Azumanga Daioh

There's some talk of Azumanga Daioh floating around /b/ all the time. I thought it might be a good anime, so when I saw the first two episodes of it on TV (dubbed and probably edited) I checked it out. Didn't find it too interesting, though. Not very funny, not really dramatic, no gripping plot. I've seen a few animes and enjoyed them a lot - FLCL, Evangelion, Fushigi Yuugi, Yu Yu Hakusho, Angel Sanctuary, Serial Experiments Lain - but I didn't see any appeal Azumanga Daioh.

My question is, what do you guys think of it, and if you like it, what's so great about it? Did I maybe miss something in the editing or the dubbing? Does it get better later on?

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I seriously think most of the dub aversion is just hearing another voice come out of the character's mouth. I know it's why I still predominantly watch subbed stuff. I'll watch stuff in English sometimes, and think "that was perfectly fine voice acting, but it's not THE SAME voice acting". There isn't anything WRONG, per se, with English Chiyo's voice work, she's just not the exact same voice as the Japanese Chiyo. Yet she is the exact same kind of high-pitched child voice; just in English. I don't think the fans will be happy until they hear a dub that actually completely replicates the sound of the Japanese voice actors (never mind that that's completely impossible for a billion reasons and completely unfair to expect of an actor). You want bad dubs? Check out early anime releases where they rewrote the script, used BAD actors as opposed to good ones. Not that that doesn't go on, in some cases, but Azumanga? That's miles from bad dubbing.