Azumanga Daioh - The Animation

Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Stature
154 cm

Tomo is an excitable young woman. She's an active and enthusiastic person who never considers or worries about the consequences of her actions. This often irritates those around her, especially Yomi, her classmate since elementary school. She's easily drawn into petty competitiveness that rarely achieves her self-imposed goals, much to the indifference of her classmates, and she usually receives terrible scores on exams. She's the unofficial "leader" of the "Bonklers," along with Osaka and Kagura, even though Kagura's scores are even worse than hers.

She also enjoys teasing Yomi about her insecurities regarding her weight. Tomo's favorite foods are fried chicken, egg rolls, dumplings, and bananas. Tomo also constantly imagines she is competing with others. She is a fan of the Lupin III graphic novel and anime series and sometimes compares herself to the character Fujiko Mine, despite being completely different in appearance and personality. At the end of the series, Tomo announces plans to become a police officer, and even one day join Interpol, despite having no idea how to begin as an international police agent.

Tomo has a dog named "Black" and previously had a hamster named Ham-chan.

She has dark brown hair

Gender
Female
Occupation
English teacher
Stature
158 cm

She's not just the girls' English and homeroom teacher (Class 3), but a teacher with very unconventional methods and a close relationship with her class. Depending on the day, the time, and her mood, she can be a terrible tyrant or one of the sweetest and most touching teachers who ever lived.

She is often selfish, irresponsible, greedy, generally dysfunctional, and also easily angered, shamelessly expecting her friend and fellow teacher, Minamo Kurosawa, not only to tolerate all of this but to enable it. She becomes jealous when Nyamo receives better birthday presents from her students, even giving them a study room so she can get rid of them and go swimming in the school pool. Outside of work, she frequently drags Nyamo to expensive drinking parties, which Nyamo usually has to pay for. Yukari has a great fondness for Korean barbecue, which becomes the subject of many of her extravagant class-related bets. She even becomes incredibly jealous whenever someone has eaten expensive food, such as snow crab or Matsusaka beef.

She's also a huge video game fan and gets angry when the store runs out of the newest game. Yukari's driving skills are notorious, as she shows no concern for traffic laws, people, other cars, signs, or speed limits, and leaves many dents on her parents' car.

Yukari can speak fluent English and uses this ability to claim intellectual superiority over Nyamo.

She has long, straight, dark brown hair.

Nickname
Nyamo (にゃも)
Gender
Female
Occupation
Gym teacher
Stature
161 cm

Minamo is the gym teacher at the girls' school. In the girls' first year of junior high, she is the homeroom teacher of Class 5, where Kagura is initially enrolled. For the next two years, she is the homeroom teacher of Class 2.

"Nyamo" is a nickname from Kurosawa's student days, but Yukari calls her that, as does Tomo Takino. Other students call her Kurosawa-sensei, but later on, most begin calling her Nyamo as well (though they still use the more polite "Nyamo-sensei" instead of Tomo's extremely rude "Nyamo-chan").

In addition to teaching her main class and physical education, Nyamo is the coach and advisor of the girls' swim team. Kagura calls her "Coach" and holds her in very high regard. The fact that students tend to come to her with their problems is another source of jealousy for Yukari, as is the fact that she is generally more collected and disciplined.

She has medium-length, straight hair, usually styled with distinctive sidelocks that frame her ears. Her dark color palette contrasts sharply with the brown and chestnut tones of her chaotic childhood friend, Yukari.

Unlike the other characters who have well-defined brown variations, Sakaki's design uses a completely dark palette to complement her iconic "mysterious beauty" aesthetic. Her hair is extremely long and straight, extending down her back and well below her waist.

Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Stature
174 cm

Sakaki is a tall, attractive girl with a soft voice who is self-conscious about her height and physique. Due to her shyness, she rarely speaks, a reticence that is often misinterpreted and admired as "tough," "mysterious," and "cool"—a reputation exacerbated by her natural athletic ability. However, her true personality is quite the opposite: though she is often mistaken for aloof and sullen, she is actually very kind, polite, compassionate, and gentle. She cares deeply for her friends and has a profound and healthy admiration for animals, especially cats. Contrary to what other students think, Sakaki has no interest in sports and harbors a secret passion for all things cute (which she eventually admits to Chiyo).

She's also very intelligent and academically gifted, ranking third in her class. However, along with Osaka, she's the character who's most daydreaming, often obsessing over pretty things.

