Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Detail shots (1/4)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - You can swap out 5 different facial expressions, and 2 blank faces for custom painting are includ

You can swap out 5 different facial expressions,
and 2 blank faces for custom painting are included as a bonus.

A total of 12 hands are included.

Two of them are a hand holding a camera and a hand holding a small bubble wand.

The accessories include a bag, a large bubble wand, a sitting waist part, and a teddy bear.

By swapping out the lower body, you can naturally recreate a sitting pose.

The little teddy bear has articulated arms, legs, and head.

You can even tuck it right into the bag.

The limb articulation is pretty average.

Each of the 4 strands of hair moves individually.

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (1/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (2/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (3/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (4/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (5/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (6/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (7/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (8/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (9/12)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - Various poses (10/12)

Various poses

Together with the previously released Danbo Mini and Danbo.

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai - You can borrow Danbo's torso for a crossover — just note that you'll need to insert the separatel

You can borrow Danbo's torso for a fun crossover.
Just note that you'll need to insert the separately included support parts inside the torso.

Yotsuba with Danbo's torso applied

This kit is a plastic model of Yotsuba Koiwai from Yotsuba&!. It originally came out back in 2013, but stock was so limited at the time that I could never get my hands on one — so here I am finally reviewing it in 2021. ^^

The basic lineup is your typical Kotobukiya-style character model kit. To capture Yotsuba's wide range of expressions, no fewer than 5 interchangeable face parts are included. On top of that, 2 blank faces for custom painting are also provided, so you can apply wet decals for the eyes. The four strands of hair at the back are also articulated, giving you a surprisingly good variety of expressive poses.

Hands are equally generous — you get 5 sets of standard hands plus hands holding a camera and a small bubble wand, for a total of 12. Accessories include a bag, a large bubble wand, a teddy bear, and a sitting waist part. Swapping out the entire lower body with the sitting waist part lets you pull off a natural seated pose, and the adorable little teddy bear — with its articulated head, arms, and legs — is honestly the highlight of this kit. That said, the body's overall articulation is a bit on the lacking side, so this feels more like a kit where the accessories and facial expressions do the heavy lifting rather than dynamic posing.

As a bonus feature, you can swap torsos with the separately sold Danbo kit for a crossover build — throw in the support parts and they combine together quite convincingly. Either way, if you're a fan of the original Yotsuba&! manga like me, this is a solid little character model kit that's well worth building. :-)

Yotsubato! Yotsuba Koiwai | 2013. 3 | ¥3,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.