Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō
| Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō | |
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō Japanese cover volume 1
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| ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 | |
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| Genre | Science fiction, Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hitoshi Ashinano |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Afternoon |
| Original run | June 1994 – February 2006 |
| Volumes | 14 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Takashi Annō |
| Music by | Gontiti |
| Studio | Ajia-do Animation Works |
| Released | May 1998 – December 1998 |
| Runtime | 28 minutes each |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Original video animation | |
| Quiet Country Cafe | |
| Directed by | Tomomi Mochizuki |
| Written by | Tomomi Mochizuki |
| Studio | Ajia-do Animation Works SME Visual Works |
| Released | December 2002 – May 2003 |
| Runtime | 32 minutes each |
| Episodes | 2 |
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (Japanese: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行?) is a science fiction manga written and illustrated by Hitoshi Ashinano. The title can be translated Yokohama Shopping Log or Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip. One tankōbon volume, the publisher's former English language website, and the second original video animation (OVA) series have the subtitle Quiet Country Cafe in English. The series is often referred to in wāpuro rōmaji as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, or simply abbreviated as YKK by fans outside Japan.
The manga was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from June 1994 to February 2006, with a concluding postscript episode in July 2006, and collected in 14 tankōbon volumes. Parts of the story were adapted as two OVA anime series of two episodes each.
The series depicts the daily life of a robot who runs a coffee shop some time after the Earth's ecology has collapsed. It is noted for its spare pen-and-ink drawing style, as well as its calm, meticulously paced stories and engaging characters.Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō won the 2007 Seiun Award for best science fiction comic.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō is set in a peaceful, post-cataclysmic world where mankind is in decline after an environmental disaster. Exactly what happened is never explained, but sea levels have risen significantly, inundating coastal cities such as Yokohama, Mount Fuji erupted in living memory, and climate change has occurred. With the seasons being less pronounced, the winters are milder and the summer isn't scorching anymore. The reduced human population has reverted to a simpler life, and the reader is told this is the twilight of the human age. One scene depicts an anti-aircraft missile being used in a firework display. Instead of raging against their fate, humans are quietly accepting.
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