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->Yamabuki High School's arts program attracts students from all around the country. The Hidamari Apartments is a small apartment block across from Yamabuki High School, infamous for housing weirdos from the arts program.
-->''--customary introduction to the Hidamari Apartments at every year's welcoming party''

''Hidamari Sketch'' is a SliceOfLife anime series centering on a young girl named Yuno who is accepted into the Yamabuki High art school and moves into a small apartment building nearby. She makes friends with other girls living in the building, and [[MoeMoe cute things happen]].

Animated by StudioShaft based on a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] by Ume Aoki, this series is best known for its slow pacing, focus on artistically inclined characters, and [[MemeticMutation nutbladder-busting]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes levels of cuteness]]. A second season, ''Hidamari Sketch x 365'' aired about a year after the first, and a third, ''[[LuckyCharmsTitle Hidamari Sketch]] x ☆☆☆ ''("Hoshi Mittsu"), has recently been green-lit.

The manga is also known as ''Sunshine Sketch''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
*AdaptationDistillation or AdaptationDecay - Depends on who you ask. Certain gags were removed in the anime (Yuno and Miyako being drunk) or changed. (Yoshinoya changing her outfits in the "Brutus" episode; in the manga, she actually suggested become a nude model.) On the other hand, the introduction of Chika and Misato added flavour to the anime.
*AdaptationExpansion - When we compare ''HidamariSketch'' and ''LuckyStar'', both {{yonkoma}} started to be serialized in early 2004, we can see that HidamariSketch has much ''fewer'' story arcs than the other when animated (also at the same time, first half of 2007) due to Aoki's style (pretty much a story arc a month). StudioShaft has inserted a large amount of content in the two seasons of anime, most importantly:
**Animating Chika, Sae's sister who was only referenced and unnamed in the manga.
**Essentially played up the RomanticTwoGirlFriendship between Hiro and Sae.
* AdultChild - Yoshinoya. She lives with her parents, has outright declared she's always 17, and is freaked out at the prospect that [[OlderThanTheyLook Yuno]] might mature ''earlier'' than her.
** Yuno's parents didn't look ''that'' mature either.
* AffairHair - The incident described in HyperspaceEars, below, happened because Yuno's father found a hair (of Sae's colour) in Yuno's room, something he construed to be Yuno having slept with Sae.
* AlienAbduction - Yuno gets [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cit_hidamari_sketch_-_Yuno_was_a_student_for_fourteen_years_-_When_she_was_young_she_watched_the_roof_and_she_said_to_dad_I_want_to_go_to_the_roof_daddy_-_Dad_said_No_You_will_be_ABDUCTED_BY_ALIENS.jpg abducted]] shortly after [[SittingOnTheRoof relaxing on the school roof]]... but it was AllJustADream.
* AnachronicOrder - Even though it's a simple SliceOfLife series, its episodes don't take place in chronological order. Luckily, each episode gives a calendar date in its title. And even then, it's not that easy putting the anime canon in order, when you consider that there are 27 episodes, split 12-2-13, and a DVD-only episode. Some episodes are even split into two segments, dealing with events which could be months apart. Fortunately, the manga is somewhat in order. For the sake of those wondering, [[http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj64/flamefrost/1231217929860.png here is the list of season 1 and 2 episodes in chronological order.]] Notice that the series ended the day before it began!
* AscendedExtra - Chika, Sae's younger sister. She was only referenced to and wasn't given a name in manga, but her role was greatly expanded in the anime, especially in [[OddlyNamedSequel X365]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny - Subverted. Miyako has all behavioural traits of ADHD, yet it didn't seem to affect her functioning; she appeared to be the best performer of the FourGirlEnsemble, both artistically and academically. Attention deficit and hyperactivity, yes; disorder, quite not.
* AuthorAvatar - The ''Hidamari Sketch'' mangaka manifests as a [[{{Pokemon}} Metapod-lookalike]] named Ume-sensei, never interacting with the real characters or influencing the story in any way.
*BadAssOldGuy - Despite having a noticeable case of shakers, the Principal, is certainly agile in all kinds of physical activity.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits - The OP for the first season shows Yuno walking in on Sae on top of Hiro in a suggestive manner, but the part of the manga where it comes from (sadly, a NotWhatItLooksLike moment) isn't adapted until the second season. (See also MythologyGag for the more minor details.)
* BerserkButton - Hiro's weight and/or figure. Miyako pushes this button fairly often. Also, don't flip Yuno's eggs, or say Sae is in any way masculine.
