History Manga / GirlsLastTour

* UnspecifiedApocalypse: The precise reason for the collapse of civilization is never explained because it isn't the point of the story. However, [[spoiler:Episode 12 provides some fragmentary details. The country that contained Chito and Yuuri's mega-city, implied to be a future Japan, declared war on the "neighboring states". One side eventually declared victory after inflicting over 50 million casualties on the other ("neighbouring state"), but at some point later an unspecified party deployed EMP bombs worldwide, which disabled most electronics and isolated the mega-city's levels from each other. As the world had already become completely urbanized and people relied on machines to provide everything that they needed, losing all of that infrastructure overnight probably caused a sudden population collapse and the end of that civilization. Sometime later, the survivors built a second civilization amidst the ruins that managed to reach the equivalent of a WWII-level of technology (or at least learned how to replicate or restore WWII weapons and vehicles) before it, too, collapsed into a war over dwindling resources. A century on from that, Chito and Yuuri are two of the last living remnants of humanity. It is implied later in the manga that the village Chito and Yuuri lived in with their grandfather was one of the last inhabited settlements (if not the very last one), and their grandfather sent them in search of the highest level because the food was running out and the people were turning against each other.]] The "Art" chapter implies that the ''Guernica'' like painting that was toppled over depicts things that happened during the apocalypse.

* TheAllegedCar: The Kettenkrad the girls ride in. Though rugged and capable of hauling the two girls and all their cargo, it is very old design and breaks down several times over the course of the story. [[spoiler: It finally gives up the ghost for good in Chapter 40 of the manga, when one of the tracks shatters and Chito discovers that several components in the engine are also shot. She spends a day trying to fix it, but ultimately concludes that it's hopeless and converts it into a bath for one last soak. As she and Yuuri get in, she breaks down in tears.]]

** When the girls are exploring the temple, lights go out. Chi gets lost, Yuu is left alone in pitch-black darkness, in a huge, unmapped building, without any source of light. [[spoiler: It turns out Chito is just messing with her and was there all the time]].
** In the final episode, [[spoiler: Yuuri is swallowed by a huge "cat". Chito has to rescue her, all the while terrified out of her mind that she'll fail and be left on her own. Especially scary since Chito is a firmly established non-fighter, and simply tired besides]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The elevator AI the girls encounter deletes itself since it has no more purpose and the fact that it is functionally immortal is causing it to go insane. It's also heavily implied the girls' grandfather commits suicide, as he is last seen cradling a pistol after sending them away from their village as it sinks into anarchy.]]

* EldritchLocation: The dead world. Everything looks plausibly man-made, and things like Yuuri's rifle and the Kettenkrad are directly modeled after things in the real world, yet the environment is entirely artificial with no hint of nature. There are massive layered cities, literal and empty concrete jungles, and city-sized industrial structures. [[spoiler: It's revealed in Episode 12 that this is a future version of Earth and the girls are traveling across a ruined megalopolis, implied to be a future Japan. It appears that the world's countries had completely destroyed the natural environment and urbanized everything except the ocean, which might have been made possible thanks to advances in self-maintaining and self-improving robots (explaining the "mass-produced" uniformity of much of the architecture, which appears as though it was all constructed around the same general period, rather than in gradual stages that would be defined by discernible differences in style). The location is affirmed later on in the manga, when the girls find a space center with a holographic map of the Solar System.]]

* IndestructibleEdible: None of the food that the girls find is spoiled, not even the actual, non-artificial chocolate that the girls come across in the final episode. This is {{Lampshaded}} on the package of said chocolate, which plainly states that it's a "non-perishable" variety.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Whatever ended the world left nary a corpse or skeleton behind. [[spoiler: Justified in Episode 12, as it's implied that dead bodies are recycled by "cats".]]
* NoEnding: [[spoiler: Chito and Yuuri finally reach the top of the city...only to find there's nothing there apart from a plain stone block. They walk around the completely barren landscape and talk for a time, then decide to have a meal and a rest before they decide on what to do next. The end.]][[spoiler: However, Chito and Yuuri have completely run out of resources and equipment at this point, the meal they had is their last package of food.]]

* RagnarokProofing: Though the ruins are stated to be centuries old, they still contain working elevators, water pipes that pump out hot water and streetlights are functioning in some levels of the LayeredMetropolis. Partially justified in Episode 9, as AIs are maintaining some parts of the city -- though it's still quite amazing that the ancient digital camera and radio that the girls receive apparently function indefinitely without repairs or charging, in spite of being centuries old. [[spoiler:This is {{Lampshaded}} by the "cats", who imply that such objects contain incredibly powerful energy sources for their size.]]

** [[spoiler: In the end, the girls' journey to the top level of the city means very little. They finally reach the top only to discover there's nothing there for them, just a featureless concrete plain covered in snow with a large stone block in the middle. The girls use up the last of their food, too, and while they don't sink into despair over their seemingly hopeless situation, it's very uncertain things will end well for them since they have nowhere to go but back the way they came.]]

* SnowMeansDeath: Fitting for an apocalyptic desolation, the weather makes it feel even more empty and lifeless. For the entire story, we get blizzards and the girls get cold enough to justify wearing fur-lined winter jackets. [[spoiler: Assuming the date on the camera is true, it's [[EndlessWinter late August and mid September]]]].

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* TheFuture: A few {{Freeze Frame Bonus}}es (Like the date on the camera and the date on the liquor the girls find) seem to indicate the series is set roughly 1200 years in the future. 3220, specifically.

