i had to repost this because it never showed up in the tags due to there being links in the posts. i’ll put the relevant links in the reply instead.
anyway, this image was NOT drawn by the official artist. it is supposedly a fanwork by a doujinshi creator, specifically the artist of pretty neighbour (which is a r18 yotsuba doujinshi, so uh… yeah). ralen, the person who originally translated this image, did a retranslation on a yotsuba fan forum a few months ago:
My own, personal interpretation of Yotsuba and Daddy’s first encounter, as it seems unlikely to be explained in the original series.
The fact that she tells Ena she came from “an island to the left,” would indicate that she was adopted before she started forming memories, right?
It seems like the story setup is her being raised without really understanding what’s going on around her.
She reacted to the explosion from the fireworks saying, “I-It’s the enemy?!”
Those are the reasons I think it might be like this.
My friend says, “That’s probably not right.”
I don’t think it is either.
ralen also does the current unofficial fan translations, so i’d trust their word that this isn’t official art. please stop sharing it as such.