Japanese: ひだまりスケッチ
English: Sunshine Sketch
Synonyms: HidaSke
Type: Manga
Volumes: 8 +
Chapters: 125 +
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 28, 2004 to ?
Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life
Mangaka: Aoki Ume (Story & Art)
Serialization: Manga Time Kirara Carat
Synopsis: Accepted to a high school specializing in the arts, Yuno moves into a nearby apartment complex to make her commute easier. Just a few days into her new routine, she quickly discovers that creativity doesn't end with the art school bell! Her neighbors—Sae, Hiro, and Miya—are all fellow students, and each has her own hilarious quirks. And eccentricity clearly rules this school; Yuno's homeroom teach is a cosplay otaku and the principal is just…weird. Will the quiet Yuno be able to handle this creatively kooky cast of characters?
Related Manga
Adaptation:
- Hidamari Sketch Specials,
- Hidamari Sketch,
- Hidamari Sketch x 365,
- Hidamari Sketch x 365 Specials,
- Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆,
- Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb,
- Hidamari Sketch x SP,
- Hidamari Sketch: Sae Hiro Sotsugyou-hen,
- Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ Specials
Other: Hidamari Sketch Anthology Comic
Groups Scanlating
Asagi-Chou
Highlanders
Mobots
Licensed in English
Yen Press (8 Volumes - Ongoing)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Side notes: This manga is also one that I'm totally unfamiliar with. I didn't see the anime nor have read anything about these girls before so I'm pretty much new with anything surrounding this manga. I had another manga here first but I then noticed that this manga also fits the theme and has pretty high score on both MAL and Baka so I decided to give it a chance. As i've read few chapters I can say that I like the comedy and story. And I can live with the art although I'm not overly keen about it. So make it short, it's pretty fun to read and pretty fast paces so there is no fear of boredom.
P.S. If interested to know which manga I dumped it is this one: Ikebukuro Hatsu, Zensekai Yuki! (Shounen, Ecchi, Harem) but it score barely over 7 points so I left it out.
Main characters
Miyako (宮子)
Height: 165cm
Birthday: October 10
Age: 15 (Hidamari Sketch-365), 16 (Hoshimittsu-Honeycomb)
Yuno's classmate and good friend. She's very strange, but a very likable person. She has very good ears and is good at imitating other people. She is notorious for her appetite and love for food.
Yuno (ゆの)
Height: 144 cm
Birthday: May 5
Age: 15 (Hidamari Sketch-365) 16 (Hoshimittsu-Honeycomb)
Yuno, sometimes called Yunocchi by Miyako, is a young, playful girl and main protagonist of 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.
Sae (沙英)
Height: 167cm
Age 16 (Hidamari Sketch-365) 17 (Hoshimittsu-Honeycomb)
Sae is an upperclassman and good friends with Hiro. In the anime version, she has a younger sister, Chika.
Her artistic specialtity is fiction writing; she writes fiction professionally under the pseudonym "Aya Tachibana" 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.
Sae is also very shy about her feelings towards her friends and especially her sister. She is much more comfortable chiding and scolding her little sister, Chika, whenever she comes to visit. However when she expresses genuine concern for her sister, her face will turn beet-red.
Hiro (ヒロ)
Height: 155cm
Age 16 (Hidamari Sketch-365) 17 (Hoshimittsu-Honeycomb)
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.
Supporting
Yoshinoya (吉野屋)
Height: 158cm
Age: "Eternally 17"
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".
Source: MAL
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