Girls' Last Tour

Girl's Last Tour is a story about the daily life of Yuuri and Chito, who struggle on the daily trying to survive their dire situation. However, they always find something to be happy about, and i think this combination of melancholy and hope is what makes this a masterpiece.

Honestly, when i first found this i had only heard that "it was good". I started one episode 1 at night before sleeping, cause i like to watch a couple episodes of whatever before bed, and ended up watching half of the show. The setting and atmosphere was really good, and i really liked the bond these two girls had. Next day i binged the rest first thing in the morning and going straight to finish the manga after finishing the anime. i won't lie, it made me cry.

I'm not really good with words, so I'll just say what i think of it all. AMAZING show, underrated, i love the characters, their weird sci-fi world, their struggles, their moments of happiness. I really like how hopelessness and hope can coexists so perfectly, you see their world, broken and decaying, and yet they always find something to be hopeful about, for them, having each other is all the support they need to keep going forward to an uncertain future that from our angle just looks so hopeless and sad.

Also, the soundtrack is amazing, the really went all out on selling us this world, which is also cool, by the way. From what i could gather, civilization was built on the ruins of another much more advanced one, it thrived, they learned to use the ancient technology, and killed themselves in the process. Nothing much is said about how the world got to that state, other than what was shown to us in the last episode of the anime, and i also think that's great: By showing us a world we can't fully understand, it's harder for us, as viewers, to think of a "better" outcome for our protagonists. How can we help them if we don't even know the full extent of their situation?

The art direction is also gorgeous, and by that i not only mean the visuals, but the way the episodes are storyboarded, portrayed and laid out. I love how the amazing soundtrack perfectly complements each scene, and how it can captivate the viewer without any kind of dialogue from the characters.

Honestly, i still have hope for a movie to finish the last 6 episodes of this anime, since the last 2 volumes of the manga could probably be told in that amount of time. so to close this out, i can just say: WATCH THIS, and then READ IT. honestly, incredibly underrated, needs more attention, or don't, i also get how this could be boring for some people, considering its slow paced, too depressing, or too "moe" due to their designs, but whatever personal problem with it you may find, i still implore you to give it a chance!