Hidamari Sketch: Difference between revisions

But they've all graduated! [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|We're normal now]]!|''customary introduction to the Hidamari Apartments at every year's welcoming party''}}

 

 

Animated in early 2007 by [[Studio Shaft]], based on a [[Yonkoma|4koma]] by [[Ume Aoki]], this series is best known for its slow pacing, focus on artistically inclined characters, and [[Kawaiiko|diabetes-inducing levels]] of [[Kawaisa|cuteness]]. A second season, ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Hidamari Sketch x 365]]'', aired about a year after the first, and a third, ''[[Lucky Charms Title|Hidamari Sketch x]] ☆☆☆ ''("Hoshimittsu"), was aired in the Winter 2010 season. A fourth season, ''Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb'', will air in October 2012.

* [[Every Episode Ending]] - Yuno (or any character who's the center of the episode's story from the ''365'') [[Furo Scene|taking a bath]] while reflecting on that episode's events.

* [[Everyone Can See It]] - [http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8661/hidamari201006goodmood.png Everyone at the museum] gives Hiro and Sae some space.

* [[Executive Veto]] - [[Word of God|Aoki]] wanted one of the members of the [[Four-Girl Ensemble]] to be a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]], but was shot down by the publisher, or at least that's what [[The Other Wiki]] says.

* [[Expy]] - Miyako is just a pointy hat away from being Marisa of [[Touhou]]. Their personalities are as similar as their appearance, to boot.

** New residents have upgraded that to a [[Six-Student Clique]].

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Yuno is Phlegmatic, Miyako is Sanguine, Hiro is Choleric and Sae is Melancholic

* [[Fridge Logic]] - How did that cat lying on Miya while she was sunbathing leave such a perfect tan line of its paw?

** Because the cat left a paw print of dirt on Miyako. That's what yuno pats away after she remarks how dirty Miyako is. The perfection of it may be artistic license.

** Natsume wishes she had this with Sae. Poor girl should be [[Tsundere|more honest with herself]].

** Nori and Nazuna have their moments as well—Nori is very protective of Nazuna, in any case.

* [[Same Clothes, Different Year]] - Yuno's parents showed a photo of her from kindergarten and she has the same crisscrossed Bobby pins in her hair.

* [[School Festival]] - Being in an arts class meant the ''Bunkasai'' is really ''cultural''. Students have to put on display their art pieces and [[School Play]]s. This school festival arc was about Yuno's quest for a topic for the aforementioned art piece.

** The same counts for Natsume's respective crush on Sae. In episode 10 of ''x 365'' is nearly gets spelled out for Sae, for crying out loud!

*** See [[Shipper on Deck]] below. [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|A crush]] indeed.

** And in a similar vein in the first Hoshimittsu TV special, Yoshinoya is horrified when Miyako, sporting a [[Mistaken for Pregnant|noticeably bloated stomach]], tells her she "beat her to it" ("it" in this case being a newly-opened family restaurant, where [[Big Eater]] Miyako rather over-indulged).

* [[Shipper on Deck]] - In one episode of Hoshimittsu, two of Natsume's classmates downright encouraged her to get over her [[Tsundere|contrary responses]] to spend some time with Sae, getting her to walk Sae home (across the street).

* [[Shiritori]] - in an episode the group played this while sitting around watching Miyako's apartment leak.

* [[Shout Out/Anime and Manga|Shout Out]]

{{quote|1. ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]''

2. ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]''

* [[Smashing Watermelons]] - There is no [[Beach Episode]] (only a pool episode) in this series. However, Yuno finds an inflatable watermelon-like beachball in the shed and plays around with it in this manner, "just to get the feeling."

** The Nintendo DS game has a watermelon smashing minigame, where you are blindfolded (the screen blanked out) and have to listen to the other girls' directions to successfully hit it.

* [[Spoiler Opening]] - Mostly averted in ''Hoshimittsu'''s first episode due to the [[Placeholder Titles]], we only get a short clip of Nori and Nazuna.

* [[Sprouting Ears]] - As a one-time thing, Sae sprouts cat ears and tail purely out of surprise/confusion when Yuno's dad angrily points at her and shouts "[[You!|It's YOU]]!" as she walks in. (He mistook her as Yuno's boyfriend based on [[Affair Hair|a stray hair]] he found in Yuno's room—after first asking whether it belonged to a cat.)

'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara''<ref>Translator's note: rose</ref>''...'' (Thoughts of roses growing on Hidamari's roof }}

* [[Tradesnark™]] - sound effects are commonly have the R symbol attached.

* [[Two-Teacher School]] - Sort of averted. There are only two named teachers, Yoshinoya and Mashiko, but there are a lot of unnamed teachers teaching other subjects—Yoshinoya and Mashiko appreantly only teach studio arts.

* [[Unmoving Pattern]] - Part of the art style.

* [[Visible Sigh]]

* [[Visible Silence]]

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Iyashikei]]

[[Category:Seinen]]

[[Category:Manga]]

[[Category:Drawn to This Index]]