![]() ![]() You want to see what happens next, because she continually comes across as genuine without turning into cloying." A reviewer at Anime News Network wrote, "What is really special about Yotsuba, though, is that newness with which she, as a child, sees the world. For example, one wrote, "Yotsuba’s wide-eyed awe at each discovery, from the idea of a milkman to learning how to catch fish, is both inspiring and infectious. The character of Yotsuba is cited by reviewers as one of the key appeals of Yotsuba&!, especially her energy, enthusiasm, and sense of wonder. In volume 6, chapter 35, she fails to understand repeated explanations of homework. Yotsuba has never attended school, and as of the first chapter does not know what a grade is. She initially claims she is six years old, but her father later corrects this, saying she is in fact five years old. Before moving to her current home, Yotsuba lived in the country with Koiwai and his mother. When asked about her mother, she doesn't understand the question, and she gets confused by the concept of having two sets of grandparents. She is an adopted child, with her birthplace unknown to the reader, although she claims she's from an island "to the left." Koiwai, Yotsuba's adopted father, says he met her as an orphan in a foreign country and before he knew it he was raising her as his own she is sometimes taken for a foreigner by strangers. The series provides few details about her life before its start. She is frequently shown drawing, though she is not as good an artist as she thinks she is, and she is an excellent swimmer. Yotsuba is able to slowly sound out writing in hiragana, and is praised for this by Jumbo, but she cannot correctly read a clock. A famous example of this is when Yotsuba learned the phrase "what the hell, man!” from her father's friend Takeshi Takeda, who Yostuba calls Jumbo. She often repeats, in incongruous ways, phrases spoken by adult characters around her without fully knowing the meaning, so she sometimes says vulgar words. She occasionally mispronounces new words and creates neologisms, such as the name for her "Yotsubox" ( よつばこ, Yotsubako) a portmanteau of "Yotsuba's Box" that she uses to keep special things and her "scapbuk" (scrapbook). Things such as swings, doorbells, cicadas, air conditioners, and recycling all fascinate and confuse her, although she is not perturbed by her ignorance. Īt the start of the series, Yotsuba is shown as having very little knowledge of the world around her, even for a young child. Nothing in this world can get her down." However, when deeply frightened or upset, she does cry, and she has a fear of anything resembling a bullseye because it resembles an eye that "is staring at her". Her father says of her carefree nature, "She can find happiness in anything. Her energy is noted by other characters, especially members of the neighboring Ayase family. In Japanese, Yotsuba's dialogue is written without kanji, making it seem simpler and more childlike, and in a typeface that gives the impression of speaking with high intensity. She has a carefree and energetic personality, taking delight in simple matters even as she learns about all manner of things in her daily life. Yotsuba is drawn as a small girl with green hair done in four pigtails, giving her somewhat the appearance of her namesake, a four-leaf clover ( Japanese: 四つ葉のクローバー, Hepburn: yotsuba no kurōbā). Yotsuba first appeared in a one-shot manga published in 1998 and two webcomics called "Try! Try! Try!", where she appears very similar as she does in Yotsuba&! for example, Yotsuba has the same personality and a very similar chibi design. ![]()
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