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よつばと! [Yotsuba&!] #4
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 4
*sniffle* Yotsuba thinks grown-ups are mean. Daddy plays all kinds of neat games with Yotsuba, but he ALWAYS WINS! Even when Yotsuba TELLS him to be paper in Rock-Paper-Scissors, he doesn't listen! Even then! Yotsuba never, ever wants to be a big meanie grown-up, nuh-uh! But grown-ups get to buy ice cream all by themselves, so...um...maybe it's okay to be a grown-up sometimes?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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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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January 27, 2022
What do you think the best part of this manga is? Yotsuba's awe for simple things such as cicadas, global warming, and food. It makes me feel incredibly cheerful and optimistic about everything.
The art is great, as always, with a lot of details and a mystical quality to it, and all of the characters are highly fun and full of life. This edition also includes a collection of short stories that are really cute.
My favourite chapter was the one about Fuka's heartbreak.
The art is great, as always, with a lot of details and a mystical quality to it, and all of the characters are highly fun and full of life. This edition also includes a collection of short stories that are really cute.
My favourite chapter was the one about Fuka's heartbreak.
February 16, 2011
This is going to sound extremely cheesy, but this manga makes me realize how precious life is. Yotsuba's amazement at the simplest things makes me realize how everything is just so full of wonder and excitement. We take so much of our life for granted. I really wish I could have had a childhood like Yotsuba has. Kids that sit around playing video games have no idea what they're missing! Going fishing, making your own newspaper... This is the ideal childhood.
September 4, 2022
Not my fave but still pretty funny.
August 1, 2019
Another beautiful read.
World: Amazing art, I love how emotive the characters are and the focus on the small and mundane and making it unique. Azuma's art is simply splendid. The world building is solid, it's small and intimate and only enough for the story to play out. It's basic but that's all it needs to be.
Story: A collection of fun little slice of life tales through the eyes of Yotsuba. From newspapers to fairies to trips it's all here. The time we spend with the other characters is also wonderful, I really liked the stuff with Ena and Miura.
Characters: Beautiful characters. Simple and beautiful. Through the last four books we have slowly learned about these characters and we learn much every time. Ena is deceptively strong and Miura is the opposite and it makes me laugh. The stuff with Fuuka is fun and her reaction is so very realistic but at the same time over the top.
I love this series, I'm biased.
Onward to the next book!
World: Amazing art, I love how emotive the characters are and the focus on the small and mundane and making it unique. Azuma's art is simply splendid. The world building is solid, it's small and intimate and only enough for the story to play out. It's basic but that's all it needs to be.
Story: A collection of fun little slice of life tales through the eyes of Yotsuba. From newspapers to fairies to trips it's all here. The time we spend with the other characters is also wonderful, I really liked the stuff with Ena and Miura.
Characters: Beautiful characters. Simple and beautiful. Through the last four books we have slowly learned about these characters and we learn much every time. Ena is deceptively strong and Miura is the opposite and it makes me laugh. The stuff with Fuuka is fun and her reaction is so very realistic but at the same time over the top.
I love this series, I'm biased.
Onward to the next book!
February 13, 2023
This is just such a charming series filled with such happy moments.
Even more so if you have a little daughter around Yotsuba age.
This volume contains fishing adventures, we also get some shopping for food with daddy, a really fun issue of working out, and much more. These are slice of life chapters in the best way possible, with just enough humor to make all the characters really work. From the neighbors, to the father, to Jimbo, I love every character here.
If I'm in a bad mood, this is the series I go to. A 5 out of 5.
Even more so if you have a little daughter around Yotsuba age.
This volume contains fishing adventures, we also get some shopping for food with daddy, a really fun issue of working out, and much more. These are slice of life chapters in the best way possible, with just enough humor to make all the characters really work. From the neighbors, to the father, to Jimbo, I love every character here.
If I'm in a bad mood, this is the series I go to. A 5 out of 5.
