>>97808And the advice of not bothering with later-made stuff of course goes for anime in general regardless of type or style. Because keep in mind the Azumanga Daioh anime was made in 2002, during the time of "anime's final years" one may say, during the ending of anime's greatness, the last moments when anime was still anime in its traditional sense; only a few years later everything quickly turned to poop - production became entirely computer-based, and low-effort & insincere productions became the norm where everything was done to maximize profits at the expense of originality and well-written stories and characters. The era of lazy slop had begun. And it only got worse every year (studios competing with each other who could poop out anime as easily possible with the characters and story often designed from the ground-up with marketing in mind; marketing aimed towards what the NPC masses would most easily be attracted to; products intentionally designed to be slop for the slop-gobbling normalfaggots who care neither about the quality or content of what they consume as long as it has lots of sugar and coloring agents). It should be mentioned by the way that it was already plainly and painfully obvious by 2006/2007 that anime as a whole had taken a dramatic turn for the worse and during the years earlier, that turn, that shift, that "worseification" shift, was felt as it was happening (it wasn't something slow-and-imperceptible; it was very noticeable and happened over just a few years), and already by 2004 it was clear that all the greatest animes had already been made (or in other words that the time of anime greatness had passed) and that one shouldn't be expecting more such great ones (to be perfectly clear, in 2004 the thoughts about the situation wasn't "it's over, anime is dead" level of doom but rather it simply was clearly seen that all the great stuff that had been made earlier during the 90s and 80s had to them a special greatness and soul and sense of genuinity that didn't exist in the then-current ones - in 2004), and rather - in contrast to expecting anything great - one thenceforth was very surprised if anything new was even half-good.
About "at the expense of originality and well-written stories and characters" before anyone misunderstands that: that's not intended to say that specifically Azumanga's story and characters are super well written or that Azumanga is like some hallmark of writing quality (while there's more to Azumanga than first meets the eye, some of its characters have no depth to them at all and no character development whatsoever - of course it's like that, as the manga has the simple 4koma format that it has and the simple narrative style that it has), but rather I mean in contrast to the writing of the stories and characters of most of the good animes that came earlier - prior to the shift a lot more effort and thought was put into the writing than during and after it.
By the way OP or anyone else, I will not post in this thread again so don't ask me anything. Like what animes I recommend. What I'll tell you in that regard is you should just look around on anidb; you can do custom searches there to narrow down types of animes and years they aired or released, and so on, and sort them by ratings and other ways. Better to do that than just following specific recommendations. My general recommendation to OP is to proceed to watch entirely different types of animes that are unlike Azumanga and made either at about the same time or earlier - some of the greatest animes ever made started airing in the late 1980s (and I'm not thinking of Dragon Ball).
>>97724It's implied through dialogue and visuals and sound effects that one of the Azumanga characters may have - with the result of the victim turning into a ghost who follows his killer around. Something for Azu-newfag OP to think about.
>>97740Because you might get haunted by the victim, like in Azumanga. That could suck. Could be really spooky.