Karakter & Staf — Azumanga Daioh

Sakaki

Utama

Female

Height: 174 cm Sakaki is a quiet, stylish girl. Looking cool and distant, she's often seem staring out of the window. Being tall and well-endowed in both athletics and body, she's often admired by many girls in the school where Azumanga Daioh takes place. Despite being tall, cool and aloof or distant, deep in her heart she wishes to be small, soft, and cute, like Chiyo-chan, but she perceives that she can't - because of her height. She loves cats and always attempts to be friendly with them, but often gets scratched and bitten in response. Her soft and girly side shows when she's drawing, talking and reading about cats, or when she's holding one.

Yuu Asakawa

Tomo Takino

Utama

Female

Tomo Takino is extremely energetic and competitive, despite being nonathletic and a slacker at the same time. She tends to irritate everyone around her, especially Yomi, who has been her classmate since elementary school. Tomo's character is extremely impulsive and never considers nor cares about the consequences of anything she says or does. However, on the occasions when Tomo has actually been inspired to concentrate on something, she has demonstrated that she is quite capable. She succeeded in gaining the grades needed to qualify for the same high school as Yomi, though Yomi ridiculed her and openly said that there was no way that she could do so. Once Tomo began attending high school, however, she returned to her lackadaisical ways. (Source: Wikipedia)

Chieko Higuchi

Koyomi Mizuhara

Utama

Female

Koyomi Mizuhara, commonly known as Yomi, is a grade-school friend and general antithesis of Tomo. She is the voice of reason of the series, carrying herself as the most mature and serious of the group. Though smart and athletic, she is constantly dissatisfied with herself due to her weight and is always trying various diets in an effort to become thinner. She can never seem to stick to these diets however, as she finds herself constantly tempted by her favorite foods. Another weakness of Yomi's character is that while she is above average in everything else, Yomi is an awful singer, but karaoke is one of her favorite pastimes. While usually functioning as Tomo's "straight man", she sometimes manifests a rather cruel sense of humor. Yomi also has an uppercut that Tomo is usually on the receiving end of whenever she pushes Yomi too far. However, even though she likes to think that she is well above the childish behavior of some of her classmates, Yomi has demonstrated in the story that she can be just like the rest of the characters on certain occasions, such as trying to get Chiyo to infuse a shrine charm with some of her intelligence so that she could pass her college entrance exams. (Source: Wikipedia)

Rie Tanaka

Ayumu Kasuga

Utama

Female

Height: 156 cm Ayumu Kasuga is a transfer student from Osaka. Tomo, expecting her to act like the stereotypical Osakan—loud, exuberant and fond of jokes—chose for her the nickname "Osaka", although Ayumu's behavior could not be more different. Ayumu considers the name "slow" and "spacey", but she lacks the energy or motivation to dispute it. The nickname sticks so well that she is called Osaka by teachers and even in the class roster, to the point that no one remembers her real name. In the manga, Osaka mentions that she lived in Kobe when she was in elementary school and was born in Wakayama. Tomo, who says she doesn't know where Wakayama is, tells Ayumu to "just be Osaka".

Yuki Matsuoka

Chiyo Mihama

Utama

Female

Chiyo Mihama , usually called Chiyo-chan, is a child prodigy, having skipped five grades to 10th grade (first year in Japanese high school) at the start of the series yet is still top of the class. Such grade-skipping would be unthinkable in Japan, and the series humorously explores its potential consequences. The other characters find Chiyo amazingly cute, but sometimes take advantage of both her youthfulness and her scholastic abilities. Her diminutive stature leads to her having a lack of confidence, particularly in sports where she fears she is a burden to others. Chiyo is frequently viewed with jealousy 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). 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, or as entities independent of Chiyo herself. At home, she can almost always be found in the company of her enormous dog, Tadakichi-san. Of all of the girls, she is the only one who does not sit through college "entrance exams" as she intends to study overseas, possibly in America.

Tomoko Kaneda

Yukari Tanizaki

Utama

Female

Tanizaki Yukari is the girls' English and homeroom teacher (class 3), but a teacher with very unconventional methods and a close relationship with the class. Her students are casual enough to call her by her first name: Yukari-sensei, and even use the very informal and intimate name and title of Yukari-chan. She can be moody and, like Tomo, is incredibly impulsive and has a tendency not to think things through. Yukari has a rivalry/friendship with Minamo and attempts to prove that she is the superior teacher.

