# よつばと! Vol 12 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club) **URL:** \ **Category:** Book Clubs\ **Created:** [February 18, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046 "2020-02-18T07:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/1 "2020-02-18T07:06:44Z")
## [Join the よつばと! Reading Club!](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-reading-club/24216) ## よつばと! Volume 12 (Chapters 77-82) Discussion Thread **Current Chapter:** 82 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/5/a/9/5a97d5b0dec2072b53b45469265cc5c69b2d88fc.jpeg) ## Reading Schedule | Start Date | Reading | Jump To Discussion | | --- | --- | --- | | February 18 | Chapter 77 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/2) | | February 25 | Chapter 78 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/10) | | March 3 | Chapter 79 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/17) | | March 10 | Chapter 80 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/29) | | March 17 | Chapter 81 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/42) | | March 24 | Chapter 82 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/58) | ## Reminders for Discussion: 1. Feel free to discuss grammar, vocabulary, comprehension questions, as well as interesting plot or character development. 2. Include references (page, panel, character speech bubble, etc.) so that others can help you. 3. We’re all here to learn and read together, so share your thoughts and ask questions! ## Resources - **[Jisho](https://jisho.org/):** An online dictionary with words by Wanikani level, radical search, etc. - **[Romaji Desu](http://www.romajidesu.com/dictionary/):** An online dictionary that allows you to look up by romaji, even for conjugated verbs. ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/2 "2020-02-18T07:26:48Z")
_ **Chapter 77!** _ 🐅 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/0/d/f/0df12ea1e57f7b2250eb8d4f5610c3e2c5be1d80.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/3 "2020-02-18T10:06:15Z")
You can see the photos Yotsuba has been taking on the inside covers. The one she takes on page 20 is in the lower-left corner of the inside front cover. 😃 Oh, wait. There it is again on 36. Page 16, what’s おまかいですが when it’s at home? ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/4 "2020-02-18T10:12:42Z")
What does it mean when it’s not at home? 😂 (Found this on WK by looking it up on Google. 😛) Apparently asked before, and then answered, and yeah, found the same mentioned online. > [@よつばと！Vol 1 Discussion Thread (Beginner's Book Club)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8%EF%BC%81vol-1-discussion-thread-beginners-book-club/19926/355): > > Page 77 (paper): よつば says 「ど〜ぞ おあがりたまえ！！おまかいですが」. I’m pretty sure this is a jumble of misused polite language, but what phrases is she trying to say and what do they mean? I know どうぞ means please and is typically used for things like asking people to accept something from you. What are the other two? > [@よつばと！Vol 1 Discussion Thread (Beginner's Book Club)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8%EF%BC%81vol-1-discussion-thread-beginners-book-club/19926/361): > > My guess is that with the おまかい, she probably meant お構い (おかまい), which is often said as お構いなく when you go to someone’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/5 "2020-02-18T11:13:58Z")
Whew, that was a little while ago. ---
**Author:** ![humantree](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/humantree/32/518539_2.png) [@humantree](https://community.wanikani.com/u/humantree)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/6 "2020-02-20T00:50:20Z")
I so vaguely remembered this, so I was content to just let this sentence go by thinking “It’s Yotsuba being Yotsuba (somehow)”. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![windupbird](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/windupbird/32/220114_2.png) [@windupbird](https://community.wanikani.com/u/windupbird)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/7 "2020-02-20T14:59:21Z")
Woo, volume 12! The opening pages of this volume are strangely relaxing. 😌 I love Yotsuba’s “mind = blown” face when Tora tells her about the clock numbers xD That bow on Tora’s head at the end is very kawaii indeed ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/8 "2020-02-20T21:33:14Z")
😮 It’s that chapter! It’s so cute. 😊 Love Torako. ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/9 "2020-02-25T01:05:41Z")
They are very relaxing. 😌 Yotsuba looks a little younger as well. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/3/c/5/3c5d299fdc78d886628a520600a8d81d57fef6fd.jpeg) 😂 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/3/e/b/3ebb6566a83508e9b8aee3c61381747231bec858.png) 😊 Well, that was short. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/10 "2020-02-25T09:06:19Z")
_ **Chapter 78!** _👩‍🎨 🟦 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/c/4/5/c453fa34f3231b17008e227b4c5f4d0fb3432512.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![humantree](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/humantree/32/518539_2.png) [@humantree](https://community.wanikani.com/u/humantree)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/11 "2020-02-25T20:45:06Z")
