The first few pages were SFX heavy, but thankfully it settled down after this.

There's no little merchandising plug above Azuma's name like there usually is.

When I was in Japan, I would see old ladies (and sometimes old men) sweeping the leaves off their front walk every morning.

That's heartwarming.

Fuuka needs glasses.

I guess it's not surprising that Azuma's art style would keep evolving over the past year, even when he's not drawing Yotsuba, but it's particularly noticeable with Fuuka.

I thought of localizing all the Japanese monster names to things like "saber tooth tigers" and "wooly mammoths," (because Grandma's from the stone age) but I think that might have been going too far.

Impressive spread.

Even after seeing >>230337, >>230338, and >>230339, it still took me like 5 minutes to realize "Yousuke" was Koiwai's name.

I guess that's one mystery solved.

I love you ralenkun

Last time it was Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and this time it's Pretty Cure.
There didn't used to be this many pop culture references in Yotsuba, did there?

It almost looks like Grandma's holding a baseball bat.

And that's all until next time. There will be a new issue next month, if the margin can be believed.

20 pages is a little shorter than typical, but I'm glad it wasn't much longer... I only just finished, and it's already midnight.

And as a .rar file.

Guess this means they named her themselves, though maybe we already knew that. (Yo-/Yo- presumably not a coincidence)

Both translators ignored my favorite Japanese pun (niwa niwa) :(

>>230365
That was a pun? How?

Also, the "You" in "Yousuke" is written 葉, the kanji for "leaf" (the same as the "ba" in "Yotsuba").

>>230367

>niwa niwa

Oh, Koiwai's 庭には in the bubble before that totally didn't register with me.

Thanks!

>>230352
That I'd like to see

Thanks for the scnlations Ralen!

Koiwai looks like a Yousuke, so it's not surprising. Interested to know who Kuriyama is now, though.
I wonder now if they'll move to a smaller home now that grandma mentioned it. It seems like a possibility now, but it would suck if Yotsuba's final chapter is her saying bye to the Ayases ;~;

Did Fuuka think there was a cat in the bag or the bag was shaped like a cat?

Schrödinger's bag

vc: inepe

>>230371
Was Kuriyama mentioned before this?

>>230372
The bag was shaped like a cat.

>>230348
"he might be gonna cancel"
Typo or intended?

Thanks Ralen.

>>230371 It sounds like Kuriyama is whoever is renting the house to Koiwai, possibly a friend of Gramma's or something which would explain how a freelance single father could afford such a nice place.

>>230357
There’s obviously going to be a chapter about Koiwai looking into buying a house, but of course that means they won’t be next door to the Ayases (wait, what’s the standard pluralization of a family name in Japan? English-speaking countries throw an S on the end…). Yotsuba’ll throw a fit, and eventually he’ll relent. Maybe he’ll wind up buying this house outright.

Not that it really matters; we only have a few more months in-world before Yotsuba’s first day of school, and that’s obviously when he’s going to end the series.

>>230357
Oh, and it looks like Yotsuba has better control over chopsticks than she did earlier in the series.

>>230375
That was intended. Sometimes I try to give Yotsuba more childish sounding speech.

anyone has chapters 82 and on?
pls sahre

Does he look like Grandma?

>>230378

>we only have a few more months in-world before Yotsuba’s first day of school

Wait how much time pasted since the first chapter? A few months in Yotsuba are many chapters, which on the other hand are many years in real life because thanks Azuma one chapter every 8 months

>>230384
Each chapter is roughly one day in the storyline. The series began in late July/early August. The camping trip was November 1st. They're now late in the first week of November.

>>230385
So, how many chapters until Yotsuba graduates from high school?

>>230388
At this rate, Azuma will be dead before Yotsuba leaves third grade, even if he did decide to continue the story.

It's been so long since the last update that I only check /azu/ every two weeks if I remember. At this rate, /azu/'s gonna be moved to another chan website before the next chapter.

Looks like some big changes are gonna happen. Is Azuma bored of the Ayase's or does this mean the beginning of the end?

