Hidamari Sketch (Original Series) Discussion Thread (Restarted)

[Suwako Moriya]

Last week the street date for the series passed. Some (or at least myself) have the DVD as part of their collection. Thus following the tradition used for some other series, I've decided to create a new discussion thread for those watching for the first time on DVD. Which also means hopefully the discussion can be more proper this time.

Not sure what type of pacing we should have for this thread, but sometime soon I'll get around to creating the sub thread for the first episode unless someone else does first.


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[Suwako Moriya]

Poor Yuno has to deal with the fact she forgot her homework.

Yuno and Miyako have fun in the snow.

Yoshinaya reveals she is a strange one.

In general, this episodes give us a feel for what the core cast is like.

Yuno was a case of love at first sight for me. Her voice, her design, and personality had an instant impact on me. Plus, she took a bath!

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I was just last night trying to convince a friend to watch this. Not sure if I'll have time to join in ep-by-ep but I'll try to.

[Fudce]

Rewatching the first episode the other day reminded me just how little the two downstairs appeared in it. Yuno was adorable as ever though. :)

[TalonG4]

Love and Piece!

I remember this episode pretty well but re-watching some the later ones on DVD, it was almost like watching it for the first time.

[Suwako Moriya]

Love and Piece!

Heh, you've got to love Miyako trying to explain that away.

[Spirit Of The Stage]

Love and Piece!

Heh, you've got to love Miyako trying to explain that away.

Nah, you've got to love Miyako. Full stop. :P

[Suwako Moriya]

Love and Piece!

Heh, you've got to love Miyako trying to explain that away.

Nah, you've got to love Miyako. Full stop. :P

It's a good thing that people are around to correct my mistakes.

[Suwako Moriya]

This is the episode where we learn that Miyako's apartment is cheaper and why. We also learn that Miyako has a big mouth.

In this episode the girls work on name plates for the apartment.

Also, this is the first indication of jumping around the time line for the series. Episodes of this show like referencing other episodes.

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Alright, I need to start this before I get too behind.

Episode 1:

January 11th!
- Yuno's cold feet are so cute in the morning!
- Sketch Switch! Such a great OP, although I like the 365 OP better. *** has the best ED although 365's is close.
- Yoshinoya-sensei's introduction is pretty much perfect. Immediately establishes her as childish, irresponsible, yet fun-loving.
- And then she totally shoots down Yuno's plea to hand the assignment in late, with a big smile on her face. :sd:
- I love the ひだまり荘 sign. <3
- Yuno puts her collage together and runs to class... with Miya hanging out the window and cheering her on, embarrassing Yuno utterly. OH GOD SO CUTE.
- Yoshinoya-sensei accepts it after all.
- The characters in this show make the best faces ever.
- LOVE & PIECE.
- Don't get in a snowball fight with Miyako.
- Miya-chan NYAAAAA~
- Hah, Miyako's excuses as to why she spelled it Piece are awesome.
- Yoshinoya is a hardcore cosplayer! Each student gets a different pose!
- Miyako is so shameless about food. :sd: I really like the short BMG piece that played briefly after Yuno shows everyone (except the audience) who the second caller is.
- Hah, Yuno trying to convince everyone she's not necessarily a good kid. FAT CHANCE. You're the most adorably innocent girl ever and couldn't go against that if you tried.
- Our favorite Hidamari staple! Yuno bathing!

"Mebae Drive" is such a nice ED. Ah yes, oh how I love this show.

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Episode 2:

August 21st!
- A stuffed bear... and Yuno's boobs! They went *squish*
- Yuno doing morning exercises! And ah, the first sign that this story is going to be achronological! Outside in front of Hidamari-sou, the nameplate is different. And there's a sign asking them to make a new one!
- Yuno's ass! This is all such a pleasant surprise. Forgot about this Yunoservice. =D
- And is it just me or does Yuno seem entirely too shy and easily embarrassed to be doing exercises right on the sidewalk? :sd:
- We're in the summer, late August, so we're jumped back 4.5 months.
- Huh, I can see how the character art has changed a bit in later seasons. It's a bit looser here with the weird faces. 365 and *** have all sorts of silly expressions too, but the art in general is more refined, tighter.
- Sae is ひ! Miyako is だ! Hiro is ま! Yuno is り! Who gets 荘?
- Hiro goes for red, because she sees sexy Yoshinoya-sensei in a red bikini! You know Hiro was turned on.
- Yuno goes blue after talk of the ocean.
- Yellow for Miyako and Pink for Sae.
- And references to something we haven't seen yet.
- Why is your apartment cheaper, Miyako? Because it could ignite at any second!
- Hahah, I love when Miyako gets the (very tight fitting) yukata and Sae can't help but notice the sexy side of it. Always with yuri on the brain, Sae!
- Sae's yukata makes her look like an old man.
- Yoshinoya looks great in her yukata.
- Miyako is going to put the festival games out of business.
- Love the BGM again when Miyako leads them all to the fireworks display.
- And more bathing Yuno!

Am kind of surprised at how far the art has come over the seasons. This was hardly bad, but definitely not on the same level.

[Suwako Moriya]

Apparently Yoshinaya has magical powers when it comes to changing outfits.

The part where Miyako keeps eating the bread is amusing. I can't get over the idea of bread used as an eraser. Probably because I eat plenty of sandwiches.

If your friend stains her artwork, stain yours too, and then stain the subject. Best strategy ever, Miyako.

Yuno has a stained face.

So many types of buns and so many items that can be used as side.

Miyako will do impressions for food.

Miyako getting in through the back door is more plausible.

Hiro and Sae talking to Yuno about Misato. A warning about a purple snake.

Poor Yuno, she was defeated by the purple snake aka purple rope.

[Fencedude]

Ok, finally getting a chance to do this.

lol Sketch Switch sounds weird since I'm much more used to hearing Endoh Masaki's cover of it. The impression is...different.

Interesting to see the change in art from the first episode to where we are in X***, though its not as extreme as you'd think.

Hiro and Sae talking about Yuno and Miyako playing in the snow would really make you think that they are more than just a year older. But then I guess they are already married, so additional maturity should be expected.

I always forget how good the Hidamari ED themes are, I never do get around to obtaining them, even though I really do like marble quite a bit, they didn't really get onto my radar until Hatsukoi Limited.

I think it would be a fascinating project to try and watch Hidamari chronologically.

[Suwako Moriya]

lol Sketch Switch sounds weird since I'm much more used to hearing Endoh Masaki's cover of it. The impression is...different.

I heard that version a couple of times, but most of my listening is of the original version. In any case that song is one of things that sold me on the series.



Hiro and Sae talking about Yuno and Miyako playing in the snow would really make you think that they are more than just a year older. But then I guess they are already married, so additional maturity should be expected.

Also, having "children" to take care of probably also provides them with motivation to be mature.


I always forget how good the Hidamari ED themes are, I never do get around to obtaining them, even though I really do like marble quite a bit, they didn't really get onto my radar until Hatsukoi Limited.

I currently only have ED to the first season. I still need to get the CD for the ending to season 2 and 3. Not that I've checked when three will be out.

I think it would be a fascinating project to try and watch Hidamari chronologically.

It would also be a challenge. Given the covering of the time line has only become more complex with each season.

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I always forget how good the Hidamari ED themes are, I never do get around to obtaining them, even though I really do like marble quite a bit, they didn't really get onto my radar until Hatsukoi Limited.
Heh, I actually just purchased all the Hidamari EDs last night. I initially intended to grab the x *** OP and ED, after finally realizing they were on CDJapan but not labeled as Hidamari. Only found them by plugging the Japanese titles into the Neowing side and realizing they were there. The ED was a definite, as it may just be my favorite piece of Hidamari music yet, although I'll reserve judgment until the full version. But as I listened to them all, I decided to skip the x *** OP for now and add in Mebae Drive instead.

That's when I noticed that in all three cases I like the EDs better than the OPs and all are marble. The b-sides are amazing too. Considering Hatsukoi as well, I could definitely stand to hear more EDs from them.

I think it would be a fascinating project to try and watch Hidamari chronologically.
I might try it one day, although it'd be really complicated, especially when single episodes include two (or more?) very widely separated days. The other problem is that we don't know how long the anime will go and the way it's all set up, they could be in, like, season six and still occasionally have segments from the first year.

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Not that I've checked when three will be out.
February 10th (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=LASM-4045), wish it were coming out sooner like the OP is. Gonna hold up my orders for the other two EDs (and a Vocaloid CD) for a little while.

[Suwako Moriya]

Not that I've checked when three will be out.
February 10th (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=LASM-4045), wish it were coming out sooner like the OP is. Gonna hold up my orders for the other two EDs (and a Vocaloid CD) for a little while.

Ah, so it's a date that's still weeks away, but at least it's not one that's months away. On a side note, I've got to love how anime decides to make purchasing decisions even more complicated by creating more items to consider.:sweat:

[Fencedude]

Even to this day I remain surprised at how well endowed Yuno is. Its just not something you expect from her character type.

Though she's still outdone by two residents of Hidamari-sou

lol Miyako's Yukata. I'll bet no one at that festival noticed what the pattern was.

[Suwako Moriya]

Even to this day I remain surprised at how well endowed Yuno is. Its just not something you expect from her character type.


Heh, I never gave it much thought. Let me rephrase that. I've paid attention her chest. I've noticed it and continue to like seeing it. However I never really thought "They're big for her type".

[Fudce]

Even to this day I remain surprised at how well endowed Yuno is. Its just not something you expect from her character type.


Heh, I never gave it much thought. Let me rephrase that. I've paid attention her chest. I've noticed it and continue to like seeing it. However I never really thought "They're big for her type".

That's the thing. Yuno isn't overly large, but she's not got nothing either. The same could be said of all of the characters in Hidamari - not one seems to be too big or too little.

[Suwako Moriya]

That's the thing. Yuno isn't overly large, but she's not got nothing either. The same could be said of all of the characters in Hidamari - not one seems to be too big or too little.

It's definitely nice to have a series where they avoid going too far in either direction. Also, it's good they give us a chance to double check Yuno once in awhile. Heh, I need to re-watch episode 4 and start the sub thread for that soon.

[Suwako Moriya]

Yuno has managed to wake up early. Yuno is being cute resting on her futon, outside her window.

Miyako has fish!

Yoshinaya's class gets to sketch outdoors this time.

I've got to love the way Yoshinaya's class reacts to her warning about doing a nude painting.

Miyako's apartment is closer.

I don't care if those two are denying it, I'm convinced they are secretly dating. All girls in the world of Hidamari have a partner.

Yuno cleans a statue and thinks about her dad for no related reason.

Miyako thinks she'll get gifts if she's kind to the statue as well.

Miyako wants to take the statue back with her.

Hiro's compliments about Sae's skill leads to Miyako saying things she shouldn't.

Yuno got stuff from her parents. She thanks them and the statue. On the other hand, Miyako lost her fish.

Ah, it's the worm. The worm being a good example of how later and earlier episodes have been referencing each other.

We have a depressed Hiro. A depressed Hiro that doesn't want Sae to talk about it.

Yuno suggests the idea of using karaoke as a method to burn some calories. They even have machines that can count it. I sense an excuse to hear the girls sing. Excuses like this are good.

Yuno is a polite one.

So we get to hear Hiro sing first and second because she decides to go again.

Sae tells Miyako and Yuno about the problem while Hiro sings. I like how Hiro's expression and such changed as she sang and Sae talked.

Hiro got upset because a little grabbed her arm and called her fluffy.

Sae's turn and she does pretty decently the first time. The second time however is another story.

Miyako thought they were just translated titles of the same songs.

We learn than Yoshinaya made the statue and that it looked different in the past.

Sae discovers Yoshinaya in one of the booths. Also, delayed reaction.

The others press Sae about her knowledge in regard to the statue. She admits her familiar with it. So you pay to the statue for a larger chest?

Hiro is not sitting down.

Yay, Yuno is singing finally! The way she sings it is different than what Hiro and Sae are familiar with it.

Miyako sings the same way as Yuno and suddenly Yuno notices something is off.

Miyako used to sing at clubs when she was younger.

Hiro's gets to sing a third time.

Miyako wonders where Hiro is fluffy.


They discuss the worm and Yuno decides she wants to keep it. On a side note, why is it a worm? Shouldn't it be a caterpillar?:sweat:

As they walk home they run into the girl that called Hiro fluffy. She mentions pink and Hiro realizes it was about the hair.

Then the girl decides to call Yuno small. Yuno is still growing! Yuno, you're tallk enough.

Diet Jelly has arrived.

Yuno left her futon out too long.

Hiro, discover one piece can make a difference.

Yuno singing in the bath.

[strangefour]

-Yuno is kinda cute.
-Miyako is doubley cute.
-Teacher is a bit goofy. maybe too much.
-Sae & Hiro make a cute couple.
-LOVE & PIECE! hehehe
-Hurray snow art. Not Calvin & Hobbes enough, but adorable.
-Cosplay teacher? Okay I like her too.
-Cellphone blush? What did did the teacher send half naked cosplay photo?

That's a cute first episode. Sorta halfway between Sketchbook Fullcolors~'s laid back embracing of the world through art and the almost spastic scatter shot art term filled pace of Geijutsuka Art Design Class. Now to watch more.

[strangefour]

-I don't like the use of photos of real things in Hidamari.
-Make a new sign for the apt? I guess that explains the weird sign I was not reading in the first episode.
-I guess they must be forced to live in the campus lesbian apartments. Yes. That's is my story.
-Miyako is a bad carpenter!
-Chocolate detective? Apartment filled with blood? Sae & Hiro are such an inventive couple.
-Hiro, the one drawn the slimmest is that fat one of the group?
-FLASHER SENSEI!
-And Hiro can not forget that image. If made her blush as red and the swimsuit.
-And she sends pictures of herself to her students. In front of fake sets. That's one amusing teacher.
-A beautiful apartment manager. Who conveniently arranged for only cute nubile girls to house in her apartment. Ho ho.
-Curtains! I will make a yukata out of curtains! Must have candy! Oh Miya.
-Sae is hot for Yukata :D
-Weirdly stylistic visuals and camera changes remind me alot of Bakemonogatari.
-Sensei is wearing normal clothes. And has an eye for Miya.
-A fox demon is calling to Miya? This has become an episode of Bakemonogatari.
-Fireworks! Maybe Miya is a kitsune.
-Another bath scene for Yumo?
-Sensei so sexy!
-Miya will invade your personal space.

Yeah this is a fun show. Atleast it's grabbing me faster than Geijutsuka did. But it does not have a cute Canadian. Oh well nobody's perfect. I am hoping for a naked body painting episode though.

[Fencedude]

-Hiro, the one drawn the slimmest is that fat one of the group?

Hiro's weight issues are almost entirely in her mind.

[Suwako Moriya]

-Hiro, the one drawn the slimmest is that fat one of the group?

Hiro's weight issues are almost entirely in her mind.

Also, she needs to realize that some of her weight is the result of having an awesome chest. I speak as if I have any idea how much a chest is supposed to weight relative to its size. Not like I've ever let facts get in the way before.

Speaking of chests, the classic "in her mind" issue in anime would be some girl with chest that's at least a B-Cup acting like she's completely flat....

[Suwako Moriya]

Thanks to a fever, we get one of the strangest episodes in the series ever.

Lots of dreaming by Yuno in this episode with plenty of strange stuff happening in it.

The other girls trying to take care of her.

We get to meet a nurse.

Also, we find that Yuno has a mole, but I don't think they ever showed exactly where it was.

[strangefour]

-Is every episode going to start in Yuno's bed and end in her bath?
-Moth will not awaken until twin fairies sing to it.
-Dot matrix printing yawn.
-Hiro's balls get frizzy in humid weather. Heh
-Sexy sensei moth cosplay?
- Oh... oh my. Pink. Panties. Oh yeah.
-Hard to draw! Yoshinoya's sad spazzing out voice is oddly cute.
-YES TAKE IT OFF~
-Oh maid. A maid is fine too.
-Heh wedding dress. Why is that man vibrating? Why is he shaped like a vibrater?
-HOLY SHIT HARD CORE PORN EYE CATCH! Well okay hard core martigras.
-Miya maid! Yuno waifu!
-Brutis-kun, hehe that makes me giggle.
-Well I guess teh use of photographs of thinsg comes in handy for multiple angles of Brutus-kun. Still doesn't mean I like it.
-Miya will eat your whole arm off Yuno. Run away!
-Sensei's squeaky shoes are somewhere between child like sweetness and adult kinkiness.
-Little doll man on a pillow. Little doll man get's clothes between camera cuts. I adore little background touchs like that.
-Run tofu-san run!
-doll man got beat up but came back with an envelope?
-Subliminal Pani Poni.
-Man this episode is making me hungry. Curse your bottomless belly Miya
-She got admitted via the back door? Oh you dirty girl Miya. Dirty dirty girl.
-Dollman has left behind flowers and the note.
-Giant mattress weather doll!
-So Miya is basically what Yotsuba will grow up to be
-The dark secret of Misato-senpai! I bet she was ... *dun* *dun* *dun* ... not a lesbian.
-"Beware of the purple snake." Holy crap they disowned Misato because she liked men.
-Today Yuno was murdered by a bucket.

I'm enjoying teh subtle lesbian shipping too much admittedly, but this is a fun little show. something was right about trying to get me to watch this sooner.

[strangefour]

-Yuno. Bed. Bear. Clock. More photos.
-Staplers! Oh no Hitagi crab is coming.
-"Sketch anything as long as it is on school grounds" Sketch sensei.
-No nudity on the lawn! Yuno: "Oh no she saw through my intentions!"
-Wow their apartments are THAT damn close. They could jump off the balcony and land on school property.
-The principal reminds me of Susan from Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi!! Masaru-san
-"Don't tell anyone you caught us having sex in the bamboo grove!"
-Miya wants candy!
-Man I LOVE the dot matrix printing close ups. Mainly because I miss dot printing in comic books.
-Sae is a new-half. Aww she became a girl to be with little lesbian Hiro, that's so sweet
-"I can eat cake if I sing 30 songs"
-heheh
-Hiro needs an intervention for her eating disorder
-Favorite name. It ate Soba, It is considerably fear.
-So Yoshinoya sensei's statue of David weathered down into a little Buddha? So she's what 80?
-Yoshinoya singing 404 ahahahaha
-Pray to him and your boobs will grow. Ganbate Sae.
-No Miya don't stop. Keep singing. Sing for your candy.

Okay sometimes the subtle lesbian undertones are not so subtle.

[Fencedude]

Okay sometimes the subtle lesbian undertones are not so subtle.

There is absolutely nothing subtle or undertone about Sae.

