Yotsuba is invincible. "WAKAPPA!"
 

I was shocked to discover how many people, despite coeccias', Saka's and my best efforts, are still unaware of the greatness of Yotsuba. Let the awareness spread!


Yotsuba&! (or "Yotsuba to!" or "Yotsuba and!") is the latest manga from Azumanga Daioh creator Kiyohiko Azuma. It's the story of a little five year old girl, Yotsuba Koiwai, who moves to a new house with her father at the start of the series. We then follow Yotsuba as she explores the world around her, meets people and wonderfully funny hijinx follow. Each chapter is aptly named and connects with the "Yotsuba and!" theme of the title ("Chapter 5: Yotsuba & shopping", "Chapter 7: Yotsuba & the storm" etc).

Besides Yotsuba, other important characters are Yotsuba's father (we never hear his first name), Jumbo, a close friend of the two, and the Ayase family, who live next door to them, mainly the three sisters Asagi, Fuuka and Ena.

Where Azumanga Daioh was mostly 4-panel strips, Yotsuba is laid out like a typical manga, but both are in the warm, relaxing slice of life style of manga. Azuma let's us view the world through the eyes of Yotsuba, through the eyes of a five year old. Everything is new, everything is exciting, everything is something to enjoy and to learn about.

Yotsuba's energetic and always curious personality could have turned out annoying in other series, but it's the honest enthusiasm and love for life, that makes the series so wonderfully irresistible. Yotsuba's humor has slapstick and visual gags, but the best laughs come from the subtle and amazingly perceptive observations of everyday life and things people tend to take for granted. There is so much wisdom and love, you'd need to be a completely heartless dullard to not love it.


Yotsuba began serializing in the magazine Dengeki Daioh in 2003, while the characters first made their appearance in Try Try Try!, a short one shot manga. The characters' appearances were changed a little for the manga proper, but the personalities were set in even back then, and the chapter is worth reading just to see how similar and how different everything is.

The manga was licensed by ADV in 2004. The fifth collected volume came out in Japan just recently, while ADV has released three translated volumes so far. I've not found confirmation for it, but the continuation of translated volumes seems pretty unclear, severely delayed if nothing else. ADV has confirmed they're still releasing Yotsuba. Volume 4 is set to come out at the start of 2007. Momotato Daioh has been translating chapters way before the series got licensed, and has been continuing to put out chapters every now and then, probably because of the way ADV has handled things. 43 chapters have been translated so far.

Even though there isn't an anime adaption yet (we can only hope), an adorable image album "A Cute Symphony for One Fun Day" has been released for the series, composed by Masaki Kurihara of Azumanga Daioh fame, and is essential, highly recommended listening for Yotsuba reading~


While I'm a huge Nausicaä and Maison Ikkoku fan, Yotsuba could well be the greatest comic in the world.
It's funny, cute, warm, witty and makes you smile unlike anything. There is a wide range of humor and jokes, brilliant insight into regular, everyday life, beautiful art and attention to detail and character nuances. It's not huge on action, drama or character development, but the series shows how it doesn't really need them that much (and both are in there).
The world will be a better place when everyone is reading Yotsuba, so spread the word, everyone! =D


EDIT:

Updated links~

Red = new!

Links:

Kiyohiko Azuma's personal homepage (worth checking out for the new drawings that appear every now and then)
Dengeki Daioh's website
Momotato Daioh's Yotsuba section
Chapters 1-26 + TryTryTry! - Moon was kind enough to host all the chapters I had, in an effort to get Spatula to read it~
Chapters 27-32 - Chapters 27 to 32 hosted on rapidshare.
Chapters 33-36 - Chapters 33 to 36 hosted on rapidshare.
Chapters 37-38 - Chapters 37 to 38 hosted on rapidshare.
Chapter 39 - Chapter 39 hosted on rapidshare.
Chapter 40 - Chapter 40 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 41 - Chapter 41 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 42 - Chapter 42 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 43 - Chapter 43 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 44 - Chapter 44 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 45 - Chapter 45 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 46 - Chapter 46 courtesy of 4chan.biz
Chapter 47 - Chapter 47 courtesy of 4chan.biz

Temporary Rapidshare/megaupload links for chapter 46:
http://rapidshare.com/files/32997047...ected.rar.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HH41ZJJ4


If some of the rapidshares are expired, all chapters are available from 4chan.biz

TryTryTry! Webcomics - Separate from the TryTryTry! oneshot that's included in the 1-26 archive, this is another short story and a few 4-panel gag strips of Yotsuba and crew before they became a proper manga.

Yotsuba& makes me smile inside. That is rare.

^ Proof finns have better taste.

Yotsuba is awesome.
When I first started reading this few years ago, it made me laugh till I cried. I read Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (another awesome manga) at the same time and was all "=D/;_;/=o" all week.
Simply a must read.

What are you still doing here? Go find it ffs! >=0

Oh snap, another super awesome manga, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, being mentioned in this thread about a super awesome manga! Finns do have good taste. Or at least Boo does.

Yotsuba is <3

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5...80767560aa.gif

I'm a half-finn, and I like Yotsuba, so there's further evidence. :)

How is the translation in the ADV volumes? I didn't want to get their Azumanga release because they went overboard with their localisation/adaptation.

I <3 Yotsuba&!



Click for wallpaper~

They've done a pretty good job so far.
They changed Pantsman to Boxerman, and the Honyakuka - Konnyakuya gag naturally doesn't work as well in english (although their effort wasn't too bad, Translator - Train spotter), but those are the only complaints I've had.

Yotsuba in book form is good enough reason for purchase anyway~

Fine I'll download >=O

Many thanks to Moon and Qwarky for supplying this. I was tracking the conversations in the journals over this series, and I was having trouble figuring out how to obtain it. I definitely look forward to reading "Yotsuba to."

I suppose I'll check this out. I've seen her here and there but I never got a chance to actually know what the 4chan girl was about. Same thing with Azumanga Daioh, but I know a little more about that show, no biggie.

Downloading now.

I'm an old Yotsuba& fan ;d

DONMAI! ;D

I loved it when the colored picture with yotsuba weeping over the air conditioner issue roamed around on the internet. Everyone was like "OMG, there's an anime now!111". Too bad there isn't one, I'd definately start following it.

I'm really enjoying the manga so far. Volume three arrived around a week ago, and I've already read through it a few times :D. Is there any news on how many volumes this series will cover?

Everyone loves the revenge chapter. I personally love the Flower Cupid chapter above all else~

Also the series is still going in Japan, so who knows. I'm assuming it's still pretty popular and Azuma seems to enjoy doing it, so hopefully no end in sight as of yet.

I READ THIS BEFORE Q DID. I AM SUPELIOL!

I need to find the scans of the earlier chapters.

I have them, I just misplaced them.

God I had to go through hoops to get this, and in the end Moon was nice enough to post it in my journal. Thanks again moon. I'm going to finish up Azu D first then look forward to this with GREAT ZEST.

Miniface's wallpaper is hilarious, and I am looking forward to reading the rar.

First manga ever for me, whee ~

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~arnoldy/imag...ba_excuses.JPG
WIN.

I'm excited to read this! I'm downloading it now, and I <3 Miniface's wallpaper. Thanks, everyone!

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Yotsubato!19-17.jpg

SUPREME VICTORY

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...n/67c7da90.jpg

Another winner. This deserves an internet.

This manga really exemplifies the 'less is more' attitude. No matter how many times I read through any particular chapter, I still laugh and smile at the antics of this uninhibited little girl. I think my Yotsubato-getting journal entries were all lost, so in order to spread the goodness that is Yotsubato, I am changing my avatar/signature back to one of my favorite themes.

Thank you so much for linking to the scans! I literally screamed GTFO! when I saw the link for this at the bottom of the first post.
I had been on the fence about this for a very long time seeing as how manga is always expensive, and I couldn't think of how they would top Azu Dai in terms of humour. If the rest of the manga is anywhere near as funny as that page shown above where she's holding the gun: "save your excuses for the devil!", then I'm set :)

It's one of the best manga I have read thus far. It also contains the type of plain, yet absurd humor I enjoy most.

wait! I thought she said "I'll see you in hell!". :(
I haven't read the ADV version yet.

Wow. It's been about 48 hours, and already 62 people have downloaded the file. This apprently is a rather popular manga (and rightfully so, because it is a very entertaining read).

Yeah, what you saw in there was a scan of the ADV manga.

This is the scanlated version you're thinking of:

http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/8...ato09044xl.jpg

Downloading now.

It took me years to look into Azumanga Daioh! to see what the fuss was all about. Now that I'm happily married to Osaka, I didn't think to bother with Yotsuba. In fact, I always assumed it was some kind of doujinshi made by die-hard fans OF Azumanga Daioh!.

So yeah, I'll give this a shot. I won't be marrying any six year old girls, though.

Yeah, please don't be marrying any six-year old girls. That'd be creepy.

However, DO please read the most heartwarming manga I've ever seen. Does it get any cuter? I don't think it does. I love in the "Global Warming" one where she runs back to her house and yells "I've misjudged you daddy!" Much lolin'.

I was actually going to make a joke in reference to our neighborhood Cam, but that's become a sort of GFF cliche.

Yotsuba isn't the only girl in the manga, you know. There are plenty of interesting and amusing older females in it too.

Who's the person who started the whole "*insert fictional character name here* is my wife" thing anyway?

I'm not sure, actually. I've always found it kind of funny, though. It's another one of those 4chan memes (I believe) that wound up over here.

I know it's at 4chan and sometimes it's funny but I was more or less asking if anyone knew if it started somewhere besides 4chan.

It's generally very difficult to trace something back to its original beginning, especially if it's gotten popular, but not actually started, at 4chan. Case in point, when I tried to find out the real origin (and hopefully original screenshot) of the whole "im in ur base, killin ur doods" Starcraft (or is that Warcraft) thing. I got about a few dozen answers, all of them conflicting with the other, and none of them plausible enough.

And I'd naturally marry Fuuka~

Can't have her, bitch! She's mine! >8U
lol

Don't deny that Asagi's where it's at!


Did I misread or something? So if I'm correct, then there are actually more than 26 chapters out, but they're not all translated yet? Also, is the English manga much farther behind than the scans?

Yeah, 5 volumes out in Japan so far. ADV has released volume 3, which ends at chapter 21, meaning the scanlated chapter 26 is some way in the middle of Volume 4. Momotato is working on the next batch of chapters (I think it was chapters 27-30 or maybe 27-32), but he's a bit busy with life, so it may take some more.