Thanks again to Ralen for the quality scanlation!

>>230388
>>230389
Or Azuma could do something sensible and just forward the story years later so it can have a reasonable conclusion, à la YKK and Bunny Drop.
Just think, instead of seeing Yotsuba's first day of school, we see her daughter's first day instead!

I dream I had a father like Yousuke. He is a God-like figure for me.

Is it just me or does it seem like the chapters after the camping trip were done by someone other than Azuma? The style is just so different.

Oh Fuuka, why are you such a goof?

>>230394

Also, thanks Ralen!

>>230393
Keep in mind that the last chapter was 8 months ago, and the previous one 9 months before that. So it's not surprising that Azuma's style would have changed during that time.

It's also possible someone was helping him. I know Chica Umino tweeted on April Fool's about her doing the daily calendar due to Azuma having a bone fracture, but I don't know if the part about him having a fracture was a joke or not.

>>230391
Usagi Drop did not have a reasonable conclusion, and I hope Azuma wouldn't do something like that.

>>230355
In addition to an overall thank you for doing these, I want to thank you specifically for not localizing the names.

It sounds weird, but I really like when I'm watching anime or reading manga and I have to stop and look up any folklore or cultural references that they do. It's one of the reasons I love Azuma's work.

Ralen, you've got to stop this. This series is on the way to destruction. Only a concentrated attack of missiles aimed at the planet Venus can ensure this series destruction. Until that day, we have your translations, and we enjoy them. This series is beautiful. We can't just launch those missiles because some children might feel sad inside like they used to. We felt good, so we read the series. It's been our choice; and we love the results of our choice.

>>230402
Okay, while your thanks is appreciated, I have no idea what you're saying, so I figured it was probably a reference to something.

I Googled "Only a concentrated attack of missiles aimed at the planet Venus" to see what came up, and this was the fourth result:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1798782/3/Sailor-Moon-meets-the-Transformers

Raws for the new chapter (still numbered 87?): http://raw.senmanga.com/Yotsubato!/88/1

(it's also on share)

>>230520
Unfortunately I'm really busy until after this Saturday, so I don't know how soon I'll be able to get to this.

(rubs eyes)
Things taking precedent over Yotsuba!?
(commits sepukku with a banana)

>>230522
That sucks. I've waited a year for a chapter, a few days wont hurt too much. Take care buddy!

>>230520

They've renumbered it to 88 now. And this chapter shows us that Grandma is always right.

>>230523

>waited a year

Did you miss the one from last month?

>>230525
Well I'm saying I CAN wait a year for a chapter

>>230525
last month, wait whAAAAAAAAAAAAT? I missed a chapter from last month???????????

another azu reader commits suicide, this time the proper way, with a rusty fork

>>230520
This is the first chapter of Volume 14, right? If we’re still going by ‘seven chapters per book’, that is. So we should see the Volume 13 cover art soon, yeah?

>>230530
The final chapter of volume 12 was the camping chapter (chapter 82). This would be the 6th chapter of volume 13.

>>230531
Correction, since this is numbered and titled the same as last time, it looks like the second half of Chapter 87. So this would be the 5th chapter of volume 13.

so wait, was there a new chapter last month or not?

>>230533
Yeah, you're in it. Check the top of this thread.

Lucky for you guys I had a lull in my schedule today, so that combined with the short chapter length meant I was able to get to this sooner than expected.

Here's the second part of Chapter 87 (.rar to follow).

>someone

Always shift blame.

Grandma's about to pull a Tom Sawyer.

I didn't know they had Swiffers in Japan.

While I find this adorable, I'm a little troubled that Grandma is grooming Yotsuba to be a housewife...

Also, wow, huge gap in the shading on the back of Yotsuba's head there.

While looking up what Salonpas was, I learned that most Japanese people hate root beer because they think it tastes like Salonpas (Salonpas apparently has wintergreen oil in it).

Another gap in the shading on Yotsuba's hair in the same spot.