* BookBurning: Invoked near the end, [[spoiler:when the books ta\hat Chito (who is ironically against her books being burnt) have collected, and her own diary, were burnt by her, in order to keep themselves warm before their perilous ascent.]]

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* TheReveal: Chapter 31/Episode 12 invokes this trope, where [[ChekhovsGun Kanazawa's camera]] reveals to be [[spoiler:filled with various photos and videos throughout ''many time periods'', chronicling what life was in the past JustBeforeTheEnd.]]

** The radio that Yuuri stole during their visit to the grave drawers, [[spoiler:where it later turns out to be their only audible guide to reach the submarine.]] [[spoiler:It constantly plays a melody that is specific to the Eringi.]] This item later proves [[spoiler:to be important, as well, as it allows Nuko to communicate with Chito and Yuuri, and was later stripped of it temporarily, when Yuuri was eaten by the pre-evolved Queen Eringi.]]

** The camera from Kanazawa. It starts off as some ancient, average gadget that Chito and Yuuri used to snap random photos in their journey, [[spoiler:until we find out in Chapter 31/Episode 12 that it is an ApocalypticLog containing a boatload of photos of people from different points in time, including the RobotWar.]]

** The camera from Kanazawa. It starts off as some ancient, average gadget that Chito and Yuuri used to snap random photos in their journey, [[spoiler:until we find out in Chapter 32/Episode 12 that it is an ApocalypticLog containing a boatload of photos of people from different points in time, including the RobotWar.]]

** The camera from Kanazawa. It starts off as some average gadget that Chito and Yuuri used to snap random photos in their journey, [[spoiler:until we find out in Chapter 32/Episode 12 that it is an ApocalypticLog containing a boatload of photos from different points in time, including the RobotWar.]]

** The camera from Kanazawa himself. It starts off as some average gadget that Chito and Yuuri used to snap random photos in their journey, [[spoiler:until we find out in Chapter 32/Episode 12 that it is an ApocalypticLog containing a boatload of photos from different points in time, including the RobotWar.]]

** The camera from Kanazawa itself. It starts off as some average gadget that Chito and Yuuri used to snap random photos in their journey, [[spoiler:until we find out in Chapter 32/Episode 12 that it is an ApocalypticLog containing a boatload of photos from different points in time, including the RobotWar.]]

''Girls' Last Tour'' (''Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou'') is a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY slice-of-life/post-apocalyptic]] manga from author Creator/{{Tsukumizu}}.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Flashbacks show that something terrible happened to Chito's and Yuuri's home, which is why they set out on their journey.

''Girls' Last Tour'' (''Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou'') is a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY slice-of-life/post-apocalyptic]] manga from author Tsukumizu.

* GreaterScopeParagon: [[spoiler:Chito and Yuuri's "Grandfather", who served as their mentor in the past, as well as the overarching protagonist of the series. While he was considered a posthumous character, 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...]]

Was adapted into an anime by Creator/WhiteFox for the Fall 2017 season. Creator/YenPress is releasing the manga in English while Creator/SentaiFilmworks has licensed the anime for an English release.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The anime concludes with Chito and Yuuri resolving to see what's at the very top of the city and continuing their ascent. The manga ends on this note as well. See NoEnding below.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Despite the mostly lighthearted nature of the story, the narrative is deeply cynical, something best exemplified by the ending.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: 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, [[spoiler: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.]]

* BigSleep: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be the case in the manga's ending. The duo burn their diary, eat the last of their food, and then close out the series falling asleep on the rooftop while the scene zooms out. The tankoubon only makes this worse; the ending closes on their helmets, with the girls themselves nowhere near them, with their very last appearances looking up at the sky in a wheat field.]]

* CallASmeerpARabbit: In episode 10 the girls run into an odd, almost featureless quadruped that can imitate human speech through radio waves. They decide that it's a cat. Well, Chi says it is not '''quite''' a cat, so they call it ''nuko'' instead of ''neko'', and the official subtitles call it a ''cut'' instead of a ''cat''.

* LifesWorkRuined: This happens to Kanazawa when he loses his maps and to Ishii when her plane falls apart.

* MinimalistCast: Chito and Yuuri are the only two characters. [[spoiler:Excluding their brief companions Kanazawa and Ishii.]]

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Whatever ended the world left nary a corpse or skeleton behind. [[spoiler: Justified in Episode 12, it is indicated that dead bodies are recycled by "cats".]]

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: In the end, the girls' journey to the top level of the city means very little. They finally reach the top only to discover there's nothing there for them, just a featureless concrete plain covered in snow with a large stone block in the middle. The girls use up the last of their food, too, and while they don't sink into despair over their seemingly hopeless situation, it's very uncertain things will end well for them since they have nowhere to go but back the way they came.]]
** Discussed: [[AnAesop Two of the recurring themes of the story]] is to "cope with despair" and "achieve something without regrets". [[spoiler:Kanazawa and Ishii both achieved their own goals to a degree (though both failed at the end) and were forced to abandon the duo, but there're little sadness shown from them; in the end the girls reached their goal, and though things presumably won't end well, they are at least ''fulfilled''.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:By Chapter 46, Chi and Yuu have had all of their possessions taken away or lost, with only each other for comfort as they ascend the steps. They hold hands in the darkness, telling each other they're afraid of death, and then they see the light.]]

* FourIsDeath: Fittingly, Chapter 44, titled "Loss", deals with [[spoiler:the Kittenkrad finally breaking down despite Chito's desperate efforts to save it]].

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 44, where [[spoiler:the Kittenkrad breaks down]]. As it was the biggest, if not the only reason the girls were able to make as much ground as they did, this event kickstarts the endgame and makes Yuuri joke a lot less than usual.