I had to leaf through my translated volume 3 for the chapter number, so I saw and was reminded of what happens in chapter 21. That scene of Yotsuba crying and telling her name in the middle of the crowd is such a heartbreaking moment. Yet you know it was necessary for her to learn even a little.

It's one of the things I love about the series. There's just enough mischief to make it snappy (I feel so guilty for always laughing at the paper-scissors-stone match in chapter 22), and there are the moments when Yotsuba gets scared or hurt, just like children do, but it's mostly so warm and knowing.

Heh I agreed with that part where she's lost in the crowd. It was funny how after she just randomly yells that 'it's dangerous' to the nearby people.

I'm a sadist that likes the part where Miura wears the bird-scaring balloon over her head and everyone starts screaming in a chain reaction of events.

The incident itself was hilarious, but I hate Miura for doing such a horrible thing. Going out of her way to scare a child like that :mad:

I've read some of the Yotsuba&! manga in various anime magazines. I've wanted to pick up the series but no stores in my area carry them at the moment. :(

Sorry, there is no Yotsuba anime. At least, nothing by the official creators. :(
What was made available is the current collection of translated manga.

Speaking of non-official Yotsuba anime:

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/1107763792445.gif

And hopefully everyone's seen the awesome Azumanga Yotsuba OP animation flash. Acer was kind enough to upload it for easier finding, be sure to save it for safekeeping immediately:

http://www.acerbandit.net/flash/soramimiyotuba.swf

Wonderfully done! I really was convinced that Fuuka was just like Osaka and that Yotsuba was just like Chiyo throughout. It also was a lot better than the ordinary flash, in the sense that I was very close to being deceived into thinking I was watching an actual anime op.

Damnation!
I need 20 posts to be able to make a sig ffs >=0
Since it'll be a Yotsuba set, obviously I spam also here. RAAH!

that's so much more funny. but whatever. it's still heartbreakingly adorable.
it's been out for a while over here and I still haven't bought it. I need to go pick up the first English volume of it and School Rumble.
I haven't read it since last summer on Momotato.

Hooray, Yotsuba thriumphs again!
With all the boom lately, I started rereading Yotsuba again and by the gods this is as hilarious as ever.
Thus Ava/Sig!
I'll get back on this after going through it first~

my GOD I hadn't seen that Yotsubato OP
Not only does it win worth tomorrow too, I managed to wake my parents with laughing x)

I just got finished reading through all of the scanalations, and I'm absolutely in love with Yotsuba.

Particularly the introduction to pants man (the rain) and the fireworks display "episodes".

Heartwarming, cute stuff right there.

I'd never read manga before (well I don't read any comics or the such like really), so I will admit to being highly sceptical before hand. However, I love it to bits. I've not read anything that's put such a huge smile on my face for a while and this did just that every time. Abso-fucking-lutely brilliant. I want more damn it. >_<

Hahaha! I just read Yotsuba & The TV, the one where Jumbo shows up. I was laughing throughout the entire thing, absolutely hysterical chapter.

GAOO!

Also, Yotsuba & Shopping is a lot of fun too, though with no Jumbo (I think he might be my favorite character aside from Yotsuba herself... GAOOO!). The misadventures of this little girl are cute beyond words. Again, a huge thanks to all who promoted it.

I'm still waiting for vol. 3, or a chance to buy it if it's already out. It's one of those mangas that you can just laugh and laugh and there's nothing dirty or sick about it (like Tenjho Tenge for example, which is funny, violent and full of sex).

I don't have a scan, but my favorite page was

TSUKUTSUKU-BOUSHI!

As some of you may have already heard, chapters 27-30 are now out. I got mine from #lurk, but Face has been nice enough to upload the two packs to his server:
http://f4c3.free.fr/Yotsubato_c27-28.rar
http://f4c3.free.fr/Yotsubato_c29-30.zip

Be sure to thank him.

Anyway, I actually don't think these are Momotato's scanlations. Not only has he not updated his news at all about a release, and the typeset is completely different. It's good work anyway, so I highly recommend reading them, all four chapters are wonderful. Chapter 30, with Yanda's first appearance, is by far the most mischievious chapter so far, but I still couldn't contain my laughter, no matter how guilty I felt about it.

Of course, after that you only need to reread chapter 27 again~

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Yot05.jpg

I've prepared a single ZIP package of 27-30 for download from my website:

Yotsubato!27-30.zip (30,3 MB)

Note that this file will be up for about a week at best, so be sure to grab stuff while you can. Thanks Face for the initial hosting. Hope you don't mind me hosting as well.

Spreading Yotsuba awesomeness.

For those who want the Yotsubato Image album, I've uploaded a FLAC version to my webspace. Grab it here:

http://www.condign.org/media/Yotsuba...%20%5bFLAC%5d/

:(

Updated first post with hosted chapters and image album~ Now no one has any excuse not to find them.

Oh, the part with the Mob movie and the wattergun, oh, that's classic!

And Donmai, XD

And...hell...everthing is clasic with this!

BTB, is Azuma trying to forshadow something with Yotsuba's "Enemy" talking or is he doing it to be cute?

I liked the first chapter of volume five, with the robot, and the chapter with Yanda really was one of the best so far. I really lol'd at the part with the cellphone and the unko, evil Yotsuba rules!

I was reading the Japanese volume and while it takes some time to understand, it's easy enough for me to actually be able to read it without having to look up every damn word (unlike Patlabor.) Now I'll probably just skip ADV and get the JP volumes from YesAsia instead (if they can ever get volume 2 in :(.) Oh well, on to chapter 31!

New set ftw !
k that's not enough content for a post so..
I absolutely loved the new robot chapter, must have read it 5 times through :tpg:
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/4...yotsuba6vs.jpg

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Yotsuba!ch27p22.jpg


I'm completely smitten with the Tsukutsuku-boushi chapter. While the Flower Cupid remains my absolute favorite, chapter 27 is such a winner.

Not only is it completely adorable, but it's filled with absolute GOLD moments like Yotsuba making the earth slightly safer with the AC remote and the trouble it eventually causes dad, the whole "I'm a tsukutsuku-boushi!" stuff and the reactions it brings out in everyone, Jumbo's return from Hawaii, Asagi's impersonation of the cicada and Yotsuba hastily trying to reveal her exciting discovery to her dad near the end. Such a perfect description of children's impatience and frustration at adults not listening XD

nice new stuff as always
I didn't like chapter 30 with Yotsuba & Yanda. The mooch sort of forced his way in and Yotsuba REALLY hated him: "Go away and never come back!"

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i6...onditioner.jpg

Mega Awesome <3. Ice cream, LOL!

Why is Yotsuba so cute?! I never thought I would say that.

My favorite so far has to be the one where Yotsuba meets Yanda. POO!

This reminds me, I should get Azumanga. It's the same artist right?

Yes it is. I'd say the style (and structure) is slightly different, but in general you can say if you enjoy Yotsuba, you'd love Azumanga as well. It's a must read especially if you liked the anime, as the two complement each other very well, both exhibiting gags and puns not in the other.
I do wish ADV would have realized to put translation notes into the first two volumes, though.

Yay! Yotsuba is pretty infectious. I like how a lot of us changed from our ordinary av/sigs to include Yotsuba in them (always a good thing :)) Looks like there's a mini-chain going on here.

Yeah. I've been somewhat tempted to make myself a Yotsuba av/sig. *must resist*

Join us, OP. You know it'll make you much, much happier.

It's become a bit of a tradition for me to listen to Dawn from the Yotsuba image album in the morning when getting up. A perfect morning theme.

Speaking of which, I should give that image album a try. It just might be a better match up of reading Y and listening to Azu D OST at the same time, ya know. It just might.

Thanks for all the great links, my life has significantly improved ever since I read my first Yotsubato! chapter. =D

Yeah this is one of the few things that make me happy with myself XD

Oh go on then. I wanted to change my av/sig anyways. Damn you Q. :p

Yotsuba is simply too cute. I have no choice but to abandon my headphones and create a new Yotsuba combo.

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Yot06.jpg

I couldn't help myself. Yotsuba playing on the Wiimote to make summer end is too precious.
And then dad loses week's worth of work again and the Asagi household TV changes channels mysteriously ='D

the guy who's translating Yotsubato for America is the webmaster of the best Ring site ever, www.theringworld.com
I picked up the first volume and noticed. he did a nice job, or so says I.

I know I'm late getting into this and all, but I must say that Yotsubato! is amazing.

The humor is great, and Yotsuba (as stated before) is just too cute.


Thanks for the links - and now I'm tempted to get a Yotsuba-related ava/sig.

>=) Another one to join the ranks!
I am patiently awaiting for the next few chapters :)

Hmm. I've been wondering. Is it ever alluded what Yotsuba's actual nationality is? I was intrigued when I read Ena's line: "She looks a bit weird. Is she a foreigner? Or maybe..." and especially her dad's line about finding her in "another country", wherever that is.

Ok, so:

For a Japanese person to not be sure about her race, there's a fairly good chance she's ...
(a) half-Japanese and half-anything else but black
(b) Chinese
(c) Korean

Because let's face it -- either you're not going to question her Japanese origin at all, or you're going to know she's not Japanese. These are the only possible exceptions. Ena thought Yotsuba looked a little strange, strange enough to make her ask, "Is she a foreigner?" You don't say about somebody who you know is a foreigner, "Are they a foreigner?". You just don't. You only ask if somebody's foreign if they're deceptively looking and sounding a lot like your people, but there's something ... just a little off ...

Thoughts? Not that it truly matters, because she's still super-cute regardless, but it is something I've wondered about.

I wondered that too. I also wondered if there was the possibility she comes from Hawaii (I vaguely recall talk of them coming from an island, or maybe I'm imagining that).

You never knew Koalla Su's nationality from Love Hina until volume 13. Everyone always thought she was Indian and she'd always deny that because, well, she wasn't as it turned out. Anyway, Yotsuba's nationality is up in the air and when we find out we'll find out. It doesn't really matter.

You weren't imagining. It came from this scene attached here. And another page from earlier only hinting at her history.

That's about all that was revealed.

1. She's not from Japan.
2. She's probably from some island "to the left"
3. She was abandoned by her parents.
4. She has a grandmother.

