Walking with Azumanga - Ch. 1

Walking with Azumanga
An Azumanga Daioh/Walking with monsters/Walking with dinosaurs,Walking with Beasts and Walking with Cavemen crossover

Azumanga Daioh © Kiyohiko Azuma
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs,
Walking with Dinosaurs,
Walking with Beasts and
Walking with Cavemen © Tim Haines

Character descriptions:

Character Profiles:

Chiyo Mihama:
Chiyo-chan is only 10 years old. She is a genius who transferred to high school because she was too smart for elementary school. Chiyo is also pretty rich - she has a huge house and a summer home! Chiyo is totally adorable and sincere, so no one resents her for her intelligence and wealth. However, she often has a hard time getting people to take her seriously. Her only other weak spot, it seems, is athleticism.

Kasuga Ayumu (Osaka):
Ayumu, or "Osaka", is a transfer student from Osaka, which is obviously where her nickname comes from. On her very first day of school, Tomo proclaimed that her name would be "Osaka" from then on, and as silly as it was, it stuck. Osaka is a bit, well, spacey. She transferred from her old school in Osaka because she felt she needed a new start, but it didn't really help. She still manages to focus her attention on floating dust particles rather than school work. Not the brightest of the bunch, Osaka is still a sweet girl.

Takino Tomo
Tomo is loud, hyper, and well, insane. She's extremely outgoing, but half of the things that come out of her mouth don't make sense. The trouble-maker of the bunch, Tomo often ignores school rules (at one point she eats lunch an hour early just because she's not supposed to). She's also very competitive, and will challenge anyone to anything, no matter how bizarre it seems. She usually ends up losing though.

Sakaki
Sakaki is the "coolest" member of the group. She is rather quiet and serious, and projects an air of mystery about her. However, underneath her cool exterior, Sakaki secretly loves cute things, especially cats. Unfortunately, they do not like her very much. Sakaki always goes to school in bandages because of cat bites, though everyone else thinks she has been in a fight. Sakaki is also extremely athletic and every club at school wants her to join.

Mizuhara Koyomi (Yomi)
Yomi is has a fairly laid back attitude, though she's not as distant as Sakaki is. She is by far the most mature of the group and the most "normal". She had Tomo are childhood friends, so they know all of eachother's secrets. The only time Yomi gets a little crazy is when she's fighting with Tomo, then she's not afraid to let loose. Her only insecurity seems to be her weight. She is constantly starting strange new diets.

Kagura
Kagura is your typical athletic anime girl. She declares that she's Sakaki's rival, but Sakaki really doesn't seem to care. She's very competitive (like Tomo), and not too bright when it comes to school work. However, she's extremely good at sports and all things physical. She belongs to many athletic clubs at school.

Kaorin
Kaorin adores Sakaki and thinks she's the coolest girl in the school. She is constantly day-dreaming about Sakaki, and even the slightest bit of contact makes her ecstatic. Sakaki, however, remains oblivious to Kaorin's affections. Later on, poor Kaorin ends up by herself in Kimura's class, and appears to be the object of his affections.

Tanizaki Yukari
Yukari is an extremely competitive high school English teacher. She wants to win at everything and is constantly goading her friend and fellow teacher Nyamo into competing with her. Of course, Yukari almost always loses. She also seems to have a bit of a gambling problem, because most of her competitions with Nyamo have a bet involved (which Yukari inevitably loses). Yukari's favourite past-times are drinking and sleeping (and mooching if you want to count that).

Kurosawa Minamo (Nyamo)
Nyamo (as Yukari likes to call her) teaches physical education at the high school. She went to high school with Yukari, and unforunately that means Yukari knows all of her secrets. Nyamo is fairly easy going and all of the students like her, much to Yukari's dismay. She is sort of like a grown up version of Yomi. The only person who can really get her going is her friend Yukari.

Chiyo ChiChi (Chiyo's dad)
Chiyo ChiChi is obviously not actually Chiyo's dad. It's a weird cat thing that appears in Sakaki's dreams, proclaiming to be Chiyo's father. It speaks, it flies, and it has tea with Chiyo. Even though it only appears in Sakaki's dreams, she tends to think of it as real, and mentions it many times throughout the series.

