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is a
Japan ese
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.. Accessed
2007-02-16 . It was first serialized in the
Seinen Manga magazine ''
Manga Time Kirara Carat ''
1. An anime based on the manga has been created and started airing in Japan on
January 11 2007 .. Accessed
2007-02-16 .
''Hidamari Sketch'' centers around a young girl named Yuno who finally is able to get accepted into , which she has longed for. To attend the school, Yuno moves and starts to live in a small apartment building named the 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.
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:Yuno, sometimes called Yunocchi 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.
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: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 who is always trying to have fun with her friends. Her exuberance frequently borders on the childlike, but she is undeniably creative. 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.
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: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 principal sources of support when she's involved with a deadline or other crisis.
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:Sae is an upperclassman and good friends with Hiro. Her artistic specialties are photography and fiction writing; she writes fiction professionally under the pseudonym '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 cutting; 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.
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: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 truly inappropriate at times. 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".
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: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
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:Sae's younger sister
;Natsume
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: A rival of Sae's from D Class.
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Two volumes of the
Manga were published by
Houbunsha :
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.
;Opening theme: "Sketch Switch" by
Kana Asumi ,
Kaori Mizuhashi ,
Ryoko Shintani and
Yuko Goto
;Ending theme: "Mebae Drive" by
Marble
