Artist's commentary
Yotsuba Art Evolution (2001-2021)
Yotsuba Koiwai Design Evolution (2001-2021)🍀
Notes :
-Yotsuba has a lot of alternative outfits she'd wear from time to time -The change from blue to red shirt weren't inconsistency but simply Yotsuba wearing a different shirt that look similar, her shorts are also sometimes blue which means it's a different pair -The shoes are shaded wrong in the Oneshot, or perhaps it's the cover art that's colored wrong, the shoes darker and lighter areas are flipped around -She did wear socks in Volume 3 where she went to the zoo -She is also seen wearing socks in arts in between chapters like in Volume 4 and in the back cover -Yotsuba's antennas always appears during the daytime, but when she's chilling at home mainly when she's going to bed, the antenna vanishes. The antennas also sometimes do not appear in arts in between chapters. It vanishes completely around Volume 9 -The eyeballs stops being colored white in Volume 5 back cover art -There was a rare art of Yotsuba pre-Try! Try! Try! one shot that includes a much older looking Yotsuba, and the overall design is inseparable from early Azumanga Daioh art. It's supposedly a teaser for the One-shot (correct me if I'm wrong) made in 1998 titled Try! Try! Try! First Trial "Burst Contact"
Volumes Released Month and Year for reference :
One-shot (July 2001) Vol 1 (Aug 2003) Vol 2 (Apr 2004) Vol 3 (Nov 2004) Vol 4 (Aug 2005) Vol 5 (Apr 2006) Vol 6 (Dec 2006) Vol 7 (Sep 2007) Vol 8 (Aug 2008) Vol 9 (Nov 2009) Vol 10 (Nov 2010) Vol 11 (Nov 2011) Vol 12 (Mar 2013) Vol 13 (Mar 2015) Vol 14 (Apr 2018) Vol 15 (Feb 2021)

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