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少女終末旅行 / Girls' Last Tour #3
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 3
(Volume 2)
Titus and Yuri continue traveling in a world where the civilization collapsed. What did the two who ventured to the upper level of the city find?
Titus and Yuri continue traveling in a world where the civilization collapsed. What did the two who ventured to the upper level of the city find?
160 pages, Paperback
First published February 9, 2016
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About the author
Tsukumizu
22 books75 followersTsukumizu (つくみず, a pseudonym, real name unknown) is a Japanese cartoonist.
They are best known for the manga series Girls' Last Tour (2014-2018), a slice-of-life in a post-apocalyptic setting, and Shimeji Simulation (2019-2024), a 'yonkoma' (four panel strip) surrealist comedy.
They are best known for the manga series Girls' Last Tour (2014-2018), a slice-of-life in a post-apocalyptic setting, and Shimeji Simulation (2019-2024), a 'yonkoma' (four panel strip) surrealist comedy.
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May 12, 2019
I loved the anime series and I am loving the books! A friend from Goodreads gave me an Amazon gift certificate so I got the show on blu Ray. I love it so much and now I’m have both.
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
October 6, 2020
They've found a plant, and another living creature!
Does bread really work that way? I thought you needed gluten and/or a rising agent?
Regardless of little world building nitpicks like that, this manga continues to be wonderfully atmospheric. There's a melancholy end-of-days feeling to it, and scenery that makes you wonder how the world got to this point, and it doesn't fill in all the details for you. The author's afterword gives me an idea of how this will end. I'll keep an open mind in the meantime.
Does bread really work that way? I thought you needed gluten and/or a rising agent?
Regardless of little world building nitpicks like that, this manga continues to be wonderfully atmospheric. There's a melancholy end-of-days feeling to it, and scenery that makes you wonder how the world got to this point, and it doesn't fill in all the details for you. The author's afterword gives me an idea of how this will end. I'll keep an open mind in the meantime.
January 23, 2024
This is a review for the manga as a whole and not this individual volume, so it will probably be somewhat spoilerish.
The anime for this manga had been on my radar for some time. I knew very little about it, other than it was usually compared to Kino's Journey which I enjoyed. I think I watched the entire anime within a forty-eight-hour period of starting it, and I immediately knew I had to read the manga to find out more.
So, I had already read the manga a couple times in unofficial translations by this point, so this isn't exactly my first read. I've had plenty of time to process my feelings towards this story, and there was really an extraordinary amount to process.
The first thing most people I know who have either seen the anime or read the manga say is it's very depressing. I'll be honest, just looking at the basic plot makes it seem like a horrifically sad and hopeless tale. Yet, I never was hit by any pity for these two girls in this hopeless situation. If anything, I envied them.
They were born into a dying and nearly dead world, in a collapsed society built in the ruins of an older collapsed society. They seem to have been separately taken in by an older man after something conceivably happened to their separate sets of parents. That was the only family/parental figure they can remember. They lose him at a very young age and are forced into the world to fend for themselves.
They are almost entirely ignorant of humanity, history, morality, and basically anything that we humans take for granted from our social constructs. So, they experience the remnants of this long dead world from an entirely fresh perspective, and it's so well executed to make it breathtaking. I was in constant awe of how effortlessly thought provoking it was. Heavy concepts were given fresh perspective from the eyes of these two unbiased observers. War, death, life, the afterlife, art, music, literature, and that's only the first ones to come to mind.
They have one simple purpose, and that's to find their way to the highest level of the multilayered ruins, hoping there's something up there. Yet, the journey comes to mean more to them than the destination. All the experiences they share together on their trek make their lives worthwhile, as unfair as their lives seem. Despite having only each other for almost the entirety of the story, they always had each other. Both of them had one ever faithful and unshakable companion to help them navigate through life.
I guess that's why I'm envious of them. The simplicity of their existence, coupled with having a person they loved deeply to get through it with, sounds nice. I suppose that's odd to say about two young girls forced to scrounge for every bit of food and water they can find, but the author herself mentioned feeling envious of them in the afterword. I guess I'm not alone, and that's one of the feelings these manga volumes gave me. I felt that as long as this story existed, and there was an author out there who could invoke these kinds of emotions in me, I'd never be alone.