Yotsuba's nationality admittedly intrigued me, but only when the manga itself talked about it, as otherwise it doesn't matter. Finding out more about her past would be fascinating, but it might be something painful and what matters most is that Yotsuba is happy right now.
It's obvious it doesn't matter too much to Azuma, and I think the "Yeah. Hawaii's to the right" line is a perfect and subtle example of this.

Yotsuba sees dad as her real father (though she probably doesn't even know what a biological father is) and dad definitely sees Yotsuba as his real daughter.

Thanks for the links!! Yotsuba& is my favorite manga! I can't wait till more comes out.

I also don't foresee a chapter where Yotsuba's past is explained. The tone of this manga is really positive and light, and hopefully it won't get too serious. But who knows what Azuma wants to do with this later...

Excellent series!! Don't know why it took me so long to get into Yotsubato! :D

One of my favorite stories has to be the one where her dad and Jumbo have a badminton match face-off. It was so funny while they're arguing about it going out or in:

Dad: "It went over the rope and then straight into the ground *drilling the shuttle cock into the ground* it went in at least 10cm!! Gettting it out was almost impossible!!!"
Jumbo: "Shut up!! You're an idiot!! A stupid idiot!!!"

:beer:

Man, am I glad I found those scanlations. It doesn't look like ADV has Vol. 4 of Yotsuba&! scheduled anytime soon. And after the horrible print quality of Vol. 3, I'm less inclined to purchase their stuff.

Yotsuba&! is definitely the best manga I've read in years. I do with there was more of it, but Azuma definitely makes the most of every chapter. His style has definitely become cleaner and more attractive since the early days of Azumanga Daioh.

The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that it's published in the seinen magazine Dengeki Daioh, where ecchi and lolicon content is fairly common. Yotsuba&! is pretty innocent for the most part, but being in that mag gives it some undertones that kinda bother me.

What? =/
I have volume 3 and the quality was great. Can't you check graphic novels for bad prints before you buy them?

Anyone know where I can get Volume 27 - Current? I am definetly digging this manga.

One thing though: Is it just her, or is it a cultural thing in japan for people to say "I've formed a better opinion of you, ____", because I've never really heard anyone in the US say that (I was re-reading Volume 3 after Hatter's comment & Qwarky's reply, lol ).

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/an...tml#post113007

The urls are also in the first post :(
And they're not volumes, they're chapters

Hmm, odd that you guys didn't notice, it caused a big stir on the AnimeOnDVD forums...
Basically, ADV's entire print run of Yotsuba&! Vol. 3 is marred with lower-quality, pixelated, "jagged" edges, something even an apprentice printer should have been able to catch. It's not really noticable if you hold the book a full arm's length away, but I like to hold it closer, to better appreciate the linework (as do many people). I'm not sure whether ADV just happened to get low-quality masters for this volume (unlikely), but it definitely affected my enjoyment of the volume. Their first two volumes were pretty much pristine, which is important since Azuma has such a clean line style.
As far as I can tell, there's only one "clean" page in the whole volume (p. 173, when Yotsuba tries balloon catching over, and over, and over...) Look at the lines of their face, then compare it to the opposite page. You'll definitely notice.

I actually held off on buying vol. 3 for the longest time, hoping ADV would correct the problem in a new print run. They haven't acknowledged it yet.

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, I still loved the content, just wish it was treated better.

Double Post:

It's probably not an expression you hear out loud too much, but I've seen it used in a number of titles, so it's definitely a part of the Japanese mindset. Guess it ties in with their cultural fear of being singled out & being thought of as "weird".

I fail for not reading thread =\

Hmm, that always confused me anyway :tpg:

Interesting. I had to comb through my volume again at close range and I had a hard time seeing what you mean at first.

Is this the "jagged" edge you mean?
http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/IMG%20305.jpg

I see it now, but since I didn't notice it at all when reading, it's not that much of an issue for me personally, unlike a dodgy translation or censoring/content editing would be.
At a normal reading lenght the panel line "jaggies" are still slightly visible

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/IMG%20305a.jpg

but considering the alternative looks like this:

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/IMG%20306.jpg

I can't complain and I don't see how it's any kind of good reason to boycott the release. But hey, their loss.

I'm just glad I'm able to buy the volumes from bol.com only a little while after they're released in the US.

Also, the translations in Yotsuba&! are pretty much similar to Momoto's, so that's a plus. Fortunately, compared to the Azumanga translations (of which some parts were very poor, IMO), the jokes are more easily to pick up and don't leave you with that "WTF How is this funny =/" feeling.

I can't wait for volume 4 ;_;

Does anyone know who translates it or if theres a certain channel that distributes it?

I can always count on Q to buy stuff, which I then confiscate in the name of "sure you'll get em back".
Yotsuba manga. Getto !

I started buying the manga as well after reading the scanslations. The overall quality of the book is much better of course, but I've started to feel some of the translation really doesn't seem to work. It could be because, to me, the translations done by A-M and others are more true to the original content of the manga, whereas ADV decided to change things so that the humor would be more obvious to western readers.

Stuff like: "Thank you, bishoujo Fuuka-chan!" being translated by ADV as "Thank you, Fuka! You're sooo attractive, Fuka!!" seems weird to say the least.

The one that really gets to me though is in chapter 7, volume 1. When Fuuka asks Yotsuba what her father's job is, Yotsuba mistakenly tells her that her father is a "konyakuya" (a maker of traditional snacks) when in actuality he's a "honyakuka" (a translator). ADV changed it so that instead of a "translator", Yotsuba tells Fuuka that her father is a "train spotter". WTF?! How does that work?! Because later in chapter 24 I'm not sure how Fuuka and Koiwai's conversation in the supermarket will go, since Fuuka is still under the misbelief that he's a konyakuya....

Anyways, I'll be getting volume 3 in about a week's time. Does anyone know when ADV will be releasing volume 4? I can't even find any Yotsubato! manga listed on their website!!!

JUMBO BEAM!

So someone over at Chiyochan.net has translated Chapter 31.

Note that this a single individual, so if you want the best quality scanlations, I suggest waiting for more "official" groups, but for simply reading while we wait, this was fine. And what a completely wonderful chapter it was too, so good <3

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/C...031%20(14).jpg

I renamed the pages correctly and rapidshared:
http://rapidshare.de/files/21480663/Chapter31.rar.html

...

Awwwwww!

I like the Yanda reference, so adorable...how can I say such a thing when I am an angsty teenage boy? hahaha

:tpg:

I'm bumping this because I finally caved in and downloaded Yotsuba scanslations. Cursed ADV Manga has basically left Yotsuba (and many other good titles, like Gunslinger Girl) in limbo. I'll definitely buy up volumes 4 and beyond if ADV Manga ever releases them here...

"The one that really gets to me though is in chapter 7, volume 1. When Fuuka asks Yotsuba what her father's job is, Yotsuba mistakenly tells her that her father is a "konyakuya" (a maker of traditional snacks) when in actuality he's a "honyakuka" (a translator). ADV changed it so that instead of a "translator", Yotsuba tells Fuuka that her father is a "train spotter". WTF?! How does that work?! "

How does it not work? Although I do realize that ADV screwed themselves over for Chapter 24, it seems very obvious to me why they changed the joke in the first place; "chef" of "cook" sounds nothing like "translator" in English, whereas "train spotter" does. Would you rather have ADV leave the Japanese terms in and not translate things?

Actually, yes. I'm sure it would've been easier to leave the original terms in there and just add the notes at the bottom of the page. The scanslation made much more sense that way. This may be the reason why ADV aren't releasing volume 4 yet, they're too busy trying to figure out how to "fix" this monumental cock-up. Or would they skip chapter 24 altogther?!

I just read ADV's volume 3 and I have a major gripe about it. In the final chapter (chapter 21) they've pretty much fucked up with the names and translation......

The volume was funny but sometimes ADV screw us over....



:cussing:

...whereas ADV decided to change things so that the humor would be more obvious to western readers.


I do agree that ADV Manga's long hiatus is inexcusable, as well as random name/grammar mistakes like the ones you mentioned (it reeks of sloppiness), but what you said earlier is my point exactly. Scanslators can get away with leaving jokes in Japanese and using cultural and/or definition footnotes because they don't actually have to sell anything. However, companies like Viz and ADV Manga have to try to sell things to both the mainstream and the fringe. They can't risk shunning the mainstream with Japanese jokes that would go over most people's heads (even with footnotes).

I won't push this any further, since I don't want an argument to potentially break out in a Yotsuba topic. I apologize for my initial inflammatory post, and thus will take my leave.

I heard from RR the other day that chapter 32 was translated and proceeded to find it. A wonderful chapter as usual, I especially liked the stuff at the video rental store.

I also noticed Face's uploads of 27-30 have expired, so I re-rapidshared 27-32 and updated the opening post in case people only check the first post for new chapters.

http://rapidshare.de/files/23352237/...27-32.rar.html

wow thanks for the rapidshare Qchan! I was afraid I won't be able to read the latest ones, good thing you're there.

/me gives Q a lemon cake

EDIT: JUMBO BEAM! (just finished reading all of 'em definitely not "boring shit" :D )

One of the best manga's I've read in a long time. It sorta makes you remind you of your own childhood(not a good thing if you had a bad one..) I've noticed.. ADV is severly behind in releasing the manga. Kinda stopped at Vol.3(if more are already released, then damn where the hell have I been?), I pray that they didn't stop distirbuting this amazing series. My favorite chapter was the chicada. The look on Fuka's Mom was priceless.:D

I hope this series continues for a long time... Azuma doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get them anywhere, though, so hopefully it'll continue well beyond Azumanga Daioh' four volumes. When I first saw that series, I thought it was the epitome of charming "slice-of-life" material, but man, Yotsuba just blows it out of the water. For all its wacky humour, it truly is founded in realistic family behaviour. And I can't stress enough how much Azuma's art has progressed since the early days of Azumanga.

a thousand times thank you for making this thread
i saw the name and the manga she made before is Azumanga daioh (godly in my eyes) and pick it up today

*sigh* im in love with this manga
its azumanga daioh and more

the hell is up with adv manga
maybe they should give it to tokyopop..they'll finish it for sure >.>

Glad to see more people exposed to the wonder of Yotsuba~

And Kiyohiko Azuma is a man.

