Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Several (practically the whole series), but the scene with the underwater streetlights deserves special mention, as well as Alpha's last chapters with Takahiro.
  • Epileptic Trees: Not since Neon Genesis Evangelion has a manga kept the Epileptic Tree orchard so well-tilled, thanks to few questions being answered.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Alpha's owner sends her a present together with a coded message which must needs be delivered by a robot. In hindsight, this is obviously a ploy to make Alpha meet other androids, make new friends and come out of her isolation.
  • Les Yay:
    • Those all-female androids? They transfer data to each other by pressing their tongues together. Believe it or not, though, this actually makes a fair bit of sense in context.
    • Carried to an extreme by the relationship between Maruko and Kokone, though; see Green-Eyed Monster above.
  • Mary Sue: Ultimately averted by Alpha, although in the early chapters her portrayal can be interpreted as having Sue-ish qualities.
  • One True Pairing: Alpha and Kokone, Takahiro and Makki