There are so many powerfully emotional scenes that it's hard to even begin going into the finer details of the plot, so I'm not going to do that. I just want to say that I'm not sure if a work of fiction has ever moved me like this. Even the artwork, which I don't have much of an eye for, constantly made me want to sit and appreciate it. Every time I read this, I'm filled with a sense that everything will be okay, in the end, and that life, for all its hardships, is very much worth living.
The anime for this manga had been on my radar for some time. I knew very little about it, other than it was usually compared to Kino's Journey which I enjoyed. I think I watched the entire anime within a forty-eight-hour period of starting it, and I immediately knew I had to read the manga to find out more.
So, I had already read the manga a couple times in unofficial translations by this point, so this isn't exactly my first read. I've had plenty of time to process my feelings towards this story, and there was really an extraordinary amount to process.
The first thing most people I know who have either seen the anime or read the manga say is it's very depressing. I'll be honest, just looking at the basic plot makes it seem like a horrifically sad and hopeless tale. Yet, I never was hit by any pity for these two girls in this hopeless situation. If anything, I envied them.
They were born into a dying and nearly dead world, in a collapsed society built in the ruins of an older collapsed society. They seem to have been separately taken in by an older man after something conceivably happened to their separate sets of parents. That was the only family/parental figure they can remember. They lose him at a very young age and are forced into the world to fend for themselves.
They are almost entirely ignorant of humanity, history, morality, and basically anything that we humans take for granted from our social constructs. So, they experience the remnants of this long dead world from an entirely fresh perspective, and it's so well executed to make it breathtaking. I was in constant awe of how effortlessly thought provoking it was. Heavy concepts were given fresh perspective from the eyes of these two unbiased observers. War, death, life, the afterlife, art, music, literature, and that's only the first ones to come to mind.
They have one simple purpose, and that's to find their way to the highest level of the multilayered ruins, hoping there's something up there. Yet, the journey comes to mean more to them than the destination. All the experiences they share together on their trek make their lives worthwhile, as unfair as their lives seem. Despite having only each other for almost the entirety of the story, they always had each other. Both of them had one ever faithful and unshakable companion to help them navigate through life.
I guess that's why I'm envious of them. The simplicity of their existence, coupled with having a person they loved deeply to get through it with, sounds nice. I suppose that's odd to say about two young girls forced to scrounge for every bit of food and water they can find, but the author herself mentioned feeling envious of them in the afterword. I guess I'm not alone, and that's one of the feelings these manga volumes gave me. I felt that as long as this story existed, and there was an author out there who could invoke these kinds of emotions in me, I'd never be alone.
There are so many powerfully emotional scenes that it's hard to even begin going into the finer details of the plot, so I'm not going to do that. I just want to say that I'm not sure if a work of fiction has ever moved me like this. Even the artwork, which I don't have much of an eye for, constantly made me want to sit and appreciate it. Every time I read this, I'm filled with a sense that everything will be okay, in the end, and that life, for all its hardships, is very much worth living.
January 25, 2018
This series pretty much just keeps getting better and better.
January 1, 2019
This one is even better than the first two. I’m pleasantly surprised.
February 19, 2019
Still a great study of philosophy with a heavy dose of Miyazaki-type man+machine vs nature lessoning.
April 28, 2019
雖然人工智慧是否是生命已經是爛哽了，但第三集最後一話的機械漁夫跟百合主角的對談還是很打動人心，有種淡淡的悲傷。原本設計超大水產養殖工廠的人類都消失了，只剩一個AI管理員和一條魚，管理員還是繼續執行他的任務直到這條魚或者管理員自己的末日到來
July 21, 2023
Mucho relleno xd
July 24, 2023
the more you read the more depressing it gets
October 23, 2023
God, this series is so fantastic
November 10, 2024
Це абсолютно чудова історія, яку рекомендую всім до прочитання. Також впевнена, що деякі думки двох дівчат, що загубились в постапокаліптичному світі відгукнуться багатьом українцям нині.
April 3, 2020
"Hey, Yuu?
Yeah?
One day, let's climb reeeally high up...
...And go to the moon.
That sounds great..."
