History Manga / GirlsLastTour

* LighterAndSofter: Despite being a very relaxing series to boot, ''Girls' Last Tour'' is by all means a dark and yet depressing series as it clearly takes place in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of all life. However, it [[ZigzaggingTrope is zigzagged]]. The anime series is much lighthearted, [[spoiler:except for the scenes of the (in)famous RobotWar from the distant past when Chito and Yuuri interfaced the camera to the submarine, where it was clearly very heartbreaking and grim, scenes that were ambiguously seen or not even seen in the manga]] and it ends on a much lighter note compared to the manga's ending (the true ending itself) where it is considerably bittersweet yet heartbreaking [[spoiler:as their adventure to the highest layer is all for nothing at the end.]]

* LighterAndSofter: Despite being a very relaxing series to boot, ''Girls' Last Tour'' is by all means a dark and yet depressing series as it clearly takes place in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of all life. However, it [[ZigzaggingTrope is zigzagged]]. The anime series is much lighthearted [[spoiler:except for the scenes of the (in)famous RobotWar from the distant past when Chito and Yuuri interfaced the camera to the submarine, where it was clearly very heartbreaking and grim, scenes that were ambiguously seen or not even seen in the manga]], but it ends on a much lighter note compared to the manga's true ending where it is considerably far more heartbreaking.

In an industrial world struck by a vague apocalyptic event, two people yet survive.

The series was adapted into an anime by Creator/WhiteFox for the Fall 2017 season. Creator/YenPress released the manga in English while Creator/SentaiFilmworks has licensed the anime for an English release.

The manga ran from February 21, 2014 to January 12, 2018 and was collected in six volumes. The TV series covered about 3/5 of it.

As the two trudge on through the populace devoid landscape, they keep each other company, enjoy what little creature comforts they come across, and shoot the occasional philosophical question at each other.

* HumansAreBastards: As shown within the present state of the world, it is heavily implied that the ancient humans in the past went out of their way to raze all of Earth's natural resources to pave way for mass urbanisation across the globe, leaving Earth to be nothing more than an artificial wasteland devoid of anything natural. What also did not help is countries in the past initiated RobotWar that sealed the deal of the ancient society's destruction, as well as the second civil war within Chito and Yuuri's town, leading to the present society that is now.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* AdaptationalExpansion: The flashback scene on Episode 12 of the anime adaptation has been extended further in Chapter 40, providing more insight to Chito and Yuuri's past during the FlashbackEpisode.

* EarthAllAlong: The {{Eldritch|Location}} world that Chito and Yuuri are in was initially seen to be as an alien planet in another galaxy, due to how commonplace layered cities are, and with the world being totally artificial. Episode 12/Chapter 31 reveals that [[spoiler:this is Earth set within the future, and they are implied to be what was once Japan. The holographic map that Chito and Yuu seen in the space center confirms that this was once Earth.]]

* GaiasLament: The world itself is virtually stripped clean of anything natural, [[spoiler:after [[HumansAreBastards humans destroyed all traces of the natural environment]] for many years, leading to it being too completely artificial.]]

