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[[File:AzuDai_Pic_4378.png|frame|Top row, left to right: [[Shrinking Violet|Sakaki]], [[Boisterous Bruiser|Kagura]]. Bottom row: [[The Straight Man|Yomi]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]], [[Cheerful Child|Chiyo]], [[Genki Girl|Tomo]].]]
A comedy manga series and the anime based on it, '''''Azumanga Daioh''''' is the rather disjointed and occasionally surreal story of six high school girls and several of their teachers. Being episodic to the point of resembling sketch comedy, and largely lacking serious conflict or drama, the show has little in the way of conventional storylines, preferring to set up and deliver the animation equivalent of several comic strips per episode. This is because the show is a remarkably faithful translation of the popular monthly [[Yonkoma]].▼
▲A comedy manga series and the anime based on it, ''Azumanga Daioh'' is the rather disjointed and occasionally surreal story of six high school girls and several of their teachers. Being episodic to the point of resembling sketch comedy, and largely lacking serious conflict or drama, the show has little in the way of conventional storylines, preferring to set up and deliver the animation equivalent of several comic strips per episode. This is because the show is a remarkably faithful translation of the popular monthly [[Yonkoma]].
The title combines the author's name (Kiyohiko Azuma) with the word "manga" and the name of its original publisher (''Dengeki Daioh'' magazine) -- it can be read as the Japanese equivalent of an acronym for [[Shaped Like Itself|"Azuma's Comic Strip For Daioh Magazine"]] (''Dengeki Daioh'' being a magazine aimed mainly at [[Shonen|younger teenage boys]], the general theme of the strip was to poke gentle fun at the audience's female classmates -- "Man, teenage girls are ''weird''...").
''Azumanga Daioh'' has been described as "''[[Peanuts]]'' [[This Is Your Premise
It's also notable for demonstrating that a manga and anime about high school girls can be popular and profitable by focusing on their personalities [[Fan Service|instead of their bodies]], starting a trend which continued in series such as ''[[
This work has a [[Azumanga Daioh
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* [[Reindeer Aren't Real]]
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: Yes, believe it or not, someone managed to abridge this. RyoViga's series can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/user/RyoViga here.]
* [[After
* [[All Just a Dream]]:
▲* [[After School Cleaning Duty]]: Shows up for [[A Day in The Life]] of Chiyo. Tomo just plays. Osaka tries, but has some difficulties with the equipment.
*
** Episode 8 of the anime combined two manga arcs, both telling stories about the girls' first dreams of the New Year.
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Osaka definitely has ''something'', but exactly what she has is never identified in-universe.
** There is a lot of speculation over Sakaki's mental condition in the fandom as well.
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Chiyo and Osaka are on the receiving end of some very comically powerful blows.
* [[Animals Hate Him|Animals Hate Her]]: Sakaki. All she wants is a
* [[Art Evolution]]: It took a while for Azuma to perfect the designs of the main characters, and by the time he does his entire style has shifted into a more consistent, rounded appearance. Osaka is perhaps the worst offender during this process, as she doesn't even look like ''herself'' until Volume 2 or so. The recent re-release of the manga in Japan has seen Volume 1 substantially redrawn, so that the artwork is much more
** The new ''Extra Lessons'' chapters serialized for the 10th anniversary of the manga have backgrounds detailed enough to be worthy of ''[[
** See also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWP6WKh4WFE Azumanga Web Daioh].
* [[Art Shift]]: "JAN-KEN!"
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Osaka's pretty laid-back and easy-going...but do '''not''' split your chopsticks improperly, or you'll get the full brunt of her anger (as Tomo found out).
** Don't tell Chiyo's "dad" that his face resembles that of former prime minister Mori ([[Woolseyism|or Bill Clinton]]). ''Especially'' don't tell him that he isn't a real cat. Even if he says so himself.
