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And Kimura wasn't really anything like what we're shown. He was just a bit odd, and the girls were afraid of him.
* So, for example, at the beach Tomo was flailing her arms and accidentally knocked the key out of Chiyo's hand into the weeds. Fifteen years later, the other girls tease Tomo that she did it on purpose, and that's what Azu shows us.
* This troper officially loves the series ''more'' now that she'll be re-reading it with this in mind.
* For further proof, this troper and his friends were remembering our own high school days... and I realized that it could be summed up semi-accurately as "[[Azumanga Daioh]] [[Recycled in Space|WITH BOYS]]". Seriously, some of the antics are freakishly similar, and got embellished in the same way. The "instant nickname"<ref>The nickname in this case was "Monkeymuscles". We came up with it as a generic nickname, and thought it was so awesome that we randomly started calling someone by it. It caught on.</ref> thing in particular actually happenend.
* [[That One Player]]? [[Author Avatar|Azu himself.]]
 
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== When Kimura said "What I wouldn't give to watch them changing," he wasn't talking about the girls ==
He was talking about the traffic lights. He just has a strange fascination with street lights.
* I wonder what the name of a traffic light fetish is?
* This would require him not to know that traffic lights changing is really easy to watch happening. Unless... he meant that he wants to watch them changing the bulbs...?
 
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*** Where she will be reunited with <s>Osaka</s> Kasuga-sensei.
**** OH MY GOD! Someone remembered Osaka's name!
* I disagree. When she's 16 years old she will perfect time travel, realise everything in the future is going to break and will attempt to stop it by enrolling into a local high school, assuming the name {{spoiler|"Asahina Mikuru"}}.
** This Troper finds that this statement makes entirely too much sense (based on the anime).
* There was a picture based on this. Chiyo changes her name to Penny and is adopted by [[Inspector Gadget]].
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* So would you say Osaka qualifies as an [[Uncanny Valley Girl]] then? She does seem kinda similar to [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Ryoko Asakura]] at times.
 
== Their class reunion is to go see [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3. ==
Eight years have passed since the girls graduated in 2002. Sakaki is now a veterinarian and living happily in her own home with Maya, Tomo is currently part of the Interpol, Yomi works as a highly accredited business woman, Kagura is now a full time swimming and fitness instructor, Yukari and Nyamo are still teaching and still single, and Osaka has recently joined them as a Creative Writing teacher. As for Chiyo chan, [[She's All Grown Up|is now 19]], has graduated from Stanford, obtained a [[PHD]] and recently returned with Mr. Tadakichi from their stay in the United States. But they've been keeping in touch over the years and decide that for 2010, they should all meet up to see each other again. They meet up at their old high school and then head off to the Toho Cinema Theater. There, Sakaki sneaks in Maya and Yomi convinces the theater patron that Mr. Tadakichi is a seeing eye-dog for Tomo. They then sit down for the long awaited animated sequel to one of their favorite childhood films, [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3.
** I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Though I think Kagura is a swimming instructor at the same school as Osaka, Nyamo and Yuakari
 
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* Kagura did ask whether Sakaki's hand smells like fish.
** <Insert obvious Jill-off joke here.>
*** I will not. Such a joke would be in bad [[Incredibly Lame Pun|taste]].
 
