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Synonyms: Yokohama Station Fable

Japanese: 横浜駅SF

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 27, 2016 to Nov 1, 2018

Genre: Sci-Fi

Serialization: Young Ace UP

Authors: Shinkawa, Gonbee (Art), Isukari, Yuba (Story)

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Ranked: #14972²

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Members: 1,535

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MangaYoung Ace UPShinkawa, Gonbee (Art), Isukari, Yuba (Story)

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Yokohama Station SF (manga)

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Two hundred years ago, Yokohama Station, which had been under constant construction, developed the ability to self-propagate. Now with nearly all Honshu, the mainisland of Japan, consumed by the growing station, the population has been split into two groups: those who live inside the sprawl with fare cards embedded in their brains and the few who persist on the remaining scraps of untouched land. Hiroto has lived his whole life on the outside, but when an exile from the station entrusts him with a mission and a ticket, he ventures into the ominous belly of the beast for the first time...

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Yokohama-eki SF has been published in English as Yokohama Station SF by Yen Press since May 23, 2023.

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Sep 2, 2024

Neostorm_Y

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When I first discovered this series, I was actually looking for series similar to "BLAME!" and I kept the definitions to sci fi since I dislike fantasy in general for its uncreatively along with native isekai. Im sure this was mentioned before, this series is often compared to blame! with its expanding organic-mechanical infrastructure, enclosed spaces, and a lone explorer traveling long and wide in search for some one.

however once I had actually gotten to read this, although the similarities seem good at a first glance. I would say that it stops here at the synopsis and some of the architecture.

you see, yokohama-eki ... SF actually has a lot more similarities to "the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" series than it does to blame!.

not only are all of the characters very talkative unlike blame!. there is a small subtle sarcastic wit with the situations at hand.
any of the events that happen in this manga(or novel I should say for more detail) are actually an allegory to real life japanese society. whilst series like Akumetsu has the subtlety of being hit by a hammer, and shin sekai yori tells a cautionary tale in the style of brave new world or 1984. yokohama-eki SF uses clever allegories and in universe mechanics as a nod to problems in our modern every day life often taken to its logical conclusion through the ideas they present.

with mind numbing bureaucratic processes, to mindless consumerism. society itself is imagined as a nightmarish combined state of modern "hustle culture" along with apathetic consumers, all constantly concerned about making bag unable to make connections to people, complacency, overreliance on the so called station along with the uncaringness of authorities outside of giving themselves a pat on the back for making up work to keep people busy, and the class issues of those within and outside of the mega structure and other forms of discriminations.
the protagonist is almost like an allegory in it self,
for the massive immigration from rural villages to urbanized cities which happened in japan from the 70s to now, and the way that he sees the world and how he's treated is an interesting perspective, like some one who has to suddenly explore an unknown landscape, people who follow completely alien rules (to him) and navigating this place both physical and mentally seems almost like exploring an alien world. In this aspect it is not unlike Blame! except instead of fighting groups of safeguards with guns like killy,
he is fighting the bureaucratic system of japan itself.
until the end where he becomes part of the system in a sense, like the station consuming all around them, in the end he gets consumed, by japans representation of modern zanzabar (from stand on zanzabar)

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Aug 27, 2024

DinoNo1

Mixed Feelings

Yokahama-eki SF is a sci-fi whose premise sounds a bit weird and unusual. A station which is trying to gobble up all of Japan, sounds like someone's fever dream right? But this is the actual premise. The station has somehow gained sentience and is now starting to replicate itself to cover Japan. The story focuses on our protagonist, who has been given a task by a now expelled resident of the station, to reach a certain place inside the station.

Now starting about it, the worldbuilding, despite being scarce, was well thought out considering its abnormal premise, but I wouldn't say it was good. While there ... were various things told to the readers about the station's structure and origins and the state of the world due to the catastrophe here and there as we progress reading, there just wasn't much visual material to support on the claim of good worldbuilding. I swear I could have read a few more of just our protagonist going on an adventure exploring the station.

Now moving onto the next point and the art was just phenomenal, right on point. Its visual storytelling is definitely something which you can consider worth looking forward to. There are several pages where the dialogues are kept at minimum and you are allowed to soak in the world through the drawings, although as prior mentioned, had there been more of it, it would have really elevated this manga into new heights in terms of art and storytelling.

Now onto the story and despite having a weird enough premise, the story itself is not that grand or interesting. The aspect which I enjoyed was rather the survival and adventurous aspect of the story and not the story itself. Had it been a survival manga, things would have been a lot different, but it is not. Although it does deliver on the Sci-Fi aspect which it promises on.

Also the writing of the story starts to dawdle somewhere in the middle as it abruptly changes the perspective of the story to a scientist as the main character. The change was solely done as to introduce us to the world which had not been covered by the station yet. The thing is this story does nothing as to bringing the change to the existing one. The only connecting thread between the two main protagonist was established in the last minute as one of them is saved by the other. This part also tries to introduce us into some vague politics but fails in that aspect too.

About the ending and I found it somewhat lacking too. The ending as grand as the one we see in the manga has little to no build up. It sadly fell flat. Its like you set out to beat up a B rank monster to end up defeating the demon lord with a single strike.

While despite various inconsistencies regarding the writing aspect of the story, its not like the manga as a whole was downright awful, it was still very much enjoyable. I do recommend you to give this one a read.

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