2014年10月20日月曜日

BR:2-04 YOTSUBA&



“That's girl's able to enjoy anything and everything. Yotsuba is invincible.”

Yotsuba is a five-year old little girl. She is so powerful, cheerful, energetic, and a little bit different. She loves to doing activities, mindless chatting with her daddy or neighbors. (Correctly speaking, it seems meaningless, but also that conversation might has a meaning.) The cute girl interested in everything, and who noses into looks interests around her circumstances.

The book contains 7 chapters in it, and the chapter 3 was really funny story for me. The title is “Yotsuba & Global Warming”, in this chapter, Yotsuba knows the existence of A/C at her neighbor's house, and the machine is one of the causes of Global Warming as well. Then she went back home, and noticed the A/C is also attached her house. She accused her dad of the enemy of the earth! In the minor quarrel between them, she can't say Global Warming correctly. She says “Global Wanging” or something. 

Eventually, she understands the advantages of A/C, and forgives her daddy. This story made me laugh because about a week ago, I met a 6 year-old nephew at a funeral of my paternal grandmother. He was vigorous and fast speaker, and he also made an almost the same mistake like Yotsuba. When I had supper with my cousin's family, the nephew, Yudai spoke to me about a drama. The name of the drama was “Nube”. It started about 2 weeks ago, and in the drama, the leading male character has a strange left hand which can beat a ghost. The left hand calls “Oni no Te”(which means hand of Japanese devil). The kid said to us that “Hey guys! look at my 'Oni no Se!”(which means the back of Japanese devil). He repeated over and over, and we tried to revise his slip of the tongue, and he managed to understand what we say finally.

Azuma Kiyohiko ; translation, Forsyth Amy  ; lettering, Delgado Terri. (2009). YOTSUBA&.New York, NY : Yen Press.

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