous of their smarts and good grades. Osaka doesn't do well academically either, but she's fairly well spoken when not spaced out and is knowledgeable of obscure kanji. So, she's not smart enough to earn Tomo's ire, but just smart enough for Tomo to be impressed.
- Or maybe she likes Osaka platonically because, unlike Yomi, Kagura and Chiyo, Osaka doesn't patronise Tomo and is just as willing to go along with Tomo's own flights of fantasy. Kagura isn't all that academically smart, but she is good at sports. Sakaki is too shy for Tomo to be bothered with and Yomi...well. So maybe Tomo wanted to hang out with Osaka specifically because she feels more at ease with Osaka, hence she doesn't play up her The Gadfly ways as much because Osaka won't criticise her anyway.
If you look at the photo of Kimura's family, his daughter bears a striking resemblance to Sakaki, at least in the manga. Oddly, she looks a bit happier than Sakaki. Leading on from this, maybe Sakaki was a more open and less emotionally repressed when she was younger. Its quite common for a Cheerful Child to become increasingly serious as they grow up.
- Sakaki could be his niece.
- Who says she has to be a vigilante? I like to think that she applies herself and joins Interpol, where she is paired with a certain Inspector Zenigata.
- Spooky, but didn't she only move to Osaka a few years before High School?
- Think about it! You never see him or his wife in the same place at the same time, right? So, here's the most logical conclusion: Kimura is wearing some woman's skin and pretended to be his own wife...who never existed in the first place! Same deal with his daughter! He's very, very good at wearing skin!
- Furthermore, this theory could extent to the rest of the cast! Kimura is everyone! He's just very, very quick when changing clothes, skin, his own bone structure, etc.!
- And that theory could be linked to the afterlife theories! Kimura is, in fact, the last man alive! Chiyo's dad is a hallucination/imaginary father figure, and "Raspberry Heaven" is about Kimura's delusions of the perfect world he's trying to create with his Buffalo Bill antics! It all makes sense in context! PERFECT SENSE!
- Above theory up to eleven: The entire series is Kimura's paranoid hallucinations After the End, as he assaults, kills and skins each of them... I'm going to hell.
- Furthermore, this theory could extent to the rest of the cast! Kimura is everyone! He's just very, very quick when changing clothes, skin, his own bone structure, etc.!
- I'm pretty sure there's one scene where they both show up. That still leaves the possibility of the daughter though...
- Yeah, he's on that platform giving his "speech" for the third year while his wife is off the platform to the side. If he's disguised as his own daughter, though, he graduated from the same school of disguise as DON PAOLO.
- NANANANANANANANA CHIYO-CHAN! She could throw boomerangs shaped like her pigtails and ride in the Tadakichi-Mobile! Her nemesis is the Hoaxer - Tomo dressed up in an elaborate clown-like outfit. CRIMEFIGHTING ENSUES!
- Why am I all of a sudden wishing there was a spin-off series based on that idea?
- Why she has red hair (a recessive gene).
- Why she learned English so well, and a bit of Okinawan so quickly—she knows Russian and Japanese already, and has experience with learning languages. Extending that, she could've even picked up a bit of Ainu as well.
- Why we never see her parents—they're always on business trips. (Look at Mayu Miyuki from Ai Yori Aoshi.)
- Why she doesn't seem to be worried about getting a passport to go to America.
- Well, her being foreign may make some sense from that angle, but why specifically Russian? As far as this Russian troper can tell, Russia does not have an above-the-average percentage of red-haired people and Mihama is not a common surname for a Russian. Also, as someone who has lived in the US for a year, I know that it is actually very difficult to get an American visa if you are Russian, considering the on-again-off-again relations between the two countries. Speaking of which, the Russo-Japanese relations are not that smooth either, the two countries have not even ratified a formal peace treaty after WWII. Not saying that there are no Russians in Japan, just that I find it hard to believe that they would never bring that up if she were in fact Russian.
- Or probably she's Estonian?
- Osaka is the only ordinary human in the class. This is why everyone thinks she's weird.
- Who's Nomi? Yomi's BETA?
- Except that Nyamo has been in many relationships with men, some of them serious, which were "all about sex." If anything, it's the other way around with Yukari mooching off Nyamo because she knows she wouldn't reciprocate her feelings.
