History YMMV / GirlsLastTour

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Despite the relatively light hearted nature of the series, it makes it clear that the remainder of mankind is on the verge of extinction. [[spoiler:The ending has the girls reach the top level only to find out their entire journey amounted to them finding 'nothing'. They have used up their remaining supplies to achieve this, and they don't know what to do next.]]

** Old news clips and private footage of the war are show. It consists of a different stages of a very brutal RobotWar and bombardments, made even worse by how they're [[MoodWhiplash interspersed with cute clips]] of the world before the war.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In Episode 11 of the anime, the girls explore a dormant giant robot and find a control panel inside. When Yuuri activates it, the robot prepares to fire a laser from an apparatus on its head as a crosshair takes aim on the city. However, [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6a059cbd7117c298e2962ba7fe457e7d/tumblr_inline_p18w5fPSgg1r77540_1280.png the text on the control panel's screen says "Lanch" in big red letters, when it's supposed to say "Launch."]] This was fixed [[BetterOnDVD in the Blu-Ray version]], however.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In Episode 11 of the anime, the girls explore a dormant giant robot and find a control panel inside. When Yuuri activates it, the robot prepares to fire a laser from an apparatus on its head as a crosshair takes aim on the city. However, [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6a059cbd7117c298e2962ba7fe457e7d/tumblr_inline_p18w5fPSgg1r77540_1280.png the text on the control panel's screen says "Lanch" in big red letters, when it's supposed to say "Launch."]] This was fixed in the Blu-Ray version, however.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In the chapter "Destruction" in Episode 11 of the anime, the girls explore a dormant giant robot and find a control panel inside. When Yuuri activates it, the robot prepares to fire a laser from an apparatus on its head as a crosshair takes aim on the city. However, [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6a059cbd7117c298e2962ba7fe457e7d/tumblr_inline_p18w5fPSgg1r77540_1280.png the text on the control panel's screen says "Lanch," when it's supposed to say "Launch."]] This was fixed in the Blu-Ray version, however.

** [[spoiler:By episode 12 the "cats" inform the girls they are the only known living humans. This doesn't actually say anything about Kanizawa and Ichii's fates (the "cats" may very well be {{Unreliable Expositor}}s), but there is barely anything left of the human race anyway.]]

* FauxSymbolism: Numerous reviews point out the series is in fact a tongue-in-cheek take on ''all the staple philosophical musings'' of post-apocalyptic fiction. Content that could fill entire run of several different shows is presented in short conversations, any pretense of deeper meaning tossed out the window when the characters just chat about the "important" subjects. There is a lot of talking about afterlife, meaning of life, meaning of continuing to live AfterTheEnd, [[HumansAreBastards humanity being a bunch of bastards]]... but it's all a bunch of ''filler'', with all the flaws of different concepts quickly being [[{{Deconstruction}} pointed out]].

* FridgeHorror: In episode 12, [[spoiler:Yuuri is SwallowedWhole by a giant cat creature. She actually turns out to be okay, as the giant cat creature says they don't eat living people. But it makes you wonder, what happened to all the dead bodies? The scale of the city highly suggests there must have been tens of thousands, if not millions, of people living in this place, yet the girls never see lots of dead bodies laying around. And while many people probably died peacefully, as seen in one of the videos in episode 12, there are also scenes that suggests warfare also occurred. And if a person survived but others around them died, seeing one of those cat creatures showing up and eating the dead body, or at least carrying it off, must've no doubt been a terrifying experience, perhaps enough for them to be DrivenToSuicide, especially if it eats someone that person had a strong connection to.]]

** Kanazawa and Ishii's fate after they leave. He travels on foot, while she slowly descends back down via parachute to a lower level after her plane explodes well before she reaches her destination. While it's implied they might be okay, the audience is left to wonder what happened to them. Did they starve to death? Or get injured and subsequently became too weak to find food/medicine? Or were they perhaps DrivenToSuicide due to being alone and getting a extreme case of CabinFever? One would hope that they at least died a peaceful death, content with what they've accomplished with their life. At least Chito and Yuuri had each other to talk to and keep company.
* GeniusBonus: In the opening and in most scenes where the Girls and the Kettenkrad cross from one side of the screen to the other they will be moving from right to left. Those with an astronomical bent know that the Earth rotates to the east - that is, left to right. Just like it says in the opening: So with a 1,2,3 start walking ... in the opposite direction the world is turning.

** Humanity has managed to destroy itself almost completely, to the point where a new civilization could very well begin ''and end'' among the ruins, making the setting a [[UpToEleven post-post-apo]]. But for the point-of-view characters this is simply normal - they never experienced anything else.

** [[spoiler:By episode 12 the "cats" inform girls they are the only known living humans. This doesn't actually say anything about Kanizawa and Ichii's fates ("cats" may very well be {{Unreliable Expositor}}s), but there is barely anything left of human race anyway.]]

* TearJerker: The ending. [[spoiler:After all their struggles to reach the top level of the city and losing almost all their possessions, the girls find...nothing. A big heap of nothing. And are left to eat their last bit of food while trying to think of what to do next.]]