I hope that's not oil-based...

>Yousuke

I don't know if I'm ever going to get used to that.

Another panel with shading missing from Yotsuba's hair. Her top left pigtail in the bottom right panel.

Yanda calls her "Obachan" which literally means "Aunt" but is also used in a more general sense to refer to a woman middle-aged or older. I couldn't think of a good way of translating that, so I just had him call her "You!"

Wow, did Yanda suddenly get 10 years younger?

That's all until next time. Next month if the note at the bottom is to be believed.

>>230537
Wait is YOtsuba saying its bad that shes eating walnut bread or is it grandma?

but thanks for all your work!

>>230554
Shoot, I didn't even notice the direction of the word bubble in that panel. I also misread まえ as おまえ and was thrown off by the fact that Yotsuba refers to herself in 3rd person.

Corrected.

>>230538
She puts the sand in her pocket, not in a bucket.

Thanks Ralen!

>>230558
Argh, you're right... Bucket wouldn't have been ボケット anyway, it would have been バケツ.

Updated archive (again).
Thanks for pointing out the errors, everyone.

It's interesting how Yotsuba seems much more receptive to Yanda now. She still gets mad at him but seems fine with him being in the house.

Ralen, did you have any yokan when you were in japan?

>>230535

>short chapter length

I was worried it'd be Barasui-length there for a second.

Thanks for the translation!

>>230563
I had some cheap, overly-sweet stuff with chestnuts in it from the supermarket. It was kind of nauseating actually. Years ago I had a better one from a local Asian grocer.

How about "madam" instead of "You", which seems a bit impolite.

Also, nothing wrong with teaching kids how to clean up properly. Housewives can multitask pretty well and there are jobs that they can incorporate in their lives that they enjoy. I find it weirder that people see danger in being a good house caretaker. Silly Americans.

Thanks for the translation in any case!

>>230568

>a bit impolite.

This is Yanda we're talking about, though. Can you really imagine him calling someone "Madam"?

There's certainly nothing wrong with learning domestic skills in the context of a broader education. I'll concede this point if a future chapter shows Scruffy teaching Yotsuba how to change a flat bicycle tire.

>>230569

I'm imagining Yanda calling Koiwai's mom "The old lady" .

And I'm hoping we see Scruffy again, so he can show Yotsuba how to oil a bike chain.

>>230570

>I'm imagining Yanda calling Koiwai's mom "The old lady" .

Ooh, I like that.

I'm surprised Grandma hasn't bombarded Yousuke about settling down with a woman, yet. I was fully expecting her to at least hint Fuuka at him. Grandma is wearing those baggy clothes, but I'm sure she was quite a looker back in her time. Those squash tits were probably perky like Fuuka's once.

>Silly Americans.

True. I mean, this is a country where they expect women to quit once they're married. I think a mother with a job is even less common.

>>230572 you're making me very uncomfortable

>>230573
Did someone say perky Fuuka breasts?

>>230574
Yes. All the time. Never enough Fuuka.
She has the nicest teen tits. Or "teents"

>>230572

>this is a country where they expect women to quit once they're married

I don't think that's fair. The west in general accepts the fact that mothers work.
I've met Americans and only two of them were silly (and by "silly" I mean fucking stupid. We're all silly and that's a good thing), so I think the

>silly Americans

thing is also unfair.

>>230597

>this is a country where they expect women to quit once they're married

I thought this comment was in reference to Japan. I've read that's a very real expectation of many women with office jobs.

>>230598 is correct.

>>230538
Indeed. Grandma is a modern day warrior and today's Tom Sawyer.

>>230378

>and that’s obviously when he’s going to end the series.

What makes you say that.

>>230625
Yotsuba&! is the story of a young girl as she experiences the world in the budding years of childhood. Once she gets into school, that experience becomes structure, codification, and learning because you’re told (and only what you’re told) rather than the magic of a child discovering something on her own.

How old is Ena? Yotsuba’s 5 (so we’ll see her 6th birthday in a future chapter, I’m sure); are they close enough that they’d go to the same school, even for a bit?