May 4, 2025
More entertaining narratives involving 5-year old Yotsuba and the people around her, including her father, her father's friend, and the older girls who live next door. That makes for a lot of variety while simultaneously keeping the stories centered on everyday interactions and wonder. In an interview, Raina Telgemeier said Yotsuba is her favorite manga. I can see why!
5 years later
I remembered bits and pieces. I can't believe it has been 5 years...
5 years later
I remembered bits and pieces. I can't believe it has been 5 years...
February 4, 2017
My favorite collection so far. Highly recommended.
I totally identified with Miura at every step in the "Fishing" episode.
Azuma really handled Fuka's heartbreak—starting midway and resurfacing near the end—with extra-special care: Yotsuba's mishandling of it provided the much needed comedy relief for Asagi's callousness. {edit = Fuka not Ena suffered the heartbreak; thanks to Holly for pointing out my error}
Must one choose between being a milkman or a paperman?
Concluding with a full-blown "Tsukutsukuboshi" tale was super delicious (ie, like a curry). Yotsuba's drawing of that character has gotta be some superfanboi/grrrl's tattoo.
I totally identified with Miura at every step in the "Fishing" episode.
Azuma really handled Fuka's heartbreak—starting midway and resurfacing near the end—with extra-special care: Yotsuba's mishandling of it provided the much needed comedy relief for Asagi's callousness. {edit = Fuka not Ena suffered the heartbreak; thanks to Holly for pointing out my error}
Must one choose between being a milkman or a paperman?
Concluding with a full-blown "Tsukutsukuboshi" tale was super delicious (ie, like a curry). Yotsuba's drawing of that character has gotta be some superfanboi/grrrl's tattoo.
September 10, 2020
If you have heart break, Yotsuba will cure you. This volume will make your heart smile.
I haven't mentioned the art work, but the drawing is a big part of why this series is so great.
The author must have spent a lot of time watching children and with a little extrapolation has exposed their best side on the printed page.
If goodreads had offered a sixth star, I'd have used it!
I haven't mentioned the art work, but the drawing is a big part of why this series is so great.
The author must have spent a lot of time watching children and with a little extrapolation has exposed their best side on the printed page.
If goodreads had offered a sixth star, I'd have used it!
April 28, 2013
10 May 2013
Oh, Yotsuba, how I love thee ♡. This series makes me happier than a fat kid swimming in ice cream. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 04 had me laughing so much I swear I almost peed myself. Someone, please make this into an anime!
This volume is probably one of my favorites in the series thus far. From the adorable cover to all of Yotsuba's hilarious expressions, this is a book I want to cuddle up to bed with every single night because it gives me joy like unicorns and rainbows.
As usual, the entire volume is comedic perfection. Some of my favorite chapters are "Challenges," "Dinner," and "The Bloom of Youth." I knew this would be a comic goldmine of belly laughs when the opening page begins with a hilarious game of Jan Ken Pon.
I cannot get enough of Yotsuba and her adventures. Kiyhohiko Azuma's art is magical. His detailed backgrounds are beautiful and realistic. Just look at the cover of this volume. Yet, he can use simplicity to convey the many animated expressions on silly Yotsuba's face with ease and perfection. I am a huge fan.
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 04
Chapter 22: Yotsuba & Challenges!
Chapter 23: Yotsuba & Fishing!
Chapter 24: Yotsuba & Dinner!
Intermission: Yotsuba & Four-Panel Manga!
Chapter 25: Yotsuba & The Bloom of Youth
Chapter 26: Yotsuba & Newspapers!
Chapter 27: Yotsuba & Tsukutsukuboshi!
Oh, Yotsuba, how I love thee ♡. This series makes me happier than a fat kid swimming in ice cream. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 04 had me laughing so much I swear I almost peed myself. Someone, please make this into an anime!
This volume is probably one of my favorites in the series thus far. From the adorable cover to all of Yotsuba's hilarious expressions, this is a book I want to cuddle up to bed with every single night because it gives me joy like unicorns and rainbows.
