https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgLdBzuFoI
Why is Azumanga so influtential? It's a mid comedy

>>280665607 (OP)
1) It was not mid. (The first few episodes don't get the timing right, I admit.
2) It broke ground. The switch from Ink and paint to CG was not as smooth as you would think. Gainax proved they could do it well with FLCL, but they had Anno and Imaishi on board. Everybody else had to figure out how to modernize and animating sakuga on computers wasn't ready for a lot of artists, so the industry took it back to basics, and Azumanga Daioh is a prime example. Simple animation for simple stories that gradually got more and more ambitious as the industry regained its' footing.

>>280667131
3) It pioneered a genre. Cute Girls Doing Cute Things. Not a novel concept. Anime had been doing adaptations of girls novels since Anne of Green Gables and Little women. But Azumanga Daioh made a formula. It developed the Archetypes. Everything we think of in CGDCT started here, as formulaic as an early 2000s boy band. You have the cute one, the day dreamer, the strong silent type, the spaz, the wet blanket, the tomboy and the adults who can be fittingly responsible or ironically childish. Just about every SOL since then has had a selection or mix of these archetypes.

4) It had dreams. People take for granted how much of the show is enveloped in fantasy. The girls' imaginations were running wild, and we were always along for the ride. Osaka might think about Bruce Lee and imagine a blue dude racking up kung-fu kicks. Sakaki would think about herself in pig twin tails and be completely embarrassed when compared to the girlish Chiyo-chan.

>>280667131
you're right, it was ahead of its time

I just want to say some twitter retards last month were crying about the pedo teacher (heckin' problematic!!! he's the worst part of the show!). Some were just realizing that he's the origin of the word "waifu"

>>280667285

5) It had heart. Azumanga Daioh had the girls graduate. In that event, they discoverd the soul of modern SOL. Things stay the same, and then they change. The graduation of the girls is one of the defining moments of modern anime. The story could have been indefinite. South park, Peanuts, sitcom stuff. Just keep them in the same status forever. Azumanga brought in the real dilemma that phases in your life come to an end and painted it with a thousand emotions for girls who weren't really doing anything but living out their lives.

6) It perfected the whole thing right out of the gate. Not every CGDCT take every element from Azumanga Daioh, but all of them draw from the same well. It's the blueprint for every series in the genre, and affected the medium as a whole in a tidal shift. I tell you with a straight face it was the most influential anime of the 00 decade.

7) Kagura is mai waifu.

>>280667287
I think it was right on time.

>>280667320
I call those assholes what they are. Book burners. Every censorship-minded, agenda driven cunt in the world should not escape the stigma of their end goal, and where their supposed good intentions lead.

>>280665607 (OP)
I hope they make a final version of that animation.