Thread:Icilan/@comment-25501551-20150707003947

When I was looking up Hidamari on the Anime Network forums, their genre choice in the summaries were "Iyashikei". I had not heard of it before. This TV Tropes article tries to explain the term:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Iyashikei

I'm wondering if that is something Ume-sensei deliberately shot for, or whether she was trying to write a school comedy that somehow was seen to fit that description.

But then, I do find HidaSketch heartwarming, and I did cry like a baby when I saw the last episode of Azumanga Daioh for the first time, so I might be the target audience for that sort of thing. There was a show called "Aqua Age" (aka "The Blue-Green years") that had a similar effect on one of my friends two decades ago, which he needed after a year and a half on pins and needles from the constant cliffhangers and emotional stress of "Marmalade Boy". So they might have a point. 