I've heard a disturbing rumor (even more disturbing if it's true) that ADV have quietly dropped Yotsuba. Has anyone else heard this? I haven't really paid much attention to ADV Manga before Yostsuba, but I heard the same thing happened to Peacemaker Kurogane as well. Has ADV Manga always been this unreliable?

What are the chances of Yotsuba being picked up by someone else, like Viz or Tokyopop?


:eyebrow:

I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were true.

This is from starbulletin.com

So, they've most likely dropped it. :mad:

i've been reading the manga for quite a while now, and it's been easy to like ever since. yotsuba's innocence can make enough humor to supply the series. a must-read, definitely.

I like to think they've forgotten about it for a while and will continue it once they realise the error of their ways. Seriously, what the hell is that crap they churn out while overlooking Yotsuba? Lagoon Engine Einsatz?

Anne Freaks was completely awful, and I don't understand why anyone would waste their time reading, much less commercially releasing it =/

Lagoon Engine Einsatz, to be fair is from the doodete that did DNangel.

Hi!

Well - I just recently got into Yotsuba&! (hikarub - thank you a lot :) ) and ordered volume 1,2 and 3 - They'll probably arrive around 7.11 -

Umm - what do I expect? I don't know - its my first ADV Manga ;)

But I'm looking forward to it!

I hope they'll continue Yotsuba&! - It would be... well... kind of bad if they really dropped it.

Wow - that...that was... my....my first post ;)

greetings,
Steve

(btw. if you're about to think that i am a Slayer [band] fan - youre wrong - my nickname refers to Slayer from GGXX ;) )

I just started getting really "in" to reading Yotsuba finally.

I forgot how completely cute it was, then I read chapter 9.

Where is my Yotsuba anime.

Hahaha, this thread is really informative =). I have been wondering what is the anime series that spread around some people's avatar and siggie in GFF. It turns out to be Yotsuba ^^.

I will download that chapter first... I have high expectation for this series actually, looking for the high appreciations of people here :)

It's one of the few English sources for Yotsubato information. :D I made an account just to express my appreciation for this thread. Yotsuba warms my heart like no other story told.

Hey! Anyone know the translations to chapter 37?

I don't even know the translation to 33, where the hell did you get 33-36? =/

Deadfrog forums search Yotsuba
That's where I got it :biggrin:

But surely the translation of chapter 37 is more than adequate as it is. A great many thanks go to the translator for bringing about audible laughter with such a daring enterprise.

Bah. I don't need some random translator thinking he's funnier than Azuma.
Any proper translations of 37 out there?

gonna pick of vol 3 just to own all the books that did hit the states but seriously i wish tokyopop got the rights to release the rest i mean.. they release anything even if its trash or not yotsuba should be on top of the list!

This is terrible, I've missed so many chapters even though I tried to look for any news on updates ;_;

Anyway, downloaded the torrent that had 1-37, threw out 1-32 and 37 and uploaded 33-36 to rapidshare for anyone who hasn't read them yet.
Anyone wondering why I threw out 37, you can view a few posts up. Basically, someone thought it would be "hilarious" to write in mock ye olde english and the results were dreadfully unfunny. Please don't waste time with that release and wait for a proper 37 instead.


Updating the first post right after this.



The beach story was absolutely adorable, but I was laughing with tears in my eyes at the recycling chapter. That little cat figurine she uses to calm herself down, the whole idea and execution of the gag was just brilliant ='D

The last chapter was another great one, especially the start.

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/Yotsuba35-04.jpg

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/Yotsuba35-05.jpg


I foresee a new Yotsuba ava/sig set coming pretty soon. I already have two sigs ready, as a matter of fact.

Ah thnx quarky for 33-36. After reading the manga I need my daily yatsuba read. I can't wait for another yanda appearence :D

I still hope they have better translations of 37!!!!

Whoever decides to pick it up should probably start from the very beginning. At least that way they can redo and avoid ADV's major cock-up in volume 1 and their silly mistakes with characters' names in volume 3. It's such a disappointment after reading the scanslations, that publishers can make such mistakes. Don't they have someone to proofread?

By the way, I'm seriously missing out here. Better get chapters 33-36 before they disappear!!!


:beer:

Thanks a bunch, Q. Yotsubato was awesome as usual.

Oh yeah, I have some other Yotsubato flashes on my website. I'll list them all. =)


Soramimi Yotsubato
Soramimi Yotsubato Remix
Pani Poni Yotsubato Remix

Enjoy! =)

Holy shit, Acer!! Those were AWESOME!!!! Where did you get them?!

All that just makes me wish more and more for an anime version to appear soon.......

Oh please, please, please, please.......


>_<

Koichan and 4chan. Someone direct linked to my stuff on koichan before. I forget who but I was informed and found it rather amusing and told them that if anyone else wanted me to host some stuff I would and I got some more Yotsubato flashes out of the deal. =)

That PPD one is unbelievably awesome =o
Saved to HD so bad, already watched it three times in a row now~

That Soramimi Yotsubato Remix is amazing! I didn't realize until watching it again that it's almost never the same!! I've played it so many times trying to see how many differences I could spot!!!

:D

#lurk has up to chapter 38 available, but for those that just want 37-38 or those wary of IRC, here is a link for you.

That PaniPoni Yotsuba flash is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

Ok - back to the Manga:

TOKYOPOP will release the Yotsuba&! Manga in Germany - release date of part 1 will be around March 2007 - I'm really looking forward to it... I'm exited about to see how the translation works ;)

Hey! Coeccias! could u tell me the irc channel? thnx

#lurk is on irc.irchighway.net, but you will find the bot listings at gotlurk.net.

Alright, added coeccias' link to the updated chapter list. Much <3

The bike chapter was hilarious. I love that scene of all three riding along the the high road. 38 made me feel ;_; though. Have to see what terrible things will follow from all this.

Aww. T.T

I'm sure everything will be just fine. This is Yotsuba, after all.

ADV is getting lazy...they haven't updated anything on Yotsuba for awhile now...T_T

Yotsuba really is wonderful.

I've uploaded the Image Album onto Megaupload; Blah's site always seems to be 'FORBIDDEN'. Luckily, I was able to download it from the site at the right time. Here it is:

megaupload.com/?d=AUFXFBIR

.rar size: ~188MB

wondering when the next vol of Yotsuba coming out?

ADV answered the question at Otakon recently

hell yeah i thought they forgot about this great manga :biggrin:

I hope there will be a manga group that colors Yotsuba, that would be kinda neat =D

This is quite lovely news (I went to read the rest at ANN). It IS a pretty long wait, considering how long it's been since the third book, but at least they haven't abandoned the series. We'll always have scanlations to read till then, so I don't mind. I always buy the books anyway.

What a shame, I just made a yotsuba episode animation entirely in flash but I don't have enough posts to show it here. Shame shame... :(

You can PM me the link if you wish and I can paste it here for everyone else.

I won't be lazy. I'll just post in other threads for a bit until I meet the requirement. :D

And how long will that take? Not really a matter of lazy or not, it's still better to PM Qwarky the link so everyone else can see it. :p

We can always remove the url later and have you repost it if you so wish. I can host it for you if it's not uploaded anywhere.

*currently adding profile info... >_<

I can see your a really nice person. <3

The animation in question is more of just a one page spoof of the manga and certainly not demanding of special treatment. If I only need to post what I'm assuming to be 10 times in order to showcase a link here in this thread, I can gladly wait.

Well if your latest project linked in your sig is any indicator Qwarky and I would definitely edit your posts for you to allow html links in here. Post your links away. =D

Hell, I'd even host it for ya if you'd like. I host other Yotsubato parody animations already.

Chapter 39 has been added to the new releases bot on #lurk, but as always, here's a link. Not as funny as others have been, but Yotsubato is still enjoyable as always. I especially liked the facial expressions in this chapter.

This chapter ended in the middle of nowhere ;_;

Also, thanks coeccias!

That was fun. Looks like it'll set things up for more shenanigans in the next chapter. =)

What a sweet chapter. It's kinda sad how Fuuka tends to be on the brunt side of the humor, but the Yotsuba/Fuuka chapters are my fav combination all the same.

Fuuka's expression when she was made the joke was priceless. Someone should make an av/sig out of that. ='D

We'll I decieded I'm a bigger fan of all things Yotsuba than all things forum posting. I still can't post my Yots&! animation in a post, but I left a link in my sig.

It's a stupid thing my friend and I made on labor day.

Don't hate me. :P

Hahaha that was awesome! ='D

Gonna host it for you if that isn't a problem. =)

http://www.acerbandit.net/flash/yots...onditioner.swf

That's sweet. The people in this forum are way too friendly, I swear.

Feel free to stick around then. We could always use another Yotsubato fan and someone who knows how to have fun with flash. I'm terrible at flash.

I thought the starfish .swf was pretty damn funny. It's certainly passable on Newgrounds, you should try to submit it there. I'd bump up the frame rate a bit, but you're a solid animator in my book.

I recently found some Try Try Try webcomics, which have been translated by Sparky Manga. They're not the same as the Try Try Try oneshot that's linked in the first post (though I'll add these to the list as well)

According to the readme file:
The humor is not quite as warm as in the manga proper, but the pages are still a lot of fun, especially Episode -1

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/...inusOne_03.jpg

(Fuuka's and Asagi's haircolors are omega weird though since I'm so used to the manga ='D)

Uploaded here

[hyori]Downloads[/hyori]

Thanks Q~!

The hair color is friggin' weird. Why can't they stick to black and dyed-blonde

Well, this was before Azuma started the manga, so the hair colors had not been finalized (or maybe this isn't even an official coloring, not sure). Either way, Fuuka with red hair was bizarro :tpg:

I've just read it; so short ;___;

Yotsu still has the green hair and eyes though~

Thanks Qwarky and everyone else for this. I didn't understand what the fuss was all about when everyone started using avatars of a girl with 4-leaf-clover-like hair. But now, I've jumped on the Yotsuba bandwagon.

Little did I know I find it addictive - I was up to like episode 18 before I realised it.


Qwarky, Blah - The Image Album link does not work.

Those little "Try! Try! Try!" shorts certainly weren't on par with "Yotsuba!&", but then again, they were the first attempts at the characters and situations. They're still cute, for certain, particularly when Ena thought her Hamster was eaten, and it shows up on the front door mat - that moment in particular foreshadows best what the series would become. The kind of "cute pandemonium" with such simple resolutions overlooked until the last couple panels.

