History Trivia / HidamariSketch

* BreakthroughHit: While not the first work (nor their most iconic) of either, ''Hidamari Sketch'' is credited as the first major success for both Magazine/MangaTimeKirara and Creator/StudioShaft. It was the first anime adaptation from the former that would pay the way for most of it's latter manga to get animated, and is recognized as the latter's first series to adapt the studio's signature style. And all this after it survived an infamously troublesome production.

* SeriesHiatus: The series used to be regularly active in its prime during the heyday of the anime, but ever since it ended, the manga has been infrequent with chapters. This can be reflected with the volume releases; from 2005 to 2012, there were seven volumes distributed. From 2013 to 2020, only three volumes were released, and that's not taking into account the four year gap between the ninth and ten volumes.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Creator/RyokoShintani and Creator/MiyukiSawashiro [[Anime/GalaxyAngel are]] [[Manga/DearS together]] [[Anime/PaniPoniDash once]] [[Anime/RedGarden again]].
** Both appeared along with Creator/MisatoFukuen in ''Red Garden''.
** They would later feature alongside Creator/YukoGoto in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', and later all three with Creator/ChiakiOmigawa and [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Cho]] in ''Manga/ArakawaUnderTheBridge''.
** Ryoko Shintani would later work with Creator/KanaAsumi in ''VideoGame/{{Amagami}}''.

* ActingForTwo - Creator/MiyukiSawashiro plays both the Landlady and Yuno's classmate Mami.

* CommonCrossover: Due to the association with Creator/UmeAoki, fans of ''Hidamari Sketch'' tend to also like ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', which Aoki was the character designer. Considering what [[CosmicHorrorStory kind of story]] PMMM is, the adjoining of those two is [[SuperDeformed widely]] disturbing.
** Clearly this has been noted by the producers; a commercial for the ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' Movie appeared in the first episode of ''Hidamari Sketch X Honeycomb'', aired early October 2012. This is hardly coincidental, as producers purchase the entire OtakuOClock block and has a free rein on what commercials to put on as long as it agrees with the MoralGuardians.
** This is also the origin of the FanNickname "Chidamari Sketch" for ''PMMM'' ("chidamari" meaning, approximately, "pool of blood" in Japanese).

* FanNickname: ''Wideface'' for the iconic kind of [[SuperDeformed Super-deformation]].

* ActingForTwo - Creator/MiyukiSawashiro plays both the landlady and Yuno's classmate Mami.

* ActingForTwo - Creator/MiyukiSawashiro plays both the {{Landlady}} and Yuno's classmate Mami.

* ExecutiveVeto: [[WordOfGod Aoki]] wanted one of the members of the FourGirlEnsemble to be a WholesomeCrossdresser, but was shot down by the publisher, or at least that's what Wiki/TheOtherWiki says.

* ExecutiveVeto: [[WordOfGod Aoki]] wanted one of the members of the FourGirlEnsemble to be a WholesomeCrossdresser, but was shot down by the publisher, or at least that's what TheOtherWiki says.

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: [=HidaSketch=].

* CommonCrossover: Due to the association with UmeAoki, fans of ''Hidamari Sketch'' tend to also like ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', which Aoki was the character designer. Considering what [[CosmicHorrorStory kind of story]] PMMM is, the adjoining of those two is [[SuperDeformed widely]] disturbing.

** this explains [[FanNickname Chidamari Sketch]]