Azumanga Puzzle Daioh
| Azumanga Daioh | |
Cover of the original edition of volume one of Azumanga Daioh. From left to right: Sakaki, Chiyo, Tomo, Yomi, and Osaka
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あずまんが大王 (Azumanga Daiō) |
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| Genre | Comedy, slice of Life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| Published by |
MediaWorks, Shogakukan (re-release) |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Dengeki Daioh |
| Original run | February 1999 – May 2002 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Original net animation | |
| Azumanga Web Daioh あずまんがWEB大王 |
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| Directed by | Fumiaki Asano |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Released | December 28, 2000 |
| Runtime | 4 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Azumanga Daioh: The Very Short Movie あずまんが大王（劇場短編） |
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| Directed by | Hiroshi Nishikiori |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Released | December 22, 2001 |
| Runtime | 6 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Azumanga Daioh: The Animation | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Nishikiori |
| Produced by | Shinichi Ikeda Nobuhiro Osawa Yuji Matsukura |
| Written by | Ichiro Okouchi |
| Music by | Masaki Kurihara |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 8, 2002 – September 30, 2002 |
| Episodes | 26 |
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Azumanga Daioh (Japanese: あずまんが大王 Hepburn: Azumanga Daiō, lit. "Great King Azumanga") is a Japanese yonkoma comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma, which was serialized in MediaWorks' Dengeki Daioh magazine between 1999 and 2002. 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 was 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 five-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. Prior to 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.
The series title has no particular significance to the story. "Azumanga" is a portmanteau of the author's name "Azuma" and "manga", while "Daioh" comes from the magazine in which it was originally published, Dengeki Daioh. In the anime, "daioh" is mentioned during the next episode previews, used in context with the meaning "great king".
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