Comments that are not in accordance with the Guidelines and/or that violate TOM’s Terms of Use and/or other policies are eligible to be reported or removed. Fuuka once wears a T-shirt with Chiyo-chichi's picture on it (causing Miura to comment on her poor fashion sense), and additionally has a Chiyo-chichi plushie in her room and a Chiyo-chichi figure among the "weird" things attached to her purse. In the original Try! Try! Try! one-shots, Fuuka (who has a ponytail) is a textbook tsundere with a short temper and a blatant crush on Yotsuba's dad. Azuma reflected on this later, saying that the tsundere personality had become so clichéd that he wanted to do something different, and Fuuka became a more nuanced character in the final manga as a result. The only remnant of her previous characterization is that she commonly gets Not What It Looks Like moments when interacting with Koiwai.

Yotsuba first appeared in a one-shot manga published in 1998 and two webcomics called "Try! Try! Try!", [1] where she appears very similar as she does in Yotsuba&!; for example, Yotsuba has the same personality and a very similar chibi design. In the Korean MMORPG MapleStory, Yotsuba's hairstyle can be obtained in a salon located in a town called Zipangu (an archaic name for Japan).No Longer with Us: Asagi talks about her salaryman father like this, though he's most definitely not dead. The first time she does it, Fuuka calls her on it, saying "No, no, no. Dad is alive. He's working right now."

If you're not familiar with the genre, slice-of-life usually revolves around the daily occurrences in the characters' lives. There's no grand quest here, just regular activities that any reader can relate to, like running errands or special events like festivals. That said, the series is far from boring — Yotsuba always manages to make some mischief for herself. The world as seen through Yotsuba's eyes is a shining and exciting place. Most of the enjoyment and humor comes from her unique perspective, and seeing the other characters responding to her joy. What Makes Yotsuba&! So Easy to Read?Jumbo seems to have a few, whether it be Miura one-upping him (unintentionally) or the possibility of Asagi being involved with another guy. Reviewers often describe Azuma's depiction of her as realistic, especially compared to depictions of children in other manga and anime. One review claimed that "Yotsuba in particular is amusing, because she acts and speaks with that peculiar mix of honesty, immediacy, and childish logic that only young children seem to possess ... Yotsuba isn't a silent, simpering sweetie-pie, she acts like a real five-year-old." [1] On the other hand, Tom Spurgeon claimed Yotsuba is "an idealized kid of that early age, retaining a wide-eye wonder and furious energy, minus the things that crop up at that age like cruelty and deception" [3] and a reviewer in Newtype USA said that "Her hijinks are sweetly innocent, like a cuter, more naïve version of Dennis the Menace minus the 'menace'." [19] In other media [ edit ] The second issue with Yotsuba&! is also a pro and a con: it's rather light! Like I mentioned before, as a manga, all the text is dialogue, so a learner won't get a chance to read exposition like they would in a novel or short story. Being constrained to spoken text is fairly significant, especially as the dialogue tends to be sparse. There's just not a lot of text there. This makes it both easier to get into, but harder to push yourself with. And again, while the artwork's added context makes it a lot easier to increase your comprehension of a scene, it's perhaps less effective for studying since the hints it gives the reader can negate the need to read around unknown words to understand them from the sentence's context alone.. Yotsuba's voice actor, Ayane Sakura, once voiced all five girls for a television commercial for the manga in October 2017. [22] Yotsuba becoming excited and then falling on her face after running around. It gets to the point where Asagi accurately predicts when Yotsuba is about to fall during the balloon festival.