We've had this thread already.

And there is no reason to have it again.
All of them are les - I'll get my coat.

Every post is a repost of a repost.

The OP image begs another question: Why did none of them have a watch?

>>110073
Yomi does.

>>110074 Only in this picture.

>>110077 Moments after this picture was taken, Yomi was heard saying, "What the hell?! This damn thing doesn't work at all!"

After that, her wrists remained bare.

>>110078
But Osaka said: "it works fine, but only twice a day."

>>110107
Yomi: No, it's never right.
Osaka: But it has to! You know the old saying, "even a broken clock is right twice a day!"
Yomi: Not if it's missing its hour hand it's not!

>>110108

Osaka: Then it's right 24 hours a day!

Kagura's statement to Chiyo about getting married is on a "not yet" status can be taken to be same for boyfriends although not on the same level obviously, they are interested and the topic does pop up ever so often.

Now if your asking why any guy hasn't ask one of them out yet, well they have, House of Karsea answered that question for all of us, in a rape sort of way.

Actually in the whole series there is only one scene that I'm aware of that actually shows a couple in school and that's in the last episode right before Tomo is taking pictures you see a girl and a guy talking as though they are a couple or are about to become one.

>>110192
your yet is just an assumption that they will be interested in it later on in life, the only thing that episode proves is that they arent interested now. no more no less,
some people never marry.

>>110194

My theory is that Azuma deliberatly makes them available so that us fanboys can more easily imagine ourselves paired with them. Out of both series, there are only two married couples that we see out of all the characters. Everyone else is single.

can they just have friends without everyone thinking that's weird? damn

>>110324

>My theory is that Azuma deliberately makes them available so that us fanboys can more easily imagine them paired with each other.

Fixed.

women generally seem to be holding off on relationships these days

I want to be Chiyo-chan's secret boyfriend ^___^

>>110329
You know, I'm surprised there haven't been any drama-y fanfics of this nature. i.e. Chiyo starts dating an older male student, but keeps it a secret from all her friends because they wouldn't understand/think she's too young/think he's a pedo, etc.

>>110329
Nnn!?

>>110331

I have read a very short one in which a student worked up the courage to ask out Sakaki, only to have Chiyo take Sakaki's place in a brief moment he wasn't looking in the right direction, resulting in him inadvertently asking Chiyo out.

Drama was implied to have ensured.

>>110331
I remember reading a male-OC/Chiyo romance fanfic in Japanese a long while back. It was certainly "drama-y" (as opposed to plotless WAFF or lemon--in fact there was no sex in it at all), but it didn't follow the plot you're describing.

>>110325

You fail Fanboys 101.

"Every character wants to have sex with any/all other characters."

No one can be "friends".

>>110341
Hey, I think I know the one you're talking about--it that the one where she likes him because he treats her like an upperclassman even though she's physically younger than him?

>>110341
>>110355

Translation please.

In answer to why none of them have boyfriends, it's because when not drawn in cute anime style, they look a little more like this.

Admittedly, Osaka doesn't look too bad at all, but she's weird, so it's probably less likely that guys would ask her out.

>>110368>>110368

Now, now. There's no reason to believe the cast aren't cute in real life...um...I mean...

You can interpret Yomi and Tomo as lesbonic if you want, but the series doesn't push that interpretation on you, and for any of the other characters (Kaorin excepted) it's even more questionable. I like the idea of the cast getting Sapphic as much as any fan, but I think the real reason (in terms of show mechanics) they don't have boyfriends is to keep the focus of the series about their friendship.

>>110368

Actually, the doujin guy actually says it's because she's weird he goes out with her.

>>110376

You can't go out with Osaka because she's already out. Way out, baby!

I think i rember on the anime, that ther was speculation of Tomo being dumped when the girls wondered why she cut her hair.

>>110355
In the one I read, the guy gets a motorcycle as a hand-me-down from his older brother, and his first "date" with Chiyo-chan consists of taking her for a ride on it. Later on he gets in an accident which leaves the bike totaled and him with a broken arm, and this leads to his epiphany about his feelings for Chiyo-chan.

