History Manga / HidamariSketch

* OdangoHair: 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.

''[[LoveableSexManiac Yoshinoya]]''': [[TheChikan Chijo]]!!?

2. ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''\\

* {{Kotatsu}}: Just look at the trope's image.

* RealityEnsues: 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.]]

* FourGirlEnsemble: New residents have upgraded that to a SixStudentClique.

** Each character has a "symbol". Yuno's is her [[HairDecorations '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 [[HairDecorations 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.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Played with. When Miyako first saw Yuno's parents, the first thing she thought was their lack of [[HairDecorations hair clips]].

---->1. ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]''
---->2. ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''
---->3. ''Manga/DaCapo''
---->4. ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}''
---->5. ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''
---->6. ''Manga/{{Miyuki}}''
---->7. ''Popotan''
---->8. ''LightNovel/KinosJourney''
---->Final Answer: Hidamari

--->'''Miyako''': Maybe it's "chijou no motsure." (Lover's fights)
--->'''Yuno''': Chijou (on the floor)?
--->'''[[LoveableSexManiac Yoshinoya]]''': [[TheChikan Chijo]]!!?

--->'''Miyako''': Hmm. Hidamari Apartments is going bara bara[[labelnote:Translator's note]]disrupted[[/labelnote]].
--->'''Yuno''': Huh!? I guess so.
--->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara...'' (Thoughts of Hiro leaving Hidamari)
--->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara''[[labelnote:Translator's note]]in shambles[[/labelnote]]'' ...'' (Thoughts of Sae breaking the entire building)
--->'''Yuno''': ''Bara bara''[[labelnote:Translator's note]]rose[[/labelnote]]''...'' (Thoughts of roses growing on Hidamari's roof

* SchoolgirlSeries

%%* SliceOfLife

%%* {{Yonkoma}}

* ChristmasEpisode

* DisturbedDoves: More of the ''disturbing'' kind, actually.

* FestivalEpisode

* FourGirlEnsemble
** New residents have upgraded that to a SixStudentClique.

* {{Gonk}}: The Principal.

* HighSchoolRocks: A lot!

* IntertwinedFingers

* {{Iyashikei}}

* LargeHam: Miyako.

* SexAsRiteOfPassage: (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.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Fashionable Detective Lovely Chocolat''

* [[SliceOfLife Sketch of Life]]

-->'''Yuno''': Ah, a [[BlandNameProduct Furbo]]! Does it still talk?
-->'''Nori''': It- it's not like I keep it because I think it's cute or anything!

* VisibleSigh
* VisibleSilence

* {{Yonkoma}}

[[caption-width-right:300:Providing you with [[{{Kawaiiko}} nutbladder-breaking levels]] of [[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} cuteness]], from left to right: [[GeniusDitz Miyako]]; [[TheIngenue Yuno]]; [[OnlySaneMan Nori]]; [[FragileFlower Nazuna]]; [[MostWritersAreWriters Sae]]; [[TeamChef Hiro]].]]

** When [[FragileFlower Nazuna]]'s parents first appeared to help Nazuna moving in, the other Hidamari residents instantly like them, since they're friendly and apparently doting. However, a few comics later there comes the entire revelation about [[ParentalAbandonment why a girl needs to rent an apartment to study in her local school]], above. [[TrueCompanions Good thing the Hidamari residents are so close-knit.]]

* AccidentalPun: Sae's embroidered poetry journal -- ''Shishuu'' is a homonym for both "poetry collection" and "embroidery".

* BadassGrandpa: Despite appearances, the Principal is shown to possess lightning speed and reflexes, ninja stealth, and the physical prowess needed to jump the school gate and ''adjacent street''.

** In episode 4 of Hoshimittsu, Nazuna is identified as a ''jimoti'' ("local" people from the neighborhood), a word that [[FancyFrenchName 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".