Sakaki especially likes cats, but she can't have one at home because her mother is allergic. Unfortunately, cats hate Sakaki for unknown reasons; one in particular, a gray cat known as Kamineko, delights in luring her so he can bite her. Kagura theorizes that the cats think her hand smells like fish.

During a school trip to Okinawa, Sakaki bonds with an Iriomote cat, the first cat he's ever been allowed to pet. Later, after the cat's mother is hit and killed by a car, the cat follows Sakaki to Tokyo, where he adopts it and names it Maya. Upon their arrival, Maya suddenly appears and drives off a vicious horde of cats led by Kamineko who were threatening Sakaki and Chiyo. Faced with Maya's "battle aura," the cats wither and scatter. Due to Sakaki's mother's allergies, Chiyo temporarily takes Maya in.

Despite her athletic ineptitude, Chiyo is a devoted Yomiuri Giants fan and once had a heated argument about them with Tomo. She also possesses a player's autograph. She loves to cook and also enjoys cleaning because, as she says, "it makes everything look nice." She takes great pride in being a high school student and works tirelessly to live up to that status.

It's true that a part of Chiyo longs for the carefree fun of being an elementary school girl, something her middle school life doesn't usually allow. Another part of her, however, desires a physical maturity that matches her academic status and makes others take her seriously. At the beginning of her senior year, Chiyo announces plans to attend a university in the United States where students who skip grades have performed well.

Her hair is officially light orange or light brown with orange undertones. The most distinctive feature of her design is her iconic twintails, which protrude horizontally from her head. These twintails have a "life of their own" within the series' humor: characters joke that they can detach, that they allow Chiyo to fly, or that they control her body.

Family
Unknown parents
Age
13
Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Stature
133 cm

Chiyo skipped five grades to the tenth grade (the first year of Japanese junior high school) at the beginning of the series and is still at the top of her class. She is extremely intelligent and responsible for her age; for example, the other students elected her to be the class representative. However, Chiyo still has the naiveté, desires, and fears of a child.

She is 10 years old when she first enters junior high and 13 when she graduates, but despite the age difference, she gets along well with her older classmates. Besides being seen as incredibly cute, Chiyo is a kind girl, a peacemaker who tries to stop any arguments, and generous by nature. Her friends sometimes take advantage of her good nature and academic abilities. Her biggest weakness is that she is terrible at sports (not only is she five years younger than her classmates, but she is also small for her age), which leads to a lack of confidence because she feels like a burden. Her March birthday parties are an annual celebration for the girls. Chiyo is closest to Osaka and Sakaki, who envy Chiyo's small stature, cuteness, and warm relationship with her dog, Mr. Tadakichi, while Chiyo longs for Sakaki's height and commanding presence. Chiyo and Sakaki also share an interest in cute things like Neco Coneco toys. On the other hand, Chiyo doesn't get along very well with Tomo, who loves to tease her excessively, as does Yukari. Osaka frequently daydreams about Chiyo's pigtails, imagining that they come loose, talk, move on their own, allow her to fly, control Chiyo's mind, or even cause her death if removed incorrectly. Her parents, who are never seen (except for the strange, cat-like yellow creature dreamed about by Sakaki and Osaka that claims to be her father), are very rich.

Nickname
Yomi (よみ)
Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Stature
161 cm

Yomi is Tomo's elementary school friend and general antagonist. She is also the voice of reason and the most mature and serious of her friends, providing comic relief to their silliness. While Yomi likes to think she's above her classmates' childish behavior, she can be just as mean. For example, to pass her college entrance exams, she asked Chiyo to infuse her with an amulet of her intelligence (as Tomo and Osaka had done before). [1] Yomi tends to hide her childish side when she's with friends, as shown when she pretended not to care much about going to the theme park the first time, but when she was alone, she was more excited than anyone else and had even bought some guidebooks. [2] Yomi is intelligent and athletic: among the girls, her grades are second only to Chiyo's, and while she isn't as good as Sakaki or Kagura at sports, she is quite capable. Despite appearing healthy and fit, Yomi is unhappy with her weight and struggles with her love of food, particularly sweets and spicy dishes. She's constantly trying new diets and sometimes anonymously writes to radio hosts for advice or updates on her progress, which amuses Tomo.

Koyomi Mizuhara's (better known as Yomi) hair is officially dark brown, with a shade very similar to that of her best friend and personal tormentor, Tomo Takino.

