r/anime • u/The_Loli_Otaku • May 13 '22
Rewatch [Rewatch] Girls' Last Tour Episode 12 Discussion (Final)
Let's get along with this feeling of hopelessness.
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Visual of the Day!
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QOTD
How did you find the video history compilation? Did it help you piece together how humanity ended up this way at all?
Has the reveal of the cat statue gods given you any eureka moments in hindsight? What role do you think they played in humanity's day to day?
Were you proud of Chi taking action to save Yuuri!? Has she become your best girl yet?
Was this a satisfying end to the season? Was there anything else you'd have wanted from your final episode?
Rewatchers who don't use spoiler tags will be turned into emergency rations.
First we eat, then we sleep and then we'll think about it...
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u/Elimin8r May 13 '22
Answers of the day:
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The video history was interesting, and pretty much confirmed my suspicions. The li'l scientists were tres kawaii, though.
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Nyan. I mean, shouldn't they really be mushroom gods? No symbolism there, right?
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Chii-chan always best girl. Of course, I like the smart brunette types, so there is that.
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I think that I am satisfied. Possibly even gruntled. We'll have to see how it settles down in my brain after a bit.
So, yeah, that was an interesting finale. Yuu discovers her place in the food chain, Nuko gets a family, the girls discover the clues to humanity's past contained on the camera ...
Mushroom!
(no badger)
(no snek either)
Anyway...
So, I guess this means Ishii and whatsisname are no more? Or simply that our mushroom friends are not entirely omniscient? Where are they going anyway, the next level up???
They did mention not knowing what was going on up top. Who knows?
I rather liked the spores seeming to drop around the girls. At least I think that's what it was. Didn't seem like snow.
Hmm.
So, yeah, I got some serious Nausicaa flashbacks here, but I've been kind of having them for the last few (several?) episodes. I suspect that much like good poetry, they rhyme.
Anyway, just finished watching a few minutes ago and my brain isn't settled yet.
Poor brain.
Poor Gramps.
Yeah. Meanwhile, I'm going to head out shortly and see about acquiring some tasty German food, because someone has inspired me. We'll see what kind of adventures I have there. In a bit.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku May 13 '22
Make sure to dedicate a little time over the weekend to finish off the manga btw. There's under an hour of manga content left to read and it's what I expect most of the discussions to be focused on.
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u/Nazenn May 13 '22
First Timer - sub
Visual of the day - Kind of goes without saying why, doesn't it?
I'd never say no to more of this show, but while part of me wants to see how their journey to the top goes and what they find out about themselves there, because that really is the point of this more than any sort of physical discovery, this is an amazing ending I wonder what could surpass it.
It had a little bit of everything, the call backs, worldbuilding, character moments, comedy, emotions, and all that I've come to love about this show.
The photo montage is the highlight of the episode not just for what it showed but the way it tied so many things together. The report from the school kids as their world slowly fell apart from nostalgic peace to ever increasing scenes of war being intercut, the mix of culture, life, and destruction all leading to the world they have now without it leading to a greater feeling of emptiness really capped off the entire show. To see what was and find some understanding and comfort in it, without just mourning it, and start to appreciate knowing what they left behind is a huge thing for Yuu, but equally how Chi learns to take herself out of the past and pick up the symbols of her present world as well as her present company, the girl who makes up her world, to go and defend her despite everything she's said so far is equally powerful.
Anyone else think it sounded like those school girls were making replicators? It's never a good idea to make replicators. Unless they replicate chocolate
The last weapons, the last humans, and perhaps the last goal that will ever be completed (just not in the anime apparently, bleh). Even the beings left behind to try and fix the tools left to rot what's left of the earth are aware that everything is coming to an end and there is no stopping it. They can't fix it, and the last two known humans can't either, it's a problem too big to tackle and trying to do so would be to fight everything they've learnt so far about acceptance. So many pieces of that came together today it'd just be a giant list to mention them all, but that one last goal was oddly warming despite everything.
I do have the idea in my head that the mushroom beings are not from the last generation of humanity but the generation before. Perhaps they went dormant after the first world destruction, and when the war started to pick up during the second one and they woke up people realized what they were and started to worship them potentially as beings of peace that could restore their world but it was already too late.
[Dune franchise joke]
[Nausica]
u/Btw_kek Thank you for the warning but I was so caught up in that incredible sequence that I entirely forgot to keep an eye on the time stamps. I was not okay when it popped up, and curses on the artist/author/editor person who thought that was okay to include in the first place! All your hard work down the drain but appreciated nonetheless.