I have to say, the forces that guide this forum truely do have excellent tastes in manga and anime. I just followed a link to all that is Haibane Renmei about a week ago and haven't looked back since!

I may say this is the best yotsubato topic i've ever seen, i've been following this manga for a little while now and it is easily my favorite (i don't read alot of manga though)... Just want to say thanks for keeping this topic up to date though, as it seems pretty hard to find the current fan translators who are few and far between (plus the image album was nice too ^^).

Overall i just joined the forum to say that, other then finding this when doing a yotsubato search again (and checking it for updates every once in awhile), i really don't have time for more forums :P.

I've really enjoyed Yotsuba so far.
Just to let you know, there's a collection of everything on 4chan.biz. Chapters 34 and 35 aren't too good on there, though (from what I know). But you can get 1-37 + trytrytry together off megaupload here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CJFMWGE0
And Azuma has his own worksafe image board on chiyochan.net, if anyone is particularly interested. It's a good way to keep up on the translations.
I'm quite annoyed by this URL/image rule.

Edit: there ya go

Yotsuba is great, I can't wait for the next chapter!

I'm reading over Azuma's diary entry as of the 17th of this month and it sounds like he's pretty confident that Yotsuba will be an anime in the future. There working on new music too.

I hope they don't turn into an anime before he's done with the series though. Or at least they only do what they've given him for like a season. I'd hate for an incomplete series especially of such a gem as Yotsubato.

how would he finish off this series? it could go on for ages and Yotsuba could very well grow up during the timeline

i doubt it but it could happen
me on the other hand would love for yotsubato to become a anime soon
it could insanely have fillers and i wouldn't care cause its so cute and carefree :wave:

I'm just saying I'd rather that they do a season at a time every year ala School Rumble, Genshiken, and Rozen Maiden than being impatient and fillering up the joint. If the show does indeed go on for years then having just one season each year that covers the events in the manga would be much better than having a show that doesn't know where to go because it's run out of origin material. In fact, a continuously released OVA series wouldn't be a bad idea for Yotsubato. That way when it's ready it's ready. I'm sure Azuma will be there to make sure it all works out.

Fantastic to see so much love for Yotsuba here :D Myself being a huge Azumanga fan I inevitably came across Yotsuba and immediately got the three ADV volumes. Purchase of the year, I'd say :D Yotsuba is like a mix of Chiyo's cuteness, Osaka's brain and Tomo's boundless energy, creating a highly explosive and hilarious mix of cuteness ^_^

Can't wait for the next volumes. Hurry up ADV!

And I cannot put enough emphasis on how this should be made into an anime. The image album was a step in the right direction though; love the tunes on there. They fit the manga very well, plus I love the little sound effects they worked into the songs.

Any day that I stumble across a new Yotsubato chapter on #lurk is a good day. Chapter 40 really shows Azuma's ability as an artist. I was impressed by the visuals. Combine that with the awesome humor and you have a great chapter.

That bridge scene was scary =o
Even though it was such a funny and sweet chapter all in all, the ending still made me ;___;
Poor Yotsuba-chan.

Either way, updating the first post again, thanks for the link as usual!

Oh snap, 40 is out! Downloading right now. Thanks for the update as usual coeccias! ^^

Heh, this chapter did a good job of wrapping up the last episode. I enjoyed it quite a bit.



--edit-- oh, forum supports spoiler tags, i didn't notice that before, good ol spoiler tags. I don't know that you'd really concider that a spoiler, but it kindof is.

Much love for the upload, coeccias. I can't wait to read it tonight!

Chapter 40 is a funny chapter! and one scene reminded me of Azumanga! Can't wait for another chapter ^^

The ending killed me in laughs...

I've always had 30+ something chapters stored on my hard drive. I kept telling myself "Oh, I think I'll read this eventually" but I still haven't gotten around to it.

Maybe I'll start soon.

Oye... *suffering from Yotsubato withdrawl...

It must be a long chapter Azuma's working on. Manga of that quality really does take such a long time to make.

Yeah, i've been checking back hoping for another fix, i tend to have withdraws every month or so, and check out the usual yotsubato sources frequently when i do. I think i'm just going to read the revenge chapter again.

Okay, so there's a raw of 41 out, but I'm still doing the pants dance in anticipation of a scanlation...

Don't mind to upload the raw anyway?

Hopefully the scanlation will come out within a week. There's not so much of a fandom for Yotsubato yet, which is a shame.

I would, but I'm too new to post links. :(

Um wouldn't sendspace work anyway?

I mean that because I just joined, I'm not allowed to link urls in the text of my posts. I pm'd them to you, though.

Oh I am sorry, I forgot about that one X_X. My apologies

The English translation of Ch. 41 is now up at 4chan.biz.

http://4chan.biz/eng/Yotsubato_41.html

Double Post:

*just finished!

What a sweet chapter. I got my fill for the month. Really great work with the detail as usual.

I liked this one a bit too

I bought the first three U.S. releases of the manga. It can make anyone smile.

"How are you gonna make the hole? With your beam?"
"I won't use the beam."

"I feel like I can create anything as long as I have this!"
"Yeah! Anything, right?! ... Maybe I should do some milk..."


Terrific stuff as usual XD

It was great to see Yanda again (" A nasty guy arrived!"). And it didn't even get as nasty as last time so what a perfectly fun, feel-good chapter again =D

First post updated.

The link for chapter 41 doesn't work for me..... :(

Is it just me?

It's not just you, it seems as though they don't like direct linking to the page (even though it wasn't a direct link to the download itself). I've fixed it and hopefully this works better now.

EDIT:
Seems as though the whole site is now having trouble so I'm hosting the chapter myself.

Thanks, Qwarky!! :D

Yeah, this was a funny chapter. Yanda sure appears sparingly throughout the series. This is his what, only 2nd appearance in 6 volumes? Hope we get to see more of him. I anticipate a massive battle of wits later on. LOL!!




:beer:

I know the translators will hate me for bringing this up, but I think they got Yotsuba's last line wrong. The phrase felt to me like it should have been more along the lines of "You're too gracious!" or "Bless you!"

"Okay" in huge bolded text may not have been the best choice (unless if she actually said it in English). I also didn't like the "where's my sweater" comment or some other between the panels. That was just distracting.

That aside, it was a wonderful chapter.

I think Qwarky will greatly appreciate the news that a new Yotsubato music album "Winter General" will be released at the end of November. Same staff as last time.

Wonderful news indeed, november seems full of good things now =D

I greatly appreciate that news as well, i quite like the other album, a nice winter sound should be nice.

^(Who called that first?) >:3

That's great news! I figure the best possible fact is that this means Yotsuba will experience two more seasons. Just typing that out puts a smile on my face.

And there's no point in going through winter without having Yotsuba's second-favorite season right afterward--she has to see the cherry blossoms! :superhappy:

I sure hope we get at least a full "year" in the manga. Actually, what I'd love is for it to go into next fall where she starts school for the first time. But I'll gladly take whatever Azuma wants to give us. :D

Now there's an idea. Do they have preschool or kindergarden programs in Japan?

Of course they do. Japanese are strangedifferent, but not that different. =\

Yes, they have them. You've never seen the stereotypical cute helmet outfits they wear? =o

Never seen the helmets, but I'm glad I learned something new today.

Azuma just updated his blog with a link to the new Yotsuba&! calendar at Amazon. About the only things I can make out of his post are the release dates for the new album and Vol. 6.

(I keep hoping one day I'll surf over there to find the announcement that "We are finally making Yotsuba&! into an anime series!" Which when run through an online translator, will come out as "The certain thing is horse chestnut upcoming we produce." Hooray for Babelfish, your Portal to the Land of Wind and Ghosts.)

Here it is the place, renewal is stagnant. Well it is usual thing, but. After the summer, there being preparation in various ways, all the way it is full with work. From now on extending through the winter, it meaning that the side comes out, we ask may.

*nod nod

Truer words have never been spoken.

(Or should I say, "Speaking no I bowl of soup rub from true?")

I finally read the Yotsuba manga from chapter 1-6.. It rocked.. One of the Best manga out there.. With a unique style of comedy similar to Azumanga Daioh where the storylines are entirely based on the characters personalities..

Can someone re-upload chapter 40 please?

Here you go, Chapter 40.

Yotsuba anime would be hilarious, and I hope she's still cute without being annoying if that were to come true.
To cell phone: "SHUT UP!!!"

Great, thanks a lot.

My Japanese skills aren't much better than Babelfish, but here goes...

I also noticed that at the end of Yotsuba chapter 41, that chapter 42 won't be out until the Feb 2007 issue of Dengeki Daioh(電撃大王), which hits store shelves December 21, 2006.

Amazon.co.jp international shipping usually costs around US$30, so I guess I'll wait until the end of December to order everything at once.

I was wondering where this animation came from.

tinyurl.com/y7ny8x

(copypasta link above into your browser plz)

looks like an OP to me of some kind (probably a music CD or something, worth a keeper tho').

Yeah, that's the Pani Poni Dash OP flash parody that's been around somewhat (and posted here). Nothing official, unfortunately, but awesome regardless, and this video quality is terrific <3

HOORAY~! finally a thread which is dedicated to this manga XD Yotsubato is just pure gold... >.< one scene I always love, one of the beginning chapters where Yotsuba is investigating the swings XD

You mean the first chapter... i think my favorite chapter personally is revenge (chapter 9).

<3 that one.
I think my favorite chaper is the adolescence one, followed up by the newspaper one:

I come bearing news, 4chan.biz the new cd up for download, downloading now ^^.

http://4chan.biz/music/CD02.html

--edit--

Personally i don't think its as good as the last one, Then again, it does have some really good parts so I'll have to listen to both a few times before i decide. It covers the entire winter as opposed to the first one which covered one summer day, which i can't say i like as much, but i understand. To its favor i guess alot of what i liked about the original was comparing it to the manga, and since i can't do that its a bit harder for me to relate it to yotsubato as opposed to just a decent winter themed symphonic peace.

There is one thing i can say though, out of all of the soundtracks for manga/anime, these are still high on my list.

I was just listening to this yesterday.

Especially Spring Cleaning on New Year's Eve is wonderful. It's an interesting contrast to say the least, that Winter General covers the whole winter as opposed to one single day. It's probably not as immediately catchy as the first album, but there's already a number of pieces that have grown on me.

Most of all, I can't wait for the manga to get to winter. Should be wonderful times.

