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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 actually nonsense she's saying) and that Yotsuba speaks in hiragana only which makes her speech more difficult to parse than everyone else's. I would still recommend the series to someone early in their reading journey, but honestly probably not as their first manga series.