Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. (1/2)

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. (2/2)

The eyes can be assembled with either yellow or black clear parts — your choice.

With the yellow clear eyes installed.

The articulation is actually quite flexible, more so than it looks.

Walking pose

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. - Sitting pose. The backside actually floats off the ground making it technically

Sitting pose.
The backside actually floats off the ground making it technically impossible, but you can force it into a sitting position using the included leftover parts.

Push-up pose

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. - Various other poses (1/4)

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. - Various other poses (2/4)

Various other poses

Together with Danboard and Danboard Mini.

The danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. has been released as a variation of the Danboard Mini that appears in Yotsuba&!. Based on the painted model by illustrator and modeler Kow Yokohama, it's essentially the same kit as the normal version with a different molded color — the basic parts lineup is completely identical.

On top of that, a small set of waterslide decals has been added for the Yokohama version, which bumped the price up by ¥200. The manual also includes a simple painting guide in Yokohama's style, so it's basically a kit aimed at people who want to paint it — though if you're going to paint it anyway, the molded color doesn't really matter, meaning you could just as well build the normal version. So in the end, the new waterslide decals are really the main selling point of this kit.

At its core, this is a kit that goes together fine without glue, with joints that are surprisingly flexible and solid enough for what it is — making it fun to both paint and pose in all sorts of positions. It's a niche kit to begin with, so factoring in the added waterslide decals and painting guide, it feels like a color variant that Yotsuba&! fans will find pretty meaningful in its own right. :-)

Yotsubato! danboard mini Kow Yokohama Ver. | 2016.1 | ¥1,080

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.