== Kamineko is an abandoned housecat. ==
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*** Yes. And he flies at Mach 100.
* Alternatively Chiyo is an orphan but the rest of the cast (at the very least Nyamo and Yukari) deludes her into thinking her parents are alive, no one could bring themselves to tell her.
** It does raise the question though who Nyamo bows to when she thanks for the car hired by Chiyo's parents.
*** Nobody. She chose to play along rather than try to act as a psychiatrist.
* I think I remember hearing Chiyo's mother calling for her from offscreen once. Though, if I'm remembering correctly, Chiyo was the only one in the room, so it might've been her imagination.
* However, she said that her parents ordered the car for the second summer house trip. I doubt that a twelve-year old girl could convince a company to dispense a car to her house. Apart from cleaning said house, keeping the stock up, etc.
** As said above: "synthesizing voices on the phone and paying people to pretend to be her parents." And for the work, there are maids and cleaning services after all. It's not like she wouldn't have inherited all of it.
*** There has to be some legal guardian looking after her. Even if she managed all of the household work, someone involved in delivering food or other regular stuff would notice a ten to twelve year old girl who seems to always answer the door and takes all the stuff into her home without help. Some store owner would get concerned about her always shopping alone if she shops outside. And that's only the people she doesn't know. What relatives would leave an eleven year old girl on their own? Either they never visit and don't know about the circumstances, Chiyo is the last of her line, or on a more sinister note, Chiyo has [[Evil Uncle|very]] [[Big Screwed-Up Family|good]] [[Dark and Troubled Past|reasons]] for avoiding her relatives. [[Adult Child|Yukari]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|hovers above reality occasionally]], but she'd start to wonder why her parents never show up to parents meetings. Failing that, [[Straight Man|Nyamo]] would certainly notice the parents absence at sports events. And after all that, one of the five teenage friends she has would ask the "Where are your parents?" question at some point. Get round that one. Of course, maybe thats why Chiyo is so quick to ask to go out or suggests holidaying at the beach house. After that, there's the issues of billing, registering with new schools, taxes, and other stuff no child could do for age reasons, and finally just the fact that there's this strange little girl who you never see the parents of. Someone would ask a question for which an answer didn't exist. Finally, there's going to university. Another massive stumbling block... On the other hand, to throw further fuel on this fire, consider Chiyo's personality. She's constantly cheerful and smiling, thats for sure, but she's also hugely self-reliant and responsible. She has a job, always pulls her weight in projects, even in things like sports where she's physically outmatched, has more common sense than the vast majority of teenagers and many adults, and she's a friggin genius. Its obvious she's both smart and works hard. Concievably, she could pull this off by being careful who she talked to and mastering just about every kind of fraud in the book... the question is, why would she? Are there reasons she has to?... sinister things are a foot in WMG today!... er... just got hit by the [[Fridge Logic]]... as to why she mentions her parents... [[Unreliable Narrator|she's lying to us?]] (Ok now we're moving out of unlikely and into meta.)
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* Chiyo is actually God who just likes to surround herself with Bishoujos. Probably because the class is so incredibly funny she wanted to be a part. Her Dad is a self insert of the Author, who is quite literally the thing closest to a father for a In story God. After they graduated she went "abroad", well probably because she doesn't want to spend too long on a planet with only so much action.
** [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya|Something here sounds a little familiar.]]
*** If we go with a "Chiyo is a Haruhi" theory, you could say that she was born into a family with abusive parents who she hated, and so they conveniently died. She has butlers, maids, and Tadakichi taking care of her, and tons of money to live off of, etc. Anything she wants where she wants something that would require a parent she can create a convenient substitute for, possibly Chiyo-chichi.
*** That may explain Chiyo-chichi's appearance in Osaka and Sakaki's dreams/daydreams as well. After all, those two are the ones who seem to be closest to Chiyo...
*** Wouldn't she end up being taller if what she wanted came to pass?
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** It would also explain the pool water incident. He was telling Kagura to wear a swim suit to pick on her, and then asked her to get pool water to creep her out.
* FIIIIIIRST PLAAAAACE VIIIICTOOOORRYYYYY!
* This goes back to the theory that his wife is either on the schoolboard or he has a lot of money. Way I figure it he went into teaching to try and pass on knowledge to the next generation (from his actions he probably is extremely idealist) but became cynical in that regard when he realised that most school students really don't care and will most of the time choose the most self-serving route. Because he's basically stuck with his career decision and can't get fired, he acts like an ass to try to both vent out his frustration and find the humor in the situation.
* Alternatively, Kimura is putting on the act of [[Chivalrous Pervert]] in an attempt to endear himself to the students, however he is not quite [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize the combination of overdoing it and his slack-jawed, disheveled appearance give the impression of 'just plain pervert'.
* He has a strange form of [[Tourettes Syndrome]] that makes him say perverted things that he doesn't mean, his expression is one of shock and embarrassment.
* He's actually a nice, if bland teacher. At one point, he imitated a character from a TV show he liked, "BECAUSE I LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS!", but [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure|no]][[Small Reference Pools|one]] got the reference. He continues to do it, because he's more [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|popular]] now.
 