- Expanding on this: Osaka is the only one who actually has a boyfriend, and in fact has one for the majority of the series. She just never brings him along when she hangs out with her friends because she thinks it would be awkward and any time she tries to bring him up it gets misinterpreted.
- For her to be legally blind and physically disabled, she would certainly have some sort of noticeable indication, and she couldn't realistically do the few things she's shown doing. Aside from noticing the movement of, identifying, picking up, and discarding in a bin the soda can Tomo rolls at her, she traveled unassisted to his school just to bring him lunch, which she made herself, and recognizes Chiyo by her features alone instantly on sight. Whatever type it may be, blindness would make all of that impossible without any sort of assistance.
- This kinda makes sense, actually. She's so spacy and weird because she's constantly picking up on other people's thoughts. Either the idle thoughts of others cause her to have weird thoughts of her own, or her weird thoughts are a sort of defense mechanism; she subconsciously distracts herself to drown out the psychic noise. This would also explain how Chiyo-Dad, who originated in Sakaki's daydreams, wound up making an appearance in Osaka's as well.
- In other words, this entire universe was created by Haruhi Suzumiya after she got bored with the previous one.
- OMG. Yomi means "underworld"???
- Ahem. Have you ever read up on your kanji? If so, you'll know that the kanji for her actual name, "Ayumu," is an unusual (but not unheard-of) reading for "Spring Day." What's the more standard reading for that kanji combination? Haruhi. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
- Holy CRAP SHE IS GOD! RUUUUUUUUUUN!!!
- That could also explain why she's so good at speaking English.
- Maybe he just thinks the whole "pervert" angle is funny, and completely fails to realize that nobody else agrees.
- Yeah, this is one of the most believable WMGs of this page.
- It's probably more likely that Kaorin is a lesbian than bisexual anyway, given that she never seems to show attraction to anyone other than Sakaki. She does say that she wouldn't mind if Sakaki was a guy, but most people who are in love with someone would probably claim that they'd love that person regardless of gender anyway, straight or gay or otherwise.
- In this Troper's opinion, Kimura fits the role better. He lurks so that he can watch the girls/unnerve them (if the WMG is to be believed), the same way Slender Man does to weaken his victims. His glasses cover up his lack of eyes (the Slender Man was said to have only white circles where his eyes should be), he's fairly tall and thin, and his attraction to young girls meshes pretty well seamlessly with the Mythos. His consistently open mouth lends a resemblance to one of Victor Surge's earlier images (the one with good ol' Slendy in front of the staircase with someone running upstairs). However, you could be onto something with how Chiyo-Chichi is constantly popping up in the strangest places. Maybe they're working together?
- Slender Man doesn't have (visible) eyes. The closest it has had to eyes was/is when he had/has an illusionary, difficult-to-remember face that [doesn't show up in photos and videos.
If we add in the time from when she got drunk and said "screw men" ('truth in the wine...'), and from when Yukari tells her that she can "never finish the job" regarding marriage, then it really makes sense. I can't think of why someone like Minamo wouldn't be married/have a bf already otherwise. She might be looking still because of pressure (family, reputation, society, etc.). She seems to be someone who always worries about what others think of her as well, so being known as an "old maid" doesn't sound very flattering.
For the love letter thing, it's possible that she had a little something for Yukari in the past (especially in an all-girls school), which is why she gets so embarrassed about it when it's mentioned (IE., everyone might think she's gay). There might be some remnants of those feelings in her still (who would want to hang out/put up with Yukari otherwise?) and so she's afraid of losing the opportunity to spend as much time with her as she now does if she gets married (even in their character song, she's the one who gets worried about their friendship if Yukari somehow gets a boyfriend). Going down that romantic route then, she's a bisexual that just doesn't really realize it/tries to bury the fact/etc. It seems like she has an attraction to men, IE the sex talk (which possibly included *everything* about that world, like lesbian stuff too), but can only form an actually deep connection with women in the end, beyond just a "best friend" thing, and does that with Yukari (lust vs. love sort of). They both are *so* different that it's hard to even imagine them as just mild acquaintances, but Minamo still keeps hanging out with her a good amount of time regardless, and wants to keep it that way.
