A calm anime accompanied by relaxing music by Gontiti and Choro Club... What can be a better way to spend a couple of evenings in November, when the weather is getting colder and evenings darker?
But something grew stronger in my mind, preventing me from enjoying this sad beauty of Japan half submerged in water.
Trying to understand what it was, I arrived at the only possible conclusion - this world is too idle, even for me. Drinking coffee and admiring the scenery is all great, but it felt like everybody in this story had simply given up. They seemed to be in need of nothing, and to need nothing too.
I expected some charm, some calm happiness in this series, even if the world depicted may be entering its 'twilight'. Instead, I got a slow slideshow of everyday trifles, not without its own kind of fan-service, but without that chemical element that was supposed to make me want to jump right into the screen.
Alpha, the main character, showed nothing special in her personality. Few people surrounded her, and none of them showed anything particularly interesting either. Except for the fact that everyone was kind.
It's unpleasant to admit it, but I have to. 'Yokohama' is plain boring. And it's average. Just because there aren't thousands of calm and peaceful anime out there, 'Yokohama' doesn't become a masterpiece.
Despite Gontiti and Choro Club. And even Taku Iwasaki. Despite one of my favourite seiyuus, Hekiru Shiina. Despite the sad beauty, that ubiquitous 'mono no aware'.
If only it weren't so short, maybe...
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