== Osaka's dilated pupils are proof that she's constantly on drugs. ==
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* Or she takes meds against depression. This troper takes them, and her pupils have dilated quite a bit as a side-effect (better than the headaches, nausea, derealization and fatigue from before, I guess).
* Perhaps she takes some sort of anti-hyperactivity medicine, similar to Ritalin. It could explain her weird behavior; it's a side-effect.
** Unless I'm gravely mistaken, Ritalin and such (Dexedrine, heck, even caffeine will do in a pinch) don't work that way, even for ADD or ADHD kids. Attention deficit disorders result from the relevant glands not producing enough dopamine: Ritalin and other stimulants are chemically similar and thus, in the proper doses, can supplement the deficiency. On meds, an ADD kid's behavior is pretty much indistinguishable from anybody else's.
*** You seem to have never been on Ritalin for long periods of times. Yes, it can turn you into Osaka. Personal experience will vouch for this
*** My Brother takes ADD/ADHD medication, and he acts like a total Osaka when he doesn't take his medication. Maybe Oskaka is like my brother.
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== Nyamo and Yukari had a [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] when in school. ==
This is almost [[Fanon]]. The [[Noodle Incident|"Loveletter" incident]] is about how Nyamo wanted a [[Relationship Upgrade|go to]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|next level]].
* It still doesn't explain why Nyamo would be so embarrassed about that letter, since it's pretty ordinary for girls in a [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] to do stuff like that. Yukari would have likely done some lovey-dovey stuff herself then. It ''would'' explain though why Nyamo has such a high tolerance for Yukari's childish behavior, since she might still have some of the old feelings for her.
** Nyamo's embarrassment has a couple of explanations, for one there's a bit of difference between not being ashamed of an old romance and wanting the kids you teach to know who you used to be into. Alternately, would you feel like owning up to having fallen for Yukari, to kids who've had her as a teacher?
** Or it could have been extremely recently. You see Nyamo get angered when Yukari mentions that she wasn't single last summer. Maybe she didn't want the students to know because they think of Yukari as [https://web.archive.org/web/20190710161404/http://www.mangavolumeflasharcade.com/index.php?serie=azumanga-daioh&chapter=azumanga-daioh-1&page_nr=13 odd]. Perhaps they agreed to just be friends and never speak of it again? That also explains why they never mention the love letter to the rest of the group because that would mean acknowledging the relationship. Come to think of it, one would wonder how far they got in their relationship and [[Perverse Sexual Lust|****it I'm aroused now]].
** They may or may not have gone on a date [https://web.archive.org/web/20190710161357/http://www.mangavolumeflasharcade.com/index.php?serie=azumanga-daioh&chapter=azumanga-daioh-8&page_nr=1\] And [https://web.archive.org/web/20190710161359/http://www.mangavolumeflasharcade.com/index.php?serie=azumanga-daioh&chapter=azumanga-daioh-8&page_nr=2\]
* There's been at least one [[Fanfic]] implying that the main reason Nyamo has stayed by Yukari's side for all these years is a lingering feeling on her.
** The feeling may be reciprocrated. In that episode where Yukari and Nyamo are having dinner with that chick and her two single co-workers, Yukari may have said they were boring to drop hints and Nyamo. That, and it seems she scared then off. maybe deliberately.
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== Chiyo's friends from primary school. ==
Noone has an idea why they look like child versions of Nyamo and Yukari? They even have similar names. Come on, there must be some kind of connection...
* Theory one: A nefarious cloning experiment.
** [[Metal Gear|The Patriots]] have cloned Nyamo and Yukari to create the prefect slice-of-life high school teachers!
* Theory two: Both Nyamo and Yukari got knocked up when they were 14 or thereabouts, each had a daughter strongly resembling themselves at about the same time, and both were adopted away and by coincidence wound up in the same class in school.
** Possible [[Sequel Hook]]: By the end of the series, they will enter high school as freshmen. They enter the same school and get their respective lookalike teacher for homeroom. Or the reverse. Does [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensue]] or not?
* It's not inconceivable that the Azumanga Daioh universe is cyclical or temporally recursive. * [[User:Blink Dawg]] checks all the volumes for Ourobouros symbolism*
 
