> This is not so much a story as it is a slice of life. Or rather, it is a look into portions of the life of a girl named Alpha, together with the people around her. > > Alpha runs a little cafe on the outskirts of Yokohama. There are almost no customers, but Alpha does not mind at all since she has the occasional company of the old man, Oji-san, who runs the gasoline stand down the road, as well as that of his grandson Takahiro. This is a Yokohama of the future, when the sea covers most of the land and roads have disappeared under sand or water. Alpha is in fact an android, looking after the cafe during her owner's indefinite leave of absence. ... [source anidb](https://anidb.net/anime/424) Encoded from R2J DVD with subtitles from ZUM. Single Audio: Japanese (Stereo Dolby AC-3). Probably the most peaceful apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic series out there, along with its sequel [Quiet Country Cafe](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1241770). I did a few DVD encodes because I originally wanted to compare them against those SD on BD or 1080i releases. To see if those BDs were worth it–they weren’t. However, since I’d already done the encodes I figured why not do a few more. There are plenty of series which haven’t yet gotten the HD treatment and are getting more difficult to find… Besides, you don’t see many x265 encodes for SD media. Don’t expect them to be game changers–no codec is going to make a DVD look any better–but it never hurts to update the formats so these series aren’t lost to time. As usual, I left the original audio untouched since there is little to be gained from compressing it further and squeezing every last byte isn’t as important today. I have dozens of DVDs for older series laying around and since they take a fraction of the time to encode compared with a BD, I will probably do more SD releases. [DDL](https://mega.nz/folder/O1NjyAhC#rTSp27fLWhtS8ESd-XtevA) I would appreciate any help seeding.