YKK: Anime's Relaxing Apocalypse

One thing that makes YKK so interesting is that it is a cheerful representation of a post-apocalyptic world. I don't think I've ever seen something like that in any medium, not just anime.

"How do you persuade a person to animate..." You pay them...

So this is the anime where 70% of anime-related vaporwave imagery comes from.

I am a middle aged man from Japan. I used to read this comic from 1995 to 2006, on 'Afternoon' magazine from Kodansha. Of course I bought the OVA. On reading the last episode in 2006, I literally cried as if one of my childhood friend were gone, or lost contact. Now, almost 20 some years after from this lost gem, I was amazed to know this is relived from different aspects. Well, I know that it is very hard to remake this kind of storytelling again in 2019. However, the main spirit of this comic and OVAs were the last shadow of 20th century, where we have lived, when we look back upon with heart aching nostalgia.

This is one of those anime’s people make Aesthetic gifs out of

This anime is super relaxing The main character gets struck by lightning *relaxing lightning

This guy makes regular weebs look like Texas cattle hands listening to country folk music next to a camp fire

"A manga that only shows close-ups of faces is really boring." - Akira Toriyama, in a manga tutorial

This looks like the comfiest apocalyptic hellscape I've ever seen.

Damn do I miss the look of oldschool anime.

A lot of skilled animators who had been working in the animation industry since the 70's started retiring around the late 90's/early 2000's as traditional hand drawn moved to digital. The drop in technical skill (and many other artistic/cinematic qualities of vintage anime) is tied to that transition of the generations and technology.

There is a genre of anime called "Healing". --- Maybe anime wasn't a mistake, after all.

Essentially this is Animal Crossing but towns are made up of people who survived the Second Impact

> has androids > in a dying world > slice of life > slow and relaxing ...Fallout 4: Wholesome Edition

its nice to finally see something in Media where humanity's best times being behind them isn't a constant fight for survival or a bleak message about how were are our own worst monster, sometimes its best to just let things be tranquil and not dwell on the bigger broader problems in the world.....or rather what's left of it, so far this tops the Apocalypses we could hope for if it comes

"Slice of Life" at its finest, but with a post-apocalyptic(?) twist that makes it engaging. I've read the entire manga and it's just like this video: nothing really happens, nothing is ever explained, and you don't care because of its calm beauty. One of the best manga and anime of all time.

Also known as vaporwave and lofi playlist thumbnail, the anime

Being a depressed, anxious wreck, a soft and gentle end of the world sounds so wonderful. No doom or dread, no anger or fear - just observing the gentle twilight before one last long sleep.

I didn't find this anime peaceful, I found it melancholic. It's beautiful and I was drawn in, but it definitely left me feeling uneasy. This robot has been living alone for so long she forgot her own name, or even that she was a robot at all. When she gets struck by lightning, she's confronted with her own mortality. One day, just like the twilight world around her, she too will fade away. She's obsolete now, just like the streetlights. They once served a purpose, but now they're just turning on because that's what they were supposed to do. Likewise, she's just running this coffee shop in her owner's place because it was his last instruction. She is a relic of a time when robots like her were needed for a purpose, now only living an echo of an existence. I felt sad watching this. A kind of looming dread that I don't get from a lot of things. Sort of like when she cried but didn't know why, I guess I like this feeling, too, even if I don't understand it.