When out on a walk or hike she accouters herself with a wide-brimmed straw hat, backpack, umbrella, tea flask, and sketchbook. When not in her school uniform, which comprises a white dress shirt, green tie, double-breasted blue blazer and knee-length skirt, she usually wears a light collared shirt over a dark undershirt, with knee-length trousers. Its color is uncertain: in different illustrations, it has appeared in various shades of blue, green, purple, and grey in the strip it is not distinguishable from black in the animation, it is a light blue-grey. Sora has long, straight hair, reaching about to her waist. Among the things she has admitted or been shown to find scary are bowling balls, high voltage towers, gym instructors, escalators, security cameras, frozen pike, passing trains, Daichi Negishi, and a balloon-seller in a cat costume. On more than one occasion she flees from her close friend, Asō, because her hairstyle is unfamiliar. She is easily frightened, and even mildly startling events can send her into hiding. Sora is extremely quiet, rarely speaking in the anime. She is particularly fond of cats, befriending and naming various neighborhood strays, of tea, always keeping a flask-full handy, and of drawing, which induces her to join her school's art club, thus commencing the events of Sketchbook. Her active, somewhat impractical imagination envisions a multitude of bizarre scenarios, leading her to often absurd assumptions and conclusions. The world is her toybox she rarely encounters an object she does not want to experiment with.
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Her undiminished, childlike and playful behavior is shown throughout the series and tends to drive her actions. Sketchbook begins with Sora Kajiwara joining the art club of her unnamed Fukuoka high school, and goes on to chronicle her subsequent experiences and those of her fellow club members.Ĭharacters Art club Freshmen Sora Kajiwara ( 梶原 空, Kajiwara Sora) Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa The protagonist of the series, a girl with a playful spirit and an observant nature. The main character is a young, shy and quiet girl named Sora Kajiwara who goes through life at her own pace. The story revolves around a group of high school students, mostly female, in the art club at their high school. An anime television series adaptation, under the title Sketchbook ~full color's~, aired in Japan between October 2 and December 25, 2007. Chapters also appeared in Comic Blade Masamune. First serialized in the April 2002 issue of Monthly Comic Blade, the individual chapters were collected and published by Mag Garden until June 2019. Sketchbook ( スケッチブック, Suketchibukku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Totan Kobako. Monthly Comic Garden (July 2014–June 2019).Monthly Comic Blade (April 2002–July 2014).The story follows the changing relationship between the two as Erial grows up and Maquia does not.
Wandering alone in the forest, she finds Erial, a baby boy who has lost his parents. Maquia is able to escape, but she loses her friends and her home. Leilia, the most beautiful girl in her clan, is taken away, and the boy Maquia has secret feelings for disappears. Their peace is shattered when an army invades, seeking the secret to her people's immortality. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful, she feels lonely. The story begins with Maquia, who is from a family where all the members stop aging in their mid teens. The story follows the relationship that evolves between the two as Erial grows up while Maquia does not. She comes across Erial, an infant mortal boy who has lost his parents, and becomes his guardian. Maquia manages to escape the destruction and chaos of war, but with no home or people, she becomes a wanderer in a dark forest.
But one day, the Mesarte army invades Iolph, seeking the peoples' blood for their immortality. One resident, Maquia, feels lonely despite the peaceful and idyllic land she lives in. In the land of Iolph, all the people stop aging in their mid-teens and can live for hundreds of years. Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son.