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Manga and anime are two entirely different media. If you want to adapt a manga you sometimes have to change some stuff or it just won't work. This was the case with most gags from Azumanga - what worked pretty well in the manga felt out of place in anime, especially the parts where Azuma tried to show how long a character has been doing something. Copying the same panel 4 times in manga works fine, as you get what he meant and you can just skim ocer the panels and turn the page. Looking at the same scene for a minute wasn't exactly exciting, nor was it funny.
The other things I could complain about is the subpar animation and constant white backgrounds - again, it didn't feel out of place in a 4koma but in the anime it looked just plain stupid. I personally found the voice acting to be not so good but that may be just me.
What I'm trying to say is that you can read manga at your own pace. Whether you'll read all of it in five mniutes or you'll take your sweet time and turn pages lazily is up to you. Anime forces certain pacing and in my opinion it was off in Azumanga's adaptation thus making the anime inferior to manga. Then again, I doubt it would be possible to find a pacing that actually worked. Azuma himself said countless times that Yotsuba&! wouldn't work as an anime for the exact same reason and I couldn't agree more.
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