You could make a decent argument that Yuno and Miyako aren't actually gay, but Sae? No way, she's got a wife already, and even a stalker (whom you haven't met yet, I believe)

[strangefour]

Okay sometimes the subtle lesbian undertones are not so subtle.

There is absolutely nothing subtle or undertone about Sae.

You could make a decent argument that Yuno and Miyako aren't actually gay, but Sae? No way, she's got a wife already, and even a stalker (whom you haven't met yet, I believe)

Yeah Yuno and Miya might be a couple. But it's very nebulous in a friendshipy kinda way. Sae and Hiro on the other hand are gaaaaaaaaaaaay. They are always in the same room together and act like a married couple just about.

Yoshinoya is the straightest one so far. But she's an exhibitionist who sends half naked photos of herself to her lesbian students. God bless her. :bowsmiley:

[Suwako Moriya]

Yeah Yuno and Miya might be a couple. But it's very nebulous in a friendshipy kinda way. Sae and Hiro on the other hand are gaaaaaaaaaaaay. They are always in the same room together and act like a married couple just about.

In the case of Yuno and Miyako, I'm hoping that Sae and Hiro will be a positive influence on the two of them over time. No prizes for guessing what I mean.

[Fencedude]

Yeah Yuno and Miya might be a couple. But it's very nebulous in a friendshipy kinda way. Sae and Hiro on the other hand are gaaaaaaaaaaaay. They are always in the same room together and act like a married couple just about.



Oh yeah, and don't think the show doesn't know it either. Wait till you see some stuff in x365.

[Fencedude]

Misato-senpai is obviously related to Koyomi.

Washpan!

[Fencedude]

Its always amusing to me when its confirmed, in universe, that someone actually has the hair color they seem to have.

I'd totally forgotten that Miya was a fantastic singer.

[Fencedude]

Ah! The fever episode!

Trippy dream Yuno's having. For some reason when in that dress she looks like Suou...

First appearance of Chika-chan! More or less, anyway.

And the School Nurse! And Yoshinoya sensei is incredibly sexy, even when fully clothed.

Yuno really does have good friends.

[Suwako Moriya]

Misato-senpai is obviously related to Koyomi.

Washpan!

Maybe we should have Koyomi train under Misato-senpai.

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Episode 3:

June 17th!
- Yuno is tired! And she has a pet caterpillar.
- I swear, every one of Hiro's self-perceived personal failures in reality just makes her more awesome. Scary hair! Someone staples Takolukas to her head.
- Yoshinoya is like, the best teacher ever.
- Miya in her Kore ga Watashi no Goshuujin-sama maid outfit! Yuno in a wedding dress! YUNO IS MIYAKO'S WAIFU!!
- Yunocchi Beam, LOCK ON!
- Yuno never seems to get mad. But then you need to be used to dealing with a lot to be Miyako's wife.
- Hahaha, Miyako's imagination going to food while others take something sseriously never stops being funny.
- Charcoal face Yuno! Sad Yuno always has me torn between ;_; and Awwww~~
- I love watching Hiro eat. Because you know that's when she's happiest.
- Hah, what do they all take Miyako for? ...The idea of her being an honor student is amusing though.
- Impromptu shiritori! Miyako loses.
- Heh, there's that non-chronological storytelling again. We found out on August 21st in ep 2 why Miyako's room is cheaper.
- BEWARE THE PURPLE SNAKE!
- More Yuno bathing!
- ...She pulled it. ...I think Yuno and Nagisa would get along fabulously, don't you? Seriously though, how did she not notice a washpan taped to the ceiling? :sd:

Yuno bathing is one of my favorite things in this world. ::nods::

[Fencedude]

Summer!

Yoshinoya's test is so very....Yoshinoya.

Tanned Miyako!

Tanned Miyako with a paw tanline!

Flustered Sae! And she doesn't give Miyako the bikini top lol.

...uhh weren't Miyako's shorts from earlier longer than those bikini bottoms?

Bathing suits!

Hiro...thats not very healthy.

And Hiro in a bathing suit! Hiro, all your fat is in exactly the right places <3 <3

[Suwako Moriya]

Yoshinoya's test is so very....Yoshinoya.

That had to be an interesting test to take.

Tanned Miyako with a paw tanline!

One of the best tanlines ever in the history of anime.

Flustered Sae! And she doesn't give Miyako the bikini top lol.

I love how Sae talked into the fan. It's always good when characters do that. Plus her logic for not giving the bikini top is so fitting.

And Hiro in a bathing suit! Hiro, all your fat is in exactly the right places <3 <3

Exactly, Hiro should be proud of her figure.

[Fencedude]

Both Natsume and the Landlady make their first appearances. Natsume doesn't come off very well though.

Adventures in Typhoons! Uhh...I guess it wasn't that bad of a Typhoon, in the end.

Hiro is just unrelentingly domestic.

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Episode 4:

May 18th!
- Yuno beat the alarm by a second!
- I'm with Yuno. Whenever you actually have time to clean up, you never want to. I'll put things off for weeks...
- Hahah, oh Hidamari-sou. You're closer than the school bathroom.
- The principal got shot down.
- Chiku-rin!
- LESBIANS IN THE BAMBOO! Or that's Yuno's immediate reaction. Boy I wonder why! YUNO IS GAY, YUNO IS GAY, YUNO IS SUPER GAY GAY GAY! <3 <3 <3
- Hidamari-jizou! I think Miyako has the wrong idea about karma.
- Poor Sae. People need to respect her feminine charms more. She should really save that energy for when she visits Hiro at night.
- Oh there's Hiro on about her weight again. Eat that cake! Level up your love pillows for Sae!
- Yuno. is. adorable.
- Hahaha, Hiro, you should know that your words of love totally blow Sae's mind up.
- And now Sae is off to the bathroom to... ahem.
- Yoshinoya!
- The secret is out! Sae must increase her bust! ...nah. Asymmetrical docking with Hiro is fine too, Sae!
- Hahahah. Miyako thinks bigger boobs are uninteresting, she would prefer food! ...Yeah, someone with her boobs can say that so easily. Of course since it's Miyako, you know she means it.
- Yuno and the ocarina!
- Asumi Kana singing badly is CUTE AS FUCK.
- Miyako beats them all! But I'll still take off key Yuno.
- Sae doesn't like other people thinking about her wife's boobs.
- I wonder if Yuno drinks Musashino milk.

Bathing!

[Suwako Moriya]

Both Natsume and the Landlady make their first appearances. Natsume doesn't come off very well though.

Yuno's reaction once she found out it was the Landlady was a definite highlight of the episode. Yeah, Natsumi didn't give a good first impression.


Hiro is just unrelentingly domestic.

Can we count that as a special power?

[Fencedude]

Sae, even Yuno can tell you are BSing, so don't even try.

And Sae has the most wonderful wife ever.

[Suwako Moriya]

Sae, even Yuno can tell you are BSing, so don't even try.

Ah, but her trying probably amuses them. Wait, I'm making the others sound twisted. I need to get around to re-re-re-re-re-watching this episode later.

[Hrld]

Okay sometimes the subtle lesbian undertones are not so subtle.

There is absolutely nothing subtle or undertone about Sae.

You could make a decent argument that Yuno and Miyako aren't actually gay, but Sae? No way, she's got a wife already, and even a stalker (whom you haven't met yet, I believe)

Yeah Yuno and Miya might be a couple. But it's very nebulous in a friendshipy kinda way. Sae and Hiro on the other hand are gaaaaaaaaaaaay. They are always in the same room together and act like a married couple just about. Miyako is more like a combination of Yuno's long lost big sister and a large pet dog. Sae and Hiro's level of friendship has gone past Sayuri x Mai and are now approaching Haruka x Michiru levels.

[something]

Episode 5:

February 13th!
- Yuno has such a fever that she's literally glowing...
- Miyako should stay with Yuno and heal her with her body!
- Yuno's dreams + Shaft = awesome.
- And a big poofy dress...
- MIYAKO STRIPS YUNO NAKED AND HAS HER WAY WITH HER!
- I love Miyako's apple murdering song. Miyako is such a nice lover.
- Yuno waves her arms around for no reason. AND IT IS ADORABLE.
- CHIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
- Yoshinoya's legs! We need to spend more quality time with them, if you ask me.
- Heh, Kuwabara and Yoshinoya are just so blatantly messing with Sae. Sae is too fun to tease.
- A(n even) small(er) Yuno!
- Hahah, I love the shot of Miyako in her desk with absolutely nobody around her.
- SPINNING Xs!
- They form circles...
- Miyako's impression of the principal is amazing.
- There's also something very scary growing on Yuno's floor.
- Sae is going to get some chocolate. =D
- It's so god damn heartwarming seeing everyone come in at night to check in on her.
- "When I caught a cold last year, you stayed with me all night, didn't you?" I BET YOU DID.
- Yuno calls out for her wife while sleeping!

Awesome episode, with one flaw. No bathing!

[Fencedude]

Ah! Kishi-san! I'd forgotten about her. <3

And Miyako really is surprisingly perceptive at times. Also bathing and sleeping with Yuno.

She has bad taste in alarm clocks though...

[Fencedude]

Combination Yamabuki Art Festival and BATHHOUSE episode!

Yoshinoya's...performance sure was interesting.

And Hiro is right, women are better when they are well rounded!

[Fencedude]

Trip to the zoo!

Hiro teases Sae about her "dates", Hiro's voice was...oddly sensual in this scene.

Then its ALL ABOUT YOSHINOYA-SENSEI!

I would totally buy her photo book. And she is, of course, Eternally 17.

[Fencedude]

Chika-chan!

Chika-chan!

CHIKA-CHAN!

Chika-chan!

CHIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKAAAAAAAA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!

I think that covers everything.

[strangefour]

-Yuno wakes up in the ninth level of hell. Then she wakes up again and is radiating energy. She's become a Red Lantern?
-This Yuno of mine is glowing read. It's loud ro-- well it's soft voiced sigh is telling me to-- uh feel moe?
-Miyako... where did you just stick your hand. Under the blankets. On Yuno's nubile young body? WHERE!?
-Stripping time. Yuno's naked body is glowing in Miya's eyes.
-Ah, a mole.
-Such a good waifu you are Miya.
-Apple bunny? Miyako is a crazy one
-Caterpillar hatched on the floor Oh this is all Yoshinoya's fault because of her skimpy new years cosplay. Hah.
-And a new caccoon. Ah wonderful little throw away visual gags on the side.
-Aww Miya taunts Sae for being the boy in the relationship. Sae fumes. Sae punches.
-Aww Sae & Hiro flirting as Yuno sleeps. They should give her a bath.

Weird episode but fun. I kind of miss the bathing scene. It's tradition! Ducky misses it too. Rubber ducky you're the one, yeessss.

[strangefour]

-And even weirder opening? Yuno is running from ultra monster Nova?
-hehe impatient Yoshinoya has to draw on the blackboard.
-Under. Above. Frontal. The many views of Miya's cleavage. Oh hello pussy... cat.
-Hah she was on the roof. Oh she's all burnt now. But a cute little paw print tan line. I adore Miya.
-Even Sae can be goofy. Hurray
-"If we are going to play it will be more fun to play with you." Sae is now all hot and bothered. Unsubtle lesbian is unsubtle.
- Blushing Sae is cute. Read more stuff from her porn drawer.
-Focus in on Sae's supple ass. Good camera work.
-BAD SAE! You should have given Miya the top to! So we could see it ;_;
-fill pool, water fight, fill pool, water fight, fill pool, water fight, fill pool, water fight, fill---
-Mmmm bikinis. Yay bathtime returns.
-wtf did the little caterpillar turn into?


Tanned Miyako with a paw tanline!

One of the best tanlines ever in the history of anime.

And Hiro in a bathing suit! Hiro, all your fat is in exactly the right places <3 <3

Exactly, Hiro should be proud of her figure.

Miyako's nekomimi styled tan is fantastic. As is finding out why Hiro things she's fat. She can't see past her own bust to her flat stomach.

[Fencedude]

Interestingly, the specials have the X365 "Beep Beep Beep" tied to the specific season, but still using the original OP. Animation quality has also gone up.

Anyway, pool episode! Again!

Everyone gets into it, even the Principle and the Landlady!

And of course Yoshinoya, and Chika-chan in one of the eyecatches!

And topless Hiro in an eyecatch as well.

Utterly fantastic episode.

[Suwako Moriya]

Let's jump from the second floor.

Yuno, it's fine if Miyako sees your panties. You're engaged (in my mind) anyway.

Sae's motivation for learning art is an interesting one.

Miyako's method of story telling leaves something to be desired.

Hiro has awesome wife powers.

The names of the characters for that story Miyako and Yuno were reading are quite curious.

Yuno does some drawing.

[Suwako Moriya]

That alarm clock is just wrong.

Miyako says some interesting things.

It's the appearance of Kishi Maiko.

Yuno needs more confidence.

[Suwako Moriya]

Remember, festival time must be followed with bathing time.

Yuno's repeated opening and closing of the door when going to check on the display of her draw was amusing.

A Cinderella play.

Miyako drew Yuno! That's all I have to say.

Clearly festival time must be followed by bath time.

Hiro and Sae may be nervous, but Miyako is relaxed.

I love the way Hiro's hair moves sometimes.

A debate over Dracula.

Miyako tries out the X style.

And they're talking about the festival stuff while bathing.

Miyako was born to play a horse.

Yuno closes the curtain in the best way possible.

It's ballet time! The differing amount of clothing made it even more amusing. Not that Miyako was wearing anything.

Ritual bathing continues.

[Suwako Moriya]

Some of the animal related talk as amusing.

Lots of Yoshinaya this time around.

[Suwako Moriya]

So much Chika-chan goodness in this episode. The more we get of her the better. Sae should embrace the honor of having an imouto. An imouto with a nice body.

[Fencedude]

I'm about to watch Special 2, after that, should we just continue with x365 in this thread?

[something]

I'm about to watch Special 2, after that, should we just continue with x365 in this thread?
Might as well, I guess. Maybe get a mod to update the subject line to Hidamari Sketch (Original Series and x 365) Discussion Thread (Restarted)?

[Fencedude]

Oh Sae, Hiro would never, ever leave you.

Natsume saw a chance, but was unable to capitalize properly.

[Suwako Moriya]

I'm about to watch Special 2, after that, should we just continue with x365 in this thread?

I guess it depends on how important you feel the DVD factor is vs keeping up with momentum. Part of my reason for starting this thread boiled down to other cases where the logic boiled down to...

The DVD just came out, others should hopefully have it, thus this might be a good time to revisit the series.

That, and the old thread was made before the forum switchover. Which means there's a lot of messed up tags and it was before we had the those guidelines...

I was originally thinking along the lines of starting up a separate thread for X365 thread in April, but if people feels it's better to keep both in one thread then I'll accept that as an alternative strategy.

It would give me an excuse to watch the X365 episodes even sooner. I speak as if I need a reason to re-watch episodes of Hidamari Sketch.

[TnAdct1]

Weird episode but fun.
Given how this is a SHAFT anime, the "weird" aspect is pretty much expected. :bigsmile:

Besides, it's way better than the crap that "the other show that Shinbou and SHAFT were working on at time" offered the same week this episode aired in Japan (an epsidoe that made me believe that their heart was more towards Hidamari Sketch than the other show).

[Suwako Moriya]

Might as well, I guess. Maybe get a mod to update the subject line to Hidamari Sketch (Original Series and x 365) Discussion Thread (Restarted)?

I'll leave that up to someone else to do. I'm too busy watching the series and making avatars.

In any case, if we are going to discus X365 here as well, I think we should have "X365 Episode #" as the subject line for those episodes to be able to tell them apart from the original series easily.

[Fencedude]

I'd forgotten how ludicrously well animated the first episode of X365 was.

Anyway, we are now at the beginning of the story!

Lots and lots of cuteness from Yuno all around, and Miyako...is Miyako.

And Hiro's the perfect wife.

I was amused at Natsume being the test proctor. And the principle got Yoshinoya's boobs to the back of his head.

[Suwako Moriya]

And of course Yoshinoya, and Chika-chan in one of the eyecatches!

-------------

And topless Hiro in an eyecatch as well.

Both these points just go to show how valuable eyecatches can be and how lucky we are that a single episode can have multiple ones.

In any case, I love the part where Yuno was playing "whack the watermelon" and how they reminded us how Yuno needs her X to be complete.

This episode reminded of the way the series likes to use photographs sometimes.

[something]

I'm about to watch Special 2, after that, should we just continue with x365 in this thread?
I guess it depends on how important you feel the DVD factor is vs keeping up with momentum. Part of my reason for starting this thread boiled down to other cases where the logic boiled down to...
The DVD just came out, others should hopefully have it, thus this might be a good time to revisit the series.
Ah, right. We could wait a little while for an x365 thread, since it comes out within a few months.

Well either way, I mean, if someone wants to watch it now there's no reason not to. I might hold off myself, I dunno. I've got a good bit of season one left to rewatch anyway.

[Suwako Moriya]

Well either way, I mean, if someone wants to watch it now there's no reason not to.

Well, it looks like discussion for X365 has already started in this thread. Thus we may as well go ahead and keep discussing it.

In any case, it's kind of interesting to have a Hidamari Sketch discussion thread, where there isn't a huge gap between episodes.

[Suwako Moriya]

Oh Sae, Hiro would never, ever leave you.

Such is the power of true love. And with this, I've completed the first season. Should get around to the second season eventually, but have things to do first.

[something]

Episode 6:

July 14th!
- What is up with Yuno's dreams? :sd:
- 12 hours? That's not much, Yuno! I would like to get 12 every night...
- Hiro playing a harp, want more!
- Haha, Yuno and her eraser. Also, this teacher is pulling the evil A-A-A-A-A-A!
- Nobody knows the principal's name. XD
- Ahahaha, 50 points for explaining how much they love Yoshinoya-sensei.
- Hey... looking at Yuno's question sheet and answer sheet, the question about Yoshinoya is #15. And Yuno wrote nothing. She likes noting about Yoshinoya! And she's going to lose 50 pts...
- ...Miyako wants you to remember that she has large breasts. She also tans very quickly.
- HAHAHAHA. Sae's facade has never been demolished more thoroughly than now. She's embarrassed as hell, Miyako is about to explode from laughter, Yuno is utterly flustered. Amazing scene.
- Absolutely glorious awkwardness between Sae and Yuno. XD Sae answers the bikini question pretty honestly but after that... what is Yuno supposed to say? :sd:
- The characters are nearly chibi to begin with but when they get even more chibi they make the best faces ever. Like Yuno when she's wondering if she'll ever have the pool blown up.
- Not surprised Yuno goes for the one piece, but slightly disappointing. Sae is the only bikini, which is amusing in a way. I wonder what Sae thinks, "losing" even to Yuno? :sd:
- Even Hiro doesn't wear a bikini! But also but surpsinging considering her hang-ups.
- Looove the shot of all four lying in the pool together.
- Finally some service shots! Yuno has an adorable butt.
- Bathing!
- And Brutus.
- Not a butterfly after all. :sd:

Hmmm. There was one episode in the initial broadcast of Hidamari Sketch where I felt like Shaft really pulled one of their trademark "shitshitshit it's not done" deals on us. At first I thought it was this one (with the dream), but it definitely isn't. I wonder if I'll remember when I see it, or if it won't seem to bad now, or if it was fixed for DVD.

