This time around, Yotsuba watches the local noodle shop owner make udon, eats too much pizza, plays with bubbles, gathers chestnuts, learns you should ask before taking someone's picture, and experiences depression over her injured teddy bear, Juralumin.
First off, this is one of my favorite Yotsuba&! covers--everybody's reading a book, even Juralumin! As for the stories, they are crazily cute and imaginative, as usual. Yanda brings the hilarious with him every time, and the bubbles are no exception--but just everyone scrambling to hide (badly) when they hear him coming, and his reaction, makes me cackle out loud. Later, when Yots is all worried about her bear and doesn't respond to Yanda's taunts, he can't leave her alone till he gets a reaction--and, oh, that face! Brilliant Azuma has got to have a kid, or do an awful lot of observing of them. Yotsuba may talk a little above her years sometimes, but her energy and imagination and entertainingly influence-able thought processes feel pretty true to life with a dose of artistic exaggeration. It helps, of course, that she's surrounded by sometimes immature adults who egg her (and each other) on. I want the next volume already, as Koiwai and Jumbo are planning a camping trip. Yots and company in the woods with tents and bugs and campfires? Yay! Bring it!
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