Although she makes earlier appearances as one of Minamo Kurosawa's students, Kagura doesn't become a true member of the group until some time later, joining Yukari's class in their second year. She dedicates most of her time to the swim team, but she's a good athlete in all aspects. Thanks to her dedication to swimming, Kagura develops rather pronounced tan lines during the summer months, which friends like Osaka are quick to point out.

Kagura is similar to Tomo in her boundless energy and lack of interest in studying, but she isn't prone to Tomo's impulsive outbursts or irritating behavior. Her low test scores and apathy toward schoolwork have earned her a place among the "Bonklers" alongside Tomo and Ayumu. Kagura's grades were actually slightly worse than Tomo's and Osaka's, which led to her becoming the de facto leader of Bonkurazu. But because that leader title essentially highlighted how bad her grades were, it was something Kagura wasn't happy about at all.

While Kagura is driven by competition, she is sweet and sensitive and can cry, especially when she feels she has disappointed someone or during emotional situations (an example being when she accidentally tackled Chiyo and knocked down the tent at a sports festival). Unlike Tomo, Kagura is kind and eager to help people, such as shooing away cats that approach Sakaki so she won't be bitten or helping a foreigner carry his luggage up a flight of stairs despite not being able to communicate with him.

Like Tomo and Yomi, her hair is officially dark brown.

Furthermore, she was just as interested as the other girls in listening to what Nyamo had to say while she was drunk. On their first trip to Chiyo's summer house, Osaka suggested telling a scary story where all the girls were murdered one by one, only to reveal that in the end, she was the one who killed them all. She also suggested placing cat corpses inside a café as a culmination of the other girls' ideas for their second-year Cultural Festival, which included a haunted house, a café, and stuffed animals. Additionally, the third time they went to Chiyo's summer house, she was going to wake Yukari up with a "frying pan." She ended up getting a knife by mistake, scaring Yukari.

During the Sports Festival, she placed great importance on running the obstacle course because she thought the event of sticking your face in flour to get candy was fun, and she laughed when she got there (and lost). Afterward, her face was still covered in flour. She has almost no flexibility in her body, unlike some of her other friends. The manga also revealed that she actually likes running outside and playing in typhoons, but that thunder easily frightens her.

Osaka likes fun facts, puns, and fruit juices.
Although she is the third tallest among her friends, tied with Kagura (since they are the same height) in the canon version, she is shorter than Kagura and Tomo in the anime, standing at under 154 cm tall and the second shortest after Chiyo. The reason for this change by the character designers is unknown.

Ayumu Kasuga, known worldwide by her nickname "Osaka," has officially brown hair. Visually, she wears it straight, loose, and shoulder-length. This contrasts with other characters who have more structured hairstyles (like Chiyo's pigtails or Kagura's pointed sideburns).

Gender
Female
Occupation
Student
Stature
156 cm

Ayumu Kasuga (Japanese: 春日歩, Kasuga Ayumu) ​​better known as "Osaka" (大阪) is a transfer student from Osaka City and one of the main characters in the Azumanga Daioh series.

Ayumu Kasuga is a transfer student from Osaka, Japan. Tomo Takino expects her to act like the stereotypical Osakan: loud and peasant-like. He chose the nickname "Osaka" for her, though her behavior couldn't be more different. She remembers how people in Osaka consider her "slow" and "spacey," at least compared to the average Osakan, but she lacks the energy or motivation to change. Ayumu was the first to lose a race against Chiyo Mihama. The nickname sticks so well that the teachers and even the class roster refer to her as "Osaka," to the point that no one (including herself) remembers her real name (Yomi has a similar problem). In the manga, Osaka mentions that she lived in Kobe when she was in elementary school and was born in Wakayama.

Despite her tendency to fall asleep during class, which annoys Yukari, she remains in Yukari's homeroom class throughout middle school. Due to her poor exam performance, she is a member of the "Bonklers" along with Tomo and Kagura. Yukari sees her intention, following Chiyo's advice, to pursue a teaching career after graduation as a deep personal insult, believing that Chiyo-chan thinks teachers are lazy and laid-back.

At the same time, Osaka has a habit of being able to point out obvious things that no one else seems to notice (such as the fact that none of her main group of friends have boyfriends or the fact that Kaorin was in love with Sakaki) and has surprising levels of knowledge on unexpected subjects such as marine biology and obscure kanji.