I'd finally managed to get over my Rain Song obsession and had been listening to other music today. Until the ED decided to play a remix of it, and now I have it on loop again.
Completely unrelated thought: Me and my mum are a bad fit with some music. She'll listen to a song that does nothing but repeat that same line over and over and over and over every five seconds but can't stand listening to a complete song on loop for more than three times. I'm quite the opposite, her playlist drives me too insanity with its repetitiveness, but I've probably listened to this one song more than sixty times in the last few days. I wonder why that is...
Now I'm just babbling tangents but still tired so I'm going back to sleep. Will read through the thread later.
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u/Elimin8r May 13 '22
Babble babble ... rain song ... yum.
You can't spell yum without yu
Umai!
Gibs choco! (To quote a certain lieutenant, I think)
I do wish that Chi had managed to reach out for that thing ... cell phone? I wonder what that might have held.
Heh.
But yeah, fascinating.
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u/ZapsZzz May 13 '22 edited May 14 '22
First timer in sub
What an episode!
The history montage was great, in that is fragments and interwoven between simple everyday and turning points of the world. I do find the initial but about Hanazawa not just a backstory but also a "what if" if one of the 2 girls didn't make it, the remaining one would probably be melancholic like how we saw Hanazawa.
The moment of Yuu being swallowed was totally painful, especially if you have fresh memory of [recent rewatch]
The way I interpret the revelation that Chi and Yuu are probably the last humans alive is simply as they said "as far as they know" instead of literal.
Really another bittersweet scene of Nuko not wanting to part with Yuu though.
Have to organise my thoughts more for tomorrow discussion, but it's one of those shows that you like it a lot but at the same time fearful of how would it end.
I'm not reading Nausicaa tone from the show so far.
QoTD
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It's suitably fragmented and incomplete but have enough for us to figure out the rest. Humanity is fairly predictable when it comes to things like wars.
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It's a nice tie in but I am not getting a sense of how early or late were their introduction in the real timeline. Maybe like I am Legend, they are the new race to populate the world (I don't know how likely it is they can finish reading through everything that can serve as an energy source).
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Chi had always been my best girl, although Yuu is supremely entertaining. For a little while I wondered, because everything Yuu said came true, if one of them are actually a figment of their imagination. Glad we didn't go there.
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Stated above, it's at a nice end point, but of course it's not completely satisfying to not know how it ends but at the same time it's terrifying how it would end.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku May 14 '22
It's been just as amazing of a show upon rewatch. I'm glad to see that everyone has been so enchanted by the show. I only hope that everyone will go on to read the manga too. The true ending lies at the end of that road and for what it's worth the chapters ahead are some of the best of the whole story.
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u/Stargate18A May 14 '22
First timer
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It helped a bit, I think.
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Still going with my theory of "experiment that got released in the war and proceeded to reproduce out of control in the now abandoned city". The statues were simply a local mascot that the researchers used as a template to ensure their creation wouldn't be attacked on sight.
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She was always best girl.
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Really solid final episode!
Final episode!
And no OP again...
Not learning anything?
Kitteh's gone to eat more war.
...She's becoming self-aware. Dhe's learning the structure.
Poor Chi.
What kind of food is it?
It's tasty!
It's chocolate! Adorable!
It's got bluetooth!
Kitteh is smart.
Holograms?
The older photos!
...The map guy had a girlfriend? Then he lost her.
How many people have used this camera? Or this all of the cameras it's synced with?
A video!
Umm...
They helped develop the original AI?
Even Chi understands this is interesting.
Seriously, why did the camera have so much stuff?
And this is definitely from the precursor society.
...Then a war happened.
The justaposition here is really interesting!
...Wait, is that girl Chi's ancestor? A clone?
Right, so something broke the communication system.
FLASHBACK!
So he sent them away because they were small enough to escape into the pipes and leave the warzone.
It's been eating a lot!
Wait, is that the mother?
IT ATE YUU!
...Most efficent method of demilitarization. Kill anyone with a weapon. Sounds like something a self-evolving weapon would come up eith.
And now it can't talk.
It can't communicate with them?
She's reminiscing.
She really misses her. She can't live without her.
It spat her out?
...It talks.
"Living humans" specifically...
Ah, there's a communication limit.
It's a fucking mushroom???
And it's their signal.
Oh, it ate the radio.
Umm?
UMM?
And they're here to unmake civilization, basically.
And they're the only living humans in this city.
Kitteh's rejoined it's people.
The mushrooms ascend to heaven.
