Azumanga Daioh
Kiyohiko Azuma's Azumanga Daioh is a Japanese comedic manga series. It was serialized by MediaWorks in the shnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh from 1999 to 2002 and compiled in four bound volumes. In May2009, to commemorate the manga's tenth anniversary, three new chapters began serialization in Shogakukan's Monthly Shnen Sunday under the title Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Lessons. The manga is produced as a series of vertical four-panel comic strips called yonkoma and chronicles the life of a group of girls during their three years as high school classmates. The series has been hailed for its unusual characters' witty humor, and Kiyohiko Azuma has been dubbed a "master of the four-panel form" for both his visual style and comic timing. It was converted into an anime television series called Azumanga Daioh: the Animation by J.C.Staff, which ran from April8, 2002 to September30, 2002. It was broadcast on the TV Tokyo network and AT-X in five-minute chunks every weekday, then repeated as a 25-minute compilation that weekend, for a total of 130 five-minute segments compiled in 26 episodes. Starchild Records released the compilation episodes on DVD and Universal Media Discs; the five-minute portions are identified by their unique names. Several soundtrack CDs were released, as well as three Azumanga Daioh video games.
Released: 2002-04-08