The Alpha & Kokone Fanlisting

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Hatsuseno Alpha and Takatsu Kokone are robots who appear in a manga by Ashinano Hitoshi called Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. There is currently not an official English translation, however there are a couple of fan translations available online: There is one on this site and another available from Manga Project.

Alpha runs her own coffee shop,  Café Alpha, and Kokone works for a delivery service. They first met when Kokone had to deliver a message to Alpha using a "direct transfer" method which appears to involve connecting sensors that are located underneath the robots' tongues. They quickly became friends.

Before meeting Alpha, Kokone was focused on being human-like. After meeting Alpha, she realized that perhaps she doesn't have to try so hard and she started opening up to just being herself. The two of them seem to share a very deep connection.

When Alpha's coffee shop was destroyed in a typhoon, she left to wander Japan for a year. While Alpha was gone, Kokone started going out with another robot named Maruko, but Kokone still seems fond of Alpha. There's still a chance Alpha and Kokone could be together again. I hope so. They're so cute together! footer