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よつばと! [Yotsuba&!] #7
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 7
Mooooo…! MOOOO…! Cows are neato! It’s fun pretending to be a cow! And milk comes from cows, so I bet they’re real nice too. ‘Cos milk is super-yummy, right?! Yotsuba thinks so! And milk comes in lotsa flavors, so cows must come in different flavors too. How else is there white milk and coffee milk and chocolate milk?! Then there’s the black and white cows, they’ve gotta make a super-secret special flavor, huh?! Yotsuba wants to know! Let’s go ask the cows at the ranch, Daddy! Come on!
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2007
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Kiyohiko Azuma
39 books588 followersKiyohiko Azuma (東清彦 or あずまきよひこ Azuma Kiyohiko) is a Japanese manga author and artist. His most well-known work is Azumanga Daioh. His current series is Yotsuba&!, which is serialized monthly in Dengeki Daioh magazine.
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August 2, 2022
After reading so many of those depressing mangas, I really need this.
February 28, 2016
I found myself laughing out loud when Yotsuba tumbled down the hill and crashed into a sheep! She is hilarious, and her on going feud with Yanada cracks me up!
September 14, 2024
My heart feels so light and I can’t stop smiling while reading this😭🖤
July 9, 2021
This one had its moments. It felt disjointed, but that could be the fact that I couldn't read regularly. I got some laughs, genuine laughs, but they were often from situations that were similar to ones in previous volumes. The cast of characters, however, still enchants and amuses. Yotsuba doesn't spend a lot of time with people her own age, lucky for us.
February 22, 2012
There were two moments that made me laugh really hard. First, when Yotsuba goes to the store on her own and doesn't have enough money for their instant noodles lunch AND the candy she wasn't supposed to buy, and the checker asks her which one she doesn't want, and she holds up the cup of spicy noodles for her father.
The second time was actually not when the sheep at the ranch headbutted her, so she got mad and punched the sheep in the face. It was when her father's response was, "What did I say at the zoo about punching the animals?"
On the other hand, I find it very stressful when Yanda shows up.
The second time was actually not when the sheep at the ranch headbutted her, so she got mad and punched the sheep in the face. It was when her father's response was, "What did I say at the zoo about punching the animals?"
On the other hand, I find it very stressful when Yanda shows up.
March 31, 2023
Yanda and Yotsuba's rivalry is pretty fun. This shines when Yotsuba is having new r
experiences, like the ranch. It's cute and light hearted the whole way through.
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experiences, like the ranch. It's cute and light hearted the whole way through.
Check out my YouTube channel for bookish videos and monthly wrap ups!
September 1, 2019
Another beautifully cute book.
World: What can I say aviut the art that's not already been said? The art is emotive, it's charming, it's fun and really well constructed. The world building here is as good as even, there are no huge chunks of world building but simply the little bits and pieces of the world seen through Yotsuba.
Story: Cute ans charming. A wonderful slice of life. From the string phone to baking a cake to the ranch it's all these little fun adventures that cha the reader. You feel relaxed, calm and happy with the simple things in life after reading a book.
Characters: Not a lot of development but the introduction of Miss Stake is jicr, she rather different and charming in her own way. I also really like the small little emotions that Dad has with Yotsuba.
Charming as always.
Onward to the next book!
World: What can I say aviut the art that's not already been said? The art is emotive, it's charming, it's fun and really well constructed. The world building here is as good as even, there are no huge chunks of world building but simply the little bits and pieces of the world seen through Yotsuba.
Story: Cute ans charming. A wonderful slice of life. From the string phone to baking a cake to the ranch it's all these little fun adventures that cha the reader. You feel relaxed, calm and happy with the simple things in life after reading a book.
Characters: Not a lot of development but the introduction of Miss Stake is jicr, she rather different and charming in her own way. I also really like the small little emotions that Dad has with Yotsuba.
Charming as always.
Onward to the next book!
November 23, 2020
This installment was my least favorite so far. There was a lot more biking and drinking milk, and I would have liked to see some different storylines. I'm rating this one a one-star. It seems like the author is running out of material, so they are just reusing the same plotlines at this point. It makes me not excited to continue on with the series. I might check out the next book just in case this one was an accidental dud, but if Vol. 8 is the same way, I will not continue them.
December 12, 2023
¡Como me río con este manga! Es que me rio a carcajadas. Mis capítulos favoritos han sido el de Yotsuba yendo a comprar sola por primera vez y el de la granja.
Disfruto tanto este manga, no lo vuelvo a leer ni en orden. En fin, capítulos llenos de humor, com caras muy memeables y variedad de personajes. Ahora me apetece hacer más relecturas.
Disfruto tanto este manga, no lo vuelvo a leer ni en orden. En fin, capítulos llenos de humor, com caras muy memeables y variedad de personajes. Ahora me apetece hacer más relecturas.
