Hidamari Sketch x SP - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 2009

The students of the Geijutsuka Art Design Class study all the various fields of art, from sketching and painting to graphic design and photography. While the mischievous Noda is always thinking up new ways to have fun with her partner in crime - tomboy Tomokane - the ditzy Kisaragi is content with doodling cats in her sketchbook. With Namiko attempting (and failing) to keep the energetic duo in line, the quiet and mysterious Kyoujyu seems happy to observe the odd behavior of her classmates. Whether they are transforming a congealed lump of paint into a sculpture of a pudding, playing ‘color tag’, or making thought collages, the gang live their life to the max through both their friendships and their art.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2010

It’s time the Geijutsuka gang to take textile class, and Kisaragi is praying for a natural disaster to disrupt the lesson for good reason. They have to hand in their assessment of an innovative clothing design to the strictest teacher in school and while Miyabi, Noda and Namiko have managed to complete their creations, Kisaragi and Tomokane continue to struggle. Will either of them find a way to gain their teacher’s approval and manage to submit their work on time? Then, after cleaning yarn balls off of the school curtains, Kisaragi ends up on a series of errands that have her traversing the entire school.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2007

Kajiwara Sora is a shy girl who loves to draw. She's a member of the art club at school, even though one of the other members scares her sometimes. She finds drawing things like flowers or fruit easy enough, but she puzzles over how to capture more fleeting moments, like the flapping of a bird's wings or a cat that won't sit still. There are things she can draw, and things she can't draw, and with the help of her friends in the art club, she's going to experience them all to the fullest.

• DVD Special (3 eps)
• 2016

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2011

When Mugi gives the girls some souvenirs from one of her trips abroad, the members of the Light Music Club decide that what they all need is their own trip overseas. Having just returned from the summer festival and with college entrance exams looming, the gang decides that the best thing to do is to wait and have their trip after graduation as a special retreat for the whole club. With the prospect of something to look forward to, Yui, Mio and the others all begin excitedly planning their vacation, but first they need to sort out their passports and decide on somewhere to go.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2022

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2016

The school festival is on the horizon and something is off with Shinobu. She says she's been very sleepy in the mornings lately, and it seems she has pushed herself too hard working on the scripts and costumes for their class play. Alice and Youko, who are in another class, notice her circumstances.

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2012

• TV (71 eps)
• 1982 - 1984

Childish goings-on for Fukuo Fuchida (also known as Fuku-chan) a small boy who attends nursery school with his "girlfriend" Kumi and hangs out with his playmates Namiko (whose parents own a china shop), her younger brother, Kiyo, naughty twins Doshako and Garako and the school bully Gan-chan.

• TV (26 eps)
• 2005

Shiratori Ryushi is a young man who wants nothing more than to be a children’s book author. To accomplish his goal he moves to an old-style apartment in the middle of Tokyo, and at first, his humble abode seems heaven-sent… but not for long! In addition to meeting Aoba Kozue, his good-hearted landlady who isn’t entirely what she seems to be, Ryushi discovers that he has a whole cast of crazy neighbors to handle! What started out a dream has turned into a nightmare of chaotic proportions. Can Ryushi survive his stay in Tokyo?