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Question: I was wondering what those short scenes with the "Ah!" bubble mean. In the New Year's dream episode, there was one after each character's dream. I'm wondering if it's a Japanese thing. Thanks!

I think it's just a quirk of the show. It's used as the eyecatch as well. - Squilibob 11:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it's A for Azumanga. It's the first character of the Japanese name anyway. As for its function, it might be used to indicate a commercial break or something.

A list of Azumanga Daioh episodes

Is there any interest in creating a list of Azumanga Daioh episodes? This is clearly Wikipedia convention for several shows with large followings. Also, many shorts or episodes could have their own articles, again, as per wikipedia convention of episode of a TV show article- because there are a lot of things that could be explained to an english speaking audience that would be taken as read by a Japanese audience. Unfortunately, I have neither the special expertise in Japanese culture, nor do I really know the precise interpretation of Kaorin seeing a kitty-cat in the locker room in the first episode. I don't even have the gall to hazard a guess.

So in conclusion, anybody think this should exist, go ahead and say so. Then we can all start, and I'll help for whatever I'm worth in this venture.

Also, can we clean up this talk page? It seems like a lot of these issues are already resolved. Lotusduck 02:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Archived - Squilibob 11:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

The problem I see is, how would one classify an episode? Would you list them by their original five minute segments and titles, or as they were grouped together for episodic release on the DVDs? Either way, it would probably be too long to include as part of the article. If they were done in the format of the original five-minute segments, then there would probably be enough of them to have their own article. (Otherwise, it might seem a little short for an article all its own. And Kaorin saw a kitty cat because she caught a glimpse of Sakaki's panties, which had a kitty on them. It's more blatantly spelled out in the manga, but in the anime you'll notice that immediately after the flash of the cute cat print, it goes to Sakaki finishing pulling her shorts up and Kaorin looking over with that odd expression on her face. -RannXXV 03:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, 125 episodes would seem more reasonable for an article called "list of azumanga daioh episodes" than 25, but 25 seems an equally reasonable number of episodes to qualify for a list. There are only 22 episodes in the list of Star Trek the animated series episodes. And dare I say that that is more obscure. Here's a question- would the amount of information put up about any given 5 minute segment make that episode a stub? Or would having each dvd release episode with 5 subdividers make that article too long?Lotusduck 17:27, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Hm, I definitely wouldn't say that each individual episode needs its own article either way. If we do a separate article for episodes, I'd put them all in a single other article as a list and set of fairly short synopses. I think even if we did the five-minute episode splits, as long as the synopses weren't describing every single little thing that happens, it wouldn't get too long for a single article. -RannXXV 17:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

That's a good point. That could probably work, with just breif explanations of Japanese culture as seen in the show and explanations of events from the Manga. The article would be titled "Azumanga Daioh Episodes"Lotusduck 19:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

If each episode was also given its own section heading in the Azumanga Daioh Episodes article, that way we could also put a list of just the titles here in the main article and then Wikify them. -RannXXV 04:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

The article would be a list of episodes, so instead of "Azumanga Daioh Episodes" shouldn't you be using "List of Azumanga Daioh Episodes" ? - Squilibob 11:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

That's a good question. This would be unlike most lists of episodes, because it would just be episodes and their descriptions, so it would be less listy in that way. It might be more like an archive than like a list.Lotusduck 19:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

You know what? If we can do something to reverse the precedent that lists must be dry and devoid of information on the things that are listed, lets. Lets call it List of Azumanga Daioh Episodes. Lotusduck 19:19, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, the proper title should be List of Azumanga Daioh episodes ("episodes" not capitalized). -Fadeblue 20:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)