Anyway, pool episode! Sorta!

[something]

...uhh weren't Miyako's shorts from earlier longer than those bikini bottoms?
She stripped down to her panties to tan! Or so I'm telling myself.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Just got my copy in the mail today, so I thought I'd have a quick look.

This is my exposure to the Hidamari Sketch anime (apart from an OP or two), though I do love the manga already.

Hmm... so the series is starting in media res, eh?

The voices of the four main girls, plus Yoshinoya, seem well-suited, though I was expecting Sae's to be a bit lower.

Two "Oh Snap"s in the subtitles? I dunno about that.

A very low-key show, very slice of life. The music seems inspired by Azumanga Daioh.

More, please.

[lumber]

...uhh weren't Miyako's shorts from earlier longer than those bikini bottoms?
She stripped down to her panties to tan! Or so I'm telling myself.

Isn't that pretty much what happened in the manga? Because she was such a cheapskate, she didn't want to buy a bikini just for tanning....

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Ah, so it wasn't simply an in media res opening, it's completely non-chronological. Not unfitting of the source material, of course.

The occasional jumps between photo-realistic bits and animation is jarring at first, but I got used to it eventually.

Does Yuno take a bath in every episode? Not that I'm complaining of course. Ooh, I sure hope that (A) they animated the bathhouse chapter and (B) it takes place in this season.

Is that green thing with the human face supposed to be a caterpillar?

[Fencedude]

Is that green thing with the human face supposed to be a caterpillar?

Its an Ume-sensei

[Suwako Moriya]

Hmmm. There was one episode in the initial broadcast of Hidamari Sketch where I felt like Shaft really pulled one of their trademark "shitshitshit it's not done" deals on us. At first I thought it was this one (with the dream), but it definitely isn't.!

It was episode 9 and one telling part had to do with Miyako around 20:58 or so. Also, it was indeed fixed for the DVD version.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

One of the biggest problems I had with Azumanga Daioh was the stretching of one joke far too long--first sight of that this series with the multiple Yoshinoya outfits.

Hungry Miyako is scary.

[something]

One of the biggest problems I had with Azumanga Daioh was the stretching of one joke far too long--first sight of that this series with the multiple Yoshinoya outfits.
Yoshinoya's outfits never get old. Gags are spaced out in Hidamari anyway.

[strangefour]

-Catergory 9 naughty tentacle hair. Heh
-A hammock?
-Typhoon pizza? Now I'm hungry. And I have one piece left!
-Miya doesn't have cups? Is she planning on spitting the water into other people's mouths?
-Yes Miya! We must find out if drying thingies combust (which sounds rediculous). Ah nothing happened.
-Hiro is a good cook. Sae is a very lucky woman.
-Landlady drops buy?
-Chestnuts! Now I miss my old chestnut tree.
-Mother is coming. She must not approve of Sae's "lifestyle choice."
-Miya invents chestnut baseball. Such a silly little girl she is.

Hmm, never get to see them compete in sports. Curse you adorably random one day at a time but not in order style.

[strangefour]

-heheh I like Miya's crazy flower cat.
-Jump Miya! Rough landing.
-The sky is beautiful. Yuno's panties are beautiful. Good job Miya.
-Miya's silly story cards. She is an inventive little scamp.
-Eight rotating boyfriends. Stop lying Sae. We know you only rotate for Hiro.
-Aww I want some Ika-kun too
-"Mika & Yuka" Sae is writing fan fics about Miya & Yuno? Wowzers.
-Hiro is so cute when she's worrying about Sae's health.
-A second day happening? Or is this just teh afternoon?
-Leaks! Hehe RPG mode.
-Huh there apartment is the only thing accross from the school. Well that and trees.
-Yoshinoya sensei is such a child.
-"I'll give you a special leason." Yuno is scared. *sparkle*
-Lap pillow. Hiro is a great waifu.
-Jump Yuno! hahaha her little hair band X is blinking a warning
-And the next story is about childhood friends living in the same apartment complex. Hehe Sae & Hiro were made for each other.
-"The confession scene made my heart beat fast." "And you base these stories on what happens to you." OH HO HO HO HO!
-"Hiro & Sae are wonderful. They trust and understand each other." Yes Yuno, they are great role models.
-"I wonder if we'll be like them someday." This show is about as openly lesbian as you can get without actually saying lesbian or having kissing and more.
-There goes Miya thinking with her bust and stomach again.

This is such a cute little show. It actually seems better in small doses spread out over days than one fast marathon. I guess the unchronologicalness aids that. There has been less use of real photographs too, which is nice. But I want more of them sketching things. Draw my adorable little yuri, draw.

[TnAdct1]

Is that green thing with the human face supposed to be a caterpillar?

Its an Ume-sensei
More specifically, it's supposed be an "avatar" of the creator of the original manga (which her also providing the voice of the character).

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Of the voice actors, I'm liking Miyako's more and more: her voice reminds me of Osaka.

I really don't like the principal's voice actor. He may be old, but the voice actor sounds so doddering that he could fall over any second.

The karaoke sequence was fun.

[Fencedude]

Of the voice actors, I'm liking Miyako's more and more: her voice reminds me of Osaka.


Thats because Mizuhashi Kaori is awesome.

Well, all the seiyuu for the main group are awesome.

[Fencedude]

Oh Sae, you know it takes women longer to get ready in the morning!

Anyway, Chika passed her exams! Yay Chika!

And some brief tsun-tsun from Natsume, confusing the heck out of Sae, Yuno and Miya, though Hiro had a knowing smile.

And yes, Sae, getting rid of gross things is your job.

[strangefour]

-AAAAAAAAAAAAH! PLEASE DON"T KILL ME! wtf? Alarm clock with boobs? Thanks Miya.
-900 years of curry rice!
-Super Soccer Sensei! He must be related to Susan.
-Yoshinoya is making the class thing of sexually harassing her... she is an insane little child.
-Oh no wrong video disc! Well atleast it wasn't porn.
-Miya dreams of food. Keep on dreaming Miya! Dream big.
-"If you love each other you can over come the taboos of gender and stuff!" Miya has learned many things from Sae & Hiro.
-Sad usagi from PPD. Is still sad. And more PPD stuff in the trash
-Yuno is all emotion and troubled over a thrown away sketchbook. MIYA TACKLE!
-The origin of hammock. Bought a few moments ago during the conversation?
-Wind blown sexy pose Hiro for no reason? Approved.
-Hair X is changing shapes!
-Bathtime. Bathing with Miya!
-Yuno & Miya in bed together. Well on bed. Still.
-Trap door. Purple snake. Symbolism? Oh It was over Sae while she was up late writing. Sorry Sae. Double bucketed! AAAAAAAH!! Damn that's loud
-A preview with everyone in a bath together!

I was going to say this is one of the weaker episodes, then it gave me naked bathing Miya followed by bosom buddy bed time.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Very surreal, and just a little disturbing in its surrealism.

I prefer how they handled the pajama-changing in the manga: where it's talked about after the fact rather than shown--still very cute. Nevertheless, I'm a bit disappointed that they never did get around to talking about it after the fact.

I assume that we'll find out who Chika is "earlier."

[strangefour]

-Yuno is not in bed?
-Oh she slept at school with Miya preparing for a festival.
-An unfinished drawing on exhibit? That's like showing up to school naked. Yuno's naked art is on display.
-Hardboiled detective Sae?
-Silly Yuno. A unfinished drawing can often be the best. Over working a piece can constrain the life and freedom of art.
-McDonalds! Miya is a product placement whore.
-Miya drew Yuno. Aww.
-Too sexy Yoshinoya!
-Yuno-sama! There can be no better place for four girl bathing.
-Sae & Hiro eye each other as they undress. That's so cute and so naughty at the same time.
-And Miya runs naked with no concept of shame.
-Stool jenga. A nice deep bath. Oh no Yuno is drowning!
-Naughty tentacle hair returns
-Miya aquires the Xs
-Sae is a good older brother. *nods*
-Yuno closes the play with a curtain jump!
-No Hiro you are not fat. Stop compairing yourself to the desperately underfed Sae.
-Ballet posing. Oh my... Miya. Show some decency.

That was more like it. Some art action in there. Five times the bathing action. Yoshinoya being insane. Miya being goofy as usual. I think Sae & Hiro are my favorite yuri couple. They balance each other out so well.

[Fencedude]

Two Yoshinoyas! The thought is terrifying!

Ah yes, the little girl at the shrine, d'awww

Hiro, you do not need to diet at all, your curves are your best part.

And Natsume tsun-tsun is still adorable.

[Suwako Moriya]

It's nice to finally get an idea as to how everything started for Yuno.

Occasional words of wisdom pop up.

Ah, we have a Natsume sighting.

If I tried that cloth thing, I'd probably break the stuff instead.

Yuno meets the others.

Yuno gets to meet people.

Miyako blesses Yuno with a nickname.

Lucky for Hiro, it wasn't a haunting after all.

X365 is an interesting name for a sequel. In general, I definitely like it better when the future seasons get specific names and aren't just called S2, S3, etc.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Some of the changes they made from manga to anime are odd--we see Miyako in her underwear tanning suit in the OP, so why change it in the show itself? Not that it makes a difference ultimately, it's just... odd.

During dream sequences, the show has a very Utena-esque atmosphere.

I noticed that all of the girls got butt shots... except Hiro. Why no Hiro? Sob sob.

Yuno's tan lines at the end were quite cute.

[Suwako Moriya]

Phone Conversations with Chika and nice images of her too.

We really need a day in the life of Chika's school.

Sae, save Hiro from creepy food.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

I'm not so sure I like achronic order when you've got an episode that is clearly the first part of a two-parter... and the next episode preview clearly shows that the next episode is NOT part two.

I do like how they combined storylines in this episode--it worked well.

Hiro's hair makes me feel sorry for the animators.

[Suwako Moriya]

Hiro's hair makes me feel sorry for the animators.

Yeah, her design is probably the most complex of the four. Makes me glad that there are people up to the task.

[Suwako Moriya]

Ah yes, the little girl at the shrine, d'awww

That girl served two purposes. Providing us with cuteness and making Yuno happy.


Hiro, you do not need to diet at all, your curves are your best part.

If only she'd listen to wisdom.

And Natsume tsun-tsun is still adorable.

She's quite the nervous girl, nervous in an adorable way.

[something]

Episode 7:

October 12th!
- Are those teruterubouzu curtains Yuno has there? They don't seem to be working.
- Lovely weather for a sports festival indeed.
- Whose ass is that in the first eyecatch? I'd like to meet her.
- I love Hiro's hair so much.
- NATSUME!! Need more Natsume!
- Miya running with the wind, and having so much fun. And come on Yuno, you'll get mad? Sure you will. Go ahead. Try it. =P
- Sitting around watching water drip into a bucket. Fascinating!
- ...Yuno, you're right. Pizza does sound good. I think I'm gonna have some right now!
- Mmm, pizza. No typhoon, though...
- YUNO BRINGS THE STORMS!
- Heh you can see why they usually choose Yuno or Hiro's place when they congregate. Miyako isn't really equipped to play hostess...
- I'm amazed how much comedy mileage this show can get out of silica gel.
- And in the end, it doesn't burn after all. :sd: Interestingly, I thought we'd already seen this scene in an earlier episode. I must have rewatched just this scene at some point recently.
- Guahna ~ White Chocolate from SHAFT ~!
- Spikey chestnutball!
- Hah, Yuno didn't even know that was the landlady.
- Yuno is so ridiculously polite. I love when she frets about silly things.
- Bathing!
- The chestnuts look like brains made out of poop. >_>

[something]

Episode 8:

March 13th!
- I can't not watch this OP every time. <3
- Yuno looks down, but perks right up when her lover stops by.
- Haha, Miyako has some amazing artistic sense.
- Yuno's pink panties! Miyako likes them!
- 8 boyfriends! Heh, talk about going overboard with your lies.
- Hahaha, love the ikakun pun.
- Tachibana Aya! Sae writes yuri stories! She is writing from experience after all!
- "Did you know that story?" "Yep!" ...poor Yuno, she's a bit disappointed. :sd: aww.
- Yuno sitting on the sidewalk having a candy picnic while she draws Hidamari-sou... how odd. Also, if it's cold, put on some socks!
- Yoshinoya sparkle!
- Man, Hiro takes suuuuch good care of Sae. <3 <3 And Yuno gets out the ear pick!
- I looooove embarrassed Sae!
- Bathing~~ Yes, you will be just like Hiro and Sae. In many ways.

[Fencedude]

Huh, it seems the DVD release split up the episodes that had two separate segments, giving them their own OP/ED/Preview

Anyway, Miyako and the stray cat!

Miyako...was clearly a cat in a previous life.

The part at the end with the pastel art style was really nice. And ending with Miyako in the bath!

[Fencedude]

First part of the Art Festival story!

Yuno walks in on Hiro and Sae doing ***** and gets shocked. No Sae, its exactly what it appears.

And then we see Sae's drawing from last years festival. Lillies. Yes. Lillies.

And then some HARD CORE DRAWING ACTION from Yuno in the last part of the episode.

[Suwako Moriya]

Miyako messing around with Hiro was amusing, but evil

Miyako and the cat bond well.

The pastel art was rather nice to see.

Miyako's turn to bathe.

Also, I like the idea of taking these split episodes and giving them their own opening, ending, and preview.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

This is maybe the most interesting episode so far--the new material and the manga-adapted material meld together seamlessly.

For someone who writes fiction, why is Sae so epically horrible at lying?

[Fencedude]

For someone who writes fiction, why is Sae so epically horrible at lying?

Its her charm point.

Well, one of them.

[Fencedude]

CHIKA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!

Chika returns! And is awesome!

Chika don't worry, Hiro will be your sister in law soon enough.

I don't know what Gyouza is, but it looks good.

Karaoke parlor is closed but...SINGING IN THE PUBLIC BATH WITH YOSHINOYA!

Sae, don't look at your sister like that.

Crab Nabe! (oh god I want some of that)

Sae is definitely cool from a girl's point of view.

And just heaps and heaps of d'aaaawwww with the scene between Chika and Sae in Sae's room.

[Fencedude]

From a Chika episode to a Sae episode...about worrying about Chika!

Oh Sae, you're so cute when worried.

Also Natsume, you are never going to get anywhere with Sae with that strategy.

[Fencedude]

Hiro, the domestic goddess.

Brief Natsume scene, could she be...?

And Yuno finally says what everyone has been thinking, Hiro is obviously Sae's wife, and a mother to her and Miyako. Awwww...

And dammit Hiro, your body is perfect as it is!

[something]

Episode 9:

September 4th!
- That is one fucked up alarm clock.
- 913 years of curry rice!
- Miyako has sure given money a lot of thought. Even though she's never had any.
- A magnificent header from the principal!
- Sexual harassment! God Yoshinoya, you are the least subtle person ever.
- Kishi Maiko! The only Hidamari character with a full name!
- Haha, Maiko is barely on screen for a minute before she totally embarrasses herself.
- High school Maiko!
- Yoshinoya-hime!
- Hmm, first girl who was asked about her dreams had a mole... Nakayama? Hair is shorter than I remember though. And the voice... slightly different? Hard to compare side by side.
- Miyako has attained enlightenment! Gender doesn't matter in love! She's trying to tell you something, Yuno!
- Mesousa! Poor Mesousa.
- Yah, that has to be Nakayama. She's with Mami in the eyecatch. Her design just changed a bit later on. Or, well, in *** we only see her in chibi design. And Mami was the one who asked why Maiko isn't drawing. Now I'm pretty certain they changed the voices. Sawashiro has great range but it doesn't sound like her at all in this ep.
- Trash diving! Yuno can be so hard on herself sometimes. Stop being depressed, Yuno. ;_;
- Miyako tackle cheers her up!
- Hammock! And incredibly sexy shot of Hiro out of nowhere. AWESOME.
- I wonder what Yuno thinks about the big crack Miya's hammock hook put in her furniture...
- X BECOMES ○. THE END TIMES ARE NEAR.
- And now ♦!
- Yuno's mother was born June 27th 1964! So she's 45 and a half years old.
- Yuno and Miyako bathing together!! Also, Yuno's breasts in almost full view, huh. The water goes from totally transparent to not so much between cuts.
- Awwww. Miyako can seem pretty goofy and flighty most of the time but she really knows how to read other people when it matters. Love love love the way she glanced at Yuno from the side, smiled, and asked to stay over for the night. She's so good to Yuno. <3
- Miyako touches Yuno's boobs! ...and gives her some good advice. You're a good girl, Miyako.
- Hahah, poor Sae. Thee whole damn apartment is boobytrapped.

<3

[Mr. Nail Bat]

That is one profoundly disturbing alarm clock.

The Kishi-chan and classroom cleanup storylines really do a good job in throwing Yuno's insecurities into relief.

I like Miyako's many uses for a hammock.

Funny how Yuno's bed didn't look so huge before.

Sae must have gotten her apartment surplus from Moon Phase.

Bathhouse next episode!

[strangefour]

-A Zoo. Allright. SOme actual art work goings on!
-Did Yoshinoya get motion sick or just embarassed that she is a horrible tour guide?
-Yuno has many many anti-car sick procedures...
-Oh yeah Yoshinoya's is violently sick. Hope she doesn't ruin her cosplay outfit.
-Sae is horrible at trying to make up her lies about dating "boys"
-Monkey John. Miya should do silly voices more often.
-Lion kotatsu? Yumo has an adorably absurd imagination.
-Yay Hiro will teach Yuno how to be a good cook for her Waifu.
-hehehehhe ring toss giraffe
-Yoshinoya is good at encouraging her students. Even if Sae's drawing sucks.
-Hidamarisou is the repository of eccentric artists. Huh.
-She doesn't fucking know she's cosplaying!? Wow. Yoshi is dippier than I had imagined.
-The Where's the Principal book is bizarre.
-A whole book of Yoshi cosplay photos. I bet the copies all sold to her lesbian students.
-Ahaha gangster Yoshi. Ah such silly little rumors.
-Crazy Cutey Honey like sensei service.