** Their real darkest hour is at the very end, where [[spoiler:the Kettenkrad breaks down. From then on it's a slow, uphill climb to the highest stratum, with them using up everything important to them along the way. Chito even looks more and more upset as they climb.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapter 10 shows Yuuri briefly scared of being separated in the dark during her and Chito's venture inside the temple, with Yuuri frantically looking for Chito herself, even though [[spoiler:Chito is just beside her]]. [[spoiler:In Chapter 46, Yuuri is later revealed to have nyctophobia, the fear of the dark, where she explained the backstory of why she was scared of being alone in that situation. It becomes a significant plot point when she and Chito ascend the stairway to the highest layer with nothing but darkness around them, while holding hands to each other.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Girls' Last Tour'' is a deconstructive take of an ideal post-apocalyptic adventure genre. It takes away the cutesy art style and blend it to the anime's CentralTheme of enjoying it while it lasts for so long. As shown throughout the manga, Chito and Yuuri have been venturing in a dead world for almost a year with just the Kettenkrad and whatever things they can scavenge. The true testament of the manga lies in how life is defined in such a dead world. For instance [[spoiler:the Tower AI was forced to be killed by Chito and Yuuri to access the second highest layer, despite of the "freedom" it has after being encountered by humans in a very long time, clearly showing the suffering it went through, describing its long life as "an insomnia"]]. It also deconstructs the idea of effort and the limits it poses, as shown [[spoiler:when Kanazawa lost all of his hand-drawn maps from the wind and with Ishii's plane being destroyed just 40 seconds after taking off]]. Chito and Yuuri's [[spoiler:ascent to the highest layer]] plays the trope straight [[spoiler:when their efforts became nothing after leaving with the revelation that the said layer is nothing more than a barren, empty wasteland]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapter 10 shows Yuuri briefly scared of being separated in the dark during her and Chito's venture inside the temple, with Yuuri frantically looking for Chito herself, even though [[spoiler:Chito is just beside her]]. In Chapter 46, [[spoiler:Yuuri is later revealed to have nyctophobia, the fear of the dark, where she explained the backstory of why she was scared of being alone in that situation. It becomes a significant plot point when she and Chito ascend the stairway to the highest layer with nothing but darkness around them, while holding hands to each other.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapter 10 shows Yuuri briefly scared of being separated in the dark during her and Chito's venture inside the temple, with Yuuri frantically looking for Chito herself. That is because [[spoiler:Yuuri is later revealed to have nyctophobia, the fear of the dark, in Chapter 46, who explained the backstory of why she was scared of being alone in that situation. It becomes a significant plot point when she and Chito ascend the stairway to the highest layer with nothing but darkness around them.]]

** Ishii, despite creating a plane with Chito and Yuuri's help to escape the megacity, [[spoiler:had her efforts gone to waste, after her plane broke 40 seconds from the take-off]].

** 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, which uses ElectronicTelepathy.]] This item later proves [[spoiler:to be vital, as well, as it allows Nuko to communicate with Chito and Yuuri via its transmitter, and was later stripped of its ability to communicate temporarily, when Yuuri was eaten by the pre-evolved Queen Eringi.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Girls' Last Tour'' is a deconstructive take of an ideal post-apocalyptic adventure genre. It takes away the cutesy art style and blend it to the anime's CentralTheme of enjoying it while it lasts for so long. As shown throughout the manga, Chito and Yuuri have been venturing in a dead world for almost a year with just the Kettenkrad and whatever things they can scavenge. For instance [[spoiler:the Tower AI was forced to be killed by Chito and Yuuri to access the second highest layer, despite of the "freedom" it has after being encountered by humans in a very long time, clearly showing the suffering it went through, describing its long life as "an insomnia"]]. It also deconstructs the idea of effort, as shown [[spoiler:when Kanazawa lost all of his hand-drawn maps from the wind and with Ishii's plane being destroyed just 40 seconds after taking off]]. Chito and Yuuri's [[spoiler:ascent to the highest layer]] plays the trope straight [[spoiler:when their efforts became nothing after leaving with the revelation that the said layer is nothing more than a barren, empty wasteland]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Girls' Last Tour'' is a deconstructive take of an ideal post-apocalyptic adventure genre. It takes away the cutesy art style and blend it to the anime's CentralTheme of enjoying it while it lasts for so long. As shown throughout the manga, Chito and Yuuri have been venturing in a dead world for almost a year with just the Kettenkrad and whatever things they can scavenge. For instance [[spoiler:the Tower AI was forced to be killed by Chito and Yuuri to access the second highest layer, despite of the "freedom" it has after being encountered by humans in a very long time, clearly showing the suffering it went through, describing its long life as "an insomnia"]]. It also deconstructs the idea of effort, as shown [[spoiler:when Kanazawa lost all of his hand-drawn maps from the wind and with Ishii's plane being destroyed just 40 seconds after taking off.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Girls' Last Tour'' is a deconstructive take of an ideal post-apocalyptic adventure genre. It takes away the cutesy art style and blend it to the anime's CentralTheme of enjoying it while it lasts for so long. As shown throughout the manga, Chito and Yuuri have been venturing in a dead world for almost a year with just the Kettenkrad and whatever things they can scavenge. For instance [[spoiler:the Tower AI was forced to be killed by Chito and Yuuri to access the second highest layer, despite of the "freedom" it has after being encountered by humans in a very long time, clearly showing the suffering it went through, describing its long life as "an insomnia"]].

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