Chapter 1: The Time portal

It’s the start of the Japanese Golden Week and the girls all gathered at Chiyo’s house to work on a special Biology project. Only problem is that they don’t have an idea what kind of project they should do. They keep on discussing on what kind of project they should do.

Yomi: Why don’t we visit a farm and look how the animals live there?

Tomo: Boring!! Lets find some Kappa’s!

Osaka: Yeah!! Kappa, Kappa! Kappa kappa kappa!!

Tomo: That’s the spirit, Osaka!!

Kagura: You believe in Kappa’s, Tomo?! They are just fairy tales. Like unicorns and dragons.

Chiyo: I’m afraid Kagura is right guys.

Tomo and Osaka bring out a sigh of dissapointment.

Tomo: If we keep on going like this, we’ll never get a good grade for Biology.

Everybody sighed again. Then Sakaki gets an idea.

Sakaki: Why don’t we go to Tokyo’s Natural History Museum and make study the course of evolution of life on earth.

Chiyo: That’s a great idea, Sakaki-san.

Tomo: Yeah! I agree with Chiyo-chan on this one. Dinosaurs are cool.

Osaka: Oooohhh! Brontosaurus!! Tyrannosaurus!! Plesiosaurus!!

Yomi: Why just dinosaurs, while we can look at all the prehistoric creatures. From the first single-celled organisms to the rise of mankind. That way we can make a report on how life on earth developed.

Sakaki: *Shows her interests in Yomi’s plan*

Kagura: Yeah! Lets see where Tomo evolved from!  

Tomo: What’s that, Kagura!? Are you looking for trouble?

Kagura: Make my day, Tomo!!

Yomi: Stop it, you guys!! There’s no need to fight over this.

Before they knew it, a strange hole appeared in the wall behind Chiyo and started to suck the girls into it’s uncontrolled torrent.

Chiyo: What’s happening!! Aaaaahhh!!

Osaka: I’ve got you!!

Then Sakaki tries to keep a hold on Osaka. Kaorin tried to help Sakaki. Yomi helps Kaorin, Tomo helps Yomi and Kagura helps Tomo. But no matter how hard the girls pull to save themselves from the hole, it wasn’t enough and and got all sucked into it.

Chiyo, Osaka, Sakaki, Kaorin, Yomi, Tomo and Kagura: Aaaaaaahhhhh!!

Only a few moments later, the girls fell into an ancient ocean and when regaining consisousness, they discovered that they were wearing their diving suits which they wore on their trip in Okinawa.

Tomo: Where are we?! And why are we wearing our divingsuits?

Just then, a large orange catlike thing appeared.

Osaka: Hey look! It’s Chiyo’s dad. What are you doing here?

Chiyo dad: I’m guiding you girls on a wonderfull trip through time to show you the evolution of life.

Chiyo: But dad…We were going to a museum to do so.

Chiyo dad: Why looking at a bunch of dusty old fossils, while you can see the animals in real life.

Yomi: What?! We’re back in time?

Kagura: How far back in time?!

Chiyo Dad: Ooooohhhh I took an easy point in life’s history. Only a mere 540 million years back into the past.

Osaka: 540 million years?

Sakaki: Huh?! That far?

Kaorin: I’m scared, Sakaki-san.

Tomo: Incredible! Why look at old fossils, when we have to look at one every day in class.

Way too familiar voice: I heard that, Miss Takino!!

Tomo: Uh oh!!

Then Yukari and Kurosawa both appeared, with Yukari in a really bad temper.

Chiyo: You brought our teachers along with us, dad?

Chiyo Dad: Of course. How else can I make them believe your project.

Tomo: It’s not what you think, Yukari Sensei!! Eh he he he!!

Yukari grabs Tomo in a headlock and gives her some really big noogeys over the head.

Kurosawa: Hey Yukari!! Is that really nessesary?

Yukari: Mind your own bussiness, Nyamo! No one calls me an old fossil and gets away with it!!

Chiyo Dad: Are you girls ready for the trip of a life time?

Chiyo, Osaka, Sakaki, Kaorin, Yomi, Tomo, Kagura, Yukari and Kurosawa: Hai!!

Chiyo: Then let’s start with the first period: The Cambrian.

What kind of strange animals will the Azumanga Girls find on their trip through the highways of space and time? Read it next time in Walking with Azumanga Girls.