** [[Hair
* [[Berserker Tears]]: When Yomi manages to eat curry noodles without splattering it all over herself, [[Genki Girl|Tomo]] is pushed over the top and goes [[Unstoppable Rage|on a rampage in the lunchroom]] with tears in her eyes until she accidentally hits Yukari. Yukari's subsequent reaction must [[Hilarity Ensues|be seen to be believed]].
* [[Best Beer Ever]]: Yukari. Nyamo too, during that one summer night...
* [[Bifauxnen]]: Chihiro.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Kaorin is either bisexual, standing in a [[Transparent Closet]] or [[Single
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Kagura calls Sakaki a "lone wolf" in one scene, although Sakaki would rather imagine herself as a cute lil' doggy.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Mayaa}}.
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* [[Blank White Eyes]]: Frequently.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: While the actual characters and setting are quite different, several of the character designs (most notably Yukari's) were near-identical lifts from some hentai manga Azuma had done previously.
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Tomo and Yomi. In the first episode, when Tomo learns they've got a new transfer student from Osaka, she asks Yomi to be the Tsukkomi to her Boke, despite her protests. Tomo reacts to Yomi's completely unenthusiastic "nandeyanen?" with a [[What Do You Mean
** Yukari tries to perform this in class with Osaka. After asking Osaka who should play the Boke and who should play the Tsukkomi, she hits Osaka over the head for saying she (Yukari) should be the Boke.
** Chiyo unwillingly plays the Tsukkomi to Tomo's Boke, much to her and Osaka's protests.
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* [[Book Dumb]]: Tomo, Kagura, and Osaka, although she actually scores ''better'' than Kagura and Tomo.
** Note that the latter is only for one test.
* [[Breathe
* [[Brick Joke]]: After Osaka mentions she can't eat spicy foods in episode 2, Yomi tricks her into eating a croquette flavoured with cayenne pepper. During Yukari's rant about rewards for winning the sports festival in episode 15, Osaka mentions that a cayenne pepper is a type of chili pepper to Kagura. Kagura obviously doesn't get it.
** In the third [[Beach Episode]], Osaka says she's jealous of Sakaki's large breasts. Tomo responds, saying she's been growing too. Osaka reminds Tomo that she was put in the same chest size group as her and Chiyo by Yomi in episode 4, much to [[A
** Osaka's little sneeze disrupting the school assembly.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: ''Tomo'', of all people, shows signs of this. {{spoiler|After Yomi says Tomo could never get into their somewhat competitive high school, Tomo studies just to piss her off.}}
* [[Broken Record]]: Just check out the all blue page...
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* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Blue Three.]]
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Kimura and Yukari are portrayed as competent teachers, but do things in school that would make headline news.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]:
** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] makes a comment about Sakaki's, Kagura's, and Yomi's chest sizes:
{{quote|
** [[A
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: "Double Chop!"
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "A!"/"Ah!"
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Kamineko, several times.
* [[Chaste Teens]]: Five post-pubescent high school girls, and no romance for any of them. Osaka [[
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: Prevalent in episode 19, which is one big heartwarming episode.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: "MERRY...!"
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** [[Captain Obvious|"THE SKY IS BLUE!"]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Osaka, so much so that she provides the page image. The rest of the main cast is this to some degree; with Kimura-sensei and Sakaki the most notable examples (but in very different ways).
* [[Coincidental Dodge]]: Yomi only avoided Tomo's lunch tray smash because Yukari opened the cafeteria door just at the right time to get whacked in the face. [[No
* [[Color Failure]]: Happens a number of times.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Tomo fails to do some small favor for Yomi, who comments that she was stupid for having asked at all. Cue mockery of Yomi's "stupidity."
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* [[Covert Pervert]]: Sakaki, Osaka and Tomo all have their moments, but one has to wonder...Who took the photo of Sakaki and Tomo in bed together? (Probably Kimura.)
* [[Creepy Cockroach]]: The infamous cockroach scene where Tomo smashes one with her workbook.
* [[Cross
* [[Cue the Sun]]: YOOHOO!
