1000 Anime Crossover: Azumanga Daioh (2002)

Television Series

Wishing to promote my other blog's existence, in mind that they both belong to the same mind space of what I like writing about, but one is devoted entirely to Japanese animation, I felt I should start promoting content written in that site more often.

Azumanga Daioh is a good introduction for this. It does have one unfortunate aspect, but for the most part, this is an anime you could sell to someone with (for the most part) a lack of context or embarrassment to worry about. It is entirely a comedy, originally five minute shorts compiled into a twenty six episode show, about the lives of a troupe of school girls throughout their entire high school lives. It can vary between what is called "slice of life", the ordinary lives of archetypes who the show flesh out fully, and some legitimately weird content when it fancies being wacky.

The one unfortunate aspect I have to warn about, and sadly will detract for many, is that the one male character in the entire show who is neither animal or weird animal-man who only appears in flights of fancy is a male teacher where the joke is about him lusting over schoolgirls. This has not aged, and has to be warned about even though I wish I did not have to. For Western fans of said show to this day, on its twentieth anniversary this year, that character has not aged well for any of us either, but thankfully the program is not capsized by this one flaw at all. For a show which is sadly not as readily available, it has aged exceptionally everywhere else within itself as a whimsical and exceptionally funny production.

Even in mind that the original comic's target audience was teen boys, this feels far more sweet and gentle hearted as it will happily have some perfectly timed slapstick. For the full review, follow the link HERE.