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Ayanoi High School's G.A. is a class that specializes in the arts. It's at G.A. that a particular five are focused on. Kisaragi Yamaguchi, Miyabi "Professor" Oomichi, Namiko Nozaki, Tomokane and Miki "Nodamiki" Noda. The manga uses its arts class setting well, using this as a chance to teach the audience a few things about color, composition and other things that are usually done at these sort of schools. The [[Yonkoma]] manga was written by [[Satoko Kiyuduki]], otherwise known for the artwork at [[Dept. Heaven]] games.

Compare with ''[[Hidamari Sketch (Manga)|Hidamari Sketch]]'', another series focusing on students in high school art programmes serialized in ''Manga Kirara Carat''. While you're in the neighborhood, ''[[Sketchbook (Manga)|Sketchbook]]'' may also be used to compare and contrast. The series has also been referred to as "''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', but in art class".

* [[Club Stub]]: The Art Club and its many predecessors. Due to {{spoiler|a mishap when the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] president promoted the club the previous year}}, the club now only has three members. [[Downplayed]] in that while the club was eventually saved by merging with Campus Environment Club, and the other club only havehas ''one'' member--thatmember—that other club can't be disbanded because it provided volunteers to clean the school campus, and Sasamoto-sensei [[Exploitedexploited]] this to use it as a "shell" to acquire other clubs so that she can have a [[Must Have Nicotine|smoking room]].

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] --: The commonly used version:

{{quote| '''{{color|yellow|YYellow}}''': Kisaragi<br />

'''{{color|orange|OOrange}}''': Nodamiki<br />

'''{{color|red|RRed}}''': Tomokane<br />

'''{{color|green|GGreen}}''': Namiko<br />

'''{{color|black|BBlack}}''': Professor }}

{{quote| '''{{color|magenta|MMagenta}}''': Noda<br />

'''{{color|cyan|CCyan}}''': Kisaragi<br />

'''{{color|red|RRed}}''': Tomokane<br />

'''{{color|yellow|YYellow}}''': Namiko<br />

'''{{color|black|BBlack}}''': Professor }}

* [[Cute Kitten]] --: Tomokane's misreading of 素描 (''subyou'', rough sketch) into 素猫 (''Suneko'', plain cat) leads to Kisaragi filling her sketchbook with {{[[media|:GA-Suneko.png| a certain kitten}}]]. This kitten would go on to become the series' mascot.

* [[Companion Cube]] --: The Fine Arts Club's mannequin, Sanae. Also, Professor seems fond of the black poster paint that Noda gave a personality to. Though she likes anything black.

* [[Death Is a Sad Thing]] --: The [[Tear Jerker|baby chick arc]].

* [[Dream Within a Dream]] --: Kisaragi's continued trips into a surreal art world after a lecture on surrealism. Highlights include Noda appearing as a mermaid and finding her way back to her classroom (sort of) by the Wile E. Coyote method of passageway creation.

* [[Early -Bird Cameo]] --: Awara and Tomokane's brother is seen among the [[Faceless Masses]] in the first scene of the first episode. Homura also appears to sliding down a hill.

* [[Ear Worm]] --: The opening theme, but especially the ending--: yes, all five versions of it.

* [[Edutainment Show]] --: All those explanations about graphic techniques make the series comes pretty close at times.

* [[Elevator School]] --: Ayanoi Gakuen is a more realistic example that averts the typical [[Elaborate University High]]. It has a junior high, a high school and technological university in adjacent campicampuses, and they share a lot of common facilities-- thefacilities—the main characters, often goesgo to the university campus to have computer graphics classes and sometimes even for ''vending machines''. It's also worth noting that because of the university's background, the high school has a relatively large technical/vocational division, on top of general ed and arts divisions--divisions—which and it's not an [[Elaborate University High]], but justis [[Truth in Television]] for many Japanese universities.

* [[Evolving Credits]] --: The ending, besides the episodic variations depending on who's singing, has steadily changed over the course of the series with the girls getting older and their activities changing.

* [[Excited Kids' Show Host]] --: One of the recurring elements of ''GA'' is ''Let's Draw and Play!'', a kids' show starring "Kisaragi onee-chan" as the lovable host and a "Suneko" hand puppet friend (voiced and controlled by Noda). Kisaragi is in love with this idea.

