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Written by Hitoshi Ashinano, ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'' (''Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip'') is a slow, quiet vision of the peaceful decline of humanity. Perhaps very little happens, but then it's not about things happening. YKK is a manga series that gives you something to think about, and time in which to do it. After all, there's all the time in the world.
Occasionally compared to ''[[
A bit of advice: If you try to speed read through the manga, you'll probably find it very boring and pointless. The story is told through the visuals, not the words. This also means that the untranslated work is still enjoyable for non-Japanese speakers, which is a boon since it [[No Export for You|hasn't been officially released in the West]] (though an unofficial [[Scanlation]] is floating around on the Internet). Sit back and stare at the artwork.
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* [[After the End]] / [[Just Before the End]]: Could fit either, depending on how you look at it. All the violence and noise that typically signifies "The End" has long since passed, but the story's not done yet.
* [[Idiot Hair|Ahoge:]] The Misago. In the [[OVA|OVAs]] the first we see of her is this, though replace "idiot" with "wild" for her behavior.
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* {{spoiler|[[Distant Finale]]: Throughout the last volume, there's a couple years between chapters, with the final chapter taking place at least a decade after the one before and an epilogue whose placement on the timeline can only be guessed.}}
* [[Discount Lesbians]]: if, and only ''if'', you accept that Kokone, Alpha and Maruko are "like that".
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Downer Ending]]: Maybe not necessarily, but it sure has a downer ''beginning''.
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: The entire premise (not to mention taken literally).
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* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Maruko is jealous of Alpha and Kokone's relationship and is rather catty to Alpha when they first meet. Likewise, until she gets to know Alpha, Maki is jealous of Alpha and Takahiro's relationship.
* [[I Have the High Ground]]: As seen in the picture above.
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Alpha maintains that she's waiting for the return of her owner. {{spoiler|Much later in the manga, she eventually moves on with her life and comes to terms with the possibility of her owner never coming back.}} At the very end of the next-to-last chapter, though, she wonders cheerfully, “Owner ... are you watching over me?”
** At the end of the opening chapter, we see he visited the cafe and left a note while she was in Yokohama. In the very next chapter, it's shown she not only kept the note but '''framed''' it.
* [[Iyashikei]]
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Subverted; Alpha and Takahiro have an obvious romantic connection, but neither of them pursue their mutual feelings because Takahiro will eventually age and die and Alpha will not. Alpha also sees Takahiro as a brother figure, and refers to him as such several times.
* [[Middle of Nowhere Street]]: Justified; most of the city is dead.
* [[Motorcycle
* [[Older Than They Look]]: [[Inverted]]; although never explicitly stated, in the beginning of the series Alpha may be quite a bit ''younger'' than her adult-looking form suggests. {{spoiler|Played straight by the end of the series.}}
* [[One-Gender Race]]: [[Subverted]] - there ''were'' male androids, but almost all of them died out due to an unidentified design flaw. Throughout the series, we only ever even hear of one survivor.
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* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Ojisan's permanent facial expression is a huge grin, although as he ages it seems to shrink somewhat.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: The deserted town of Yokosuka still lights up every night, even though it is now underwater.
* [[Real Place Background]]: A lot of places Alpha visits exist for real, even though they are now largely reclaimed by the sea or otherwise highly run-down. Special mention goes to Yokohama ([[Exactly What It Says
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Alpha and her kind are basically human, except for the fact that they never age -- and probably can't reproduce either, although they seem to have the necessary equipment. It's possible that the only reason they can't reproduce is because there's only ''one'' male robot left and he just isn't interested. Just another one of the series' many [[Epileptic Trees]].
* [[Robot Girl]]: Alpha, Kokone, and Maruko.
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** Curiously, Alpha may even be ''younger'' than Takahiro. Her concerns are more about her by far outliving him in the long run.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: For the most part the geography is very well researched (not surprising since Ashinano is from Yokohama) right down to the specific building identified as ''Cafe Alpha'' having been located in real life, right where the manga said it would be (it's currently a private home).
** Alpha’s pistol, too, isn’t some design the artist made up to look cool, but an easily recognizable H&K P7.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Firmly on the Idealism side of the scale, despite being [[After the End]] and all.
* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: Who wouldn't like to sit down with Alpha and hear her play the moon guitar?
* [[Time Skip]]: For most of the series time passes at about the same rate as the real-time of initial serialization, but {{spoiler|during the final volume, more time passes between chapters, sometimes years between. Each skip is another sucker punch in the gut as [[We Are
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Ayase and other Kamasu-carriers. Alpha's owner. Alpha does a little of it too.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Admittedly, this is a big reason why the manga even works in the first place.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Not just subverted, but outright kicked to the curb: humans treat robots like humans, it's heavily implied that male humans are quite willing to lust after any available female robots, and even the robots themselves have trouble telling other robots and humans apart.
* [[Who's
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Largely averted, but hinted at in chapters 45 and 93 as the obvious reason why robots wouldn't want any romantic involvement with humans. Which, together with the fact that nearly [[One-Gender Race|all surviving robots are female]], makes for a rather limited [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|range of options]]...
* [[Wild Child]]: Misago, probably -- we don't know how she grew up, but she is a wild-woman. She lives around the bays, she is naked, mute, and catches fish using only her inhuman speed, which she then eats raw. She is gentle to the children, however.
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