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少女終末旅行 / Girls' Last Tour #4
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 4
Chito and Yuri's post-apocalyptic, everyday adventures continue as the two discover a mysterious living creature!
160 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 2016
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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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January 3, 2024
“makes you a little less lonely”
Damn
Damn
June 25, 2019
The girls find a submarine and a strange worm-like creature that can talk.
I love the way this series seems to have little happening as far as plot (the girls explore and look for food and fuel in each volume) but the author sneaks in heavy thoughts. In this one, Chito tries to explain how people in the past used clocks and watches to Yuuri - but what's the point of counting time if you never have to be anywhere, or do anything at a particular time, and you may be the last two people on Earth? The artwork is wonderful - very expressive with human faces and great backdrops of unending machinery. I'll definitely be continuing in the series.
I love the way this series seems to have little happening as far as plot (the girls explore and look for food and fuel in each volume) but the author sneaks in heavy thoughts. In this one, Chito tries to explain how people in the past used clocks and watches to Yuuri - but what's the point of counting time if you never have to be anywhere, or do anything at a particular time, and you may be the last two people on Earth? The artwork is wonderful - very expressive with human faces and great backdrops of unending machinery. I'll definitely be continuing in the series.
August 15, 2024
Yessss trains 🔥🚊
February 9, 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.
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 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.
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 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.
July 20, 2020
Such a fascinating story. Very unique, too.
I rather enjoy this series. At 1st it was kind of slow, like a lot of manga. Once the author found their muse & decided on a direction, the story has gotten better & better. Such an odd world the girls are in. They're witnesses of the dusk of humanity, civilized society, & maybe even the world itself. Art, rough, but it fits well. Dialogue, good as well as interesting. Characters, likeable & admirable.
I rather enjoy this series. At 1st it was kind of slow, like a lot of manga. Once the author found their muse & decided on a direction, the story has gotten better & better. Such an odd world the girls are in. They're witnesses of the dusk of humanity, civilized society, & maybe even the world itself. Art, rough, but it fits well. Dialogue, good as well as interesting. Characters, likeable & admirable.
August 3, 2019
A rare postapoc that I enjoy! Some thrilling plot progression in this volume with plenty of philosophical introspection. Art is uniquely expressive.
May 6, 2019
NUKO(英譯KET)好可愛
可是感覺像是風之谷裡的腐海一樣
都是人造末日清道夫
但跟風之谷不一樣的是
NUKO把核武和各種武器廢料當食物吃完之後
這世界也差不多該寂寞的死去了
沒有娜烏西卡當救世主喔~
動畫該不會基於同樣的感想找娜烏西卡的聲優
幫蘑菇化的大NUKO配音吧
可是感覺像是風之谷裡的腐海一樣
都是人造末日清道夫
但跟風之谷不一樣的是
NUKO把核武和各種武器廢料當食物吃完之後
這世界也差不多該寂寞的死去了
沒有娜烏西卡當救世主喔~
動畫該不會基於同樣的感想找娜烏西卡的聲優
幫蘑菇化的大NUKO配音吧
April 4, 2020
"How do you read clocks again?"
"Human life spans are too short...for us to know everything..."
"Hey, Chii-Chan? It said the world is going to end.
...Yeah.
Well... It doesn't really matter..."
"Human life spans are too short...for us to know everything..."
"Hey, Chii-Chan? It said the world is going to end.
...Yeah.
Well... It doesn't really matter..."
September 9, 2025
Njihovo prijateljstvo mi je toliko najslađe i predivno, obožavam ovu mangu. 🥹🩷
December 14, 2023
把炮彈火藥當食物吃的NUKO，中文翻作喵咪
英文版翻KET，感覺中文比較有翻出原文的意境~
英文版翻KET，感覺中文比較有翻出原文的意境~
October 6, 2020
What an interesting creature Ket is .
January 1, 2019
I really enjoyed this, the whole thing. Glad I didn’t give up 10 pages into #1.
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...
June 6, 2021
Weapons of war without an owner? Chito and Yuuri now graze the desolate afterthought of a humanity that was too smart for its own good, too ambitious for its own health, and too consumed by its own anger and fear to wrestle for its own survival. All weapons of war have an owner. And the sadness the two women feel upon discovering abandoned tanks and rusting bipedal goliaths is certainly not for lost want of destruction, rather, the sadness upon which they opine is for the now-past reverberations of such violence. Who built all of these weapons? Who did they wield them against? And did the violence do them any good?