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Penguin Chiyo with anyone. To a lesser degree, Cheerleader Chiyo. Sakaki, when she sees a cat.
* [[A Day in
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Kaorin, despite attempts to avoid this trope. Sakaki [[
* [[Diet Episode]]: Yomi is seemingly always on a diet. Her [[Day in The Limelight]] episodes often feature her trying several unsuccessful diets.
* [[Dirty Foreigner]]: [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] begins wondering along the lines of this trope at one point.
{{quote|'''Osaka''': In American homes.. (...) You can go inside without your shoes, right?
'''Yukari-sensei''': Yes..
'''Osaka''': [[Fridge Horror|Then what if they step on dog poop and go back inside home without noticing. What if the American dad, mom, brothers and sisters step on dog poop and go inside without noticing?]] }}
* [[Dojikko]]: Kimura's [[Memetic Mutation|waifu]].
* [[Doorstopper]]: There is an [[Omnibus]] of the entire manga series. It is nearly 700 pages long.
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* [[Dramatic Wind]]: When Sakaki bids farewell to the Yamamaya she befriended in Okinawa.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Yukari is the queen of this trope. Hands down.
* [[Dual
* [[End of Series Awareness]]: In the penultimate episode's [[Post Episode Trailer]].
* [[Engaging Conversation]]: Nyamo, give Chiyo a chance to grow up first, okay?
* [[Ephebophile]]: Kimura states that he became a teacher because he likes high school girls. In fact, Osaka asks him in the manga whether Chiyo really counts as a High School girl since she's so much more a Grade Schooler. He insists: "[[Squick|High School is High School]]".
* [[Epic Fail]]: Osaka at sports. Osaka at weather prediction. [[Rule of Three|Osaka at drawing pandas]]. Osaka and about everything else, too. [[Subverted Trope|Except word games.]]
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: It is revealed in the [[Christmas Episode]] that Tomo was under the impression that reindeer were completely fictional, and treats anyone who mentions them as though they had admitted to believing in Santa Claus.▼
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Sakaki - all the girls in her school think she's "so cool!" Just ask Kaorin.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Her name is {{spoiler|Ayumu Kasuga}}, but everyone starts calling her "Osaka" by the start of Second Year. In the anime, she's Osaka within moments of her first appearance once Tomo decides to nickname her. It's bad enough that the ''school'' (or at least Yukari) can't remember her real name, either.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Tomo, mostly, given her [[Jerkass|nature]], but Yukari can pull off a mean one. See the beginning of the trip to Okinawa arc or mocking the opposing team during the sports festival, for example.
* [[Evolution Power
* [[Eyecatch]]: A picture of a character/characters saying "A!" (あ!)
* [[Faceless Masses]]: Everyone else in the classroom, especially the boys.
** It zigzags. sometimes they are faceless, other times they are all uniquely drawn.
* [[Face of a Thug]]: Sakaki only ''looks'' [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]].
* [[Fan Service]]: Relatively minor, but it's there; Yukari even [[
** Yomi stripping naked at the end of the second athletics episode should count. There's also the picture of Tomo on the beach in the dream episode.
** Sakaki's yellow bikini.
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* [[Fist of Enthusiasm]]: Tomo and Yukari are prone to this. Some boys do this when they express pride and Kimura being so honest about his feelings.
* [[Flanderization]]: [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Kaorin's crush]], Osaka's eccentricity, Tomo's [[Genki Girl|genkiness]]. Oh, and Kimura's ''default facial expression''.
* [[Flight, Strength, Heart]]: Parodied in one of Tomo's [[Imagine Spot
* [[Flung Clothing]]: Yomi in the opening credits stripping to her track uniform, and again after the second athletics festival, where she strips completely nude to check her weight - and then takes her glasses off to see if that changes the result.
* [[Foil]]: Yomi to Tomo, Nyamo to Yukari, Sakaki to Chiyo, and Kagura to Sakaki.
