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Azumanga Daioh follows a cohort of students and teachers through three years of high school. We start on the first day of school and end at the graduation ceremony. The "plot" is the passage of time. The "conflict" is trying to catch a cat, surviving summer heat, or understanding how a ten-year-old prodigy ended up in a class of fifteen-year-olds.

: A tall, quiet athlete who is perceived as "cool" but is secretly obsessed with cute animals, especially cats (who frequently bite her). Tomo Takino Azumanga Daioh

: The character Osaka became a primary example of how regional dialects, specifically the Osakan dialect , are used in fiction to crystallize personality stereotypes. Cultural Legacy Azumanga Daioh follows a cohort of students and

: The high-energy, impulsive "loose cannon" of the group. The "conflict" is trying to catch a cat,