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Kiyohiko Azuma's Azumanga Daioh is a Japanese comedic manga. From 1999 to 2002, MediaWorks serialized it in the shnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh, and it was compiled in four bound volumes. In May 2009, three additional chapters of Azumanga Daioh: Supplementary Lessons began publishing in Shogakukan's Monthly Shnen Sunday to commemorate the manga's tenth anniversary. The manga follows the life of a group of girls during their three years as high school classmates in a series of vertical four-panel comic strips known as yonkoma. Kiyohiko Azuma has been lauded as a "master of the four-panel form" for both his art style and comic timing, and the series has been praised for its humor driven by oddball characters. It was converted into an anime television series by J.C.Staff called Azumanga Daioh: the Animation, which ran from April 8, 2002 to September 30, 2002. It was broadcast in five-minute chunks on the TV Tokyo network and AT-X every weekday, then repeated as a 25-minute compilation the following weekend, totaling 130 five-minute segments in 26 episodes. Starchild Records released the compilation episodes on DVD and Universal Media Discs; the five-minute portions are identified by their unique names. Three Azumanga Daioh video games were released, as well as several soundtrack CDs.