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Title: Yotsuba&! Vol. 4
Series: Yotsuba&! #4
Author: Kiyohiko Azuma
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 192
Words: 8K
| Synopsis: |
Chapter List:
Yotsuba & Challenges
Yotsuba & Fishing
Yotsuba & Dinner
Yotsuba & Bloom of Youth
Yotsuba & Newspapers
Yotsuba & Tsukutsukuboshi
Yotsuba & 4-Panel Manga
| My Thoughts: |
Last week felt like a cheese grater on my soul kind of week. I went into the weekend with no reserves and not even the ability to process anything emotionally. I was tired and hurting. While I can’t say that reading this miraculously cured all of that, reading this was like putting balm on a hurting wound. It doesn’t heal it, but it makes it feel better and helps with the healing process.
The first chapter is called Yotsuba!& Challenges. In the picture I’ll be showing you can see a fan translated it as “Duels”. Both are correct but I have to admit, I think Duels works better. Yotsuba and her dad are playing rock paper scissors and there is a pot and a rolled up newspaper in between them. Whenever they play rock, paper, scissors, whoever wins has to grab the paper and try to hit the other over the head while the loser has to grab the pot and put it on their head as protection. Yotsuba’s dad cheats outrageously and she gives up in disgust. Then she duels her dad in badminton and eventually her dad and Jumbo duel each other in badminton (hence the racket and birdie in her pocket). It was fantastic.
Good to hear that this brought a bit of joy into your life! And of course, you are always a little ray of sunshine on the comments!
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Yep, my nickname is “I hate the Chevster but am a little ray of Sunshine in all other areas”. Really saves time when I’m talking to people.
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Ok, in deference to your wounded status, I’m going to try and get through the whole week without reference to C***y. I’ll raise my game to spare your feelings!
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Thank you. Just hold off until Wednesday though. I get Thursday and Friday off due to Thanksgiving, so I should be fully able to handle any mention of “that guy” with days off under my belt 🙂
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Oh, yes, Thanksgiving, never really understood what that was all about. Something about turkeys travelling in time?
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Just a little time to be thankful that our ancestors didn’t all starve to death because they were totally not prepared 😀
I’ll be doing a post on Thursday to explain it for all the non-Americans who follow me. I’ll give you the straight poop. (that’s the correct newspaper term right, poop? )
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Absolutely, I look forward to you giving me the poop, sure. I’m sure turkeys are involved. I stuffed one with oysters one Thanksgiving.
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Well, if people can do “TurDuckEn” then I don’t see why you couldn’t use oysters if you wanted 😀
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TFFT!
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urgh that was supposed to show up under Ol’10’s comment. sigh. just ignore it.
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I figured 🙂
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Sorry to read that you are having a tough time. Hope it will blow over soon.
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Thankfully, it did clear away over the weekend. But then I wokeup this morning with a wicked stiff neck, so we’ll see how things go. Sigh, getting older sucks.
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My mom always told me getting old aint for sissys, i am only now starting to believe her…
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It is amazing how much just goes wrong, for no reason. And then I hear older people talking about how things stop working and don’t go back to working. That’s what worries me 🙂
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If it wasnt working to begin with, i wouldnt be too worried about it🙂
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Sorry to hear about the fact that your week was so miserable😢 I’m glad this helped a bit at least, and well…sometimes things like this do help, even if only a little bit😊😊 Hope this will at least be a somewhat better week 😊
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With it being Thanksgiving, we only have a 3 day work week, so that makes it automatically better.
But it’s raining and is supposed to most of the day, so this might be a bit of a tougher day than I was hoping for 🙂
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Ooh…that’s nice! A three day work week sounds awesome (one wonders why that doesn’t become standard for every week😂😂)
Seriously though: despite the rain, I just hope the rest of this week will be good for you😊
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Thanks 😀
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Aw, sorry you have been morose, maybe do some ironing and watch a movie, that’ll cheer you up. Looking forward to the Turkey Poop post on Thursday now!
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Thankfully, with the rain, work was called off, so I’m back home. Reading and writing, here I come!
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A bit of joy is always needed! Glad to hear you’re better 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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That intro sounds harsh. I hope it’s nothing structural that made you feel this way…
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Nah, it was just a whole bunch of smaller things all coming together at just the wrong time.
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Aw man, sorry to hear about the tough days you’ve been through. I’m actually really glad that you had THIS manga to save you from rock bottom and not something reaaaaal bad.
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I’m just thankful I know this series is good from start to finish 🙂
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[…] not going to count the Yotsuba manga, so I guess it is Dombey & Son by Dickens. […]
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