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Reviewed by Barb Lien-Cooper The second volume of Yotsuba&! was when I discovered I had just made a friend for life. Specifically, it was in the second story, which is a tip of the hat to one of my favorite films, Leon: The Professional. In the story, our little girl Yotsuba sees Leon and goes on a “killing” rampage with her squirt gun. It is, in a word, hilarious, as well as right up my alley. I could have seen myself doing something just like that at her age. In point of fact, one of the things I love about Yotsuba is that I’ve rarely seen such an accurate, more joyful, and more modern depiction of what it’s like to be an inventive, intelligent, mischievous (but not naughty), brave (but somewhat easily freaked out and enchanted) child. Oh, yeah, I like Little Lulu and Dennis the Menace quite well, but they seem to be representing children from another time and place, as foreign to me as little Nell in Dickens’ Victorian London. Yotsuba is the rare work that shows what it’s like to be a kid nowadays. I also like that, while Yotsuba has a tendency to try and imitate adults, she is only five years old and really doesn’t totally get how the world works yet. She occasionally says things that are a little too harsh or frank, but she’s also got a secret sensitive side. Like real kids, she can be hurt by an insensitive remark. Fortunately, most remarks go over her head. And she recovers quickly, which is good, because when she cries, she cries LOUDLY. This kid feels like a real kid. Not what an adult thinks a kid is like, but what kids really act like. What can I say? Yotsuba’s terrific. Think you could have written a better review of Yotsuba&! v2? Write us and we'll probably let you give it a shot! --EiC PC |
17 November 2009
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