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>>103195 (OP)
Good essay, OP.

Azumanga was my first anime, and it had a similar effect on me.

I tried to watch Lucky Star afterwards and it just wasn't the same, I stopped after Ep. 2

Azumanga WABAG

im watching it now its really funny

to this day azumanga is the only anime that i ever watched in my life (that isn't dragon ball related since i'm an ESLmutt ARYAN o algo), i never cared for japanese animation but first time i saw it when i was 11 i really enjoyed it. i would have to rewatch it though, too busy watching fosters home for imaginary friends or some other aspie shit

GEM
>rationing
I do this and yes the Ancient Ones had good taste. I watched it a few months ago out of archeological curiosity and loved it.

tsmt yomi best girl

>>103195 (OP)
One thing that might make you feel melancholic or something similar is that their school is free from NIGGERS. There are no NIGGERS in Azumanga. It depicts a NIGGER-free world. Even if someone now watching Azumanga doesn't consciously think about the lack of NIGGERS in the school, he will still notice /subconsciously/ there are no NIGGERS. This may cause melancholic feelings in the viewer because he's reminded of back when he went to school and there were no NIGGERS in the school (any Americans reading may not understand this, as NIGGERS have been a standard feature in the schools of America for many decades now).

BTW OP if you're going to read the manga then I strongly advise you to read the original version released for the West and not the new version because the new version changed the translation in such a way that it imitates the English Dub including Osaka's inappropriate southern American accent and is therefore, overall, annoying and worse. Here is a rar with the original release: https://web.archive.org/web/20250729132641/https://litter.catbox.moe/etvwb7aa02tf9gnk.rar ← hard to find nowadays, you should btw read it and all other manga using this comic reader as it's by far the best one: https://mangameeya.en.softonic.com/ (if you dislike the way it behaves in some manner then you can change that behavior, it's very customizable, you can change what keys do what etc, I even once controlled it via a DualShock 2 of all things)

(should be said the new version fixes a few errors and bad "localization" choices in the original release like "In Osaka, do you call McDonald's Mickey-D's?" being changed into "Is it true they call McDonald's McD's in Osaka?" - but those fixes aren't important and don't make reading the new version worth it, and the new version introduces its own dumb localizations in how the characters talk like changing Tomo saying "Hey, you really wanna surprise her? Tell her how big those breasts of yours are!" into "If you really wanna shock her just tell her what size your great big honking jugs are!")

>>103195 (OP)
Now that you've seen the only true/pure slice-of-life type anime (as opposed to ones that aren't actually SoL or just partly SoL) worth watching, and the first such anime in the modern sense of the term (that essentially started the genre as we today think of it), it's time to watch something radically different since you're now 100% done with that type of anime — whether you've seen 15 others or 0 others, you're done once you've seen Azumanga.

Watch Ginei and City Hunter and 999 and Hokuto no Ken and Cyber City and Bebop.

>>103225
keyed and truthful
>>103232
>This may cause melancholic feelings in the viewer because he's reminded of back when he went to school and there were no NIGGERS in the school
i dont live in weimarica so only about 10% of the pupils in my school were niggers and they werent the primary culprit of the environment being subpar, albeit i think this was in part due to them being small in number. i dont really look back on school memories with fondness though, the feeling im trying to express is more in accordance with longing for something you never got to experience yourself, like pure and unconditional friendship and happiness
>BTW OP if you're going to read the manga then I strongly advise you to read the original version
i havent read manga in a while, but now that youre mentioning it i think i might check this out o algo
>>103248
>Now that you've seen the only true/pure slice-of-life type anime (as opposed to ones that aren't actually SoL or just partly SoL) worth watching
do you really think that there are no other good slice of life anime in existence? i mean sure, the genre is definitely oversaturated and has its fair share of aids like >>103201 said about lucky star (i tried watching it a few years ago and couldnt get past the first few episodes as well geg) but i find it hard to believe that azumanga is the one and only good slice of life anime ever created.
>Watch Ginei and City Hunter and 999 and Hokuto no Ken and Cyber City and Bebop.
if they fit the sort of viewer experience i outlined in the OP then sure. im familiar with the names hokuto no ken and cowboy bebop, thoughbeit my knowledge of both is very limited

>>103195 (OP)
Yomi my beloved

i yomi and kagura

GEM!!! I hate most anime, but I really like Azumanga Daioh. It breaks my heart seeing trannies appropriate it thoughie. Osaka WABAG and IS Aryan and IS Sharty culture.