[[caption-width-right:300:Providing you with [[{{Kawaiiko}} diabetes-inducing levels]] of [[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} cuteness]], from left to right: [[GeniusDitz Miyako]]; [[TheIngenue Yuno]]; [[OnlySaneMan Nori]]; [[FragileFlower Nazuna]]; [[MostWritersAreWriters Sae]]; [[TeamChef Hiro]].]]

* IntoxicationEnsues: 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 uttered an EngagingConversation even though she [[ShipTease was not drunk]]...
* InVinoVeritas: Yuno. [[CheerfulChild Cheerful Teen]] into straight-faced DeadpanSnarker (?) ranting ItJustBugsMe about various {{Nonindicative Name}}s when [[IntoxicationEnsues drunk]].

** When Hiro lamented that new year's rice cakes made her fat, the title of the strip was ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam White]] [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Devil]]''.

->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.\\
But they've all graduated! We're normal now!
-->--'''Customary introduction to the Hidamari Apartments at every year's welcoming party'''

[[caption-width-right:300:Providing you with [[{{Kawaiiko}} diabetes-inducing levels]] of [[{{Kawaisa}} cuteness]], from left to right: [[GeniusDitz Miyako]]; [[TheIngenue Yuno]]; [[OnlySaneMan Nori]]; [[FragileFlower Nazuna]]; [[MostWritersAreWriters Sae]]; [[TeamChef Hiro]].]]

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 [[{{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).

* OncePerEpisode: Yuno waking up to shut off her alarm clock, the DisturbedDoves in front of the school, the girls eating together, and Yuno taking a bath at the end of the day, with a cut showing the dropping of a [[http://www.lushusa.com/Bath-Bombs/bath-bombs,en_US,sc.html bath bomb]] into the water. Hoshimittsu replaces Yuno waking up with some Yoshinoya antics and having the girls do morning exercises.

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

* AccidentalPun - Sae's embroidered poetry journal -- ''Shishuu'' is a homonym for both "poetry collection" and "embroidery".

* 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:

* AffairHair - The incident described in SproutingEars, below, occurred because Yuno's father found a strand of hair (the same colour as Sae's) in Yuno's room, which he construed to mean that Yuno had slept with Sae.
* AlienAbduction - Yuno gets [[http://static.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.
* AlwaysInClassOne - Justified because the art classes, in particular, don't shuffle. (General classes, on the other hand, may, so Nazuna gets to experience that.)
* AnachronicOrder - Even though it's a simple SliceOfLife series, the first three seasons' episodes don't take place in chronological order. Luckily, each episode gives a calendar date in its title, and the manga and ''Honeycomb'' are somewhat in order.

* ArtShift - Cleverly done in numerous scenes. In the love letter episode, Yuno has an ImagineSpot during an art history class, the imagined scene imitating the art styles of Fauvism and Cubism. A shift to watercolor style is used several times for particularly emotional scenes (Sae's moment of closeness with Chika after she passes her exams, Yuno's sadness when the stray cat they adopted runs away, etc). Numerous other brief art shifts are employed too, from cut-out silhouettes to black-and-white marker pen-style drawings.
* AscendedExtra - Chika, Sae's younger sister. She was only referred to in the manga and hadn't even been named, but her role was greatly expanded in the anime, especially in ''365''.
* BadassGrandpa / CoolOldGuy - Despite appearances, the Principal is shown to possess lightning speed and reflexes, ninja stealth, and the physical prowess needed to jump the school gate and ''adjacent street''.
* 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 (a NotWhatItLooksLike moment) isn't adapted until ''365''. (See also MythologyGag for the more minor details.)
** Actually, it's only a NotWhatItLooksLike scene until the next strip, wherein Sae's painting is of [[YuriGenre lilies]] and accompanied by a collective wideface.
* BarbieDollAnatomy - Yuno's dream in the second ''365'' special. Also, her bathwater becomes transparent when ''Hoshimittsu'' rolls around and brings this trope with it.
* BathtubBonding - Miyako and Yuno, albeit not quite voluntary on Yuno's part.
* 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 (or flat).
* {{Bifauxnen}} - Somewhat averted; Sae reacts badly to people implying she's masculine.
* BilingualBonus - In the translated version, where it borders on GeniusBonus at points -- a few of the puns and sight gags of the manga would require at least some understanding of Japanese.

