{"id":663,"date":"2008-09-20T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:47:35","slug":"yotsuba-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/09\/20\/yotsuba-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTSUBA&amp;! Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-663\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/YOTSUBA-2-Yotsubato-Graphic-Novels\/dp\/1413903185\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221928193&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\">YOTSUBA&amp;! Volume 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Azuma%20Kiyohiko\">Azuma Kiyohiko<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 184 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> ADV Manga (August 1, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1413903185<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1413903188<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yotsuba&amp;! is a manga series that follows a little girl, Yotsuba, who moves with her father to a new house.\u00c2\u00a0 Next door live three sisters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asagi (the oldest),<\/li>\n<li>Fuka (the middle one), and<\/li>\n<li>Ena (the youngest).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I bought volumes 2 and 4 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=645\">Kinokuniya Bookstore<\/a> in Little Tokyo; I heard about this series of manga from my son, Nathan, when he came to visit.\u00c2\u00a0 He showed me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=591\">interesting plastic figure of the box robot<\/a> from the book series, which I thought was really a clever idea; I bought the robot on eBay and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=645\">figure of Yotsuba<\/a> on vacation from a local anime figure seller in Little Tokyo.\u00c2\u00a0 And I think the books are clever too.<\/p>\n<p>Its obvious that Yotsuba is over-precocious and lacking knowledge of common things.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s just learning how a good Japanese girl acts.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s constantly discovering new things about her surroundings.\u00c2\u00a0 Yotsuba is also sometimes quite rude by accident, which is funny.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to read all the books; I ordered volume 3 from Amazon and volume 1 used (but in excellent condition) from an Amazon e-tailer.\u00c2\u00a0 I just have to know more about Yotsuba&#8217;s past, and I figure we&#8217;ll learn that later in the series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-663\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 663);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-663\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-663\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: YOTSUBA&amp;! Volume 2 Author: Azuma Kiyohiko Paperback: 184 pages Publisher: ADV Manga (August 1, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1413903185 ISBN-13: 978-1413903188 Yotsuba&amp;! is a manga series that follows a little girl, Yotsuba, who moves with her father to a new house.\u00c2\u00a0 Next door live three sisters: Asagi (the oldest), Fuka (the middle one), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[297,289],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books-yotsuba","tag-yotsuba"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}