* BigEater - Miyako, if given the chance.
* BlankWhiteEyes - Yuno does that all the time; while Hiro does that when the paranormal is involved.
* BlindWithoutEm - Sae mistakes a soup ladle for a ''clam'' from one foot away.
* BoardingSchool - Strange variation. Certainly Yamabuki is not one, but as discussed in the page quote, the main characters came from different places around the country so they need to rent apartments-- and Hidamari Apartments, our point of focus, is one of them.
* BookDumb - Subverted. Miyako may look as if she has [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny ADHD]], but her junior high grades were so good that she exempted the academic portion of the Yamabuki High entrance exams. Just that others would rather believe her "I came in through the back door" joke.
**The English exam arc in manga volume 4 probably imply Yuno is actually the book dumb person. She failed the English exam since she spent too much time preparing for math, but her math wasn't any good either...
* CannotSpitItOut - Sae has trouble telling her little sister Chika how much she really cares for her.
** Likewise, Natsume [[{{Tsundere}} is sending Sae mostly confusing messages]], although it's admittedly quite hard to get through Sae's [[SelectiveObliviousness obliviousness]].
* ChalkOutline - Played with. Miyako drew a chalk outline of Hiro at where she passed out, despite Sae's objection over taste. Sae ended up ''envying'' Miyako though, as Miyako drew the outline in the style of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani]]...
* ChasteTeens - None of the girls show any real interest in boys (or girls, for that matter). Hiro [[spoiler:passes on a rejection letter to the one boy who sends her a love letter]]. Sae was apparently a hit [[SchoolgirlLesbians with the ladies]] back in junior high, but doesn't seem to have ever actually been in a relationship. {{Ship Tease}}s aside, Sae and Hiro's relationship also stays purely platonic.
* CheerfulChild - Although overage, Yuno fits in this trope by all counts without going into {{Pollyanna}}.
* ChristmasEpisode
* ClassTrip
* CloudCuckooLander - Miyako is sometimes like this, while Yoshinoya practically lives there.
** Yuno can be like that sometimes, when she gets her [[CutenessProximity cute-gasm]].
* ColorFailure - Sae and Hiro when Yuno and Miyako first mention that Yoshinoya is their teacher.
* ComingOfAgeStory - The main premise of this story, if not particular clear to some, is on Yuno's wanting to be mature. It is kind of lampshaded when she was overjoyed on any suggestions that she has matured whatever small bit.
* CoolBigSis - Subverted. Sae's CannotSpitItOut towards Chika is mainly due to she wanted to play a CoolBigSis front even she isn't. {{Lampshade}}d, when she repeated the entire thing with ''Yuno'', and failed miserably.
* CornerOfWoe - The FourGirlEnsemble was having a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chankonabe chankonabe]]--or sumo wrestler's hot pot--prepared mainly by the weight-conscious cook Hiro. And then Miyako and Sae uttered lines usually reserved for sumo wrestlers--likely to be incidental-- and prompted Hiro herself to leave her apartment and sit in the CornerOfWoe in the backyard.
** Yuno almost walked off into a ''garbage pile of woe'' in one chapter upon discovering that someone she thought as more talented than her was forced to leave school while she was still there. The anime handled this scene somewhat differently, by only giving Yuno a spotlight.
* CosplayOtakuGirl - Yoshinoya-sensei uses her {{cosplay}} tendencies for everything from modeling for her art class to making personalized greeting cards. She is very offended, however, at the suggestion that this is cosplay.
* CranialEruption - Especially when Miyako annoys Hiro.
* CreepyTwins - [[http://media.onemanga.com/mangas/00002702/000190072/03.jpg To Yuno at least.]]
* [[HeartwarmingMoment/{{Anime}} Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Miyako, Miyako, Miyako.
**Season 1: Miyako helps a heavily feverish and half-unconscious Yuno into a fresh set of pajamas (and finds a mole).
**Season 2: Sae apologizes to Hiro after the two spend most of the episode avoiding one-another like the plague, and Hiro collapses into Sae's arms in tears. Again, Miyako throwing Sae a pillow to help her cushion Hiro falling in her lap makes it another insanely sweet scene.
* CulturalCrossReference: Miyako likes to invoke strange English references, especially in the anime. Even in manga, she invoked GiftOfTheMagi in the Christmas party--to the puzzlement of our other very Japanese tenants.
