Welcome! This wiki is a collaboratively made compendium of the Nichijou series, about the creator, anime, manga, magazines, soundtracks, and character songs. There are articles that document the main and side content, as well as related fan work. Users can read these articles to learn more about this wonderful series!
You can edit anything that you'd like, and check the Rules for the wiki and editor standards. The articles and templates were made with lots of effort from many different people since 2011, some not native English speakers. Some editors like to regularly check the site and maintain the quality of the site and its pages, with some larger projects on Nichijou Wiki:NichiProjects. This site is hosted by Fandom, so you can check the Fandom Community Guidelines to ensure the content is suitable for use.
Admin Users Chart
Jaziecult is the current bureaucrat. Here is a chart of the admins who managed the site, ordered by when they became an admin, with their last activity date:
| User | Status | Gained | Last Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ditachan | Inactive | April 29, 2011 | February 24, 2012 |
| Excalibur777 | Retired | July 6, 2011 | July 27, 2014 |
| GangBunTu | Inactive | January 13, 2014 | February 6, 2016 |
| Masternachos | Inactive | August 20, 2015 | February 13, 2020 |
| Okaminarutofan999 | Inactive | October 19, 2016 | January 25, 2017 |
| JazieCult | Active | December 15, 2024 | Present |
| 11equalsfish | Active | 18 January 2025 | Present |
Users of Nichijou Wiki
Brief History of Notable Users
JazieCult mentioned a new generation, and with their notice said that they want to handle the wiki. There are new users coming around, so this is a tribute to the work people from the past have done. I'm 11equalsfish, an editor here from 2017. I'm back cleaning up general thing and dealing with technical stuff in the visual style for Nichijou and CITY Wiki. I wasn't here for all of it, but here is my understanding of the past.
Since 2011, it's been 13 years now. There are so many editors that have visited, who wanted to share neat notes of their favourite characters. There's a process where the wiki went through different stages, as the site housed more content and became more complex. There were those people who started, making key pages about characters and episodes. Then, there were people who set up the site's code and templates, making it organised, presentable and interactive. After, people continued on the articles, writing the content, pictures, side content and details; filling out interesting trivia into niche details. The most dedicated editors left, after their projects of thorough documentation were complete, on every bit of obscure and side content. The site had brief spots of activity during 2020-24, but suddenly we're back after the new announcements.
There've been many users who did lots of editing in the past. These people are from different countries, such as Indonesia, Singapore, America, and Australia. They have moved on in their lives over the years to new activities and practices, and I wish them the best. Some notable editors are: Okaminarutofan999, Feedbox97 (made the episode template), Ahiijny, Nekogi29, Kirbyddd, Molgaboi, many others who focused on specific pages and functionality that characterize the Nichijou Wiki and make it unique. Mrcrypted created the first welcome page and the character infobox, which all others are based on.
So, after some digging through blogs, histories and the adoption request, here is what I've found. Ditachan was first, and fittingly is from Indonesia, but she left after a few months. She called this a hibernation, and didn't respond after her brief return when other people were asking for user permissions. They did notably make the wiki logo and background, that was used many years since.
Excalibur777 adopted the site in 2011 becoming a bureaucrat and made many edits, then made GangBunTu an admin, saying that they agree with their direction in leading the site. Gangbuntu did a lot of important code for the music templates, but was not a bureaucrat. Finally Masternachos in 2015 adopted the site, with the approval and checking in of others. Kirbyddd thought about adopting it then, but he went to make City Wiki.
We're not the first people to come to a wiki with no bureaucrat. The earlier people also said they were beginners, or didn't know what they were doing. I feel a kindship towards them. Masternachos even said they forgot about there was a preview button in editing. Maybe we have a good chance of keeping things stable.
Thank You to Editors!
☆ User:Foxy971 has added a large amount of etymology sections and name kanji to many different character articles.
☆ January310 has created the articles for the Himekuri CD, Nichijou Daihyakka and Nichijou no Natsuyasumi. They have cleaned up several articles, added many pictures from Nichijou media and for Daiku and Sekiguchi, and made their appearances page. Added translations from the Japanese sources.
☆ User:Kitchentowelnichijousaviour aka "slurmpfflurmpf" has written lots of detailed information on the character pages, especially the Makoto Sakurai page. So far, made two of the biggest single edits on an article in the year!
