A mai waifu post disguised as a review of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Set in a post apo­ca­lyptic era where the world is inhab­ited by female robots with guns and hawt yuri action. My friends, this OVA is almost as viol­ent as Aria!

Yeah, Yoko­hama Kai­dashi Kikou, the OVA based off the phe­nom­en­ally highly rated manga (#4 on MAL), is one of the most unabashedly unevent­ful anime I have ever seen. Usu­ally these humour­less slice-of-life series bore me to tears but I did kinda like YKK, mainly thanks to the char­ac­ter of Alpha.

Let me talk for a second about pro­cras­tin­a­tion. Many people con­sider them­selves quite cap­able pro­cras­tin­at­ors. Your room never gets tidier than it does around exam time. Your bas­ket­ball skills improve con­sid­er­ably when you get a office desk job. How­ever, in these forms of pro­cras­tin­at­ing you are still achiev­ing some­thing. True pro­cras­tin­at­ing, in its purest form, is where you pass time by doing abso­lutely noth­ing. The abil­ity just to be. To blank out all thoughts and to just sit and stare. To reach that per­fect place of Zen.

Oddly enough, in YKK, my favour­ite scenes weren’t when Alpha was get­ting blas­ted by light­ning or talk­ing to that bloke with the per­man­ent creepy grin. My favour­ite scenes were of Alpha doing noth­ing. The second epis­ode of the first OVA con­sisted of a typ­ical Alpha day. She got up, made cof­fee (burn­ing the cof­fee beans slightly) and then sit­ting by win­dow and gaz­ing. No thoughts, no pur­pose. My second favour­ite scene is where Alpha sat on a hill and watched as night fell over a sunken city, watch­ing the lights turn on. Even though she had a cam­era she never had any inten­tion of tak­ing a photo. It never entered her mind that she should be remem­ber­ing this scene. She was just sit­ting and watching.

There are these crazy people that spend their lives med­it­at­ing in order to achieve per­fect peace of mind, some­thing which con­fused me quite a lot. I never had any prob­lem blank­ing my mind. I was born a Zen Monk. Alpha may be a robot but she is also cap­able of com­plete Zen. I quite like that idea of liv­ing with Alpha up in that Quiet Coun­try Cafe. Get­ting bored sug­gests that you aren’t enjoy­ing what you’re cur­rently doing and you can think of far bet­ter ways to spend you time. Frankly, I can think of no bet­ter way to spend my life than with Alpha, gaz­ing out over these sunken cit­ies, watch­ing as each light turns on as the planet con­tin­ues its slow, peace­ful death.

::Fake Edit:: To give you a quick idea of how cap­able a pro­cras­tin­ator I am, let me point out that this post was planned and half-written about 4 months ago when it was the cool thing to do to post about your wai­fus.