Talk:Yotsuba Koiwai

message: I'm taking this paragraph out for a couple of reasons:
*ADVs back-cover blurb in the English version is not a foreword to the manga, and this idea isn't repeated in the Japanese version. Without official weight from Azuma, the paragraph is just idle discussion and speculation.
*Trying to resolve these ideas with stuff like "However this is not true because she is just acting how a regular 5 year old would act if she lived in a spacious island." is stepping into original research territory.
Not to say that the kid isn't spaced-out sometimes, but I don't think the paragraph adds anything. - Omnisentry 03:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Yotsuba as an alien" plot

message: Shrines do not confuse Yotsuba: in chapter 5, she not only knows that festivals take place in shrines but how to pray at one.  I'm replacing that example with doorbells, as it does take a couple days for her to get the hang of them (both inside and outside uses). Quasirandom 18:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What Yotsuba doesn't know

message: When Yotsuba claims she's "from the left," is she talking about her (adoptive) grandparents' home or where Koiwai found her?  In chapter 4, Mrs. Ayase seems to think Yotsuba meant a home overseas, but throughout the first several chapters, when someone asks where she's from, as far as I can tell she responds with information about where she just moved from (either "the left" or, while gesturing with her left arm, "waaaaay over there"; in a 4-koma in ch 24.5, she does both). It's not even clear to me she has any memories from before she came to Japan. Quasirandom 18:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Eventually answering my own question, in ch 14 Ena reports that Yotsuba says she'd been living with her grandmother, and before that on an island to the left. So origin, not grandparents, are to the left.  I've tidied the description based on that. -Quasirandom 15:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where Yotsuba claims she's from

message: As part of establishing the notability of Yotsuba-chan (given recent changes about inheritance of notability in WP:FICT) we need to establish her out-of-universe existence. Which I take to mean a) noting critical/reviewer reactions to her (going through reviews already cited in the main article for a start) and b) find citations for those two instances of Yotsuba as pop culture references -- and possibly find others. Any help with the latter would be appreciated. (I mean, I can see Yotsuba imagery throughout 4chan -- how do we cite/source that?) —Quasirandom 21:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Annent this, I'm amused to see in this review of Strawberry Marshmellow, Miu described as "Yotsuba Koiwai with fangs." I've no idea how to frame this in the article, but if critics are comparing other characters to Yotsuba, that's certainly some sort of notability. —Quasirandom (talk) 17:39, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yotsuba in the real world 

message: Anyone up for summarizing Yotsuba merchandize? I know about the figurine, but not much beyond its existence (any sales figures?), and the materials mentioned the main article of course. Is there anything else encyclopedic? —Quasirandom 14:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merchandizing 

message: It occurs to me I should copy out those peer review points that are still unaddressed, just so we can keep track:
*The article is currently very short ~700 words. Consider adding more information. Some ideas may include information about the character's Production, the Character's role in the fictional work, etc.
*The article does not explain why the character does what she does (both in the fiction, as well as why did the writer decide the character does what she (the character) does). If possible, this should be expanded. 
The second being something essentially a request for an "Origins and influences" section, if we can gather enough from Azuma's statements about it. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review points to work on