# よつばと! Vol 7 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club) **URL:** \ **Category:** Book Clubs\ **Created:** [January 29, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881 "2019-01-29T04:35:54Z")\ **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:** [January 29, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/1 "2019-01-29T04:35:54Z")
## [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 7 (Chapters 42-48) Discussion Thread **Current Chapter:** 48 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/2/a/2a96c56e0ef97a58b060ddfd0fcd1b75d7506725.jpeg) ## Reading Schedule | Start Date | Reading | Jump To Discussion | | --- | --- | --- | | January 28 | Chapter 42 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/2) | | February 4 | Chapter 43 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/66) | | February 11 | Chapter 44 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/125) | | February 18 | Chapter 45 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/167) | | February 25 | Chapter 46 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/220) | | March 4 | Chapter 47 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/264) | | March 11 | Chapter 48 | [link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/288) | ## 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:** [January 29, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/2 "2019-01-29T04:36:41Z")
Welcome back, everybody! Discussion of Chapter 42 starts here. - [Opening Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881) - [Bottom of Page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/999999) I’m so excited to read more Yotsuba! 😃 I’ll get to reading the first chapter after I work for a bit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/3 "2019-01-29T05:32:39Z")
Page 4 Thank you so much for setting this up @Kazzeon! It seems like ages since we read any Yotsuba! Great to get back into it! And so, here goes with my first question… もっと糸がぴんってなるまで もっと - [(some) more; even more; longer; further​](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%82%82%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A8) 糸が - [thread](https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/%E7%B3%B8) + が particle ぴん - pin? って - is this the て conjunction, or the quotation particle? なる - to become まで - until So Ena is telling Yotsuba to keep moving down “until the thread becomes like a pin”? Thank you everyone and it’s great to be reading Yotsuba again! ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/4 "2019-01-29T05:39:16Z")
Haven’t got the book on me right now, but I’m about 90% sure it’s “until the thread is taut”, but I can’t find a word in Jisho which backs me up here. It’s onomatopoeic - the って is the quotation marker. ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/5 "2019-01-29T05:40:11Z")
That makes perfect sense! Thank you! ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/6 "2019-01-29T05:40:58Z")
Yeah, that’s what it means, but I can’t find anything online. Perhaps the one [here](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-onomatopoeia/) that says ぴん Jumping up and standing erect But I don’t think so. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:47am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/7 "2019-01-29T05:47:15Z")
Page 5 ちがうー あいてる所を あてて ちがうー - no, not like that あいてる - ている form of 開く, to open, あいている, but with い dropped for casual speech, all modifying the noun 所 所を - place + を あてて - from 当てる, [meaning 3, to apply](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BD%93%E3%81%A6%E3%82%8B), in てform (with missing ください I presume) Lit: No, not like that, apply the open place (on the cup) (to your ear)! “No, not like that, the open bit!” ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/8 "2019-01-29T05:50:46Z")
> [@marcusp](#): > > あてて - from 当てる, [meaning 3, to apply](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BD%93%E3%81%A6%E3%82%8B), in てform (with missing ください I presume) I think every other definition from 3 makes more sense. 😂 to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against​ Since that one is: to apply (e.g. patch) 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:52am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/9 "2019-01-29T05:52:57Z")
Whoops! You are right! (I don’t know if the problem is my eyesight, or my brain! lol!). Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/10 "2019-01-29T06:26:34Z")
Page 8 So Miura turns up and says: 恵那も子供っぽいことやってんなー 恵那 - Ena も - too, also 子供っぽい - [childish](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%AD%90%E3%81%A9%E3%82%82%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%81%84) こと - thing やって - てform (or even casual ている form?!) of やる, to do ん - explanation particle の, in casual form なー sentence ending particle (kind of like “I see”) Ena is also doing childish things “Right, I see, Ena is also playing this childish game” ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/11 "2019-01-29T06:45:35Z")
> [@marcusp](#): > > やって - てform (or even casual ている form?!) of やる, to do > ん - explanation particle の, in casual form > なー sentence ending particle (kind of like “I see”) I think it is やっているなー → やっているなー → やってるなー → やってんなー Remember the [RN](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-5-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/31833/98) thing. I don’t think you can have “ん - explanation particle の” before “なー sentence ending particle”, you usually would have a です there. Like 何やってんだよ There’s also 何やってんの, where it actually is やっているの 😛 ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/12 "2019-01-29T07:32:22Z")
Thank you again Kazzeon! And thank you for linking back to your [epic explanation in vol.5](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-5-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/31833/98). A true classic! Much appreciated! ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/13 "2019-01-29T07:50:12Z")
Always a pleasure! > [@marcusp](#): > > And thank you for linking back to your [epic explanation in vol.5](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-5-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/31833/98). A true classic! If I try to explain again, I might get it wrong. 😂 Better stick to what works. > **Also, I don't know why, but WaniKani decided to start counting now.** > > ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/7/6/764cce63473c1d43cb7c95252afddeb146e8b546.png) 😛 ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/14 "2019-01-29T07:53:51Z")
> [@Kazzeon](#): > > WaniKani decided to start counting now Oh, I noticed that too. It’s Discourse, though. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/15 "2019-01-29T08:12:56Z")
So, here’s the song that Yotsuba’s singing on page 14: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/4/2/6/426fac06ee216b93fe7a5429699cbce0c4a76914.jpeg "もういくつねると") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDvH9eUdOTU) Can’t find the specific model of phone Miura is referring to, but au is a real phone manufacturer in Japan. Kind of interesting that the model number is “ **zed** eks” rather than the Americanian “zee”. Chiyo-chan’s dad putting in another cameo there. Yotsuba’s kaomoji is definitely the best part of the chapter. ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 8:23am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/16 "2019-01-29T08:23:32Z")
Wow, thanks for that! > [@Belthazar](#): > > Chiyo-chan’s dad putting in another cameo there I hardly like to ask this, but have I read all this Yotsuba and managed to miss a character?! I know the dad next door, who is rarely there, but who is Chiyo-chan? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/17 "2019-01-29T08:34:57Z")
> [@marcusp](#): > > have I read all this Yotsuba and managed to miss a character?! You’re missing the Azuma Kiyohiko Extended Universe. 😂 ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/18 "2019-01-29T08:36:13Z")
> [@marcusp](#): > > I hardly like to ask this, but have I read all this Yotsuba and managed to miss a character?! I know the dad next door, who is rarely there, but who is Chiyo-chan? Main character of Azuma-sensei’s previous manga, Azumanga Daioh. We never see Chiyo’s actual father on-panel, but two separate characters separately dream about him, and in the dreams, he looks like the stuffed cat that Miura uses as a weight. He speaks English. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/d/0/a/d0ab95a82e2554b933f3ef0bdc90226d229a5320.jpeg "Uh I wish I were a bird") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDnht964HyE) ---
**Author:** ![\_Marcus](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@\_Marcus](https://community.wanikani.com/u/_Marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/19 "2019-01-29T09:08:15Z")
Brilliant! I really am laughing out loud here at that clip! Fantastic! Thank you for the great explanation! Wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![yorbon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yorbon/32/236539_2.png) [@yorbon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/yorbon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881/20 "2019-01-29T09:41:09Z")
I recently started reading yotsubato, and laughed out loud when i saw chiyo’s dad on I believe fuuka’s shirt (could be someone else’s). Azumanga daioh is fantastic. Now at volume three of yotsuba, so I might join you guys in a few weeks… [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-7-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/34881.md?page=2)