I really loved it myself. I tended to appreciate the peices that had a larger set of instruments playing at once, but otherwise it was really nice. It certainly had some cherishable moments and I'll be keeping those songs on my computer for years to come.

I can't wait to get back home and give it another lesson--I'll be even happier once I have the manga to accompany it!

I've listened to it about 6 times this week, and i think i like it a bit more then i did the first time i listened to it. I do find these things are pretty effective at putting you in a good mood, they're pretty light hearted and fun (as opposed to alot of orchestra, when tends to focus on the more depressing side of the music) so it really fits the manga pretty well.

I just started listening to it. Sure reminds of the music from Azumanga.

every time i read yosuba it makes me want to hug someone, haha. This is so cute. I should have picked up that yotsuba plushie when i was in japan.

Hey, you guys... I have a serious question.

Is Yotsuba able to lactate...?

Erm.. I don't think five year olds lactate just yet. Pretty sure she will be able after a decade or so, not that I want to think about that.

How in the hell did this question even come about? Weirded out.

I'm just... brainstorming stuff for something I'm making. It's not really related to Yotsuba but I'm just thinking up what this thing would be like with someone like her in it.

But if you really want to know, well... I can't really discuss it in this thread, I don't wanna derail it too much.

Yotsubato! is awesome. I love those slice of life mangas and Yotsubato! is right up there. Couldn't wait for ADV to release volume 4 so I've been reading the scans. You shoulda seen my happy dance when I found these forums. Qwarky can you reupload chapter 40? The download expired on rapidshare and I can't get onto #lurk for some reason. Thanks so much!

Now if I can only find some scans for Genshiken. Volume 8 isn't supposed to come out in NA until March '07 while Volume 9 comes out in Japan next week.

http://4chan.biz/ has em all, so until qwarky re uploads, you can find it here.

The translation of Chapter 42 ("Yotsuba & Telephones") is out now. :)

Where? Don't lie! 4chan.biz still has it as SOON. ;_;

It's on 4chan.biz, downloading it right now. :)

Aye i saw it... pretty good episode, though not as good as i'm used to... half due to the translation being a bit worse quality (in my opinion) then most of them (they translated a few things a bit oddly i think, things like "thats fraud" probably should have been "thats a lie" or "tout" probably should have been just "tight" especially considering the age group of the people talking/being talked to) well that and

They only really work if you use cans instead of cups anyway.

The highlight for me, of course, was Fuuka freaking out the second Asagi walked in. "NO I AM NOT TALKING DIRTY TO MR. KOIWAI THROUGH A CUP PHONE STOP IMPLYING THAT I'LL KILL YOU!" And Asagi's reaction was just perfect. :)

Somehow I wonder if Fuuka has a thing for Koiwai, but that just borders on gross (since the age difference is so great).

I'm pretty sure Fuuka got just generally flustered as usual. It's not the first time she's been found by Asagi in this kind of situation. Then again, her reaction in the TryTryTry oneshot to Yotsuba's questioning might hint at something, but I don't think Azuma would bother. At least not yet, what with her age and everything.

I thought the same too when I read the trytrytry oneshot.

Yeah, though I'm still thinking it's more a general fluster, since Asagi tends to be.. well you know. Fuuka is pretty serious about how she appears after all =P

When I saw that our local library had Yotsuba 1-3 I nearly flipped. Then I read it and fell in love, then I finished and began my neurotic pursuit of scans. Thank you kind people for spreading the yotsu-goodness to all!


I utterly, utterly hope she goes to school before the series is over. I think she'd be so adorable in school. <3


Thanks so much for compiling the scans!


Also, I'm having trouble opening the .rar files. Is there something I can use that won't cost me $29.99? xD Thanks..

You don't need to pay, just close the pop up or whatever that comes up. It's annoying, but anything is better than paying $30 for winrar.

Fuuka is <3

why lie.

Thanks much. ^^ I'll do that.

I have volume's 1-3 of Yotsuba&!. I've been dying to read 4-6, but they are only in Japanese ( ; _ ; ) Anyone know when they are coming out in the US? I tried to go to the 4chan.biz site, but when I tried to download the chapters, the files couldn't be found. Does anyone know of any other sites that have Yotusba&! scans?

Peace

If at first you don't succeed, try again in a few days, i just checked a few random episodes on 4chan.biz and they work fine... if that fails, look at the first post in this topic to find some rapishares (which are well more likely to be down).

So someone help me out here. Is there some sort of one-sided romantic affiar going on in Fuuka's mind? I only mention this with the support from Fuuka's admittance on liking Mr. Kowai in Try! Try! Try! I doubt Azuma will develop it any futrther as anything out of Yotsuba's sights isn't really focused on anyway--but I am noticing a trend.

Hmm... yeah, seems that way to me, though try try try isn't exactly what i would consider canon. Heck, its arguable if try try try's Fuuka is the same person. (different personality, obvious style difference, etc.) Not to mention the fact that they don't even have the same name... though 風夏 and 風香 do sound the same (blame me knowing that on wikipedias entry).

As for a one-sided romantic affair i've seen crushes that make much less since, at least its not Yanda... heh.

I keep trying the 4biz websight to get the new chapters of Yotsubato, but it keeps coming up "file not found" whenever I try to download it ( ; _ ; ) Does anyone know another websight. I've googled "Yotsuba manga scans" and I can't find a single sight.

Hm-hm, indeed! I bow down to you, sir. Excellent points. Maybe I should just point out a reference to the first couple of chapters in Yotsubato! especially when Fuuka was trapped in the Kowai's bathroom door (I hope that's not a spoiler). Her expression and outbursts when confronted by Asagi seemed as if, in her mind, her actions implied something risque.

Iuno--Fuuka is just an oddball, in my mind. Maybe I'm the crazy one.

Dunno if you missed it or what, but we pretty much had this same discussion with Dee a few posts up if you'd like our views on it.

Wow--I'm so totally post-psychic.

I just picked this up off #lurk and wow! So far this is looking to be a great series!

yay, 43 is out: http://4chan.biz as usual. :p

Wow! Earlier than usual, or maybe it's just me. Thanks for the heads up!

I think its a bit later then usual, seeing as i normally get it a few days after the FMA translation. Then again that was a day or so early this year, so maybe it was right on time.

I thought this one seemed like 2 separate mini episodes for some reason. Anyway Overall it was a good episode though like always.

Not really my favorite chapter, nothing really happened (or less than usual anyway).

I got the impression that this was one of the first translations this particular translator did, not that I'm complaining.

Since the Yotsuba anime is inevitable, and since Azuma usually plays a key role in the sound development of his animes, does anyone have any ideas/theories of who'll make the voice act roster or wishlists for voice actors/seiyu's for the show?

I'm hoping they actually give the part of Yotsuba to a girl of similar age. Voice acting is such a big thing in Japan but it's so rare that they actually get a 30 year old woman who can decently play a 3-5 year old girl. It's even worse in Korea.

I'm thinking Yuki Matsuoka for Yotsuba--mainly because of her analogous work in Hale Nochi Guu and her close work with Azuma in Azumanga Daioh. She's one of my favorite actors--but even so, I'd much perfer the authentic sound of a young girl. She doesn't even have to be a brilliant actor--the role of Yotsuba is just one of those things you really can't mess up.

Most indeed there's just something authentic about a real young girls voice over an adult one, and on another note isnt Yuki M. the one who play the voice of Kuriko from Maburaho?

I'm not sure.

*checks wiki

Yep, I was wrong. She did work in Maburaho. Wow, she really gets around. You know, I think she'd make a perfect Mirua.

I can never seem to get 4bizchan to work for me. I don't know if I am doing something wrong, or if I just have horrible luck :(

Anyway to get the Rapidshare chapters? I'm trying to collect it all together for a friend (and myself, of course).

Maybe the address is wrong, it's http://4chan.biz/ then all you have to do is click on the chapter you want. I believe it'll give you a .zip file. If not, it may be .rar--which may mean that you'll have to download winRAR (which is free) but the latest version of zip should open .rar types too.

@Ingram
Let me know what chapters you need and I can host a link for a while.

I need chapters 27-38. Thanks, btw.

Azumanga Daioh was once a weekly manga Daioh Manga. But Yotsuba only comes out once or so every month. Does anyone know if Daioh has switched it's publication schedule since?

Well it's said Dengeki Daioh was originally a quarterly publication, then bimonthly, then monthly, and its name was changed to Monthly Comics Dengeki Daioh. I'm not sure at which point Azumanga was published, but it's no wonder if the schedule changed.

Do you know anything about how Azumanga Daioh was published? I'm under the impression that the comic strip was done weekly. That'd be amazing if one page of all four volumes of Azumanga took up one month of publication. :confused:

It's out on the 21st of each month.
Parts of the next chapter was "leaked", a day early.

A V1 translation has been released of chapter 44. Great chapter, not laugh out loud funny, but very charming again. Coffee milk is made with black cows!

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/...44_English.rar

It's out at 4chan.biz now too.

"Is that where there are cows and cows?!" <3 :tpg:

And yet another person has succumbed to the power that is Yotsuba! It's a very endearing series. Although downloading 26 chapters of it at work may not be the smartest thing to do . . .

The third chapter surprised me though. I've only read the chapter intro page but to see global warming as one of the chapters was unexpected.

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Ok, just finished the third chapter . . . That was really funny. Turned a serious subject into a very funny situation. Gotta love Yotsuba. Thanks Qwarky for the links.

Happy days and jubilation, chapter 45 is up at 4chan.biz .

I'll surely report back once I've read it, but I thought I'd inform the masses ^^.

"Cake! Fuuka, you can make cake?!"
"I can. Probably."
*GLOMP*
"I LOVE YOU FUUKA! MARRY ME!"

Oh my god that was the best chapter in ages X'D
Of course, I will be marrying Fuuka, but hey, first page updated~

Srry, but some of the links on the first page don't work (the earlier Yotsuba links). Could I have some current links for thos?

Or alternatively, I can pack the chapters your missing and think of another way of getting them to you. Most of the chapters are also downloadable via IRC from #lurk.

Haha, wow. I laughed forever at the very last panel in the new chapter. I'd call it the icing on the cake, but then I'd have to shoot myself.

This was a good one.

This was such a ridiculous chapter. I loved it. <3 So many lol moments there... omg that egg! :33:

Yeah, this chapter was interesting... lets cover some things i noted.