* Foreshadowing: It probably wasn't intentional on her part, but in the first summer vacation arc while the girls are talking about TV show murder cases, Osaka starts describing a situation in which it happens to them, with the murderer ultimately turning out to be Osaka herself. Two summer vacations later, Osaka walks into Yukari's bedroom, holding a knife...
* [[Formally
* [[For the Funnyz]]: Tomo has bouts of this. Her most memorable case is throwing the keys to the summer cabin into the forest, that Chiyo mentioned they'd be unable to get in without the keys, for absolutely no reason whatsoever except that it was funny.
* [[Four
* [[Free
* [[Freeze
* [[Friendship Moment]]: Plenty of these going on. Yes, even Tomo gets in on the action.
* [[Gag Series]]
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Kagura once asked Sakaki if her hand smelled like fish, suspecting it to be the reason Kamineko attacked her so often.
** And Sakaki actually checks to see if this is the case.
*** Although knowing Kagura, she may have actually believed this to be the case.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Chiyo, [[Fan Nickname|Rachel Handelbarz]] and Yomi in the supplementary lessons.
* [[Goldfish Scooping Game]]: The turtle variant. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka is more concerned about what use she would have for turtles, rather than actually playing the game.]]
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Sakaki is shown wearing panties with a kitty on them.
* [[Gratuitous English]]
{{quote|
** "Hallo every-nyan! How-ah you? Fain sank you."
** "Oh My Gah!"
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** "Mai waifu!"
** Yukari has an ''entire monologue'' full of this in Episode 22, which comes with an incredibly heavy accent.
{{quote|
** "HELPU ME!"
** There are at least five examples in the opening and closing sequences.
** In Tomo's dream, she and Yukari have a conversation in [[Gratuitous English]], complete with Japanese subtitles.
{{quote|
'''Tomo''': SANKS MEES YUKARI! }}
** Did anyone notice how many of these examples involve Yukari? And she's supposed to be an English TEACHER for heaven's sake.
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* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Literally with the cameo of Kokoro Kosaka in the first school festival episode. She is the main character of Wallaby, a short lived manga authored by Azuma. She is the girl looking at the stuffed animals when Osaka tells her that they are buildings and places in Osaka. Wallaby himself appears in her pocket but only in the manga version.
* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: Yukari in the premiere, while one of her students is trying to fix ''hers''.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Yukari and Nyamo. It doesn't stop the [[Les Yay
* [[Het Is Ew]]: With only ''two'' regular males in the cast (one of whom is a [[Mind Screw|large yellow cat...thing]], while the other is a certified [[Dirty Old Man]] [[Ephebophile]]), plus ''lots'' of [[Les Yay]], this is definitely gonna come up.
* [[Hiccup Hijinks]]: "[[Memetic Mutation|What causes hiccups anyway?]]"
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* [[Hot for Student]]: Kimura for Kaorin
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The revised editions of the manga offer more shots of the girls and teachers in swimwear. [[Breast Expansion|It looks as though Nyamo's breasts got bigger!]]
* [[How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?]]: According to Kagura, he can fly at Mach 100.
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Sakaki, in both height and...um...[[Unusual Euphemism|American-ness?]]
* [[The Idiot From Osaka]]: You'd expect this of Osaka, but she actually subverts the "loud, fast-talking, money-grubbing Osakan" stereotype. Also, she only went to Junior High in Osaka proper.
* [["I Know What We Can Do!" Cut]]: The [[Hiccup Hijinks]] plot in "Osaka's Day".
* [[Image Song]]: Everyone gets two, however, they sometimes share with another. For instance, Yukari and Nyamo share two, with Mr. Kimura being in the latter, Osaka is in three, Tomo is in four and Chiyo is in five!!!
* [[Imagine Spot]]
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: The Japanese/Okinawan for Sata Andagi is actually "Saataa Andaagii" - Osaka overstresses the long vowels.
* [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]]: Tomo takes great pleasure in pointing out how many Okinawan dishes sound like crude anatomical references in Japanese.