* CurtainClothing - In the FestivalEpisode, [[BigEater Miyako]] wanted a yukata so she could get free sweets but didn't have one, so she thought of using the curtains to make a "modern" one. She ended up borrowing one of Hiro's, though and HilarityEnsues.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - With the expection of the Principal who is EyesAlwaysShut, all characters are like that: Yuno is brown, Miyako is yellow, Sae is blue, Hiro is pink, Yoshinoya is green, and the landlady is brown, Chika is light purple, Natsume is blue-green, Nori is blue gray and Nazuna is blond.
* CutenessProximity - Yuno's love for cute things is already [[AllThereInTheManual listed in the character sketches]], but this girl certainly has some weird reactions towards cute things--such as petting ''paint brushes'' after thinking about the animals their bristles came from.
* DeadpanSnarker - Nori.
* DisturbedDoves - More of the ''disturbing'' kind, actually
* EarCleaning - When Hiro, Miyako, and Yuno walk in on Sae's room and find her asleep on the floor with a note on the progress of the story she's writing, Hiro kneels down and puts Sae's head on her lap. Yuno, charmed at [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Hiro and Sae]]'s intimacy, runs over and offers Hiro an ear pick, to Hiro's confusion.
* EarlyBirdCameo - The two new tenents of the Hidamari Apartments, Nori and Nazuna, were de-{{faceless masses}}-ized among other admission exam takers in the second season OVA.
* EarWorm - OP of both seasons.
** First season: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jznc645X8Nc Nanka ii kimochi nareba ii kanji...]]
** Second season: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acXg_-fN9ZQ&fmt=22 HAAATEHATEHATEHATEHAAATENAAAAAA NOOOBINOBINOBINOBINONBIRITOOO]]
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: When others build snowmen, Miyako builds snow-moais.
* EngagingConversation - In one of the [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]], Hiro offers to make some soup for Miyako, who is feeling nauseous from the [[LemonWackyHello alcohol she accidentally drank]]. Miyako and Sae respond with dual VisibleSilence followed by dual "Will you marry me?" The title of that {{yonkoma}} is "[[ShipTease Sae said it while sober]]".
* EveryEpisodeEnding - Yuno (or any character who's the center of the episode's story from the second season) got a FuroScene reflecting that episode's events at the end of each episode.
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs - Yuno's X-shaped hair clips are her defining physical characteristics.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep - No name have been given for the Principal or the {{Landlady}}; they were just referred by their occupations.
* ExecutiveVeto - WordOfGod: she wanted one of the FourGirlEnsemble to be a WholesomeCrossdresser, but was shot down by the publisher, or at least that's what TheOtherWiki says.
* FacelessMasses
* {{Fanservice}} - Fairly mild in the TV seasons proper--but then there are the DVD specials.
* FestivalEpisode
* FeverDreamEpisode - Yuno had one. Most of the episode is spent in dream, but there are still scenes in the "real world" from time to time. Oddly, some of Yuno's dreams turn out to be remarkably accurate to what happens at school that day. The episode also contains a [[HeartwarmingMoment/{{Anime}} very sweet scene, when Miyako decides to help out Yuno]].
* FirstNameBasis - Subverted; Miyako was just being a GenkiGirl when she asked Yuno to call her on a first-name basis, and settled on Yuno's nickname.
* FourGirlEnsemble
**New residents upgraded that to SixStudentClique.
* FragileFlower - Nazuna, one of the new residents of the Apartments. Her lack of confidence is even worse than Yuno's.
* FridgeLogic - How did that cat lying on Miya while she was sunbathing leave such a perfect tan line of its paw?
* FuroScene - OnceAnEpisode we get to see Yuno reflecting on the show's events in the bath. The main cast also once attends a public bath together, which is typically used for the purpose of comedy and not so much for {{fanservice}}.
* GeniusDitz - Miyako may look like a GenkiGirl with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny ADHD]], commonly subjected by the [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snarking]] by Sae, but her artistic abilities is certainly levels above the other members of the FourGirlEnsemble, and also subverted the BookDumb trope.
** She needs a spell checker, though.
* GenericCuteness - Hiro worries a lot about her weight, but any differences in body frame she may have aren't really that noticeable. On the other end, Sae is supposed to be TallDarkAndBishoujo. Yuno is still adorable, though.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear - Yuno was deeply embarrassed when a locker room prank exposed her kitten-print underwear. OK, she doesn't wear those every day...