== Sakaki's family is almost as rich as Chiyo's ==
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* * pictures Sakaki in Samurai armor and with a katana* [[Rule of Cool|Sweet.]]
** Further evidence of this is Sakaki's hair. Daughters of samurai families grew their hair long and never cut it. Sakaki has rather long hair.
** Also, her inability to connect with cats is a result of actions by her ancestors. When he or she was in mortal combat with a cat demon and won, the demon cursed with his dying breath that his brothers would forever torment their line, and their descendants would be inevitably drawn to cats even though they would be hated by them. Since the demon was specifically a iriomote cat demon, only an iriomote cat could accept Sakaki and lift the curse. Then Sakaki met Maya and the rest is history.
*** I demand to see fanfic of that. And fanart of the battle.
*** Enjoy. https://web.archive.org/web/20110811035857/http://cartoonlion.deviantart.com/art/A-Samurai-s-Battle-132835442
** We never find out her full name. I propose that she is Ishikawa Sakaki, daughter of [[Lupin the ThirdIII|Goemon]]. He has a weakness for beautiful women, and fathered an illegitimate daughter at some point. He sends a portion of his income to her, explaining her possible wealth. Sakaki inherited her fathers pure genetic badassery (which we already know goes back 13 generations) as well as his quiet stoic nature.
**** ...That is awesome. I demand it become fanon now.
**** Me too. Sakaki with a sword.....droool.
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** She might have a mild form of Asperger's.
*** Not even Asperger's.
*** It's possible. There's a reason AS is a ''[[Asperger's Syndrome|spectrum]]'' disorder, you know, and people who do have AS (e.g. [[Tropers/Magmar Fire|this troper]]) can learn those social skills in time.
 
 
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== Osaka used to be a child prodigy like Chiyo-chan. ==
When she was ten, she went to high school back in Osaka, but the stress of being a child prodigy and having so much expected of her (especially in Japan's workaholic society), caused her to have a total mental breakdown. She institutionalized for a few years after that, and subconsciously feigns stupidity due to fear that if people realized how smart she was, she'd feel all the pressure all over again. When she was released, her family moved out of Osaka to take a new start, but Osaka is still fully medicated (see the theory on her being on drunks above), which has an occational side-effect of hallucinations. She's good at puzzles and tricks and such because she figures it's a stress-free way for her to be smart.
* Spooky, but didn't she only move to Osaka a few years before High School?
 
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* Why we never see her parents--they're always on business trips. (Look at Mayu Miyuki from ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]''.)
* Why she doesn't seem to be worried about getting a passport to go to America.
** Well, her being foreign may make some sense from that angle, but why specifically ''Russian''? As far as this Russian troper can tell, Russia does not have an above-the-average percentage of red-haired people and Mihama is not a common surname for a Russian. Also, as someone who has lived in the US for a year, I know that it is actually ''very'' difficult to get an American visa if you are Russian, considering the on-again-off-again relations between the two countries. Speaking of which, the Russo-Japanese relations are [[wikipedia:Kuril Islands dispute|not that smooth either]], the two countries have not even ratified a formal peace treaty after WWII. Not saying that there are no [[wikipedia:Russians in Japan|Russians in Japan]], just that I find it hard to believe that they would never bring that up if she were in fact Russian.
 
 
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== Sakaki's other name is dangerous ==
Sakaki shares the true name of God. To hear Sakaki's name would kill you / send you into a near comatose state, etc.
(No, not literally 'dangerous'. Though that would be pretty cool too. [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|Sakaki. Dangerous Sakaki.]] )
 
== Chiyo is American and adopted ==
Adopted at a young age, had her name changed, knows this, and wants to go to America. That explains her old look compared to the rest of the gang. Either that or she's some sort of European.
* That could also explain why she's so good at speaking English.
 
