Girls’ Last Tour follows Chito and Yuuri, our two main leads and absolutely adorable moe blobs, as they try to survive in a desolate, war-torn wasteland. If that premise does not intrigue you, I don’t know what will. Surprisingly, this premise, coupled with masterful execution, is the best thing about the whole anime.

Each episode follows the same formula. They ride on their Kettenkrad, go about the routines of their lives, all while talking about what little they know about the old world.

The highlight of this show is when it stops to show us these two girls find enjoyment in the form of a little, insignificant thing that we take for granted in the real world. In spite of the apocalypse, our ingenuity and creativity survives for somebody to appreciate, and Girls’ Last Tour makes that clear. It doesn’t matter if it’s the simple act of taking a picture or making music, Chito and Yuuri tells us, in all their moe glory, that life goes on, and so does what it means to live it.

Yet, that message has another truth behind it. It doesn’t have to be this way. Sure, life goes on, and these two girls may continue enjoying life, but look around them. Destroyed buildings, freezing weather, and a barren, grey environment. Evidence of our shortcomings as a species. No amount of cheers and laughter changes the fact that these two struggle to survive everyday at such a young age, forced to make a World War 2 German utility vehicle their home, all because of humanity’s obsession with war. Perhaps the most disturbing thing is that these girls are almost okay with it.

It is mainly this juxtaposition between two messages that makes Girls’ Last Tour so heartwarming yet emotionally devastating.

It’s admirable that they made it so that there were no zombies or raiders in this post-apocalypse. Rather, the setting speaks for itself in getting the message forward. There's never really a constant sense of danger. It’s less Fallout than it is This War of Mine. Simply showing what it is like to live in this world and the struggles that come with survival are enough to get the viewer to empathize with the characters. Anything more would have seemed over-the-top and distracting from the overall point.

Every episode has this foreboding sense of melancholy hiding beneath. Girls’ Last Tour is genius in the sense that it can evoke happiness and sadness at the same time, but either way, it’s rich in wisdom and meaning.