Episodes 1-3 – Touring After the Apocalypse

girls last tour is one of my all-time favorite anime and manga, so I’m probably naturally drawn to conceptually similar works Post-apocalyptic tour. Since childhood, I’ve been fascinated by stories of lone survivors traversing post-apocalyptic landscapes, discovering how the world would fare without humans. I blame this obsession on an obscure New Zealand film quiet earth Late Night I watched on British TV as a kid. I’ve never met anyone who’s seen this movie, but it’s an unforgettable story about a man who suddenly finds himself living alone in a world completely bereft of everyone else. It’s a slow, reflective, mesmerizingly weird movie, and animation that evokes a similar atmosphere is like catnip to me.

Where girl’s last trip A bit abstract, set in an unnamed futuristic metropolis, built on multiple huge levels, with two main characters whose designs lean more towards the soft side Cute-The spots end, Post-apocalyptic tour Clearly more down to earth. First, it’s set in a future Japan, with each episode named after the town the protagonist explores. It is also full of vitality liveto the point where the color is oversaturated. Every crumbling building is overgrown with verdant vegetation, while animals of all shapes and sizes colonize the empty streets, gardens, and waterways. It’s the post-apocalypse presented through holiday postcard images.

Our two protagonists are riding not a German military-produced Kettenkrad vehicle, but an old motorcycle retrofitted with solar cells, meaning they aren’t hampered by the need for combustible fuel. The energetic brown-haired girl Yoko is our first-person character. She is wearing a strange school uniform, and she is accompanied by the seemingly young gray-haired Airi. Her plain tone and general demeanor reminded me of many characters in “Renge”. Fei Fei Mei Heli. So far, we don’t know much about any of them.

In the first episode, Yoko and Airi face a reactivated tank controlled by a confused artificial intelligence. As it pursues them, firing extremely destructive explosive munitions in their general direction, the naive Airi unexpectedly unleashes the ultra-powerful plasma rifle built into her arm, melting the tank and halting its progress. What is she? The show is coy about details. We see her eating and drinking like Yoko, and she needs sleep like a normal person. However, in the second episode, Yoko views the modified robot they found (essentially a robot with a human brain) as the only human she’s ever seen. Airi claims to have a “memory bank” instead of a brain, and laments in episode three that she can’t swim because she can’t float like human Yoko. Therefore, Airi’s true nature is a compelling mystery.

The second big mystery is the identity of Yoko’s “sister,” whose previous travelogues appear to be the blueprint for the girls’ journey across Japan. The first character we meet in the post-apocalyptic prologue appears to be her sister, but her features are never clearly shown in the subsequent photos on Yoko’s phone, and Yoko’s bizarre dreams/hallucinations replace her sister with herself in what appear to be hazy memories she’s not supposed to have access to. It’s clear from context clues that Japan has been uninhabited for decades. Skyscrapers will not grow forests on top of them in a few years, and entire cities will not be submerged by the sea overnight. Add the apparently AI-generated sister/teacher on screen in Yoko’s underground bunker during the second episode’s flashback, and we’re left with more questions than answers. Yoko seems to be human, but why does she seem to have the memories of others? Another mystery to be solved.

And then there’s what’s going on in the world. Why No one left? We got some clues from the miserable robot we met in episode two. I can’t help but think that he would be happier without the memory of his beloved wife and daughter. The scene where the girls take him to the sea-filled crater that was once Yokosuka is quietly devastating, and we see a flashback of him witnessing what might have been a nuclear bomb. Although the girls invite him to join them on their journey, which as an amnesiac he seems to thoroughly enjoy, he politely declines. Yoko and Airi’s stern expressions showed that they knew they would leave him to fend for themselves. After they leave, we see him holding a photo of the family he loved from years ago, his battery drained, and then falling into the dark water, dying with them. The bleak scenes brought tears to my eyes.

I’m not sure if the emptiness in the world is just because of the nuclear bombs, though. Yoko must test the water she collects in episode three, with her smartphone not only checking for poisons, heavy metals and radiation, but also disinfecting it with UV light! It seems that high levels of radiation were a problem at some point, but today’s levels are safe enough for human survival. When they later found a relatively intact building and found well-preserved canned goods inside, they wondered how it would be so difficult to find anything in a ransacked house. This suggests that the decline of civilization takes time and may not be caused by a single catastrophic event. Yoko even discovered a body that looked like it was holding a gun in an upstairs bedroom, suggesting the former resident committed suicide. The show’s tone varies greatly, from bright, fun road trip to dark, existential horror.

For the most part, it’s heavy on the “fun” part, especially when it comes to animals. The first episode ends with a relaxing bath in Hakone’s hot springs, shared with a family of cute little boars. In the second episode, Yoko attempts to fish in the ocean near the broken Bay Bridge near Yokohama, but is hilariously (albeit also horribly) interrupted by a hungry shark. Another shark is later eaten by a giant orca, which appears to have mutated and grown to incredible sizes due to “endocrine disruptors” present in the environment. Episode three offers an absolutely delightful scene in which Yoko befriends a flock of penguins and swims with them on an idyllic summer afternoon. These interludes make the post-apocalypse not such a bad place to explore after all. You know, it’s the kind of thing that gives me stomach ulcers just thinking about it, in addition to chronic lack of food or permanent shelter.

The third episode tells the story of a trip to Tokyo International Exhibition Center,Location comics In our world, the girls even found something Doujinshi There. I wonder if this is from a group otaku Do we want to get together after the end of the world? However, I think I noticed in one scene a four-legged military drone lying lifeless on the floor. Also, what are the giant trees growing above the Tokyo skyline? What does this all mean?

Yoko and Airi play off each other very well; they are fun to watch. Yoko is an energetic person, while Airi is more reserved, but Yoko can still get up to mischief when he’s involved. Their friendship is strong as they are both determined to be together “forever”. I’m not sure what that means in this context, or even what the lifespan of a potential artificial Airi is. At least they knew where their next destination was: Akihabara. Episode three ends with a truly bizarre Akihabara radio station playing the famous song “Crossing Field” Lisaopen the track Sword Art Online Japanese cartoons. What’s even stranger is, voice actor The radio DJ is played by Matsuoka Yiji, who also voices the radio station. SaoThe protagonist Kirito. Is there really another survivor? I can’t wait to see what next week holds.

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