Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is a Japanese manga by Hitoshi Ashinano. The title is usually translated as "Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip" or "A Yokohama Shopping Log"; it's often shortened to YKK by fans outside of Japan. The series ran in the monthly manga anthology, Afternoon (published by Kodansha) from 1994 to 2006.

Although it has yet to be officially translated and published in an English language version, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is often praised as a masterpiece of both art and storytelling. It's usually classified as science fiction or as a seinen series (aimed at older male audiences), but it also falls into the iyashikei (roughly translated as "healing") category; iyashikei is a label for slice-of-life stories with a cathartic or soothing quality.

Background of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga

The series opens with Alpha Hatsuseno, an android, setting out on one of her periodic trips to Yokohama to buy coffee beans to use in her isolated cafe, Cafe Alpha, in rural Japan. Her creator (who gave her his surname, and whom she calls "Owner") left on a trip some time ago, perhaps indefinitely; Alpha chose to stay behind to run the cafe, and to experience life in and around her home. The cafe is actually a part of her house, and, being far off the beaten track, receives very little business.

Through Alpha's rather naive but perceptive eyes, the reader learns about the world in which she lives. The earth has apparently survived a cataclysmic event, resulting in changes in geography and nature (e.g. hugely altered shorelines, giant vegetables, and strange new plants), and a slow dwindling of the human race.

However, these dramatic events occurred long before the start of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou; Alpha's life is a peaceful one, full of quiet discovery, cherished friendships, and inevitable change. While Alpha is essentially immortal (barring catastrophic mechanical failure, which happily never happens), the manga follows her emotional growth and maturity even as her few close friends change in ways she never can. Her journeys touch on several reoccurring themes throughout the series.

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