Characters of Girls' Last Tour. Fans of the anime only, beware of spoilers for the manga!
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Main Characters
Chito
Chito
Voiced by: Inori Minase (Japanese), Cat Thomas (English)
Why do you think people live? We're always going around, looking for any kind of food we can get our hands on, right? But we're always thinking there might be something... Something waiting for us in our destination.
- 1-Dimensional Thinking: When the girls come across a conveyor belt inside of an abandoned food production facility, Yuuri activates it while Chito is standing on it. Chito frantically runs against the conveyor until Yuuri shuts it off... and then proceeds to turn it on and off again. When Chito expresses her annoyance at this, Yuuri notes that all Chito had to do was run sideways.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She is generally calm and composed, though Yuuri sometimes rattles her with her air-headed tendencies.
- Bookworm: She is an avid reader. When the duo discovers a gigantic library in Chapter 43 of the manga, her immediate reaction is to hastily start packing books into the Kettenkrad.
- Brains and Brawn: Chito is a brainy bookworm, while Yuuri is more physically capable and knows how to use a rifle, but is also an illiterate ditz. Chito even muses about their respective roles aloud in Chapter 4 of the manga (Episode 2 in the anime).Yuuri: Must be nice for you, Chi, making me do all the annoying work.Chito: If you don't have the brains, use your brawn.
- Brainy Brunette: Chito has dark hair, loves books, and is proficient with operating the Kettenkrad. She also engages in deep thought about life and philosophy quite often.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Chito is the Tsukkomi, while Yuuri is the Boke.
- Boring, but Practical: In the chapter "Labyrinth" (Chapter 17 of the manga and Episode 7 of the anime), the girls get lost finding their way inside of a food production facility in a tangle of massive pipes. After finally finding their way inside, Chito comments that life would be so much easier if there were always arrows pointing to whatever direction they need to go. The more adventurous Yuuri says that would be boring, proposing that they go through a random vault instead of following the marked directions inside the building. Chito is very quick to turn down said proposal, because if they get even more lost, they will get even hungrier and eventually die. Yuuri concedes, and they continue their path.
- Broken Tears: After working herself to the bone trying to fix the Kettenkrad in Chapter 44, she realizes it is beyond repair. She instructs Yuuri to help her convert the now-defunct vehicle into a makeshift bath, retaining her composure and demonstrating her mechanical knowledge yet again. Once their work is done and they enter the bath, Chito completely falls apart and begins sobbing her heart out while Yuuri comforts her.
- Cartography Sidequest: Kanazawa gifts his camera to Chito and Yuuri when he leaves them to continue his mapping project. Chito takes photographs of various things the girls come across throughout the story.
- Child Soldiers: Downplayed. She and Yuuri both wear old, resized military uniforms with helmets and ride a military vehicle, but never have been part of any army and received all the equipment from their grandfather.
- Cryptic Background Reference: Chito sometimes makes vague references to how the world used to be.
- Disapproving Look: A Running Gag in the story; when Chito gets really annoyed (Usually from Yuuri's antics), her eyes turn into flat black-and-white ovals, resulting in an amusingly stone-faced expression.
◊ Yuuri notes that it looks a lot like the face on the god-statues they sometimes come across, much to Chito's chagrin. - Drowning My Sorrows: In Chapter 44, after failing to fix the Kettenkrad and converting it into a bath so they can have one last soak, Chito breaks down in tears. She quickly grabs the last bottle of beer that Yuuri had saved and gulps it down, seemingly in an effort to numb the pain.
- Dude, Not Funny!: In the chapter "Destruction," she punches Yuuri in the face for setting an empty cityscape ablaze with a laser cannon and laughing about it. It's one of the few dramatic moments in the story, as Chito hitting Yuuri isn't Played for Laughs like it usually is.
- Feel No Pain: Invoked. The girls often discuss concepts of afterlife and heaven, each time coming to the same conclusion - they can't be dead if they still feel pain, cold and hunger.
- Hangover Sensitivity: When the girls find three bottles of old booze, they get drunk off their asses. Chito leaves with a wicked hangover the next morning, while Yuuri seems totally unaffected.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: In a brief after-credits scene in Episode 10, she tries singing the same melody Yuuri did earlier in the chapter "Wavelength." She is so off-key, however, that Nuko despairs from listening to it.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the chapter "Temple," Chito and Yuuri visit a shrine with a giant chamber full of lights, giant statues, and a life-sized sculpture of a lake with flowers and fish, made out of metal and glass. Yuuri is so disappointed that the fish aren't real that she calls the temple's god "just a stone statue." As Chito begins taking photographs of the room, she says that if Yuuri keeps talking like that, she will receive divine punishment. When Yuuri mentions a stone statue (Presumably of a god or spirit) they accidentally toppled with their Kettenkrad earlier, Chito nervously backpedals and says that was "just a stone statue."