Another wonderful little episode. Filled with cute and silly and fun. Could have used alot more of Miya talking for the animals though.

[strangefour]

-Onee-chan~
-Oh the infamous Chika. Huh. Her voice is so small and cute. The diametric oposite of Sae.
-Chika is dating Kabuki Quantum Fighter?
-Real cabbage vs drawn cabbage. Stop doing that!
-Sae comes over in the morning to "wake" Hiro up. *blush*
-More cosplay imagery from Yoshi.
-Santa-san!
-Yoshi came to bring love and happiness. In a sexy santa outfit. Hurray!
-Christmas curtains! Man how many sets of curtains and sheets must Yuno have in her closet? There's no room left for Miyako.
-Everyone slept together. Awwww.
-Even the mailboxes laugh at the principal.
-Sae! Sleep in my lap! This I command.
-Silly weight conscious Hiro. Just eat all that cake and keep wearing a sweater till the holidays are over.
-Oh manga style photos on the pegboard.
-bye by ume~

That was an extra cute end to this series. Without actually being an end. A very good holiday special atleast. Even if it wasn't focused on the holiday besides the curtains and Miya scarfing alot of cake... It was adorable and that's the entire point of Hidamari. Four little laughing lesbians in an apartment complex living life and looking for love. Man I wanna watch more.

[Fencedude]

Man I wanna watch more.

Well, you are in luck!

There are two Hidamari Sketch Special episodes, 13 episodes of x365, two x365 specials, and who knows how many x*** episodes!

HIDAMARI SKETCH NEVER ENDS

[Suwako Moriya]

Yuno sleeping while spot lighting.

Yuno thinking about how a plant got all the way up there is cute.

Yoshinaya is not one you ask for advice.

Yuno walks in on Sae and Hiro's love making! I shall ignore any reality that contradicts my statement.

Drawing lillies? Does that count as subtle or blatant?

Maiko makes an appearance.

Yuno come to a realization and runs to thank her classmates leaving them confused.

Work on your drawing Yuno.

Dinner time then bathing time.

Yuno falls asleep while drawing.

[Fencedude]

Nooooo!! Don't flip Yuno's eggs!

Opening ceremony! Going back to the beginning for this one.

The fabled Misato-senpai! She's certainly...interesting.

Yuno and Miya meet Yoshinoya. -_-;;

Welcoming party! Silica Gel! The mystery of room 203!!!!

[Zalis]

A little question for those who've seen Sentai's release:

I've heard rumors on another site that the R1 DVDs of the first season contain a random mix of broadcast and DVD versions of the episodes. And with SHAFT at the helm, we all know that there can be a pretty big difference between the two. Can anyone confirm that the version on these DVDs is, in fact, the complete DVD version? Specifically, episodes 1 and 6 (maybe more) are alleged to be broadcast versions.

[Fencedude]

Its the second half of the Sports Festival story! Only 12 episodes and an entire season later!

Highlights include Yuno being way too cute, Hiro using...certain assets to get ahead, general Natsume tsundere, and a come from behind victory (of sorts) for the red team.

We also get the lovely Announcer-chan Todo (voiced by Inoue Marina) and Yoshinoya in a cheerleading outfit.

[Suwako Moriya]

Can anyone confirm that the version on these DVDs is, in fact, the complete DVD version? Specifically, episodes 1 and 6 (maybe more) are alleged to be broadcast versions.

I'm quite confident that these are based on the DVD version. I base this on my memory of watching the episodes multiple times in various forms. Also, I highly doubt that TBS would have gone through the effort to give them a mixture of broadcast and DVD versions. That wouldn't make any sense at all.

I have no idea which site told you this or the specific person person that mentioned it. However for some reason, I tend to be very cautious about statements made by unknown sites that tend to say stuff that's questionable.

In general, most of the DVD versions were more or less polishing than anything else. The one episode where the difference between broadcast and DVD are the most apparent is episode 10, and yes Sentai does have the DVD version of that.

[Suwako Moriya]

I like the idea of singing in the public bath much better since it allows us to see the bodies of the girls. Also, I have to say Chika has quite the nice figure for her age. Lots of Chika goodness this episode.

[Suwako Moriya]

Also Natsume, you are never going to get anywhere with Sae with that strategy.

Natsume has to be her own worst enemy.:sweat:

[Fudce]

Also Natsume, you are never going to get anywhere with Sae with that strategy.

Natsume has to be her own worst enemy.:sweat:

...and we love her for it.

[Suwako Moriya]

Also Natsume, you are never going to get anywhere with Sae with that strategy.

Natsume has to be her own worst enemy.:sweat:

...and we love her for it.

Perhaps, but I think she'd rather have Sae be the one doing the loving of her. Also, you almost make it sound like we're enjoy her failure.

[Fencedude]

...and we love her for it.

But its a source of great distress. I want so much for Natsume to be happy, but I don't want to ruin Sae's marriage.

;_;

[Suwako Moriya]

...and we love her for it.

But its a source of great distress. I want so much for Natsume to be happy, but I don't want to ruin Sae's marriage.

I don't suppose there's any chance that Hiro and Natsume would be willing to share. Yes, I love asking stupid questions.

[Suwako Moriya]

And Yuno finally says what everyone has been thinking, Hiro is obviously Sae's wife, and a mother to her and Miyako. Awwww...

I love that arrangement, but it also results in me thinking that you could almost consider Yuno X Miyako to be incest.

The part where Hiro was talking to Sae about Natsume was interesting. The way Hiro was talking and moving made wonder how she feels about Natsume's interest in her Sae.

[something]

I love that arrangement, but it also results in me thinking that you could almost consider Yuno X Miyako to be incest.
It's not a blood relationship, so it's totally okay! (And even if it were, hey whatever!)

[Fencedude]

The part where Hiro was talking to Sae about Natsume was interesting. The way Hiro was talking and moving made wonder how she feels about Natsume's interest in her Sae.

Well, its pretty obvious that unlike Sae, Hiro is quite aware of what Natsume's "problem" is.

The fact that she isn't doing anything about it is interesting.

[Suwako Moriya]

I love that arrangement, but it also results in me thinking that you could almost consider Yuno X Miyako to be incest.
It's not a blood relationship, so it's totally okay! (And even if it were, hey whatever!)

The "not blood related" thing, I can never tell if it's lame justification or creating a half-hearted scenario. Regardless Yuno X Miyako is something that should be considered a divine truth.

[Suwako Moriya]

Well, its pretty obvious that unlike Sae, Hiro is quite aware of what Natsume's "problem" is.

The fact that she isn't doing anything about it is interesting.

Well, the fact that Sae is oblivious and Natsume has the "best" and by that I mean "worst" strategy for romance ever, it's not like Hiro has to worry about her Sae being taken away.

Although if Sae ever did catch on, if Natsume ever did develop a more sound strategy, I have to wonder what Hiro would do. Would she take her domestic skills and use them to take out the competition? Nah, there's no way Hiro would be evil.

[Fencedude]

I love that arrangement, but it also results in me thinking that you could almost consider Yuno X Miyako to be incest.
It's not a blood relationship, so it's totally okay! (And even if it were, hey whatever!)

I find it hard to get overly worked up about girl-girl incest.

[strangefour]

Man I wanna watch more.

Well, you are in luck!

There are two Hidamari Sketch Special episodes, 13 episodes of x365, two x365 specials, and who knows how many x*** episodes!

HIDAMARI SKETCH NEVER ENDS

Hurray! A pool party episode. Bikini time.

-Hidamarisou explodes! Micheal Bay must have directed this episode.
-Slightly edited OP. Interesting. Martigra Principal? Afro Miyako!
-Surprise noodles? Heh Yuno can text Hiro & Sae about food but has to shout out the window to get Miya's attention.
-Mister Despair on tv with a character from Pani Poni I forget.
-Landlady approaches. A flower blooms. It's Yoshinoya. Is this love blooming?
-HOLY SHIT! The most impressive, dynamic, fully animated and hotblooded piece of animation in all of Hidamari so far is reserved for the principal jumping over the fence. Yumping a good forty feet in the air and across a two lane highway. Wowzers.
-Wtf is that tiger ghost thing in Yuno's closet? Or is that the shed outback? -AHAHAHAHHAHA It's a hose nozzle. Hehehehe.
-Miya loves big melons.
-Yuno likes melons too.
-Miyako gets another hand me down bikini. But atleast this one has a top that fits her ample frame.
-Chika & Sae in an eyecatch. Sae in a hot bikini? Out of character!
-You'd think Miya would sink in the water since her digective tract is a black hole swallowing all edible matter.
-A topless Hiro steals Sae's glasses. Hiro you are a cruel one. :3
-Everyone gets a sexy beach eyecatch. Even Ume-sensei.
-Sae gets embarrassed by Hiro and covers her crotch as she spouts steam. Oh my.
-Aww, Yuno had a dream of swimming when Miya floated her sleeping body in the water.
-Man this episode has made the principal totally awesome. Sexy beam!

Man there was a lot of sexy posing and bikini voyerism for a show where the characters are drawn in cutesy often deformed way. Not that I'm complaining at all. I have to give a much deserved congratulations to the principal for getting two sexy ladies with him in the school pool.

[strangefour]

I love that arrangement, but it also results in me thinking that you could almost consider Yuno X Miyako to be incest.
It's not a blood relationship, so it's totally okay! (And even if it were, hey whatever!)

I find it hard to get overly worked up about girl-girl incest.

I thought girl-girl incest was the purest form of love. But maybe I've just been infected with something's yuri fetishism over the years.

[Suwako Moriya]

Slightly edited OP. Interesting. Martigra Principal? Afro Miyako!

Not only is the opening animation a bit different, it also uses a different verse than the TV series did.

[Fencedude]

Man there was a lot of sexy posing and bikini voyerism for a show where the characters are drawn in cutesy often deformed way. Not that I'm complaining at all. I have to give a much deserved congratulations to the principal for getting two sexy ladies with him in the school pool.

At some point, which I was never able to pin down precisely, the principle becomes awesome.

Him leaping the fence here was a particularly good example.

[strangefour]

-Yuno has a Hidamari alarm clock.
-A love letter in Hiro's locker. Sae is emotionally destroyed...
-Hehehe. Miya and Yuno instantly assume the letter is from Hiro to Sae. Well duh, that's what should have happened.
-Hurray, a large curry for everyone.
-Yoshinoya's sparkling eyes are disturbing.
-Yuno's dream rooftop in technicolor is delightfully vivid.
-Mouth-to-mouth!
-Aww, Ume is falling asleep on the bed. And rolls off the bed.
-More of Sae's horribly attempts at lying. Through the power of flashback Sae realises how much she loves Hiro.
-Heheh, Yoshi was on teh roof dreaming about high school love. Such a ditz.
-Rice and a heart in the locker. Truely the perfect confession to Miya.

This was an interesting episode playing with our impressions of all the implied yuri in this show. By having all the girls think of boys asking them out and pushing Sae's lesbian under tones farther than ever before. Opening the door to "hey these are normal girls who like boys" with one hand and pulling a purple rope with the other releasing a bucket to induce "yuri goggles hardcore style." A good way to finish out the first season.

[strangefour]

Slightly edited OP. Interesting. Martigra Principal? Afro Miyako!

Not only is the opening animation a bit different, it also uses a different verse than the TV series did.

I thought the song was different. mainly the Afro verse. But I skipped the OP most of the time. It just adds extra time since I'm scribbling down thoughts as is so an episode takes more than half an hour to watch. :sweat:

[Suwako Moriya]

But I skipped the OP most of the time. It just adds extra time since I'm scribbling down thoughts as is so an episode takes more than half an hour to watch. :sweat:

For some reason, I'd feel wrong if I were to skip the opening.

[strangefour]

Man there was a lot of sexy posing and bikini voyerism for a show where the characters are drawn in cutesy often deformed way. Not that I'm complaining at all. I have to give a much deserved congratulations to the principal for getting two sexy ladies with him in the school pool.

At some point, which I was never able to pin down precisely, the principle becomes awesome.

Him leaping the fence here was a particularly good example.

Well before the ZOMG EPIC JUMP he's mostly just there. The only memorable parts I can think of are the RPG walking through the school grounds as a short cut bit and Miya's impersonation of him. The other 80% of his screen time is being mad at Yoshinoya. But man. Hot blooded leap and swimming with two women, principal has become super manly in the specials. Which is good since he's the only male in a see of lesbionic estrogen.

[something]

But I skipped the OP most of the time. It just adds extra time since I'm scribbling down thoughts as is so an episode takes more than half an hour to watch. :sweat:For some reason, I'd feel wrong if I were to skip the opening.
Hidamari is one franchise where I'm pretty sure I've never skipped an OP or ED in any season.

[strangefour]

For some reason, I'd feel wrong if I were to skip the opening.

I tend to only rewatch OPs every time if it's an awesome upbeat song or if it's a hot blooded mecha show. Even then I will skip the OP now and then. Oh and Baccano! & Durarara!! can't skip those OP's because of silly recap. But they do have fun upbeat songs. Hidamari has a cute song which I only needed to watch about every other time.

[Fencedude]

I thought girl-girl incest was the purest form of love. But maybe I've just been infected with something's yuri fetishism over the years.

Ah, the pure love between sisters. <3 <3

[Suwako Moriya]

Hidamari is one franchise where I'm pretty sure I've never skipped an OP or ED in any season.

I tend to in general let the opening and ending play each time. I think the main time I skip them is when either I am truly pressed for time or I consider one or both of them to be meh.

[Suwako Moriya]

Nooooo!! Don't flip Yuno's eggs!

So there is a way to get Yuno angry enough to use violence.

The fabled Misato-senpai! She's certainly...interesting.

I have to admit I'd like to see an episode takes place a year before Yuno and Miyako arrive. To get a chance to see what Hiro and Sae's life was like when Misato was in the apartment. Even if it meant a lack of Yuno.

Yuno and Miya meet Yoshinoya. -_-;;

And thus their life was never the same again.

The mystery of room 203!!!!

Ah, yes, Room 203. One has to wonder what's up with it.

[Suwako Moriya]

Even while talking, they won't fall down.

Todo the announcer.

Yuno is distracted.

The talking names part is just weird.

Yuno ran well!

Natsume reminds us that it's not worth crying over.

[TnAdct1]

-Hidamarisou explodes! Micheal Bay must have directed this episode.
Given how SHAFT did a similar type of joke in Negima!? (as in a live-action shot of an explosion of the living quarters of the main characters), I take it the company wanted to pull that type of joke again (this time, with the explosion coming out of nowhere).

[Mr. Nail Bat]

You know, it never even occurred to me when I was reading the manga that Miya was actually playing bath stool jenga.

Highlight of the episode was probably Yuno's conflicted reaction to going into the presentation room. She reeeeeeallly wants to go... but at the same time it makes her scream in terror and block the doorway.

I also enjoyed Yuno's kamikaze curtain closing technique.

One scene that was spicier in the anime than in the manga--Miya does her ballet exercise bare-assed!

There have been a number of spelling and grammatical errors in the subtitles (and at least one translation error so egregious that a non-speaker like me got it), but I must applaud the subtitlers for correct spelling of Döner kebab (even getting the diacritic right).

[Fencedude]

Summer Vacation!

...but not for Yoshinoya-sensei. But nevermind work, she has summer greeting cards to make!

Oh yeah, and she apparently plays Virtual Console games on her Wii.

Anyway, extensive Yoshinoya cosplaying and running from the principal, of course.

The Race Queen outfit was especially fantastic. Kuwahara and the Landlady also play prominent roles.

Natsume makes a brief appearance as well.

Yoshinoya really is a good teacher, isn't she?

[Fencedude]

Kishi Maiko returns! And everyone goes to see her movie, and they are all quite moved.

Hiro's dinner looked absolutely amazing. I want to try some of those things (Shrimp and Avocado in fried pie crust? Oh man that sounds fantastic)

Yuno's dress was very nice. I'm not sure why I noticed this, but it was.

Sae gets a fan letter! And is of course horrifically embarrased.

[strangefour]

-Frantic camera panning animation. CG power meters. Yuno running at high speed. Something seems different.
-Yuno sleeps the sleep of the dead. Her and her mom run like little girls.
-Jinkies. The OP has like 3 times the energy in the song and animation. It's a sugar rush of joy.
-Girl. Girl. Boy. MIYA! Boy. Girl. Girl.
-The faceless background people are weird. But oddly remind me of Digicharat.
-Under pressure. Falling down on me.
-Strike!! Principal has been bosomed.
-Does the principal have a crush on the landlady?
-Climb high little Ume. Climb!
-No life exists on these high ways. Yuno and her magical Xs are the only life for miles.
-Miya hanging off the railings? If anything Miya is more of an eccentric artist and eats twice as fast. If such a thing is possible.
-Holy crap! Miya has summoned magical X funnels into Yuno's little world and exploded her life with joy. Yunocchi~
-"The complex is well known for attracting weirdos from teh art department." Indeed.
-Weirdo number 2.
-Hiro draws an identification guide rabbit. Yuno draws a story book bunny. And Miya draws... wtf did Miya draw?
-I didn't realise Miya was such an abstractionist.
-Weirdo number 3 is a corpse.
-Hiro ate some cake and can't go to the bathhouse. I hope she eventually recovers from her crippling eating disorder.
-Miya pulled a cart full of belongings from wherever she came from?
-Double bathing! Ducky is shocked by your behavior Miya.
-Hiro, waifu material. Sae, intellectual beauty. Miya, the innocent. Yuno, peace & light.
-Tentacles. Glasses. Paw. X.

Man, the art feels a lot more detailed this season. I guess the heavy use of CG is where they cut corners. It is a first episode of a new season but it had loads more energy than the first season did. Not counting the principal's super special awesome leap.

Nice to see how the characters all came together. In the simplest, most friendly and quickest way possible. Which exactly how it should go to fit the show as a whole. When Miyako gave Yunocchi her nickname was like a beam of pure love igniting their friendship. That was my favorite part.

The new OP is great. I'll probably watch it every time. Ending is nice, but the song is too calm for me. :noodle:

[strangefour]

-Miya sniffing Hiro's crotch! Oh wait never mind, must be her lunch box.
-Wow it's already been a year. It seems like Yuno & Miya were just accepted to the school last episode. Ah how time flies.
-Chika passed her entrance exam And we get to see Sae's sweet little embarassed face strikes again.
-Seifuku Miya!
-Wow Miya's place is a horrible mess. I forgot that was her one true flaw. *sigh* Can't abide by a mess.
-Rotten fruit! Tentacles are scared. Sae save your beloved from the squishy things.
-Sae & Yuno oni. I have the urge to bean them.
-Principal! Chocolate! Yahoo~~
-Neko Miya!
-Sumo nabe. Miya is punished for he critique of Hiro's eating habits. Hah. Hiro ends up punishing herself.