* [[Innocent Prodigy]]: Chiyo, acing test after test while failing to understand sexual stuff any teenage girl would know by heart already.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Osaka produces enough of this for everyone to go around. Tomo (and, to a lesser extent, Kagura) has her moments as well.
* [[In
* [[Inside Shoes]]
* [[Inverted Portrait]]: In the [[Title Sequence]], it happens with Yukari upside-down and Nyamo right-side up. Then Yukari glares at Nyamo, and their positions are switched.
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* [[Japanese Delinquents]]: Sakaki's unintentionally-intimidating attitude (and frequent hand injuries) cause the girls to mistake her for one of these.
* [[Jerkass]]: Tomo and Yukari. Kagura sometimes counts, though not to the extent of the other two. Let's not forget Yomi, who has her moments as well. The most notable being giving Osaka an extremely spicy dish while promising her it wasn't spicy. She did it just to watch Osaka scream.
* [[Jerk
* [[Joshikousei]]: "'Cause I like high school girls, ''that's why!''"
* [[Just Shoot Him]]: When Yukari suddenly decides she'd rather teach PE instead of English the class end up playing dodgeball. When Chiyo is the last person on her team Tomo starts throwing the ball to just barely miss the clearly terrified Chiyo, prompting Yomi to say "Just hit her already".
* [[Karaoke Box]]: Where the girls discover that Sakaki sings beautifully, and that Yomi can't.
* [[Keep It Foreign]]: In the English dub of the anime, Yukari becomes a Spanish instructor. It's the same for the first issue of the translated manga. The second issue got a new localization team and switched to her being an English teacher, though some other English-language gags are inexplicably changed to French and German.
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* [[Loves Me Not]]: Kaorin pulling the petals off a flower to determine whether she would be in the same class as Sakaki for second year (but the [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|more conventional question]] is definitely in the subtext). The first flower yields a negative and she starts having a major panic attack, but before she can pull the last petal, Yukari gives her another flower that she can start over with. The same thing happens, except it's Mr. Kimura who offers the flower (to the horror of both Kaorin and Yukari). A pile of stems and petals later, Kaorin decided to just go ahead and look at the roster.
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: The girls' reaction to the Relax-o-vision scene below in the manga; by the fourth panel, their entire faces are bright red.
* [[Male Gaze]]: We get a view of Sakaki's and Yomi's ample chests, courtesy of the crazy Kimura.
* [[Man Child]]: Yukari-sensei is a rare (but emphatic) female example.
* [[Maximum Fun Chamber]]: Yukari's car.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: "Today is the first day of the school term". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEtGFu3igjg It's really catchy].
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* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: Kamineko.
* [[Morning Routine]]: During a Chiyo-chan centric episode.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: With several [[Beach Episode|beach episodes]] and [[Loads and Loads of Characters|so many possible candidates]] this one's a given, but a special mention goes to [[Buxom Is Better|Sakaki]] [[Absolute Cleavage|wearing a super skimpy]] [[Bare Your Midriff|and revealing yellow bikini]] [[What Do You Mean
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Everything.
** Osaka, Kagura, and Tomo combining their test scores for the sole purpose of beating Chiyo. You'd think they were trying to form [[Voltron]] or something.
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* [[Narrator All Along]]: Osaka's story about the girls being murdered on summer break.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Chiyo and Osaka.
* [[New Year, Same Class]]: [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|And it's not because Yukari-sensei didn't feel like learning new names or anything like that]]. Slightly subverted in the case of Kagura. She got transferred to Yukari's class in Year 2 because Yukari wants to make sure that, hands down, her class wins the athletic festival.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:Yukari in the third athletics festival tackles Nyamo to prevent her from being first to the finish line. Yukari's team end up last because of it.
* [[Nice Kitty...]]: Inverted: The animal is tiny, not big; the character approaches it while placating it instead of backing away, and instead of it turning out to be nice, it turned out to be exactly as dangerous as it didn't look.