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== Kimura only has a fatherly attraction toward Sakaki and Kaorin, and that's the only way he expresses it ==
[[Overprotective Dad]]? Sakaki does look like his daughter..
 
== Kaorin is a lesbian ==
It seemed quite obvious, but the front page has a "[[Bi the Way]]" for her, and she's noted as having a [[Single-Target Sexuality]], so it may not be. It seemed as if that "I'd date her if she was a guy.." thing was her trying to cover up her sexuality, and failing miserably. Likewise, her "I wouldn't mind if Sakaki were a guy" comment.
* Yeah, this is one of the most believable [[WMG|WMGs]] of this page.
 
== Chiyo-Dad is a time traveller that went back in time to warn the girls of all the horrifically dark [[WMG|WMGs]] tropers have come up with on this page. . ==
Except that due to a freak accident involving lasers he can only communicate cryptically through Sakaki's and Ayumu's minds. He's trying to keep them off drugs and other nasty things...or something so that the [[WMG|WMGs]] don't become a reality. Or something like that.
 
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== Kimura is a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] without the benefit of ever seeing what goes on in his head. ==
Rather than a [[Dirty Old Man]], Kimura is a nice guy with a very loose grasp on reality who doesn't realize the way people could take the things he says and does; his "reason for becoming a teacher" was just making a joke, but he was too spaced out to realize that people took him seriously. The other things he does are trying in his own strange way to befriend his students while unintentionally creeping them out. Although it's possible he's both a weirdo and the above-mentioned ******* theory.
 
== Osaka is a [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|human-like robot.]] ==
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== Osaka is using [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. ==
In ''[[Fan Work|Osaka]] [[Widget Series|Simulator]]'', Osaka can sneeze on a regular basis. Sneezing on a regular basis is a symptom of either allergies, chronic dry sinuses, or a cold. [[Idiots Cannot Catch Colds]]. Since allergies are often treated as colds in Japanese fiction for the purposes of [[Idiots Cannot Catch Colds]], Osaka is either not an idiot or has chronic dry sinuses (possibly comorbid with her dry eyes). [[Artistic License Logic|Q.]] [[Bat Deduction|E.]] ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|D.]]''
 
[[WMG:== Osaka is the [[Ultimate Evil]] ==
One phrase. Hail Osaka!
 
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The impression given off by Minamo/Nyamo in the series/manga is that she likes the prospect of marriage more than actually ''getting'' married itself, since she always seems to hesitate about relationships (IE. for the double-date, she looks like she doesn't want to go through with it). Even when an arranged marriage comes into the picture, which would fix her situation pretty quickly, she still isn't sure if she wants to do it in the end. In that episode the theme was about 'freedom/doing what you want', so Minamo seems to be the type of person who doesn't really want things to change (not even for a better job) since she's happy with how things are already. When Yukari tells her that her life is her own, that's when she doubts the arranged marriage idea. It's like she *wishes* she could get married or find the perfect guy, but doesn't want to go through with it when push comes to shove.
 
If we add in the time from when she got drunk and said "screw men" ('truth in the wine...'), and from when Yukari tells her that she can "never finish the job" regarding marriage, then it really makes sense. I can't think of why someone like Minamo wouldn't be married/have a bf already otherwise. She might be looking still because of pressure (family, reputation, society, etc.). She seems to be someone who always worries about what others think of her as well, so being known as an "old maid" doesn't sound very flattering.
 
For the love letter thing, it's possible that she had a little something for Yukari in the past (especially in an all-girls school), which is why she gets so embarrassed about it when it's mentioned (IE., everyone might think she's gay). There might be some remnants of those feelings in her still (who would want to hang out/put up with Yukari otherwise?) and so she's afraid of losing the opportunity to spend as much time with her as she now does if she gets married (even in their character song, she's the one who gets worried about their friendship if Yukari somehow gets a boyfriend). Going down that romantic route then, she's a bisexual that just doesn't really realize it/tries to bury the fact/etc. It seems like she has an attraction to men, IE the sex talk (which possibly included *everything* about that world, like lesbian stuff too), but can only form an actually deep connection with women in the end, beyond just a "best friend" thing, and does that with Yukari (lust vs. love sort of). They both are *so* different that it's hard to even imagine them as just mild acquaintances, but Minamo still keeps hanging out with her a good amount of time regardless, and wants to keep it that way.
 