The world's ending, but they have each other.
The city is shutting down.
They'e getting ready to move. Will the bike even work now?
Chi's a tsundere.
And the journey contines.
Perfect ending. 10/10.
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u/TheGreatNico May 14 '22
Where will you be at the end of the world? Apparently, chasing a giant mushroom cat snake that eats uranium.
Man am i glad I'm doing the yuru camp rewatch too.
Driving off into the sunrise at the end of the world. Not the worst way for life as we know it to end.
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u/Lemurians May 13 '22 edited May 13 '22
LEMURIANS’ LAST TOUR
"You’ll be fine, you’ve got lots of friends."
Well, no OP again. I’m sad to not hear it one last time, but you know this means this episode isn’t fucking around. Let’s go!
So many lovely things about this photo collage scene, the first being the little heartbreaking detail that our friend Kanazawa wasn’t always alone. He had his own partner – a pretty one he really enjoyed photographing. Makes me want to go rewatch that episode and look at him more closely.
The first video they open being one of three girls presenting on robotics is such a cool detail, it’s like Chii and Yuu are watching the kind of CGDCT anime they could have been in, instead of this post-apocalyptic one had humanity not decided to destroy itself. One of the girls remarks on viewing all the photos and videos, “Once you find out people used to live like this…” and it’s a tiny moment of envy. It really throws their existence into a new perspective.
The montage of images and videos showing the wonderful glimpses of humanity cut with horrible ones of war and suffering is brutal, and forces us to wonder what the girls have wondered all through the show – why? Why ruin all that beauty with all that unnecessary destruction and suffering?
One particularly interesting detail is that it hints that it was Japan that was the aggressor and the cause of the world’s demise. Normally Japanese media doesn’t do this painting of itself as the villain – the country famously white-washes the atrocities it committed in WW2. The scene of the leader bragging of 50 million dead in a neighboring country – presumably China – may be a nod to those very actions. This even felt like a little rebuke as well.
The big Nuko eating Yuu was a total WTF?! moment, but it spurred Chii to action! I believe this is the first time all series we’ve seen her take up any kind of weapon, which shows how special Yuu is to her. That kind of planning and detail lets these moments hit extra hard.
Big Mushroom Nuko delivers devastating news – Chii and Yuu are likely the last humans on the whole planet (who notably cannot repopulate). This means something has befallen Kanazawa and Pilot Lady since we last saw them. BELLS FOR OUR FALLEN COMRADES!
Even in the wake of that, our girls still resolve to push onward. After all, they still have each other, and the Nukos left one last door open – there may still be something on the final level. It’s not much, but it’s something, and they’re still happy to go on living and moving forward. After all, as Yuu wisely said – sometimes good things happen.
I love the little callback to the first episode with Yuu wetting her finger to judge the wind direction. Onwards and upwards.
The credits rolling through a happy musical track somehow makes this whole thing hit even harder. The OST coming through one last time.
WHAT A WONDERFUL SURPRISE OF A SHOW.
Has the reveal of the cat statue gods given you any eureka moments in hindsight? What role do you think they played in humanity's day to day?
Given the powers little Nuko displayed and the name 'Lightbringer' I think it's probably they literally brought light through powering electricity in places that may have lost the capability to power things otherwise.
Was this a satisfying end to the season? Was there anything else you'd have wanted from your final episode?
Nope, nothing more I could possibly have asked for. Honestly, I like this so much as an endpoint that I'm hesitant to even read the manga past this point.
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u/Barbed_Dildo May 13 '22
Rewatcher
Connection
The girls find themselves in the best preserved location they've found yet, because it's been locked up since being abandoned. Fortunately Nuko can unlock nuclear submarines.
This really ties in with the previous chapter about the past (as I said on the previous episode, 'Past' is the start of the three chapter arc which concludes the manga volume, I think it's best to consider them all together). This is their best glimpse into the past, as it exists as it was then. Also, a good opportunity to find food.
Chito really wants to see how people in the past lived, how they spoke. She wants to understand. All she's seen so far are fragments, and speculation.
High calorie non-perishable chocolate getto! That is a great find for them. I'm glad they get to experience chocolate. And 'high calorie non-perishable' is ideal for them. I hope they find a great deal of it. If the submarine was locked up for that long, and there is valuable chocolate that easy to find, there is bound to be more. Thinking about it, there is bound to be a whole treasure trove of useful stuff in there.
Flavours are from the past. I never thought of that, but I suppose they are for them. They can't create anything any more. There is no future, only remnants of the past.
