However, she doesn't have enough money, so rather than going back and getting an eraser instead, SHE PUTS HER DAD'S RAMEN BACK! This made me laugh SO HARD I thought I was going to die. All the important character relationships and backgrounds are made clear without explicitly providing a summary or character sheet.In this absolutely, enthrallingly ADORABLE book, Yotsuba, Ena, and Miura-chan make paper-cup phones, Yotsuba goes to the store with money for two ramens and an eraser, but she gets candy instead of the eraser. This volume 2 is a great book, and now I can share it - one of the nice things is that you don't need to have read the first volume to be able to enjoy the second. But after rereading the downloaded files a few times, I felt that I really needed to buy the book itself - and with luck, I found a copy at a used book store which I'd visited by chance. I ended up trying to find scans and translations online, and absolutely loved them. I was really disappointed after I read the first volume at the library and couldn't get the second one for some reason. Naturally, he needs it now, too, so she draws the same on the sleeping Koiwai. She decides to decorate her toy box (the 'Yotsubox' in this translation) by drawing a picture of him, then adds a mustache and beard to the picture. After pulling an all-nighter, Koiwai asks Yostuba to play quietly while he sleeps. Then again, the 11th story 'Yotsuba & 'No Bother'' is also pretty hilarious. A verbal description simply can't match seeing it.) (Actually, there are several bits that I'd love to share, but it'd be easier to just scan the images - like when Yostuba pauses after kicking Ena's door open in order to carefully execute a somersault into the room.

At one point, she comes across a dozing Fuka and squirts the watergun up Fuka's nose - I was literally in stitches when reading those panels, Yostuba's own laughter was so infectious. She gets her water gun and goes on a killing spree.sort of? and then tries to catch the killer (who was herself, of course). While watching a gangster/detective sort of movie with her dad and Jumbo, Yotsuba decides to act it out. The 9th story 'Yotsuba & Revenge' may very well be one of the funniest yet. It also continues the thread of Jumbo's crush on eldest sister Asagi (the scene in the 12th story 'Yotsuba & Pools' when he thinks Asagi will be going to a fancy water park with him, Koiwai, and Yostuba is just amazing in his dorkiness). This volume introduces Ena's friend Miura, who likes to tease Yotsuba - probably it's a direct result of their first meeting, when Yotsuba was totally astounded by Miura's wheelie shoes.

I really enjoyed that attention to detail! Show More carry through from one to another, whether its a previous background detail becoming prominent, or an old story point showing up in the background of a later story.

Yotsuba volume 7