Akiko Hiramatsu

Kagura

Utama

Female

Height: 156 cm Her name comes from Shinto ritual: the kanji for Kagura (神楽) meaning "entertainment of the gods". It was used to describe the traditional music played at shrines and the Imperial Court. Kagura also makes a cameo appearance as an anthropologist in Classroom of Thesis; From the Report to the Graduation Thesis by Kazuhisa Todayama which refers to several other Azumanga Daioh characters. While she makes appearances earlier on as one of Nyamo's students, Kagura doesn't become a true acquaintance of the group until sometime later, joining Yukari's class in the 2nd year (Yukari selects her as a ringer to win the school athletic competitions). She devotes most of her time to the swim team but is an all-around good athlete. Thanks to her dedication to swimming Kagura receives some rather pronounced tan lines during the summer months, which friends like Osaka waste no time in pointing out. She also has a one-sided rivalry with Sakaki and attempts to outdo her in all things, be it playing softball, sprinting, or even eating lunch. This is how her character was introduced to the rest of the cast, when during 1st year's field day, she was defeated by Sakaki in a running event. The next time the two meet, Kagura has decided to make Sakaki her rival, yet she also makes continuous attempts to be a good friend to Sakaki. Unfortunately for her, Sakaki is a natural athlete (and doesn't remember a thing about running against Kagura during the first Athletics Fest, which stuns Kagura) and defeats her in almost everything except stamina events. Like her would-be rival, she is sometimes embarrassed when Tomo calls attention to her large breasts. (Source: Wikipedia)

Houko Kuwashima

Minamo Kurosawa

Utama

A gym teacher at the girls' school. In the girls' first year of high school, she is the homeroom teacher of Class 5. During their last two years, she is the homeroom teacher of Class 2. An old high school friend and rival of Yukari, they have a juvenile, exasperating, but funny relationship with each other; Yukari relentlessly insults and freeloads from Nyamo, but Nyamo gets her digs in, too. "Nyamo" is a nickname from her student days, but Yukari calls her that, and so does Tomo. Other students call her Kurosawa-sensei. Whereas Yukari appears to be an older version of Tomo, Nyamo resembles Yomi (more in personality than looks) and the two teachers' odd relationship is similar to the one that Tomo and Yomi share. Popular with the students, Nyamo is nicer, less obnoxious, and far more in control than Yukari. Yukari often teases her about her past romantic relationships and that she is a "stupid P.E. teacher". During one of the summer trips the girls take together, Nyamo gets very drunk (usually, Yukari is prone to this behaviour; as a matter of fact, Nyamo drank specifically to keep the alcohol away from Yukari) and tells the girls all about the birds and the bees, which embarrasses Sakaki and confuses Chiyo, but impresses the other girls. In addition to teaching her homeroom class and P.E., Nyamo is the coach/advisor of the women's 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 yet another source of Yukari's jealousy, as well as the fact that she is generally more "together" and better-disciplined. Unlike Yukari, Nyamo is able to maintain an apartment of her own. She also owns and drives a blue Toyota Vitz 5-door. She is very sensitive to comments about her love life, which has evidently provided Yukari with an endless supply of blackmail material and points at which to rib her. One of these apparently involves a "love letter" from high school, which Yukari loves to dangle over her head. Still, she is quite devoted to teaching and at one point turns down a job offer that would have given her far greater income and prestige. (Source: Wikipedia)

Aya Hisakawa

Kimura

Pendukung

The only male teacher seen regularly in the series, Kimura's open-mouthed expression (as well as his ability to simply appear out of nowhere) tends to creep out most of the female students. While he has shown tendencies to be responsible and kind-hearted (he recycles littered cans, donates frequently to charities and even offered 10,000 yen as an offering at a Shinto shrine to pray for world peace), he openly enjoys looking at girls wearing bloomers sports gear and swimsuits (he even so much as admitted that he became a teacher because he liked looking at schoolgirls). Obviously, the girls find this perverted, but it also creates empathy with the male students, most of whom would like to do the same thing.

Kouji Ishii

Kaori

Pendukung

Called Kaorin by all of her peers (and one admirer who is most definitely not a peer), Kaori is a bright girl interested in Astronomy, Arts & Crafts, ...and Miss Sakaki, a beautiful, but very reserved, classmate. It is Kaori's great tragedy she is often too abashed merely by the sight of Sakaki to cultivate more of a relationship with the enigmatic object of her affections, but chance does throw the two of them into shared situations now and again. At these times Kaori can be quite forward in her own way, especially when it comes to fending off any "threats" to her time spent with her heart's desire. Kaori's high school career becomes much more trying in its latter days when her new homeroom teacher declares his undying affection for young "Kaorin." Horrors!