== Mr. Kimura's waifu is an ex-student of his ==
A friend of mine pointed out that Mrs. Kimura looks younger than her husband. This is plausible, and it could be that she was the only student not utterly repulsed by him.
 
== Alternatively, they discovered that they have something in common ==
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== All of the series is in Osaka's mind. ==
She was hit by a car, or Yukari, before she entered school and she's comatose.
 
== The whole thing was Tomos dream after a tragic trampoline accident put her in a coma. The last scene is her waking up 4 years later. ==
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== Azumanga Daioh takes place in 1991 - 2001 ==
In episode 17 Tomo and Osaka say that next year would be the Year of the Snake. The last Year of the Snake was in 2001.
 
 
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* Yukari and Chie are both sexy teachers, but the latter is a sadist
* Oddly, Mr. Kimura is the [[Evil Counterpart]] of Itoshiki
** Or maybe SZS is Kimura's [[Ironic Hell]]. As punishment for being such a pervert, he becomes more attractive and a bunch of high school girls develop crushes on him, but they are all creepy and/or insane [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Counterparts]] of girls he's had crushes on.
* How do Sakaki and Chiyo fit into this?
** Sakaki is Kaere/Kaede (Osaka did say that she was [[Foreign Fanservice|"American"]]) and Chiyo is Maria (both are younger than the other students and invoke [[Cuteness Proximity]]; while Chiyo is a genius, Maria is [[The Ditz]])
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* Yomi is Kagami ([[Only Sane Man]], [[Big Eater]], worried about their weight), plus Miyuki's [[Meganekko|glasses]]. They even have the same type of relations to each other, with Tomo/Konata always leeching homework from Yomi/Kagami. Also [[Fanon|widely rumored]] to [[Les Yay|have a major crush]] on Yomi/Kagami.
* Osaka is Tsukasa ([[Cloudcuckoolander]], flat chested) plus the [[Kansai Regional Accent]].
* Chiyo is a [[Composite Character]] made of the [[Kawaiiko|cutest]] and [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|youngest]] character (Yutaka), plus Miyuki's [[The Smart Guy|encyclopedic knowledge]].
* Sakaki is Minami ([[The Quiet One]], [[Huge Schoolgirl]], both are from rich families, unhappy about the size of their chest, albeit from opposite ends of the spectrum, and have the same kind of relation with Yutaka/Chiyo), plus the [[Animals Hate Him|Animals Hate Her]] from Hiyori and athletic ability from Konata.
* Yukari is Nanako ([[Adult Child]], [[Best Beer Ever]], [[Christmas Cake]], they're both teachers and gamers), plus Yui's [[Drives Like Crazy]] and minus the [[Kansai Regional Accent]].
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* So "Tanizaki" -- the name that Kimura uses, and which she imagines the vice principal using when he(?) gives her "a nice long earful" for being late on the first day -- isn't her real family name?
 
== Osaka will grow up to become [[Paranoia Agent|Tsukiko Sagi]]. ==
She perhaps gets married, but quickly divorces after realizing that she's just not made for a relationship, and changes her first name and retains the changed last name trying to reinvent herself, but failing rather badly. Many people have noted the similarity between the characters; Tsukiko is pretty much Osaka after ten years, with her positive outlook lost forever...
 
== Chiyo's mother is a [[My Neighbor Totoro|Totoro]]. ==
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== Azumanga Daioh takes place in the distant past of the [[Andromeda]] Universe. ==
Chiyo Mihama is really a Paradine and the very distant ancestor of Captain Dylan Hunt. Noruchi and Yuuka, Chiyo's elementary schoolmates were kidnapped by the Vedrans and tesseracted back in time, roughly 18 years. By doing this, the Vedrans secured the timeline and the restoration of order upon the universe in the distant future.
 
