Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.

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Studios

• Bandai Entertainment
• Rakuonsha
• Kadokawa Shoten
• Movic
• Lantis
• Kyoto Animation
• KLOCKWORX
• Animation Do
• Kadokawa Pictures Japan

Staff

• Yoshiji Kigami — Episode Director (eps 6, 14, 20), Storyboard (eps 6, 14, 20)
• Youta Tsuruoka — Sound Director
• Tatsuya Ishihara — Director, Episode Director (OP1, OP2, ep 1), Storyboard (OP1, OP2, ep 1)
• Yasuhiro Takemoto — Episode Director (eps 8, 16, 22, 25), Key Animation (eps 2, 8), Storyboard (eps 8, 16, 22, 25)
• Shouko Ikeda — Animation Director (eps 7, 12, 15, 24)
• Youko Hatta — Planning
• Masaya Makita — Key Animation (OP1, OP2, eps 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 18, 19)
• Ryouhei Muta — Key Animation (OP1, OP2, eps 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 21)
• Naoko Yamada — Episode Director (eps 5, 17), Key Animation (ED1), Storyboard (eps 5, 17)
• Yukiko Horiguchi — Animation Director (eps 2, 5, 17), Key Animation (OP1, OP2, ep 17)
• Mutsuo Shinohara — Background Art (eps 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 20, 23, 24)
• Yuuji Nomi — Music
• Futoshi Nishiya — Animation Director (OP1, OP2, ED1, ED2, eps 1, 26), Character Design
• Hiromi Konno — Theme Song Performance (ED5)
• Minoru Shiraishi — Theme Song Performance (ED)
• Keiichi Arawi — Original Creator