Take into account just how long it has taken him to get this far and how many more months there are before school starts, I figure that it will almost have to end then.

Oh, and with Azumanga ending on the last day of school, it seems only fitting that Yotsuba&! end on the first day.

Once it’s over, I’d be game to see an extended epilogue of Yotsuba in high school, but he’d have to write it extremely well for it to fit.

I'd want a spin-off when Yotsuba ends. I don't think we spent enough time with some of the characters, like Tora and Miura.

>>230629
Maybe a spin off with Torako and Asagi at college, and they happen to share classes with Osaka and Tomo.

Oh no, my fanboy is showing.

>>230631
Social Disaster? Is that you?
If not, pretend you're him. I really miss him.

>>230628

>How old is Ena?

She's 9. Definitely.
I also believe the manga will end pretty soon, but I believe that because I need to believe it. I think every chapter is the last chapter so every new chapter is special. I want to be prepared for when the end is announced.
It'd be ideal to end it with Yotsuba first day of school, but it'll be sad to see the manga end. Also, what will Azuma do after Yotsuba?
Does he have a plan? Would people even accept a different manga? I don't know... I fear I may find myself one day reading his new menga and going "meh, this is pretty good but it sure ain't Yotsuba!"
If we're gonna have spinoffs I'd like to see parallel Azumanga Daioh, to be honest.

>I fear I may find myself one day reading his new menga and going "meh, this is pretty good but it sure ain't Yotsuba!"

His writing seemed pretty intact when he did those new AzuDai chapters. I think whatever he moves on to next (if he doesn't retire/die by then) I think he'll have a solid grasp on it.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Azumanga Daioh: The Next Generation. Seeing how every other current series tries to shoehorn slice-of-life bits, why not have the master return to show them all how this bullshit is done and run?

If and when Azuma runs out of material for Yotsuba, I'd like to see him do a series of one-off "what if" chapters featuring the cast of Azumanga. Things that would have no continuity with anything else, like Tomo brings about nuclear armageddon, or an alternate dimension where the whole cast is male.

>>230639
I wanna see Sakaki cutely failing at becoming a veterinarian.
Also, Chiyo in America going to college first and then becoming a Mormon.

>Tomo brings about nuclear armageddon

Well, if it's gonna happen I prefer Tomo doing it instead of a politician or a fanatic.

>>230640 After not being able to handle that she'd see animals suffering, Sakaki decides to pursue her second dream of being a florist. She ends up working at a flowershop, where the owners massive son is very interested in her. Jumbo makes Sakaki feel small and cute and they end up making a great couple and Sakaki loves spending time with Yotsuba.

I like how none of you are imagining the characters getting married

>>230642
I did say Chiyo is a Mormon now. Because she's smart but naive and she moved to America and I was thinking about Utah. That implies she's married. She's part of a weird and creepy marriage and now she has "sisters"

As for Sakaki, I like the idea of her being a mom and going "ara ara" because she has a rocking body for a teen but let's face it, that body is kinda wasted on a teen. That body is 100% MILF material, and it's extra rad if that MILF is mild-mannered and soft-spoken and is kind and loves her little son and goes "ara ara"
Speaking of which
>>230641
I like where this is going.

>>230642
I did say Chiyo is a Mormon now. Because she's smart but naive and she moved to America and I was thinking about Utah. That implies she's married. She's part of a weird and creepy marriage and now she has "sisters"

As for Sakaki, I like the idea of her being a mom and going "ara ara" because she has a rocking body for a teen but let's face it, that body is kinda wasted on a teen. That body is 100% MILF material, and it's extra rad if that MILF is mild-mannered and soft-spoken and is kind and loves her little son and goes "ara ara"
Speaking of which
>>230641
I like where this is going.

>>230641
I'd imagine Sakaki being kind of friendly, but awkward, like Torako.

>>230642
I like to imagine Yomi married to her right-hand man in a corporation where she would work, and Jumbo being henpecked by grown-up Miura.
>>230634

> She's 9. Definitely.