- She's rich: Well this is probably the most obvious sign of her royal heritage.
- She's a child prodigy but lacks athletic skills: A high schooler at age ten, aces all tests without so much as breaking a sweat but sucks at PE.
- She may have the scholastic skills to not only skip five grades, but she's still got the body of a 10-to-13-year-old. She considers herself to have been quite good at jump rope when she was younger, but any competition was likely between her and her physical peers. But now, she's competing against 15-to-18-year-olds, and is mostly outclassed, and the exception didn't think she could lose against her before she did.
- She has amazing leadership skills and charisma: being able to organize an entire class of teenagers to pull off two successful school festival gigs while being a ten year old tells a lot about her upbringing. She can easily earn people's attention and admiration simply by dressing in either a cheerleader outfit or a penguin suit, all for the specific purpose of furthering her goals.
- Her "Dad" is voiced by Norio Wakamoto: Who is an EMPEROR.
THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION!!!
- She has been in sexual relationships with men. Remember her "adult lessons" during the second Beach Episode ? If anything, she could be bisexual or Yukari may be an exception to her heterosexuality.
- The US government thought Sakaki was some kind of Japanese super soldier, so they sent Kagura to interrogate her. Unfortunately, she wasn't very good at interrogating and Kagura was abandoned in Tokyo when the funding was cut off.
- In her dream she's bored in school and just wants it to come to an end so she could go and see her boyfriend, eat cake and just have fun. So the bell rings and shes on her way to do exactly those things but then the twist shows up. She was dreaming and she's still in school; She misheard. Because of the nature of the song, this situation is recursive and continues until the song ends.
- ...A Time Lord
- Both are aloof badasses with long dark hair and dark blue??? eyes, and are very loyal/protective of a girl with pig tails who were their first true friends.
- Supposedly, Sakaki's eyes are a dark hue of blue??? Blue eye color being a recessive gene is rare outside of caucasian populations. It is unknown if Sakaki is her first or last name. To explain her size, one of her parents is really big.
- Then again, Nyamo and Yukari seem to occupy an odd position if this is, indeed, Heaven. Perhaps they are, in fact, working off their sins in life by assuming a caretaker role to the souls of the students. This would make their exit near the end of the series even more poignant, as the two have finally worked off their penance and are being admitted to their respective eternal rewards.
- If this is the case, then Chiyo-chichi is a good candidate for God. Or maybe an angel.
- Alternatively, Kimura's dead, and the rest of the cast are angels. This is his heaven.
- Or, since he can never get any of the girls and fulfill his Comedic Lolicon nature, it's actually an Ironic Hell. The reason he does good deeds in his spare time, like picking up litter or donating money to the shrine, is because it's part of his penance.
- I wouldn't think he would want to "get" any of them. Have you seen that dude's wife?
- Mai waifu.
- One word: ORGY!
- Or, since he can never get any of the girls and fulfill his Comedic Lolicon nature, it's actually an Ironic Hell. The reason he does good deeds in his spare time, like picking up litter or donating money to the shrine, is because it's part of his penance.
- Or, all of the characters are in purgatory:
- Nyamo and Yukari are caretakers, maybe making up for giving homework over vacation or something.
- The girls are also paying off something; Tomo doesn't seem to be making progress, but pulls it out anyway.
- Kimura is there just for being himself.
- Although he lusted after schoolgirls, he never actually acted out those lusts and was devoted to his family and faithful to his wife. He seems like an otherwise good guy (if a little creepy), but is an unrepentant pervert. Thus he was sent to purgatory instead of ending up in heaven or hell.
- Chiyo's Dad is some sort of angel overseeing the process; it explains his appearance and how he manages to appear in people's dreams and such. His attachment to Chiyo implies that he's either giving her special attention (due to her age) , or she's an angel in training.
- Or going off of that, he might be Chiyo's guardian angel specifically.
- The position of Nyamo and Kaorin may not be so bad, since they do get to spend time with the ones they love, perhaps even in a way that suits them best (a platonic friendship and a teenage crush - it could be worse).
- But the Yukarimobile's not old enough to have died and gone to Car Hell.
- Yukari totalled it. Both she and the car died.