* BlankWhiteEyes - Yuno does that all the time; while Hiro does that when the paranormal is involved.
* BoardingSchool - Strange variation. Yamabuki is certainly 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.
* BreatheOnTheFan - Yuno and Miyako catch Sae talking into the fan, pretending to be an alien.
* BrickJoke - Nazuna attempts a drawing and the characters spend a few strips trying to guess who it is. It isn't until a few ''chapters'' later that it's revealed to be the landlady.

* CallBack - Honeycomb episode 9 is full of them, starting with three in Yuno's dream right at the very beginning.
* 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]]...
* ChocolateOfRomance - In the anime adaptation, Sae received Valentine's Day chocolates from girls when she was in junior high.

* ClassTrip - Quite commonly used as the art students goes out in the neighborhood to sketch sometimes.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Miyako is sometimes like this, while Yoshinoya practically lives there. Yuno drifts into this territory on occasion when exposed to [[CutenessProximity puppies and paintbrushes]], and Misato (the previous tenant of 101) was portrayed like this in Episode 9 of ''Hoshimittsu''.
* ColorCodedCharacters - And ''symbol'' coded as well - Yuno's X-shaped hairpins; Miyako's cat-paw mark on her stomach (which was an effect of a cat falling asleep on her while she was sunbathing); Sae's glasses; Hiro's tentacle-hair-accented hair buns; Nori's computer mouse (she's the only tenant that can use a computer--Japan's heavy use of mobile services means few people actually bother to learn using [=PCs=]); and Nazuna's jiggly headbands.

* ColorFailure - Sae and Hiro, when Yuno and Miyako first mentioned that Yoshinoya is their teacher. Nori and Nazuna also exhibit this, after hearing about Yoshinoya's childish antics for the first time.
* ComingOfAgeStory - The main premise of this story, if not particularly clear to some, is of Yuno's wanting to become mature. This is kind-of lampshaded whenever she's shown to be overjoyed by any suggestion that she's matured, even a little bit.
* ContinuityCavalcade - In episode 9 of ''Honeycomb'', the Hidamari residents try to remake the ''TabletopGame/GameOfLife'' to better suit them -- it's not as if art students will eventually become doctors -- which ends up replacing life events in the game with events from the story. Some of their discussion are also continuity nods. An incomplete list follows.

* ContinuityNod - In episode 10B of ''Honeycomb'', the girls held another hyoza party for Chika again... And like last time (in ''X365''), there were also ''candy-shaped'' gyoza.

* CouchGag - A relatively subtle one; in the opening of ''365'' Miyako is shown eating a different dish in each episode ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5S1fVgHvpM video]]). The scroll on the wall behind her also changes each time. The message Hiro writes on the paper plane sometimes changes from the normal "ayafu~ya roketto" too, though not in every episode.