As usual, the entire volume is comedic perfection. Some of my favorite chapters are "Challenges," "Dinner," and "The Bloom of Youth." I knew this would be a comic goldmine of belly laughs when the opening page begins with a hilarious game of Jan Ken Pon.
I cannot get enough of Yotsuba and her adventures. Kiyhohiko Azuma's art is magical. His detailed backgrounds are beautiful and realistic. Just look at the cover of this volume. Yet, he can use simplicity to convey the many animated expressions on silly Yotsuba's face with ease and perfection. I am a huge fan.
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 04
Chapter 22: Yotsuba & Challenges!
Chapter 23: Yotsuba & Fishing!
Chapter 24: Yotsuba & Dinner!
Intermission: Yotsuba & Four-Panel Manga!
Chapter 25: Yotsuba & The Bloom of Youth
Chapter 26: Yotsuba & Newspapers!
Chapter 27: Yotsuba & Tsukutsukuboshi!
March 26, 2018
Unquestionably the most hilarious comic series being published today. Azuma's comic timing is so incredible, and his art so expressive that the jokes leave me with tears in my eyes. Laughing out loud on mass transit funny!
The big highlight - naive, innocent, four-year-old Yotsuba finds out that the teenage neighbor Fuka is heartbroken because the boy she likes is dating someone else. After swearing to a keep the secret, Yotsuba goes immediately to Fuka's mother and glamorous older sister for advice, then decides to become a newspaper person and writes a story "Fuka has the heartbreak," and then tries to cheer Fuka up by telling her she has fat legs.
Plus, there's the gut-busting back-and-forth of Yotsuba and Dad's Rock, Paper, Scissors, which involves the winning hand bopping the losing hand on the head with a rolled up newspaper. And Yotsuba diving into the fishing pond when the salmon escapes her fishing line.
Azuma makes the supporting cast recognizable but still cartoony enough to play effectively off Yotsuba's high-energy innocence. Great art, great jokes, great comic.
The big highlight - naive, innocent, four-year-old Yotsuba finds out that the teenage neighbor Fuka is heartbroken because the boy she likes is dating someone else. After swearing to a keep the secret, Yotsuba goes immediately to Fuka's mother and glamorous older sister for advice, then decides to become a newspaper person and writes a story "Fuka has the heartbreak," and then tries to cheer Fuka up by telling her she has fat legs.
Plus, there's the gut-busting back-and-forth of Yotsuba and Dad's Rock, Paper, Scissors, which involves the winning hand bopping the losing hand on the head with a rolled up newspaper. And Yotsuba diving into the fishing pond when the salmon escapes her fishing line.
Azuma makes the supporting cast recognizable but still cartoony enough to play effectively off Yotsuba's high-energy innocence. Great art, great jokes, great comic.
November 15, 2018
Actual rating: 4.5/5 stars!
I really loved this installment! It was soo good! Yotsuba is so innocent but so adorable and hilariously cute!
There were little comics intermixed with this one and I loved that one of them blamed America on global warming hahaha YES.
I really loved this installment! It was soo good! Yotsuba is so innocent but so adorable and hilariously cute!
There were little comics intermixed with this one and I loved that one of them blamed America on global warming hahaha YES.
March 31, 2023
A nice calm slice of life story with young Yotsuba. Her energy reminds me to take a step back and just enjoy life.
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January 19, 2020
It is one of the very few series that makes me really, deeply laugh. So lovely!
August 10, 2022
Another literary masterpiece.
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March 22, 2024One thing I know I will do by the end of this year is read the rest of the volumes in this series! God Yotsuba sometimes reminds me of myself 👀
July 21, 2024
I'm starting to like these more and more. I can't get enough of these sweet little stories🌻
April 13, 2023
Tiga bintang lagi soalnya ada male gaze lagi, lebih nyebelin karena dari POV tokoh cewek (Asagi sama Torako). Jumbo di sini malah menyenangkan dan baik banget sama Miura. Oh ya di sini ada chapter yang isinya komik 4 kotak vertikal kayak Azumanga Daioh — yang udah beli lengkap tapi gak kuat bacanya karena apa? Yak tul male gaze 🫠🫠🫠
July 21, 2018
I love ep23! the story of fishing. When I read it, it made me feel like camping and fishing.The fish looks so delicious and the background picture is awesome. This manga express Japanese summer very well.