7. No new chapter next month... wah _ _.

Shimauu is certainly a cute addition. :3 She reminds me of an eyebrowless Fuuka. I'll certainly do some snooping in past chapters to find her.

It'd be nice to see more boys in the series. Azuma is seems to focus on gals more when dudes are way more dorky. Also, it very clever transition from Shimauu to Miss Stake. I wouldn't have thought of that and it fits nicely in my opinion. In fact, I think I'll keep that as her official nickname in my little world.

I for one would love to "see behind the translation" so to speak and find out what exactly was Yotsuba's nickname for Torako to make the translater use "Tigey". Tora-bo maybe?

I haven't read Yotsuba in AGES.

I finally got 31-45, so that's what I'm working on right now. Ah... the awesome, how I've missed this.

can someone explain to me how to d/l the chapters from 4chan.biz? everytime i try i automatically get sent to a 403 forbidden page...am i missing something? if i rightclick to save, i get a leech.html file...

Very strange... i've still had no problems with it.

I just verified its working in both Firefox and IE, so I'm kindof at a loss for what could be causing that.



I'm going into withdrawal with no chapter this month... wah.

*tears* i don't know what's wrong with my computer that i can't d/l yotsuba from the 4chan site...does anyone know where else i could get the scans? i only have up to episode 37...

I'll rapid share the whole set, or put it up on my private ftp (though very temporarily if that, i'll send you a pm or something) or something, whatever feels easier when i get back from class.

--edit-- the whole set as I know it, i just through the series, and had winrar sort parting it, so expect things to end pretty abruptly if you don't get all 3 parts.

http://rapidshare.com/files/27543346...ba__.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27548643...ba__.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27537987...ba__.part3.rar

you are my new favorite person ^____^ thanks!

Yotsubato vol. 4 is finally being released by ADV. In this month's Previews, and is scheduled for release in July or so.

After a 2 month hiatus, the time has finally come... new yotsubato at 4chan.biz

It felt a bit short (though it wasn't, a bit longer then normal, probably just a side effect of missing a month)... but it was pretty funny, ramen was involved, so thats always a plus.

GAAA!!

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...ato46_02-1.jpg




What an awesome chapter, but I feel sorry for dad now in the next chapter ;_;


EDIT:
Seems like 4chan.biz is down (probably flooded with hits) a bit, meanwhile, use the rapidshare/megaupload someone's uploaded:
http://rapidshare.com/files/32997047...ected.rar.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HH41ZJJ4

Noooo chili ramen ;_;

I thought I were behind many chapters, but only the newest it seems.. great things come slow ;_;

Is it just me or does the girl who gave Yotsuba the florescent tube look a lot like an older Osaka? She does have that blank look on her face on page 13.

Speaking of cameos, the girl from chapter 32 (Yotsuba and rain) on page 15 reacts to Yotsuba's cuteness a lot like Sakaki does. Am I going crazy?

I kindof assume its more artistic style then a cameo. Theres been a few obvious reference, so i don't consider minor ones as much.

Three Examples I can think of.
1. Wallaby girl shows up in Azumanga
2. Books fall on yotsubato at high school.
3. Cat ("chiyo's father") can be seen on fukkas shirt (and a comment about fukkas taste is made).
4. Cat with Kitten is a prize at the carnival (with the fireworks).

Thats all I can recall at the moment... a double check on wikipedia lists the same references and no more... but there probably are a few.

Ahh, it would be great if it was a subtle cameo! But I agree that it's a stretch.

Another cameo thought... what about that policewoman? Tomo did wear that exact same outfit for the costume race.

I'm told that I can't post images for comparison yet. That's too bad. I found a bunch that look really similar.

Well the policewoman is wearing it for her work and it makes sense to use the same design, so I wouldn't count it as a cameo. If Azuma had made Azumanga after Yotsuba, perhaps.

I read this chapter last week and then consecutively for each day until now and it's still a riot. This is, in my book, the best chapter yet. Golden Week must have treated Azuma pretty well.


On a side note, I'm making another Yot flash. It's called Metal Gear Yotsuba. It's destined to be the best MGS/Yotsubato crossover tribute EVER.

I've read the entire thread, and now I feel obliged to read this Yotsuba thing.

Fuck you guys. This is, quite possibly, the best thing I've ever read. Cute manga is Cuuuuute~

Just here to note that the new yotsubato chapter has been out in japan for awhile, and in my withdrawal period, (looking through every yotsuba related resource i know looking for translations) I found there is an early (but completed translation).

Its here
http://rapidshare.com/files/39922889...English_v1.zip

Its a really good chapter, that i think you'll all enjoy ^^.

Other notes that should be made is that Skaijo finished and put up Metal Gear Yotsuba which is definitely a visit (don't ask me why it wasn't already posted, but whatever... I'm looking at you Skaijo ;P).

For those of you who haven't seen, new Yotsubato (Chapter 47) has just been released at 4chan.biz.

Sweet! Getting it right now.

Yotsuba has the best facial expressions in the universe.

Could someone rapidshare the new chapter from 4chan.biz? For some obscure reason, I'm not allowed to download anything from that page._.

Here you go, Killroy.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pc5f05

http://absolutelysugarfree.com/yotsubato.html

I found this place. It updates a tad slower then 4chan.biz... but it should provide downloads for those having trouble with 4chan.biz.

Lolz, in some states that should be illegal. I'm gunning on making another spoof soon. xD Great chapter this month.

* 4-CHAN X SLASH OF DOOM!

WHEN WILL THERE BE MORE

WAKAPPA

The people who host 4chan.biz (I think) put up an online gallery for reading. This will allow all those too lazy/busy/atwork to download a few chapters to enjoy.

http://koiwai.biz/

--edit--
Yotsuba and the Farm is available at 4chan.biz ... no really, theres farm this time!

The dog on the farm looked like a certain Great Pyrenees.

Does anyone know if Yotsuba will become an anime like Azumanga? God I loved that series.

So charming.

Anyone else see this!? There is no way I'm passing this up!

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/180...yotsubans1.jpg

http://heiseidemocracy.com/2007/07/2...eorder-begins/

Whoaaa... cute!

I wanna get one.... but man, shipping would be really expensive though, wouldn't it?

A friend of mine (who even out-otakus me) said that Azuma stated that he didn't want to turn Yotsubato! into an anime as that would destroy the innocence of the manga. I'm really hoping he's wrong.

Metal Gear Yotsuba was uploaded on Youtube without me even knowing. xD

Yeah, I've not seen that statement, may look into it if i ever have free time again. I would very much like a well done adaption of Yot, but if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen.
Yeah, MGY re-appears on the Yotsuba radar relatively often. (once or twice a month currently) It's pretty popular I'd say... hopefully winning a few metal-gear fans over to the yotsu-cause, which still feels fairly underrated round here.

As for the yotsu-doll, I normally avoid spending money on such things, but seeing as its been my avatar for quite some time everywhere, I may see it a worthwhile investment for my desk.

I'm actually glad that no one else heard him say that either. I'm really hoping to see an animated version sponsored by the original author in the future.

Well, just read ADV's volume 4 of the manga. Supposedly that in-joke concerning Koiwai's occupation comes back in the supermarket (remember in volume 1 they made Yotsuba tell Fuka that his job was a trainspotter?). Well, they totally ignored that and went with the original dialogue that meant he was mistaken to be a konyakuya. So, basically, they pretended the cock-up in volume 1 never happened, leaving readers who never read the scanslations to scratch their heads in confusion.

Man, why can't they take this shit seriously? They've still got grammatical errors and stuff as well....



:cussing:

Their ADV, its their job to screw around with my favorite manga. I kindof agree that they should've took the joke back to its original form... but they should've also admitted to their mistake instead of leaving it without a word.

--edit--
Just noticed the dayly calendar is on 4chan.biz, good source of small artworks, going to see if i can find a program that will automate the display.

Does anyone remember the official English dub of Azumanga Daioh?

Don't get me wrong, I still perfer scans and fansubs as an alternative. And I'm not immediately fond of putting an English/Americanized-oriented spin on things. Mostly, I just want read a manga or view and anime and understand what their saying. That said, I still like ADV's translation of Yotsuba. It's their first two volumes that introduced me and got me hooked on the series, to be honest. Some choices that they made I don't agree with--but if they left the original japanese jokes intact in without some sort of spin or thoughtful explanation (like the anime dub of Azu Daioh) I'd doubt I'd be as big a fan as I am now.

So yeah, I agree--they've made some unthoughtful changes. Maybe they simply thought that changing the joke would save them money and work rather than to index the manga and print additional pages of explanations of what specific terms and whatnot actually meant.

I hated that dub, the osaka southern voice pretty much made me want to shoot myself in the foot.

It's one of the worst dubs out there to my knowledge. Even Bobobo Bobobobo's dub beats it. But to be perfectly fair, no one can really hold a candle to the voice acting abilities of Yuki Matsuoka. >: 3

Bad news--I found the link my friend was talking about--and it was on Azuma's weblog. Last place I ever thought of looking:

http://azumakiyohiko.com/archives/c_15.php

So I went to wikipedia to see if anyone else saw it and the info has already been updated. It's nothing definite, but Azuma at this point doesn't want to have an animated version of Yotsuba.

Despite the success of Azumanga Daioh, no plans have yet been announced for an anime adaptation of Yotsuba&!. In an entry posted on his website on 2005-05-15, Azuma said he did not want to see the series animated.

Gah.

It's an old article and it's WAY back in his blog. Seeing as there's already action figure and music CD's now, I think or at least am hoping that he's more open to the idea now.

Just read the last two chapters (48/49).

Pretty funny, especially Yotsuba's reactions.
Yanda is kind of an asshole though.

Yotsuba = enrapturement :)

Where the hell did you get 49?! GIVE ME NOW!

There is only up to 48 on Yotsuba&! | Download Yotsuba | Ñêà÷àòü Yotsuba

It was an obvious typo seeing as 49 hasn't been released yet (and certainly wasn't at the date of that post, i've been keeping up with my other sources, so if 49 came out, i thin i would've seen a RAW). Azumas took a month break I think, and should have a release any day now.

Huh? Oh yeah, meant to type 47/48. lol, my bad.

Well since Ch.49 IS coming out soon apparently,
I guess you won't have to wait too long.