Lots of Chika in this episode. Well more Chika by proxy emails. She's kind of an extra wheel to the character dynamics. But does produce lots of emotions from Sae, so that's good. I am always happy to see the landlady and Ume's little cameos though. Probably because they are so fleeting.

[something]

Episode 10:

November 3rd!
- Miyako hands in Yuno's artwork! A bit early...
- Hah, Yuno is being pulled between Shakespeare and Monet. An epic tug of war!
- Yuno is unintentionally good as spot op?
- Yuno at gunpoint!
- Hahah, oh god, Yuno at the door. <3
- Mami and Nakayama are in Yuno's sketch!
- Miyako has french fries! Now I want french fries...
- lol, oh Yuno. Good art is accidental, apparently.
- And Miyako drew her lover~~
- Ah, this here! The music that starts up when they're walking to the public baths. I love it.
- Masa no Yu... Yuno-sama!!
- Ohhhh hell yeah. Hiro and Sae blushing as they get undressed. <3
- Water up to your shoulders... unless you're Yuno!
- Hiro, you may say you prefer curvy women, but your true love is Sae...
- The Xs come off! There's so much... naked! And it is good!
- Hah, Miya as the horse. And holy shit, Yuno leaks off the catwalk to pull the curtain closed!
- That was a wonderfully long bathing scene. Need more like it.
- DOUBLE BATH SCENE!

<3

[Suwako Moriya]

But nevermind work, she has summer greeting cards to make!

Ah, it's nice to know that Yoshinaya knows exactly what she should be focusing on.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Ah, costume porn. No, not *that* kind of costume porn, the other kind.

I didn't understand the conceit of having Miyako and Yuno reminsce about having gone to the zoo--it didn't seem to have much of a point.

I like Yuno's unrealistic drawing in the anime better than the one in the manga.

Yoshinoya seems to be a lot more sympathetic in the anime than in the manga.

A fun episode.

[Suwako Moriya]

I wonder what the full version of Kishi Maiko's movie was like. Hiro's reaction made so much sense for some reason.

Being fed by Hiro must be a dream come true.

Yes, Yuno's dress is nice. Fencedude is right.

Yuno and Miyako just had to call for Hiro after finding out Sae got a fan letter.

Yuno and Miyako write letters to each other, talk about dedication.

[strangefour]

I didn't understand the conceit of having Miyako and Yuno reminsce about having gone to the zoo--it didn't seem to have much of a point.

Yeah the flash forwarding to sitting at the kotatsu just seemed to be there to fill time. Pretty much the only time scenes didn't seem to fit in the show. Not just that everything else is done chronologically, they just felt tacked on and disjointed without being funny.


Yoshinoya seems to be a lot more sympathetic in the anime than in the manga.


So in the manga she's just an insane woman?

[something]

Episode 11:

April 28th!
- Tour guide Yoshinoya-sensei! It's off to the zoo.
- I love Yuno's sunglasses.
- Nakayama Zoo? ...Does Nakayama's family own it? =D
- This is definitely part of why Hiro loves Sae. Sae is so fun, and easy, to tease!
- Ahahaha, Sae completely flubs her words.
- And Hiro thinks its adorable. <3
- Now I'm just imagining Hiro violently slathering skin moisturizer all over an elephant. It's pretty creepy.
- That BGM again... It's always too short. I wonder if the full version is a lot longer.
- Haha, lion under the kotatsu. Also love the "natural habitat" of the Malayan tapir.
- Miya's lunch: mayo and a head of cabbage.
- Yeah Yuno, gotta draw those animals realistically, right? ...lol hula hoops.
- Awww, Yoshinoya really is an awesome teacher. Sometimes.
- Even Yoshinoya winds up getting fed by Hiro!
- Yoshinoya Photo Collection! Sold out in 15 minutes!
- 17 years old! OF COURSE!
- Wow, I did not remember that they had such a long and involved conversation about Yoshinoya. Yoshinoya is awesome.
- Haha, fantastic Yoshinoya rumors.
- Bathing!

This episode happens pretty early in the chronology - it's only three weeks after Yuno moves into Hidamari-sou.

[Suwako Moriya]

Yuno and Miyako work on making shoes.

Miyako messes around with Sae. The part with Yuno in the back wen Sae went to confront Miyako was interesting.

The parents of Yuno come to visit.

One has to love the conversation Sae and Hiro had with Yuno's parents.

The landlady talking to the parents.

[Fencedude]

BATSU JA NAI!

Amusing episode all around, and just what IS in room 203?

[Fencedude]

Lunch on the roof!

Pigeon Raep!

Falling Asleep!

Alien Abduction!

Pantsing!

Hiro collapsed!

NOPAN Hiro!

Trapped Yoshinoya!

Secret of Room 203!

[Fencedude]

Domestic crisis! The Parents are fighting! The children are desperate to get them to make up! HIDAMARI-SOU BARA BARA BARA BARA BARA

Hiro shoveling food into her mouth was awesome, and amusingly over-animated. And then Natsume gets her wish to come true, at least for a few minutes.

The apology scene was d'aaawww, and I'm sure after Yuno and Miya got ejected, they made up even more.

And then general tanabata awesomeness. I swear that that is the same starscape from Tsubasa Cat 2.

[Fencedude]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone!

Everyone's wishes are...exactly what you'd expect!

And Natsume, your lack of honesty about your feelings is your charm point, even if Sae totally doesn't get it.

And the episode ends with them all singing the first season's opening song.

The...end? NO WAY!

[strangefour]

-Yoshinoya's hair seems greener.
-Two Yoshinoyas? That's kind of a frightening thought.
-Awww Miya messed up Yuno's counting. Never realised she was obsessive compulsive.
-Ah! Nn!
-Awww Yuno has a little fan.
-Hahaha. Yuno missed the stop because she couldn't bare to wake up Miya.
-The enigmatic landlady passes by again. Kah-kah-kah.
-Lucky chocolate?
-Natsume strikes again.
-Miya and Yuno play evil witch and beautiful princess in the background.
-Yuno's ducky always reminds me of Beast Wars Megatron.
-Miya washing a cat while naked and talking about eating cat food? Such a weird girl.

Another fun episode with much drawing. Hurray. Little bits of randomness from all the characters. Hidamari has a nice relaxing pace to it most of the time. Would have liked to see more drawings at the shrine though.

[Fencedude]

-Yuno's ducky always reminds me of Beast Wars Megatron.

Bahahaha!

Awesome, I hadn't thought of that before, but now I'll never be able to NOT think of it.

[strangefour]

-Miya has a cat! She does not know the cat...
-Praise the gods of magical crossword seafood.
-hehehe. A magical sonar cat.
-No pets! No piano! No boys!!!
-Heh heh. Hiro's scream and Miya convines her it's a ghost cat is so cute.
-You have to eat the crab sometime soon Miya. It will be deliscious!
-Everyone helps out by getting food for the kitty. Miya will split the cat food with kitty. Huh-what?
-Miya is a very very brave girl to wash a cat. While naked. No protection what so ever. While. naked. Nothing between her and the claws of a large tom cat. But her naked flesh.
-The demonic snoring of the fat kitty keeps Hiro awake all night. Ghost cat.
-The little pose doll in the background of Yuno's room is in a cat cleaning it's face pose. Such little artistic touches like that make me smile.
-"We've been eating the same thing for a week." Mi-Miya, were you ingesting catfood when there was crab in your fridge?
-Rubik's cube? Yuno's cat can solve a Rubik's cube!?
-Now the pose model has a cube.
-Miya is sleeping with kitty before she's married. Let us pray her parents can forgive her. *snicker*
-The sun bleached world after kitty has left is starkly beautiful.
-The nightmarish snores still haunt even Hiro's waking hours.
-Surprise! Miya bathing!

That was by far my favorite day yet. Even if it was only a half an episode. I am a sucker for a cat and pairing him with Miya makes me doubly happy. Miya being naked twice in the episode didn't hurt either. :blush: But really all the gags worked and made me chuckle a lot.

[strangefour]

-and now 04.2?
-Gagagaga! Ooh Halloween. But no Halloween things happen...
-Nurse Yoshinoya... is useless. Mardigra!
- !!
-Yuno caught Sae & Hiro in the act!
-"No! No! It's not like that!" Yeah sure Sae. Like we'd ever believe your ineffectial lies.

Yuno walks in on Sae and Hiro's love making! I shall ignore any reality that contradicts my statement.

No argument here.

-Last year Sae drew lilies. Yuri~~ The way she says it is so sweet and obvious.

Drawing lillies? Does that count as subtle or blatant?

Hah! Both.

-Tickets for Yoshinoya on stage. *facepalm*
-Yuno is searching for something important and close to her. *cough*MIYU*cough* Will she ever find this thing?
-Wow a sudden zest of animation. And random characters I've never seen.
-Oh wait. Yuno's drawing at the festival was pencil on canvas? That's peculiar. I guess it started as a sketch to go under a painting and got to far in pencil stand to stop? *shrug*
-Pike! Miya checks to make sure the landlady isn't there. Man that's a long call back joke to last season.
-It's not good to draw when sleepy Yuno. You are more apt to screw up. Take a nap.

The whole episode was a call back to the second half of festival day fun. Amusing to see it broken up like this. Not in the unchronological Melancholy of Haruhi "What happens next? What happened before? When are we!?" way. In the standard playful way Hidamari doesn't really care what day it is as long as the girls have fun in the apartments and someone has a bath... Wait no one had a bath scene this day. Oh well the first half of the episode had twice the Miya bathing so I'll forgive it just this once.

[TheGreenMan]

Were 4.1 and 4.2 included with Section 23's release?

[Fencedude]

Were 4.1 and 4.2 included with Section 23's release?

Yeah, they are episode 4.

[Fencedude]

POLAROIDON!

Fun with polaroids and clothes and makeup!

Yuno actually looked really good with the shorts, skull and crossbones T-shirt and boots. Everyone else...not so much.

Natsume really is a sweet girl, it would be nice to see more of her that way.

HIRO HAD HER REVENGE

[Suwako Moriya]

Yuno had an eventful time on the roof. I love the sunglasses part of it.

Nopan Hiro leads to bad thoughts.

I'm not sure if Hiro was only concerned about Yuno finding out or if it was just that she wasn't capable of covering anyone else up. Maybe, both?

[Suwako Moriya]

Who knew that Sae was powerful enough to destroy the apartments?

Hiro eating food requires lots of focus.

The apology scene was interesting.

Even a pretend fight with Miyako makes Yuno sad.

Interesting that the preview is actually for the EX episode instead of episode 13. Hence why I'll be watching EX next.

[Suwako Moriya]

Yuno actually looked really good with the shorts, skull and crossbones T-shirt and boots. Everyone else...not so much.

Is it bad to consider the skull and crossbones likes a very special X? Because by doing that it makes it even more fitting for Yuno to be wearing it.

In any case, fun with cameras is fun. Some interesting picture choices they made. Plus, we got stuff written on them too.

The animated pictures part was amusing. Especially the part where Sae leaves her picture and goes to Hiro's picture.

Revenge of Hiro is amusing.

[strangefour]

-Chika returns.
-The mysterious room 203 comes up again
-Mona Lisa with Yoshinoya hair. Another wacky entrance from the weird teacher.
-No Chika don't agree to help the ditz.
-Finally crab!
-Public bathing again and... oh my god Miyako's singing voice is angelicly beautiful.
-Yuno has energy but no rythme.
-Yoshinoya is the only one in a towel. Hiro isn't covering her "fat". But sensei is hiding something.
-Chika is getting bigger than Sae. Poor Sae. Hiro loves you no matter your bust size.
-Sae has been playing men since junior high?
-Two duckies!

Another Chika centric episode. She seemed more amusing when she was only mentioned or alluded to. Of course anytime she shows up it means even more embarrassment and emotion from Sae. Just would be more amusing to not use Chika as the go to girl for adding a fifth wheel to the usual four girl dynamic.

But hey, naked singing so awesome.

[Suwako Moriya]

So the new year is celebrated by singing the opening song to the first season while bathing? Sounds like a winning strategy to me.

[Suwako Moriya]

The girls now have a bike! With this bike, Yuno will be able to spread the power of the X. However she just needs to refresh herself on bike riding.

I love the part where Hiro was motivating Yuno. Remember, Yuno can't be beat!

Chika on the bike with Sae.

Not sure if it was ever mentioned before, Hiro is a left handed.

Miyako's family only had an adult bike.

It's the appearance of Todo! She has come to interview the weird people!

The girls tell Todo about other things and Misato.

It's the appearance of Nori and Nazuna.

Natsume rides with Sae.

There's nothing like a bike getting a promotion.

There are times Yoshinaya actually comes off as responsible.

It's the landlady and she comments about how a bike will benefit her.

Yuno took her time getting to school because she had to park her bike.

[Fencedude]

Todo! And she's graduating ;_;

Gee, I wonder if those two girls are significant...

And Natsume's DREAM COMES TRUE!

[strangefour]

-Sae sleeps with her glasses on.
-Natsume shows up to be cruel again. Weirdo.
-Personality color coordinated ice-pops.
-Yoko doll! Yuno likes Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!
-Sae asked the others it they love anyone. SHOCK!
-Yuno loves Nyanta the magical Rubik's cube cat. heheh
-Nia! Man I timed watching this after rewatching some Gurren Lagann exactly right.
-Some doll on a kimono with green hair?
-Miya loves fish~
-And Hiro is out right laughing at Sae's hoirrible lies about her "experience" this time.
-Sae bathing. While reading with her glasses on? Won't they fog up. Oh they did. The book will get wet. Sae you are an odd duck.

Sae keeps growing on me more and more. But she can not overthrow Miya as my favorite Hidamari girl.

[strangefour]

-Hiro awakens as a zombie
-Naked apron Yoshinoya? Oh swimsuit apron.
-Sae's creampuffs haven't grown yet. Poor Sae.
-Teacher eating the creampuff eating results in a Yakitate reaction moment.
-Sae is in Hiro's care. Yes we already knew that.
-SEXY MAID OUTFIT SAE!

Wow, that... that some how seems to be the naughtiest thing I have seen in Hidamari yet. And this show is filled with bathing and Yoshinoya's cosplay weirdness. But Sae in a maid outfit. Hot and dirty.

-Natsume has come to buy a book with one of Sae's dirty stories in it? So she acts like a bitch because she has a crush on Sae? Maybe.

Well, its pretty obvious that unlike Sae, Hiro is quite aware of what Natsume's "problem" is.

The fact that she isn't doing anything about it is interesting.

Well, the fact that Sae is oblivious and Natsume has the "best" and by that I mean "worst" strategy for romance ever, it's not like Hiro has to worry about her Sae being taken away.

"Put it in!" I guess I never payed much attention to Natsume to realise she was crushing on Sae by means of being mean to her. So Natsume's idea of courtship is the same as a grubby little 10 year old boy who thros bugs at a girl he likes.

-"Chi-oko-lay-to" Hiro's pronunciation and exuberance are adorable.
- "Hiro, you act like Sae's wife." Waifu for life. And a mother to boot.
-Now a naked Hiro. Such ample curves. No Hiro you are not fat.
-ACK! face mask.

That was a nice episode to make you love Hiro as more than just a cook and maid. By way of having her cook and clean up after the girls... Okay it was her same old style just with a softer insight into her personality.

[Fencedude]

Naked Yuno in an umbrella thats flooding during a rain storm while floating in the ocean! WTF!? But Naked Yuno, so who cares?!

Yuno saves Miyako!

THE ART PREPARATION ROOM ZOMG

Oh Natsume, I love your inability to express your feelings except through hostility. MOE POINT GETTO

Searching for the sketchbook.

Yuno has amazingly strong toes.

And then Yoshinoya returns something Yuno forgot. I think Yoshinoya WANTS to get arrested for sexual assault.

[Fencedude]

"Put it in!" I guess I never payed much attention to Natsume to realise she was crushing on Sae by means of being mean to her. So Natsume's idea of courtship is the same as a grubby little 10 year old boy who thros bugs at a girl he likes.

It isn't until around this point that it becomes obvious, once you know, its easy to go back and look at their earlier encounters and see Natsume's hostility as just massive amounts of tsun-tsun, but starting here we begin to see the really blatant examples.

And Natsume really is a sweet girl.

[Suwako Moriya]

Miyako has been saved by Yuno.

Nice eye catch. You just know Nakayama wants to ravage Mami. I'm going to keep telling myself that.

Sae has found a use for Hiro's hair.

Umbrella scene involving Natsume is the awesome.

Yoshinaya is quite the decorator.

Yuno's sketchbook must be found. I just hope hers doesn't have "Dark Side" written on it.

Fencedude is right, Yuno does have strong toes.

Well, the re-watch of season 1 and season 2 is now complete. I wonder if I should re-watch the already aired episodes of Hoshimittsu? Ok, that's a stupid question anyway.

First, because it hasn't even finished airing. Second, because I'll probably randomly re-watch them or at least scenes from them anyway.

[strangefour]

-ahhahahaha Yuno smacking Miya with the frying pan is violently adorable.
-Someone comes over anrgy. Oh it's the corpse from room 102.
-Miyako can barely dress herself...
-Eyecatch of Sae dragging a dazed Hiro back to into bed. *wink* *nudge*
-Miya, hre mouth wide open and inviting, leans ever closer to Yuno. Closer. Closer. Saliva glistening on her lips. Closer. Yuno lets out an exclamation of surprise. heh
-MISATO SENPAI!

The fabled Misato-senpai! She's certainly...interesting.

I have to admit I'd like to see an episode takes place a year before Yuno and Miyako arrive. To get a chance to see what Hiro and Sae's life was like when Misato was in the apartment. Even if it meant a lack of Yuno.

That would be fun to see a world before Miyako. Misato is a goofy one. And her joking encourages Hiro & Sae's relationship. Dang it. Misato runs away her scarf flapping in the wind. I miss her already.

-Mysterious room 203!
-Random sensei is random. No one wants to see her naked. So Yoshinoya cries.
-Yuno is finished unpacking because she did not bring much. Oh really? Those 60 boxes full of sheets and drapes are not much?
-"Yuno learn to cook!" "Hai." "Alright, my food worries are over." Oh Miya, the path to your heart is a straight line through your stomache.
-Hiro was in 203? What dark secret is she keeping in there?