Yeah?
One day, let's climb reeeally high up...
...And go to the moon.
That sounds great..."
December 12, 2024
This manga makes me feel so small in a harrowing, yet comforting way. The tone is melancholic, but there is hope and joy despite the surely oncoming horrors. I love Chi and Yuu, and I’m so pleased to take part I’m their journey.
December 13, 2023
翻以前的紀錄
2018時市圖只買到第二集
我不想等就自己去買英文版電子書了
是我最早買的英文漫畫之一
但沒翻記錄前還以為我有看完中文版
又去買英文版
沒想到市圖後來有好好買完整套啊
過了五年劇情還有點模糊的印象
反而是買書這種日常完全沒記憶
好像有點呼應這套漫畫喔
2018時市圖只買到第二集
我不想等就自己去買英文版電子書了
是我最早買的英文漫畫之一
但沒翻記錄前還以為我有看完中文版
又去買英文版
沒想到市圖後來有好好買完整套啊
過了五年劇情還有點模糊的印象
反而是買書這種日常完全沒記憶
好像有點呼應這套漫畫喔
December 24, 2017
In Girls’ Last Tour Volume 3, the series begins to take on the character of Gulliver’s Travels, although instead of finding new peoples, Chito and Yuuri find new persons, individuals colonized by their differing experiences with alienation and loneliness. In addition to these experiments in shared alienation, Chito and Yuuri journey through what seems less the shell of a human-made world than alien ruins.
Full review (spoilers) through this link: http://www.nerdspan.com/girls-last-to...
Full review (spoilers) through this link: http://www.nerdspan.com/girls-last-to...
October 24, 2021
This volume really builds on the foundations of volumes 1 and 2. It's a bunch of adventuring from Chi and Yuu with a lot of important questions asked in a very nonchalant way. There's nothing mind blowing in this volume, but it's a comfortable ride throughout. The patterning of the volumes is becoming predictable, but at the same time I'm starting to wonder when the carpet will be pulled out from under us with a horrible crisis.
October 25, 2018
Apocalyptic Decline
Civilization has collapsed and there are very few people. The planet is crammed with the crumbling ruins of a mega urban environment where very little is organic or natural. Very dark manga.
Civilization has collapsed and there are very few people. The planet is crammed with the crumbling ruins of a mega urban environment where very little is organic or natural. Very dark manga.
June 29, 2018
The desolation of the modern megacity never looked so intriguing. Alas, the hopelessness and fatigue, the depression and loneliness fostered by these abandoned environs give rise to tricky thought after tricky thought: Who will remember us when we are gone?
GIRLS' LAST TOUR again finds Chito, Yuuri, and the kettenkrad venturing through a soulless stratum in search of food, shelter, and fun. Readers partial to the young women's curious exploration of all that once was, will be delighted to eavesdrop on Chito and Yuuri's conversations regarding the nature of life, survival (adaptability), and empathy. Let it not be said that a limited vocabulary and a stunted education ever stood in the way of human curiosity.
This volume of the easygoing adventure manga includes a few bottles of wine, another fish, and most fascinating of all, a grave. In fact, the grave site is massive. The two travelers banter as to the purpose of the giant black slabs, later discovered to be storage units for personal treasures. Do people leave things behind because they are forgetful? Or do people leave things behind so those things could be remembered by others?
From a narrative angle, one ponders if the grave was erected before or after the extinction event.
Philosophically, GIRLS' LAST TOUR once again slips into the rhythm of its humanist credo: Is it better to live and to forget, or to die and be remembered? (Notably, neither Chii-chan or Yuu-chan have the answer.)
As for what's new, readers get a small taste of what life may have been like before massive die-off that resulted in the way things are. Chito mentions spending time baking with her grandfather (as to whether she and Yuuri share the same grandfather, is left vague). And the appearance of a pair of maintenance robots lend credence to the notion that the previous civilization was rather advanced (as to whether this knowledge lead to humanity's downfall, as posited in the first volume, is unknowable).
Tsukimizu's art remains the unsteady and imperfect line-art that one fell in love with at the onset. The setting detail isn't as crisp, seeing as many of the environments are compact or interior in nature. However, occasional buildings lit by moonlight, a quiet moment of sleep beneath heated water pipes, and one exciting (dangerous) encounter with a rickety outer walkway are each rendered with the necessary exactitude for the manga's emotional resilience.
