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Title: Yotsuba&! Vol. 8
Series: Yotsuba&! #8
Author: Kiyohiko Azuma
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 208
Words: 8K
| Synopsis: |
Chapter List:
Yotsuba & Opposites
Yotsuba & the Restaurant
Yotsuba & the Cultural Festival
Yotsuba & the Typhoon
Yotsuba & Watching the House
Yotsuba & the Festival
Yotsuba & Acorns
| My Thoughts: |
I read this sunday. I was feeling tired, stressed out and sick (probably from stressing out) and reading this was like taking a huge horse tranquilizer. By the end of the volume I was totally chill. I had been debating about whether I wanted to read this feeling the way I was but am I glad I did.
The picture I included this time was from the Festival Chapter. Yotsuba is helping pull a shrine and they take a break so she and her dad and some others are looking at the other portable shrines when Yotsuba sees the sumo wrestler. I remember laughing my head off the first time I saw this page and man, it hasn’t stopped being funny to me. The manga-ka has totally caught that innocent yet bold spirit of being a 5 year old.
Yotsuba works, it’s the way to brighten one’s day 🙂
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It was just what I needed at the moment.
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Your got the tranquiliser from a huge horse? Why is the size of horse important?
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Because if you get a tranquilizer from a little horse, it will only be a little effective. If you get one from a huge horse, it will be hugely effective.
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I would go to a chemist rather than a horse of any size…
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Well, I am glad to say that I’m not such a speciest as you. Around here, we take drugs from anything, even aliens!
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That might well be your first problem right there….
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What? That I love and accept all beings for what they are?
Shame, Ol’10, shame. Embrace the alien inside you….
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No, I want that alien taken back out, I didn’t give you permission to put that thing inside me and it hurts when I eat….
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Open borders man, open borders. Nobody said it had to stop at geographic levels.
Take a huge horse tranqu and be cool 😉
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I’m not having aliens implanted in me and I’m not having horse tranquiliser for breakfast either, this conversation has taken a dark turn, have you seen the nice cat fraggle has borrowed?
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It’s morning here. Of course it’s dark!
I have not. I only check out her movie blog.
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Sigh. pfft. blerk
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And now that I’m home and it is evening, it is still dark. Go to work in teh dark, come home in the dark, I’m living the dream I tell you!
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Come to Bonnie Scotland, pitch dark in the morning, like a coal mine at midnight by 3.30! That’s winter!
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So I could be living the dreamier life in ye old Scotts Land? I’m not sure my heart could take it!
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Well, if you come over, I’ll lock you in a deep, dark hole and throw away the key; how’s that for hospitality?
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Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Of course, unless I can fall into mudpits up to my knees, I’m kind of iffy….
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Well sir, if mud pits are your bag, I would personally bury you alive in manure, with great pleasure!
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I’m sure you would. But I’ve got an in with that alien inside you and it won’t let you. I’m thinking of crashing at your pad and watching tv wicked late, like 8pm!
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Yup, I’ll put a black and white portable in your cell, no antennae, but just static anyway…
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How’d you know static is my favorite?
Ahhh, the surveillance van guys. You should probably give them a raise or something. They’re doing good work if they picked up that little fact.
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Hey, we have to keep tabs on you. Who knows what you might get up to unchecked. We keep you scrabbling in the dark to stop your realising your true abilities!
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Like reading a 300 page book in 300 minutes? I never knew I could even attempt that!
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As useful a skill as smashing a glass ashtray on your forehead.
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I bet you’d get a lot of likes and comments if you did that on a youtube channel.
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I saw a man on YouTube whose talent was drinking bottles of water quickly.
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Must’ve been a magic horse, like the one you had the other day.
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All horses are magic.
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Like cats then.
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Could you take pictures of horses? They are nice.
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my wish is your command! https://fragglerocking.org/2020/07/26/horses/
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Complete with my own comment on July 26th! Think two of the horses around our cottage have had to be put to sleep in the last few days, so nice to see some healthy ones! And no sight of Colin Farrell…
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I knew you’d seen it thought you must have forgot. Shame about the horses being put to sleep, heartbreaking for the owners. I wouldn’t mind old Farrell turning up, I’d give him a cup of tea.
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With that haircut? Really?
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I got scissors! 🙂
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It’s great to have a book that acts like a horse tranquilizer. Probably cheaper, too.
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Much cheaper! You have any idea how much it costs, on an annual basis, to feed and house a Huge Horse? Let me tell you, it’s a lot!
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Do you live in the land of giant horses?
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Giant Horses Asses.
At least, most days that is what it feels like…
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“caught that innocent yet bold spirit of being a 5 year old” – that’s great. I’ve always said we can never loose that “good inner child” and it looks like you did not here, sir. Good job on that.
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If anyone can grump at Yotsuba, I’ll be first in line to hang them so they know how wrong they are!
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Tally-ho Enrique! I got one bringing the clothes line, if needed!
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😀
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I’m sort of sad for you that you’re nearing the end though…. 😦
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I’m desperately not thinking about it, hahahahaa!
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This is one of my favorite mangas! I usually real it at night because it puts me to sleep with it’s chill vibe. Thanks for the post!
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Thanks for commenting. Always nice to meet another Yotsuba fan! 😀
Do you read much manga?
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I do read a lot of manga! But I don’t have a lot of favorites.
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Thanks. I am on the lookout for the next series I want to start after Yotsuba. The previous couple I tried before pretty much fizzled and so I’d like to get into something that I can enjoy. So I’m always asking anyone I can for recommendations 😀
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Hmm let me think. Some of my favorites are From Far Away, Psyren, D Gray Man, Fruits Basket, Takane and Hana and Daytime Shooting Star.
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Thank you. That gives me enough of an idea of our varied tastes then 🙂
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No problem! Honestly, I’ve read so many and could recommend a wide variety of them. Good luck with your reading and research!
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