History Manga / HidamariSketch

* PlaceholderTitles: Creator/StudioShaft was again unable to meet the deadline for ''Hoshimitsu'''s OP, so for the first 2 episodes it was just a very simple one with a lot of [[LuckyCharmsTitle
stars]]. The finished version first appeared at episode three. The ED remained similarly incomplete until episode four.

** The Gates question becomes even more entertaining once you realize that Nori's computer looks almost identical to an UsefulNotes/XBox360.

** In one episode Yuno's hairclip (normally an X) also takes on the shape of [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation an O, a triangle and a square]].

** "Win the blessings of the Northern Seas" -- Miyako's winning of a newspaper crosswords in ''X365''.

** ''Hoshimittsu'' Episode 11 shows us that Nori's computer is powered by "Shaftsoft Wonders". BillGates is still name checked, though. Also in the same episode, the "Toys/{{Furb|y}}o".

The original manga is a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] written and illustrated by Creator/UmeAoki, which began serialization in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Carat'' in 2004. It has an anime adaptation by Creator/StudioShaft, and the first season aired in early 2007. A second season, ''[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Hidamari Sketch x 365]]'', aired about a year after the first, and a third, ''[[LuckyCharmsTitle Hidamari Sketch x]] ☆☆☆ ''("Hoshimittsu"), was aired in the Winter 2010 season. A fourth season, ''Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb'', began airing in October 2012. Each season (except ''Honeycomb'') has two extra OriginalVideoAnimation episodes, and there are two independent [=OVAs=] as well, ''Hidamari Sketch x SP'' (released in Fall 2011) and ''Hidamari Sketch Sae Hiro Sotsugyou-hen'' (released in Fall 2013).

* AdaptationExpansion: Both ''Hidamari Sketch'' and ''Manga/LuckyStar'' started serialization in early 2004 and were animated in early 2007. But the former is ''slow'' -- as in about fifteen strips on the same story arc ''per month'' -- while the latter goes much faster and story arcs are seldom longer than two strips. So why did ''Hidamari Sketch'' have ''60 episodes'' of {{anime}}, the longest of any modern moe-style {{yonkoma}} as of this writing? Because Creator/StudioShaft had inserted a large amount of content in the four {{anime}} seasons and handful of OVAs they produced, most significantly:

* AdaptationExpansion: Both ''Hidamari Sketch'' and ''Manga/LuckyStar'' started serialization in early 2004 and were animated in early 2007. But the former is ''slow'' -- as in about fifteen strips on the same story arc ''per month'' -- while the latter goes much faster and story arcs are seldom longer than two strips. So why does ''Hidamari Sketch'' have ''42 episodes'' of {{anime}}, the longest of any modern moe-style {{yonkoma}} as of this writing? Because Creator/StudioShaft have inserted a large amount of content in the three {{anime}} seasons produced to date, most significantly:

* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: ''Hidamari Sketch x 365'' and ''Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆'', the latter also qualifying as a LuckyCharmsTitle.

** To a lesser extent, Yuno's parents. They can be a little oddball and embarassing but did at least worry about their daughter's decision to live alone. Her dad is also the classic OverprotectiveDad, so they haven't completely abandoned their parental roles, even if they do like to recapture their youth by visiting amusement parks.

---->1. ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]''\\
2. ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''\\

8. ''LightNovel/KinosJourney''\\

** The first half of Hoshimittsu EP 8 is titled "Yuno Crab", a reference to how story segments are titled in the ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' series, also animated by Studio Shaft.

* LoveTriangle: [[TriangRelations Type 4]], with Natsume at A, Sae at B and Hiro at C.

** There's also an incident in Volume 4 of the manga (and Episode 3 of Hoshimittsu) where she describes the electives for the Junior class where she describes the electives (2D, 3D and digital arts) while framing [[BareYourMidriff various]] body parts with her hands in a suggestive fashion and inviting the students to 'touch them once they'd made their selection'.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: When others build snowmen, Miyako builds snow-moais.

** There's also an incident in Volume 4 of the manga (and Episode 3 of Hoshimittsu) where she describes the electives for the Junior class where she describes the electives (2D, 3D and digital arts) while framing [[BareYourMidriff various]] [[{{Gainaxing}} body]] parts with her hands in a suggestive fashion and inviting the students to 'touch them once they'd made their selection'.

''Hidamari Sketch'' is a SliceOfLife {{manga}} and {{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 cute things happen.