- In that case... Sakaki got bitten by a cat and died of a subsequent infection (cat's teeth are sharp like needles, and some of the bacteria in their mouth are, as this troper read in a magazine, potentially lethal); Kaorin killed herself whilst wearing a wedding dress when she heard it. Also, Kagura, having lost her rival, deluded herself and trained harder and harder until she died from exhaustion. Yukari died in a car crash, naturally. Osaka zoned out in the middle of a street, and Chiyo tried to save her; Chiyo and Tadakichi-san pusher her out of the way but died. Yomi starved herself to death, and Tomo, having gone batshit insane, found Osaka whilst having a knife and stabbed her whilst muttering the Tsukkomi punchline over and over again. The series shows them coming to terms with their deads; Sakaki getting bitten but finding an acceptable cat, Osaka pulling herself together, Chiyo growing up, Kaguran going over a rivalry into friendship, etc. Kaorin got screwed, though.
- She just had an offscreen resolution
- Yukari totalled it. Both she and the car died.
- The cast gets embroiled in a suicide cult after suffering severe depression after leaving school for good at the end of the series. The events of A.D. are their lives flashing before their eyes before they die. (Yukari really should have let Kagura have a damned desk.)
- ...Who's Chizuru?
- Chihiro, sorry! Changed it.
Prior to creating Azumanga Daioh, series' creator Kiyohiko Azuma was writing and drawing the more fantastical manga Wallaby, which is the keystone to this shared universe theory: Wallaby was a series whose fantasy elements were much more front and center. While the focus of Wallaby's short run was mostly on the same slice of life stories that define Azuma's work, a lot of elements of the manga's premise bear similarities to anime like Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura: A normal girl who is first introduced to the supernatural side of the world she inhabits by a talking animal/creature/toy whose personality contrasts with their cute appearance.
This connects back to Azumanga Daioh because Wallaby's main protagonists, Kokoro and Warabi, make a cameo in the manga at the first year cultural festival. Not only that, but the final chapter of Wallaby (Released shortly before the cameo in question) has Kokoro mention her school's cultural festival is coming up, confirming the two series take place in the same setting.
In addition, prior to finding success with his own, original works, Azuma was active in the doujin scene under the -pen name A-ZONE, with Sailor Moon being the most frequent subjects of his doujinshi. Many of the foundations of his later works like Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba&! first show up in these Sailor Moon doujinshi, which most commonly focused on the Sailor Scouts getting involved in quirky, humorous situations in their civilian lives.
My theory is that when he began working on Wallaby, his first original title, Zuma planned for the series to be something akin to Sailor Moon, but with a greater focus on the protagonists civilian life. As the series only lasted for 8 chapters and was quickly eclipsed by Azumanga's popularity, Azuma didn't get the chance to explore the more fantastical side of the setting it took place in, but would end up repurposing some of these elements (Chiyo-Chichi, for instance) for Azumanga Daioh.
TL;DR version - All of Kiyohiko Azuma's original works takes place in a setting somewhat resembling Sailor Moon's, but since none of the main characters are aware of or involved in the magical girl aspects of the world they only ever show up as weird background details.
- How did Misaki's hair change colour, and how did she become a dozikko?
- Technology comparison makes this seem a bit silly.
- Osaka and Kafuka are both Cloudcuckoolanders and play the role of Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. Neither is known by their real name, and sometimes people think that one day both will snap and kill everyone.
- Yomi and Chiri
- Alternately, Yomi is Nami.
- Tomo and Mayo
- Yukari and Chie are both sexy teachers, but the latter is a sadist
- Oddly, Mr. Kimura is the Evil Counterpart of Itoshiki
- Or maybe SZS is Kimura's Ironic Hell. As punishment for being such a pervert, he becomes more attractive and a bunch of high school girls develop crushes on him, but they are all creepy and/or insane Evil Counterparts of girls he's had crushes on.
- How do Sakaki and Chiyo fit into this?
- Sakaki is Kaere/Kaede (Osaka did say that she was "American") and Chiyo is Maria (both are younger than the other students and invoke Cuteness Proximity; while Chiyo is a genius, Maria is The Ditz)
- Alternatively, Sakaki is Abiru. Her love of cute animals (which often causes cats to bite or scratch her) turns into an unhealthy obsession with tails (which causes animals to attack her). Also, Maria might not be as stupid as she seems.