Little by little, Noruchi and Yuuka were informed of their destiny. They trained and worked "hard" to become influencing mentors not only to Chiyo but also to Kagura (a very distant ancestor of Beka Valentine) and Yomi (the foundation for the gene pool of the founder of the [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzscheans]] race). In fact, the main cast's future lineage would greatly influence humanity's exploration of space and eventual membership into the tri-galactic Systems Commonwealth. And Osaka-san is just tagging along, even though she really is the avatar of Earth's sun.
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Because [[Four Is Death]].
 
== Chiyo is [[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'s Ushio, [[Yotsuba&!]], The Professor in [[Nichijou]], and Chiyo-chan, in that order. ==
Chiyo started out as [[Clannad (visual novel)||Ushio]], but shortly after After Story ended, there was a tragic accident causing the death of everyone in the town except herself. She was traumatized in a [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]] even after authorities found her, so they used [[Laser GuideGuided Amnesia]]****esia to make her forget everything. They give her a new hairstyle, a new name, a new home, and a new life. She was now "Yotsuba". However, shortly after the events of the manga, another tragic accident occurred, and, well... Pretty much the same thing happened. This time, though, they decided to give her an overwhelming I.Q. as well as a mother/sister-like robot to avoid her from getting traumatized any further, although they regrettably neglected to give her a name. 2 years pass, the robot breaks down and The Professor is left with her adoptive parents who thought pigtails would be "simply adorable" and named her "Chiyo".
 
[[Azumanga Daioh]]'s events pass. Chiyo lived to graduate college and found time to spend with her friends as an adult.
On one fateful day, she and her friends went out, bought ice cream, etc, etc, when, as they're walking along, Osaka spots Chiyo walking down a dark alley. She's the only one that sees and, naturally, follows. As she peeks around the corner, she sees Chiyo stubbornly trying to help an old, homeless man. The man is actively protesting. When he gets at wit's end, he pulls out a knife and stabs Chiyo, killing her in one swift move, then retreating before he was caught. Osaka, who could not believe what she was seeing, reached out and pulled the knife out of Chiyo's chest.
 
By this time, the rest of the group noticed that the two of them were gone, and backtracked to that alley. What did they see? They saw Osaka, who's infamous for being a little wrong in the head, holding a bloody knife over a dead Chiyo, who was obviously stabbed in the chest. People screamed and police arrived, Osaka Yelling Chiyo's name all the while. It took this for Osaka to become truly insane.
 
The knife, of course, had Osaka's fingerprints all over it. In the court case, all evidence pointed to Osaka, who stayed silent, save for a "CHIYO!" here and there. It was obvious that she was not in a fit state of mind. She was taken to an asylum and stayed there for the rest of her life.
 
Also note that there is someone in [[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]], [[Nichijou]], and [[Yotsuba&!]] who either looks or acts (kind of) like Osaka. In [[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]] there's Fuko, in [[Nichijou]] there's Nano, and in [[Yotsuba&!]] there's Ena.
 
* Well. That was certainly an apparently unrelated and slightly disturbing WMG epilogue.
 
== The girls are made of the ingredients of little girls ==
{{quote| '''Chiyo:''' Cooking is so fun! Cooking is so fun! Now it's time to take a break and see what we have done!}}
 
Each of the main six from the third year have their own recipe:
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** Osaka: One cup Sugar, half cup Everything Nice, dash Spice.
** Yomi: One cup Sugar, half cup Spice, dash Everything Nice.
{{quote| '''Yomi:''' So that's why my diets always fail; I'm made of carbs!<br />}}
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*** Kaorin apparently got a puppy dog tail.
 
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** Bubbles is mainly made of Yomi's Sugar, thus they share the [[Berserk Button|berserk-button]] nature.
 
{{quote| '''Chiyo:''' Yay! It's ready!}}
 
== Osaka is [[America's Next Top Model|Allison Harvard]] in the world. ==
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** This NEEDS to be a crossover fic. Exchange program? I'll even contribute a [[Running Gag]]: Yukari-sensei turns out to be an excellent driver when transplanted to a place where they drive on the right.
 
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