Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb

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Synonyms: Hidamari Sketch x Hanikamu, Hidamari Sketch Dai Yon Ki, Hidamari Sketch Fourth Series, Hidamari Sketch 4th Season

Japanese: ひだまりスケッチ×ハニカム

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2012 to Dec 21, 2012

Premiered: Fall 2012

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex, Lantis, TBS, Movic, Houbunsha, Grooove

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Shaft

Source: 4-koma manga

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: CGDCT, Iyashikei, School, Visual Arts

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.93¹ (scored by 10,453 users)

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Ranked: #739²

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Popularity: #4499

Members: 23,882

Favorites: 190

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Studying at the Yamabuki Arts High School has been a dream-come-true for Yuno, and she's learned so much already! And not just from her instructors, but from her friends and neighbors who've become her second family and made the Hidamari Apartments such a safe and nurturing home. But as the day of her "big sisters" Sae and Hiro's graduation draws slowly closer, it's time for Yuno to start seriously taking on the same role for Nazuna, Nori and the other budding young artists who've entered Hidamari's protective cocoon. And it's also time to tackle some really challenging artistic assignments. That doesn't mean there won't still be time for fun with Miyako and all the others, but it's definitely time to pencil in her plans for the future. And sometimes that means you have to put the art before the course!

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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Aoki, Ume
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Iwakami, Atsuhiro

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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Saitou, Shigeru

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Tanaka, Junichirou

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"Open☆Canvas (おーぷん☆きゃんばす)" by Yuno (Kana Asumi), Miyako (Kaori Mizuhashi), Hiro (Yuuko Gotou), Sae (Ryoko Shintani), Nori (cv. Hitomi Harada), and Nazuna (Chiaki Omigawa)

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"Yume Gumo (夢ぐも)" by marble

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May 30, 2019

moe_sama

Recommended

Hidamari Sketch has been a series I've had fun watching and after viewing its final season and OVAs it's decidedly made its way into one of my favorite series.

Each season attempts to improve something about Sketch, and with this final season the depth established in 365 goes from a mile wide and an inch deep to a riverbed with rocks waiting to hit you with more wholesome moments than the human psyche can possibly handle.

Honeycomb and the two OVAs that follow it are the best installments to the Hidamari Sketch series and I could not have been happier with the way they were handled.

Story 7/10

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May 21, 2018

earl_of_sandvich

Recommended

"Don't you girls have any restraint?"
"It's not in our vocabulary."

In case anyone hasn't noticed in my other 3 reviews of this series, I'm a big fan of Hidamari Sketch and its author, Ume Aoki (who also became character designer for the Madoka Magica series). Season 4, "Honeycomb", takes everything that was great and special about Hidamari and polishes it to near-perfection.

It's around this time frame that Shaft began to step up its animation delivery game. While there have been filler frames in a later production (Sasami-san@Ganbaranai a year later), as far as I can tell there haven't been any in Honeycomb. Looking for filler frames ... in place of complex animation has been something of an Easter egg hunt for Shaft fans. As a consequence, the opening animation, which was incomplete in season 3 and Negima!?, is released complete. It's fantastic, but if memory serves, it's almost the same for the entire season, so it's not quite as fun as season 3. I say "almost", because in the shots before the title frame, there are different scenes from the manga featuring each of the 3 pairs of girls.

After using a complicated-looking planetarium for the film leader gag in season 3, Honeycomb opted for a simpler, cuter "honeycomb" motif featuring SD faces of the 6 girls. Again, this is adorable, and yet the previous ideas (seasonal flowers, constellations) were a little more "fun" in my opinion. This isn't a bad decision, though-- sometimes the more "fun" decisions means that the production as a whole don't get all the shots done on time, and it's this consistent production process that probably got the attention of NHK/Aniplex/etc. when they were looking for a studio to animate March Comes in Like a Lion.

While it's still mostly an episodic sitcom, there are a couple of story threads that wind their way through the production: Yuno's growth as an artist (well, all right, that's always been there, but we start to see it come to fruition, and Yuno spends less time fretting about her skills), and Sae/Hiro's final year, which culminates in the 2-episode OVA that was released a year later. It's also this season where we begin to see development of recurring minor characters like Yoshinoya and Natsume, drawing them further into the world of the six girls.

Part of the magic in the Hidamari series is just how close-to-home the comedy is. In one scene Nazuna is writing New Year's greeting cards while trying to hold a conversation, and accidentally writes down what she's saying. It's hilarious, you can totally see someone (e.g. yourself) doing it, and you can totally picture Ume-sensei laughing about it with her friends.

The soundtrack is essentially the same across all four seasons, ranging from a simple ditty on a recorder/violin, to a simple tune on the piano, to (in later seasons) folksy number with a few scat-singers. Those are the only 3 tracks that I can remember at the moment, but they are a good fit for the iyashi series. I'm pretty sure there was a new track written for the haunted house scene.

Great series always leave me wanting more, and while there's still some material left in the manga (how I wish that Matsuri was animated), there hasn't been any word on a fifth television series (or if they've denied further production, I haven't heard). I've long felt that the series proper would end when Yuno graduates and leaves her apartment, but sadly, like Kakifly's K-On!, it looks like the final pieces of the story will remain in manga form.

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Sep 25, 2016

Jaguar-chan

Recommended

EDIT: Changed the score to 8.80 because as much as I enjoyed it, I don't think it's worthy enough to get past that 9 barrier.

This show's done it. It's finally done it.

It has taken everything good about the previous seasons and improves on everything it failed at, finally getting its own appeal. From the greater focus on character dynamics the first season gave, to the intensely crazy directing x365 gave (although I find that they didn't really use this to its greatest extent), to the melancholy vibes the very first episode gave, to finally giving Nori and Nazuna screen time. This show finally got what ...

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