March 4, 2018
This volume was so funny! Yotsuba was especially cute and funny...Loved it.
February 8, 2025
本当に面白くて、笑った。
「Enjoy everything 」は良い考え方だと思う
「Enjoy everything 」は良い考え方だと思う
April 7, 2025
Yotsuba! always makes me laugh out loud when reading, the best issue in this volume is definitely “fishing”
December 2, 2020
Suasana musim panas di Jepang dan cerianya terasaa.. Yotsuba juga polos bgt heheh
October 18, 2010
Originally posted here at Anime Radius.
There is only one constant thing that runs throughout each release of Yotsuba&! and that is fun. The manga is always fun to read and something odd yet interesting is always going on in the life of the young girl Yotsuba. Volume four is no less fun or funny than the previous volumes, and the fact that it has such a consistent quality running through its releases is by itself something to celebrate. A humor series that is always funny, every time? Sign me up.
The center of the series, the one that makes it, is Yotsuba – naturally. She is the adorable precocious adopted child of her oddball translator father, and it is clear that his oddities continue to rub off on her even as he tries to teach her valuable life lessons for growing up. Her wide-eyed views on life are pretty weird and usually wrong (“spring doesn’t come after summer?”), but that’s okay. The rest of the cast is always around to teach her what’s what. Yotsuba is still learning about the world, and that is what makes what she says so darn interesting – and cute. Did I mention how cute she is? Cute in an oddly adorable clueless way not a terribly saccharine way – and it helps that she has that great green hair with the four clover-like tails.
One of the great things about Yotsuba&! is that there is no real plot, nothing that really connects the chapters together – and this in no way detracts from the quality of the manga. The series is the mundanity of real life brought to life through the images on each page, and the artwork keeps the focus on the simple moments between the characters. It is pretty much the Seinfeld of manga, like Lucky Star without all the blatant pandering to otaku – and that is what makes it so bloody brilliant. Azuma is clearly working from a fountain of inspiration, and from the looks of it, Yotsuba&! shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. If you’ve been hesitant about reading this series, there hasn’t been a better time then now to start, especially since Yen Press rescued the license from ADV Manga last year. Take a walk through Yotsuba’s crazy world and you won’t regret it. Just don’t forget the series’ unofficial motto: enjoy everything.
There is only one constant thing that runs throughout each release of Yotsuba&! and that is fun. The manga is always fun to read and something odd yet interesting is always going on in the life of the young girl Yotsuba. Volume four is no less fun or funny than the previous volumes, and the fact that it has such a consistent quality running through its releases is by itself something to celebrate. A humor series that is always funny, every time? Sign me up.
The center of the series, the one that makes it, is Yotsuba – naturally. She is the adorable precocious adopted child of her oddball translator father, and it is clear that his oddities continue to rub off on her even as he tries to teach her valuable life lessons for growing up. Her wide-eyed views on life are pretty weird and usually wrong (“spring doesn’t come after summer?”), but that’s okay. The rest of the cast is always around to teach her what’s what. Yotsuba is still learning about the world, and that is what makes what she says so darn interesting – and cute. Did I mention how cute she is? Cute in an oddly adorable clueless way not a terribly saccharine way – and it helps that she has that great green hair with the four clover-like tails.
One of the great things about Yotsuba&! is that there is no real plot, nothing that really connects the chapters together – and this in no way detracts from the quality of the manga. The series is the mundanity of real life brought to life through the images on each page, and the artwork keeps the focus on the simple moments between the characters. It is pretty much the Seinfeld of manga, like Lucky Star without all the blatant pandering to otaku – and that is what makes it so bloody brilliant. Azuma is clearly working from a fountain of inspiration, and from the looks of it, Yotsuba&! shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. If you’ve been hesitant about reading this series, there hasn’t been a better time then now to start, especially since Yen Press rescued the license from ADV Manga last year. Take a walk through Yotsuba’s crazy world and you won’t regret it. Just don’t forget the series’ unofficial motto: enjoy everything.