* CramSchool - The series discussed the existence of a type of cram school for art-stream high school students that wanted to continue doing art in college, called ''research institutes''. In fact, Arisawa's rendezvous with Yuno was related to this; she skipped Institute class that night because of the pressure and stayed at school to paint, [[spoiler:and answered Yuno's cell phone when it was accidentally left behind]]. Institutes are, in fact, TruthInTelevision.
* CranialEruption - Especially when Miyako annoys Hiro.
* CreditsRunningSequence - The first season's opening has [[http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8364/fuktlogikhidamarisketch.jpg the four girls]] running with images of art tools pass in the background for a portion of the opening, and season one's {{OAV}}s change up the order and add some [[DerangedAnimation weird stuff]] [[http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/444/spoonsubshidamarisketch.jpg like an Afro]].
* CreepyTwins - The hairdressers, to Yuno at least, but only at first since seeing a set of twins caught her off guard.
* CulturalCrossReference - Miyako likes to invoke strange English references, especially in the anime. Even in manga, she discussed the ''Literature/TheGiftOfTheMagi'' in the "Polaroidzilla" story -- to the puzzlement of her very Japanese co-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 exception 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.
* DisturbedDoves - More of the ''disturbing'' kind, actually.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune - All three opening themes are performed by the voice actresses of [[Creator/KanaAsumi Yuno]], [[Creator/KaoriMizuhashi Miyako]], [[Creator/YukoGoto Hiro]] and [[Creator/RyokoShintani Sae]].
** Nori and Nazuna join in for the Honeycomb OP
* 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 tenants of the Hidamari Apartments, Nori and Nazuna, were de-{{faceless masses}}-ized among other admission exam takers in the second ''365'' special episode.
* EasterEgg - Pause at [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/vlc2010-02-0601-49-49-19.png this frame]] in the first episode of ''Hoshimittsu''. The numbers in the middle (4-8322-7549-6) are the [[http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4832275496/ref=s9_simi_gw_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=AN1VRQENFRJN5&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=06B00G5Q0MQDP2XPS7Y8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463376756&pf_rd_i=489986 ISBN-10 number of the first Hidamari Sketch manga.]] Also, the ones at the bottom are pi to 13 digits.
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai - When others build snowmen, Miyako builds snow-moais.
* EngagingConversation - In one [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] strip, Hiro offers to make some soup for Miyako, who is feeling nauseous from the [[IntoxicationEnsues 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 ''365'') [[FuroScene taking a bath]] while reflecting on that episode's events.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt - [[http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8661/hidamari201006goodmood.png Everyone at the museum]] gives Hiro and Sae some space.
* {{Expy}} - Miyako is just a pointy hat away from being Marisa of VideoGame/{{Touhou}}. Their personalities are as similar as their appearance, to boot.
* EyeCatch - Something like it is used for scene transitions. Sometimes an episode may have a common theme (e.g. the second half of ''Hoshimittsu'' Episode 6: giving the girls glasses).
* FacelessMasses - Often color-coded by gender or labeled "BOY" and "GIRL".
* {{Fanservice}} - Fairly mild in the first two seasons, but more common in the after-season Specials. Ramped up a bit in ''Hoshimittsu'' and accompanying specials.

* 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 [[Heartwarming/{{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.
** That being said, all of the nonadult characters are referred to by their first names only (we don't even ''know'' what their last names are), meaning that this trope has been in effect for all the girls from the first time we see them.
* FiveMoreMinutes - ''Honeycomb'' starts with a scene like that, by Yuno. This also mirrors the start of manga volume 2.
* FoodPorn - Happens virtually OncePerEpisode, courtesy of [[TeamChef Hiro]].

* FourTemperamentEnsemble - Yuno is Phlegmatic, Miyako is Sanguine, Hiro is Choleric and Sae is Melancholic
* FuroScene - OncePerEpisode the viewers get to see Yuno reflecting on the show's events in the bath. The main cast also once attended a public bath together, which is typically used for the purpose of comedy and not so much for FanService.
* 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 tall. Yuno is still adorable, though.
* GirlishPigtails - Nori sports them, even she may not fit into the general stereotype [[DeadpanSnarker so]] [[StraightMan well]]...
* {{Gonk}} - The Principal.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear - Yuno was deeply embarrassed when a locker room prank exposed her kitten-print underwear. To be fair, she doesn't wear those every day, but still...
* 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"?

* 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. This also becomes a plot point in the manga and later anime specials, due to a lack of ComicBookTime, [[spoiler:which means that Sae and Hiro eventually graduate and move out.]]

* HarshWordImpact - Done with speech bubbles in the manga and arrows (the graphical symbol, not the projectile shot from a bow) in the anime.
* ItJustBugsMe - (manga) Yuno starts ranting about various misnomers (like [[NonindicativeName "goldfish"]]) when drunk.
* HighSchoolRocks - A lot!
* HowWeGotHere - ''Sotsugyou-hen'' is structured like this. Yuno woke up early in the beginning of the two-episode special on the day of [[spoiler:Sae and Hiro's graduation ceremony]], then spent the rest of the first episode recalling Sae and Hiro's college entrance exams and decisions which spent most of the month previous. The [[spoiler:graduation ceremony proper]] is in the second episode.
* 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.
* HypocriticalHumour - often happens on Hiro, who likes to eat but has a serious case of WeightWoe.

