This is the epitome of slow paced and slice of life. The story centers around Alpha, a very human robot, and her life at the Alpha Café, the people she meets, the friends she makes, and her mysterious owner.
Across the 14 volumes there are less than 10 named/important characters. This is quite impressive, given that the story spans something in the realms of 20-30 years. The author has created a tale which is happy – Alpha and her friends! Alpha’s adventures! But at the same time, without looking too deeply, there is a pervasive melancholy. Perhaps it is the references to the past, the
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Yokohama Shopping Log, Yokohama Shopping Trip, Touge Japanese: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 14
Chapters: 142
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 25, 1994 to Feb 25, 2006
Theme:
Iyashikei
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Afternoon Authors:
Ashinano, Hitoshi (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #592 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #202
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Apr 9, 2013
"Today will be tomorrow's yesterday"
The time is set in future where rising sea level has flooded most of the costal areas. The story of Alpha Hatseno, an Alpha 7 M2 series robot left by her owner at a countryside coffee shop, she acts fully like a human being running the coffee shop named 'Cafe Alpha'. The story surrounds Alpha as she is synchronizing with commoners in behind the backdrop of a futuristic country-side Japan. The story begins with Alpha making a shopping trip to Yokohama. Marionette and yet like an elegant woman Alpha's character is able to captivate the heart of most of the male readers. About the manga in ... 
Feb 17, 2021
The waves find their way past the shining streetlights and crash onto the eroding street. There's someone watching, a figure made to look, act and feel human. Here she stands, taking in this beautiful sight. There's no hurry, she's already closed her shop. There probably wouldn't be any customers anyway...
This is the setting of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (YKK), a calm beautiful and post apocalyptic slice of life manga. Story(10/10): YKK is the journey of Alpha Hatsuseno, a human like robot, through the "twilight age of humanity". Human civilization is in decline. Sea levels have risen and once big cities became small towns or were abandoned completely. ... 
Nov 14, 2020
Change: many claim they welcome it with open arms. Yet in practice, even non-serious or dangerous ones can be distressing for they might challenge our values, biases, and comfort zones, let alone changes tied to mortality (such as disease and aging). And outside changes themselves, mere knowledge on impermanence and ephemerality can be painful; understanding that no matter the value attached at anything or anyone they will not be the same can suffice.
However, this knowledge also has another aspect: transitions in life can make individuals more appreciative of the beauty and importance in details they would normally overlook, given often hectic lifestyles, and value life ... 
Nov 23, 2019
Yokohama shopping trip is truly the best slice of life manga out. Told through the lens of Alpha, an undying android, it's set in a post apocalyptic japan where the sea level has risen (and continues to rise), flooding cities and roads. There aren't many people left but those who do group together in tight-knit communities.
Our main character, Alpha, runs a remote cafe on the coast. She gets few visitors and she waits for the return of her mysterious master. Her origins are unclear and very little is revealed as the manga progresses. The setting and characters are unique and enjoyable - Seeing the ... 
Dec 30, 2011
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Recommended. Not an easy read but a light-hearted deeper sci-fi that doesn't let you down with characters or artwork. A little episodic at times. Well first off lets start with general feel and feelings about it. I really like the feel of the manga as a whole however in the start I almost quit since the dystopia of apathy just felt off and mismatching with the general feel of the story, however you get used to it and just accept the general apathy and resignment, and later on you'll accept it as a part of the world. Well due to this the general feel isn't as easy ... 
Aug 24, 2021
This is my first review so don't judge, but I saw some absolute bellends giving this masterpiece hate so I had to do something.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is a masterpiece (hence the straight 10's). as long as you like slice of life, you have to read this. It's an extremely bittersweet story, taking place in the twilight years of humanity, I believe that "mono no aware" describes it YKK perfectly. Translated to "the pathos of things", mono no aware is the awareness of impertinence and time passing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware). Story 10: The premise is pretty simple, the eruption of mt. Fuji led to flooding of Japan (and ... 
Aug 29, 2021
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, the one thing that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece.
This manga is a piece of art that can only be described as perfect, it has a feeling that it is impossible to replicate, the author wrote this manga with his heart on the hand and I can truly feel it. The love that has been put in this left me perplexed, the dialogues are so clever and subtle, the themes are executed with elegance and the character journeys feel so real, human and genuine. Alpha has won my heart, she is someone that I can only recognize as a fictional character because she ... 
Jul 5, 2018
By now I have re-read YKK in full 3 times, and all I can say is that with each reread my enjoyment for this manga has only grown. Every reread has offered up new secrets and details I hadn't noticed, or had forgotten.
