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{{quote| ''Today is always the most enjoyable day!''}}
''Yotsuba&!'' (''Yotsuba to!'' in Japanese) is a [[Slice of Life]] comedy manga by Kiyohiko Azuma, creator of the acclaimed ''[[
It stars a [[Cheerful Child|cheerful]], [[Genki Girl|energetic]] five-year-old girl named Yotsuba Koiwai, who moves into a new neighborhood with her adoptive father. She doesn't know very much about the world around her and is incredibly curious, but her father and their new neighbors (the Ayase family) are willing to help her out. Or get dragged along in her wake, as the case may be. She does, technically, know the meaning of "restraint", but she has [[Malaproper|trouble pronouncing it]].
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Despite its popularity, no animated adaptation is in the works, and [[Word of God|according to Azuma himself]], Yotsuba [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/news/2008-12-04/yotsuba&creator-kiyohiko-azuma-addresses-anime-rumors isn't well suited to an animated format].
Be sure to check out the [[Yotsuba&!
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Averted several times, more often than not -- for example, Koiwai gets a package from amazon.co.jp, complete with the distinctive logo.
* [[Blank White Eyes]]: Eventually happens to just about everyone around Yotsuba, and to Yotsuba herself, occasionally.
* [[Blue
* [[Blush Sticker]]: Yotsuba, appropriately enough, gets two bright circles on her cheeks when her reading ability is praised -- but it also once happens with Jumbo, when he thinks he's about to meet Asagi.
* [[Broken Glass Penalty]]: At one point, Yotsuba kicks a soccer ball out a closed window by accident. Her dad spanks her.
* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]: Yotsuba leans over the arm of an escalator... and hits her head on a sign warning not to do just that. Made even funnier when Dad mentions that he's never seen that happen before.
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]
* [[Cat Smile]]: Two from Fuuka and one from Yotsuba.
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* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Yotsuba, after she fails at the [[Goldfish Scooping Game]].
* [[Drop in Character]]: One each of the annoying and cute varieties: Yanda is the annoying one for the Koiwais and Yotsuba herself the cute one for the Ayases.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Emoticon]]: Suggested by Asagi to Yotsuba while serving as "e-mail". Her expression at the end of the chapter is a dead-on visualization of the O____O emoticon.
* [[Engaging Conversation]]: Wait until you grow up before marrying Fuuka, Yotsuba! We know cake is nice, but...
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** Miura gives Ena two flower-shaped hair clips as a souvenir of her trip to Hawaii.
* [[Everything Is Worse With Bears]]: Subverted with several teddy bears, including Yotsuba's "beddy tear", Duralumin.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: When Yotsuba wants to hit every button in an elevator, Ena warns her she's going to cause this.
* [[Face Doodling]]: Yotsuba on Dad.
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** Deconstructed, even. At the [[Festival Episode|fireworks festival]], because Yotsuba hasn't realized the potential dangers of getting lost in a crowd, after she runs off (the panel after being told not to let go of Koiwai's hand, naturally), Koiwai has Jumbo, Ena, and Miura hide to teach her a lesson.
* [[Genki Girl]]: As Asagi puts it, Yotsuba's default mode of travel is "run".
* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Ena (not only her two main teddy bears but some other plushies) and Yotsuba (after acquiring Duralumin, Yotsuba begins carrying it ''everywhere'') are of course prime age for this, but in a [[Shout-Out]], Fuuka has a [[Azumanga Daioh
* [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger]]: Yotsuba, underscoring that she really is a small child.
** Dad also uses it once, in an appropriately dramatic way.
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* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors|Janken]]: Played by Yotsuba and Dad with the loser getting swatted with a rolled-up newspaper if they don't cover their head with a basin in time.
* [[Japanese Holidays]]: Yotsuba has so far been involved in O-bon and Respect for the Aged Day. Fuuka's school's [[School Festival|Cultural Festival]] and the autumn Danjiri Festival also sort-of count, though they're not technically ''holidays''.