- Imagine Spot: When the girls spend the night in an abandoned home, they imagine what their dream home would have, such as a bunkbed. Chito specifically imagines having a large shelf to store all her books.
- Intertwined Fingers: Chito and Yuuri do this from time to time.
- Odd Couple: Chito and Yuuri couldn't be more different; the former is a mildly dour bookworm, while the latter is an off-kilter goofball.
- Past Experience Nightmare: Chito has a brief one in the first episode, a memory of their last moments with their grandfather. She and Yuuri are told to escape while a battle rages on, and then drive away in their little Kettenkrad as gunfire echoes in the background. A chapter of the manga explores Chito and Yuuri's last days back with their grandfather, expanding upon the dream. They lived in a relatively populated village, but it was on the verge of failing. In one scene, a group of uniformed men are seen glaring at Yuuri before Chito leads her away, possibly angry over the girls getting rations like everyone else despite only being children. Their grandfather gave them their cut-down uniforms, the Kettenkrad, and some supplies before sending them away from the village; he specifically tells them to seek the higher levels, not the lower ones, likely because the lower levels have long been picked clean. As Chito and Yuuri depart, the village apparently collapses into a final anarchic fight over the last resources, and their grandfather is seen holding a pistol as if preparing himself for suicide.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Chito is the Blue Oni to Yuuri's Red Oni.
- Sore Loser: Doesn't take kindly to being defeated in the rock-stacking game, demanding constant rematches until she wins.
- Unsuspectingly Soused: The girls try some strange amber liquid they found in an abandoned home. Turns out it was beer and they end up drunk and dancing together under the moonlight.
- Walking the Earth: Chito and Yuuri have no set destination in mind, as their main focus is living day-to-day.
- When She Smiles: Chito certainly isn't the doom-and-gloom type, but her serious, straight-laced, and slightly pessimistic demeanor doesn't leave that much room for happy expressions, especially compared to the more ditzy and optimistic Yuuri. There is even a video posted on YouTube compiling the moments in the anime where she smiles; it lasts for about a minute and a half.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She suffers from crippling acrophobia. Becomes quite the issue as a lot of their travels involves ascending.
- Wrench Wench: She has a wide knowledge of machines, and also drives and operates the Kettenkrad.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Flashbacks show that something terrible happened to Chito's and Yuuri's home, and is the reason they set out on their journey.
Yuuri
Yuuri
Voiced by: Yurika Kubo (Japanese), Juliet Simmons (English)
I guess people long ago didn't have enough food, either. So why would they build all these weapons, then? If they'd preserved food instead of making weapons, our lives would be so much easier right now, you know?
- A God Am I: Played for Laughs. The stinger at the end of episode 4 has her holding up two lily pads for a picture, as she declares herself a god.
- The Anti-Nihilist: Yuri is openly disdainful of those who need some grand goal to keep them going and frequently comments how everything is ultimately meaningless. She's not particularly concerned with morality either, and often has to be talked out of reckless or selfish actions by Chito. She's also the happiest and most contented character in the show, and is the most willing to simply enjoy life while she has it, but this might as well come from her being a Fearless Fool.Yuuri: Let's get along with the feeling of hopelessness.
- Apology Gift: Yuuri feels guilty for accidentally burning one of Chito's books in the chapter "Journal;" she decides to make a drawing in her journal without her knowing as an apology. The following morning, Chito discovers she made a rough sketch of her sleeping face with a caption that's supposed to read "I'm Sorry" (Yuuri is virtually illiterate, so she misspelled it — The anime's subtitles translate it as "I'm Sokky"). In the anime, Chito smiles while holding the book and looking onward, implying that she appreciates the sentiment.
- Big Eater: She and is driven by her personal desires such as often wanting to eat more food than they have.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Yuuri is the Boke, while Chito is the Tsukkomi.
- Bold Explorer: She is quite adventurous, especially compared to the more practical Chito.
- Brains and Brawn: Chito is a brainy bookworm, while Yuuri is more physically capable and knows how to use a rifle, but is also an illiterate ditz. Chito even muses about their respective roles aloud in Chapter 4 of the manga (Episode 2 in the anime).Yuuri: Must be nice for you, Chi, making me do all the annoying work.Chito: If you don't have the brains, use your brawn.
- Call-Back: Yuu checking the direction of the wind with a licked finger and declaring direction based on that.
