It's summer, and Yotsuba is enjoying the weather, and spending most of the time next door. When Ena's friend Miura builds a cardboard Robot suit to wear, Yotsuba is convinced that he is a real robot named Cardbo. Then she spends the day "helping" her neighbors do the laundry.
When her Dad's co-worker Yanda comes by, he turns out to be almost as much of a kid as she is and incurs Yotsuba's ire. Then Yotsuba, her father and her friends take a trip to the countryside to look at the stars. And on a rainy day, Yotsuba and her father take a trip to the video store to pick out new videos and pick up some groceries. Yotsuba also decides to eat her first Takiyaki. Finally getting sick of all the rain, Yotsuba makes her own TeruTeru Bozu to make the rain stop and bring back sunny weather. It works.
And finally, Yotsuba, her dad and her friends take a visit to the beach where they play in the surf, build sandcastles and have fun until Yotsuba totally poops out and passes out asleep. They return home on the train, still sleeping.
This is more of a "slice of life" manga than one with any actual story. Yotsuba is only a little girl, apparently too young yet for school, and she alternately has fun with and terrorizes the kids next door, who seem to be her only friends. Her Dad works at home, and there is no sign of a mother, nor are we aware of what happened to her.
It's a cute manga, but I feel absolutely no need to purchase it. I read it through my library and when I see new books come in. It's not one to get really hooked on as the story just is... a slice of life in Japan. I can see how that would fascinate some people, but it's not really what I am interested in.
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