everything itt was written by aryan beasts

My first experience with azumanga was when I got into the first year of university (right before it blew up among the tranny community) and since my uni had a very strict system (you had to get up early everyday, attendance was required and the subjects were crazy hard because I was unprepared),I went through a tough time because I believed engineering  wasn't for me and that I've made a mistake so I was pretty beat down. At that time I had a friend with whom I would watch random oldGOD anime on 9anime (they already introduced the watch2gether thing) and it was pretty fun to pretend to be oldfags and whatnot. It just so happened that I watched azumanga at that particular time so I remember it fondly.
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Now, regarding the anime itself, I think that people always forget how the quality of animation changed up to today and how the general mindset of older generations affected what was considered "cool" and what was not. For example, take a popular anime for around that time, that didn't have a running story, like Hellsing 2001 and Cowboy Bebop. Both were designed to be episodal anime, with both having some slight continuity within their episodes, but each episode ultimately being just "cool vampires" and "cool starships" with characters in their unique and interesting world having to solve random problems. Meanwhile, Azumanga was a rare attempt at making a comedy/slice of life when such genres were mostly magical girls and cutesy stuff, and were not mainstream in the first place. Sure, you may claim that it also falls into the cutesy category, but when I watched the movie, I failed to see any of that, except the "Chiyo-chan being cute" moments.
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As I watched the 25 episodes (a bombastic amount for a comedy anime from 2002), I related to Yomi the most, in her attempts to maintain a low body fat % and just look good and healthy. I liked her character a lot, just being a down to earth girl surrounded by a bunch of airheads. There was no ecchi scenes, there was almost no lame pervert jokes that would guide a viewer away from the girls personalities and ruin what the show tried so hard to build.(Of course, we have the Kimura/Kaorin duo, but they have little to no imteraction with other characters, at least when it comes to "creepy interactions"). Surely in 1999, Japan was already plagued by the porn addiction culture it developed, yet the show remains clean, making a couple jokes in a pretty innocent way.
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Despite there being no romance, no specific events that could cause proper character development, and the show mostly consisting of silly comedy sketches, you can still feel that the characters are real people, with real issues, particularly important for their age. No wonder the show survived the test of time, and I feel bad that the reward for this today, is being related to troon communities and having the characters be completely destroyed and turned into yet another bunch of self insert LGBTP+ icons…

>>103195 (OP)
Also, I would like to recommend K-ON!, if you want a similar experience! It's an oldGOD-ish anime that also has similar qualities to Azumanga

>>103195 (OP)
There’s not enough anime battles in it imo

>>103195 (OP)
I don't like the overanalysis but I agree for the most part. It's the most tolerable Slice of Life show out there, the rest are for gooners, trannies, or both. Ev&oe the show is pretty good some of the characters feel sort of flat at times.

I finisher azumanga i loved it so much, is yotsuba&! good?

>>103668
It's not the same at all. It's good in the sense it's made well, but it's much more childish. Yotsuba herself is the problem. She's super childish, unlike Chiyo.

>>103280
>are there really no other good slice of life anime?

The concept of "slice of life" as most people think of it – that is: an anime about a group of girls doing ordinary things and there being no overarching plot – was established by Azumanga. It did not exist prior to Azumanga. The "slice of life" animes made after Azumanga were made because of Azumanga and made in order to attempt to be the new Azumanga due to how successful Azumanga was (if Azumanga had been an abysmal financial failure then things would've been very different). They in one way or another used Azumanga as a template and formula, copying various ideas and things like character types and the setting and the themes of certain episodes. Some are extremely blatant and lazy imitations of Azumanga (like Lucky Star), and some tried to be more original but still wouldn't exist without Azumanga and despite having some originality still have things copied from Azumanga (take as an example Minami-ke made in 2007: its character named Chiaki is based on Chiyo; it's the "much younger but much smarter/wiser girl" type of character established by Azumanga's Chiyo, and there's something special about her hair that they focus on sometimes like Chiyo has her pigtails that get played with, and her name even begins with "Chi", and she serves the same kind of function or role as Chiyo does - and its character Kana is rather Tomo-like, and there's an episode involving alcohol like Azumanga's with Nyamo getting drunk, and there are other things they copied as well). And they're all trash. They're trash precisely because they were made to be the new Azumanga, made as imitations, copying and borrowing from Azumanga, and they're trash also because they're newer; they're newer so they're not as well made (anime in general made in the last 22-20 years, in the new anime era, is made with way less effort and care – in every way; in terms of animation and story writing and character writing – than anime earlier was, in the previous era that spanned from the mid 1980s until about 2003 - of course early 80s and 70s anime were also made with great care but that's another era; only comparing here the current era vs the previous one) – they're made sloppily, and since they're sloppily made in conjunction with being made from the ground up for the commercial purpose of being "moe" they're hence the very definition of moeslop – and since they're newer they suffer from that general faggyness new anime has and not only that but often they're made to appeal to trannies and fags and even promote such things (the 2007 Minami-ke, as an example again, features cross-dressing and feminization of boys). So it's all fucking cancer. Azumanga is truly the one and only "slice of life" anime that's genuinely good. As in what people normally mean with that term.

Aria (2005) is the sole exception to the above. Neither recommending it, nor saying you shouldn't watch it. Merely mentioning it because it deserves to be mentioned as it's very much "slice of life" in a similar manner to Azumanga and doesn't contain faggotry or trannyism and is basically wholesome. The problem though is Aria is best seen when you're very young or at least younger - Aria is a bit hard to watch as an adult, but you might be able to tolerate it. It's sort of like how Sailor Moon strictly objectively speaking is rather good, is well made, is a solid anime (minus the filler eps), but simultaneously one only feels "wow this is good" about it if one is a young boy.

