Well, considering Yotsuba can read, and that kids are (last I checked) taught the alphabet starting from age six in American schools, I'd say she's pretty well educated. And Koiwai works at home, no need for daycare. He seems a pretty good parent to me.

>>206222
Giving your kid a "head start" I think is detrimental, really. I mean c'mon, can't they at least have a chance to be babies/kids before being shoved in the hell of schools!?

>>206224
Much of the home training is devoted to teaching manners, proper social behavior, and structured play, although verbal and number skills are also popular themes. Parents are strongly committed to early education and frequently enroll their children in preschools.

Preschools (yochien), predominantly staffed by young female junior college graduates, are supervised by the Ministry of Education, but are not part of the official education system. The 58 percent of preschools that are private accounted for 77 percent of all children enrolled. In addition to preschools, a well-developed system of government-supervised day-care centers (hoikuen), supervised by the Ministry of Labor, is an important provider of preschool education. Together, these two kinds of institutions enroll well over 90 percent of all preschoolage children prior to their entrance into the formal system at first grade.

So Yots is in the 10%.

>>206227
You're saying that a green haired, strange acting, foreign looking girl, being raised by an adoptive, single, work from home father is in the minority?

I think at this point in the comic, it's a more enjoyable read with her not going to school. I could see her first days of school being entertaining in the future, though.

But from a real-world perspective, I think almost all kids benefit from having more socialization with kids their own age early on.

>>206229
My thoughts exactly. Once she starts school I just see the series just taking off on a different level. It might be interesting to see Yots adapt into school life, interacting with peers, teachers, activities, but then I'd really miss her mid-day adventures she already has going on with Koiwai.

Then again, she already interacts with the Ena and her sisters most of the time, so we'll see.

Yostuba's first day of school = The last day of the Yotsubato! manga.

Mark my words.

>>206233
Not exactly the boldest of predictions.

I hope, at her first day at school, we discover that Osaka is her teacher.

Do it Azuma!

>>206234

Considering the audience of this place, I bet half of them were still floored.

Koiwai doens't want Yotsuba to go to preschool because they teach evolution there and other satanic topics.

>>206227
She seems to have a good handle on verbal and number skills. Social skills and structured play, on the other hand... I guess the Ayase famile is working on that?

>>206237
Now I want to see a Jack Chick/Azuma collaboration project.

>>206254

As soon as Yotsuba wants to go to school, here comes the friendship. Yes. Lots of new little girls with their smiling faces and tasteful fashion over gentle curves. You can't not want to see that. You can't. You'd be stupid. You're stupid.

>>206254

Ena would make a great Chick tract villain. She's a godless liberal trying to lead poor Yotsuba astray.

>>206257
Oh come on, Miura is obviously the godless one. Dressing like a boy and swearing all that.

>>206258
Please, Asagi is the directionless one and clearly in a homosexual relationship. #1 on Jesus' Smite List.

>>206259
Ah, good point. Not to mention that Torako smokes, which I'm sure is also unchristian somehow.

I still imagine Miura being more of a potentially bad influence on Yotsuba due to the smaller age gap though (although Yotsuba does seem to kind of look up to Asagi).

(image repost)

>>206257
Ena making Yotsuba the godless liberal?

Excuse me but which one is from "the left"?

>>206258
>>206259
>>206260

So basically this whole family exists to corrupt her.

Except maybe Fuuka?

Now I had to look up this whole Jack Chick thing. I felt apprehensive, but I had to know.

>>Islam is another major topic for Chick tracts
>>In addition, Chick has written against other religious groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses... Judaism... Buddhism... Hinduism... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

My God, how is this guy even still alive? Do none of these people live where he live?

>>206265
People buy this shit - his comic and "preaching". Read his comics, he's a relic of the Christian (and probably original) persona.

Unlike this relic, which is equally fucked up, but not as harmful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Kikg3hnuE

>>206266
No, you misunderstand -- I grew up Christian. I went to church a lot and knew a lot of perfectly normal people there. I have never seen these things endorsed before, probably because nobody there was a complete fucking lunatic.