* [[Expy]] --: Nietzsche from ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', art directed by Kiyudzuki-sensei, is based on Noda; Milanor has shades of the younger Tomokane, and in the anime, she was given [[Miyuki Sawashiro|his voice actress]]. As the manga continued after ''[[Yggdra Union]]'' was released, Kiyudzuki went on to incorporate some of its characters back into ''GA;'' Tono-sensei has a strong resemblance to Gulcasa, and Same-chan-sensei is a dead ringer for Flone.

* [[The Faceless]] --: The viewer never gets to see the face of Nodamiki's older sister.

* [[Five -Man Band]]--: The Art Club shows elements of this.

* [[Footnote Fever]] --: This work's [[Edutainment Show|art edutainment]] tendencies plus the heavy use of puns means every manga volume by Yen Press has at least 4 pages of translator's notes.

* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: --GA does not mean '''G'''eijutsuka '''A'''rt Design Class (Arts Division Art Design Class), or '''G'''raphic '''A'''rts--butrts—but '''G'''eijutsuka '''A''' (Arts A), vis-a-vis GB (Arts B), which is for music. There apparently also used to be an Arts '''C''' class which dealt with fashion.

{{quote| '''Tomokane''': Are you always prepared for a trip or something?<br />

* [[Imagine Spot]] --: Kisaragi, frequently.

* [[Implausible Hair Color]] --: Namiko and Nodamiki were known in-universe to have pink and light brown hair; they submitted their kids' photos to show that they did not dye their hair.

* [[Improbable Chopsticks Skill]] --: Tomokane is able to caught a fly with a pair of chopsticks. Eating rice by just holding with middle parts of them is an other matter however...

* [[Japanese Honorifics]] --: In the last chappterchapter of volume 3, after Professor {{spoiler|opens her shell in front of Kisaragi about her dislike of her [[Arranged Marriage]]}}, Kisaragi feelfeels like calling Professor ''Professor-chan''--note—note that Professor and Namiko are always referred as -san, due to Professor's [[Emotionless Girl|demeanor]] and Namiko's [[Team Mom]] status.

* [[Lemony Narrator]] --: The narrator complained about the main Ensemble breaking color mood of the cast, so they shout back at the narrator.

* [[Love Bubbles]] --: Appearing during a strangely intimate moment between Noda and Kisaragi.

* [[Magic Feather]] --: A pencil Kisaragi got from an old lady at the stationery store turns out to be not special in the slightest. She was conned into buying it to get rid of the stock.

* [[Medium Awareness]] --: When the GA-1 students were talking about typography, one strips actually have the characters discuss the sound effect typeface ''on that strip''. These moments are generally restricted to the bonus strips between chapters.

* [[Medium Blending]] --: The OVA ending recreates several pieces of art from the series in live action, and ends with a claymation shot of the main five.

* [[Moe]]--: after all, the mangaka mentioned this series is drawn in [[Puni Plush|puni]]-''moe''.

* [[Mythology Gag]] --: The anime opening include scenes (such as {{spoiler|the badminton game}}) that were pretty much hot off the press.

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: -- {{[[media|:GA-OP-Last.jpg| The last scene of the OP}}]] shows them all.

* [[Not Named in Opening Credits|Not Named in Closing Credits]]--: Strange anime example. Tomokane's brother had a single line in an episode before he was introduced, and in the ending credits that was only listed as "Grade 11 Student --: [[Miyuki Sawashiro|M.S.]]"

* [[Not So Above It All]] --: Namiko is usually the most reality bounded of the main five. Some of her design ideas however...

{{quote| '''Namiko''': I heard that invention-type stuff was popular. *Presenting a writing desk which can wip into an inbuild garbain*<br />

* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]] --: Most of the Art Club, Same-chan-sensei, and Tono-sensei, especially in the manga.

* [[Puni Plush]]--: [[Word of God]] said this is in ''puni''-[[Moe]], after all.

* [[Rearrange the Song]]: -- "Coloring palettes", the ending theme, has five versions, one for each of the girls.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] --: The Sunekos and, to a certain extent, the Lord Chickens.

