Girls' Last Tour
a review by Weeble
a review by Weeble
The story is simplistic and doesn't really get to complicated in the tellings, but that's not a bad thing. The story takes place in a world where most of humanity, and practically all of it is dead do to war killing everyone... but Chito and Yuuri are alive and are heading for the highest point of the world. Is it a bland thing? yes, but it's handled well.
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#Characters & Plot: 98/100
On Chito and Yuuri's journey to the top of the world they happen to meet a couple characters who are still alive.
The 1st person the 2 come across is Kanazawa, who they meet whenever he blows up a building right next to the main characters to make a bridge, a person who wanders around drawing maps and taking pictures. He lives for making maps, no real reason to it, he just draws maps of the places he goes to, whenever he loses those maps he loses his purpose for living and wants to die, but after talking with Chito and Yuuri a bit he decides to keep on living and gives the 2 of them the camera he carried around and walks off. We never know what happens to him.
The 2nd person Chito and Yuuri meet is Ishii, a woman they come across after the kettenkrad breaks down. she wants to be a pilot and travel to a place she thinks she might've seen across a large body of water. She chooses to enlist the help of the 2 girls in finishing her airplane. ultimately in the end the plane fails and falls apart after a few seconds. Ishii survives and drifts down to the lower layers of the world.
The next character they meet is a robot dog looking thing just called Automaton, it hinders against Yuuri wanting to eat a fish the 2 girls find in an aquarium. It talks about it's purpose for existing (which to protect the fish) and how after that purpose is fulfilled it won't have anything. In the end of this small bit the 2 girls kill a construction robot to save the fish and prolong the Automaton's life.
The next thing Chito and Yuuri find is a weird blobby thingy that Yuuri dubs "Nuko" and it talks through the radio that Yuuri carries with her. When the 2 girls + Nuko find a submarine they 2 of them eventually meet where Nuko comes from, we don't ever learn what they are exactly, just that they exist to get rid of what killed humanity. after we say goodbye to Nuko the girls continue there tour (this is where the anime ends)
the finale thing the girls come across is an AI dubbed "Dai-6 Kikantou no Jinkou Chinou" (which i will just call AI) that monitors the tower that the 2 girls wants to go up. in the end of the chapter it tricks Yuuri into killing it. The reason it'd wanted to die was do an eternity of living where it had no fun in doing anything nor did it have any reason for it to want to continue on.
and finally i will touch on the power duo themselves, Chito and Yuuri! The journey these 2 characters share and there dynamic is incredible. During said journey to the highest point in the world they talk about living and if there is any meaning to it, they share almost every moment of there lives together and have fun with being alive.
it's a simple pure dystopian and dead setting, but the way it's used to convey a comfort in the idea of death is amazing.
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I know i didn't do much of a good job of explaining what makes this series so fucking good, and it's mainly do the fact that i simply can't do it with words and screenshots. Which is why i want you the person reading this review to sit down and take the time to watch or read this series. If you're going to choose the option of watching, just note the anime ends on chapter 32/47. I hope i did something good with this review and i thank you for reading it.
here's to hoping White Fox adapts the last 15 chapters into either a 6 episode OVA or a movie
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