September 24, 2019
In this Yotsuba book the precocious little girl decides that adults are mean when her father and Jumbo tease her, Jumbo takes Yotsuba and Ena and Muira fishing, Yotsuba and Daddy have a food adventure when he forgets his wallet and Yotsuba helps him cook, Yotsuba finds a soccer ball and takes the rules of no hands very seriously, Fuuka's heart gets broken and Yotsuba tries to help, Yotsuba gets up extra early goes to morning aerobics and has breakfast with the neighbors, Yotsuba decides to dress up like a tsukutsuku boushi (misunderstanding that it is a cicada and not a fairy) while Jumbo does something silly to prove he's more well-traveled than Yotsuba's friend Muira.
This wasn't anywhere near as funny as the past couple of Yotsuba books. It was still a fun and cute read, but I wasn't laughing out loud during this one. Jumbo really needs to grow up and get a life. (But then, Yotsuba and Daddy regularly tell him this too.) Poor Fuuka needs a more understanding person around the house. And Yotsuba's misunderstanding of tsukutsuku boushi is cute. Still a great all ages manga.
Notes on content: No language issues. No sexual content. No violence (other than a silly game of head bopping). Asagi's smoker friend makes 1 appearance in here.
This wasn't anywhere near as funny as the past couple of Yotsuba books. It was still a fun and cute read, but I wasn't laughing out loud during this one. Jumbo really needs to grow up and get a life. (But then, Yotsuba and Daddy regularly tell him this too.) Poor Fuuka needs a more understanding person around the house. And Yotsuba's misunderstanding of tsukutsuku boushi is cute. Still a great all ages manga.
Notes on content: No language issues. No sexual content. No violence (other than a silly game of head bopping). Asagi's smoker friend makes 1 appearance in here.
October 12, 2018
I'm currently on book 5, and this series is so precious to me. Yes, the art style and stories are cute, but I've come to hold the series close to my heart. At the end of each book is the saying "enjoy everything," as Yotsuba's dad once mentioned how she can find enjoyment in everything. I love that page of that book so much that I've decided to get a tattoo one day that represents the series. Even if I am still figuring life out, I strive to enjoy even the tiniest things in life. Children have mindsets that are wild and free, and I think as we grow up we forget that it's okay to enjoy life. So I don't want to ever forget that.
October 31, 2010
Chapters: 22,23,24,24.5,25,26,27.
Yotsuba is the cutest girl ever. I want to have a daughter just like her when a get older and married!
This girl always wonders about every thing around her and make you feel the miracles in this life for every little thing .
she went Fishing with her father and friends ,she make Dinner with her father and had fun at the super market before that , she learned about love and the broken hearts , she finely knew what's the Tsukutsuku-boushi really is !
Yotsuba is the cutest girl ever. I want to have a daughter just like her when a get older and married!
This girl always wonders about every thing around her and make you feel the miracles in this life for every little thing .
she went Fishing with her father and friends ,she make Dinner with her father and had fun at the super market before that , she learned about love and the broken hearts , she finely knew what's the Tsukutsuku-boushi really is !
May 13, 2014
I just love this series! Had the 4th volume on my ereader and decided to read it before sleep (never stick to my TBR...=D).
It was just as hilarious, as the 1st volume. Want to continue reading this manga series asap.=)
It was just as hilarious, as the 1st volume. Want to continue reading this manga series asap.=)
October 28, 2015
In this volume, we are treated to more madcap adventures with the spunky and fun Yotsuba. The story is laugh out loud funny, and the art is right on point. In this novel, Yotsuba gets some ice cream, helps her neighbor deal with heartbreak and she learns how to fish. Can't wait for the next one!
April 29, 2009
cute cute cute.
September 29, 2009
She's just so darn precious.
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