* GratuitousEnglish - Miyako spells out "LOVE AND PIECE" in the snow and gets corrected later by Hiro; she also likes peppering her speech with English, even up to MotherGoose references. See also {{Motifs}}, below. The labels are usually right, except... "Hidamari Sckech"?
**Volume 4 has an example that showed both Miyako and the mangaka's gratuitious English. Miyako said ''grammar'' is the comparative of ''gram''-- gram, grammar, ''gramax''!
* GrowingUpSucks - After the girls start watching part of the new version of ''Lovely Chocolat'', their old favorite TV show, Sae notes that they're [[FanHater still watching it]] even though they're in high school. (and are therefore ''supposed'' to be out of the FleetingDemographic). Upon hearing this, Hiro's hair falls flat, and she laments about how growing up is no fun.
* HighSchoolRocks - A lot!
* HollywoodPudgy - Hiro is excessive [[BerserkButton nervous]] over her weight and figure, but that's something not visible to us.
* HollywoodToneDeaf - Yuno shows signs of this, except only for one song. Miyako is the ''inverse'' of this, being able to replicate Yuno's off-key singing ''perfectly''.
* HugeSchoolgirl - The opening of the first anime season has the girls running together and Miyako is the tallest of the bunch, beating even the willowy Sae by a small margin. This is seldom addressed in any version, though, except in comparison with Yuno who is at the other extreme.
* HyperspaceEars - 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 "[[YouExclamation It's YOU]]!" as she walks in. (He mistook her as Yuno's boyfriend based on [[AffairHair a stray hair]] he found in Yuno's room--after first asking whether it belonged to a cat.)
* [[{{Ptitler481kwk9}} I promised myself I wouldn't cry]] - Appreantly that's why Natsume became such a {{tsundere}} towards Sae, according to the Natsume special in Volume 4.
* IdiotsCannotCatchColds - Miyako invokes this (referring to herself) when Yuno falls ill, and even when she was in the admission interview of this very prestigious high school.
**{{Lampshade}}ed in the FeverDreamEpisode (and the corresponding manga chapter), when all the ''eight'' classmates around Miyako were struck down with the 'flu. Although, to be fair, Miyako is more a GeniusDitz than a real idiot.
* ImageSong - Both seasons, though much more extensively in the second season. Even the Principal gets to sing. Beyond that, [[AuthorAvatar the bug that lives on their roof (Ume-sensei)]] has an album!
* IntertwinedFingers
* InVinoVeritas - Yuno. [[CheerfulChild Cheerful Teen]] into straight-faced DeadpanSnarker (?) ranting ItJustBugsMe about various {{Nonindicative Name}}s when [[LemonWackyHello drunk]].
* ItJustBugsMe - (manga) Yuno starts ranting about various misnomers (like [[NonindicativeName "goldfish"]]) when drunk.
* KaraokeBox - Needs some special mentioning since the FourGirlEnsemble went there because Hiro found she can burn calories by singing. Also, Yoshinoya loves the place.
* LemonWackyHello - Hiro wrongly bought alcoholic juice at Yuno and Miyako's welcoming party, and the two freshmen got drunk. While Miyako is still [[CloudCuckooLander herself]], the generally innocent Yuno started ranting about [[ItJustBugsMe It Just Bugs Me's]]...and Sae uttering an EngagingConversation even she [[ShipTease was not drunk]]...
* [[HoYay/{{Anime}} Les Yay]] - Of course there's the teasing between Hiro and Sae, but Miyako tends to take her flirting with Yuno pretty far at times.
** Hiro X Sae:
***See the picture at EngagingConversation.
***See NotWhatItLooksLike, below. Yuno came into Sae's room to ask for SchoolFestival ideas-- and directly after that incident cleared up, Sae picked up a picture of [[{{Yuri}} lilies]] as an example of what she drew last year. The IfYouKnowWhatIMean content of this went up by exponential levels in the anime.
***At the [[ChristmasInJapan Christmas party]] the FourGirlEnsemble exchanged gifts. Sae got Hiro's--a ring--and after a little trouble found it fit perfectly on her ring finger. Sae immediately blushed at how misleading this might be, and Hiro told her (or perhaps just thought to herself) it was okay if she didn't wear it on her left hand.
*** Let's not forget some of the scenes in the 2nd OP.
** Miyako X Yuno
***See the picture at LesYay.
***And Miyako loves to hop into the tub with Yuno.
*** Interestingly, Yuno X Miyako is the name of one particular strip where Miyako tries wearing Yuno's X-shaped hairclips. The result is... Yuno calling Miyako "Miyacchi."
