Saturday, February 9, 2008

Review of anime Azumanga Daioh
Review Time. Today lets look at the anime Azumanga Daioh.

Value: 4/5

Rating: 10+

Genre. Comedy

STORY.

Basically the story is about a group of children as they go through school. The group is followed over a three year period during which they deal with all of the school isues that pop up. Such as the super smart ten year old prodigy Chiyochan, school rivalries and wierd teachers.

CHRACTERS

Yukari. The english homeroom teacher of the girls. She is the biggest child in the class. She is always in fierce rivalry battle with the sports teacher Minamo.

Minamo. The sports teacher. She has known Yukari all her live but unlike yukari she has grown out of her child phase (somewhat).

Chiyo. A child prodogy. She skips kindergarden and is at ten years the youngest pupil in the class. She excels at her studies but is very bad at sports. Dispite her age she is one of the more responsible people in the class.

Osaka. This is not the real name of this girl but as she is a transfer student from Osaka everyone calls her that. She is a real airhead and her greatest hobby is sleeping.

Tomo. The typical energetic girl. She jumps around and makes a lot of noice but most of her energy is wasted as it laks direction. She scores near the bottom of the class with her test scores.

Kagura. Is a sportsbuff. She is a member of the swmteam and joins the class in the second year. She tries to be the rival of Sakaki who is a natural athleet and beats Kagura at sports regularely

Sakaki. She is a natural athlete and also a good student. She is cool and collected but goes absolutely nuts over animals as her dream is to become a veterinarian. The only problem is that every cat she tries to pet attacks her.

Yomi. Lifelong friend of Tomo she is a good student and a average athlete. She fights a lot with Tomo and is always worried about her weight.

ART & MUSIC.

Art (5/5) and music (5/5) are excellent.

VOICE ACTING

The japanese acting is once again excellent (5/5). Didn't watch the english subs, if anyone has let me know.

Personal note. I realy loved this series. It was a little hard to get into the storie because there are a lot of things that are specific for Japanese culture. So there might be some gags that you won't understand. But the ones that do come through are more than worth it.

If you have any questions please let me know. Also tips and comments about how i can make this sort of blog better are more than welcome.
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