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Title: Yotsuba&! (Yotsubato!)

Media: manga (there is no anime adaptation)

Approximate length: 15 volumes, 113 chapters (ch. 105-113 have not gotten a volume release yet)

Where to find it: it's published in English by Yen Press and their website lists multiple places you can buy it online, both in paperback and in digital formats; paperback is $13 USD per volume, digital is $6.99 USD. it is also easy to find if you google around.

What is it, in summary? it's a slice of life manga about a five year old girl called Yotsuba Koiwai, her dad, their neighbours, their other friends, and their everyday adventures.

What do you love about it? it does a fantastic job of actually showing the childlike ability to find joy and delight in the smallest things, and makes me as the reader appreciate them and get excited by them right alongside Yotsuba. she's the most fun child protagonist in any media I've ever experienced -- she's written with the appropriate level of maturity for a five year old, she's never annoying, and her interactions with the world around her are genuinely really funny, to the point where I've laughed out loud multiple times reading this manga (a rare feat) and I routinely reread it as a pick-me-up. it's just really fun!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? i already have, and you can find my FFFX request for it here, but the tl;dr is that I would essentially want more of what canon gives us -- Yotsuba's everyday adventures, her interactions with the people and world around her, the relationships between different characters, just casual slice-of-life stuff, not necessarily fluffy, but definitely low-stakes. 10k/10 pages of Yotsuba just vibing, hanging out with her friends and neighbours, and experiencing the world like only an excitable 5 y/o can? yes please!