Azumanga Daioh

Azumanga Daioh
Cover of the first manga tankōbon volume, featuring from left to right: Sakaki, Chiyo, Tomo, Yomi, and Osaka
あずまんが大王
(Azumanga Daiō)
Genre
Manga
Written byKiyohiko Azuma
Published by
English publisher
MagazineDengeki Daioh
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 1999May 2002
Volumes4 (List of volumes)
Original net animation
Azumanga Web Daioh
Directed byFumiaki Asano
Music byMotokazu Shinoda
StudioAjia-do Animation Works[4]
ReleasedDecember 28, 2000
Runtime4 minutes
Anime film
Azumanga Daioh: The Very Very Short Movie
Directed byHiroshi Nishikiori
StudioJ.C.Staff
ReleasedDecember 22, 2001
Runtime6 minutes
Anime television series
Azumanga Daioh: The Animation
Directed byHiroshi Nishikiori
Produced by
  • Shinichi Ikeda
  • Nobuhiro Osawa
  • Yuji Matsukura
Written byIchirō Ōkouchi
Music byMasaki Kurihara
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run April 8, 2002 September 30, 2002
Episodes26 (130 segments) (List of episodes)
Related works

Azumanga Daioh (Japanese: あずまんが大王, Hepburn: Azumanga Daiō) is a Japanese yonkoma comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma. It was serialized from February 1999 to May 2002 in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh by MediaWorks; three additional chapters were published in Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009 to celebrate the manga's tenth anniversary. The manga was first released in English by ADV Manga, and later re-issued by Yen Press.

An anime television adaptation titled Azumanga Daioh: The Animation was produced by J.C.Staff and aired in Japan between April and September 2002, consisting of 130 four-minute segments compiled into 26 episodes. The compiled episodes were released on DVD and Universal Media Discs (UMDs) by Starchild Records, and an English-language version was produced by ADV Films. Before the series, a theatrical short and an original net animation were also produced. Several soundtrack albums were released, as well as three Azumanga Daioh video games.

Both the manga and anime have been praised for their humor driven by eccentric characters, with Azuma acclaimed as a "master of the four-panel form" for both his art style and comic timing.[5]

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