Yotsuba - An Introduction

People might be wondering why Rai is suddenly taking pictures of this certain toy... Questions such as: what is this toy? who is this character? why the sudden interest? might have come up. All these I'll try to explain in this post.


During my second to the last visit in Hong Kong last 2008, Rai fortunately had a scheduled trip as well. And whenever he is in HK, he would always drop by the toy stores that he frequents in 188. In one of our rounds, this cute little girl figure caught my eye. It was her facial reaction that I took a liking of. At that time, I didn't know who she was or what anime series she came from (if ever she did come from one). One day, Rai told me her name was Yotsuba after apparently checking out her box and had read her info from wikipedia. That was the end of it... or the beginning of it, I'd say.

Rai had a succeeding trip, without me this time. When he came back, he had with him this. It was a super nice surprise indeed (can't keep myself from smiling whenever I look at Yotsuba's face... really). He knew this one was a second version and so soon after, he again surprised me by giving me the original version which he found in Greenhills. (i currently have 3 Yotsuba figures courtesy of Rai.... why three when it's just supposed to be two? I'll explain next time).

What's so special with this toy? Being a Revoltech figure, it happens to have "revolver" joints that allows one to move his head, arms, legs any way you want it thus causing the figure to be dynamic and posable. This then becomes my first ever action figure, and a cute one at that. Her character on the other hand comes from a self-titled manga. I have yet to read the manga but based from what I know, it's about this 4 year old girl and her everyday discoveries. I like that she has this motto as well: Enjoy Everything!

Since the figure is small and won't take much space, I see to it that I bring her with me most of the time (for possible photo opportunities). What's even better is that Rai always has his trusty IXUS with him, too. So far, aside from the many dinner outs 'she' has attended, 'she' was able to have photoshoots in Hong Kong, and recently, in Singapore (refer to Rai's Singapore trip posts for 'her' pictures). Rai has been fond of 'her' as well and enjoys taking photos by this time now. :)

Sometimes Rai says that Yotsuba is me, saying we have the same facial expression when I'm amazed and happy at the same time :p. He could be right or wrong... one thing is sure, Yotsuba's motto in life is something I would want to use as well :)