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Jan 8, 2008 9:39 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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The hell...
Mar 31, 2008 10:07 AM
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Is there supposed to be something significant about a dream you have on New Year's Eve in Japanese culture? Or was this show's topic just a random one. Just curious.
Apr 9, 2008 6:44 AM
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It’s said that the first dream you have of the New Year will determine what kind of year you have.
thats why they wont tell Chiyo: she dies, gets low grades, gets even smaller or becomes a criminal gang leader ^^
Apr 20, 2008 2:48 PM
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pietel said:
It’s said that the first dream you have of the New Year will determine what kind of year you have.
thats why they wont tell Chiyo: she dies, gets low grades, gets even smaller or becomes a criminal gang leader ^^


Cool thanks. I didn't know that.
May 20, 2008 7:38 AM
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pietel said:
It’s said that the first dream you have of the New Year will determine what kind of year you have.
thats why they wont tell Chiyo: she dies, gets low grades, gets even smaller or becomes a criminal gang leader ^^


That explains a lot, at least! Thanks! ^_^
May 26, 2008 10:54 AM
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pietel said:
It’s said that the first dream you have of the New Year will determine what kind of year you have.
thats why they wont tell Chiyo: she dies, gets low grades, gets even smaller or becomes a criminal gang leader ^^

Wow...SHE IS AWSOME! T-T
Jun 9, 2008 9:20 AM
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This episode was funny...the moment I saw Sakaki and Kaorin, I knew what the majority of their dreams would contain!
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Jul 22, 2008 6:31 AM
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Gawd that was random.....
Aug 31, 2008 1:30 PM
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I'd say it was less random than a lot of my dreams. At least these deal with their desires and fears.

Okay, that "Why-in-the-heck?" goes on waaaay too long. (It's basically what I was thinking of when I mentioned the overhand passing sequence...)

Hee, it's a Neco Snowneco. (Or a Snowneco Coneco, whichever you prefer.) :)

And here we see the origin of Sakaki's notion that the yellow cat thing is Chiyo's father.

Aww, Kaorin looks so cute when she realizes it was a dream. :) Although I'm not sure she fully realizes it when she sees Sakaki at the shrine...
"Say, Tsukasa, how do you eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?"
Sep 16, 2008 6:03 AM

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pietel said:
It’s said that the first dream you have of the New Year will determine what kind of year you have.
thats why they wont tell Chiyo: she dies, gets low grades, gets even smaller or becomes a criminal gang leader ^^


Ohhh, I get it now! Thanks!

Anyway, I really liked this episode. I thought it was really funny. =D
Sep 16, 2008 6:15 PM

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Azumanga goes into mindfuckery. What the hell just happened.
Oct 5, 2008 1:43 PM

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Should I ignore the fact that creators of this anime are totally wacked or using LSD (or both)?
Oct 7, 2008 12:14 PM
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I think you can safely do that. This, I would say, is the weirdest episode of the series.
"Say, Tsukasa, how do you eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?"
Nov 1, 2008 10:49 PM

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Dec 15, 2008 3:09 AM

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LOL.. Osaka's dream is hilarious.

Apr 12, 2009 1:54 AM
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quite possibly the best episode of any anime ever
May 18, 2009 2:08 AM

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quite similar to most of my dreams. cept that by the time i wake up i don't remember them, and then remember days later.

i liked osaka and sakaki's dream the most. they where really random. but still connecting to their personalities.

(going to bed - might dream something as weird as this or worse, idk might forget when i wake up like always)
Nov 7, 2009 5:48 PM

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Lol wat.. Weird episode.
Nov 23, 2009 7:44 AM

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Haha i loved sakaki's dream :D
Dec 26, 2009 12:27 AM
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lol that white horse part was funny
May 5, 2010 7:23 AM

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You're too sloooow!

But I like paranoias.
Jun 24, 2010 10:50 AM

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(*:
Oh lord.
Aug 8, 2010 7:07 AM

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Nandeyanen!?
Oct 6, 2010 12:45 AM

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WAKAMOTO NORIO VOICING CHIYO'S DAD.

WIN.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Oct 9, 2010 12:44 PM
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What the hell happened here
Oct 28, 2010 8:11 AM

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Well that was disturbing.
Oct 29, 2010 10:46 AM

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We needed Kimura-sensei's dream!!!
Jan 9, 2011 8:49 AM

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Oh god, this fucking episode.

This was hilarious. I love Chiyo's dad. The parts with him were kind of... well, umm... disturbing. But still amazing.
Jan 18, 2011 1:29 AM

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Oh....i see.
Jan 20, 2011 5:58 AM

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Loved Sakaki and Tomo's dream xD and Chiyo as a gang leader xD
May 5, 2011 1:46 PM

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

That......was.....ummmm........different.

Cool....and..urm....funny, but..eehhhh?