February 19, 2019
Cuteness and delight. Fun adventures that become more and more relatable as my kiddos leave infancy and toddlerdom and head towards a better and more unique understanding of the world. Love the art, a great blend of stylistic and realistic. I especially loved the food and farming aspects of this volume.
May 23, 2018
Yotsuba is cute and funny and very realistically portrayed. So sometimes too dramatic and they yell so much when Yanda is around. It's pretty funny.
also, eating ice cream described as "it feels like light is coming from my mouth". yes.
also, eating ice cream described as "it feels like light is coming from my mouth". yes.
July 21, 2018
I love ep 46. Express the convenience store very well! The texture of merchandise is very realistic. one of the merchandise in convenience store is real. So you can compare merchandise in this episode and the merchandise in real life.
June 4, 2017
I think I laughed the most during this one!
July 1, 2018
So grateful to be having this series in my life ❤️
January 17, 2021
Yotsuba and the ranch ❤️❤️❤️
January 11, 2024
LMFAOOOOO PLEASE! yotsuba is quick to two-piece an animal omg
September 13, 2024
5 (farmer yotsuba)
July 3, 2022
En kestä ku tää oli nii söpö😭♥️
October 4, 2023
I love when Yanda comes into the story.
June 27, 2025
Yotsuba es la mejor x7.
April 30, 2019
Yotsuba is still a cutie, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the baking chapter. Everyone ganging up on Yanda was funny, though!
February 12, 2016
In this absolutely, enthrallingly ADORABLE book, Yotsuba, Ena, and Miura-chan make paper-cup phones, Yotsuba goes to the store with money for two ramens and an eraser, but she gets candy instead of the eraser. However, she doesn't have enough money, so rather than going back and getting an eraser instead, SHE PUTS HER DAD'S RAMEN BACK! This made me laugh SO HARD I thought I was going to die. Then, on the day of the trip to the ranch, Yotsuba gets a fever and stays inside instead. The next day, she goes over to the Fuuka, Ena, and Asagi's house, where Fuuka and Miss Stake are baking a strawberry shortcake. The cake turns out HILARIOUS! It looks like a pile of whipped cream with Pocky, sliced strawberries, and last, but certainly NEVER least, who could forget the EGG ON TOP! I love Yotsuba's expression when she plops the egg on top of the cake, she just looks like "BAM! TAKE THAT CAKE!" with a little gleam in her eye. Then the book skips to next week, when Yotsuba, Jumbo, Koiwai, and of course... Yanda. DUN DUN DUN! The ranch is an amazing place to run around (and fall into some sheep), get head-butted by a sheep, punch the sheep, MILK THE COWS, pet the dogs and cats, and ride the pony. This book EASILY gets 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 out of 5 stars. EASILY.
March 29, 2016
It takes me forever to read Yotsuba because I read tiny portions before bed when I'm feeling stressed. I'm savouring it. There's nothing as cheerful, pure or wholesome as Yotsuba. Every volume deserves the five stars I give it.
August 11, 2025
2023: Ok so Yotsuba punching animals probabbbbbbly shouldn't be as funny as I personally find it, buuuut who didn't slap a goat or goose who was mean to you first??
Yotsuba and Yanda's feud to so fun. I love when he shows up because I know Yotsuba's facial expressions are going to be golden.
Yotsuba and Yanda's feud to so fun. I love when he shows up because I know Yotsuba's facial expressions are going to be golden.
September 29, 2010
lol she punched a sheep.
March 29, 2013
Life lesson #5851: Don't trust a 5 year old with ¥500.
October 1, 2013
Yotsuba and her love of cows. I'm so glad this book happened.
September 10, 2021
This is a review of the entire series!
Yotsuba is an adventurous, green-haired and wide-eyed five-year-old girl moving into a new town with her father. Her energy is off the charts and her curiosity about anything and everything is never satisfied. The daily adventures of Yotsuba and her neighbors turned best pals tackle every subject imaginable from learning to ride bikes, selling flowers, racing at the beach and finding ways to battle against environmental pollution; all the while driving each other crazy and learning to love each others company.
I've been dealing with a lot of stress and depression in my personal life lately, so I thought it would be a nice change of pace to read something funny, cute and wholesome for a change. I went into this series expecting it to be corny or cringeworthy compared to what I'm used to, but was surprised by how genuinely charming, hilarious and heartwarming it is. You can tell the author has a lot of experience being a parent as he captures all the specific mannerisms, speech patterns and chaotic behavior of curious little kids better than most stories I've ever watched or read. Sometimes she's funny and sweet, sometimes she's bratty and annoying, sometimes she's an incoherent babbler that fascinates everyone around her with her insanely creative ideas and the unpredictably wacky shenanigans she constantly cooks up.