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite [[spoiler:her plane not lasting 20 seconds and being stuck parachuting to the lowest levels of the city, Ishii]] takes everything in pretty good stride. The same is generally true for the main characters. [[spoiler:You see later on that it's just repressed. Both girls are ''very'' scared of what lies ahead of them, and rely on each other for comfort.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[spoiler:Despite the relatively light hearted nature of the series, it makes it clear that the remainder of mankind is on the verge of extinction. The ending has the girls reach the top level only to find out their entire journey amounted to them finding 'nothing'. They have used up their remaining supplies to achieve this, and they don't know what to do next.]]
* FauxSymbolism: Numerous reviews point out the series is in fact a tongue-in-cheek take on ''all the staple philosophical musings'' of post-apocalyptic fiction. Content that could fill entire run of several different shows is presented in short conversations, any pretense of deeper meaning tossed out the window when the characters just chat about the "important" subjects. There is a lot of talking about afterlife, meaning of life, meaning of continuing to live AfterTheEnd, [[HumansAreBastards humanity being a bunch of bastards]]... but it's all a ''filler'', with all the flaws of different concepts quickly being [[{{Deconstruction}} pointed out]].

* FridgeHorror: In episode 12, Yuuri is SwallowedWhole by a giant cat creature. She actually turns out to be okay, as the giant cat creature says they don't eat living people. But it makes you wonder, what happened to all the dead bodies? The scale of the city highly suggests there must have been tens of thousands, if not millions, of people living in this place, yet the girls never see lots of dead bodies laying around. And while many people probably died peacefully, as seen in one of the videos in episode 12, there are also scenes that suggests warfare also occurred. And if a person survived but others around them died, seeing one of those cat creatures showing up and eating the dead body, or at least carrying it off, must've no doubt been a terrifying experience, perhaps enough for them to be DrivenToSuicide, especially if it eats someone that person had a strong connection to.
** On the other hand, since we see the "cats" commemorated as nearly divine creatures in statues around the city, it's possible that feeding your dead to them was in fact the burial custom of choice during the last civilization; it would explain why even the supposed graves only contain objects of personal significance, instead of the actual dead bodies.

** By episode 12 the "cats" inform girls they are the only known living humans. This doesn't actually say anything about Kanizawa and Ichii's fates ("cats" may very well be {{Unreliable Expositor}}s), but there is barely anything left of human race anyway.
** Judging by the photos, Kanizawa was travelling with a woman. They seemed to be close, but he never mentions her and he's alone when meeting the girls. [[NothingIsScarier We never learn]] who she was or what happened to her.

* LesYay: Chito and Yuuri's closeness lends itself well to this interpretation, with a few lines bordering on innuendo. One bit of material written by the author suggests that they'd be in an active relationship if things were more peaceful.

* BrokenBase: To say the ending is divisive would be like saying fire is hot.

* AwesomeMusic: Considering its simplistic visual style, the series has some absolutely gorgeous musical themes.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's never actually explained [[ApocalypseHow how the world ended]] apart from a few vague clues, and save for a brief flashback near the end of the manga, little is known about Chito and Yuuri's backstories, and how they ended up being some of the last humans left on Earth.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's never actually explained [[ApocalypseHow how the world ended]] apart from a few vague clues, and save for a brief flashback near the end of the manga, little is known about Chito and Yuuri's backstories, and how they ended up being some of the last humans left on Earth. [[AuthorsSavingThrow The anime attempts to rectify this situation]] by making it more clear the cause of the destruction was [[spoiler:nuclear war, as the war robot attests to]], and [[spoiler:showing that the camera contains memories of the EarthThatWas, including Kanazawa's daughter]].

* TearJerker: The ending. [[spoiler:After all their struggles to reach the top level of the city and losing almost all their possessions, the girls find...nothing. A big heap of nothing. And are left to eat their last bit of food while trying to think of what to do next.]]

* TearJerker: The ending. [[spoiler:After all their struggles to reach the top level of the city and losing almost all their possessions, the girls find...nothing. A big heap of nothing. And are left to eat their last bit of food while trying to think of what to do next. And its heavily implied that they proceed to die in their sleep.]]

* TearJerker: The ending. [[spoiler:After all their struggles to reach the top level of the city and losing almost all their possessions, the girls find...nothing. A big heap of nothing. And are left to eat their last bit of food while trying to think of what to do next.]]

* GeniusBonus: In the opening and in most scenes where the Girls and the Kettenkrad cross from one side of the screen to the other they will be moving from right to left. Those with an astronomical bent know that the Earth rotates to the east - that is, left to right. Just like it says in the opening: So with a 1,2,3 start walking ... in the opposite direction the world is turning.

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite [[spoiler:her plane not lasting 20 seconds and being stuck parachuting to the lowest levels of the city, Ishii]] takes everything in pretty good stride. [[spoiler:You see later on that it's just repressed. Both girls are ''very'' scared of what lies ahead of them, and rely on each other for comfort.]]

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite [[spoiler:her plane not lasting 20 seconds and being stuck parachuting to the lowest levels of the city, Ishii]] takes everything in pretty good stride.

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite [[spoiler:her plane not lasting 20 seconds and being stuck parachuting to the lowest levels of the city, Ishii]] takes everything in pretty good stride.