#hitoshi ashinano

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Source: Kotonoba Drive Kotonoba Doraibu コトノバドライブ

by Hitoshi Ashinano

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YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU OVA, 1998 & 2002

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hitoshi ashinano’s yokohama kaidashi kikou || 芦奈野ひとしの『ヨコハマ買い出し紀行』

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kioku by Hitoshi Ashinano

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SEASON 4 ROUND 3

NOTE: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou contains semi-frequent casual nudity and climate catastrophe is a central topic. LOVE-BULLET contains violent scenes and serious injury, as well as non-threatening gun violence and major character death.

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

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ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 / Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, Ashinano Hitoshi

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Hitoshi Ashinano

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Source: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō Yokohama Shopping Log ヨコハマ買い出し紀行

by Hitoshi Ashinano

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YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU OVA, 1998

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and Transgender Cyborgs’ Experience of the Apocalypse

Content Warning: Discussion of transphobia

Around the start of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Chiaki Hirai published an article about Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, comparing the post-apocalyptic manga to the threat posed to humanity by the novel coronavirus. It was a perspective piece—and a rumination—on societal collapse as it was happening around the author, when so little was still known about the nature of the virus, and what the extent of its impact on us was going to be. Now, at the start of 2023, our world has been forever changed. While the virus continues to mutate into new strains, governments have largely chosen to ignore the ongoing effects of the pandemic in exchange for a “return to normal,” moving on with or without us. Post-apocalyptic fiction has felt closer to home, especially for marginalized readers.

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (hereafter YKK) focuses on Alpha Hatsuseno, an android girl entrusted with a café by an owner who abandoned it, and her, without clear reason, leaving her to run it in a mostly uninhabited post-apocalyptic world. While most stories that imagine a post-apocalyptic setting depict a world in ashes, strewn with death and danger, YKK’s world is mostly one of peace and solitude for those survivors who remain. Cities lie silent beneath a solemn ocean; wind sifts through the stalks of amaranth sprouting from old, cracked roads. Overlooking land, sea, and sky is Café Alpha, a humble building on a hill and a relic from before “The Age of Evening Calm”—otherwise known as the end of the old world. And, for us, 2020 was our own Age of Evening Calm.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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Yokohama Kadaishi Kikou Studies

Some manga studies I did over the summer of a comic I really enjoy “Yokohama Kadaishi Kikou”. It’s about a robot girl who runs a cafe during a sort of quiet apocalypse. It’s a bit older (1994) and is a little bit gay. I absolutely love the art style, the pacing and how slow it is. I highly recommend checking it out if you can. There’s four OVA episodes for it over on youtube. The first two were fantastic but the second two were done in 2006 and weren’t as good. Manga studies are such a nice way to look at my favourite comics in a different way. How are they panelled? How does the artist pace the story? How do they use B&W to it’s limit? I’ve done manga studies before in this public post of Monkey Punch studies, or for Grab Bag Patrons I posted a whole sketchbook of studies!

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CHAMPIONS BRACKET ROUND 1: A1

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is a completed scifi story from the 90s about a robot navigating life in a post-climate catastrophe world. Pink Ribbon is a fluffy Taiwanese romance about a girl who loves lolita fashion wanting to dress a sporty girl up in pretty clothes.