* [[Nightmare Fuel
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Done for humor.
* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: The Kimuras.
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: Sakaki's reaction when Osaka suggests renaming a stuffed cat Sakaki's already given a name, life story, and family tree.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Love letter!
* [[Norio Wakamoto]]: Wishes he were a bird!
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: ''Lots'' of them.
* [[Pet Baby Wild Animal]]: Mayaa.
* [[Pet the Dog]]:
** Parodied when the girls find out Kimura has a kind wife, a cute daughter, voluntarily cleans litter off the streets, and regularly donates to charity...but it ''doesn't'' stop them from thinking he's creepy.
** Played straight with Sakaki's weakness for cute things... Well, ''almost'' straight, given her terrible luck with said cute things. Even without ''that'' angle, it's actually kind of heartbreaking.
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* [[Pungeon Master]]: Osaka.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Osaka thinks Chiyo-chan's pigtails are controlling her. To be fair, this was in a dream, and Osaka is... [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]].
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Tomo tries to smack Yomi in the face with a dinner tray, complete with a [[What Do You Mean
▲* [[
* [[Relax
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Well, covered in lots and lots of germs, anyway.
* [[Rock
* [[Rubber Hose Limbs]]
* [[Sarashi]]: In one of the sports festivals in the manga.
* [[Satellite Character]]: Chihiro. Kaorin is fairly satellite too.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Yomi when stressed or irritated; Kimura perpetually.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The [[Relax
{{quote|
* [[School Festival]]
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: One-sided; Kaorin ''really'' adores Sakaki, but [[Selective Obliviousness|Sakaki fails to notice]].
* [[Schoolgirl Rival]]: Kagura engages Sakaki when she first transfers into the class, and Tomo tries this with [[Hilarity Ensues|predictable results]].
* [[Schoolgirl Series]]: The [[Trope Codifier
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Entire episodes in the anime are essentially about nothing.
* [[Sensei-chan]]: Yukari and Nyamo.
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: Kagura showing her boobs to Osaka.
* [[
* [[Shoo the Dog|Shoo The Cat]]: Sakaki must do this to Mayaa before leaving Okinawa. {{spoiler|He comes back to drive off Kamineko from the streets.}}
* [[Short Anime Movie]]: A "[[Pilot]]" literally a few minutes long.
* [[Shout
** Tomo idolizes Fujiko of ''[[Lupin III]]'', being that the reason why she let her hair grow during the second year (we even see a scene of Tomo acting as Fujiko while she explains). Of course, she forgot to consider changing the hair ''style'' as well, so she decided to go for looking like Ayumi Hamasaki instead.
** Chiyo-chichi's infamous "I wish I were a bird!" comes from a commercial for the Nova chain of English-teaching schools.
** In the costume couple race in the second year's Sports Festival, [[Spirited Away|guess what Chihiro disguises as]] (partnered with a No Face to boot).
** The way Chiyo's dad says "I am a cat" ("Wagahai wa neko de aru") is probably a reference to [
** Osaka wears an Ultraman mask in the manga.
* [[Sick Episode]]: Yomi, who is most excited about going to Magical Land, falls ill on the day of the trip. Chiyo suggests the girls should cancel the trip and visit her, but of course, Tomo convinces Chiyo that they should go regardless.
* [[Single
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]:
** The Square: Yomi and Nyamo
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** The Loudmouth: Tomo again, sometimes Kagura
** The Precocious: Chiyo-chan
* [[Sitting
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Kagura and Kaorin.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mPoKQijj8 Osaka.]
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Kagura and Chiyo in Nyamo's car, during the third beach episode.
* [[Slice of Life]]
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Both Tomo and Yukari qualify.
* [[
* [[Snowball Fight]]
* [[Standing in
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Sakaki, to her dismay.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Scenes in this show are recycled for [[Rule of Funny|comedic effect]].
* [[
* [[Straight Man]]: Yomi.
