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Hidamari Sketch

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Hidamari Sketch

ひだまりスケッチ
(Hidamari Sukecchi)

Demographic

Seinen

Genre

Comedy, Slice of life

Manga

Author

Ume Aoki

Publisher

Houbunsha

Other publishers:
Yen Press

Serialized in

Manga Time Kirara Carat

Original run

April 2004 –

Volumes

TV anime

Director

Akiyuki Shinbo, Ryouki Kamitsubo

Studio

Shaft

Network

BS-i

Original run

January 11 2007 – March 29 2007

Episodes

TV anime: Hidamari Sketch special

Director

Akiyuki Shinbo, Ryouki Kamitsubo

Studio

Shaft

Network

BS-i

Original run

October 18 2007 – October 18 2007

Episodes

TV anime: Hidamari Sketch × 365

Director

Akiyuki Shinbo

Studio

Shaft

Hidamari Sketch (ひだまりスケッチ, Hidamari Sketch^? lit. Sunshine Sketch) is a Japanese four-panel comic strip by Ume Aoki revolving around the daily lives of a group of young girls all living in the same apartment where artists gather.^[1] It was first serialized in the seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat.^[2] Yen Press has licensed the manga for English language distribution under the title Sunshine Sketch.^[1] An anime based on the manga has been created and started airing in Japan on January 11 2007.^[3] A second season titled Hidamari Sketch × 365 has been announced to air in 2008.^[4]

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Media
- 3.1 Manga
- 3.2 Anime
  - 3.2.1 Theme songs
4 References
5 External links

Plot

Hidamari Sketch centers around a young girl named Yuno who finally is able to get accepted into Yamabuki High School (やまぶき高校, Yamabuki Kōkō^?), which she has longed for. To attend the school, Yuno moves and starts to live in a small apartment building named the Hidamari Apartments (ひだまり荘, Hidamari-sō^?) located near the school. Once there, she starts making new friends like her classmate Miyako and the second year students, Hiro and Sae. There is no real plot line to the story but rather the events of the characters' everyday lives are shown as they attend the school together and get to know each other better.

Characters

Hidamari Sketch main characters: Hiro (left), Yuno (center), Sae (right), and Miyako (bottom-right).

Yuno (ゆの, Yuno^?): Voiced by: Kana Asumi; Yuno, sometimes called "Yunotchi" by Miyako, is a young playful girl and main protagonist in the story. She lives in the Hidamari apartments, along with her close friends and neighbors Miyako, Hiro, and Sae. Her friends think of her as a very nice person. Yuno dreams of being a great artist someday. Although she is a skilled artist overall, she considers painting and drawing her specialties.
Miyako (宮子, Miyako^?): Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi; Miyako is Yuno's close friend, classmate, and next door neighbor in the apartment building where they live. Yuno refers to her as Miya-chan. She has an active personality and is always trying to have fun with her friends. Her exuberance frequently borders on the childlike, but she is undeniably creative. She is very spontaneous and claims the word "plan" does not exist in her dictionary. She loves to eat and has frequently asked for Hiro's leftovers when she is on one of her diets. She sometimes points out that Hiro may be gaining weight, which earns her a punch on the head by Hiro. Miyako's energy is frequently excessive and misplaced. Her rent is 5,000 yen cheaper than that of the other girls because her apartment is in poor repair, which is fortunate because she has less money than the other girls most of the time.
Hiro (ヒロ, Hiro^?): Voiced by: Yuko Goto; Hiro is a year older than Yuno and Miyako, living directly under Yuno's apartment. Although she tries to be a supportive senpai to the girls, she tends to worry excessively about her weight, causing her to go on diets for periods while occasionally binging on sweets. A childhood friend of Sae, she is one of her neighbor's principle sources of support when she is involved with a deadline or other crisis.
Sae (沙英, Sae^?): Voiced by: Ryoko Shintani; Sae is an upperclassman and good friends with Hiro. Her artistic specialties are photography and fiction writing; she writes fiction professionally under the pseudonym "Aya Tachibana" (橘文, Tachibana Aya^?) and enrolled at the school specifically so she could learn how to illustrate her own work. Sae, who is tall, athletic, and generally mature, has a playful side that can be at the same time enigmatic and cunning; she has a habit of giving Yuno just enough warning about potential problems for the younger girl to fail to avoid them. She also has a fondness for playing detective when faced with such anomalies as Miyako's apartment. She tends to get upset when Miyako refers to her as having masculine qualities. She also gets very uncomfortable when asked about her love life, frequently inventing a history for herself that even cursory examination would show to be absurd, while blushing furiously.
Yoshinoya (吉野屋, Yoshinoya^?): Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki; Yoshinoya is Yuno and Miyako's homeroom teacher and art instructor. She is buxom, exuberant, and a cosplay maniac. So much so, in fact, that she will frequently wear incredibly complicated things that are at times truly inappropriate. She has a fondness for modeling for her class, displaying her latest outfits whenever she can, and showing off in general. It is later revealed that Yoshinoya still resides with her parents, and would often be criticized by them for not being mature. When asked her age, she will answer "Eternally seventeen."
The Principal (校長, Kōchō^?): Voiced by: Yūichi Nagashima; The Principal is a thin, aging and balding man whose teeth are almost always chattering. Although he sometimes exhibits inexplicable behavior, when he appears it is most frequently to chastise Yoshinoya over her latest excess. Miyako can do a frightening effective imitation of him.
Chika (智花, Chika^?): Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya; Chika is Sae's thirteen-year-old sister. She is more spontaneous and energetic than her older sister. She enjoys cooking and has an infatuation with a Kabuki actor. She has no artistic talent and prefers music and home economics to art.
Natsume (夏目, Natsume^?): Voiced by: Misato Fukuen; Natsume is a rival of Sae's from class D.

Media

An example yonkoma strip from the manga.

Manga

The four-panel comic strip manga was first serialized in the seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat in April 2004, published by Houbunsha. While the manga is unfinished, two bound volumes of the manga has been published, the first on October 27 2005, and the second on December 27 2006. The manga has been licensed in English by Yen Press under the title Sunshine Sketch.^[1]

Anime

See also: List of Hidamari Sketch episodes

The Hidamari Sketch anime was produced by the animation studio Shaft and began airing in Japan on January 11 2007. Its style combines normal cel and CGI-2D animation with frequent use of still photographs for props. It is also a series that is not in chronological sequence; each episode takes place on a single day during Yuno's freshman year, but that day seems to be chosen at random. Despite this, episodes do build upon each other thematically, with details shown in earlier episodes becoming important in later ones.