I can't be for certain though how long of a break it is, It wasn't mentioned in the last episode, and I can't look through azumas blogs since the archives were cleared. Most likely its just a standard break because of the finalizing of Volume 7 and the yotsuba figure. Its always been just one month before, but I have no clear evidence saying that is true. I'll just keep looking in for the next 5 days (standard release time), and if its there its there, otherwise It will probably be another month.

--edit--

Yeap Raws are out, not worth bumping though, so I'll pull this back up on translation.

Just for the note, new chapter is translated and at 4chan.biz Yotsuba& Opposites, I'll be editing this with my opinion after i read it.

I loved this chapter--after waiting so long Yot, I was just about ready to accept anything. Still, Azuma didn't stoop to doing anything radical to start off his new volume and stuck with the same charm as always.



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Ha ha, that was funny, "Something good turned into something bad..."!!

:tpg:

Also, for fans of the Yotsuba action figure, Revoltech is coming out with new figures to complement Yotsuba:

Fuka (looks like no articulation though... :( ):
http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/03218.jpg


And Danboro (Danboard)!!:
http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/03338.jpg

Danboro has light-up eyes!! Holy cow!!




:judge:

That's cause Fuka isn't a part of Kaiyodo's revoltech line. Haha, but the Danboro looks awesome, definitely a must buy for me! Hmm, if the price if right I might have to get me a Fuka too, even if she lacks articulation.

Oh and if I remember correctly the Yotsuba revoltech should be out in Japan right now, it was like the end of September or something. Diamond comics will be distributing the revoltech Yotsuba as well, but they won't be shipping her till December.

I'll stick with just yotsuba, seeing as I'm both short on funtime (this year I will have purchased arcade sticks, all 4 yotsuba mangas, a new laptop, and whatever other in town entertainment, 2 grand is enough for one year) cash and I'm not really all too interested in any of the other ones. Cool as fuuka and danbo may be.

Hey... when/where do guys think chapter 50 is coming? I'm suffering from withdrawl... ) :

I've heard no word, but seeing as its already well past the date I would expect a new one, I'd guess around the 25th of this month.

--edit-- though if it makes you feel better, the azu image boards (which is the best place i've found for yotsuba raws) had a really long and pointless post set about metal gear yotsuba.

Chapter 50 is up on 4chan.biz, finally! :D

Yeah, ya beat me to it ^^.

Good chapter though

Yay! I hate to say it's about time, but I'm glad I don't have to suffer through another week of Yotsuba withdrawl. I loved this episode in Yotsuba's life just as much as the last recent batch. This Volume will truely be the best yet.



On a side note...

Is anyone interested in seeing Resident Evil Yotsuba?

This manga sucks so much.

=o

thread participation is so awesome but I'm not one to talk since I hardly post 2 times a month anymore ^^

Anyways, Finally a new chapter, feels like forever since I've got a full blown yotsuba addiction @_@

Oh and skaijo, I thought metal gear yotsuba was freaking hilarious. "I am danbo" "This feels so goo[comma]D" :tpg:
I hope you do make a resident evil version I'd love to watch it.

Merry christmas folks, chapter 51 was released on 4chan.biz today. I'll not spoil it for you this time, enjoy!

http://www.opimage.co.uk/u/daikon/fuuka.jpg

<3

51 started off a bit slow but was it ever funny ^_^

I'm glad to see that Yotsuba isn't as invincible or sugar high as she was in the first ten chapter. As the characters mellow out more, the subtle humor can take more of a center stage in the manga. Plus, Yotsuba is way more believable as a kid in these latest chapters than where we started off. :3

More Yot goodies as we wait for 52:

Ah, were back up, I'll get back to the usual then. Chapter 53 is out now.

What a charming chapter!

I hope there are more Yanda/Yotsuba chapters. I love their squabbling.

yes the yanda and yotsuba interaction is so very little throughout the series but when they're together...oh boy do i ever get exited

Chapter 54 is out now.....

Happi, HAPPI!!!!


Yotsuba & ! - Chapter 54

Get it now!!!


:D

Yes, and not only is it out it is amazing.

This episode features...


Seriously though, this is probably my favorite of the volume 8 destined chapters. Wootah!

I want candy! bum bum bum, bum bum

I like how the only thing they care about is candy.

Hey hey! They've released the second part to chapter 54!!

Go get it!!!

Yotsubato! chapter 54_2

Omigawd!!!

Wow, it feels like it's been ages since the last chapter.

This one was pretty good!

Some good news to this rather dead thread and sub-forum!

ACORNS.



I wonder how the author still manages to keep this series fresh. Or at least still charming.

4chan.biz

Hi! any news on chapter 57? it was supose to be out already, but i cant find any translations!

ps. please dont kill me. not yet.

Just read 57.

DURALUMIN! AHAHAHA! Awesome chapter!

This chapter was okay. Ena's slip-up was funny though, and Yotsuba's confusion was priceless!

Just caught up with the series.

From the mind of yotsuba comes a new character
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9...ralumincr7.jpg
I'm going to get my niece a stuffed animal and make her call it that >_>

The coffee chapter is funny!

every time i read yosuba it makes me want to hug someone, haha. This is so cute. I should have picked up that yotsuba plushie when i was in japan.
Yptsuba is best manga ever

Yay, just read chapter 59!! Yotsuba & Barbeque!!

Very funny, all are at a barbeque joint and they can't stop giving Yanda a hard time.



:D

Anyone know what's going on with Yotsuba? It's been 4-5 months since chapter 60 Yotsuba & Guests! was released.

Yay! Chapter 61 has finally been released! Didn't even realize it!!

Wanna Fly?


lol, can't wait for the next chapter....wonder how long it's gonna take?

The helicopter bit was the best. Glad a chapter got released this year.

I haven't read the last few chapters, so nice to catch up again. Yotsuba's antics are great as always.

Part 2 of the Balloons story is out now:

Yotsuba chapter 62

http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/Yotsubato!62_08.jpg

...plus more candy and heli fun!

:p

Well, the chapters we find on 4chan are stuck at number 62, but it seems online manga sites are more up to date. Onemanga.com have upto chapter 65 so now I just read manga from there.

Chapter 64 with the pancakes was good, as was chapter 65 because of this:
http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/03.jpg

:tpg:

Chapter 66 is out too.

http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/Yotsubato66.06.jpg

The usual antics, though nothing special this time.

Great, looks like Yen Press (who now own the North American license for Yotsubato! after ADV gave it up) has requested OneManga to remove the manga from their site...

...so no more Yotsuba until the official releases come out in book form. At least we shouldn't have to wait too long I guess. Volume 8 (featuring the cultural festival at Fuuka's school, the typhoon, the matsuri where everyone wears happi, and other stories) was released in April, and volume 9 (which I'm guessing will introduce Duralumin and show the hot-air balloons) will be out this December.

I've been going to OneManga forever and had no idea they even had Yotsuba on there.

Kinda sucks, but we buy the new volumes as soon as they come out, so not the end of the world.

Actually from what I recall it was added in mass a few months ago. However I pretty much stopped going to Onemanga after they removed half of their shit cuz their ad company didn't like some of the questionable content they had on their site. I use mangatoshokan now which is way better than Onemanga in pretty much every department. They have up to chapter 67 of Yotsubato. Yotsubato! :: Read Yotsubato! Manga Online :: MangaToshokan

I only keep up with about 5 or so series that are still all on OneManga, so I saw that they had removed a bunch of stuff but was kinda meh about it.

You're free to use onemanga but it's nowhere as good as mangatoshokan. It allows you to keep a reading list so that it shows the latest chapter of whatever you want like your 5 or so series. It also has high quality scans and the ability to zoom to fit your browser. It also let's you bookmark your reading progress. So yeah just saying.

Now THAT is more interesting, I will check it out. Thanks!

Ooh, now that sounds pretty good! Will check it out too! :D

Yeah, MangaToshokan is way better than OneManga across the board.

Only thing that might make a difference is whether or not OneManga gets releases up faster than they do or not, I guess I'll find out later this week.

Huh. MangaToshokan was forced to remove practically 70% of their manga due to pressure from publishers and whatnot. They've only very few manga left intact. I'm kinda' miffed because even stuff that hasn't been licensed in North America have been removed: stuff like City Hunter (licensed by Gutsoon Entertainment who then went bust) and Angel Heart are gone; even Highschool of the Dead is gone. (They've still got Nyan Koi! though).

They figure that only Chinese and Korean manhwa are still available...


Apparently, OneManga pretty much still has most of their unlicensed stuff intact, and others...

Yeah, I was actually gonna report this too, hikarub. Super disappointing and after I just told SD about the website too. :(

Pretty much if it's from China or Korea it's still good. Anything from Japan they just don't touch anymore. It's such a shame because I adore the way their site works. I hope if anything they lend out the code to someone who gets a server located in a place out of reach from such legal nonsense to take their mantle of hosting god damn everything again. I was having such a great time yesterday until I found out about this too. :(

Well, I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, what with MangaToshokan getting warnings about their manga and all....

So that's it! Check out One Manga before the site shuts down next week and read as much manga as you possibly can before it disappears!!

But man, this sucks.... :(

Can't believe that they're dropping everything, even the unlicensed and dead licensed manga too...

Well I guess it's back mangafox and once that's gone back to gotlurk (hmmm gotlurk appears to be down or gone) and mangaupdates. Publishers are retarded. This stops nothing and they aren't adapting with the Internet to combat it in an intelligent way.

Well, back to the topic. Chapter 69 is out: Yotsuba & The Reunion.

Yotsuba and Ena visit Princess Miura in her castle. :D
http://h1.ripway.com/hikarub/o069_11bit.jpg

....and a familiar character appears, or does he?

Huh. Is it me or has Yotsuba completely disappeared from Mangafox?

:eye:

Bumping the shit out of this thread just because. It's amazing how much time passes between chapters now. Practically nothing has happened when you stop and think about it. Doesn't change that Yotsubato is a great manga but like they went camping and Grandma arrived is basically all that's happened. If you haven't read in a while I recommend you do so anyway. Funny looking at this thread and seeing all these old manga hosting websites. I use Batoto for the most part these days. You can find Yotsubato on it.

Wahoo! Gosh, it's been ages since I've been on Gaming Force! How is everyone?!

Yeah, Yotsuba's still awesome, though I just buy the manga published by Yen Press now. They've been doing a stellar job on the title. Their last volume was 13 though, which ended with the camping trip.

I usually go to mangareader for my other manga reading pursuits.

hikarub, your sig was always the best ;p