I just got volume 3 this week, and like it just as much as the first two volumes. There's more of Rin's mother than of Daikichi's in this one, but the focus is more on Daikichi getting his life on a more even keel, with the occasional stumble still.

I like it a lot, and while sometimes I'm startled by a decision to not include a background, I find generally the presence or absence serves the mode at the moment. As a whole, I think of it as Yotsuba&! flipped to focus on the parenting than the experience of childhood.

Rin is 'dorable.

---L.