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[skygiants]

I have discovered that THE BEST cure for grumpiness on a crampy super-humid day is to curl up on the fire escape with lots of Yotsuba&! It is impossible to be grumpy while you are reading Yotsuba&! - I seriously do not think it can be done.

Yotsuba&! is basically a series of vignettes about a hyperenergetic five-or-six-year-old who may or may not be an alien. But that is not really the point, the point is that she is hyperactive and adorable and enjoys everything 100%. Sometimes her father (adoptive, slackerish, but caring dad!), his best friend (ginormous, florist, dork) and her next-door-neighbors (three girls ranging from college to middle-school-aged and from smirky practical joker to earnest save-the-environment type) do not enjoy everything as much as Yotsuba, especially when it involves Yotsuba climbing out the bathroom window or releasing cicadas in their living room, but that is mostly besides the point. It is hard to convey exactly what makes Yotsuba&! so much fun, so you will just have to take my word on it. But you can see for yourself that she is adorable!



(It also has the distinction of including possibly the only cheerful rain scene in the history of manga.)

I am pretty sure curling up on the fire escape with lots of Yotsuba&! would also be the best cure for opening the door on your foot and ripping off most of your toenail, but sadly I cannot test this for myself right now since I have to be at work instead. Henceforth you may call me Becca of the Nine Toenails. (Not really, the toenail is still partly attached. But I want Leonard Nimoy to write a song anyway.)

Comments

[jothra]

How much do I love Yotsuba&? SO MUCH.

[skygiants]

I have NO WORDS for how happy it makes me. I spent my subway ride in this morning bleeding and cackling. I am pretty sure everyone else on the train thought I was crazy, but that's not unusual.

[jothra]

Oh dear. I hope your toe feels better soon. D:

I was so excited when Yen press picked it up, after its original publisher kicked the bucket.

[skygiants]

It actually feels fine! Looked a lot worse than it was.

There's eight volumes out so far, right? (That is the number that's in the library system, so I am hoping that is the case. :D)

[jothra]

Yes, they seem to be coming out every six months or so. 9 is not out until December.

[skygiants]

Well, I still have four to go until I'm out, so I can live until then! UNLIKE WITH PUMPKIN SCISSORS

[jothra]

You brought it on yourself, with all your Fullmetal Alchemist love! It was a natural progression!

[skygiants]

It was a CRUEL progression. ;_;

. . . and, in the grand tradition of sharing the pain, I passed your volumes on to House of Octopus to pass on to you when they see you next (although they were disappointed not to have the first one.)

[jothra]

...not that I object to the title, but why Octopus?

[skygiants]

I don't actually remember, but I know it's a Shati-ism . . . which should explain it all.

[genarti]

We have a few of those tall lamps that have five bulbs on little bendy stalks.

Efforts to point out to Shati that a) they are pentapus lamps if anything, and b) they are probably not really the most distinctive feature of our household, have thus far all proven in vain.

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

While normally I embrace Shati-isms with disturbing fervor, I find this one too long.

I will accept Housetopus, possibly.

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

Yotsuba&! always makes me happy no matter what. :D (That one friend of her dad's is hilarious. Loved seeing Yotsuba push him around in volume 7.)

[skygiants]

It is like magic! Bouncy adorable magic! (All of the characters are hilarious! But Jumbo possibly especially so, it's true.)

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

I TOLD YOU IT WAS GLORIOUS. There is a really good fic, actually, over at the Yuletide section of AO3--it gets the feel exactly right, and is excellent for tiding one over between release dates. Although you are still reading the actual stuff so maybe you do not yet need to be tided over between release dates. Anyway! Cicadas!

[skygiants]

YOU DID NOT LEAD ME ASTRAY. It is so full of delight! I will totally have to go check out the fic once I run out. Tsuku-tsukuboshi! GANGSTER YOTSUBA! (Is it wrong of me now to want crossover fic with Yotsuba and Isaac and Miria?)

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

(It is not wrong at all! I think I actually drew Yotsuba with Jacuzzi once. I had a brief phase where my friends wanted me to draw her with lots of people.)

[skygiants]

(I think this is an excellent activity personally. :D Yotsuba improves everything!)

[elle-white.livejournal.com]

I love Yotsuba& so much! I haven't read it in ages, but I always had a smile on my face after reading it! That adorably precocious kid does things to my heart!

I must read it again soon!

[skygiants]

I bought one of the volumes at random at a library sale (well, at random and after futuresoon's recommendations) and now I am so glad to actually own one because I can just read it next time I am sad!