I alwais thought she was ten or eleven.

>>230653
Nope. She's definitely and absolutely nine probably.

>>230656
Wow, that's pretty good. How have I never seen that before?

Ena's age is stated as 9 in Try Try Try. I don't think her age or grade has ever been mentioned in Yotsuba&.

>>230656
When Miura was mistaken as a boy by the other characters I'm expecting more of a "boyish" appearance, rather than a cutie with shoulder-length hair.
I knew a guy who taught in Japan and frequently talked with one student. He didn't know that the student was a girl until towards the end of the school year.

>>230657

>How have I never seen that before?

'Cause I have access to a special Google most people don't know about, bro. The real Google.
But I've said too much already.

Your point about Try! Try! Try! is a great one.
I base my opinion about Miura's age based on looks and general behaviour. Yours is more solid. So I'll bet real money Ena and Miura are nine.

>>230660
I met a Chinese girl (or guy?) several times at this place I volunteer and I'm still not sure whether he/she was male or female.

But not because he/she was a tomboy. Think more like "Pat" from the old SNL sketches.

>>230661

>Think more like "Pat" from the old SNL sketches

Oh, no. I was thinking "well, this person must have been very cute" but I forgot the dark side of androgyny.
Speaking of androgyny, Koiwai. Am I right? Looking prettier each time I look at him.

or they could be using HRT

>>230662
When my mother saw him, she thought he was a girl. Ditto with Yanda.

>>230634

> Also, what will Azuma do after Yotsuba?

Series about high-school-age Yotsuba dating Yanda and Jumbo being married to Miura. I know that Azuma doesn't do romance manga, but I've been dreaming about such plot for years/

>>230671
sorry to burst your bubble Miura is nver gonna submit to the cock and neither is Asagi. The plot will be Jumbo married to Ena, Yousuke is married to Fukka and Asagi and Tora living together.

>>230674
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Jumbo x Ena makes no sense. Jumbo is a kind giant and he wouldn't touch someone that much younger.
Koiwai married to Fuuka I support. It makes sense. It makes so much sense.

>Asagi and Tora living together

I can see that.
Also, Yanda can fap himself to death for all I care.

TBH I'm kind of surprised that Asagi and Tora aren't living together already.

Asagi doesn't have a job and Tora's hobby is photography, which is like being jobless x2, so where they can live besides with their parents, I dunno.
They're sure gone a lot, though. There can't be that much going on even in their college town.

>>230692
Love finds a way, though. So what if they're jobless.
I don't think Tora eats anyway, so that alone saves them lots of green. They can live in her car, so that means no rent. Love conquers all.
Even your bigotry.

By the way, this semi-realistic pic really freaks me out because Torako here looks exactly how my little brother looked back in 2002. Same face, same body, same hair, even same fashion sense.

>>230693
good to know your brother was a good looking fuckboy
what's his rate for eating out assholes?

>>230693
This pic makes me want to lick Tora's boots.

>>230693

well, if they lived in USA they can get married now!
How excited are we that now gays and lesbian s can get married?
Let's see some hands up!

verification: "bi" I swear!

>>230700

>Let's see some hands up!

Yay for same-sex marriage. Allowing the gays to marry is only decent, is what I say.
I don't know why they would want to get married but now they can.

>I don't know why they would want to get married

Not just for the marriage itself, but for the actual rights and benefit packages spouses get (e.g. insurance, taxes, etc.). Actually, I'm not even sure if they get all that yet, either.

>>230711
Yeah, but you can get every single benefit we associate with marriage by incorporating. In my country we won't have same-sex marriage for at least ten more years, but same-sex couples cleverly fill in some legal forms and presto, they have something that is exactly like a marriage in matters such as inheritance rights, automatic hospital visitation rights, every single fun thing about taxes, etcetera. Singles can adopt here, too (which is something I plan to do by the way)
And the beautiful part is, straight couples are doing it too. Because marriage comes with a benefit package you can't customize. I say that's way smarter.
And hey, you can also have a ceremony because who the hell could stop you from that.
But in principle I think the right to marry should be extended to everyone, even though I think marriage is a bad idea.