*LovableSexManiac - Yoshinoya, in the manga. She's able to suggest going nude at the drop of a hat, and comments that Yuno's small butt looks cute. Understandably, most, if not all, such references did not make it to the anime.
** Some of the things that ''did'' make it into the anime involved one scene with Yoshinoya-sensei deciding to go HadakaApron style - which usually involves a girl wearing an apron and nothing else (although she did wear a small bikini underneath it), after seeing another class in the middle of cooking.
** She also tries to [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kiss an unconscious Hiro]].
** And then there's the time when Hiro--walking home from shopping--encounters a smiling Yoshinoya in a heavy trenchcoat in the middle of summer. Just as Hiro finishes asking her what she's doing, Yoshinoya flings open her trenchcoat and appears to flash Hiro, causing her to drop her bag out of shock. (As revealed a moment later, Yoshinoya had been wearing a new swimsuit underneath, and ''that's'' what she had wanted to show off.)
* LoveLetterLunacy - Hiro did receive a love letter from an unnamed upperclassman [[spoiler: and she calmly rejected him]]. The ones who got nuts were, however, Sae, who [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship freaked out at the prospect of Hiro having a boyfriend]], and Yoshinoya, who was sent to the hospital for being a [[DatePeepers Date Peeper]].
* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type 4]], with Natsume at A, Sae at B and Hiro at C.
* MagicSkirt - Read the page quote over there.
*{{Malaproper}} - Nori.
* MeasuringDay - Volume 4 has en entire chapter on this. If even Yuno skipped breakfast for the day, it's not hard to guess what did Hiro do...
* [[Memes/{{Anime}} Memetic Mutation]] - Ow my nutbladder!
** "oh god yoshinoya is hot"
** The {{fansub}}s for the first season extended this by adding memetic comments from a [[ImageBoards familiar source]] throughout. YourMileageMayVary on the comedic value of lines like "Oh ho, why not eyecatch ourselves?"
* MoeMoe
* {{Motifs}} - The show combines a variety of abstract visuals such as half-tone patterns, photographs, and labels to make the show seem like it's made out of a collage, which matches the characters' interests perfectly.
** Colored backgrounds patterned with simple two-dimensional shapes and especially a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pattern.jpg half-tone relief pattern]] are commonly used in place of realistic backgrounds or solid colors. They're used when the show is illustrating something abstractly. In addition, objects being talked about or used by a character are often abruptly shown on one of these backgrounds.
** Photographs of real objects are spliced in seamlessly with animated objects. For example, Yuno's alarm clock and teddy bear are both depicted using photographs.
** Objects or groups of objects are individually labeled in English. For example, a tea set is shown and each teacup is labeled "teacup".
** The colors of the mailboxes outside the apartment are almost never the same, sometimes changing in the same scene. In an episode where Yuno stays home sick, the mailboxes each [[http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4097/temperaturewd3.jpg show the body temperature of their tenant]] with Yuno's mailbox being a different color from the others.
** Each character has a "symbol". Yuno's is her 'X' shaped hair clips, Sae's is her glasses, Hiro's is her spikey {{odango}}, and Miyako's is the cat-paw shaped tan line she got when she slept on the roof with a cat on her belly. The characters' actions are often illustrated abstractly by showing their symbols on a patterned background. For example, Yuno's symbol is shown wobbling forward to illustrate her walking over to her friends.
** There was one strip when Yuno entered a gift shop and found some of the animal toys fitting her co-tenents: for Hiro, a sheep; for Sae, a black cat, and for Miyako... a ''dancing flower''.
* MsFanservice - Yoshinoya-sensei's love for {{cosplay}} makes her fill this role on several occasions.
* MysteriousPast - There are lots of rumors about Yoshinoya-sensei's past and the little information she gives just ''adds'' to the mystery.
** Miyako also has one of her own, as she occasionally drops comments about having to navigate using the stars along with an incident involving a lack of lifeboats and having to learn to swim quickly in the middle of the ocean.
*** Associated her love of seafood, I guess her family should be into fishing.
* MythologyGag - The anime openings (at least x365's) make reference to scenes in the manga that never make it into the anime, such as Yuno's {{4koma}}-robot and camouflage Santa. Even they put in some frames that had just went to press. See also BaitAndSwitchCredits.
* NameThatTune - The second season anime ends with the first season OP.
* NonindicativeName - Yuno's aforementioned drunken rant was mainly about this.
