Ayumu considers her label 'too simple' and 'icky,' but she lacks the energy or motivation to dispute it. Tomo was quick to choose her nickname, although Ayumu's behavior could not be more different from the 'typical' Osakan. Tomo and Yukari expected her to act like the stereotypical Osakan (loud, exuberant, and fond of bawdy jokes).

Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese) Kira Vincent-Davis (English) (anime)Īyumu Kasuga ( 春日歩, Kasuga Ayumu), commonly known as Osaka ( 大阪, Ōsaka), is a transfer student from Osaka. Of all of the girls, she is the only one who does not sit through college entrance exams, as she intends to study overseas in America. Because of her small size, she can even ride on his back as if he were a horse.

At home, she can almost always be found in the company of her Great Pyrenees dog, Mr. The stylistic rendering of Chiyo's pigtails allow for several visual gags in both the manga and anime: Osaka often imagines them to be flapping wings, that they can be detached and replaced, they control her, or even that they are entities independent of Chiyo herself. Chiyo is frequently viewed with envy by fellow students, initially because of her intelligence, but later also because of the discovery that her family is exceedingly wealthy (they own an enormous mansion and a summer house, which Chiyo invites her classmates to visit on several occasions). Her diminutive stature leads to her having a lack of confidence, particularly in sports where she fears she is a burden to others. However, it seems her classmates are mostly nice to her, with the exception of Tomo, who seems to enjoy teasing her. The other characters find Chiyo amazingly cute, but sometimes take advantage of both her youthfulness and her scholastic abilities. Such grade-skipping would be unthinkable in Japan, and the series humorously explores its potential consequences. Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese) Jessica Boone (English) (anime)Ĭhiyo Mihama ( 美浜ちよ, Mihama Chiyo), usually called Chiyo-chan, is a child prodigy, having skipped five grades to 10th grade (the first year of high school in Japan) at the start of the series, yet she is still at the top of the class. The students have a variety of different personalities. Together they made Azumanga Daioh the 2nd most popular series of 2002 for female characters. The main cast consists of six schoolgirls and two teachers, along with a few secondary characters, the latter including Kimura-sensei, a male teacher with an obsession with teenage girls, and Kaorin, a classmate with a crush on Sakaki.įour of the girls were included in Newtype 's top 100 anime heroines of 2002: Osaka was awarded 7th, Chiyo 11th, Sakaki 21st, and Yomi 78th. This is a list of characters from the manga series Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma, later adapted to anime. From left to right: Sakaki, Kagura, Chiyo, Tomo, Yomi and Osaka