* ImageSong - All four 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!

* IndirectKiss - Natsume was certainly thrilled to receive Sae's leftover sandwich.

* IntoxicationEnsues - 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 uttered an EngagingConversation even though she [[ShipTease was not drunk]]...
* InVinoVeritas - Yuno. [[CheerfulChild Cheerful Teen]] into straight-faced DeadpanSnarker (?) ranting ItJustBugsMe about various {{Nonindicative Name}}s when [[IntoxicationEnsues 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.
* {{Kotatsu}} - Just look at the trope's image.
* LargeHam - Miyako.
* 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 such references did not make it to the anime.

* 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]].
* LoveTriangle - [[TriangRelations Type 4]], with Natsume at A, Sae at B and Hiro at C.
* MagicSkirt - Read the page quote over there.
* MeasuringDay - Volume 4 has an entire chapter on this. If even Yuno skipped breakfast for the day, it's not hard to guess what [[HollywoodPudgy Hiro]] did...
* {{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.

* MoodWhiplash - The comedic focus makes the scenes where things get more serious, like Yuno wondering about a piece of art in the garbage or Hiro stressing out about [[GrowingUpSucks having to graduate someday]], stand out.
* MsFanservice - Yoshinoya-sensei's love for {{cosplay}} makes her fill this role on several occasions, in a rare mix with the PuniPlush style.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - PlayedForLaughs when [[PerpetualPoverty Miyako]] discovers to her horror how much Polaroid film costs. She starts picking up all the photos she took while counting out their value [[BigEater in terms of meals.]]
* MysteriousPast - There are lots of rumors about Yoshinoya-sensei's past and the little information she gives just ''adds'' to the mystery.

* 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 [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]]-robot and camouflage Santa. They even put in some frames that had just gone to press. See also BaitAndSwitchCredits.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil - Nori thinks Sae has this attitude when the two discuss old-style dictionaries vs. computer notebooks to stay organized.
* 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]].
* NonindicativeName - Yuno's aforementioned drunken rant was mainly about this.
* NoodleIncident - Miyako is riddled with bizarre mysteries. Evidently, she had to rely on the stars for guidance at some point, and arrived at Hidamari with all her belongings in a two wheeled cart.

* 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. Oddly, this scene is depicted in the OP for the ''first'' season, making it BaitAndSwitchCredits at the time.

* {{Novelization}} - This series is made into a {{light novel}} -- mainly the manga's story made into words, that is.
* OcularGushers - Sae has a pretty pic one in the first episode of ''Sotsugyou-hen'', when [[spoiler:Hiro got into her first-choice college]].
* OdangoHair - 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.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo - ''Hidamari Sketch x 365'' and ''Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆'', the latter also qualifying as a LuckyCharmsTitle.
* OhCrap - The girls when they realize Hiro added extra garlic to the dish they were eating for dinner on the final day of summer vacation.
* OncePerEpisode - Yuno waking up to shut off her alarm clock, the DisturbedDoves in front of the school, the girls eating together, and Yuno taking a bath at the end of the day, with a cut showing the dropping of a [[http://www.lushusa.com/Bath-Bombs/bath-bombs,en_US,sc.html bath bomb]] into the water. Hoshimittsu replaces Yuno waking up with some Yoshinoya antics and having the girls do morning exercises.