- Child Soldiers: Downplayed. She and Chito both wear old, resized military uniforms with helmets and ride a military vehicle, but they have never been part of any army and received all the equipment from their grandfather. Yuuri is also a good shot with her rifle and uses military terminology from time to time, seemingly just for her own amusement.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Yuuri is pretty childish and extremely Book Dumb, often being more of a hindrance than a help. She is poorly educated, but it's worth noting that when Chito is compromised (normally by her fear of heights) and they're legitimately in danger she will suddenly become a lot more focused and serious, and the few times violence has been necessary she's been highly competent.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In Episode 6 of the anime, Yuuri's eyes are sparkling with excitement when Ishii says there is a food production plant nearby... Only to have her hopes immediately dashed upon learning it no longer functions, resulting in this expression.
- Dumb Blonde: Yuuri is not the sharpest tool in the drawer, and has the blonde hair to match her lacking smarts. She also can't read, unlike the book-loving Chito.
- Feel No Pain: Invoked. The girls often discuss concepts of afterlife and heaven, each time coming to the same conclusion - they can't be dead if they still feel pain, cold and hunger.
- The Gunslinger: She is a crack shot proficient with rifles; the one she uses is an Arisaka Type 38.
- Hidden Buxom: If the short chip of her dancing without her overcoat in the anime's ED is anything to go by, Yuuri is the more physically endowed of the two girls.
- Imagine Spot: When the girls spend the night in an abandoned home, they imagine what their dream home would have, such as a bunkbed. Yuuri specifically imagines having a pantry for storing lots of food.
- Innocence Lost: Subverted, if not even defied. The girls are still innocent kids, despite the world they live in and at least Yuu is completely oblivious to the horror going around.
- Intertwined Fingers: Chito and Yuuri do this from time to time.
- Is It Something You Eat?: Yuuri often asks if stuff they find along their journey is edible, like a tank and a dead fish.
- Living Is More than Surviving: As Yuuri puts it, even if it's hopeless, nice things still happen sometimes.
- Messy Hair: She has long and rather disheveled blonde hair, reflecting her free-spirited and lackadaisical personality compared to the straight-laced Chito.
- Never Learned to Read: Yuuri is almost totally illiterate.
- Obsessed with Food: Yuuri's focus seems to be all about food, so much that she even remembers food facts.
- Odd Couple: Chito and Yuuri couldn't be more different; the former is a mildly dour bookworm, while the latter is an off-kilter goofball.
- The Pollyanna: Yuuri always finds something to be happy about, which contrasts with Chito's more grounded personality. Kanazawa and Chito Lampshade this in the anime.Kanazawa: You sure are optimistic.Chito: She's so optimistic, she's gotta have a screw loose.(Yuuri blushes and giggles.)
- Primal Fear: Darkness. This is emphasised in Chapter 46 when she reveals to Chito that she's scared of the dark.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Yuuri is the Red Oni to Chito's Blue Oni.
- Swallowed Whole: In Chapter 32 of the manga (Episode 12 of the anime), Yuuri seems to get Eaten Alive by a giant white creature she encounters in a submarine. Chito chases after it, but it turns out the creature, an Eringi, doesn't actually eat living people and instead ingested a small radio Yuuri had pocketed earlier.
- Tempting Fate: In episode 11, Yuuri asks Chito why they're wearing helmets when there's no one shooting at them. A giant screw immediately falls on Chito's head, and moments later, one falls on Yuuri's as well. They then find that there's a lot of falling debris from a Humongous Mecha that collapses right in front of them.
- Unsuspectingly Soused: The girls try some strange amber liquid they found in an abandoned home. Turns out it was beer and they end up drunk and dancing together under the moonlight.
- Walking the Earth: Chito and Yuuri have no set destination in mind, as their main focus is living day-to-day.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Flashbacks show that something terrible happened to Chito's and Yuuri's home, and is the reason they set out on their journey.
Major Characters
Kanazawa
Kanazawa
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Mark X. Laskowski (English)
You've got something important to you too, don't you?
- Tempting Fate: In episode 3, Chito asks if the elevator she, Yuuri, and Kanazawa are inside of is stable. Kanazawa also mentions that he'd probably be Driven to Suicide if he ever lost his maps. So naturally something goes wrong with the elevator, and during that moment, Kanazawa's bag falls off as well. He is encouraged to live on however, and goes his separate way to draw new maps.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Kanazawa and Ishii aren't seen again after their brief time with the girls. While it's implied they're probably okay, one can only guess as to how many resources they are able to find considering much of it was already stripped clean, particularly on the lower levels. Additionally, the camera Kanazawa gave the girls reveals he had someone else traveling with him at some point, yet he's alone when the girls first run into him. However, it's implied they both died during the girls' travels, since the "cats" state they haven't found any other living humans on the lower levels.