* NotAMorningPerson - Hiro.
* NotWhatItLooksLike - The second season has Yuno walking in on Sae posed on all fours over Hiro and starts freaking out. Turns out the two were practicing for the school play, with Sae being the criminal. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean I wonder what the crime was]]. Oddly, this scene is depicted in the OP for the ''first'' season, making it BaitAndSwitchCredits at the time.
**Two examples of this appeared in the same chapter in manga volume 4, all related to [[LovableSexManiac Yoshinoya]]. At first, she invited Miyako to the Art preparation room [[spoiler:to test out some of the [[CosplayOtakuGirl costumes]] she made]], but she declared to the whole class [[spoiler:"...take off your clothes and give me every thing; it'd be quick! (heart)"]]. And Yuno and Miyako went at night, and in the next day, when Yoshinoya came again... [[spoiler:"Yuno, is this the bow that you left in the room last night?"]] Certainly the other students got the wrong idea.
*{{Novelization}} - This series is made into a {{light novel}}--mainly the manga's story made into words, that is.
* {{Odango}} - Hiro. She was annoyed that she couldn't braid her hair into these when it's humid, and [[BigEater Miyako]] once saw Hiro's odango as cream puffs in one episode, when Hiro's class was making cream puffs in the home economics class.
* OddlyNamedSequel - ''HidamariSketch x 365'' and ''Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆'', the latter also qualifying as a LuckyCharmsTitle.
* OlderThanTheyLook - Of course PuniPlush made everyone like this, but Yuno needs specific mention. At 144 cm, she's not short by {{yonkoma}} standards, as she's still taller than [[LuckyStar the Izumi-Kobayakawas]] and [[GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass Nodamiki]], but [[SamCurt This Troper]] and his girlfirend agreed, her proneness to ''really'' childish mood swings makes her more like 7 than 15. Actually part of this series' premise was on her [[ComingOfAgeStory trying to grow out of this]].
* OneHeadTaller - Subverted. Miyako is much taller than [[OlderThanTheyLook Yuno]], and Miyako ''did'' tuck Yuno under her chin quite often, but those incidents were never romantic in nature.
* OnlyOneName - Rather, No Two Names. Everyone.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase - ''"We'll be waiting at the Hidamari Apartments, please come and watch!"'' (On occasion ''Yamibuki High School'' is used instead of ''Hidamari Apartments'', in accordance of next episode's content.)
* PaperThinDisguise - When preparing to [[SittingOnTheRoof sneak by the "No trespassing" sign on the stairs leading up to the school's roof]], Yuno dons the CoolShades she first used to counter her motion sickness.
* PerpetualPoverty - Miyako is generally low on cash, to the level that in one strip, since she didn't even have the 300 yen for lunch, she decided to ''drink water'' instead. Her apartment has the lowest rent because of damages, including a leaky roof.
* {{Pettanko}} - Remember Sae's rant when she and her classmate baked cream puffs.
* PlayingAgainstType - RieKugimiya plays Chika, and the latter is certainly not a {{Tsundere}}.
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: [=HidaSketch=].
* ParentalAbandonment - Used ''straight''. Yamabuki is Nazuna's local school, so why is she living in Hidamari now? [[spoiler:His father was sent to work elsewhere just before school started. Unexectedly, Nozuna's mom followed him because "he's useless living alone."]] Poor girl.
* PuniPlush - The characters look very young for their supposed age, especially in the nude.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship - Sae and Hiro, very frequently the subject of ShipTease. Hiro talks about giving Sae chocolate for Valentine's Day and how Sae watched over her all night when she was sick; the OP even has the NotWhatItLooksLike moment with Yuno walking in on them (with the context not even being given until the second season). Sae spends an entire episode (the 2nd special) ''freaking out'' when Hiro gets a love letter in her shoe locker, complete with an excited Yuno and Miyako misunderstanding the letter as coming from ''Sae''. And then there's the second season's opening...
** Yuno and Miyako also have their moments, which usually are attributed to Miyako's extreme bubbliness and careless attitude toward nudity or physical closeness in general. Miyako also appears to be very open-minded about relationships (see SchoolgirlLesbians) and hops in the bathtub with Yuno the day they meet, since her own water supply doesn't work. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Uh-huh]]. One time [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuno_pretty.jpg Miyako even tells Yuno that she thinks she is very pretty]]. Yuno in turn voices her wish to Miyako that they might one day have the same relationship as Sae and Hiro.