The secrets of room 203 lie buried in the past. Another fun little episode. This show manages to keep the fun rolling in different directions with the non-linearity and the running gags.

[strangefour]

-The long awaited continuation of field day.
-Yoshinoya is a cheerleader. Oh boy.
-A race where food is involved. Miya is unstoppable--- Limbo!
-I wish Hiro would make me lunch every day.
-Holy crap Miya. Slow down the eating a bit. I know she's a bottomless pit. But she's inhaling more food than ever it seems.
-Hiro's giant ass is the master of musical chairs.
"Sae's flat body lets her run without wind resistance." Yoshi is unintentionally cruel in her childlike innocence.
-Talking through the kanji of their names? Wow. Sometimes this show pulls amazing imaginative artistic things that floor me.
-Ume bathing "Don't peak." hehe

I should slow down my intake of Hidamari episode before I run out. But it's such a cute little show. Always giving me a chuckle and a smile. If only there really were 365 episodes.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Ah, so that's who Chika is.

Interesting how this puts her in perhaps a less pleasant light than the manga does. Between Natsume and Chika, one of Sae's most defining characteristics is "neglect." (Though in Natsume's case, it's completely unconscious).

Weird how much is left hanging in this series. I don't know that I like the achronic episode ordering.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Um, wow. I like the alternative OP.

More service than you can shake a stick at.

That was not a Freudian comment, by the way.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

They changed the OP again? Quite ambitious, they are.

Poor, poor Sae. Then again, considering everything, maybe she deserves some angst.

By the way, is it my imagination, or in the specials is the principal rather badass? Which makes his super-shaky voice even more annoying.

[strangefour]

By the way, is it my imagination, or in the specials is the principal rather badass? Which makes his super-shaky voice even more annoying.

Jumping over fences and across streets. Hanging with the ladies in the school pool. The principal is one bad mamma-jamma. It makes it easy to forgive hsi shaky voice, even if Miyako does it better than he does.

[strangefour]

-Yoshinoya wakes up. On a farm? After falling asleep playing I'm gonna guess Dragon Quest XXX
-Today, she's a race queen, a sexy eskimo, a school girl and dozens of other things.
-Painting her own photo shoot backdrops is busy work. No time for that boring stuff school paper work.
-So she photographs herself the same way Peter Parker gets shots of Spider-man.
-I wonder if the Narrator exists in Yoshinoya's mind. It would explain some of her "quirks."
-Yoshinoya bathing. Goodness gracious she displaces a lot of bath water.

It's nice to see the Principal being nice to Yoshinoya. Even if it's only briefly. After hounding her all day to get any work done at all. Work hard, play hard Yoshi!

[Fencedude]

-Yoshinoya bathing. Goodness gracious she displaces a lot of bath water.

Well, spheres do have a large volume...

[strangefour]

-Film time.
-A Miyako directed film? Musical suspense XD
-Man that food looks delicious. This show keeps making me hungry.
-Everyone felt inspired after the movie. Miyako made a fishy flip book. "Stop looking at that. We're eating now." Oh Miya, a one track mind, er stomache.

It's refreshing in one way and odd in another to see how the girls express them selves artistically. Yuno sketches and paints. Sae writes and wants to illustrate. Miyako is a jack of all trades, this time creating simple animation. But I can't remember Hiro creating any art besides food. Beautiful food. But if she has drawn anything I must have missed it.

[strangefour]

-Hey all of the pictures on Yuno's shelf abover her bed are all Ume-sensei! I think they are normally the same pictures, the first being clasped hands. But I could be wrong. But all Ume now!
-"Today, making shoes out of clay. Mine cost 14700 yen. If your's cost more. They will be confiscated." Yoshinoya is a very weird woman.
-Yuno has tiny feet. That's alright, Miya likes your baby feet.
-Yoshi starts out being enducational but ends up having a break down.
-Elves came to paint Yuno's shoe. Heh.
-"We're friends" *Natsume blushes* "Hiro's waiting." *Natsume angry* That's made the lust in natsume's eyes obvious now.
-Evil Miya has awakened! Ahahah she fluffed up the bed and left the shoes there. Now Sae is confused and afraid.
-Yuno's parents arrive. As Yuno and Miya return to their apartment carrying their stuffed children.
-AHAHAHAH! Miyako meets Yuno's parents and is amazed the don't have Xs.
-Meatbuns! Yuno's parents have burrowed their way into Miya's heart.
-Yuno's dad thinks Sae is Yuno's boyfriend. Catears!
-Misato's trap!
-Room 203 strikes again!
-Oh. Yoshinoya is the embarrassing one. That makes perfect sense now.

Anime back rubs never make sense to me. Just pounding on the shoulder blades is not a back rub. But it was nice to see someone's parents show up. I'd rather see what kind of insane parents Miya has though. Or find out if Sae's parents approve of her life choice. Though actually seeing the principal's parents would likely be the most insane...

[strangefour]

-There is a treasure chest in the crawl space by Miyako's room?
-Yuno has started making lunches for Miya. Waifu in training.
-Miyako is a peruvian line artist.
-Molestation by a pidgeon mafia.
-Flying saucer wtf!?
-Girl meets girl. Yoshinoya is a girl technically I guess.
-Yuno is de-skirted. Kitties~
-Defend your self with cleaning supplies Yuno. *snicker* And unconscious Hiro?
-"Carrying you was a real problem." Damn it Miya. Don't poke her weight issues with a stick like that.
-A kiss from Yoshi to awaken the sleeping princess.
-Miya pulled so hard, she pulled off Hiro's panties...
-Finally an anorexia intervention!
-Hiro's booty is so bountiful she bonked her head on the ceiling. hehehehe
-Maid Yoshi is knocked out and now haunts the school.
-Room 203 is making sounds. Monsterous sounds!
-The ghost of Toshi haunts Yuno. Resulting in another double bathing.

Room 203 was better when it was an unfathomable mystery. Now it's just rather confusing why Hiro insists it's a secret. It was nice how Yuno completely missed out on finding out anything.

[strangefour]

-Tanabata!
-Okay, I've been letting it play but I guess not watching all of it. Because I just noticed Miya is eating something different in atleast the last two OPs.
-Sae doesn't know and doesn't care where Hiro is? They must have broken up. *sob*
-Dynamic camera angles!
-Awwww, Yuno's little "falling apart" day dream is so adorable.
-Hah! They get a magical free bamboo bush for Tanabata.
-They did break up! Hiro is eating like Miya now. What has happened to our happy little apartment couple!
-Natsume see's Sae & Hiro ignoring each other. Chance!
-Miya has read Yuno's diary. Angry Yuno! Still not as funny as the frying pan.
-Why are Yuno & Miya there as an audience to the apology?
-Hiro goes to cry into Sae's bosom. But Miya is there with a save to add a pillow as buffer... Why did you taco-blocko there Miya? Atleast Miya & Yuno left so they could have make up ... Cuddling. Yes cuddling.
-Oh Hiro's shadow is giving her hair a full Medusa effect.
-Two consecutive days? Impossible! Oh just a few seconds as another normal day starts.

Surprisingly sad little episode that ended exceedingly happy. Plus a few bits of extra animated animation. But if Sae & Hiro have a fight over something so trivial, can their relationship really last for long? Oh well atleast they are hand holding and "cuddling" for now.

HAH! Natsume totally blew her limited window of opportunity.

[strangefour]

-Kitty! Chii~~
-Nice group shot of everyone at the end of the OP
-"Everyone told me I grew tall." They lied to you Uno. They lied.
-Hiro & Sae are still asleep late in the after noon... what have they been doing since they got back from new years break? *wink*
-Always remember to leave your address when calling on the gods. heh
-Confirmation the fan letter was from Natsume. Silly little scamp.
-Hiro, the gods want you to have a bit butt. This is no lie.
-Heheh, Miya's constant delayed reaction "Happy new year" gets me every time.
-Singing in the bath. Yuno's singing is good for once. Oh! Everyone singing in the bath.

So the new year is celebrated by singing the opening song to the first season while bathing? Sounds like a winning strategy to me.

It is a great way to close out the show. But wait there's more! For another night though.

[strangefour]

-Hah principal taking Hiro's spot in the OP. Also alternate lyrics yay.
-Sae has taken up being a paparazzi
-Polaroidon! Heheheh a Godzillain sequence. Once again Hidamari knows how to push my buttons.
-Skull and crossbones punk Yuno. Nice.
-Hair extensions for Sae? OMG SAE IS A GIRL! Long hair on her is... mentally jarring.
-Sae with make up? Yuno has joined a rock band? Mustache Miya...
- One meal... two meal... three meal...
-"Interested in Hiro." Thank you for writing the obvious Sae.
-"My tummy clock is ringing" Miya is still adorable.
-Hiro wants to borrow Sae's camera for the night. I sense much steam coming from Sae's ears tomorrow.
-Oh pictures of all the other girls sleeping. Maybe they should lock their doors... Hiro is a naughty girl.

[strangefour]

-Hiro flattens a bike's tires. Yuno forgot how to ride. Miya pulls a Kamen Rider pose while riding.
-Hiro's left handed? Her fashion sense seems even more old lady-ish today.
-Someone wants to interview the foursome?
-Kotatsu view from underneath. Now that's a camera angle I never thought of.
-Sae just told Natsume to jump on her! Okay on the back of the bike. But to Natsume that means an invite to jump Sae's bones.
-The emptying out of room 203.
-Could this be new students on the horizon?

[strangefour]

-Naked Yuno in a giant umbrella? Naked Yuno drowning in the ocean is happy?
-Boy? What? there are no boys in Hidamari!
-Staring at Miyako's bra? Miyako doesn't wear a--!
-Yoshinoya wants to meet Miya after class. And strip! The entire class worries for her safety. As do I.
-Hiro's hair is an accurate meteorologist.
-Wow Yoshi's art prep room is an awesome little living/dressing room.
-Yoshi, goddess of tailoring
-Mariachi Yoshi!
-Lost things are found, but not Yuno's sketch book.
-Opposable toes to the rescue. Sketchbook came back.

It seems like I should feel empty after marathoning two season in a row. But Hidamari is so filled with joy. Plus there's another series to start. And to wait for DVDs to arrive so I can watch it all again.

[something]

Episode 12:

December 24th!
- FUCK YES CHIKA IS HERE! Kugimiiiiiiya~ Best minor character in the show! And there are quite a lot of damn good ones.
- This is like... ah, it's glorious. Sae is at her best when she's embarrassed, and nobody can bring that out like Chika.
- Yoshinoya is so nice, but her weirdness stands out anyway.
- Santa principal! Chika laughs, Miyako is excited, the rest just stare.
- Santa Yoshinoya... BETTER! Chika and Yoshinoya would totally get along. Love the picture of the two.
- Mean Sae made cute, innocent Chika cry! ;_;
- Miyako has a plan! Miyako is a genius! It works too.
- Chika and Yuno are falling asleep. Time for the kids to go to bed.

December 25th!
- And they all stay over in Yuno's room! =D
- Sadly Chika has to leave already. =( She looks seriously amazing in her outfit here, and it's obvious she already has Sae beat in one area. Her hair is amazing too - I like how she wears short hair way better than Sae (though Sae looks fine too).
- They'll all be apart for a little while. ;_; It's really fun watching them reflect on how they've changed as they've been together these past 8 months.
- And Sae gave Chika the autograph! They've seriously got to be one of the cutest pairs of sisters ever.

What a really wonderful way to end the first season (the TV broadcast, at least). I like how Yuno is wondering if they'll get a lot of snow - and she does, the exact snow that started this season. Cute little connections like that are why the achronological presentation works so incredibly well.

On to the specials.

[something]

Special 1:

August 11th!
- Welcome to Hidamari-s----::BOOM:: I was caught off guard by the old ひだまり荘 sign, but that's because they don't do it for another 10 days.
- The look of utter contentment on Yuno's face when she dumps the water into the soumen <3
- It's summer vacation, but all they've been doing is lazing around. What's missing? POOL!!
- EPIC PRINCIPAL JUMP FOR NO REASON.
- Landlady! Miyako loves watermelon. She should compare melons with Ikaros. And yes that sounded dirtier than intended.
- Landlady is fishing for souvenirs again...
- Yuno finds an Ume-sensei autograph!
- Yuno presents watermelon as well! Sort of. She looks so happy.
- Oh shit, swimsuit Chika eyecatch! YES! Sae is looking pretty good too.
- Sae goes for the bikini. She really seems like the type who would prefer a one piece. So does Yuno, but thankfully we get a bikini! Although as that Railgun episode taught us, one pieces can accentuate curves nicely on slim bodies. Anyway, Yuno looked super cute with the swim cap on too. But the Xs must return!
- Topless Hiro eyecatch!! And Sae without her glasses. Tragic.
- "There weren't enough lifeboats." Hahaha, oh Miyako.
- Sexy Sae eyecatch!
- And Yuno is swept away.
- Sexy Miyako eyecatch! Figures she has the least revealing swimsuit.
- Heh, Yuno contemplating how to enter the pool.
- Sexy Yuno eyecatch!
- Yuno floats!
- Hiro is loooovely when she's teasing Sae. Talking about that guy to get Sae jealous. =D
- Sexy Yoshinoya! Such a shame she and Chika aren't really here.
- Although she is at another pool...
- And some lady with an Ume-sensei bottom.
- Landlady in a swimsuit!! And a dramatic gun battle in the pool.
- Watermelon, sparklers, a summer night... the type of image I can see a thousand times and never ever get tired of. I don't know why, but it's just so relaxing.

Awesome, awesome episode.

Post-ED:
- And Hiro drowns Miyako.

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-Sae gets embarrassed by Hiro and covers her crotch as she spouts steam. Oh my.
I'm pretty sure Sae emits enough steam to power an entire industrial revolution.

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Special 2:

November 27th!
- I don't like going outside on windy days either, Yuno. ;_;
- Man I love this OP. So many cute changes.
- Hiro got... a letter! Sae is horrified.
- Hahaha, Sae is a wreck. And of course Miyako and Yuno assume the letter is from Sae to Hiro. XD
- Yoshi~! She lives for this stuff. At Sae's expense. Like most things.
- I really, really wish we could meet the two girls Hiro is talking to when Yoshi barges in. This show needs more rarely present tertiary characters with names!
- Yuno's daydreams...
- Oh man, Sae is just absolutely adamant.
- NATSUME APPEARS!! And she's being so tsuntsun. That ain't gonna work, Natsume dear.
- "Mouth to Mouth!"
- Hah, so Hiro declined via letter and never saw the guy. Sae is the very picture of shocked relief.
- Also, this is an unusual angle to get in Hiro's room. We almost never see her bed (maybe Ume-sensei is on it often!) for example. Usually Hiro's room = dinner kotatsu.
- Ohhhhhhhhhhh god. Hiro gives Sae the most lovely look. And Sae thinks about the time she's spent with Hiro. It's a great moment.
- The things Yoshinoya will do for love... We don't get enough Kuwahara-sensei, btw.
- Sae, nobody believes you.
- Yep, the only man in Yuno's life is her dad. :sd:
- Hahahahaha, the rice in the locker.
- Ume-sensei is gonna raid Hiro's fridge.
- 17!
- Yoshinoya is an absorbent polymer!
- Bathing! From many angles!

A few days later...
- Yuno and Miyako got letters too! ...from each other. =D

Thus I finally finish rewatching season one. On to x365 soon!

[strangefour]

- Also, this is an unusual angle to get in Hiro's room. We almost never see her bed (maybe Ume-sensei is on it often!) for example. Usually Hiro's room = dinner kotatsu.


Yeah despite the many character angles the room angles are often the same. Hiro's bed has shown up a few times. Just not as much as Yuno's ever present bed. Hey, have we ever seen Sae's bed? Does she just sleep on the couch or at her desk?

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- Also, this is an unusual angle to get in Hiro's room. We almost never see her bed (maybe Ume-sensei is on it often!) for example. Usually Hiro's room = dinner kotatsu.


Yeah despite the many character angles the room angles are often the same. Hiro's bed has shown up a few times. Just not as much as Yuno's ever present bed. Hey, have we ever seen Sae's bed? Does she just sleep on the couch or at her desk?

Sae sleeps on a futon...when she's not sleeping at her desk.

[Suwako Moriya]

A few days later...
- Yuno and Miyako got letters too! ...from each other. =D

Thus proving their love has the power of dedication behind it.

[Zalis]

-Lost things are found, but not Yuno's sketch book.


Also related to that sequence of events, apparently Yoshinoya-sensei's a fan of late 90s anime or something. All the text at 17:15, plus Yoshinoya's "Won't you dance with me instead?" line, are from the His & Her Circumstances ED. I know SHAFT loves referencing their own shows, but I have to hand it to them. An obscure reference to a song from a show from over a decade prior, by different companies, and sharing zero staff overlap with Hidamari X365... that takes guts. I have to wonder if that's something hardcore Western otaku are more likely to catch than hardcore Japanese otaku.

Of course, that could've been in the manga as well. But either way, the gutsiness part still stands.

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Episode 1:

February 10th!
- Run Yuno, run! Lovely animation in this ep.

February 9th!
- And she leaaaaaaaps into bed.
- But she forgot her pillow!

February 10th!
- Looks like she slept fine after all. :sd:
- Wasshoi! I love the photographs at the end of the OP.
- And there's Miyako walking by with her face mask.
- Heh! Our "first" scene with Yoshinoya is, of course, her being late.
- I <3 Yuno and her eraser.
- And proctor Natsume!
- Yuno's mom is still waving, and Landlady needs a smoke.
- Sad Yuno makes me so sad. And we really need more of the girl who sits next to her.

February 14th!
- Haha, Yuno's mom teasing her = win. Especially the way she puts her hand to her mouth to cover up a laugh when Yuno winds up calling herself dumb.
- Ume-tentei returns to Hidamari-sou!

February 15th!
- The girl who sat next to Yuno got into Yamabuki!

April 5th!
- Ohh, right, Yuno's outfit as she moves away from home. Absolutely perfect. One of the cutest things she's ever worn.
- And she bonks her head right into the movign truck. XD
- The music stops and Yuno just O_os when she sees some strange girl hanging upside down...
- As soon as Miyako meets Yuno... FOOD! I think Miyako knew Yuno was the one the moment Yuno fed her.

February 10th!
- Miyako knew instantly she'd be moving into Hidamari-sou. =D

April 5th!
- Yunoppi! Yunoppei! Yunosuke! Yunoemon! Yunokichi! Yunonojou! Yunoyano!
- ...Yunocchi. Ahhh, the Xs blast onto the screen and blow away the walls surrounding Yuno's heart, and in that moment, she also finds true love. <3 One of the best scenes of the franchise.
- Weirdo #2! Hiro!
- MIya's art, as... Miyaish as ever.
- Weirdo #3! A corpse!
- And Yuno learns of Hiro's constant dieting.