Ishii
Ishii
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Stephanie Wittels (English)
True hopelessness is not having anywhere to go, right? You'll just end up dying along with this city.
- Badass Longcoat: She wears a white longcoat and has a very intelligent and cool-headed personality.
- Nice Girl: A mellow and kind-hearted woman who not only agrees to fix Chito and Yuuri's Kettenkrad in exchange for help with building her aircraft, but even gives them food and a place to stay.
- The Stoic: She maintains a very calm and level-headed demeanor. The only time it slips is during her first scene, where she is startled by Chito and Yuuri's appearance while testing out her aircraft.
- Stoic Spectacles: She wears thin, rectangular eyeglasses that highlight her status as The Stoic, along with bringing to mind Smart People Wear Glasses as a scientist.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Kanazawa and Ishii aren't seen again after their brief time with the girls. While it's implied they're probably okay, one can only guess as to how many resources they are able to find considering much of it was already stripped clean, particularly on the lower levels. Additionally, the camera Kanazawa gave the girls reveals he had someone else traveling with him at some point, yet he's alone when the girls first run into him. However, it's implied they both died during the girls' travels, since the "cats" state they haven't found any other living humans on the lower levels.
- Wrench Wench: She has exceptional knowledge on mechanical and aircraft engineering; she uses it to not only build and operate her own aircraft, but also to help fix Chito and Yuuri's Kettenkrad.
Nuko
Nuko
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Kalin Coates (English)
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Nuko likes eating bullets and fuel.
- Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": When the girls first encounter Nuko, they initially think it's a cat. When it tries imitating the word for cat (Neko), the small radio it speaks through (Courtesy of Yuuri) makes it sound like it's saying nuko, thus leading the girls to call it as such. The anime's official subtitles label it as a cut instead of a cat.
- Dub Name Change: It's called Nuko in Japanese, but sometimes other translations will give it a name that sounds similar to "Cat" or "Kitten". One English translation for example calls it "Ket".
- Electronic Telepathy: It communicates with the girls via radio signals. An adult Eringi later reveals that juveniles such as Nuko can only communicate through this sort of short-range transmission until fully-grown.
- Head Pet: Occasionally. Chito complains that it's too heavy to sit on her head, though she later puts it back on while chasing down a giant Nuko-like creature that swallowed Yuuri whole, rifle in-hand. In the manga, it later gets a head pet of its own after befriending a tiny robot.
- Objectshifting: Nuko can shape-shift to activate mechanisms, such as a giant robot the girls stumble across.
- Radio Voice: Since it speaks through a small radio Chito and Yuuri carry, it naturally sounds like this.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: One of its defining characteristics. Aside from mimicking human speech and repeatedly saying nui as its Catchphrase, it often vocalizes its own sound effects. Examples include when it's gulping food (Usually bullets) or drinking from a small puddle of fuel.
Minor Characters
Eringi
Eringi
Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
- Bizarre Taste in Food: They feed on objects such as electronic devices and nuclear missiles for nourishment. Judging by the fact that one of them only spits out Yuuri because she was still living, it's all but stated that they also eat corpses.
- Meaningful Appearance: The Eringi are mushroom-shaped beings feeding off of electrical and nuclear power from the decaying city, dismantling and stabilizing them before flying away. This could be symbolic for how fungi grow on, absorb nutrients from, and decompose dead organisms such as animals and plants.
- Mushroom Man: A creature whose fully-developed form reveals a giant mushroom-like appearance.
- Radio Voice: They speak with a ghostly, radio-like echo; unlike infant Eringi, however, it doesn't require a conduit for radio-waves (e.g., a speaker) to communicate with Chito and Yuuri.
- Transhuman Aliens: Though not directly stated, it's implied that the Eringi either descend from human-created artificial lifeforms, or were purposefully made to clear up the mess that humans had made of the planet.
Grandfather (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Grandfather
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
The caretaker of both Chito and Yuuri, during their stay in the town, which later sunk into anarchy.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the anime, a glimpse of him is shown in Episode 1's flashback. He then appears in Episode 12/Chapter 32 in a flashback scene, which is technically the same thing as Chapter 40, but a more distilled version of it.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: Inverse to the above trope, he appears in the manga much later in Chapter 40, also as a flashback character.
- Ambiguously Related: It is unknown if the Grandfather is blood-related to Chito as his own granddaughter, as Chito had been an orphan since birth.