>>230714 It's less for practical purposes and more for the meaning behind it. Being allowed to acknowledge to the world that you are in love and have sworn you devotion to each other means a lot, and being told that these feelings are invalid and you are not allowed to declare them feels awful.

>>230714
I was unaware of the "incorporation" option. Would that really come with hospital visitation rights? Maybe it's different in the US?

>>230718
Of course every country has different laws, but I'm sure in most countries there's a version of this practice.
It's a matter of knowing which documents are relevant.

>>230718

Prior to the various court cases, most US states had laws and/or constitutional amendments banning not only same-sex marriage but also marriage-like arrangements, presumably to prevent just such "clever" legal shenanigans. Some of these were worded broadly enough that people were worried they could interfere with the formation of small businesses.

I don't remember enough to hunt down specific details, but I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a number of cases where same-sex partners' attempts to secure rights by alternative means didn't hold up once "official" next of kin got involved.

On a related topic, it will be interesting to see what happens to civil unions (marriage-lite) in the future in states that offered them before marriage. Will that option remain in place? I know in some states a few opposite-sex couples have used them, so I guess there must be situations where they are preferable for some.

>>230720
It was only banned in 14 states actually, not most of them. Though they all probably did have laws preventing any civil union/domestic partnership style workarounds. My state in particular even went so far as to pass laws against using a valid out of state marriage for simple legal matters like changing your last name.

>>230727

That's 14(ish) as of last week. It was banned in most states until last October, and only a few states have legalized it through legislative action. The rest came through various court cases over the years (most fairly recent) where laws against it were overturned.

The only oddball I can think of is New Mexico, where there was no law specifying marriage as opposite-sex, and the court case came after a series of county clerks started unilaterally issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

This conversation is rapidly converging with the topic of the other thread, lol.

>>230728
well we DO have three very possible lesbian characters in Yots after all: Tora, Asagi and Miura.
There is no gay marrige in japan after all.

>>230734 Miura is prepubescent, she doesn't have a sexuality.

>>230720

>most US states had laws and/or constitutional amendments banning [...] marriage-like arrangements

Fucking government. They want a monopoly in marriage.
Demand smaller government, 'Mericans!
>>230715
Oh, I agree. It's about the principle. In that sense this is a triumph.
>>230735
Miura is human. Humans are sexual beings. Of course she has a sexuality.

>>230735
>>230737

Some gay people are obviously "different" from a very early age, while others you'd never know unless they tell you. Some know that they are attracted to members of the same gender even before they know the word for it, while others don't figure it out until well after adulthood.

Miura could be in either category on both points. I wouldn't be surprised if she was a lesbian, but I'm not ready to conclude for sure that she is. She's no Miu.

Contrast that with Asagi and Tora, who I'm pretty sure are already boning.

>>230737
Thank you. I thought I was just a sexual deviant around that age, which I'm personally fine with, but lately in topics like this I've been feeling that maybe I'm a freak for being that way.

spotted on danbooru today:

> Ugh, no "Yotsubato!" again..
> A new record, huh?

osaka hanging out with tomo is hard to believe

>>230747 yo they're super gay for each other in the Supplementary Lessons

>>230745
OSAKA WEARING STOCKINGS
>>230734
Asagi is more probably bi - we're told she had a boyfriend and also she likes attention from all the men in the manga.

And speaking of Miura, I think she will become a supervillainness. I'm totally serious. Would love to see her with dominatrix attitude.

>>230745
Who draws these pics? They are pretty good.

Also do Osaka's legs look particularly muscular with those stockings?

They are adorable either way!

>>230766
Artist is Hotaryuso.

>Torako is lesbian
>Miura is lesbian

Wouldn't it be ironic if it turned out that ShamWow was actually the only lesbian in the bunch?