* [[Jerkass]]: Yanda, who flat-out ''enjoys'' his role as Yotsuba's "[[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|nemesis]]". This is somewhat subverted in that Dad and Jumbo are aware he's a jerk; they seem to put up with him only because he's Dad's ''[[Sempai-Kohai|kohai]]'' and they consistently take Yotsuba's side in her squabbles with him. He eventually starts behaving a bit better, to the point of possibly graduating to [[Jerk
** Asagi is a minor example. She doesn't pass up opportunities to mess with her sisters (especially Fuuka) and Yotsuba, although she does realize when she's gone too far -- for example, after seeing Yotsuba's reaction to swiping the strawberry from her cake, Asagi quickly returned it, much to the dismay of her mother, whose strawberry she had already eaten at that point.
* [[Joshikousei]]: Fuuka and her classmates.
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** One is concerning Yotsuba explaining what her dad's job is. In the ADV translation, Yotsuba thinks he's a 'trainspotter' when she's suppose to say 'translator'. The joke is that the word 'honyaku' means translator and that Yotsuba said 'konnyaku', a type of gelatin-like cake made from a yam-like plant. In a later chapter, Fuuka sounds like she was making a non sequitur about Yotsuba's dad's konnyaku business being a trade secret when the reality is it's a callback to Yotsuba's earlier misunderstanding.
** Another is when Jumbo refers to Torako as a 'she' when he was looking at her photos of the hot air balloon event. This is problematic because the running gag is that Jumbo has never met Torako before and assumes that she might be Asagi's boyfriend (note that Yotsuba keeps referring to her as Tora, which is gender neutral). This can be explained by the fact that the Japanese language does not have third person gendered pronouns.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Exemplified [[In
* [[Mind Screw]]: Asagi's [[Weapon of Choice
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]?: EVERYTHING in Yotsuba's world is awesome. From delivering milk, to riding a bike to going to the supermarket, each trip is like an Odyssey to Yotsuba.
* [[Mundane Object Amazement]]: Yotsuba can be amazed at just about anything -- if she's never met it before.
* [[My Card]]: Yotsuba has her own (rather crumpled) business card.
* [[No Cartoon Fish]]: More like No Cartoon ''Animals''; most of the animals are photorealistic, though the fish, in particular, are ''disturbingly'' so. The main counterexample are the dogs, which tend to the cartoony, particularly those dogs Yotsuba barks back at.
* [[No Longer
** Actually a slight subversion when she does it. She really means that he has died and gone to heaven, though he's most definitely not dead. The first time she does it, Fuuka calls her on it, saying "No, no, no. Dad is ALIVE. He's working right now."
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted. Also, mentioning a bodily function makes Yotsuba burst into the giggle-fits you'd expect from a five year old.
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* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Dad's ''kohai'' Yanda, whom Dad lets visit even though Yotsuba instantly hates him with a hatey hate.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Multiple ones to ''[[
** One chapter, Yotsuba watches ''[[Pythagora Switch]]'' on the TV. In a later chapter, a "father switch" from the show is on the kitchen table; it [[Continuity Nod|eventually]] shows up in the Yotsubox.
*** This is probably ''also'' a shout out to the Kuricorder Quartet, as they did the music to ''[[Pythagora Switch]]'', as well as ''[[
** Yotsuba makes a sly shoutout to [[Gamera]] in the lead-up to the balloon festival.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Comes up in the most unusual places. The bears in the teddy-bear shop are based on actual designs. The ridiculously-expensive Steiff one even has the trademark button. (The one Yotsuba chooses to be Juralumin, however, is a generic.)
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* [[Sleep Cute]]: Yotsuba, Koiwai, Ena, and Fuuka, on the train back home, after a long day at the [[Beach Episode|beach]].
* [[Slice of Life]]: Each chapter is an episode in Yotsuba's literal daily life -- as in taking place on sequential, or nearly sequential, days; [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:List of Yotsuba%26! chapters|details the exact calendar]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: While not as idealistic as, say, ''[[
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Why Yotsuba thinks Torako is awesome, even though her father told her that smoking is bad. Then again, Yotsuba claims that Koiwai used to smoke...
* [[Something Person]]: Koiwai sometimes transforms into Yotsuba's nemesis, Boxerman -- by putting a pair of boxer shorts over his head. His special ability is being unable to tell up from down. "Curse you, Boxerman!" After Yotsuba saw men in fundoshi at a [[Festival Episode|festival]], Boxerman acquired a rival, Barebuttman. Still later, Koiwai becomes yet another foe of Yotsuba's, [[It Makes Sense in Context|Pancake-Loving Man]].
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