History Anime / HelloSandybell

* PinkIsFeminine: Many female characters (like the titular Sandybell and Kitty) wear pink. Though Sandybell's also a case of UnlimitedWardrobe.

* WatchingTheSunset: A variant where Sandybell and Mark watch the morning sun alongside the colourful skies during their camping trimp.

* ArtEpisode: An early episode focuses on Clive Lemmerich, a disgruntled artist who Mark idolizes. Though he praises Mark on the outside, he then drunkenly reveals that he hates his job because he's always commissioned to draw things he hates, and also thinks that Mark's art is pathetic. Sandybell confronts Clive about this the next day and he laughs and admits it's true, thanking her for allowing him to end the charade. Though he mocks Mark, he secretly admits to Sandybell that the boy has talent, he just needs to hone it.

* BoyMeetsGirl: Girl lives in rural Scotland all her life, and through a string of unusual circumstances, ends up meeting a boy who's actually the son of the Countess of Wellington. When the girl's father dies of a disease and she has to move to London, and the boy's parents die in a car accident so he's forcibly hauled off to an ArrangedMarriage. Boy doesn't want this, so he runs away from home, and throughout the series tries his best to be in girl's life by leaving her small gifts and messages. [[spoiler: Boy sets off a [[SpannerInTheWorks chain of events]] that help the girl find her long-lost mother, and after the boy's ex-betrothed accepts he's moved on and also moves on with someone else, girl and boy live together happily ever after.]]

* {{Melodrama}}: The main characters all have complicated interpersonal relationships that build off melodrama. Sandybell likes Mark, but she's also very attached to his mother despite meeting her briefly, because she grew up without one herself and sees a ParentalSubstitute in her. Mark likes her back, but because he's the son of the [[BlueBlood Wellington]] family, he's forced into an ArrangedMarriage with Kitty. Kitty has always hated Sandybell and is elated at marrying Mark, but he doesn't want to marry her and flees from Scotland after his parents die, trying to pursue his dream. Sandybell is broken by this, especially as her father dies around the same time, and sets off on her own adventure after moving to London, believing she can find her mother. Her free-spiritedness and refusal to abandon hope drives most of the show.
* NeglectedGarden: Averted. After the death of the Countess of Wellington, Sandybell promised to always take care of her garden to honour her memory. Sadly, Sandybell's father also dies, and she has to move to London to live with his best friend, Mr. Longwood. Before she leaves Scotland, Charles, George and David promise her that they will always take care of it in her place.

* PhenotypeStereotype: The series takes place in Scotland so a lot of characters (Kitty, Charles, Mark) are redheads or have reddish-brown hair. Sandybelle, however, is blonde - it's later found out that she's adopted.

Now has an [[ItAnime/HelloSandybell ItAnime]] page.

* FriendToAllLivingThings:
** Sandybelle befriends birds, horses, dogs, rabbits...
** The Countess of Wellington loves flowers and dedicates herself to a garden of them. She's also a FriendToAllChildren.

* DeconstructionFleet: Think of any common trope in shojo/slice of life anime, and ''Hello! Sandybell'' adds a flair of realism to it.

* NobilityMarriesMoney: The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire.

** While there are also probably similarly-dubbed EDs, the only ones that can be found online are the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwyt3o2CHCg Greek]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc2J-7MHUA Arabic]] ones.

** The mask Sandybell wears at the Shearer's ball resembles the one worn by [[Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi La Seine No Hoshi]]. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sandybell4.png Compare]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simone_5.jpg them]] yourself.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: With the innovations in technology and vehicles, you'd imagine this takes place in The80s, like the time of its release. However, the Shearers use rotary phones.[[note]]And before you tie that down to poverty, keep in mind they're the wealthiest named characters in the entire show[[/note]]

* ShoutOut: The mask Sandybell wears at the Shearer's ball resembles the one worn by [[Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi La Seine No Hoshi]]. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sandybell4.png Compare]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simone_5.jpg them]] yourself.

* DominoMask: At the ball, both Marc and Sandybell, amongst others, wear them.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Averted. The Countess of Wellington is a lovely lady [[spoiler: and is unfortunately killed off in a car accident]]. Kitty Shearer also comes from a wealthy family (her father is the Chairman of the British conglomerate Shearer & Co.) but she's an AlphaBitch at worst and [[spoiler:later becomes a friend of Sandybell's]].

However, personal tragedies change the lives of Sandybell and Mark forever. It culimnates in Mark running away and Sandybell being forced to move to London, leaving her beloved home and community in Scotland. Secrets of her past start to unravel as she begins to find clues about her biological mother. Is she really deceased, and where in the world is she?

* ComingOfAgeStory: The story begins when Sandybell is a pre-teen and ends when she [[spoiler:reunites with her mother]].

* FirstGirlWins: [[LovingBully Charles]] knew Sandybell first and [[OppositesAttract Kitty]] knew Mark first, but they weren't as close to them - Charles was a kid who often bullied Sandybell, and Kitty was neighbours with his family. Both Sandybell and Mark are this to each other, as they actually viewed each other as friends first. Over the show they both accumulate their own fair share if unrequited admirers, but that doesn't change the fact that they met for the first time at the house of the Countess of Wellington and eventually end as an OfficialCouple.