Note: I highly recommend finding a cozy soundtrack and listening while reading this. Personally, doing so has enhanced my experience tenfold. If you don't have any particular music in mind, I recommend the soundtracks to the YKK OVA's as they do quite well at capturing the tone of the series. Ashinano Hitoshi's art goes from good to great to amazing over the ... 
Aug 17, 2020
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is about an android living in a post apocalyptic world. It was published in 1994 to 2006 and the author is Hitoshi Ashinano.
The story has odd pacing and its feels slower than then the time that has passed. There are some time lapses in the manga. It also has quite short chapters. The rules of androids were simplistic. In general, the manga was calm and there wasn't much conflict in it. The characters were well written and the main character, Alpha was very likeable and interesting. There was also plenty of character development. The art in Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is amazing. All ... 
Dec 20, 2019
This is the kind of manga that you can read on a bed under a blanket and feel warm but the warmth comes from what you read. it's not a heavy dialogue story and many chapters have as little words, but the experience is very warming. it is of a revelatory nature about the future and its people and you can easily insert yourself in it.
the art style is most efficient for telling this kind of story, the character will grow with you.and most of all it is a "chill" manga. If you let yourself be immersed you will be rewarded massively. 
May 13, 2017
This is my first review but this manga definitely deserves one! I originally watched the first OVA of the anime over a year ago and was completely blown away about how a two episode OVA could captivate me the way YKK did. So after about a year I decided to read the manga and wow it might be the best manga I've read. Alpha is an android living in a post-apocalyptic Japan and runs a coffee shop that only gets one or two customers a week. We see Alpha's everyday adventures of learning about the world, appreciating the nature around her, and watching her
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Sep 7, 2022
This is a life-changing classic. This manga, as well as its OVAs, feels like therapy. Reading this manga every night before going to sleep had a major effect on my mood and absolutely changed my outlook on day-to-day life. Not everybody may have the same experience with this manga, but I found it as well as the OVAs at a perfect time for it to effect me.
Alpha's relaxing journey through life as well as the relationships she forms with the various characters creates just such a comfy vibe throughout the entire manga. I wish my life could be so simple as to decide whether I ... 
Oct 10, 2023
La siguiente reseña está en inglés y español
The following review is in English and Spanish English (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator) The manga is the story of Alpha in his small cafe in Yokohama, classifiable (and can even be considered as an important influence) in the archetype where "nothing happens". The chapters are small anecdotes of Alpha's daily life and, from time to time, she shares the limelight with one of the other secondary characters: The children who sometimes visit her, an explorer who every now and then returns to town, a friendly messenger or the eternal passenger of a strange airplane. Nothing strange except that Alpha is ...
Oct 7, 2018
I have registered in MAL right now just because I wanted to recommend this to the world. The idea of a calm and slow apocalypse that makes no violence and leads hummanity into the end of big urban centers is the greatest thing I saw in it. Although the manga doesn't seem to aim at criticizing modernity, it surely shows how life was happier before the massification of culture and impersonalization of things. It may sound stupid that the characters, which are mostly amazing, live their simple lives in the simplest way possible fiding happines in the simplest stuff, but the way it is shown
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Oct 29, 2021
I just finished reading Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou earlier this week and my, what a joyful affair it was!
The story, focusing mainly on a robot in a world that's rapidly being submerged, doesn't seem like it'd be a restful one at first, and yet, YKK is the most breezy reading experience I've had in a good while. The tone is wistful, filled with melancholy and wanderlust. The writing is self-assured and doesn't feel the need to constantly be throwing stuff at the reader; a lot of the chapters are completely dialogue-free and many aspects of the story remain a mystery to the very end. The characters ...
Sep 4, 2022
"Masterpiece" is the right word. Over the course of the manga a world is gradually revealed. Very little is overtly stated about the world but it is our world and it has clearly changed. The changes are not explained - the sea is rising and we don't know why. Presumably the inhabitants know but they have become accustomed to it and do not walk around explaining it to each other any more than we walk around explaining why the sky is blue to each other. Civilisation as we know it has ended and it seems that humans are slowly becoming extinct. But the story is
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Dec 2, 2023
It's a fleeting collection of memories, short-lived moments, and an undivided appreciation for all that exists and happens. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou can be best described as a rudimentary stage of observational meditations, capitalizing on the short-lived nature of learning something new daily, while loosely connecting these discoveries through either recurring characters or a continuation of small adventures. Ashinano's intended feeling of relaxation is steadily present, but past the initial intrigue of rarely traveling to new places and meeting new people, it becomes a matter of sustaining the attraction of following Alpha's menial livelihood. Certain chapters legitimately challenge our perception of Earthly attachments, questioning how one
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