* 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.)
* OriginsChapter - The last chapter of Volume 4 was used to explain why Natsume was such a {{Tsundere}} towards Sae. It is also one of the few chapters not drawn in {{yonkoma}} format.
* 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.
* ParentsAsPeople

* ParlorGames

* PhotoMontage - Several episodes (including a special that actually featured the characters playing with a Polaroid camera) feature photo montages over spoken conversation.
* 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.
* PuniPlush - The characters look very young for their supposed age, especially in the nude.
* QuirkyHousehold - As mentioned in the page quote, the Hidamari Apartments long has such a reputation.
* RealityEnsues - 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.]]
* RightBehindMe - Whenever Miss Yoshinoya says or does something inappropriate, almost invariably the principal appears behind her and drags her away to reprimand her. This happens so often that she eventually becomes paranoid and whirls around to check behind her after she suggests going to a restaurant instead of a staff meeting. Cue the Principal's SneezeCut.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship

* RuleThirtyFour - Carries the dubious reputation of [[http://kotaku.com/5053428/see-erotic-japanese-iphone-games having the first iPhone eroge based on]].
* SameClothesDifferentYear - Yuno's parents showed a photo of her from kindergarten and she has the same crisscrossed Bobby pins in her hair.
* SchoolFestival - 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.
* SchoolNurse - Kawahara-sensei.
* 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...

* SchoolSwimsuit - Yoshinoya wears one during the aquatics meet in ''Honeycomb'' Episode 4, continuing with her {{cosplay}} tradition.

* SexAsRiteOfPassage - (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.

* ShipperOnDeck - 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).
* ShoutOut

*** And Miyako won that puzzle.

*** Miyu Matsuki (Yoshinoya's VA) is on the same radio show as Inoue, Creator/RieTanaka, and other members of the "Forever 17 club." So it could be a self-reference, rather than a reference to Inoue specifically.

* 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 stray cats. Yuno, on the other hand, does this on the roof of Yamabuki High School, but for a different reason...

* 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 - Outside of the landlady, [[BadassLongcoat Sae's character]] in the SchoolPlay is [[http://www.onemanga.com/Hidamari_Sketch/27/04/ implied to fit]] too.
* SpoilerOpening - Mostly averted in ''Hoshimittsu'''s first episode due to the PlaceholderTitles, we only get a short clip of Nori and Nazuna.
* SproutingEars - 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.)
* {{Squick}} - An InUniverse use: Hiro has this reaction when she's rummaging under the sink for something to eat. She manages to grab a very old, very moldy orange.
* StrongFamilyResemblance - Played with. When Miyako first saw Yuno's parents, the first thing she thought was their lack of [[HairDecorations hair clips]].
* SuperDeformed - At the drop of a hat. Its kind of superdeformation was even coined ''wideface''.

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

* TooLongDidntDub - One particular example are the two strips on page 90 of Creator/YenPress' Volume 3, quoted verbatim below...

* {{Tradesnark}} - sound effects are commonly have the R symbol attached.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime - All four seasons now.
* 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 teach studio arts.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness - Happens to Yoshinoya and the principal when she's stranded during a rainstorm and he offers her some cover. Leads to a NotWhatItLooksLike moment when they run into the Hidamari landlady.
* UnmovingPlaid - Part of the art style.
* UnreadablyFastText - Miyako's crossword puzzle, along with the proverbs displayed on the first episode of the second season.

* WackyHomeroom - This is an arts magnet anyway.
* WasntThatFun - In one episode, the girls visit a water park and go down a very high waterslide. Yuno screams the loudest of the four girls, and seems genuinely terrified as she goes down, but when she comes up out of the water, she's all smiles. "It wasn't as scary as I thought!"
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs - In the manga, when the four girls attempt to draw {{yonkoma}}.
** [[TeamChef Hiro]] actually gave us four... ''pieces of rice cakes''.

* 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.

* GenreSavvy - When Yuno and Miyako run out of food during a typhoon, they head for Hiro's room to get some while immediately figuring out that Nazuna and Nori are going there for the same reason.

** ''[[ShowWithinAShow Fasionable Detective Lovely Chocolat]]'', starring [[Anime/PaniPoniDash Behoimi]] and [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Nozomu Itoshiki]].

** An episode of SayonaraZetsubouSensei is playing in the background during the season one special.

** ''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 "{{Furb|y}}o".