- Driven to Suicide: Because of the ensuing anarchy and chaos around the town, which was triggered by constant civil war, he was later seen putting a pistol around his temple by Chito and Yuuri in a flashback, killing himself via a gunshot wound to the head.
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge: The Grandfather was known to have an archive of pre-war books, including folklore.
- The Ghost: Initially in the manga only. He is sometimes mentioned by Chito and Yuuri throughout their ventures, but not physically appearing at all. He appears in Chapter 40 through a flashback, revealing that he's Dead All Along when he committed suicide in the past, after saving Chito and Yuuri from the civil war by sending them away from the town on a journey.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: The Grandfather served as Chito and Yuuri's mentor in the past. While he was considered a posthumous character, appearing only in flashbacks, his past actions including his goal of letting Chito and Yuuri escape the war-torn city catalysed most of the events in the series, including their perilous ascent to the megacity's highest layer, of whom which was successful, but at a greater cost...
- Mistaken for Related: In the same vein as Ambiguously Related. He is often mistaken as Chito's grandfather by the readers, despite the fact that there is no clear-cut evidence of their familial relationship.
- Parental Substitute: To both Chito and Yuuri as his adopted wards, given that they both knew nothing about their actual parentage since they were born.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite being a flashback character, his actions played a significant role in the series' present events, as he is solely the man behind Chito and Yuuri's venture to the highest layer.
- Walking Spoiler: He is the reason for starting the girls' journey to the highest layer in the first place. As such, it is impossible to talk about him without talking about the story of the manga.
Kanazawa's Companion
Kanazawa's Companion
- The Nameless
- Uncertain Doom: A big clue as to why Kanazawa is all by himself when he meets both Chito and Yuuri at the megacity, but her incidentally tragic fate is considered unknown.
- Walking Spoiler: The reveal of her images alone during the big reveal in Episode 12/Chapter 31 is a huge spoiler regarding Kanazawa.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Not much is known about her or even her fate and she's only known for being Kanazawa's travelling friend.
Autonomous Robot
Autonomous Robot
Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese), Kregg Dailey (English)
The Earth was once one large living being, but humans chose to separate themselves from its processes. Humans built cities to provide the environment for their existence as an alternative to the cycles of water, air, and energy. Our job is to maintain the infrastructure in the foundation of the city to the best of our ability.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: A large Spider Tank the girls encounter in an old aquarium definitely gives them quite the scare. Luckily, the smaller one is polite and is able to communicate with them.
- Cute Machines
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Episode 9 discusses this with the girls wondering about what constitutes being alive and if Machines can fall under that definition. When they finally decide to blow up the larger robot to stop it from destroying the facility they lament that it too is alive and sentient even if it doesn't communicate with them and they need to destroy it to save the fish and smaller robot.
Construction Robot
Construction Robot
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: While the robot itself dismantles building parts for recycling, it is not the case in the present-time, as it was already acting erratically by the time Chito and Yuuri encountered it. This is revealed that most of it is caused by a malfunctioning computer bug within its system, leading to the machine indiscriminately dismantling facilities beyond its control. Though it is largely harmless, it cannot be reasoned with, despite the Autonomous Robot's efforts, leaving Chii and Yuu with no other choice but to destroy it.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Played for Horror. When Chito and Yuuri firstly entered the roadway to the fish farm, the ominous, dark atmosphere around them combining with the machine hauntingly passing by at the survivors made the duo shudder. The large size of the machine amplified the creepiness factor the duo almost experienced.
- Spider Tank
Tower AI
Tower AI
- Blessed with Suck: It's capable of shapeshifting, managing the tower, and other impressive feats. However, the AI doesn't feel like the "freedom" it has is truly liberating:"When you know you have the freedom to go anywhere, you realize there is no place you truly wish to go."
- Flatline: A symbolic variant. It has a halo-like graph over its head that displays its status. When it is about to die, the status graph darkens and expands into an incomprehensible mess.
- Girlish Pigtails: The lines below its head make the AI look like it has hair fashioned into pigtails, and it's implied that it's supposed to appear feminine since it refers to its other units as "sisters".
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: While the AI is happy to finally see humans after ages, it genuinely wants to die. It has the girls start up its self-made self-destruct sequence since it cannot do so on its own without the permission from a human, and because otherwise it would be a long time before its systems shut off on their own.
- Last of Their Kind: The AI ceased communications with its "sisters" across the other four towers, implying that they are out of commission for a very long time, making it the only tower AI remaining to be in its functioning state.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: It describes its long life like insomnia, since memories come and go like the wind the longer something is alive.