Love Chiyo.
May 19, 2011 5:27 PM

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Akaki's dream was the BEST! "Did you say that knowing I was a cat?" ahahaha X'D i laughed really hard at that part 4 some reason! omg and i love their Maid!!! ahahaha she's not very good XD oh yeah and why did Tomo keep saying "Why the heck, why the heck..." haha anway AWESOME EPI!!!
Jun 16, 2011 7:52 PM
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She has manzai comedy on the brain, I think. I guess "Nandeyanen" is a thing tsukkomi typically say when the boke is being baka.

I wonder what Yomi dreamed, but I guess it wasn't important.
"Say, Tsukasa, how do you eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?"
Aug 13, 2011 4:54 PM

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Haha, Chiyo as a gang leader was funny! "I am my own Lord'? Haha
Jan 11, 2012 11:04 PM

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Can someone please explain to me, WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SAW?! I usually love the light-hearted tone of this show, however this episode made no sense whatsoever.
Jan 28, 2012 2:50 PM

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Way too random lol
Feb 6, 2012 3:59 AM

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hahaha .. it funny but still ... random.
Feb 23, 2012 12:04 AM
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What you saw was a series of first dreams of the new year, which are significant in Japanese culture.

Osaka dreams that Chiyo can use her pigtails to fly. She borrows from a daydream of hers that they are also detachable, and adds to it that they're sentient, capable of speech, controlling Chiyo, and if removed incorrectly, kill their wearer. What this means to her, I couldn't say; she definitely has an interest in those pigtails. (There's a strip in the manga where she actually does let her curiosity get the better of her, and lifts one pigtail, presumably to see if the other will move; it doesn't.)

In the waking world, Tomo is often challenging people to things when she has no hope of overcoming them; in her dreams, she's superior to them in their fields (Chiyo's academic prowess and Sakaki's athleticism) and dreams up situations where she bests them.

Sakaki wants a cat, so she dreams up a situation in which she has one... odd though it may be. And yet, her subconscious knows it cannot last: the cat reveals himself to be the father of the person she knows who has the quality she most desires for herself, yet who wants to be like her. The cat then flies off. Another sequence begins with Chiyo and the cat at home, but it ends with the three luckiest things to see in a New Year's dream: a hawk, an eggplant, and Mount Fuji.

Kaori is infatuated with Sakaki, so she dreams up a situation where Sakaki is her rescuer on a white horse when she encounters a group of delinquents, played by some of our main characters. One might wonder if she subconsciously sees them as obstacles, even though she considers them friends in reality, since Sakaki hangs around them more often. And Chiyo is their boss, and perhaps her "chief" obstacle, since Sakaki's around her most often.

Feel free to take the above with a grain of salt; I've never studied dream analysis, so I could be all wet with it.
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May 21, 2012 8:17 PM

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I'm going to have to rewatch this episode the next time I get high.
Jun 28, 2013 8:18 PM

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Why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck why in the heck
NO.
Sep 1, 2014 12:40 AM

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So this is the kind of dreams young maidens have.. fascinating lol.
Oct 18, 2014 12:02 AM

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Really cool episode. I don't know why so many are surprised it's weird considering it was about dreams.
Oct 31, 2014 3:26 AM

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xd the funniest of all was kaori dream!!!
the weirdest of all is sakaki's dream!!!!
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Dec 21, 2014 10:40 PM

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Man, this episode was so weird.
Jan 15, 2015 10:42 PM
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This episode seems abit too slow, especially the "why the heck" but it's good nontheless XD
Aug 22, 2015 8:18 PM

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I didn't like this one. This is the worst in the series so far, it just failed to really...do anything.
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Nov 12, 2015 7:13 AM

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Those dreams, really interesting indeed
I supposed that's what you should be dreaming in your first dream after new year? xD
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Nov 28, 2016 6:37 PM

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This episode broke me. At first my jaw just dropped in surprise in what I'm watching. Then I just laugh, I can't help but laugh on what the fuck I'm watching. It was so absurd that it made me laugh.

I really liked this episode since it made me laugh quite a bit. Tomo's dream made me laugh the most. The ending where she says "Why in the heck" and hit her friend was so freaking funny. It was like sweet catharsis where she can finally express being on the other side of dealing the hits. The way she kept in rubbing it in, my god haha.

Also, who knew New Year dreams were significant in Jap culture. More you know.
Apr 21, 2017 9:15 PM

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What kind of sonic nightmare did I just bear witness to?
Nov 10, 2017 11:44 PM

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That was...a trip. In the style of Azumanga Daioh, it was very understated and visual, leaving a lot of scenes just hanging for viewer interpretation. I'm not entirely sure what I just saw, but it's probably because I've never seen anything like that before. That was certainly unique. Also, this episode once again solidifies that everyone is weird beyond help.
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