Maybe the morning shower is what causes morning blogging … . Anyway, I wanted to highly recommend an old anime/manga called “Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou” (YKK for short). It’s a post-cataclysmic story set in a semi-submerged Japan, but rather than creating a world that is dark, gritty, and anarchic (God, I almost just wrote ‘apoptotic’ …), it conceives of collapsing humanity as one looking back on itself with optimistic nostalgia. Like an elderly person accepting his/her inevitable death, humanity and its creations (robots, vehicles, etc.) try to savor the beautiful elements of Nature and a nice cup of coffee in their last breath, fading slowly from existence.
Nothing really happens in this story … at all … it’s one of those art pieces that you just have to see for yourself to understand. The mystery of what happened is never quite revealed, though the lack of outward battle scars seems to indicate to me that it is more of an environmental disaster than world war.
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