YO, CHECK IT OUT! It’s Chika the Chick from Rydell High *cricket cricket*… So anyways, the entire episode is dedicated to Sae’s little (but curvacious) sister, Chika. As any other guest to the Hidamari apartments, she is paying a visit to eat free food and chat amongst her Rectangular Sistahs. As the episode continues, the Hida-Gals [...]
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“There’s something peculiarly wrong with Yoshinoya sensei“, say’s Yuno who happens to know everything (she read the script and is 2 weeks late with this post). Not only is there a random eye-catch every 5 or so minutes, but Yoshinoya keeps poking at her cellphone as if T-Mobile were still cool. Miyako con Yuno investigate [...]
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  Okay, so perhaps not so glorious. Impressions: Despite not really having much of the new girls, this episode was relatively average at best, probably because they kept squeezing on the crab and eggplnt joke stones that they long surpassed getting blood and were down to grinding out bone. Yuno’s little angsty bit over losing her mojo was also [...]
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It seems that the early morning exercise bug which has been present throughout Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu has even managed to catch Yoshinoya and the Yamabuki High principle in its grasp, as we see them both having a bit of a work-out while the girls of Hidamari Apartments have even more exciting things to look forward to over the next couple of days.The source of all that excitement is a visit
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I wonder if it says something about me that the first thing I did upon seeing the chest shot of Nori was to check that yes, that did look like the Adidas logo. In keeping with the theme of exercise, I don't know if I would have joined in the early-morning stretches that I think are [...]
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  Dayum, girls. Impressions: Man. This episode was cheap. Really cheap. The recycled footage was bad enough, but I think a full 10% of the episode may have been comprised of those two shots of the girls sitting around the table. The first half was mostly centered around Nazuna Nazna, and I’ve already made my opinion [...]
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With Valentine's Day just around the corner to coincide with the broadcast date of this episode, it seems only right that love should be in the air for this sixth instalment of Hidamari Sketch x☆☆☆.When Yoshinoya all but leaps into her classroom while celebrating the joys of spring, it reminds both Yunocchi and Miyako of the last time there was a drastic change in season the previous autumn - A
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Catching up on the episodes I got earlier, but didn't get the chance to watch until now. When I was living alone, curtains felt unnecessary. Yes, privacy and all that, but I figured anyone who wanted to peek into the life of a random guy was welcome to, especially since I believe that a place can [...]
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It’s time to lose weight, and you know what that means: THROW UP IN THE GIRLS BATHROOM STOP EATING!!! Yes! This episode is dedicated to School-Measurement-Day, where girls make sure to skip breakfast and read anime blogs instead of exercising! While most of the Hida-Gals are satisfied/somewhat-satisfied with measurement day, Hiro is absolutely devastated by it! [...]
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  This week may have gone off on a tangent at some point. Impressions: An okay episode, although who are they fooling? Cell phone, novel? Pfft. It’s clear that Yoshinoya is running a cosplay prostitution ring and is probably Nazuna Nazna’s pimp. That would explain both parts perfectly well and add some much needed personality to [...]
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Nori visits The Haus of Yuno asking where to buy some certain-curtains, but she never heard the term nor does she find it funny. Instead, they ask Nazuna who surprisingly knows where to find them! “AIMU-HOMU” (I’m Home) is the store containing the certain-curtains, so Yuno, Miyako, Nori, and Azusa Nazuna all take a stroll [...]
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When everyone starts worrying about dieting around Yamabuki High, that can mean only one thing - It's time for physical examinations!While Yunocchi is fretting far too much about both her height and weight, it's almost inevitable that one person at Hidamari Apartments will be suffering even more, and so it proves, with Hiro's brief crash diet proving to be a little too much for her. However,
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Since my fellow AnimeNauts co-blogger (who is, I admit, making the vast majority of the posts there, because he is some sort of blog-posting machine) was ordering stuff from Amazon (if you're wondering: the Blu-rays of Ghost In The Shell 2.0 and The Sky Crawlers, among other things; on a completely unrelated note, he does [...]
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  Every day is apparently an adventure for Yuno. Impressions: Even by Hidamari standards, this was a very dull episode. Yuno is not a particularly strong character on her own, and spending the last third of it on her interacting with possibly the most generic looking girl I have ever seen just made things worse. The [...]
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Stop the presses! Yoshinoya has managed to make it into school early for once, beating even the principle into the office! Of course, Yoshinoya being her usual self, she still somehow manages to turn this unexpected turn of events to her disadvantage.From here, much of the rest of the episode is concerned with buying curtains. Yes, that's right... only Hidamari Sketch could deign curtains an
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It’s the beginning of a new semester, and Yoshinoya just so happens to be Yuno and Miyako’s teacher! Now that they are juniors, they will have to decide between three electives: planes, solids, or information, but Yuno feels pressured in making a decision. Fortunately, she has two upper-class(wo)men to guide her on the right path. [...]
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  A store without gravity, apparently. Impressions: A decent enough episode, for the relative lack of Hiro, but Nazuna is seriously starting to grind on my last nerve. She seems totally incapable of opening her mouth without whining about how she doesn’t deserve to have friends, or eat dinner, or be asked her opinion on curtains. [...]
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The slice-of-life is certainly an interesting genre of anime. It’s hard to believe that a show about normal people living out their normal everyday lives could be interesting, but some titles manage to pull it off. Hidamari Sketch is a great example of a title that doesn’t have much of a plot but still delivers [...]
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I'm sure the shippers will be all over Hiro's mumbling of Sae's name in her sleep. What happened to the newbies? I've been hoping to see more of them beyond their brief appearances, if only because we haven't had much chance to get a firm grasp of their personalities. Something which gives me pause whenever I'm watching [...]
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There’s a new season of Hidamari Sketch and no one noticed. Even I had to be reminded of it after a few episodes have already aired. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the franchise, I just assumed that it was done. Shows typically have that 2 seasons and OVA max thing going. No matter what [...]
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