☆ HailedAcorn has made a page called Anime Failure, which details the poor sales of the Anime. This has been a topic of discussion for years, so this can be very useful and interesting.
Viewpoint on Nichijou and its creators
Anime and pop culture has become much different. Anime used to be a niche interest, and it's become more mainstream. Nichijou hasn't been the most successful commercially, but it has an enduring appeal after it's release. There are scenes of absurd slapstick and quiet kindness that have become admired in the anime community. It's has a simple broad appeal and silly charm.
The manga and Kyoto Ani have seen many changes in style, and in history. The manga has ended, but has returned because of the enduring popularity of Nichijou, with it's cute and graceful style. Kyoto Ani has made had a constant stream of high quality work, some of which have become staples of their genre. It is a testament to their skill that Nichijou is as finely crafted and silly as it was a decade ago. It is a rare species, the same goes for the studio which has created and maintained a standard of healthy work environment in the midst of the overworked and underpaid anime industry.
The Kyoto Animation arson murder incident was a shocking and terrifying event to see happen. 18 July 2019 has been one of the most deadly massacres in modern Japan. It was an inconsolable and senseless tragedy, committed by a misguided and mentally unwell man. This has impacted lifetimes with immeasurable grief and loss, may the 36 people who lost their lives rest in piece, and those who survived persevere from this chaos and find some normalcy. The studio has had more security implemented, and so let this permanent scar be a reminder to their pain and what we hold dear.
Nichijou has become a cult classic in the years, and many people wanted a season 2. With the announcement of 'City the Animation', premiering in 2025, and to be directed by Taichi Ishidate, the assissistant director of Nichijou, this may be somewhat fulfilled. There are many newer artists who will step up to handle complex animation sequence, so the talent of the studio will continue forward into the future.
Late 2024 is a Return of Activity
The Nichijou manga ended in 2015, but has begun serialization again in 2021, the author citing the enduring love for the series as a factor. Kyoto Ani has announced in 2024 an anime series of the spiritual successor "CITY". The world has changed a lot in this decade, but we hope that the new media will be as fantastic as it was in the past, and that new people will enjoy this uniquely detailed, and silly comedic style.
The site has become quieter since the beginning of the current decade, 2020, because the series ended for a while. There have been limited time Nichijou cafes and some advertisements by the author featuring his characters, and this presence is felt more in Japan. This foreign site has taken things slowly since then, but some very dedicated editors have stuck around longer than most to document things with great interest. Thank you all for helping to make this series more accessible to others.
Deprecated Content
There have been experiments that weren't completed, and Fandom policy changes that required the removal of some features. Here is a record, for anyone who is looking for this content.
Gangbuntu
MP3 Player and Subtitle Lyrics
This short blog of a few months is for his general life thoughts and hobby interests in 2014, mostly about his projects with software about anime and games. Android emulation, translation of an extra from Hinamatsuri, an except about "Minmei Publishing". He writes about his development of an MP3 player that can create and show lyric subtitles, and OCR program for Japanese. He had made some lyrics, and noted about this process on the page Yukko-Mio-Mai no Sucharaka San-nin Shuu (Song), however the lyrics file downloads are now down.
Quick Stats Wiki Views Graph, 2014
This statistic is available for admin, but only for the last 7 days (more info might be provided upon request). Updating the information (manually) on daily basis definitely not the ideal way to go.
GangBunTu's rambling (Click to Expand)
I'm thinking about creating a bot that would run on daily basis and storing the info in this wikia.
Only then it would make sense to show this stat at the main page.
- I've created a javascript (locally) to scrape quick stats and displaying it in any page using
{{QStats}}However, I've decided not to implement it in this wikia. The mechanism uses invisible GET, bloating viewcount. A tool to display viewcount is bloating view count? That's hypocrisy.
Disclaimer: I have no experience in creating bot & I don't know whether this kind of bot is permissible under wikia policy; after all, if the info supposed to be free for all, why limit the access to admin?
- Just know about robots.txt. Getting wikistats is part of disallowed activities.
- Bot deployment requires consent of this wikia community.
Okaminarutofan999's Graphic Styling with Wikia CSS
See this thread and MediaWiki:Wikia.css for their process. They added a graphic style of blue gradients and glows to the navigation bar, scrollbar, links and mouse cursor. Currently, only the scrollbar remains. The code is copied onto the Common.css talk page.
Prototype and Ideas
Sakamoto Mouse Cursor