GIRLS' LAST TOUR again finds Chito, Yuuri, and the kettenkrad venturing through a soulless stratum in search of food, shelter, and fun. Readers partial to the young women's curious exploration of all that once was, will be delighted to eavesdrop on Chito and Yuuri's conversations regarding the nature of life, survival (adaptability), and empathy. Let it not be said that a limited vocabulary and a stunted education ever stood in the way of human curiosity.
This volume of the easygoing adventure manga includes a few bottles of wine, another fish, and most fascinating of all, a grave. In fact, the grave site is massive. The two travelers banter as to the purpose of the giant black slabs, later discovered to be storage units for personal treasures. Do people leave things behind because they are forgetful? Or do people leave things behind so those things could be remembered by others?
From a narrative angle, one ponders if the grave was erected before or after the extinction event.
Philosophically, GIRLS' LAST TOUR once again slips into the rhythm of its humanist credo: Is it better to live and to forget, or to die and be remembered? (Notably, neither Chii-chan or Yuu-chan have the answer.)
As for what's new, readers get a small taste of what life may have been like before massive die-off that resulted in the way things are. Chito mentions spending time baking with her grandfather (as to whether she and Yuuri share the same grandfather, is left vague). And the appearance of a pair of maintenance robots lend credence to the notion that the previous civilization was rather advanced (as to whether this knowledge lead to humanity's downfall, as posited in the first volume, is unknowable).
Tsukimizu's art remains the unsteady and imperfect line-art that one fell in love with at the onset. The setting detail isn't as crisp, seeing as many of the environments are compact or interior in nature. However, occasional buildings lit by moonlight, a quiet moment of sleep beneath heated water pipes, and one exciting (dangerous) encounter with a rickety outer walkway are each rendered with the necessary exactitude for the manga's emotional resilience.
April 2, 2024
Це огляд виключно 3-го тому. НЕ третього тому плюс перші два. Не окремої сторінки третього тому. Не скриншоту екрану зі сторінкою третього тому. Окреслимо для самих прискіпливих детективів рамки рецензії.
Я після перших двох томів мав певні очікування і будував теорії. Це ж можна, так? В принципі, десь близенько вийшло. Не так емоційно, як хотілося б.
І після третього тому в мене очікування і теорії. Неочікувано. Таке буває. А очікування базується на відчутті прийдешньої драми. Тобто шось десь в моїй підсвідомості кричить про те, шо такі історії не закінчуються чимось веселим. Ну, якось так. Можна заперечити, шо я шось не те пишу, шо в наступних томах такого нема… Але я не читав наступних томів, аніме не дивився, до серії маю інтерес і маю право на уяву і, власне, очікування. Не знаю, для чого я пишу такі елементарні речі, та видно, їх треба проговорювати чи прописувати, бо частина людства не розуміє, що таке суб’єктивна думка та яким чином взагалі формується цікавість.
Так, ви пережили перші три абзаци стандартної рецензії. Ще маю відрефлексувати дитячі травми, але не стану, бо двійко героїнь манги заїхали на завод (харчовий комбінат). Тут треба для детективів уточнити. Спочатку йшли пішачка трубами, потім залізли в трубу, потім попекли хліб та поїздили меморіальним комплексом (послідовність може бути інша, це ж, трясця, важливо), потім… Потім спойлери і основна тема цього тому: купання. Ха, збрехав! Просто потім спойлери і важлива тема.
Шо там ше треба писати, щоб всі були довольні? Про папір на дотик? Про спрощені образи (не образИ, а Образи), які легко деформуються в симпліфіковану емоцію (є обжекшени цій опінії?! Не хезитейться реплайнути власні сотс!)? Про безкомпромісний сетінг, який сам заставляє персонажок перебувати у перманентному пошуку і перетворює його в духовну подорож? А може, я просто приплів сюди все це, щоб начепити на себе маску елітарного оглядача?! О, скільки питань, на які не знає відповіді гугєль…
А, шо там про попередні очікування і про нові… Ну, вони є. Мені шо, все вам розписувать? Є вони.
