Overall, I thought it was entertaining. The characters are all goofballs, some of them obnoxiously so. The language was mostly simple and easy to understand. One of the characters speaks with Osaka-ben, so she was difficult to understand sometimes, but other than her, the other characters use a lot of simple phrases that would actually be used in real life (intermixed with ridiculous ones that should probably be avoided).

Yotsuba&! brought me to this series since they are by the same creator. I

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June 3, 2022

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Premier 4-panel comedy

This is an iconic series from the early-2000s, by the author who later wrote よつばと(Yotsuba). It's hilarious with very exaggerated characters, but more grounded than something like 日常 (Nichijou). There are a lot of jokes that took me some googling to fully understand as a non-native, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a plus in the language-learning department.

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August 7, 2022

Most people probably know this from the anime which seems pretty popular, but I've watched surprisingly little anime for someone learning Japanese, so I just picked this up after loving Yotsubato. The 4 panel structure makes them feel pretty different though. That constant fracturing into short punch line setups gives this a different feel, somewhat more trivial and "about nothing." It's definitely making less of an impact on me so far, with jokes that feel more... obvious sometimes? But still,

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