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: Osaka and Sakaki, in regards to Chiyo-chichi.
** Tomo and Kagura both independently suggest doing a haunted cafe for the culture fest, prompting Osaka to remark, "You two are on the same wavelength."
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Sakaki, natch!
* [[Super
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: When the second year starts, Yukari tells her class that she notices a lot of students who were in her homeroom last year, but denies that it's because she doesn't want the trouble of having to remember a bunch of new names.
{{quote|
** And in the Supplementary Materials: "The correct term is ''lesbian''! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian..."
* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]
* [[Symbolic Blood]]: After Yukari lets loose a bizarre scream when she spots the knife in Osaka's hand, the show cuts to a HUGE amount of tomato sauce being splattered on food by Tomo, spraying some on Kagura in the process.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Chiyo-Dad.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Sakaki, though her apparently aloof attitude [[Subverted Trope|is actually because]] she's a [[Shrinking Violet]].
* [[The Talk]]: While on holiday, a completely-demolished Nyamo ends up giving said talk to the girls; given their reactions the next day, it would seem she went above and beyond the call of duty.
* [[Tareme Eyes]]: Osaka.
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* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Yomi [[Hollywood Tone Deaf|"singing"]] the theme from the short movie in the series proper.
** Tomo's ringtone is one of her image songs, one of Sakaki's is played on the radio in Yomi's room, and both Sakaki and Osaka sing one of their image songs when the girls go to karaoke.
* [[Throw the Dog
* [[Thunder Shock]]: Sakaki, overwhelmed by the cuteness of a photo of kittens.
* [[Title Drop]]: In the first episode of the anime, the logo appears, but then is cut off as it is hit by a baseball and flung out of frame. In another episode, Chiyo is tackled by Mr. Tadakichi (her dog) and then the logo and title are shown/heard, for no clear reason.
* [[Token
* [[Token Yuri Girls]]: Kaorin has an immediately obvious crush on Sakaki that seems one-sided; however, considering Sakaki's addiction to cute things, it's possible that it would be reciprocated (or at least not minded) if she wasn't [[Chaste Teens|entirely oblivious]]. According to the newest manga, Kaorin is either in denial or in denial and in the [[Transparent Closet|closet]]. As if we didn't get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV1zPWQaHYQ&feature=related#t=0m26s the hints].
* [[Transparent Closet]]: Kaorin... Again...
* [[Trust
* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: Sakaki and Kagura.
* [[Two
** What about the music teacher in episode 2, and that gym teacher that yells at the boys to keep running in episode 17?
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|Ugly Guy Hot Waifu]]: Kimura is pretty damn creepy, but he still managed to find himself an extremely cute wife.
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: While we never get to see for ourselves, it's said that Tomo looks and acts exactly like her father. Yomi is not pleased. Also, Kaorin and her mom look exactly alike.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: When Yukari throws up after getting really drunk in one episode, the [[Eyecatch]] hides the act, although we still hear her retching.
* [[Wacky Homeroom]]
* [[Wants the Work Done for Them]]: During the second-year summer vacation, the summer-house key is [[For the Funnyz|accidentally-on-purpose lost]] in tall grass. Yukari - the only person who doesn't help look for the key - complains when it hasn't been found as quickly as she wants.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Cicadas]]: The new chapters show that Yomi ardently hates cicadas, and is totally paralyzed when [[Jerkass|Tomo]] puts one on her back.
** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwABE90t8U4&feature=related when a single cockroach sneaked into the classroom, everybody freaked the fuck out.]
* [[Widget Series]]: This series is random enough to fit nicely in this category.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Yukari and Nyamo. Tomo with pretty much everyone, but particularly Yomi.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Discussed with the misspelling of じ (''ji,'' hemorrhoids) as ぢ(same reading, derived from ''chi'' rather than ''shi.''). By [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]], naturally.
* [[Yonkoma]]: The normal format of the manga.
* [[You Say Tomato]]: Chiyo-chichi pronounces it "to-mah-to"
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