- Wow, can't believe I missed that connection. Abiru is kind of similar to Sakaki personality-wise, except that her seeming emotionlessness is often more like snark.
- Sakaki is Kaere/Kaede (Osaka did say that she was "American") and Chiyo is Maria (both are younger than the other students and invoke Cuteness Proximity; while Chiyo is a genius, Maria is The Ditz)
- Oh, well in that case Male Student #1◊ is obviously a combination of Kagero Usui and Jun Kudo, as both are male students in an otherwise female student classroom.
- Nah, he's just Jun. Usui is also there, of course, but you can't see him.
- Tomo is Konata (Genki Girl, Cosplay Otaku Girl, both are the most enthusiastic anime fans (Lupin/Haruhi) in their series and look remarkably like their parents), plus Akira's Jerkassery and minus Konata's athletic ability.
- Yomi is Kagami (Only Sane Man, Big Eater, worried about their weight), plus Miyuki's glasses. They even have the same type of relations to each other, with Tomo/Konata always leeching homework from Yomi/Kagami. Also widely rumored to have a major crush on Yomi/Kagami.
- Osaka is Tsukasa ({{Cloudcuckoolander, flat chested) plus the Kansai accent.
- Chiyo is a Composite Character made of the cutest and youngest character (Yutaka), plus Miyuki's encyclopedic knowledge.
- Sakaki is Minami (The Quiet One, Huge Schoolgirl, both are from rich families, unhappy about the size of their chest, albeit from opposite ends of the spectrum, and have the same kind of relation with Yutaka/Chiyo), plus the Animals Hate Her from Hiyori and athletic ability from Konata.
- Yukari is Nanako (One of the Kids, Best Beer Ever, Old Maid, they're both teachers and gamers), plus Yui's Drives Like Crazy and minus the Kansai accent.
- Nyamo is Yui (Hinted Les Yay with Yukari/Nanako) minus the Drives Like Crazy.
- Kagura is Misao (Bokukko).
- Kaorin is Hiyori (Pseudo-Romantic Friendship) minus Hiyori's Animals Hate Her.
- Chihiro is Ayano (Satellite Character).
- Akira, being Jerkass incarnate, is transcended into Tomo.
- Kimura is Soujirou (Pervert Dad, creepy as hell with a thing for high school girls.
- Tadakichi-san is Cherry (Big Friendly Dog).
- Chiyo-Chichi is that weird cat thing (whatever they are, they ain't normal).
- I've noticed that a lot of the traits are kind of redistributed between the two series.
And whaddaya know, the internet agrees with me.
- This is why she has everyone call her by her first name; it's less confusing than having to get used to a pseudonym.
- So "Tanizaki" — the name that Kimura uses, and which she imagines the vice principal using when he(?) gives her "a nice long earful" for being late on the first day — isn't her real family name?
Little by little, Noruchi and Yuuka were informed of their destiny. They trained and worked "hard" to become influencing mentors not only to Chiyo but also to Kagura (a very distant ancestor of Beka Valentine) and Yomi (the foundation for the gene pool of the founder of the Nietzscheans race). In fact, the main cast's future lineage would greatly influence humanity's exploration of space and eventual membership into the tri-galactic Systems Commonwealth. And Osaka-san is just tagging along, even though she really is the avatar of Earth's sun.
- Also, Osaka is Amaterasu.
LONG LIVE CHIYO MIHAMA! LONG LIVE THE SYSTEMS COMMONWEALTH!
Azumanga Daioh's events pass. Chiyo lived to graduate college and found time to spend with her friends as an adult.On one fateful day, she and her friends went out, bought ice cream, etc, etc, when, as they're walking along, Osaka spots Chiyo walking down a dark alley. She's the only one that sees and, naturally, follows. As she peeks around the corner, she sees Chiyo stubbornly trying to help an old, homeless man. The man is actively protesting. When he gets at wit's end, he pulls out a knife and stabs Chiyo, killing her in one swift move, then retreating before he was caught. Osaka, who could not believe what she was seeing, reached out and pulled the knife out of Chiyo's chest.
