~Sketchbook Full Color’S~ Episode 4
Page 04 “A Sketch Competition Between Three People”
We begin with Sora at the house with her brother. As we found out int he last episode he seems to try and look after her somewhat. He’s warning her of the weather as she prepares to leave for her art meeting. She doesn’t seem to mind the fact it’s going to rain and doesn’t skip a beat.
Kurihara and Sora are the only two who show up for the art meeting. You get a bit more incite on the two of their personalities. Sora, overly nervous and easily shaken. Kurihara worry free and in touch with nature. Kurihara picks up a big and allows it to climb her arm and onto her face. She laughs away while Sora begins to panic and seems rather upset.
The art meeting is more of an extracurricular field trip. Their teacher arrives in her car to pick the group up and seems rather unenthusiastic. She tries to convince them that it’s going to rain and seems to try and talk her way out of it but the two girls seem set on going. Umbrellas packed and all she welcomes them into her car…with her chickens. I mean a LOT of chickens. X_X I thought she had the one chicken P-chan from episode two. Apparently there are more than one.
Kasugano seems to be the world most cautious driver as cars are blasting by her and the girls are mentioning her not reaching the speed limit. She’s now pumped up to go on the trip despite her indifference minutes ago. After arriving at their destination Sora narrates on how excited Kurihara is. It’s obviously her love of science and nature. Kasugano tells the girls to go on while she waits in the car.
So far we’ve seen a short clip of both Aso and Hazuki. One at home while the other was grocery shopping. Both are seen looking up at the sky as if they’re waiting for rain.
Sora follows Kurihara through the forest and stops along the way with her several times to examine plants and bugs. Kurihara continues her excited pace as she runs from thing to thing. Sora follows her slowly but steadily. Kasugano seems to be napping in the car while the girls explore for something to sketch. Eventually after stopping for lunch Sora finds a nice scenic view to start sketching. During this little scene Sora narrates what I’m guessing is the message of the story. Just because two people see things differently doesn’t mean they can’t both be right.
As the pair of girls continue to work on their sketches the weather begins to move in. The scenery they were sketching starts to blur and become dull as the fog rolls in over the mountains. Sora mentions how familiar it seems to her. The scene shifts to Kasugano in the car. As the rain starts to fall on her windshield a familiar feeling washes over her as well. Aso and Hazuki have run into one another and are currently having tea together somewhere in town. As they sit in the front window they notice the rain beginning to come down.
Back on the mountain Kurihara tries to send Sora back to the car because of the rain. Sora refuses and wants to continue following Kurihara around. She begins to notice how everything on the mountain has two faces. One during good weather and another while it’s raining. She decides that’s the reason Kurihara went on the trip today. To see both faces. Kurihara lifts a leaf to reveal a butterfly hiding under it from the rain. At that moment Sora feels like she can see what Kurihara can see. That brings us back to the message I mentioned earlier. People can see the same exact thing but in a different way.
The girls head back to the car and her a bit of grief from Kasugano for being a bit late. She’s standing outside of the car looking at at the mountains. As the girls realize what she’s doing they turn to look as well. Just then the sun starts to peak from behind the clouds for a beautiful scene. Then they realize behind them a rainbow seems to have formed. The scene shifts to Aso and Hazuki leaving the tea shop as they notice the same rainbow.
The girls and Kasugano head for home. Kurihara begins picking on her driving again. Just then Kasugano notices that her parking brake has been on the entire trip. No wonder they were going so slow. -_- Sora looks back at the mountain view and begins sketching a rainbow into her original drawing. As they drive off into the distance Sora reinforces the message for this episode and Kurihara continues picking on her teachers driving.
- Surprised to see Kurihara without Juju.
- The comedy duo appears again. They both had sketch books and mention being in the art club. Odd I’ve still yet to see them communicate with any of the other art club members.
- Super filler episode, at this pace though I suppose it’s mostly filler. Well…in a way.
- The art work continues to amaze me episode after episode. I’m looking forward to the manga. I’ll probably start on that once I finish the anime.
- It took me a bit but I went back and re-watched the chicken part. All the chickens she had in her car were stuffed animals it seems. P-Chan was home, guarding the house.