Я після перших двох томів мав певні очікування і будував теорії. Це ж можна, так? В принципі, десь близенько вийшло. Не так емоційно, як хотілося б.
І після третього тому в мене очікування і теорії. Неочікувано. Таке буває. А очікування базується на відчутті прийдешньої драми. Тобто шось десь в моїй підсвідомості кричить про те, шо такі історії не закінчуються чимось веселим. Ну, якось так. Можна заперечити, шо я шось не те пишу, шо в наступних томах такого нема… Але я не читав наступних томів, аніме не дивився, до серії маю інтерес і маю право на уяву і, власне, очікування. Не знаю, для чого я пишу такі елементарні речі, та видно, їх треба проговорювати чи прописувати, бо частина людства не розуміє, що таке суб’єктивна думка та яким чином взагалі формується цікавість.
Так, ви пережили перші три абзаци стандартної рецензії. Ще маю відрефлексувати дитячі травми, але не стану, бо двійко героїнь манги заїхали на завод (харчовий комбінат). Тут треба для детективів уточнити. Спочатку йшли пішачка трубами, потім залізли в трубу, потім попекли хліб та поїздили меморіальним комплексом (послідовність може бути інша, це ж, трясця, важливо), потім… Потім спойлери і основна тема цього тому: купання. Ха, збрехав! Просто потім спойлери і важлива тема.
Шо там ше треба писати, щоб всі були довольні? Про папір на дотик? Про спрощені образи (не образИ, а Образи), які легко деформуються в симпліфіковану емоцію (є обжекшени цій опінії?! Не хезитейться реплайнути власні сотс!)? Про безкомпромісний сетінг, який сам заставляє персонажок перебувати у перманентному пошуку і перетворює його в духовну подорож? А може, я просто приплів сюди все це, щоб начепити на себе маску елітарного оглядача?! О, скільки питань, на які не знає відповіді гугєль…
А, шо там про попередні очікування і про нові… Ну, вони є. Мені шо, все вам розписувать? Є вони.
July 7, 2023
The world has been destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. Chito and Yuuri are two of the only people left alive. They’re both just little girls with no understanding of how the world was built and very little knowledge about history or humanity as a whole. They wander through one barren and lifeless wasteland after another in search of food and shelter, studying the sights they see in an attempt to learn more about the dystopian world they live in and draw connections to the lost civilizations of the past.
Though there’s an obvious melancholy atmosphere which is hard to avoid since 99.9% of life on the planet has been completely eradicated, the actual tone of the story is actually quite relaxing and innocent. That’s because it’s an apocalypse story written from the perspective of two girls that are too young to have had any attachment to the old world to begin with. There’s no sense of great loss or despair. This is simply just the life they’ve always known and they have no trouble adapting to their surroundings or enjoying themselves.
It’s interesting to have an apocalypse story filled with a ghibli-esque sense of childlike wonder and innocence. I enjoyed reading it just for the peacefully melancholy atmosphere. That being said, I don’t think the characters were as well developed as they could’ve been and sometimes the deeper themes and commentary of the story fell short. It’s not as great as it had the potential to be, but it’s still an interesting and unique take on the dystopian apocalypse genre.
My rating: 3.3/5
Though there’s an obvious melancholy atmosphere which is hard to avoid since 99.9% of life on the planet has been completely eradicated, the actual tone of the story is actually quite relaxing and innocent. That’s because it’s an apocalypse story written from the perspective of two girls that are too young to have had any attachment to the old world to begin with. There’s no sense of great loss or despair. This is simply just the life they’ve always known and they have no trouble adapting to their surroundings or enjoying themselves.
It’s interesting to have an apocalypse story filled with a ghibli-esque sense of childlike wonder and innocence. I enjoyed reading it just for the peacefully melancholy atmosphere. That being said, I don’t think the characters were as well developed as they could’ve been and sometimes the deeper themes and commentary of the story fell short. It’s not as great as it had the potential to be, but it’s still an interesting and unique take on the dystopian apocalypse genre.
My rating: 3.3/5
June 23, 2019
Chito and Yuuri travel up to the next level of the city and make some interesting finds.