* RuleThirtyFour - Carries the dubious reputation of [[http://kotaku.com/5053428/see-erotic-japanese-iphone-games having the first iPhone eroge based on]].
* SchoolFestival - Being in an arts class meant the ''Bunkasai'' is really ''cultural''. Students have to put on display their art pieces and {{SchoolPlay}}s. This school festival arc was about Yuno's quest for a topic for the aforementioned art piece.
* SchoolPlay - Yuno is the stage technician for one in the SchoolFestival, and Miyako, realistically, the ''horse''. In that same episode, Yuno walks in on Hiro and Sae practicing for a play, ending up in the above-mentioned NotWhatItLooksLike moment.
* SchoolgirlLesbians - Subverted when Yuno runs into two flustered girls in the bamboo bushes behind the school, who tell Yuno not to tell anyone as they run off; Yuno calls out to them asking if they're going out, which they quickly and strongly deny (most likely just visiting a statuette there). Miyako also at one point thinks that Yuno has a crush on a female sempai and encourages her to "follow her true feelings". And back in Sae's junior high days...
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--->'''Chika''': [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer She even got valentine chocolate from other girls in class.]]\\
'''Miyako/Yuno''': ''{{I knew it}}!''\\
'''Sae''': What do you mean you knew it?\\
'''Miyako''': Sae-san, is that where you got that wealth of love stories to tell?\\
'''Sae''': No way. Chika, don't tell such useless things.\\
'''Hiro''': It's nothing shameful to hide. Sae is also cool from the eyes of a girl.\\
'''Miyako''': Whoa! What a bold statement!!
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** Natsume is painfully {{tsundere}} for Sae (see below) but can't catch a break, being the losing corner of a LoveTriangle. Played up to the hilt in episode 12 of x365 when Sae joins Natsume for lunch, with the latter first getting combative before quieting down. We even get a few {{Male Gaze}} shots in that episode; when Natsume watches Sae enter the cafeteria (focusing on her hips), watching her eat (focusing on her lips), and again as Sae walks away... The flowers, the spring out of her hair, and the {{luminescent blush}} seem to put it straight into {{Schoolgirl Lesbians}} territory. The very last episode has her praying at a shrine to become more honest with her feelings. And [[spoiler:guess who wrote that passionate fan letter that Sae got]]?
*** She does get a few moments of happiness later on, including the x365 OVA [[spoiler: where she gets to ride a bike with Sae to help return something one of the soon-to-be-tenants has dropped, after being ordered to 'get on' and to 'hold on tight'.]]
* SchoolgirlRival - used by Natsume to hide her crush on Sae.
** She gets over it to an extent with the shrine visit, which has helped create a few less-awkward moments for her later on.
* SelectiveObliviousness - How much more evident does Sae's crush on Hiro have to be to become recognized?
** 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!
* {{Sex As Rite-Of-Passage}} - (cough) When Yuno says something that sounds mature to Yoshinoya, Yoshinoya worries that Yuno has "become mature" before her, complete with a rather suggestive imagination bubble of Yuno.
** [[SamCurt This troper]] thinks it gets a bit {{squick}}y about this. After all, Yuno is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looked]]...
* {{Shiritori}} - in an episode the group played this while sitting around watching Miyako's apartment leak.
* [[ShoutOutAnimeAndManga Shout Out]]
** Episode one shows a crossword puzzle on screen [[UnreadablyFastText for a few seconds.]] If you [[http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4714/hidamariep1crosswordpuztq3.jpg solve it]], the answers are the names of a bunch of other popular anime.
---->1. ''[[SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]''
---->2. ''MariaSamaGaMiteru''
---->3. ''DaCapo''
---->4. ''{{Utawarerumono}}''
---->5. ''AzumangaDaioh''
---->6. ''{{Miyuki}}''
---->7. ''{{Popotan}}''
---->8. ''{{Kino no Tabi}}''
---->Final Answer: Hidamari
***And Miyako won that puzzle.
** In episode one, you can see that Yuno has [[http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1089/shoutoutuf7.jpg six volumes]] of ''HidamariSketch'' manga.
** And then there are of course all those {{cosplay}} outfits as worn by Yoshinoya-sensei. Her statement that she is "forever 17" is also a reference to seiyuu KikukoInoue.
*** Miyu Matsuki (Yoshinoya's VA) is on the same radio show as Inoue, RieTanaka, and other members of the "Forever 17 club." So it could be a self-reference, rather than a reference to Inoue specifically.