All the characters are lovable, each chapter is a fun self-contained story and it has the perfect balance of comedy, adventure and wholesome familial bonding. Yotsuba is a wonderful character. Her mischievous curiosity and her chaotic positive energy are dangerously infectious, both to the reader and to everyone's lives she becomes a part of. I definitely felt cheered up every time I read a chapter from this series and was surprised to find myself constantly smiling and laughing. I think it's impossible to read this manga and not feel uplifted in one way or another.
***
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Yotsuba is an adventurous, green-haired and wide-eyed five-year-old girl moving into a new town with her father. Her energy is off the charts and her curiosity about anything and everything is never satisfied. The daily adventures of Yotsuba and her neighbors turned best pals tackle every subject imaginable from learning to ride bikes, selling flowers, racing at the beach and finding ways to battle against environmental pollution; all the while driving each other crazy and learning to love each others company.
I've been dealing with a lot of stress and depression in my personal life lately, so I thought it would be a nice change of pace to read something funny, cute and wholesome for a change. I went into this series expecting it to be corny or cringeworthy compared to what I'm used to, but was surprised by how genuinely charming, hilarious and heartwarming it is. You can tell the author has a lot of experience being a parent as he captures all the specific mannerisms, speech patterns and chaotic behavior of curious little kids better than most stories I've ever watched or read. Sometimes she's funny and sweet, sometimes she's bratty and annoying, sometimes she's an incoherent babbler that fascinates everyone around her with her insanely creative ideas and the unpredictably wacky shenanigans she constantly cooks up.
All the characters are lovable, each chapter is a fun self-contained story and it has the perfect balance of comedy, adventure and wholesome familial bonding. Yotsuba is a wonderful character. Her mischievous curiosity and her chaotic positive energy are dangerously infectious, both to the reader and to everyone's lives she becomes a part of. I definitely felt cheered up every time I read a chapter from this series and was surprised to find myself constantly smiling and laughing. I think it's impossible to read this manga and not feel uplifted in one way or another.
***
If you're looking for some nice ambient music that's perfect for listening to while reading books, comics and manga, look no further than my YouTube channel Nightmarish Compositions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPPs...
June 22, 2023
For some reason, the last Yotsuba volume kinda left me a bit disappointed but I was going through a really rough patch so I think I just wasn’t enjoying anything in that period, to be honest. This volume reminded me of how near and dear the series is to my heart, I cried laughing in so many public places which probably got me a lot of weird looks but I’m still glad it did. The expressions, the slice of lifeness, the way the author gets the kinda wondrous and nonsensical logic of children, the comedic timing, the way how he uses every single character to make different types of jokes, it’s all so perfect. Enjoy everything is the perfect tag line to the series, it just puts you in such an amazing mood over such simple innocent joys. I think this is my fave volume left and it is really solid but the way it constantly hypes up the ranch made me so stupidly hyped for when it finally arrived. Like I was excited over “omg lil Yotsuba’s gonna go to a ranch and see animals and ask animals to be her friends I’m crying” and I think that’s a testament to how good the writing is that I was so attached to a story with no stakes over than me wanting these fictional people to have a good time like they were my real life friends going on a trip. It helps the ranch might actually be the best chapter in the manga so far too! His art for animals is always really amazing and a fun contrast to his more simplistic human designs and he absolutely PACKS it with jokes that all land. I loved everything about this :3
October 10, 2019
In this collection of Yotsuba adventures, Yotsuba and the neighbor girls make a telephone, Yotsuba goes to play with Ena and Miura, Yotsuba helps Fuuka and her classmate make a cake, Yotsuba gets sick, and Yotsuba goes to a ranch to meet real cows.
It's now become a running gag that when Yostuba gets upset at animals her first reaction is to punch them and Daddy has to have serious talks with her about not punching animals while the readers crack up. I thought it was quite funny how Fuuka and her classmate solved their cake decorating crisis by handing things over to Yotsuba. And I'm pretty sure Daddy needs to find friends who have a maturity level higher than Yotsuba's. Yanda and Jumbo often just make me shake my head. But they are entertaining. Another fun time spent with Yotsuba, but we knew going in that that would be the case, didn't we.
Notes on content: About 3-4 minor swear words. No sexual content and thanks to Daddy's intervention, no violence.
It's now become a running gag that when Yostuba gets upset at animals her first reaction is to punch them and Daddy has to have serious talks with her about not punching animals while the readers crack up. I thought it was quite funny how Fuuka and her classmate solved their cake decorating crisis by handing things over to Yotsuba. And I'm pretty sure Daddy needs to find friends who have a maturity level higher than Yotsuba's. Yanda and Jumbo often just make me shake my head. But they are entertaining. Another fun time spent with Yotsuba, but we knew going in that that would be the case, didn't we.
Notes on content: About 3-4 minor swear words. No sexual content and thanks to Daddy's intervention, no violence.
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