March 5th!
- Miyako... did not get a moving van. :sd:

April 5th!
- God, Hiro is so damn NICE.
- Miyako jumps intp Yuno's bath! Hiro brings her wife some dinner! We have established the couples from day one.
- I alwasy wondered if there was any particular meaning to the numbers on Sae's wall. I'm assuming they come out to 365 somehow.

Such an awesome first (in more ways than one) episode.

っち!

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Episode 2:

February 6th!
- It's been nearly a year since the previous episode. In ep 1 we had Yuno waiting on exam results. In this episode, it's Chika!
- Huh, I just noticed for the first time that there's a brief shot of Yuno's awesome 4koma from Vol. 3 of the manga in the the OP animation.
- Texts from Chika! And now we know why Sae was so anxious at the start of the episode.
- The talk of one year reminds me... two special people will be at Yamabuki High taking their own exams in a matter of days!
- No chocolate for the principal. ;_;
- Chika passed! Yaaaaaaay! And she wants a party in her honor. Heh, Sae turning around and seeing the girls watching her was too cute.
- Hiro is always prepared.
- It's a texting party! Miyako gets a crash course in modern communications technology.
- Hahaha, Natsume just completely crumbles in the face of Sae's smile.
- Miyako in a middle school uniform!
- Heh, Sae is there to toss the icky rotten mikan for Hiro.
- Haha, the girls enjoy Sae's chats with Chika so much.
- I find it really amusing that the Principal is so happy to get chocolate from Yoshinoya. He's like a little kid - he only picks on her because he's got a crush on her! (and, well, she deserves it)
- The landlady is such a hard worker. :sd:
- Hiro can barely stifle her laughter at her wife's inability to cook.
- Hiro is surrounded by sumo-talk...
- Bathing! While thinking of Chika.

We just had an entire episode where nothing happened except some texting back and forth to Chika... and it was awesome.

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-Sae & Yuno oni. I have the urge to bean them.
I know I've linked this before, but, relevant (http://moe.imouto.org/post/show/74497)! Yuno so sexy...

[strangefour]

-Sae & Yuno oni. I have the urge to bean them.
I know I've linked this before, but, relevant (http://moe.imouto.org/post/show/74497)! Yuno so sexy...

No. No I don't think you did ever link that to me. I'd be tempted to make that my wallpaper, if I hadn't just picked a new wallpaper (http://www.secretdancemoves.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dino-riders.jpg) yesterday.

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Episode 3:

May 27th!
- Late May, so Yuno's been a Hidamari-sou resident for a little under tqwo onths.
- Yuno is crazy. The only time I'm awake at 7am on a day off is if I'm still up from the night before.
- Oooh, it's this episode. Shrine visit! Art!
- Awww, mom and mom are seeing the kids off. I like Miyako's little ponytail.
- Yoshinoya can be nice and teacherly even on her day off! She recommends a good drawing spot for the girls. Goofy as she is, she knows her stuff. The idea of two of her though... We should meet her friend!
- Lots of stairs! Miyako makes Yuno lose count at 454. ;_;
- Ahhh! It's that BGM again. So short, but so... instantly appealing. It starts playing as Miyako and Yuno look at the statues. It feels like Touhou music at first.
- Suddenly there's a little girl in Yuno's lap!
- Yuno just can't say no to the wide-eyed sparkles.
- Yuno and Miyako report in with their parents when they return.
- Aomushi is still growing...
- "You only used them until fourth grade right?" "...Ah." The timing and the look on Yuno's face are both perfect.
- Landlady! I love Sawashiro in general but she's just so awesome as the landlady. Probably because she can be so understated. Like the "You're sharp" comment when Sae points out it's a company camera. Delivered perfectly.
- Room 203! ka~ ka~ ka~
- Yuno looks so very determined when eating the... butter natto... chips.
- Ah, Sae's editor's name is Naoi.
- The lucky chocolate went squish? No worries, you don't need it Yuno. Your love is right next to you.
- Natsume! ...appears for no reason other than to be tsuntsun. And it's awesome!
- Hiro wanted Sae to see the lucky chocolate =D
- NOSE!
- And bathing. <3

I may be far behind but one episode a night before bed always feels so nice~

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- Yuno looks so very determined when eating the... butter natto... chips.

I swear there is a secret competition between animators to see who can stick the most utterly bizarre and disgusting sounding random snackfoods into scenes like that.

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- Yuno looks so very determined when eating the... butter natto... chips.I swear there is a secret competition between animators to see who can stick the most utterly bizarre and disgusting sounding random snackfoods into scenes like that.
For some reason I started wondering what it might taste like, and then kinda wanted to try it...

I also wonder how has eaten more ridiculous things in their life? Miyako or the landlady? The landlady seems to have Miyako beat on cat food, surprisingly. Poor landlady, she drives herself into debt providing affordable housing to aspiring young art students!

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Episode 4.1:

March 16th!
- They don't fell when setting up for the photographs at the end, but a truck decides to drive by right then...
- Suddenly a fat cat! It's going to eat Miyako's beloved seafood. Just as she finally has a good meal coming...
- Yuno, you pervert!
- Dowsing with kitties!
- Landlady is going to quit. Again.
- "Maybe if I marry him". As if he were an illegal alien. But then he'd be a relative at least!
- Haha, Miyako you're such a jerk. I love you. Poor Hiro though.
- Cat food is Miyako food!

March 22nd!
- No luck finding the owner.
- Yuno owns a genius cat!
- Chika's mom okayed the visit! Chika is coming!
- Miyako is being a naughty girl...

March 23rd!
- The cat left. Yuno is devastated. ;_; But Miyako values freedom above all, so it's okay.
- Bathing! ...Miyako version.

I do like how the DVD release splits the eps into .1 and .2 releases. I wonder if *** will do the same? Theres a lot of half eps there. It seems like it would be harder to do so with the way they segue into them with flashbacks. I guess they'll just be one continuous episode.

Hrm, I should continue on so I make sure I'm done this before we start the Aria the Origination thread, but I don't feel lke rushing it.

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Episode 4.2:

October 31st!
- GAGAGAGA
- Heh! Yuno is worried about her art exhibition piece. Don't worry Yuno, I have a feeling it'll work out juuust fine. And I love how she asks Miya if she decided what to draw. "Yeah... just now." She sees Yuno and is inspired! As she's plopping herself on top of Yuno's head.
- Yuno being troubled! The purest, most distilled source of moe ever!
- Miyako goes off to draw her beloved. But not before stopping to check if she's feeling okay. Miyako is so sweet~
- YES! The famous OP scene! Sae on top of Hiro! GAGAGAGAGA! Don't try to hide it, girls.
- And Ume was watching...
- YES^2! The famous yuri scene! ::sparkle::
- And Kishi-san!
- Yuno doesn't want Miyako to leave her behind... but she also doesn't want to hold her back! Ah, such love.
- Ahaha, Yuno ducking from the camera. Pop!
- Nakayama! Mami! Girl who... doesn't have a name as far as I know! It's Yuno's inspiration!
- A nearly identical "quitting" scene from the Landlady to back seven and a half months ago on March 16th. :sd:
- Go go Yuno! Sketch your heart out!
- Heh, reference to the Landlady getting the fish.
- Bathing! Then falling asleep half-finished.

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Episode 5:

March 25th!
- Wow, I'd forgotten how late this is as far as S1-2 episoes go. It is, thus far, the latest episode chronologically before the second school year starts.
- "I'm being ignored!" ::next shot has books lined up on the shelf to block view of Miya::
- CHIKAAAAAAA-CHAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!
- OH GOD SO CUTE. (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/anon09876/HidamariSketchx365-05SpoonSubsDVD00.png)
- I think Chika has the wrong idea about high school. Although living in Hidamari-sou and going to Yamabuki are made out to be pretty awesome... too bad reality is never like that.
- More use of the bookshelves. Blocking everyone but Chika and Sae!
- Awww, Chika is... jealous? Lonely? Both? Sigh, I so wish she were attending Yamabuki.
- Karaoke! Haven't done that since May 18th of the previous year. Much longer ago than Sae thought.
- It's closed. ;_;
- Yoshinoya remembers Chika! Those two work so well together. Chika needs Yoshinoya as a teacher...
- "You've held onto this for awhile" Hmm, she had it on March 16th in 4.1, but I don't remember how much earlier she actually got it.
- Nakedness! And singing!! Miyako's awesome singing and Yuno's... well. And dynamic animation! It was taking me awhile to figure out when this happened, but duh, it's just now, after they helped Yoshinoya clean.
- Who needs a karaoke box when you have the baths?
- Damn, it's all so utterly wonderful. Cake and presents and looove~
- "She even got Valentine chocolate from other girls." "I knew it!" Hiro just smiles. XD
- You tell her Hiro! It's nothing to hide. Yuno totally doesn't read the atmosphere, as usual. Hiro just smiles some more.
- Chika and Sae's scene alone together is just sweet beyond words. Chika really is feeling lonely without her sister, and jealous that Sae gets to go out into the world alone... but they're such great siblings when they open up a bit and don't fight. Looooooooove love love it.
- Bathing a second time!

Definitely one of the best episodes. Chika visits, epic bathing karaoke, and the Chika/Sae scene at the end. Doesn't get much better than that.

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Episode 6.1:

July 30th!
- Sae yawning made me yawn.
- Huh, so is Sae skipping school? It's summer vacation, though. Maybe the girls are just going to extra lessons or something.
- Natsume!! Being tsuntsun as ever. We need to get better scenes with her two friends.
- Naoi-san! Ah yes we actually meet Sae's editor. I'd forgotten. And she's actually really nice, unlike the demon editors you always see in anime. This must be pretty early in Sae's career...she's known for her love stories, but they talk here as if she hasn't written any like that yet. Wel,l it is only a little under 4 months into the time line, although she surely wrote stories in her first year too.
- Miyako is just so profoundly happy to get an ice cream bar.
- Yoko plushie. And Nia!
- Yuno loves her father, and her cat. (And Miyako.)
- Hiro knows exactly who she loves...
- Miyako loves food!
- Ahahaah, Hiro stifling laughter at Sae's empty boasts never ever gets old.
- Sae bathing time!!
- Oh Sae. The phone call to Chika is precisely the train wreck you'd expect. You can just hear it falling apart line by line.
- Send the damn text, Sae! You know you love her!

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Episode 6.2

November 11th!
- Hiro is kinda scary when she's just woken up.
- Miyako will eat Hiro's cream puff hair!
- Hiro gives Sae a frilly pink apron. XD
- Yoshinoya goes bikini apron!
- That looks like Nakayama cooking with Hiro... but sounds a bit more like Toudou. Neither one is in Hiro's year though. I guess it's neither - Nakayama would never be without her wife Mami. Although I see Mami without Nakayama in the sketching class.
- And is the girl who told Hiro she was good Kobayashi Yuu?
- ::looks at Hiro:: "You must be pretty bad at cooking, Sae." bwhaha.
- Oh that's definitely Nakayama. Even if Shaft forgets her mole half the time.
- Chef Hiro eyecatch!
- Yuno is becoming mature... Miya made her a woman!
- Cream puffs are a metaphor for breasts!
- Sexy unnamed teacher as angel eyecatch!
- Sexy maid Sae eyecatch! And she's clearly padding...
- Ahahha, Hiro doesn't need to say anything. Just look at Natsume and smile and Natsume totally loses her cool. Sae's defintely developed a following over the months.
- Landlady just can't quit.
- Hiro is the best wife~
- It's always awesome when Miyako casually drops these bombs about her bizarre past.
- Yuno understands the Hidamari-sou family dynamic!!
- Hiro bathing time!! Mmm, she puts those cream puffs to good use. And she's always thinking about Sae...

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Episode 7

April 7th!
- Ume-sensei hijacks the camera this time...
- Going waaaay back with this episode, to what is so far the second one chronologically after both parts of ep 1 of this season. Entrance ceremony!
- Haha oh Yuno, you had to ask Miyako if she wanted food? You can tell Yuno only moved in two days ago.
- Yuno smacks Miyako with a frying pan....
- Yuno's first (real) meeting with Sae! And it's Sae scolding them.
- Miyako and Yuno cause such a ruckus at the ceremony.
- MISATO-SENPAI! Koshimizu Ami!
- Too short! We really, really need some backstory on Misato.
- And they meet Yoshinoya. Five minutes is more than enough to get a feeling for what kind of teacher she'll be.
- Do it Yuno! Become a nude model!
- Miyako carries Yuno back home <3 Cute Yuno eyecatch!
- Awww... nice scene with Landlady, Yoshinoya and the Principal.
- Welcoming Party Challenge! Ume-sensei waves goodbye as they go shopping.
- Miyako and Yuno learn that the laws of motion are a fickle beast.
- Sae showed Natsume the shoe lockers. The moment Natsume fell in love.
- "Your wallpaper looks brand new" ...The things Misato must have done to Hidamari-sou.
- And Miyako secures herself a food source.

And, of course, bathing. Have to have bathing.

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Episode 8:

October 13th!
- In the OP the photograph is facing the other way, putting the school in the background. But they fall again anyway.
- It's finally time for the sports festival!
- I think I remember Miyako having another committee-like position in an earlier episode, but I can't remember what... and here she's on the sports festival committee. How does she get these positions? :sd:
- Haha, there's Natsume to challenge Sae again. <3 Oh how I love Fukuen Misato's voice.
- Yuno is useless in the scavenger hunt...
- Miyako was born for the obstacle course!
- And everyone is totally in sync for the centipede race. Behold the power of Hidamari-sou comrades, Natsume!
- Wait, an all white lunch when they're the red team? I guess it symbolizes overpowering and consuming your enemy >_>
- Ohhh, so that's why the landlady needs so much money. She's in debt...
- Haha, Hiro's lovely ass wins musical chairs.
- A six point gap in the final match! Yuno is the anchor in the relay race! PRESSURE!
- Beautiful Announcer Toudou-sama! <3 Inoue Marina.
- Sae passes Natsume! Yuuno gets the hand-off! And they win!!
- ...Well, as far as the art program goes. :sd: I always love this little reveal here. They avoid it all episode, and then "With 258 points..." Interesting that the Art program is only 1/3rd of the school. Though I guess that's still pretty large.
- Victory song! Sae and Miyako are into it, at least...
- Huh, you know, the gang doesn't hang out in Sae's room often. I just noticed she doesn't have any sort of central table for them to eat at like Hiro's kotatsu or Yuno's table.
- "...ecchi." Then Yoshinoya and Kuwahara promptly got it on.
- Natsume cried. ;_; That makes me so sad...
- Lovely Chocolat!
- TOUDOU-JACK!
- The girls are so easily swayed by commercials.
- Heh, I love seeing Miyako embarrass Yuno about the relay.
- BATHING!

The way Asumi Kana says "Natsuyasumi na~i" in the preview is amazing.

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Episode 9.1:

August 5th!
- Kinda sounds like Yoshinoya's mom is voiced by Ume-sensei.
- Oh, hah, right. The photograph this time is Yoshinoya cosplaying Yuuko. XD
- I love Yoshinoya's hair so much. The rest of her is quite nice too. Race queen!
- Yoshinoya-sensei is so incredibly dedicated to (what she perceives to be) her work. So hard work and dedication isn't her problem. It's priorities. :sd: Although what she chooses to prioritize usually ends up benefiting us.
- ...She's ridiculously hot. So many costumes! Such nice photos. The principal needs to appreciate the public service she's performing.
- I really like when the adults get to hang out.
- Natsume!! She's so very adorable sneaking around Hidamari-sou.
- Awww. See, the Principal totally appreciates Yoshinoya's good side. She loves her students deeply, and loves art just as much. She's a wonderful teacher!
- BATHING! Yoshinoya-style!!

Heh, the preview has the girls wondering what it'd be like if they were filmed. Wake up, school, come home, eat, bathe, sleep. It'd be a documentary!

...so that's what this is. Hidamari Sketch is a documentary!

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Episode 9.2:

December 3rd!
- Yay, all the girls watching Kishi's film. Kishi's parents too. :sd:
- What kind of movie would Miya direct? She'd manage to mix hollywood blockbuster and extreme art house and come up with... something incomprehensible.
- Kishi's movie makes everyone feel creative! Yuno sketches, Hiro cooks, Sae writes, Miyako... eats?
- Ah, Miyako animates!
- Heh yet another scene with the girls commenting on a commercial we don't see. These are always so strange.
- Awwww, Sae's fan mail. This ends up being one of her cutest embarrassment scenes.
- BATHING! And renewed passion for art from Yuno.

This show does work quite well in half-episode chunks, not that I want less than my half hour of Hidamari each week.

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Being fed by Hiro must be a dream come true.
The meals she makes for them just can't be in a lone high school girl's budget. I definitely have to agree with whoever said (in whichever thread) that Hiro must be from a pretty rich family. She's just really down to earth about it, like Tsumugi from K-ON!.

Also, it occurs to me that we know even less about Hiro's family than we do about Miyako's.

[strangefour]

Being fed by Hiro must be a dream come true.
The meals she makes for them just can't be in a long high school girl's budget. I definitely have to agree with whoever said (in whichever thread) that Hiro must be from a pretty rich family. She's just really down to earth about it, like Tsumugi from K-ON!.

Also, it occurs to me that we know even less about Hiro's family than we do about Miyako's.

Have we ever heard word one about Hiro's family or upbringing or anything? Miyako we atleast know she grew up poor, possibly on a farm, singing enka for change and always hungry. Maybe Hiro's family own one of the grocery chains so she secretly gets most of her food at low low prices. Or maybe they host an exersize show and gave her some of the equipment that ended up in room 203, plus instilled in her the weird body image issues. We need a visiting family on holiday break episode.

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Have we ever heard word one about Hiro's family or upbringing or anything? Miyako we atleast know she grew up poor, possibly on a farm, singing enka for change and always hungry. Maybe Hiro's family own one of the grocery chains so she secretly gets most of her food at low low prices. Or maybe they host an exersize show and gave her some of the equipment that ended up in room 203, plus instilled in her the weird body image issues. We need a visiting family on holiday break episode.

I've always figured that Hiro's family is at least moderately well off, since she never seems to have a shortage of money to provide groceries.