GIRLS' LAST TOUR #4 revisits the manga series' initial supposition that a global military catastrophe has wiped out most of humankind. Dozens and dozens of tanks sit on treads overgrown with weeds. Massive siloes await, silent and dark, occupied by robots teetering with the slightest gust of wind. And more munitions than the dim sharpshooter Yuuri can surely count.
Chito and Yuuri venture onward. It's both frustrating and clever how neither the reader nor the characters know where this story takes place. There are no city or town names. There are no orienting objects, built landmarks, or natural landscape features. There is no map. Yet the story progresses with enough nuance to clue readers into how widespread the devastation is. The women board a large freight train and travel for what feels like a lifetime. Practically speaking, they surely traversed enough distance to move from once city to another. And yet, when the two emerge at the end, it's more of the same, chilling desolation.
There is a bit of moralizing in this volume. The author interjects a bit of sci-fi and fantasy by way of a cuddly, inorganic ferret-looking thing that consumes assorted matter, from bullets to gasoline. It's an awkward turn and the payoff is sort of worth it, but one will be more amused with Chito and Yuuri's encounter with antiquated death machines from generations past than from the characters' brush with the hyper-fictive.
GIRLS' LAST TOUR #4 maintains the comic's slow-but-steady pacing and gives readers a reprieve from the odd introduction of singularly frivolous (human) characters. It's certainly intriguing how the only humans alive in this world are obsessed with trivial endeavors, Chito and Yuuri included. But this manga feels most genuine when it focuses on its protagonists and nobody else. The book's largest drawback remains its lack of clarity in who is speaking and when, should Chito and Yuuri engage in a more robust conversation. Sadly, frequently, one will have a difficult time discerning who begins a conversation at random, in the absence of functional balloon tails. Readers will have to reread a handful of pages two or three times to get the exchange right.
GIRLS' LAST TOUR #4 revisits the manga series' initial supposition that a global military catastrophe has wiped out most of humankind. Dozens and dozens of tanks sit on treads overgrown with weeds. Massive siloes await, silent and dark, occupied by robots teetering with the slightest gust of wind. And more munitions than the dim sharpshooter Yuuri can surely count.
Chito and Yuuri venture onward. It's both frustrating and clever how neither the reader nor the characters know where this story takes place. There are no city or town names. There are no orienting objects, built landmarks, or natural landscape features. There is no map. Yet the story progresses with enough nuance to clue readers into how widespread the devastation is. The women board a large freight train and travel for what feels like a lifetime. Practically speaking, they surely traversed enough distance to move from once city to another. And yet, when the two emerge at the end, it's more of the same, chilling desolation.
There is a bit of moralizing in this volume. The author interjects a bit of sci-fi and fantasy by way of a cuddly, inorganic ferret-looking thing that consumes assorted matter, from bullets to gasoline. It's an awkward turn and the payoff is sort of worth it, but one will be more amused with Chito and Yuuri's encounter with antiquated death machines from generations past than from the characters' brush with the hyper-fictive.
GIRLS' LAST TOUR #4 maintains the comic's slow-but-steady pacing and gives readers a reprieve from the odd introduction of singularly frivolous (human) characters. It's certainly intriguing how the only humans alive in this world are obsessed with trivial endeavors, Chito and Yuuri included. But this manga feels most genuine when it focuses on its protagonists and nobody else. The book's largest drawback remains its lack of clarity in who is speaking and when, should Chito and Yuuri engage in a more robust conversation. Sadly, frequently, one will have a difficult time discerning who begins a conversation at random, in the absence of functional balloon tails. Readers will have to reread a handful of pages two or three times to get the exchange right.
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
March 2, 2024
Chito e Yuri proseguono il viaggio verso l'alto incontrando strane forme di vita. Il manga è come sempre straniante, ma anche molto tranquillo, con riflessioni molto pacate delle due protagoniste sul mondo attorno a loro, persino i momenti concitati sono percepiti come tranquilli. Però il volume secondo me è un po' troppo piatto, ci sono come sempre riflessioni interessanti, ma il fatto è che forse sta diventando un po' troppo ripetitivo ed i disegni molto molto semplificati non aiutano, insomma alcune volte capisco poco cosa sto guardando. È comunque un manga che leggerò fino alla fine, ma spero sia tutto in salita!
