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“In a quiet, post-human future, café owner Alpha Hatsuseno contemplates leaving her seaside home to explore the reclaimed world.”
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Quiet Country Cafe
ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 Quiet Country Cafe
7.14
4,017 rank · 23,589 viewers · 65 favorites
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
Iyashikei
Seinen
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Synopsis
In a quiet, post-human future, café owner Alpha Hatsuseno contemplates leaving her seaside home to explore the reclaimed world.
In a quiet future where nature is slowly reclaiming the Earth, Alpha Hatsuseno runs a small seaside café on the edge of an almost-empty highway. The gentle rhythm of brewing coffee and chatting with the handful of travelers who still pass by is all she has ever needed. Yet the wider world—its abandoned towns, forgotten roads, and lingering echoes of humanity—waits just beyond the horizon, promising experiences she has only imagined from the songs on her old radio. When a routine weather report hints at change on the breeze, Alpha begins to wonder what lies beyond the familiar view from her porch, and whether the time has come to find out.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 11 viewers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 5
σ 1.67
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.67 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.55
Running avg · Jul 2007 → Aug 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Compared to the OVA prequel this OVA has more to give the viewer. Absolutely stunning environments and great character movements almost brings it alive in front of me, and somehow I wish that I was...”
- 8 “I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this after watching the first one. The animation in this outdid the other. The backgrounds were absolutely gorgeous; the swaying of grass, the smooth water,...”
- 8 “(Review originally from Letterboxd) From the director of the criminally underrated coming-of-age nostalgia piece Ocean Waves comes a full-on animated tone poem about a young woman living a quiet...”
Verbosity
Short · 27%
Medium · 36%
Long · 36%
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- Format 2 × 32′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 04m all episodes
- Aired Dec 2002 – Mar 2003
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0882 catalog
Produced by
- SME Visual Works Producer