not a normal review but it gets the tag anyway - Yotsuba&! v1
This has got to be a put-on.
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Earlier this week I was up all night, due to giving Penguin Revolution v2 a close rereading; arguably not worth it.
Then I decided to go ahead & water the plants, & sleep some in the morning. Then, instead of going to sleep, I read the entire first volume of Yotsuba&!
Now that I'm not so sleep-deprived, I may be backing off from saying this really is The Greatest Thing Ever. But man, I hope this stays in print for a long time to come. It's that good.
I think this series benefits from the digest-sized pages. If it were in the comic-book format used for manga imports when I was a kid, some of the pages would be a little spare. Not all of them, certainly, or even most--but I think this one looks good statted down.
Later, I was walking the dog, & thinking she's a bit Yotsuba-like, but then, the dog is three. Yotsuba is probably about three.
I like how Yotsuba calls the neighbor "Mom" (or whatever the Japanese idiom is here) as if it's her name, & is completely oblivious to others' concerns about her not having a mom.
http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch06/06_23120x180_jpg.htm
http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_18120x174_jpg.htm
* * *
Earlier this week I was up all night, due to giving Penguin Revolution v2 a close rereading; arguably not worth it.
Then I decided to go ahead & water the plants, & sleep some in the morning. Then, instead of going to sleep, I read the entire first volume of Yotsuba&!
Now that I'm not so sleep-deprived, I may be backing off from saying this really is The Greatest Thing Ever. But man, I hope this stays in print for a long time to come. It's that good.
I think this series benefits from the digest-sized pages. If it were in the comic-book format used for manga imports when I was a kid, some of the pages would be a little spare. Not all of them, certainly, or even most--but I think this one looks good statted down.
Later, I was walking the dog, & thinking she's a bit Yotsuba-like, but then, the dog is three. Yotsuba is probably about three.
I like how Yotsuba calls the neighbor "Mom" (or whatever the Japanese idiom is here) as if it's her name, & is completely oblivious to others' concerns about her not having a mom.
http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch06/06_23120x180_jpg.htm
http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_18120x174_jpg.htm