Yokohama kaidashi Kikou OVA 2

[@nicholasgunn2982]

This show is peak comfy.

[@uuuuu1111]

Apocalypse has never been so comfy.

[@Endymion766]

"The lights that once shone so brightly with purpose, now shine, for the sole purpose of shining."

[@francisgoldberg4185]

The robot's purpose was to tend to the coffee shop, now her only purpose is to live.

[@jimjim292]

@@francisgoldberg4185 Yep and humanity's going extinct.

[@DANNY__JK]

what a powerful metaphor

[@giuseppeagresta1425]

I love that bit It draws a nice parallel to Alpha's café too

[@MapleMilk]

This uploader's a hero A damn hero I tell ya'

[@orbitaloutcast9878]

Turned your likes to 30 just for that complement ;)

[@lamcb.9476]

24:35 that shit made me cry. Like silently weeping at the beauty while I'm sitting alone in the kitchen waiting for my stew to be done. I am so glad I found this anime masterpiece

[@Mabushi22]

Lamc B. Pls go read the manga.

[@umjk6426]

@@Mabushi22 is it really that good to start reading. At which chapter should i begin?

[@Mabushi22]

@@umjk6426 read from vol.1. I remember there are 14 volumes.

[@umjk6426]

@@Mabushi22 Man u r a fucking legend ily After one year answering a question

[@gol-r5836]

Ikr

[@markypoo1841]

I love how with this anime there are parts that are just silent and you can embrace and hear and use so many of the senses it really is a true masterpiece

[@fryfry377]

This episode is so frickin' Zen I can hardly take it. So much stated without words... and what words there, are only window dressing for the truth.

[@邹炭]

Discovering this anime was one of the most blessed things that happened to me in 2020

[@bokenovskyjones]

English manga is out now, could be one of the most blessed things in 2022

[@邹炭]

@@bokenovskyjones correction: your reminder is one of the most blessed things in 2022 😜😜😜😜😜😜

[@snecilia9601]

I cried while watching the last scene alone. I can't remember when I first watched this anime, but it is part of my core, my belief that even if most of us die, it was worth it to get as far as we have and to make so many pretty things.

[@tinyoo]

alpha is the light that shines solely because it can. lacking her intrinsic purpose, she still chooses to live. like the city lights received purpose from the humans who constructed and utilized them, alpha received purpose from her former owner who gave her the cafe and taught her how to live. does alpha have any reason to function without her owner there to instruct her? do the city lights have any reason to shine without humans? no, but they do so anyways. alpha lives because she can, and the city lights shine because they’re bright. live, live, live.

[@tinyoo]

the light continued to shine regardless of an absence of visible purpose, and eventually they still fulfilled their purpose (shining for the Doctor and Alpha). live the question of “do I have a purpose”, and perhaps you’ll experience the answer.

[@whatwazthat16]

Amazingly prefect choice to leave out music for the light flowers scene. The quiet, love and wonder shone through the silence. I caught myself holding my breath.

[@Revealingstorm.]

this needs a whole season

[@kaysenland3235]

Wow, that was gorgeous. This show makes me feel so at peace with the world.

[@Joskuo]

Man, all the things in this OVA are so nice, the music, the animation, man, even alpha is such a beauty, this deserves a lot more attention

[@greenpugfighter]

I love how calm and peaceful this anime is

[@aishii8026]

作画がやばすぎる…。どのシーン見てもすごいと思っちゃう

[@minamur]

i love how much you learn about the world without it ever being stated.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

Exploratory filmmaking is a treasure. It takes a lot of time and a lot of dedication to the craft to pull something like this off. It's also why in the old days (and sometimes now, though the market changed), OVAs tend to have the higher quality. Anime destined for TV often have network constraints, such as timeslot or needing to ship out X episodes for an order, along with other interesting viewer science. OVAs? A chance for pure craft.

[@大脳の摘出]

ほのぼの×ポストアポカリプスとか最高か、好きな要素が詰まってる作品でたまらん

[@brotherman8290]

Those sunsets are beautiful

[@防災DT]

今朝も完璧☺️

[@milkmanswife93696]

my god, what an absolute gem

[@mrdilonemusic]

LoFi Beats To Study To: The Anime

[@5ch3nk]

It took her an entire day to make one cup of coffee. That's why no one really shows up to the cafe.

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

Well she did get hit by lightning, and moving slowly is a common side effect.

[@BlackShani]

I smell american

[@standarddeviation7963]

No one shows up cause there is no one left to show up.

[@minamur]

@@standarddeviation7963 there're a few old people.

[@standarddeviation7963]

@@minamur Old people (besides Ojichan) aren't going to travel out to the boondocks to have a cup o joe.