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Have we ever heard word one about Hiro's family or upbringing or anything? Miyako we atleast know she grew up poor, possibly on a farm, singing enka for change and always hungry. Maybe Hiro's family own one of the grocery chains so she secretly gets most of her food at low low prices. Or maybe they host an exersize show and gave her some of the equipment that ended up in room 203, plus instilled in her the weird body image issues. We need a visiting family on holiday break episode.
I remember Miyako said at some point that she had a brother too... Hiro might have told us she's an only child, when Yuno brought it up. Whenever that was. Either way I'd certainly expect Hiro was an only child. Although she's got such an awesome reliable onee-sama thing going on... she had to have practice at some point.

Well, that or she learned very quickly with Sae, and Miyako and Yuno reap the benefits big time.

[Suwako Moriya]

The meals she makes for them just can't be in a long high school girl's budget. I definitely have to agree with whoever said (in whichever thread) that Hiro must be from a pretty rich family. She's just really down to earth about it, like Tsumugi from K-ON!.

Given the amount/lack of information we have, I'm going to accept the theory as well. Right now it's what makes the most sense.

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Episode 10:

June 8th!
- During the OP when three sets of hands clap, I've always noticed various things flying out but never stopped to look at exactly what it was. So first must be Miyako, since it's all food. Second is Hiro with various cooking implements. Third is likely Sae rather than Yuno because of the binder clips and such.
- Yoshinoya will have the most expensive shoes even if she has to guarantee it with force!
- Nakayama and Mami! Man, Shaft is just so inconsistent with Nakayama's design. Here her hair is a lot shorter than usual but she's got the mole. In a *** ep she's got long hair but no mole. And other times it's long hair and a mole.
- This scene also has a male with a speaking line. Very rare outside of the Principal or Mashiko-sensei.
- Yuno's clay shoes are bigger than her real sh--YOU'RE IMAGINING THINGS.
- Ahhhh, lovely Natsume scene. We're friends, right? ::Natsume is happy:: Oh I need to meet Hiro. ::Natsume is not happy!::
- Heh. One of the better Landlady scenes. "Haven't met her though..."
- Miyako pranks Sae. Miyako receives more blunt head trauma.
- Miyako meets the in-laws! An important moment in their relationship!
- "They don't have Xs." XD
- Yuno's dad is worried about Yuno liking a boy. Hahaha, silly Yuno's dad.
- Haha, starts to comment on the trap but gets stopped.
- The parents peek into 203!
- Yoshinoya met the parents too! It's hard to get a read on how just how tall she is. Right now she's barely taller than Yuno, but I'm pretty sure she's a lot taller than that in many scenes.
- BATHING!

Ah yes, next episode... panties!

[strangefour]

- Yoshinoya met the parents too! It's hard to get a read on how just how tall she is. Right now she's barely taller than Yuno, but I'm pretty sure she's a lot taller than that in many scenes.

I'm sure Yoshinoya is as tall as Yuno, when Yoshi is a step down in the entrance way to the Hidamari rooms. Which means... I dunno. Yoshi's height might be inconsistent since we don't see her standing next to the girls as much as we see the girls by themselves. But Yoshi seems to be between Miyako & Yuno's heights.

[Ashyukun]

Episode 10:
- Miyako meets the in-laws! An important moment in their relationship!
- "They don't have Xs." XD


That is easily my favorite line to date of all of the ones from all three seasons. It's hard to explain just why it tickles me so- but it's probably in part that I have to admit that the first time we saw her parents it was EXACTLY what I was thinking. :P

Thinking about it a bit (but not too much, since if I do I'll want to go down and look through the manga, and it's too late for that...), I think they've generally made a much bigger deal about Yuno's X's in the anime than the manga (though that particular line is straight out of the manga- and every bit as funny there...).

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Episode 11:

September 28th!
- I love the very Shaft-y cut-out shot from above. Yuno's room is oh so much neater than Miya... is that a treasure chest in Miayko's room? o_O
- Oh... Ohhh right, that's how Miyako became a sports fest committee member. She was dozing off and raised her hand unknowingly.
- Stealth Mode Yuno! Sunglasses!
- Miyako has a very Haruhi moment and does Nazca on the sports field.
- Pigeon assault. >_>
- Alien assault. >_>
- And oversleeping.
- Pantsing (Skirtsing?)! Mami likes to remove girls' clothing!
- Speaking of pants, it's the mystery of the unconscious pants-wearing Hiro!
- Yuno and Miyako find out that Hiro used to live in 203!
- Bwahaha. Yuno tries to open the door, but Hiro covers her eyes. Nothing happens for a second... and then Miyako goes ahead and opens it the rest of the way with a fantastic look on her face.
- Oh god, Miyako is ruthless.
- Afterward... oh I really like the BGM, but since it's pretty ominous sounding there's usually little opportunity to hear it. And yay it drives Yuno to go bathe and sleep with Miyako!

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-There is a treasure chest in the crawl space by Miyako's room?
I kept staring at it to make sure I wasn't mistaking something else for it but I guess I'm not the only one who saw it. :sd:

Room 203 was better when it was an unfathomable mystery. Now it's just rather confusing why Hiro insists it's a secret. It was nice how Yuno completely missed out on finding out anything.
Girl with weight body image issues takes on a part time job reviewing exercise equipment... sure it seems silly to outsiders but I can see why she'd be mortified to have other people find out. She's both weight conscious and conscious of her weight consciousness!

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Episode 12:

July 7th!
- Tanabata! I love Tanabata~! But it looks like it's gonna rain. =(
- Sae... doesn't know or care where Hiro is! Miyako and Yuno are just dumbstruck. That's just impossible!
- Ahaha, the barabara pun. One of my favorites.
- HI DA MA RI...old sign.
- Hiro! Is also angry. Honestly, when you hear the story it's abundantly clear that it's Sae's fault. Also, such lively animation on the angry eating Hiro.
- Natsume and friends! Gaaah, we need names for her friends. One of them is Sawashiro Miyuki. I wonder how many characters she's voiced in this show.
- Natsume gets a few moments of bliss!
- Haha! Miyako is fantastic. Sae explains her side, Miyako listens, Miyako nods, Miyako bluntly informs Sae that Sae is totally at fault.
- Ahahaha. I love this part. "I wonder what would make Yuno mad"... XD The best bit is at the end though.
- <3 <3 <3 Sae and Hiro making up is the sweetest thing ever.
- Time for tanzaku!
- Yuno wishes for Aomushi-kun to become a butterfly.
- Miyako wishes to eat sweets!
- Principal and Yoshi visit~
- Hiro wishes for Sae's success in writing.
- Sae wishes for Hiro's diet to go well.
- And everyone wishes for everyone else's happiness.
- My wish is for... YUNO BATHING!
- Hah, my favorite part! Yuno iamgining a fight with Miyako... and getting depressed and apologizing to herself. XD

July 8th!
- Miyako can't help but tease.

This episode really had some fantastic animation.

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Episode 13:

January 10th!
- The photo in the ED this time... speaking of group shots! It's quite odd that Toudou made this image but not Mami or Nakayama. They're more prominent than she is I'd say. And hey look it's the Sae foursome again! Or maybe fivesome with Naoi there behind Chika.
- "Everyone told me I grew taller!" ::blank stare from Miyako::
- Yamaguchi and Kiyomi. Names without faces? So cruel!
- Heh, visiting Yoshinoya. She'll get change---DONE.
- Sadly, it's a hatsumode without kimonos.
- Hahaha, Hiro and Sae talk about the fan letter while said fan listens in from nearby and blushes madly.
- And the fan's friend stands there wondering what is going on.
- Natsume wishes to become honest about her feelings. Good luck...
- The idea of Miyako getting to feast at home seems strange. Maybe that's the only time her family is able to splurge.
- Natsume was able to do it! Kiiiiiinda! Hiro laughs...
- Landlady in a kimono! It's so odd, but she looks nice.
- Awwwwwwwww~~ Everyone leaves for the night, but Yuno is troubled. So she runs outside to catch them and... "Tadaima!" Oh god it's so so very cute.
- Then everyone sings Sketch Switch as they bathe. <3

Eyecatch greetings from: Yoshinoya, Principal, Landlady, and Natsume!

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Episode EX (12.5):

February 24th!
- X toast!
- Polaroidon cometh. The age of terror has begun.
- Hiro is very particular about how her photos get taken but she looks nice in both. Also, hair down!
- Karaoke for the adults!
- Braids for Miyako. They really fit her.
- I loooove Yuno in the outfit Hiro gives her! So sexy. <3
- Sae with long hair is just, like... so, so very weird to see.
- Not feeling thr makeup >_>
- Hah, Miyako is shocked by the price of the polaroids. What flagrant bourgeoisie waste!
- Oh, hah. When Hiro was changing earlier in the episode (really like her outfit btw) the last shot was of her throwing something out. I couldn't remember what that was about but Miyako brings it up here as evidence that Hiro snacked. Heh.
- Ah! Miyako and Yuno meet Natsume at the convenience store. There's that interesting BGM again. And Natsume... is actually quite friendly! Too bad she can't be like that around Sae.
- Heh, Sae didn't ask Chika about visiting yet and everyone gets mad. So they take they initiative and call! Hooray she'll be coming for spring break! And she comes... a month later and 9 episodes ago.
- Hiro borrows the camera...
- BATHING!

February 25th!
- REVENGE!

Oh hey... this is 12.5 on the DVD release, isn't it? The next ep preview is for episode 13, hatsumode.

[Ashyukun]

Episode 13:
- Then everyone sings Sketch Switch as they bathe. <3

Despite my best efforts, I've completely failed to find this version of Sketch Switch on ANY CDs. It boggles the mind that they may not have actually made a full version of it, or even just put what they had on the OST, but I've looked through the track listings for every Hidamari Sketch discs I could find, and it's just not there... which really sucks because it's beautiful. :cry:

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Episode SP1:

February 10th!
- Ahaha, poor Hiro. The tires were just flat! Really!
- Yuno is definitely the thighhighs girl of the group. More reason for her to be my favorite!
- TOUDOU!!! Short but sweet. The girls insist they're normal and then start mentioning some less than normal things.
- Under kotatsu shot!
- Hiro without snacks? Miyako is shocked,
- Yesss, two special girls leaving the entrance exams... Boy I hope we get a third sea-- oh.
- And Natsume! Natsume obtains her greatest moment of happiness. All alone with Sae on a bike, arms wrapped around her... bliss!
- Hidamari-sou Landlady. The most unsubtle human alive.
- BATHING!

February 11th!
- Yuno teaches us that sometimes technology makes things take longer...

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Episode SP2:

June 6th!
- Yuno is Naked! And floating!
- And drinking School Rumble milk.
- Ah... you know, I watched this episode already (as in since we started this thread). I don't think I intentionally meant to, I just turned it on to check something and woud up watching most if not all of it... but what the heck I can watch it again.
- MamiMami!
- Yoshinoya wants MIyako to see her after school and take off her clothes!
- Mami and Nakayama eyecatch! Mami is stripping!
- Awwwwwwwwww. Natsumeee! Heaven and Hell for her. She gets to use Sae's umbrella, and savors the act of kindness. But she has to watch Sae walk away under Hiro's umbrella instead. ;_;
- Yoshinoya! She's fantastic in this scene. A mix of all her most enjoyable personality traits. Oh and she's fantastic in that ponytail.
- Hah, she threatens to put a lock on the door if Mashiko doesn't knock... I love how that fits into (least significant "spoiler" ever) the most recent episode of Hoshimittsu. But damn, he got away with it for almost another year.
- Contemplative Yuno eyecatch!
- Miyako is drawing an adorable Yuno~
- Yuno lost her sketchbook. And in the process of looking for it, helps everyone else find things! Coupon, glasses, danish.
- Heh, Yuno at the limit of her patience and yelling in frustration is such a rare sight. And of course that's just when she finds the sketchbook.
- BATHING!!

June 7th!
- Yoshinoya can't help but do things in the most suggestive way...

Oh wow... I'm finally done. And Hoshimittsu only has a few more episodes left. ;_;

HIDAMARI IS NOT ALLOWED TO END.

[Ashyukun]

Oh wow... I'm finally done. And Hoshimittsu only has a few more episodes left. ;_;

HIDAMARI IS NOT ALLOWED TO END.
Well, there's nothing really saying that there can't be more. Granted, it would be a bit odd going past when Sae & Hiro elope^K^K^K^K^K graduate, but there's still plenty of days left unaccounted for, and the strips are, I believe, still running right? Another year, and there should be enough for another series...

Which brings up a question that's been not exactly nagging me, but that I'm curious about- but will give its own thread...

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Well, there's nothing really saying that there can't be more. Granted, it would be a bit odd going past when Sae & Hiro elope^K^K^K^K^K graduate, but there's still plenty of days left unaccounted for, and the strips are, I believe, still running right? Another year, and there should be enough for another series...
Naturally. I just won't be content until it's announced! Hidamari has done fairly well for Shaft... first season sold about 5.8k/vol, second season shot up to 8.1k, so Hoshimittsu could pass the 10k mark if it keeps growing... that would be wonderful indeed. I don't think this is the kind of series that usually stretches their time or budget and it still gets good returns so we can only hope...

[Ashyukun]

Well, color me confused- but nowhere near complaining. Despite the fact that it's not supposed to drop until April 6 (2 1/2 weeks from now...), for some reason TRSI is saying they shipped my copy of x365 out yesterday. I guess I'll see in a day or so...

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Well, color me confused- but nowhere near complaining. Despite the fact that it's not supposed to drop until April 6 (2 1/2 weeks from now...), for some reason TRSI is saying they shipped my copy of x365 out yesterday. I guess I'll see in a day or so...
Heh, this used to be reasonably common for TRSI, but I guess either they haven't been doing it as much or I just don't track R1 releases as closely as I once did so I don't notice. Mine says reserved, but then stuff tends to sit on reserved for a pretty long time for me. Might be waiting for Asatte no Houkou which I have on the same order.

[Suwako Moriya]

for some reason TRSI is saying they shipped my copy of x365 out yesterday.

My copy also shipped yesterday. Hopefully it will come sometime next week.

[Ashyukun]

Heh, this used to be reasonably common for TRSI, but I guess either they haven't been doing it as much or I just don't track R1 releases as closely as I once did so I don't notice. Mine says reserved, but then stuff tends to sit on reserved for a pretty long time for me. Might be waiting for Asatte no Houkou which I have on the same order.
I've had them send things out such that I got them a few days early before, but never 2 weeks. :sweat:

It is the last of the things in its order that needed shipping out- but I've rarely had them hold on to shipments waiting for another item to be released (though they are pretty sharp about combining orders made at different times that drop at the same time- common since I wait and order things when they have their sales). Not that I'm likely to have much time to watch it for the next few months. :cry: I DO plan on popping in the last episode and grabbing a good-quality copy of what exists on the disc of them singing Sketch Switch for my iPod...

[Hrld]

Also related to that sequence of events, apparently Yoshinoya-sensei's a fan of late 90s anime or something. All the text at 17:15, plus Yoshinoya's "Won't you dance with me instead?" line, are from the His & Her Circumstances ED. I know SHAFT loves referencing their own shows, but I have to hand it to them. An obscure reference to a song from a show from over a decade prior, by different companies, and sharing zero staff overlap with Hidamari X365... that takes guts. I have to wonder if that's something hardcore Western otaku are more likely to catch than hardcore Japanese otaku. I thought Yume no Naka e was a Japanese pop song from 70's? Wasn't the Kare Kano version a cover and used that as their ending theme? It's similar to Love Hina using Ii Yuu da na in their soundtrack.

Yuno had something she was looking for, sagashimono. What if Yuno had forgotten something, wasuremono?

WA WA WA Wasuremono! Ore no wasuremono!

Anyway....

Yuno had to save Miyako from falling down the stairs. After watching some Japanese drama series, and knowing that gun ownership is illegal in Japan, I'm convinced stairs is the leading causes of accidental and intentional deaths and injuries in TV series.

Do the boys in class 1-A have their priorities straight? I'm glad they ogle Miyako and are thrilled at the prospect of her being bra-less. But everyday there's an easier target. Yoshinoya is right there for the taking. Yoshinoya as a cougar? She's not quite the stalker as Saori Shikijo from Mahoromatic so it could be okay.

Sae lost her spare pair, and for awhile, she was six eyes.

Yoshinoya's advice was good, but I can't beleive she thought of typical places to hide erotic books....

Yuno analyzing if Yoshinoya gave her a hint...

Hula Dancing -> Hawaii -> Loco Moco -> moko moko (fluffy fluffy) ->Futon!

Wait, wait, hold up. Loco Moco? This is unexpected! This is big as Kiyohiko Azuma drawing a box of Hawaiian Host chocolates in Yotsuba! volume 4!

So you all saw a bowl of something with an egg on top of something brown? That's most of it, but not all of it. Would you like to make your own? (http://bigislandgrinds.com/2006/09/loco-moco-recipe/)

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Do the boys in class 1-A have their priorities straight? I'm glad they ogle Miyako and are thrilled at the prospect of her being bra-less. But everyday there's an easier target. Yoshinoya is right there for the taking.
The fact that the boys in the class weren't incredibly turned on by Yoshinoya is one of the great mysteries of anime. Maybe it's just because I never had an attractive teacher in school...

[Ashyukun]

Do the boys in class 1-A have their priorities straight? I'm glad they ogle Miyako and are thrilled at the prospect of her being bra-less. But everyday there's an easier target. Yoshinoya is right there for the taking.
The fact that the boys in the class weren't incredibly turned on by Yoshinoya is one of the great mysteries of anime. Maybe it's just because I never had an attractive teacher in school...
It may just be that they're constantly overloaded by Yoshinoya- a target like Miyako is much more of a Rare Beast and thus catches their attention more readily. We also never really see that they don't oogle her as well or get turned on by her- they probably just don't go around advertising it and just discuss it in hushed groups and since it's not really relevant to the... OK, so I almost accidentally said, 'plot'... immediate events they just don't show it.

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It may just be that they're constantly overloaded by Yoshinoya- a target like Miyako is much more of a Rare Beast and thus catches their attention more readily. We also never really see that they don't oogle her as well or get turned on by her- they probably just don't go around advertising it and just discuss it in hushed groups and since it's not really relevant to the... OK, so I almost accidentally said, 'plot'... immediate events they just don't show it.
I'm mostly thinking about how her constant, uh, Yoshinoyaisms, are greeted with a mix of fear/aversion by the class as a whole.

[Ashyukun]

I'm mostly thinking about how her constant, uh, Yoshinoyaisms, are greeted with a mix of fear/aversion by the class as a whole.
Well, given how the focus of the show is on the residents of the apartments, I'd imagine that too much focus on the boys & Yoshi would distract from our usual Hidamari goodness. I think they probably do appreciate a good bit of her less-clothed antics but that the show just doesn't show them. It's not like we usually even SEE boys in the show beyond blue-colored cut-outs...