Sakura Nogawa

Chiyochichi

Pendukung

Chiyo's father first appears within a dream of Sakaki's, where he is given to her as a pet, claiming to be both a cat and Chiyo's father. In an episode not long after, a stuffed doll in his likeness is given to Chiyo for her birthday. He continues making appearances at regular intervals throughout the series, most often in Sakaki's daydreams.

Norio Wakamoto

Maya

Pendukung

Maya is an Iriomote cat (kitten actually) who the girls meet on their class trip to Okinawa on the Iriomote island. Surprisingly he seems to like Sakaki a lot. When Maya's mother dies he searches for Sakaki and eventually finds them and saves Sakaki and Chiyo from Kamineko and his gang. Chiyo then offers to keep Maya at her place until Sakaki moves out and is able to keep Maya at her own place - and Sakaki names the kitten Maya as an abbreviation of 'Yamamaya', a term used by Iriomote natives. (Image credit: Wikipedia)

Kamineko

Pendukung

Kamineko ( "Biting Cat" in Japanese) is a cute gray cat that Sakaki occasionally sees on the way to and from school. Having a great soft spot for cats, Sakaki tries to pet it, but it ends up latching its huge, beartrap-like teeth onto her hand. This becomes one of the series'; biggest running gags. Kamineko seems to bear Sakaki strong malice, and at one point attempts to rally an entire neighborhood's worth of cats to attack her. Tomo has somehow managed to get her hands on a plush version of Kamineko, complete with bear trap teeth. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tadakichi-san

Pendukung

Tadakichi-san also known as Mr. Tadakichi is Chiyo's pet dog. A Great Pyrenees, who has been with her for five years prior to her admission to high school. Mild-mannered and gentle, he is large enough for Chiyo to ride on his back and indulgent enough to allow her to. Sakaki particularly likes him, because he allows her to pet him without biting her. Sakaki also daydreams about being able to ride Tadakichi as Chiyo does. (Source: Wikipedia)

Chihiro

Pendukung

Chihiro (千尋) is a classmate and friend of Kaorin. Little is known except her name. When she appears, she is usually keeping Kaorin company, and she collaborates with her on some projects. Once, when Chiyo-chan tutored her, Yukari assumed it was the reverse. Occasionally Chihiro bears the brunt of Kaorin's temper, without knowing why; it is unclear how aware she is of Kaorin's crush on Sakaki. Chihiro was also one of the most disgusted by the cockroach that appeared in class in Episode 2. In the manga, during the senior year sports festival Chihiro dressed as Chihiro from Spirited Away, partnered with another student (possibly Kaorin) dressed as Kaonashi from the same film.

Akane Omae

Kimura no Tsuma

Pendukung

Female

The Wife of Teacher Kimura. She loves him, because she thinks he is cool, despite his looks and sense of fashion. The Girls think she has the personality of an Angel, because she can even tolerate "that" (the strange and lecherous behavior of Kimura-sensei).

Sayaka Oohara

Nekokoneko

Pendukung

Nekokoneko is a cute toy in the form of a cat. It has white fur (obviously fake since it's a toy) and beady black eyes. The name breaks down to mean cat (neko) and kitten (koneko), so literally it's name would be cat-kitten. But what exactly does Nekokoneko represent? Cuteness? Innocence? Or is it just a stupid toy? Whatever it is, Nekokoneko figures greatly in "Azumanga Daioh." Sakaki is fascinated by it... but then again, any cat she sees she likes.

Miruchi

Pendukung

Miruchi and Yuka, during the middle of the series, are grade-school students and good friends of Chiyo-chan, but were separated when Chiyo advanced to high school. Occasionally, though, the three would meet on the way to school and exchange stories about their experiences. Near the end of the series, though, both Miruchi and Yuka had advanced to middle school and proudly showed-off their new uniforms to Chiyo, as well as Sakaki (who was walking with Chiyo at the time). If one were to look closely, Miruchi resembles a younger Minamo Kurosawa (Nyamo), while Yuka is a younger double of Yukari Tanazaki. (Source: Absolute Anime)

Akane Omae

Yuka

Pendukung

Sakura Nogawa

Masaaki Ooyama

Pendukung

He is the girls' bespectacled male classmate in 10th grade. In the original manga, his performance in the exam is good. His English language writing skill surpasses his teacher at the time when he first enters high school. Yukari nominates him as a class representative, judging by the fact that he wears glasses (a meganekko often appears in such a role in many manga and anime). This job continues until he resigns in September and yields the post to Chiyo Mihama. He also serves as the graduate representative in the very end. His character seldom appears in the anime.

Hiroyuki Yoshino