#Yokohama Shopping Trip

[manga-and-stuff]

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

by Hitoshi Ashinano

[yonae]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano

[celestialmega]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Yokohama Shopping Trip, 横滨购物纪行 by Ashinano Hitoshi.

[viciar]

[moonssnail]

Golden hour

[schwites]

Yokohama Shopping Log

[ctrl-salt-delete]

lol

[wahafuu]

I love you musical slice of life, I love you relaxing slice of life, I love you apocalypse slice of life, I love you bizarre slice of life, I love you slice of life games, I love you slice of life gameplay segments, I love you slice of life chapters between arcs, I love you slice of life common routes, I love

[stinksnail]

commission work! they’d be best friends :) (different story with adult punpun though)

[pigzenhaenha]

that one robot that has a café and likes to take pictures

love her

[generalhamsterdancer]

I made an Alpha Collage ✨

She!!

[manga-and-stuff]

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

by Hitoshi Ashinano

[yonae]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano

[celestialmega]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Yokohama Shopping Trip, 横滨购物纪行 by Ashinano Hitoshi.

[kainoliero]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou mysteries

Ok, this is just me shouting in the wind scroll on, the trouble of being in a small fandom, having an idea, and then ABSOLUTELY NO ONE TO TALK ABOUT IT so here goes:

YKK is mysterious, but it's all shown through a mundane lens. Either the mysteries really aren't mysteries at all, but they're such common knowledge none of the characters see it important to explain them to the viewer, oooor they're really big mysteries, but the characters just kinda... handwave them. It's what it is, no one knows for sure why. One such mystery is why male robots tend to dysfunction soon after activation, and just die off. As a result most of the robots we meet are female. This is a mystery to the characters as well, not even the one male robot we meet - Nai - knows how he himself somehow managed to function.

I highly doubt the difference between male and female robots could be only physical. They're robots after all, the outside layer of the build should not cause this sort of massive catastrophic outcome. What's more, we know that once the robots are living among humans, they slowly mature into distinct personalities of their own. The difference I'm talking about here is therefore in their factory settings, and as such it's the fault of humans, not the robots (though they're all independent individuals).

Robots are regularly referred to as humanity's children we're leaving behind as we slowly age and disappear from the world. It therefore makes sense that humans would try to build both male and female robots, and that the personality settings they base their personality on would be divided into two different models. Because let's face it, female robots all act in a very stereotypically feminine manner. With Nai, we see a completely different type of personality, that makes him kind of a stereotypical cool anime guy at his defaults. Obviously humans would be mystified and concerned over male robots dysfunctioning. There must have been many tries at finding out what the hell was going wrong. Humans that can build robots with individual personalities aren't dumb, so I'm thinking the difference must be in something no one thought was important at all, at least not where functioning was concerned.

Kokone brings out one important thing about robots - they all seem to have music as one basic setting, and she describes this as having music in her veins. We see Kokone and Alpha easily create music together out of nowhere, we see Alpha dancing and walking along the music within, and - interestingly - humans DID make some connection to music for the robots, it's installed, not incidental. That's how we still have records of the music used stored in libraries.

Would music be an important function, in the eyes of an engineer? Probably not. Likely it's used just as another base personality function. Maybe humans didn't realize the connection between music and the robots' survivability at all, though we know there were lots of horrific failures with ALL of the early models, male and female. Now let's go back to humans trying to create manly-acting male robots and womanly-acting female robots: maybe the two models were given different types of music as one part of their generic mood. Maybe this was not considered actually important, just pleasant for the viewer. Oh hey, this our girl child is dancing and playing music, making little songs! How lovely! And maybe this boy child of ours should do something different, so... ...he doesn't need this kind of music. Maybe some other kind of music. Maybe no music at all. What I'm saying is maybe, once on a blue moon, someone accidentally installed a wrong music file to a male robot, and that's how we have at least two functioning male models. Or maybe it was deliberate, a try at a different type of personality. Humans did put a lot of importance on the robots being individual personalities after all. The other male robot we see a glimpse of does seem to be a musician, and has the same feeling about him as the female robots. Nai, of course, is quite different, but again all YKK robots are their own people. Again, I don't know, the core of YKK is there are some things we'll never understand or find out about, and that's what makes the story so addictive to me. I don't think I'd want to know if my theory is right or wrong, I just like it as a theory I have. So yeah, music is far more crucial to the robots than anyone realizes except for Kokone, or so I like to think!

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