Sound familiar?

Allow me to sum up the love life of each girl after the show ends:
Yomi: Meets a wealthy entrepreneur after he "accidentally" runs down Tomo in his stretch limo. Despite Tomo surviving with only a broken wrist, they fall in love.
Tomo: Meets a doctor after getting run down. Seems fine, until muttering "Hey, Yomi, have you lost weight? You feel lighter than usual" from under the bumper. Wakes up in the arms of a handsome doctor, who never calls her back. Gets knocked up quickly and appears on "Jerry Springer"
Sakaki: Avoids dating, but sees a cute baby and wants one now. Rapes the nearest man to get pregnant. After giving birth to cute twin baby girls, finds that they have the habit of biting, hard, when breast feeding.
Osaka: Abducted by aliens. Returns with an army of clones. Let's never speak of what happened on the mothership.
Chiyo: Never allowed to grow up and fall in love, so she doesn't.
Kagura: Doesn't believe in love. Also, more man than any man, and more woman than any other woman (except Sakaki and Yomi).

>>110403
Ha ha, yeah, that's definitely the one I read. Do you have a link to the story, by the way, I used to, but I lost it.

>>110375
Well I do know that they explicitly stated in the story that Ayumu and Sakaki are supposedly beautiful. The others are probably just average-looking or even pretty but not stand-out pretty.

>>110442

Japanese people are pretty,
deal with it,

You can argue a case for any of the girls being all sapphy but the only one that it never made sense for to me was osaka,

I've never seen a decent interpretation

I actually tried to design some OCs for a character x OC fic I'm never gonna write.
Nothing I came up with was notable--probably because it was really late and I was really tired--except that Osaka meets a young Japanese version of Columbo, and every year they tour the country in their psychedelic van filled with mariSANDWICHES.

I was really, really tired.

>>110448

>Japanese people are pretty,
>deal with it,

No. This is what most Japanese schoolgirls look like.

>>110448

>Japanese people are pretty,
>deal with it,

lol not really

>>110441
Found it: http://palpop.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ero/chiyoboku.html

(Note: contains no ero, despite the URL. Most of the other fics on the same site, however, do.)

>>110329

In before some inter-twat takes this too seriously, throws a sissy tantrum and ruins this thread for everybody else

>>110465
That looks too daunting for me. How does it end?

>>110442

>they explicitly stated in the story that Ayumu and Sakaki are supposedly beautiful

Sakaki is kind of implied to be very attractive, but when do they say Osaka is beautiful?

>>110471

I don't know about beautiful (although she has, as the movie would say, a beautiful mind), but doesn't that foreigner visiting the school call her pretty?

There's only ONE group of guys worthy of the Azu girls.

>>110460
>>110459
Damn you, /azu/, for squelching my otaku fantasies.

>>110473
...I now know my next rainy day fanart project. Unless, of course, it's already out there...

>>110471
Hey you're right. I thought that they said she's pretty in the first episode when she first came in. Turns out nobody even said anything. o_o

I guess it was really just me thinking she was pretty, especially with all the sparkles when she came in. >_>

>>110557

Osaka is pretty. Unnervingly pretty.

>>110561
I think her prettiness comes mainly from her lady-like personality, and her comparitive femininity.

Plus, she's just physically attractive. Oh, and she's a free-thinker. :S

P.S. What's with the "vc:" prefix?

>>110568

vc means verification code

Perhaps you need some vc: fodene

>>110577

sauce?

>>110578
Remake by House of Karsea.
http://rapidsearch.yi.org/?s=remake

>>110577
I find it funny that the Japanese call a simple asking-to-go-out a "confession"... like it's love. :S

Also, I was kind of mad that that guy didn't realize the source of Osaka's attractiveness: her feminity, dignity, and imagination. >:O

>>110589

Not to mention the ass-rape. I think he's just taking advantage of her inexperience with this planet we call Earth. Or, I don't know...maybe I'm just jealous of the dude.

In anime everybody is pretty (unless they're really, really ugly).