Animated in early 2007 by Creator/StudioShaft, based on a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Carat'' by Creator/UmeAoki, this series is best known for its slow pacing, focus on artistically inclined characters, and [[{{Kawaiiko}} diabetes-inducing levels]] of [[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} cuteness]]. A second season, ''[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Hidamari Sketch x 365]]'', aired about a year after the first, and a third, ''[[LuckyCharmsTitle Hidamari Sketch x]] ☆☆☆ ''("Hoshimittsu"), was aired in the Winter 2010 season. A fourth season, ''Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb'', began airing in October 2012. Each season (except ''Honeycomb'') has two extra OriginalVideoAnimation episodes, and there are two independent [=OVAs=] as well, ''Hidamari Sketch x SP'' (released in Fall 2011) and ''Hidamari Sketch Sae Hiro Sotsugyou-hen'' (released in Fall 2013).

* NoFullNameGiven: Everyone.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Sae and Chika are actually blue. Hiro was pink, but it changed into a peach-ish color in season 2. Miyako is blond and Yoshinoya's hair is ''green''. Nori's hair is a blue/green mix and Matsuri's is a very pale lavender.

* BreatheOnTheFan: Yuno and Miyako catch Sae talking into the fan, pretending to be an alien.

** PlayedForLaughs when Yuno gets locked out of her apartment. After finally getting back in after five days, she remembers she had left some food on the stove, which had since spoiled and stunk of the place. She asks to stay at Miyako's place one more night and will, "Face reality tomorrow."

** Initially played up the RomanticTwoGirlFriendship between Hiro and Sae, and gave more screentime to [[{{Tsundere}} Natsume]]. Later {{manga}} volumes [[ThrowItIn have begun to run with this]], expanding it even further.

* 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.

* 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 ended up in hospital suffering from exposure after waiting on the roof all day to [[DatePeepers eavesdrop]].

** To a lesser extent, Yuno's parents. They can be a little oddball and embarassing, but did at least worry about their daughter's decision to live alone. Her dad is also the classic OverprotectiveDad, so they haven't completely abandoned their parental roles, even if they do like to recapture their youth by visiting amusement parks.

* PlaceholderTitles: Creator/StudioShaft was again unable to meet the deadline for ''Hoshimitsu'''s OP, so for the first 2 episodes it was just a very simple one with a lot of [[LuckyCharmsTitle stars]]. The finished version first appeared at episode three. The ED remained similarly incomplete until episode four.

* 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 and hops in the bathtub with Yuno the day they meet, since her own water supply doesn't work. One time [[https://static.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.
** 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.

* SameClothesDifferentYear: Yuno's parents showed a photo of her from kindergarten and she has the same crisscrossed Bobby pins in her hair.

** The incident involving the "Yamabuki-jizou," partly mentioned at the first example of SchoolgirlLesbians, below.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: 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 [[UrbanLegendLoveLife doesn't seem to have ever actually been in a relationship]]. {{Ship Tease}}s aside, Sae and Hiro's relationship also stays purely platonic. Only Natsume seems to have anyone in mind, [[HopelessSuitor not that her target notices]].

** 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. One time [[https://static.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.

* 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...
--->'''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!!
** 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 MaleGaze 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 SchoolgirlLesbians 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'.]]
*** And this all began [[spoiler: thanks to Sae just being nice to Natsume when the latter was scared and upset at being at a new school]] by giving a few kind words and a smile. [[spoiler: The latter was having a very, ''very'' bad day up to that point.]]

** In episode 4 of Hoshimittsu, Nazuna is identified as a ''jimoti'' ("local" people from the neighborhood), a word that [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY sounds like an Italian surname]] to Miyako. Later, the girls visit a hardware store, where they run into a burly, foreign-looking man. Miyako inmediately identifies him as "Jimotti-san".

* ThisIsGoingToSuck:

* RealityEnsues:
** PlayedForLaughs when Yuno gets locked out of her apartment. After finally getting back in after five days, she remembers she had left some food on the stove, which had since spoiled and stunk of the place. She asks to stay at Miyako's place one more night and will, "Face reality tomorrow."
** Happens to Miyako after Sae and Hiro move out. [[spoiler:Sae mentions some leftover food in her fridge and Miyako goes to eat it. Once she enters the now-empty apartment, the realization that Sae and Hiro are really gone finally hits her and she begins to cry.]]

* OnlyOneName: Rather, No Two Names. Everyone.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The second season anime ends with the first season OP.

** Each character has a "symbol". Yuno's is her 'X' shaped hair clips, Sae's is her [[BlindWithoutEm glasses]], Hiro's is her spikey {{odango hair}}, Miyako's is the cat-paw shaped tan line she got when she slept on the roof with a cat on her belly, Nori's is a computer mouse as the only PC-user among the tenents, and Nazuna is her hair band. 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.