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Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!
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(4.58/5)The story is cute and hilarious. It's currently my favorite manga series because reading it just makes me happy.
It is also great to read as a beginner to Japanese (JLPT N5/N4). The slang is the most challenging part, but overall it's the easiest manga I have found so far.
A must-read for everyone
The number 1 must read manga for anyone learning Japanese. You'll not only pick up useful expressions, expand your vocabulary and practice your Japanese in a very natural way, but also learn and see a lot of what the everyday life in Japan looks like.
Fun but not necessarily the best first read for a learner
Yotsuba's antics are funny and the chapters are mostly independent, meaning you don't have to read everything at once.
I managed to learn a lot, but the first time I tried picking it up all the casual language and contractions were too much for me, so I decided to go for something simpler and came back to this later once I had improved.
Another good thing about this manga is its popularity, meaning there are a ton of resources around it.
Harder than it looks
The content of this book has nothing to do with the written Japanese from textbooks - slang, hiragana everywhere , contractions , missing particles, missing kanjis, you’ll have to look up quite a few things. Now, it’s still funny ( especially if you have children ), and you end up learning quite a bit. Much to my surprise, I found this very enjoyable.
Tip : if you’re stuck, ask someone, or ChatGPT to break it down for you. There’s only a limited number of patterns you’re missing.
Quite funny and enjoyable. In some ways more difficult than a lvl 25 novel
Yotsuba is completely in her own toddler-like world, and greatly enjoying it, regardless of what's going on. It's funny to see the adults having to deal with Yotsuba's whims.
In terms of difficulty.... The content is super simple, but the phrasing and slang will be brand new to anyone coming from a textbook. Beyond that, I sometimes found words a bit more difficult to parse than when reading a novel, due to the lack of Kanji. For example, there was a bubble with the following:
はっ
しー
An excellent first manga
The plethora of resources available for this manga make it an excellent introduction to reading. Reading packs, vocab lists, and the WK book club mean that when you get stuck (and you will get stuck), you'll be able to get help.
This was the first manga I ever read, and it was fun to get through. The content was entertaining, and I never struggled too much with anything.
If you're around N4, then I would highly recommend this as your introduction to native content
Cute simple read, but it still can be difficult
A lot has been said about the よつばと! series that I agree with, although I think it's more difficult that a lot of people make it out to be. While a lot of the subjects are simplistic and often spoken in plain Japanese, there's still a lot of Japanese that you'll have to know to understand the full story. The series is quite an easy read for me at my Japanese level, but two things that often trip me up are Yotsuba misremembering words (and me taking a few seconds to realize that, yes, that is actu
Easy & wholesome
It's a breath of fresh air when one's used to reading more serious stuff. As the titles goes, it's pretty easy to read (unless you have a small vocabulary, you won't be able to get many new words out of it) and wholesome. I'll definitely give the whole series a shot. I guess it's probably good to get used to reading manga; I don't know if it'd be enough to jump straight into novels, though.
I started this series because I see it's one of the most commonly recommended first manga series to read in japanese. There is good reason behind it, it's a really cute, entertaining story that uses fairly limited vocab that represent every day life.
A word of caution though to learners is many of the children in the story use little to no kanji in their speech. If you rely heavily on kanji like me then you'll struggle parsing a lot of their speech.
cute, charming, and childish
Yotsuba was a very cute slice of life manga. You can kind of come and go as you please since most chapters are independent of one another. Yotsuba is young so adults in the story often help correct her Japanese or naturally explain concepts to her. I thought this was such a fun way to learn! I recommend not looking words right away (if Yotsuba is the one talking) since she might be saying them wrong. This and her childlike way of speaking may add to the difficulty especially if you aren't used t
Extremely enjoyable
This was such a fun read! The premise is simple but with Yotsuba's funnily cute everyday antics you won't be bored.
It's a slice-of-life type of manga so the vocabulary is pretty much just everyday stuff which is really good for a beginner getting eased into reading in Japanese. That said, the manga poses some challenges too because of Yotsuba's child-like speech and majority of the language spoken is casual.
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Not sure what to say here. Absolutely fantastic. The story is so cute, touching and funny all at once, i never got bored reading this. The entire dynamic all the characters have is fantastic and the art is super nice. Especially moments and expressions are captured very well. By far my favourite moments / arcs were the bicycle arc and the Tokyo arc.
Language Learning:
Well, it is often recommended as a first or at least very beginner Manga, and it is indeed v
Great for a First Read
The story is really easy to follow, and there isn't much confusing grammar or unknown kanji (especially considering I believe it all has furigana). However for someone who might only have used textbooks or without much experience in actual spoken Japanese, there are some things that can be difficult or confusing. For example すげぇ instead of すごい. There are small colloquialisms like this all through the book, but if read aloud, these problems should resolve themselves!
Great for beginners
I'd gauge myself around N4 level and was able to complete the book without to much trouble. There are some colloquial terms but it's mostly Yotsuba and it's not that bad. All in all it was a great learning experience and to make things better the stories were much more entertaining than I expected going into it. Highly recommend.
I loved Yotsuba! It's the first manga I've finished in Japanese, and though it took me some time, it's because I was lazy. Really recommend it for beginners (N5~N4)! The first chapters where harder and I had to look up a LOT of words, but it got easier the more I read, and looking up words did not make it any less enjoyable. It does have a lot of colloquialism and Yotsuba not talking properly sometimes, but you get through it.
Really entertaining and funny. :)
Easy to read and fun!
This little slice of life manga centers on a very young girl who seems to be raised by her single father. This comes across in the masculine manner she tends to speak in. The chapters are short little snippets of Yotsuba and co.'s day to day. I've been reading a chapter or two every night before falling asleep. Some of the jokes have actually made me laugh out loud. The grammar and vocab are pretty low level, so if you've studied to about JLPT N4 or low level N3 you should be fine. I've been abl
Silly girl has silly antics
Idk my actual Japanese level I feel like im relatively lower N4 (my guess)