>>110473
Damn straight. See also...
http://www.anifics.com/hosted/nidoking/Cromanga.html
"Great Cromanga High School." By the same guy I just linked in another thread. (I wish he'd done more, these are the only two Azumangas I've found.)

>>110577
I think this is a later panel of the same story.

>>110623

My favorite line is where Tomo orders Chiyo to "think him to death," and poor Chiyo-chan dutifully scrunches her face in concentration.

>>110590
Yeah, the sex is the worst part of the doujin. If it had portrayed Osaka as an expressive girl, who opened up to some guy emotionally because he was nice to her...

... and the guy actually LEARNED something from her, himself, and life... then maybe I would like it.

Nice drawings, though.

vc: A-(DOY)! I'M A RETARDED GUY WHO CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL AND TAKES ADVANTAGE OF GIRLS' FEELINGS BECAUSE OF PEER PRESSURE. :B

I love this game.

For gods sake, Its a doujin, What do you expect?

when i first saw volume one of azumanga i thought Osaka was going to be regarded as the pretty one because of her entrance (slow motion and sparkles) i still think osaka is beautiful and that sequence has now become my favorite

Most people have the explanation down in literal terms. (IE: Kiyohiko Azuma was appealing to the lonely geek demographic) but applying suspension of disbelief? We still get a logical story. Think about it. What are the girl's traits?

Tomo you would think might have a BF, but her hyperactive personality is a turn off because guys will view her as attention hungry.

Osaka? Sorry, but teenage high schoolers tend to avoid girls who SEEM to be self-interested. Osaka is not self obessesed, but she's got ADD up the wazoo. We have the other end of the spectrum here, people will think that she wants NO attention.

Sakaki? It might seem strange at first, but it isn't when you think about it. She's popular with the other girls in the school and a bunch of the athletic clubs, but the fact that she's not actually in them or seen dealing with them often creates an image of elitism. An image the series even clearly shows she has on numerous occasions. Regardless of whether or not she feels that way about herself.

Chiyo? Obviously, she's too young.

Yomi may be a geek, but lots of geek girls get boyfriends with ease. In all likleyhood, she has no interest in dating. Has she had requests? Inevitably. But lots of attractive people in high school go through all 4 years without so much as holding hands all because they have no interest. This isn't strange.

Kagura is elusive on the subject. She doesn't seem like the kind of person who would turn down a date. Being a tomboy is far more likely to BRING attention then turn it away. She plays fucking video games for christ sake!

The other girls have some explanation, I can't think of one for Kagura.

>>110992

I don't think "plays video games" is as big a deal in Japan as it is here. Yukari and Nyamo play video games to.

>>110993

You're probably right about that. A good comparison is arcades. They're practically non-existent in western culture. In Japan they're a dime a dozen. And usually pretty frigging elaborate.

I don't know if there's much evidence Yomi's character is written as a geek. She wears glasses and gets good grades, but that's about it. I would say you can see her as a geek if you like, just as you can see her and Tomo as lovers if you like, but it isn't necessarily something that's "really" in the series. She is, however, indisputably erotic.

Yeah, well, fuck your theory.

Fuckin' Yojimbo... <hic> You don't know me!

>>111002

Now Tomo's the geek--cosplaying, delusional, wanting to be an anime character, spastic, etc.

vc: in addition to which, Tomo gives me wod

>>110992

>>chiyo, Obviously she is too young

You fail, chiyo is not too young to think about dating at all, plenty of people her age are interested in relationships,

chiyo, however, is obviously uninterested in a relationship, the same could be said about kargura, neither are too young to comprehend those things, they simply arent ready for them, regardless of age.

For absolutely no reason, I just had a thought.
If Tomo ever wanted a guy who would put up with her, she'd just have to target some lonely, Shinji-like person who's desperate for love.
Of course, that's the same for any girl, not just Tomo, but it seemed especially funny in my head. A couple with those personalities, I mean.

>>111136

Tomo: Succeeds at everything she does by lowering the bar for what constitutes "success" until it reaches where she's currently at.