** ''[[ShowWithinAShow Fasionable Detective Lovely Chocolat]]'', starring [[PaniPoniDash Behoimi]] and [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Nozomu Itoshiki]].
** When Hiro lamented that new year's rice cakes made her fat, the title of the strip was ''[[MobileSuitGundam White]] [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Devil]]''.
* ShowWithinAShow - ''Fashionable Detective Lovely Chocolat''
* SingleStrokeBattle - The principal defeating Yoshinoya during the athletic festival.
* SittingOnTheRoof - Miyako does it on the Hidamari Apartments' roof, usually with StrayCats. Yuno, on the other hand, does this on the roof of Yamabuki High School, but for a different reason...
* SliceOfLife - So, "sketch."
* SmashingWatermelons - There is no BeachEpisode (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."
* SmokingIsCool - The heavy smoking of the girls' landlady is generally depicted as something cool, despite her efforts to quit.
** Also, [[BadassLongcoat Sae's character]] in the SchoolPlay is [[http://www.onemanga.com/Hidamari_Sketch/27/04/ implied to fit]] too.
* StrongFamilyResemblance - Played with. When Miyako first saw Yuno's parents, the first thing she thought was their lack of [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs hair clips]].
* SuperDeformed - At the drop of a hat. Its kind of superdeformation was even coined ''wideface''.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel - [[OddlyNamedSequel Hidamari Sketch x 365]] gains a lot by better comedic timing and greater focus on the relationships between the main characters.
* SweetTooth - Hiro. Like ''eating meal replacements with sweetened condensed milk''.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo - Sae.
* TastesLikeDiabetes - It's cute. It's really, really cute. Ever since a thread on 4chan in which a user posted concerns over a painful "nutbladder" accompanied by pictures from ''HidamariSketch'', the default response to such pictures (usually of Yuno) is along the lines of "[[Memes/{{Anime}} OH GOD MY NUTBLADDER!]]"
* TeamChef: Hiro.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - ''two'' pairs. Miyako as the extroverted and boyish type and Yuno being much more introverted and soft-spoken one; Sae's "masculinity" was often lampshaded by Miyako while Hiro is overtly declared by the author as "wife material."
**Let's see if Nori and Nazuna became the third...
* TooLongDidntDub - Yen Press' translation decided not to translate many of the punch lines to the level that ThisTroper need to frequently consult the translator's notes.
**One particular example are the two strips on page 90 of Yen Press' Volume 3, quoted verbatim below:
***Strip 1, from frame 3 on:
---->'''Miyako''': Maybe it's "chijou no motsure." (Lover's fights)
---->'''Yuno''': Chijou (on the floor)?
---->'''[[LoveableSexManiac Yoshinoya]]''': Chijo ([[DirtyOldMan Dirty Old Woman]])!!?
***Strip 2:
---->'''Miyako''': Hmm. Hidamari Apartments is going bara bara (disrupted).
---->'''Yuno''': Huh!? I guess so.
---->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara...'' (Thoughts of Hiro leaving Hidamari)
---->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara''(in shambles)'' ...'' (Thoughts of Sae breaking the entire building)
---->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara'' (roses)''...'' (Thoughts of roses growing on Hidamari's roof
* {{Tradesnark}} - sound effects are commonly have the R symbol attached.
* {{Tsundere}} - Natsume, Sae's {{Unknown Rival}}, keeps going up to Sae as if trying to pick a fight, then runs off flustered for some reason. Her actions are enough to put identify her as a [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl Lesbian]]. Sae's [[CannotSpitItOut failure]] to mention her sisterly feelings feelings for Chika and (probably [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship romantic]]) affection for Hiro also often make her fit this trope.
**Judging to some of the strips in Volume 3, the writer considered her one already. In another story arc in the same volume, her thing with Chika certainly extended to Yuno... Also see CoolBigSis, above.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime - both seasons.
* TwoTeacherSchool - 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 teaches studio arts.
* UnreadablyFastText (Miyako's crossword puzzle, along with the proverbs displayed on the first episode of the second season.)
* VisibleSigh
* VisibleSilence
* WackyHomeroom - This is an arts magnet anyway.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs - In the manga, when the four girls attempt to draw {{yonkoma}}.
**[[TeamChef Hiro]] actually gave us four... ''pieces of rice cakes''.
* WrongGenreSavvy - In recent manga Yuno has the tendency to think things in terms of {{shoujo}} manga.
* {{Yonkoma}}
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