* [[Running Gag]] --: Every episode begins with the appearance of the word "hajimaru" (はじまる - "it's starting") in one way or the other.

* [[Schoolgirl Series]] --: The series includes mainly focuses on the group of five girls (Tomokane, Namiko, Noda, Oomichi, and Kisaragi).

* [[Self -Deprecation]] --: In one of the bonus strips in volume 3 Noda and Tomokane are seen looking at GA volume 1 and saying they don't feel like reading it because they don't like the art.

* [[Sentai]] --: Irodorunger! Tomokane is Red, Namiko is Yellow, Noda is Magenta, Kisaragi is Cyan and Professor is Monochrome.

** More Sentai elements are added in episode nine, including a full [[In the Name of Thethe Moon|roll call]] and a makeshift [[Humongous Mecha]].

* [[Shout -Out]] --: For GA-1's design of home appliance, one of Tomokane's design is a rather blatant [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[Doraemon]]''.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]] --: Tomokane can't hide her disdain towards her older brother due to unfulfilled [[Sibling Rivalry]], which boils down to...

* [[Sibling Yin -Yang]] --: While the case of [[Bokukko]] versus [[Non -Action Guy]] didn't seem too out of ordinary, their parents thought her older brother was [[Ill Boy|too ill]] for her to makephysically a physical response--asrespond—as a result, while she kept being pwned at home, she gets more gratification outdoors than at home. Like being a [[Delinquent]].

* [[Sick Episode]] --: the last episode of the anime, when Namiko was sick. She just have the uncanny ability to predict exactly what's going to happen...

* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]] --: Kisaragi at first tells Noda to stop narrating a conversation between two people she sees out the window. Then Professor, normally one of the serious ones, is doing the ''exact same thing''.

** [[Speaks Fluent Animal]] --: However, given that it's a pair of chickens, hints at various points indicate that Professor actually ''does'' know what they're saying.

* [[Storybook Episode]] --: After a fashion. One episode features the Fine Arts Club creating a storybook that features a protagonist which looks oddly like Kisaragi, who's quickly joined by an adventuring party resembling the other four.

* [[Super -Deformed]] --: The ending. Note that this is for a series that's already in [[Puni Plush]] territory.

** Although the girls are not as much [[Super -Deformed]], but rather depicted as really young.

* [[Talking Withwith Signs]] --: A variation is used by Noda. She turns her sketchbook into sign language for ''other people'', holding it over them like a [[Speech Bubble]].

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]] --: Noda fully exploits this when a solid block of pencil scribblings on a sketchpad is able to be viewed as "art" by everyone except for Namiko.

{{quote| '''Noda''': Um... it's called "Scratch Painting". Can you tell what it is?<br />

'''Professor''': Black.<br />

'''Kisaragi''': Ah... "Moonless Night"!<br />

'''Tomokane''': "Inside the Prof's head"!<br />

'''Namiko''': Looks like you just goofed off.<br />

* [[Twelve -Episode Anime]] --: Followed up by an OVA in the DVD-releases.

* [[Two -Teacher School]] --: Averted. GA-1 has homeroom Satoma and co-homeroom Usami, and GA-3 has Sasamoto as their homeroom--: who also supervises the Art Club. GA-2's homeroom Morita also shown up in one scene and so have the principal and the school nurse.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]] --: The Tomokane siblings not only look alike-- {{media|alike—[[The Tomokanes]]media:TheTomokanes.jpg| Nodamiki one said the older Tomokane as a "bleached Tomokane-kun" in episode 12}}-- but]]—but both were voiced by [[Miyuki Sawashiro]], hence upgrading it from a [[Strong Family Resemblance]] to this.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] --: [[Lampshade|lampshaded]]d. the girl discussed why [[Western Animation]] have an [[Amazing Technicolor Population]] while [[Anime]] would rather have this-- andthis—and to break the [[Fourth Wall]], the shot showed their hair colours: Kisaragi is dark brown, Professor is black, Tomokane is green, Noda is pink, and Namiko is medium brown. By the way, Awara is reddish brown, Mizubuchi is black, Uozomi is blueish bluish-black, and Homura is blond. Also, Yoshikawa is blond and Mitsui is blue.

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