In this just-surreal enough take on the "school genre" of manga a group of friends grapple with all sorts of unexpected situations in their daily lives as high schoolers The gags jokes puns & haiku keep this series off-kilter even as the cast grow & change Check it out & meet the new ordinary Meet the Author Keiichi Arawi (1977-) is a professional comic artist & illustrator Originally from Gunma Japan he was raised in the city of Maebashi By the time he was 19 he entered the world of comics drawing short stories for Media Factory&s Comic Flapper (My Neighbor Seki 7 Billion Needles) While his first series Kaze Machi was short-lived it caught the attention of one of the bigger publishers in Japan Kadokawa Publishing His short " Nichijou" won Kadokawa&s 22nd ACE Award for New Artists & by November 2006 Nichijou was regularly serialized in Kadokawa&s flagship magazine Shonen Ace Nichijou has since then sold more than a million copies & has seen cartoon & video game adaptations It was also selected by Guillermo del Toro as one of the top comics out of Japan today for Asahi News& SUGOI Japan project