By this time, the rest of the group noticed that the two of them were gone, and backtracked to that alley. What did they see? They saw Osaka, who's infamous for being a little wrong in the head, holding a bloody knife over a dead Chiyo, who was obviously stabbed in the chest. People screamed and police arrived, Osaka Yelling Chiyo's name all the while. It took this for Osaka to become truly insane.
The knife, of course, had Osaka's fingerprints all over it. In the court case, all evidence pointed to Osaka, who stayed silent, save for a "CHIYO!" here and there. It was obvious that she was not in a fit state of mind. She was taken to an asylum and stayed there for the rest of her life.
Also note that there is someone in CLANNAD, Nichijou, and Yotsuba&! who either looks or acts (kind of) like Osaka. In CLANNAD there's Fuko, in Nichijou there's Nano, and in Yotsuba&! there's Ena.
- Well. That was certainly an apparently unrelated and slightly disturbing WMG epilogue.
Each of the main six from the third year have their own recipe:
- Chiyo: One cup Everything Nice, half cup Sugar, dash Spice.
- Sakaki: One cup Everything Nice, half cup Spice, dash Sugar.
- Tomo: One cup Spice, half cup Sugar, dash Everything Nice.
- Kagura: One cup Spice, half cup Everything Nice, dash Sugar.
- Osaka: One cup Sugar, half cup Everything Nice, dash Spice.
- Yomi: One cup Sugar, half cup Spice, dash Everything Nice.
- Kaorin apparently got a puppy dog tail.
These ingredients were imported to The City of Townsville and were used to make the Powerpuff Girls.
- Blossom is mainly made of Chiyo's Everything Nice, thus they are the brains of their group and redheads.
- Buttercup is mainly made of Spice. She shares Kagura's athletic discipline and skill and Tomo's golden jerkness, as well as a reversed hairstyle.
- Bubbles is mainly made of Yomi's Sugar, thus they share the berserk-button nature.
- Tedd could be a gender-flipped, older but equally cute (though less innocent) Chiyo.
- The loss of innocence is a result of him/her finally understanding the drunken lecture, which Tedd also experienced though under different circumstances. This means that when Chiyo in the Azuverse finally understands what Nyamo was saying she'll start thinking like a Tedd.
- Huh. And when Chiyo loses her innocence, so does Chiyo-Dad, who takes on a slightly more human form. Also, if we consider Justin and Kaorin to be one and the same as well as Raven-Kimura, then that leaves only Elliot and Sarah...Yukari and Nyamo?
- As a small child, Chiyo's dad was a squishy, loveable, cryptic, flying cat-thing. Now that Tedd's grown up more, he's Dumbledore. It makes sense. Maybe Yukari and Nyamo are Agent Cranium and Agent Wolf? Or they could be a bygone pair of schoolteachers that helped along Tedd's thing for lesbians. Or Elliot and Sarah, or Lisa and Amanda.
- This NEEDS to be a crossover fic. Exchange program? I'll even contribute a Running Gag: Yukari-sensei turns out to be an excellent driver when transplanted to a place where they drive on the right.
- And Chiyo's dad is actually a recruiting agent for the Incubators, likely from their planet (similar to the theories about Ume-sensei from Hidamari Sketch). Catlike appearance, check. Magical abilities, check. Eerie demeanor, check. Unchanging facial expression, check (though his isn't a Frozen Face). Only appears to the dreamy Cloudcuckoolanders Osaka and Sakaki (they would be the most likely to have "potential"), check. Oh, Crap!...
- Suleika might be Osaka's Witch form. As the Witch of Darkness with a delusional nature, she may reflect Osaka's possible Cloudcuckoolander (and arguably, autistic) mental state; plus her familiar Ulla's duty is to dream.
- Apparently its a VERY dark campaign setting.
- Chiyo's character is Madoka.
- Sakaki's character is Homura.
- Yomi's character is Kyoko.
- Ms Kurasawa's character is Mami.
- Tomo's character is Sayaka.
- Ms. Yukari's the Game Master and shes a Killer Game Master at that. Her piece on the board is Kyubey and the witches.
- After being thrust into such an odd and unfamiliar world, she found she became more mature (in some ways), talkative, stupider, crazier and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more boy hungry.