[@hannahstarinieri1351]

I wish that Ojisan was my grandpa.

[@lilisama93]

I love this anime 🌸

[@wonderandwaffle]

いや、傑作すぎるでしょ。最高すぎる。

[@mike_purple]

Thanks for the upload. Really soothing anime.

[@GR-M3]

What a gem!

[@kaidashialfa]

切なくて毎回OPウルウルしてしまう。

[@thelostcrusader993]

omg those lighting effects i just sank in

[@MatthewTaylor86]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@Quincy_Morris]

To exist only to exist is no existence at all.

[@redsamurai192]

a tumblr gif brought me here and I'm so glad to found this! I love it so much! 🥰 My only complain is, why is it only two episodes! 😭

[@inkoinfinity2]

There are two other ovas

[@ABC321-co9ry]

今夜もヨロシク😊

[@たて-m2m]

次の休みにまんだらけで 単行本買おーっと

[@papuqpapuq1123]

Thank youu 👱👱👮👮

[@weebrandom1880]

Imagine, there is no loli, no highschool times, no anime with the same genre, *_but with a relaxing of nostalgia since the 90's._*

[@demilembias2527]

yeah, lolis and highschool didn't exist in 1998, how could I have forgotten

[@aname4508]

Highschool anime has always been a thing idiot

[@weebrandom1880]

@@aname4508 ok.

[@standarddeviation7963]

If you don't pay attention to any of those things, then they don't exist.

[@syreetadukes4428]

Just the bittersweet scenery pleasing animes. You might like Aria company. It's just as calming as this one

[@johnvicaireiii5537]

I wish I lived there...

[@金曜日のカンパネラ]

街灯が着いているから電力は来てるんだよな？ 原子力発電所か地熱発電所が機能してるのかな？

[@blueconcretezebra]

I waited for you Fry!

[@standarddeviation7963]

I just realized she can't put milk in her coffee cause she can't digest animal proteins.

[@stevetheduck1425]

'It's a long way to sushi...' Yet the Misago / Osprey is already there.

[@gol-r5836]

9:39 that part really got me? Seriously?

[@Sockpoppet]

This anime reminds me of aimlessly wandering around Hyrule, on horseback, taking my time, in Breath Of The Wild.

[@金曜日のカンパネラ]

鋭敏な味覚や触覚を 備えたロボットってすごいな 西暦何年なんだろう？

[@hiddensaint3251]

She cute

[@orbitaloutcast9878]

Silence she isn't for lewding B O Y.

[@hiddensaint3251]

Combine 12:39 *BOI*

[@orbitaloutcast9878]

@@hiddensaint3251 *BOI*

[@hiddensaint3251]

Combine 12:39 123123123123

[@orbitaloutcast9878]

@@hiddensaint3251 Yo shut the fuck up

[@ミツキ-m6c]

凄すぎる😢いつの作品なのですか？😂

[@hotradiogaga]

This anime is basically Animal Crossing with robots

[@stevetheduck1425]

Exploration, memory, a few fetch quests (coffee beans, a rake, a new sweater, swimsuits for friends, etc., but an over-arching storyline only findable through meting rare visitors or hearsay. As a game it might be fascinating, but would need the most dense detail so that there's something everywhere, but only when needed, such as a valve for the water to be found in a vacant lot of pampas grass, and operated, before it rusts shut, but only after the water in the pipes gets salty due to the rising sea.

[@endercraftinc.5927]

Are there only 2 episodes of this show? Excluding the new ones made later?

[@Inacatsuit]

Correct

[@LichtdesMorgens]

What 2 are not enough

[@Kofla2000]

Read the manga...

[@starwberrybubbletea6984]

@@Kofla2000 is there an English version?

[@Kofla2000]

@@starwberrybubbletea6984 Yes man!!, search it in ninemanga.com

[@JHavens99]

What kind of coffee brewing method is that

[@MatthewTaylor86]

Pourover coffee. Looks like a V60, a very popular filter holder made by Hario, a Japanese company. Looks like an old Hario hand grinder she uses, too.

[@JohnReiher]

Do you plan on uploading the rest of the series?

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

I only upload unlicensed works here for the sake of not closing the account, and I'm looking for other unlicensed series that have a decent impact. The newer OVA is licensed, but you can find it at AnimeKisa.

