Nichijou (日常,
Nichijō?, lit.
Regular Life) is a Japanese comedy manga by Keiichi Arawi. The manga began serialization in the December 2006 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine
Shōnen Ace, and was also serialized in
Comptiq between the March 2007 and July 2008 issues. An anime adaptation by Kyoto Animation began airing in Japan in April 2011. A PlayStation Portable game by Kadokawa Games will be released in July 2011.
The series follows the lives of a group of high school students and their school. Various oddities and absurdities abound, such as a robotic girl made by an eight-year-old scientist, a boy who rides a goat to school with his butler, a girl who can procure various guns out of thin air, a cat that can speak and a principal who has wrestled a deer. Despite its bizarre settings and characters, the students still lead normal lives.
Nichijou began as a manga series written and illustrated by Keiichi Arawi. Originally, the manga was meant to be a short, stand-alone series which was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's
Shōnen Ace magazine between the May and October 2006 issues. Starting with the December 2006 issue, the manga began regular serialization in
Shōnen Ace, and was also serialized in Kadokawa's
Comptiq magazine between the March 2007 and July 2008 issues. The first
tankōbon volume was released in Japan on July 26, 2007; as of April 2011, six volumes have been published. The manga uses a combination of normal comic format and four-panel comic strips.
An anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara began airing in Japan on April 3, 2011 and is also being simulcasted by Crunchyroll under the name
My Ordinary Life. Prior to the airing of the anime series, an original video animation episode, titled "Nichijou Episode 0", shipped with the sixth manga volume on March 12, 2011. The opening theme song is "Hyadain no Kakakata Kataomoi - C" (ヒャダインのカカカタ☆カタオモイ-C,
lit. "The O-o-o-o☆one-sided Love of Hyadain - C"?) by Hyadain while the ending theme song is "Zzz" by Sayaka Sasaki.
A PlayStation Portable video game titled
Nichijou: Uchuujin (日常（宇宙人）?) developed by Kadokawa Games will be released on July 28, 2011.
Source:
Wikipedia 
