Hidamari Sketch

In a hot summer day, after receiving a watermelon from the Hidamari landlady, Yuno and her friends make a visit to a local swimming pool, where Yuno's inability to swim and fear of water is revealed. Meanwhile, Yoshinoya, the Hidamari landlady, and the Principal spend their time together in a school swimming pool.

To Yuno, Miyako, and Sae's surprise, Hiro receives a love letter from a 3rd grade classmate. After hearing the news, Hiro's friends can hardly concentrate on the class as they are very curious about the love letter. After school is over, the classmate who write the love letter confesses his love for Hiro on the rooftop. However, on the next day, she writes him a letter of refusal, to everyone's disappointment. However, Hiro's friends look up to her for her maturity.

Sae buys a second-hand Polaroid camera and the four girls take pictures of each other dressing up and posing in different ways. Later Yuno calls Chika and arranges for her to visit Hidamari Apartments on March 25th, as seen in episode five of the second series. In the very brief second episode set the morning after, Yuno, Sae and Miyako wake up to discover a picture of their sleeping faces beside them on their pillows. This is Hiro's revenge for them laughing at the picture Sae took of her sleeping the day before.

Yuno had forgotten to do her homework in time for Yoshinoya's class and has to finish it during lunch break. After school, Yuno and Miyako play in the snow for a while and later visit Hiro's apartment so Yuno can thank her for the rice ball Hiro gave her for lunch.

Yuno and her friends have been given the task to create a new sign for the Hidamari Apartments, and they set to divide the work equally. Afterwards it is discovered that Miyako's rent is much lower than the others have to pay, and Sae goes to the landlord to discover why. That night, the summer festival starts and Yuno and her friends go and have fun.

Yoshinoya starts her class with her trying to get her students to sketch her in various outfits, but after some intervention from the principal, they settle on sketching a bust of Brutus. Later that day, the four main characters get together in Miyako's leaky apartment.

Accompanied by her mother, Yuno comes to Yamabuki Art High School to take the entrance exam. After getting accepted into the school, she settles in the Hidamari apartment and makes friends with the new neighbors.

Sae's little sister, Chika, has just passed a high school entrance exam. Meanwhile, the Hidamari residents realize that they also had a similar experience exactly one year ago.

Yuno and Miyako visit a Shinto shrine near Iwakaba, a place recommended by Yoshinoya, by a train. After that, they spend their time together, drawing pictures of the landscape around the shrine.

February 27th-March 4th: After a bad start to the day breaking some plates, Yuno gets a low score on her grammar test and has to take a makeup exam. After studying for the retake, she gets a perfect score, but accidentally rips her sheet. On April 1, Yuno hears from the landlord that new freshmen will be coming to Hidamari Apartments, so the girls help clean the other rooms up. April 3rd: One of the freshmen's parents arrive with her things and offer to take the girls out to lunch. While they do that, the new freshmen, Nazuna and Nori, arrive at the apartments and are surprised that they cannot find anyone else. When the girls get back from their lunch, they meet with the new residents and officially welcome them to the apartments.

The girls hold a welcome party for Nazuna and Nori. Miyako brings a 'question dice' in order to find out things about the freshmen. The next morning, the gang are surprised to hear Nazuna is in general education instead of the arts department like they had assumed. Miyako thinks back to July 19th of the previous year when she accidentally set a small part of her hair on fire, and she and Yuno went to a hair salon named Olive run by twin hairdressers.

After the first day back at school, Yuno has trouble deciding what electives to take. After talking with Sae and Hiro, she decides on planes. Back on December 10th, Yuno runs into Sae at the bookstore, where they learn her the magazine which published her novella has already sold out. They later go to a café where Sae talks about whether she should aim for further teaching in literature or art.

May 6th-15th: Sae and Hiro are getting ready for the third-year's trip to Hokkaido. The other girls seem just as excited, even though they aren't the ones going! May 16th-18th: Whilst Sae and Hiro are away, Yuno and Miyako are the senior classmates in Hidamari Apartments. Yuno decides to try and set an example for Nazuna and Nori as a reliable senpai.

Sae and Hiro continue to explore Hokkaido with their class. Back home, Yuno is still trying to think of ways to impress Nazuna and Nori as their upperclassman.

Yuno and Miyako's plans to spend the last day of Summer having fun is thwarted when a typhoon settles in, so everyone retreats to Hiro's apartment for some food. Afterwards, Yuno looks over her summer homework. As school resumes the next day, a fire drill is held, during which Nazuna feels the need to go to the bathroom.