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

This story is so beautiful but I can't help but feel creeped out by contextualizing it in our time when climate change is a looming threat to our civilization. Living in the third world where the climate is hot, in the middle to far future, will I be afforded the same chance to live out the apocalypse so frivolously? In such peaceful grace? By the time I'm writing this, we already have less than 10 years to fight the irreversible catastrophe.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

When this was new, entire villages were already disappearing not just from flooding, but also collapses due to deforrestation. Regulations to stop or slow that--regulations that are still sometimes ignored--happened after all of that. We saw it coming, we saw the global changes on the news, we had many of the same conversations. We live in an era of an I Told You So with no real reward. Not to say that the 2010s and 2020s didn't have their extremes, but people born in the 2000s are simultaneously born in an extreme weather situation AND born after entire landscapes have vanished. It's hard to miss what, effectively, doesn't exist. Which is why education on the subject is important. Humans are adaptable, and being born in a wild catastrophe can become a normal Tuesday afternoon stroll. But at costs I'd rather not pay. ALSO. For a taste of the climate change activism era's anime, take a look at these two series if you haven't already: Blue Seed. It's...InuYasha with plants. Though I guess it's more accurate to say InuYasha is Blue Seed with furries. Earth Girl Arjuna - The world's climate revenge in the form of a nature magical girl.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

To be specific, Japan's entertainment industry--which isn't a reflection of its government or the entire population--has its finger on the pulse of climate disaster storytelling. NieR is already a franchise on its own after starting as a spinoff, and I consider it new school. America's Captain Planet era had a few anime series that followed similar themes. The "ecoterrorist" part of the 1990s spawned a few tragic heroes and heroic villains. We've had a few phases of speculative fiction looking really realistic. Hopefully, that slows down and we can let nature reclaim WITHOUT eating our faces even harder. Makes some baller ass animu tho

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

@@AnimeSalvageYard Thanks for posting the OVAs btw, really appreciate it. Also, I'm not familiar with Arjuna so I'm gonna check that out.

[@happyllama1160]

@@AnimeSalvageYard Plus Japan has had a thing for the world ending via flooding ever since the original Japan Sinks as I understand.

[@Lvlaple4Ever]

Now that I got some backstory, it’s sad hearing the same introduction that her owner hasn’t come back for years. Especially if the only communication they sent was the camera all this time. Why do I have feel a death flag that we’ll never see the owner? 😭 I wish I have the time to daydream that long without getting bored… Why are they still powering a sunken city? o.O Don’t forget to watch the sequel here guys! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gV6sm2iDg6mIn6M

[@something-from-elsewhere]

About the sunken city being powered, that was weird to me too. It could be supposed they run on some sort of self-sustaining technology, so they'll be up until someone takes them down (or they weather and break down to the point they no longer function)

[@berryojen7711]

Why didn't she take a picture of the night scenary?

[@nembutsu1045]

she was busy crying dude

[@berryojen7711]

@@nembutsu1045 Thanks, dude!

[@stevetheduck1425]

- also, now that the manga is being printed in collected volumes, and I read two, it seems the camera's memory is intended to complement hers, in the way that the camera's eye is just like a robot's. The purpose of Alpha's existence may be to become some sort of witness, or even 'spirit of place', rather like the character of the Osprey, who might be another robot in human form, that exists like a nature spirit, only seen rarely, and from the corner of the eye, and usually only by younger people.

[@berryojen7711]

@@stevetheduck1425 wow...that's a really really good theory!! I have never seen it that way, but it sounds so accurate. Thank you for sharing this great idea!😃👍

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@berryojen7711There's an element in the manga (three volumes now), where a man visits a 'goddess' that some people are protecting, and it seems to exist to look at the sea. I wonder if I've hit on something...

[@brudassoprostacci1397]

Tam to mają Alpha Cafe nawet po apokalipsie a my u siebie w złotym wieku tylko klub Speluno : (

[@rukiasfeet2340]

I like The anime, but it dont under stand it very much. Any one explain?

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

It's a bit of an experimental series, and it takes a specific approach to how a lot of futuristic stories are written. The story happens in a futuristic Yokohama, and though the anime touches on the sea levels a bit, if you're not from Yokohama, the massive loss of land won't hit you as much.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

Why is the area flooded? Why are sea levels so high? It could be from climate change, it could be from a natural disaster. It could be anything, but in this situation it doesn't matter.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

Not that those issues don't matter, but for the way the story is being told, it doesn't matter. A lot of stories go out of their way to "lay the setting" using exposition. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō instead tells the story as if it were any day in the week and people are just living there.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

We all live in a world the survives countless disasters, but it can be a bit jarring to see a real world place so different without a big explanation. Some people need those explanations to be true, but there's an audience for people who just want slice of life in other settings while the reasons why are fed subtly rather than with some huge, dramatic plot points.

[@AnimeSalvageYard]

For the main plot, the story is about two robots who casually discuss the setting without going into deep exposition.

[@opsimathics]

I love her SSJ3 hair

[@KevinArcade87]

Get out of here with your Dragonball Z nonsense.

[@lolpint2518]

im writing that 1 persons name in the deth note