Don't miss this moving critically acclaimed classic manga (which inspired the anime) about an
android running a coffee shop in a slowly dying Japan--published in English for the first time
in oversized omnibus editions! In a future Japan long after an environmental catastrophe
Alpha the android runs a small café in a seaside town. As she wonders if her absent owner will
ever return she stands witness to the twilight of humanity with coffee a slice of watermelon
and the sound of her moon guitar. Alpha and her fellow residents enjoy the melancholy beauty of
life even as the end approaches. Savor chapters 1-24 of this beloved manga classic in English
for the first time in this deluxe five-volume set.