Did you get that chapter list off Wikipedia? Because that’s the one I’ve been consulting for a while too, while waiting for this volume to come out. It’s wrong, though. It’s the listing of the magazine chapters rather than the tankobon chapters.
Just want to be clear, here - are we reading the entirety of what the volume calls よつばとクリスマスツリー, or are we stopping somewhere in the middle?
Well, on the assumption that we’re not going to spending sixteen weeks on this volume reading half a chapter at a time, I read the whole chapter. It’s been four long years, and oof have I forgotten how hard it is to understand what Yotsuba is saying some of the time…
Does it feel odd to anyone else how fast Yotsuba went from riding her bike for the first time to taking the training wheels off? Yes, she got the bike in volume 6, almost twenty real-world years ago, but in-universe it was September 1st, and now it’s… some time in December of the same year. Two-to-three months on the training wheels.
Page (ugh, this series needs page numbers) 20, second-to-last panel, exactly what is Yotsuba calling a きんぎょ?
I’d forgotten how hard it is to understand Yotsuba sometimes…
Took me far too long to work out what ヘイシリ was meant to be. Ah, Yotsuba. Six in-universe months ago, everyone was using flip phones and CRT TVs, and now you’re going “hey, Siri” like it’s nothing.
So… long story short, I don’t have a physical copy of this volume. I had for a while planned to order it, but for it to be cost-effective to my country, I needed to order many other volumes from other series - which I tried to do, but the two series I was actually interested in owning physically both had one volume which was out of print =._.=
So I ended up instead getting the digital version of the Dengeki Daioh magazine, for the months where the chapters of vol 16 were published … but now I’m kinda confused.
It was mentioned at the beginning of this thread, but in the magazine, Yostuba to Christmas Tree was two chapters (105 and 106). Looking at the Reading Schedule, it seems there were combined into one for the Tankoubon. All good so far.
Problem is, chapter 107 in the magazine is Yotsuba to Omise, but the Reading Schedule says Yotsuba to Shokudou.
Did the chapter get renamed or something? Is it a Tankoubon only chapter? =@.@=
Yah, the magazine chapters are a bit different. This one got renamed. There’s an extra few pages in the tankobon. A number of panels were also redrawn.
Indeed. I managed to find a… copy of the magazine chapters online - if the one I’ve seen is accurate, the magazine version of this chapter ends with a panel of dad asking for the check, please, but the tankobon version has four extra pages of Yotsuba trying to convince him to sign up for a point card.
Takao-san, here we come. Last time the manga hinted at where the Koiwais live, it was around Agano Station on the Seibu-Chichibu line. I mean, it’s obviously not where they actually live - Agano is nowhere near as built-up as the location in the manga - but running on that assumption anyway, if you depart at 8am, you can get to Takao-san by 10am.
If anyone’s still reading with the magazine chapters, this chapter is よつばとやまのぼり parts 1 and 2.
So, one of the things that Takao-san is mildly famous for is that this highway interchange, which is frequently posted on the internet with comments like “whoa, what a crazy highway interchange”:
is located right nearby (specifically, here). I’m kinda wondering if that’s where they are at the bottom of page, uh… 89. Something like… this angle.
Giving some thought to posting comparison shots from my visit to Takao-san back in 2018 (though I did that for Yama no Susume already ). Or I could just do Google Street View links. Like, here is the bottom of page 90.
Page 99, trail 6 starts all the way over here. It’s also considered the most difficult of the six Takao-san routes, so it’s a fairly interesting choice when bringing a kid along. (For our trip, we went up via the chairlift and trail 1, then came back down trail 4 and the funicular, so I don’t have any comparison photos for this section anyway.) The rest of the route is available on Street View, so I’ll leave it up to others if they’d like to hunt down other specific locations.
I do like Smirking Yotsuba’s attempt at logic at the top of page 102.
It’s the listing of the magazine chapters rather than the tankobon chapters.