However if you use a different definition of, and have a different mental picture of, what "slice of life" is then there are other animes that are okay. Anidb does not use "slice of life" but instead uses "daily life" which encompasses much more than the Azumanga type "slice of life" formula. And some people have that broader mental picture when they say "slice of life"… which is partially why you get some people calling Haibane Renmei "slice of life" while to many that's extremely inappropriate because it's significantly different from Azumanga-style SOL. But even with that broader definition of "slice of life", it's still inappropriate because Haibane Renmei is very plot focused. Most people who incorrectly call it "slice of life" don't do so because they're using the broader definition or have that broader mental picture of what such an anime is, but rather they call it that simply because it's about a group of girls and doesn't feature action and fighting.

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>>103678
Continued:

If you don't use the common definition of "slice of life" established by Azumanga that includes the inane moeslop made after it and instead think of "slice of life" in the broader "daily life" manner, then probably the best non-Azumanga "slice of life" anime is Heidi made in 1974. But of course it's starkly different from Azumanga, but it's indeed "slice of life" technically (in the broader sense). So in other words the only other "slice of life" anime than Azumanga worth watching is Heidi, but keep in mind it's not the same type of SOL. Every episode has its own plot, much more so than most Azumanga-style SOL animes do, so it might not even feel like SOL at all.

> Heidi:
https://anidb.net/anime/426
https://nyaa.land/view/1214798

I would never ever tell anyone to watch any anime online, and not telling you that here either – you should download the linked release and watch it with MPC-BE, preferably with "ffdshow raw video filter" as the renderer filter – but surprisingly (and unfortunately as it makes lots of people watch on YT instead) there's a decent quality upload of Heidi in Japanese on YT however naturally some episodes are missing (since it's YT) so it's not complete: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0A3btqyajzQHhigQh07FTNMSADyyWCZv – just thought I'd mention that, as you can get an idea what it's like by checking that out.

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>>103679
If you want the absolute best quality then get this release: https://nyaa.land/view/598343 – But it's roughly five times the size. But certainly if you got the free space, get it instead. The release I linked in 2 of 2 is a re-encode of the [Silver_zero_Subs] release which is denoised, so the image is significantly blurrier than the BD source.

> Quality Comparison:
[Silver_zero_Subs]: https://files.catbox.moe/f41omg.png
"neo124 & passerby": https://files.catbox.moe/0zkndb.png

>>103681
was away from home for a bit and forgot about this thread o algo. also yomi won on soy9k if that matters
>>103500
very gemmy story and i can definitely agree with you about yomi and the show in general. i think her character is much more complex and nuanced than most people would give it credit for and, like you, i also find her to be the most relatable, but also the most genuine and likeable of the whole cast, even if most people wouldnt see her that way. she will always be a gem in my heart
>I feel bad that the reward for this today, is being related to troon communities and having the characters be completely destroyed and turned into yet another bunch of self insert LGBTP+ icons
it is unfortunate, but like all things in the tranny cultural zeitgeist they will (hopefully) move on from it and to the next shiny thing that they can project their identity on to. it may affect azumanga's legacy somewhat, but the show will outlast all of them when they inevitably hang themselves due to their psychological conflict with reality
>>103502
>i would like to recommend K-ON!
i know of the show, but have never watched it. ive heard it being associated with rwxittertrannies like azumanga thoughbeit if we were to judge every show's quality by its autistic fanbase then every show would be dogshit. im currently rewatching nichijou but once im done ill add it to my list of anime to watch o algo. im currently debating whether i should follow up with evangelion, mushishi or welcome to the NHK but once ive watched (or attempted to watch) all 3, ill try it then.
>>103678
>>103679
>>103681
>And they're all trash. They're trash precisely because they were made to be the new Azumanga, made as imitations, copying and borrowing from Azumanga
though i can tell i havent seen anywhere close to as many anime as you have, i agree. i dont think the success of azumanga can be replicated because, as you said, they both created and perfected the template for the genre as it exists today. i do think nichijou does something distinct with the slice of life formula by introducing a lot more surrealism, comedic exaggeration and a much more significant departure from realism thoughie, even if they still use a lot of tropes from azumanga daioh pertaining to the setting and broader personality types/roles i think it still introduces enough unique elements to differentiate itself.
>and since they're newer they suffer from that general faggyness new anime has
maybe this is referring more to the thematic merit of newer anime, which i cant really comment on as i dont watch much of it, but i feel like the overall aesthetics of newer anime are just subpar, bland and uninspired despite having a seemingly higher production quality than that of those produced in the 2000s and earlier. a lot of them lack a unique or otherwise individual artstyle that seperates their show from the hordes of other new goyslop churned out by mappa and the like
>Aria (2005) is the sole exception to the above
ive never heard of it before, but upon a google search, i can say that yeah, it doesnt seem like the sort of thing i would usually watch. not to say its bad, just it doesnt seem like my thing.
thank you for the very informative series of replies oldDEITY.

>>103946
Would highly recommend Evangelion.

I'm convinced that it and Azumanga have a weird spiritual connection to each other, the 'ru is proof.

bvmo