What a tensely-adorable chapter. I feel like there were some sentences early in the chapter that I skipped over a little, so I might come back with some questions about them later. ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/12 "2020-02-25T21:14:35Z")
This is why we keep paint out of reach of kids. Still, I’m fairly impressed with her logic, here - using a spoon as a lever, actually thinking to put newspaper under the tin. Also impressed that she managed to get a fairly even coat. At least, it looks even from here. And somehow she managed to paint the legs all the way to the floor without getting a halo of blue paint around them. Page 41, I assume とんな is some sort of negative imperative of 解く, but what on earth kind of slang is that? This _might_ be what Yotsuba is singing on page 53, but I’m not hugely confident of that: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/9/8/6984026562cdafa3b806da240a6331f5f7070bd5.jpeg "♪ うみ (うみはひろいな おおきいな)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRj_DHobavY) ---
**Author:** ![windupbird](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/windupbird/32/220114_2.png) [@windupbird](https://community.wanikani.com/u/windupbird)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/13 "2020-02-26T00:18:20Z")
I’m weirdly excited about having learned the difference between ペンキ and 絵の具 😆 Thanks Yotsuba 👍 > [@Belthazar](#): > > Page 41, I assume とんな is some sort of negative imperative of 解く, but what on earth kind of slang is that? Isn’t it a slang-y version of the negative imperative とるな? Seems like it would be logical to respond with a form of とる, since Yotsuba used とれる (取れる) initially. (Although I’m not sure why she’s using とれる instead of 解く, I feel like that could be chalked up to little kid-speak and equating the shoe being removed with untying the laces?) ---
**Author:** ![Abstormal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/abstormal/32/630277_2.png) [@Abstormal](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Abstormal)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/14 "2020-02-29T09:45:15Z")
When she discovered the cans… “oh no… no no no… what will you do!!!” I love his reaction though, best way tp deal with it! 🤣 It wouldn’t be right to scold her anyway. She didn’t know better. I would sit down and have a talk, and say if you do it again I’ll get mad, cause now you know it is wrong, but I’m not mad this time. ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/15 "2020-02-29T18:59:06Z")
I mean, blue table. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/16 "2020-03-04T04:56:16Z")
👀 できちまった feels weird. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/7/a/67a620d9d3d11e4af21376ada8057acafde38619.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/1/6/216cf435863093bf96eda9b9ecb643ba905b5e99.png) Beef overlaps with the night? 🤔 しかくくて, too. :0 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/1/4/f/14f4163082e776c18be6321053e7fdf3a42386b3.png) 😂 😮 Yotsuba knows how to use tools! _ **Stone Age unlocked!** _ ⛏ I mean, I _know_, but I still find it funny that Yotsuba gets scolded all the time for doing things she’s not supposed to do, but still does them anyway. 😛 Could someone share with me their version of the page where she dips the brush in the paint? ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/5/8/a/58a01709d17cb63096186fe29aac8be417b7bf89.png) Well, that kinda explains it. 😆 Also, ペンキ. 😩 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/d/6/2d6f8f37766f8964f6bd56edfe583389c8fde79b.png) 🤣 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/4/0/2/40284a82b12958007446b4d2ed5e3834074689d2.jpeg) 🤣 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/17 "2020-03-04T05:02:31Z")
_ **Chapter 79!** _ ⛑ ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/5/a/d/5adbe81e201047fb95014589e30b2bc5d59430bc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/18 "2020-03-04T06:24:53Z")
> [@Kazzeon](#): > > できちまった feels weird. できてしまった > [@Kazzeon](#): > > Beef overlaps with the night? 🤔 Because he’s planning to make beef for dinner, if they have beef curry for lunch, they’ll be doubling up. > [@Kazzeon](#): > > Could someone share with me their version of the page where she dips the brush in the paint? You… you don’t have it? ---
**Author:** ![Kazzeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kazzeon/32/288210_2.png) [@Kazzeon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kazzeon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/19 "2020-03-04T06:28:07Z")
> [@Belthazar](#): > > できてしまった Isn’t it usually できちゃった is what I mean. > [@Belthazar](#): > > Because he’s planning to make beef for dinner, if they have beef curry for lunch, they’ll be doubling up. Figured, but I wasn’t sure of the meaning. > [@Belthazar](#): > > You… you don’t have it? I mean, I _have_ it. I just wanted to see how other people have it. 👀 ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046/20 "2020-03-04T09:28:02Z")
> [@Kazzeon](#): > > I mean, I _have_ it. I just wanted to see how other people have it. I… don’t really understand the issue here. Maybe you go first. 🙂 Welp, onto the next chapter. Honestly pretty straightforward. Page 71, they’ve gotten the paint off her face, but her hands are still blue? [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-12-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/42046.md?page=2)