At the convenience store, they sat on the curb—six mismatched girls sharing a melted ice cream bar because Tomo had dropped hers and then claimed dibs on everyone else's.
That emotional whiplash—from a cat biting a girl's face to silent tears at a graduation ceremony—is why the show has endured. It teaches you to love the mundane because the mundane is all we really have. Azumanga Daioh
They walked toward the station, the sun bleeding orange across the sky. Tomorrow there would be another bell. Another test. Another argument about nothing. At the convenience store, they sat on the