May 15, 2023
Desde el inicio de la historia sabemos que aquí nadie nos va a salvar, que nuestras protagonistas están contra las probabilidades y aún así con todo esto no todo tiene que ser extremadamente gore. Aquí no sientes desesperanza (como lector sabes que no hay más, que todo va mal), pero Chito y Yû todavía se muestran positivas porque no conocen otra cosa.
Definitivamente este tomo ha sido muy duro de leer. Y aún así me sorprende que ellas siguen y se acompañan ante las noticias de que el mundo se terminará, pero "supongo que da igual".
Definitivamente este tomo ha sido muy duro de leer. Y aún así me sorprende que ellas siguen y se acompañan ante las noticias de que el mundo se terminará, pero "supongo que da igual".
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May 21, 2024
- there's not enough explanation for what happened to the world and where exactly do they live, but I don't even care, because this story is ultimately about these two. I'm there to follow their sad, melancholic, and tragic journey.
- ket is the greatest. i like how in each volume, they encounter something or someone that doesn't change much, but open their eyes a little bit
- these two girls are intuitive, they catch on quickly to war, conflict, politics, and everything we do seems silly when they say it out loud
- ket is the greatest. i like how in each volume, they encounter something or someone that doesn't change much, but open their eyes a little bit
- these two girls are intuitive, they catch on quickly to war, conflict, politics, and everything we do seems silly when they say it out loud
August 19, 2024
While I’ve loved the previous 3 books, this one made me quite emotional. When the girls are able to open the camera and see the past, i can only imagine what they were feeling. Same near the end, when the large worm told them that the world was ending and that they were the last two humans they knew of. These two girls despite their arguing are there for each other and their closeness is very sweet. It makes me quite sad. I hope that they’re able to find peace in their future, and I’m eagerly waiting to read the last two volumes.
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October 24, 2021
Very cool locations in this volume. Somber themes as usual, cool new sidekick and the now tried and true exciting final encounter of the volume. This volume really made me feel the finality of the journey, that there won't be a happy ending, that the veneer of joking and indifference gets pulled up and through it shines the futility and despair of their situation. The journey to the top must go on, the killing of the final hope.
November 12, 2024
Сумна і меланхолійна історія, яка полонила мене. З кожним томом ми дізнаємося більше про світ, яким подорожують Юурі і Чіто. З кожним томом стає ще більш очевидно, що щасливого кінця тут бути не може. Але спокій, з яким героїні приймають кінечність буття і рухаються далі місцями, де не лишилось жодних надій, якимсь чином передається і читачеві.
Тому для мене ця історія стала чимось, на диво, комфортним, а не депресивним.
Дуже рекомендую!
Тому для мене ця історія стала чимось, на диво, комфортним, а не депресивним.
Дуже рекомендую!
October 25, 2018
Weird Apocalyptic Manga
Very dark vision of the far distant future in which human civilization dwindles away to nothing. Two young girls travel through the ruins finding bits & pieces of past humanity. Not a hopeful vision.
Very dark vision of the far distant future in which human civilization dwindles away to nothing. Two young girls travel through the ruins finding bits & pieces of past humanity. Not a hopeful vision.
January 9, 2021
I suddenly have so many questions but I also really appreciate the simplicity of the world just being as it is without the author trying to make the story deeper by trying to create unneeded explanations for how/what everything has become.
September 14, 2024
Подорож продовжується, з’являється новий цікавий компаньйон, читач дізнається більше про світ наявний, а дівчата - про минуле. Є і місце роздумам про війну, а також про страх залишитися із пустим світом наодинці.
Серія все ще тягне та витягує.
Серія все ще тягне та витягує.
October 16, 2024
Even though they are just mostly passing by, exploring the different locales and hearing yuu and chitos perspective on what was and what is very interesting, even if it doesn’t really go anywhere. I wonder if they are going to run into any more people.
pretty nice :)
pretty nice :)
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March 24, 2018
Delightful series.
July 13, 2019
Well this series took a weird turn.
September 20, 2019
One Two Three! On to #5!
(Zetsubo, zetsubo....)
(Zetsubo, zetsubo....)
April 22, 2021
“It didn’t seem like they were lonely”
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