Plainly put, Yotsuba&! is one of my favorite reading experiences of all time and the only one to so wholly transport me into a world of smiles and laughter.Īzuma’s story concerns a strange young girl-a five-year-old with green hair and pigtails-and the way she interacts with the world about her. Even if one approaches the work with the knowledge that Yotsuba&! bubbles forth as a fountain of joyfulness, this little girl’s nature and adventures will still surprise in how purely they deliver one into this momentary Other Place. Kiyohiko Azuma’s series is an unexpected pleasure. And, I suspect, for a great number of others as well. Yotsuba&! is one of these sources of magic for me. These things give us a glimpse of What May Have Been and sometimes even What Could Someday Be. We sometimes encounter things that divorce us from the corrupting coolness of reason and leave us in a state, however temporary, of unblemished joy. Things that slide so neatly between our hope for the world and our experience of the world that our rational mind is sheared momentarily from the engine of our dreams, that part of us that fuels and crafts desires, longings, hopes, and wishes. We sometimes encounter things-moments, vistas, sounds, ideas-that wholly disarm us.
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