Every time I see this stuff on the internet I am fascinated and a bit mortified.

>>206268
And as I said, people buy this shit. There were churches around every block where I grew up and this was what a few nutters handed out to kids.
Guess you were lucky not to actually meet one in person.

>>206263
She participated in that pagan festival worshiping the demon gods. It was even her job to round up all the children and lead them on their march to damnation.

Speaking of Jack Chick, here's a music video for you all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092DUlx2hX0

>>206273
Whoooa-hubby hubby, baby - havin' a good time yeah...

Yeah, was a fucking crazy tact.

>>206260

Still my favorite Yotsuba fanart. Torako is freaking boss.

>>206273
Wait, you mean you're not supposed to molest your daughter?
Shit, who else knew about this?

>>206279

Don't pretend like anyone at /azu/ has managed to reproduce.

>>206281
.... did Sakaki eat Kaorin....?

>>206282
In the thumbnail it looks at first glance like Chiyo's head and eye is a tit and nipple

Back in the dorm I was hoping someone would pass out some Chick tracts so I'd have an excuse to hand out a few of these.

>>206284
There used to be a website that had "Anti Chick Tracts" that were actually full of educational information (like where that Christian fish symbol originated, or why Christmas falls on December 25th, etc.) but I can't seem to find it anymore.

I once did a paper on Chick's Islam tracts.
The guy's published three, each with a mutually-exclusive secret origin for Islam.

>>206285>>206286
That reminds me of the time when people were editing the Resist comics
http://www.resist.com/CARTOON%20GALLERY/CartoonIndex.htm

lol racism

>>206343
Is that from the one about Dungeons and Dragons? Or maybe Ouija?

It's not the D&D one. I think it's one of those strips talking about what the world will be like when the Antichrist reigns, with human sacrifice, etc. My guess is that Kamineko wasn't in the original, but he doesn't seem out of place ^_^ Actually, someone should make the possessed girl's hair more like Sakaki's, and it'd be just about perfect.

>Dungeons and Dragons

I always liked this version:
http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/
although it's probably funnier if you're into ebm/industrial music.

Since I like Front 242, I definitely liked that comic ^_^

>>206295

That guy must be a really sincere racist. It's not just that all Aryans are good-looking in his comics, he portrays all non-Aryans as ugly. I bring it up because even a lot of racist people still may think certain people of other races are hot, even if they disrespect them or consider them inferior.

>>206355
He portrays white gays and feminists as ugly, too, but that just shows how even off center his is to his own beliefs. Just look up "Arizona protest" on Youtube and see that these people don't have a leg to stand on.
If they're racist, fine, whatever, but they need to take a note from my dad and stfu about it if they don't want to appear like dopes.

>>206357
I'm at a loss for what's wrong with the guy on the right. Is the artist suggesting we shouldn't cure AIDS? Or is he trying ot make a point about how terrible the disease is by showing how AIDS sufferers are physically destroyed from the inside out?

Chiyo's out-of-context quote is actually taken from that same Chick tract about Islam, although the scene on the left is from an anti-evolution tract.

>>20235 Best idea ive ever seen.

>>206358
I'm sure both, implying they wouldn't be in that predicament if they did things the "right" way.

These racist comics writers should take a hint from Azuma.

Actually now that I think about it, I don't think a white supremacist would want to adopt the styles developed in a foreign country. Quest time children! First person to find a white supremacist propaganda comic with anime styled characters wins a prize.

To be fair, the artist of those comics has since said that he used to think Bill Clinton was a bad president, but learned what a truly bad president is after living under Bush II. He even posted a picture of himself shaking hands with Clinton on his website, whom he met after a speech. Clinton had no idea with whom he was shaking hands.

And I'm not making any of this up.

>>206372
I'm going to try and take you up on that offer, but have this for now.

>>206268

>>probably because no one there reads the fucking bible

these tracks always make me lose hope in humanity,
why cant anyone just settle for deism if they need a god?