Yokohama Kaidashi KikÅ
Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko (Japaneseヨコハマ 買い出し 紀行, translates as " Yokohama Shopping Diary " ) is a completed manga series of the Japanese signatory Hitoshi Ashinano. It comprises over 2,000 pages and was first published in 1994. Manganese, which can be the His - Genre assign and has also been implemented as an anime, is about the daily life of a female robot with a human appearance, leads a small café on the coast of Miura Peninsula.
Action
Alpha Hatsuseno (初 瀬野 アルファHatsuseno Arufa ) lives in a Japan in a relatively near future, which apparently has no real industry more. Because of a natural disaster, there are fewer people. The sea level has risen sharply in a short time, which is why some coastal cities such as Yokohama are flooded. Streetlights jut out from the water and dominate the landscape.
Robots are something quite ordinary. Alpha that needs to go shopping in the nearest large city Yokohama, belongs to the robot class Alpha 7 M2 and the owner of a cafe, but no longer living with her for a long time. Therefore runs the Café Alpha, a small establishment on land where rare for someone to come - mostly travelers who are charmed by the hospitality Alphas.
In the vicinity of the café there is a gas station that called an old man, of all Ojisan (おじさん), directs with his nine- year-old grandson Takahiro (タカヒロ). Alpha, which enjoys dancing with friends and their Gekkin is friends with both of them and visited them occasionally to recharge their scooters or to spend time with them. In addition, near Alpha Café lives a nakedswimming beings in the form of a young woman, the only children, including Takahiro, shows up and shy away from adults. It is called Misago (ミサゴ).
One day receives Alpha visit from another robot woman cocoons Takatsu (鷹津 ココネTakatsu cocoons ). This works as a messenger of letters and packages and delivers alpha commissioned their owner a camera and a message. For the encrypted transmission of the communication from Mr. Hatsuseno, Alpha's owner, Alpha cocoons have to kiss. Cocoons and Alpha are good friends and meet up after their first meeting several times to talk or drink coffee.
Other figures are for example Makki, the friend of Takahiro and is jealous of the friendship between him and Alpha on the robot woman, and Sensei (子 海 石先生Koumiishi -sensei ), an old classmate of Ojisan that has been instrumental in building the Alpha - involved robot series and was the owner of an alpha robot. The Wanderer Ayase (アヤセ) comes several times in the area of the Café Alphas and the gas station and developed sympathy for Alpha and its neighbors. He met on his travels many different people; among other things, the god of water. As a typhoon destroyed their café, and alpha is going on tour in Japan. After a few encounters, new experiences and photographs she returned and opened her café again.
Takahiro comes in youth and comes with fifteen years of the West to learn there and pull away. Later, he and Makki had a baby, Saetta (サエッタ). While Takahiro and Makki are grown up and talk about other areas, other countries and cities and dream, Alpha has not changed and remains at her café.
Publications
Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko appeared in Japan from April 1994 to February 2006 in individual chapters in the monthly manga magazine Afternoon, in which, among other things, Mohiro Kitohs Naru Taru and Kosuke Fujishimas Oh! My Goddess were published. In the July 2006 issue of Afternoon also a six -page epilogue was published with the title Touge. The Kodansha publishing summarized these 140 individual chapters together in 14 anthologies. Between October 2009 and July 2010, a new edition appeared in 10 anthologies, containing in contrast to the first edition and the epilogue Togue.
The manga was also in Taiwan, South Korea published (as Café Alpha ) and Hong Kong. Outside of Asia, Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko has not yet been released.
In September 1997, the Kodansha publishing house brought out a book of postcards to the manga series, was released in March 2003, which consists of 143 pages artbook Kaidashi Yokohama Kiko - Ashinano Hitoshi Gashu (ヨコハマ 買い出し 紀行·芦奈野ひとし 画集).
Films
There are two different implementations of the anime manga series. The first was released in Japan in May and December 1998 in the form of a two-part original video animation on VHS and laserdisc, but is now also available on DVD. The animation studio Asiadou, which was responsible for the Spirit-of -Wonder - animes, produced the two episodes in which Takashi Anno directed. The music by the Japanese guitar Gontiti (ゴンチチ). The first OVA tells the first meeting of Alpha and cocoons.
In December 2002 and May 2003, the second original video animation Kaidashi Yokohama Kiko was: Quiet Country Cafe (ヨコハマ 買い出し 紀行Quiet Country Cafe ) released on VHS and DVD. The production was Asiadou together with Sony Music Entertainment Japan. As a director Tomomi Mochizuki served. As in the first OVA spoke Hekiru Shiina Alpha and Akiko Nakagawa cocoons. Ojisan and Takahiro, however, were spoken by other voice actors. The second OVA, which also includes two episodes for about half an hour, is about the destruction of the cafes by a typhoon and alphas following travel through Japan.
Awards
Hitoshi Ashinano won with the 20-page prologue of Yokohama Kiko Kaidashi 1994 Afternoon Shiki - Price, assigned from Afternoon magazine award for young artist. In the same year, among other things, Yoshitoshi Abe Tsutomu Nihei and were excellent. The prologue, which appeared in April 1994 in the afternoon, was the first publication Ashinanos as a professional artist.
2000, the manga was nominated in the general category for the Kodansha Manga Award, Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond but had to concede defeat. 2007 won Kaidashi Yokohama Kiko in the manga category Seiun the Prize, the most important Japanese science fiction literature award.