This series is like being gently rocked to sleep as you hear about the apocalypse. Things happen at a slow and steady pace and the girls are solid friends who will always be there for one another. There's no sense of "My God - what happened??" there's just acceptance and survival. There are some awesome philosophical moments. The girls get to meet a fish and its mechanical keeper which results in their thinking about what life actually is. That's part of what I like about this series - you switch from Chito and Yuuri baking rations, getting drunk off alchol (which they think is moonlight diffused into water), and meeting some of the keepers of the city mechanics, and plung into a deep moment. It's sweet and sad, in the same volume.
This series is like being gently rocked to sleep as you hear about the apocalypse. Things happen at a slow and steady pace and the girls are solid friends who will always be there for one another. There's no sense of "My God - what happened??" there's just acceptance and survival. There are some awesome philosophical moments. The girls get to meet a fish and its mechanical keeper which results in their thinking about what life actually is. That's part of what I like about this series - you switch from Chito and Yuuri baking rations, getting drunk off alchol (which they think is moonlight diffused into water), and meeting some of the keepers of the city mechanics, and plung into a deep moment. It's sweet and sad, in the same volume.
July 20, 2020
Such an odd story. Sad, yet fascinating.
I wonder what adventures the girls will have next volume? This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill manga, so anything could happen. As lonely as that existence is, at least the girls have each other. Art, very "first draft" in appearance, yet it fits in regards to the story, of exploring the remains of a crumbling, deteriorating, dilapidated massive super city that's been mostly abandoned for centuries. Dialogue, a bit rough, however it's decent. Characters, admirable, likeable, interesting, & unique.
I wonder what adventures the girls will have next volume? This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill manga, so anything could happen. As lonely as that existence is, at least the girls have each other. Art, very "first draft" in appearance, yet it fits in regards to the story, of exploring the remains of a crumbling, deteriorating, dilapidated massive super city that's been mostly abandoned for centuries. Dialogue, a bit rough, however it's decent. Characters, admirable, likeable, interesting, & unique.
February 27, 2023
ho apprezzato molto questo volume rispetto ai precedenti, la storia ha preso una piccola svolta. ho percepito angoscia per un breve istante; ho avuto paura per l’incolumità delle due ragazze davanti al pericolo. in più l’ultima parte del volume lascia degli spunti sul concetto di vita ed empatia. una cosa che amo particolarmente sono i post-scriptum del mangaka presenti al termine dei volumi!
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May 21, 2024
- the doodle/sketchy art style for this manga suits it for some reason.
- it's interesting (and heartbreaking like anything else in thsi manga) seeing their interpertations for things like storage units long after these things lost their purpose and there's no one there to tell them how humans used them in the past.
- their philosophical wonderings catch me off guard
- it's interesting (and heartbreaking like anything else in thsi manga) seeing their interpertations for things like storage units long after these things lost their purpose and there's no one there to tell them how humans used them in the past.
- their philosophical wonderings catch me off guard
July 8, 2019
Yu is still the best.
This one seemed to have some actual meaning at the end instead of a vaguely creepy looking character showing up.
I just picked up last last three volumes, so I'm looking forward to reading how this one ends.
This one seemed to have some actual meaning at the end instead of a vaguely creepy looking character showing up.
I just picked up last last three volumes, so I'm looking forward to reading how this one ends.
August 6, 2022
Un manga così estremamente episodico non riesce a prendermi per quanto siano carini i quadretti presentati. Forse per apprezzarlo davvero bisognerebbe entrare nella logica così frammentata, ma non sembra che faccia per me. Spero vada meglio la seconda metà della serie
March 8, 2024
This is another great series with great artwork. You can really feel the hopelessness that Yui and Chi go through as they adventure through the ruins of the city. The plot shows that the author really put effort into the story.
January 28, 2025
the robots and the fish. actually cried. the way that such large questions and ideas are conveyed so effortlessly, like theres almost no point cuz either the answer is too sad or no one will answer it. even if they can. like those sorts of questions you know?
September 7, 2019
Perhaps not what it could have been, but a compelling journey all the same.
Series thoughts: https://derailmentsofthought.com/2019...
Series thoughts: https://derailmentsofthought.com/2019...
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