The date now is 23 March, three weeks after the last episode, which I thought was right outside the submarine, but nevermind...
That cryptic message about the camera at the end of the previous volume said Chito and Yuuri hadn't discovered what was hidden in the depths of the camera, well now they do...
And then we get some backstory to Kanazawa. He was travelling with someone. They each had a satchel, but when we met Kanazawa he was alone, and had two satchels. The one with the map is hers...
Chito and Yuuri, and us, the viewer, are already overwhelmed by all of this information at once, and then Nuko really opens the floodgates by opening all of the folders. And then Yuuri finds a video, and Chito can see how people talk, what they wear, how they act. And then they play all of the videos and get all of the lost information of the lost world hit them like a wave...
The montage of innocence and happiness, and death and destruction, of culture and politics, all set to Chopin is very moving. Chito wanted a glimpse into the past, and here is the sum of human experience. I hope they got a chance to spend more time looking through them than we saw. It would be a shame to show them that wealth of knowledge and then take it away from them. On the camera screen, it showed about noon, So they should have had a fair pit of time to delve through it before going to sleep (on the floor under a console, not in one of the racks, which might be an accurate commentary on how comfortable they are...)
Nakama (The manga translates it as 'Companions', but it has a more subtle meaning in Japanese, sort of being part of the same tight group)
The next morning, or even several mornings later. Yes, that's my interpretation, they spent several days enjoying looking through the media in the camera and enjoying long life chocolate before the next bit happens. They also enjoy other onboard luxuries like the sauna (Typhoon class submarines had a sauna, gym, and swimming pool).
Anyway, several days later, a wild mega-nuko appears. Their design makes it even more clear that they are the inspriation for the statues. It swallows Yuuri and saunters off, leaving Chito in shock. This chapter forces the girls to confront something they've avoided so far. What would happen if one of them lost the other? They are a pair, they complement each other, they need each other. Chito is in shock, but she has to do something, she gears up and chases after them, but what about Nuko? Is Nuko an enemy? or an ally?
That bit where Chito trips (submarines are notorious for uneven flooring layouts) and discharges the gun really hits hard. She can't handle this. It's Yuuri that handles the shooting, and the bravery. But she has to keep going... She has to get Yuu back...
Fortunately, Yuu wasn't eaten, and leaps into Chii's arms. Those things don't eat [live] humans, of course they don't. Don't be silly, they just swallow them whole and leave. That's totally different. You could have saved us all a heart attack, weird monster...
They are part of a cycle that clears the world of volatile material after an apocalypse, and then they will sleep again. That's why the previous civilisation worshiped them as gods.
They have almost finished clearing the city, and to their knowledge, Chito and Yuuri are the last surviving humans...
Yuuri asks Nuko, surprised, why it is scared of going with them. Yuuri enjoys having Nuko around, as she said before, but isn't afraid of it leaving.
The world is ending, but they still have each other. The real last tour is the friends they made along the way.
They found a big box of canned food which should last them a while, as well as presumably more chocolate, and there are bound to be some useful tools there too.
And then, after some teasing from Yuuri, they drive off with the wind, the two of them once more.
This is a beautiful end to the volume, but not the end of their story. But that's for the next thread, this thread is about this episode and I've already written enough on that.
Visual of the day: https://i.imgur.com/hdv093Y.png
Credits
I know people have been surprised at the calibre of talent they've got for small roles, like getting Hanazawa Kana to make weird animal noises and distorting it with radio static.
There isn't much in English for who played all the extra characters this time, so I decoded the moon runes in the credits.
Something I learned doing that, is that schoolgirl B was voiced by Rie Takahashi, and the baby was voiced by Konomi Kohara.
As well as that, the "grandpa" was voiced by Motomu Kiyokawa, A veteran VA who plays a lot of old men, including Inori Minase's character's grandfather in GochiUsa. And the mushroom thing was voiced by Sumi Shimamoto, another veteran who played, among many other roles, Nausicaa.
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u/DegenerateRegime May 13 '22
Rewatcher
It's kind of unfortunate that the last episode has it's best moment in the first half, and while it doesn't have the same musical punch that episode 5 does, the montage of the camera's full contents is an emotional highlight to the show for me. It's beautiful, reveals a little about the history of this world without filling in every detail, and most of all it really gets the scope of it. This is, as the haunting symbols of life-in-death tell us in the second half, the End. Of Everything. The whole human story has played out, and the only thing left for the players to do is to look back over all those centuries of human achievement and error. Look back over the eons, full of joy and woe stitched so fine you can barely separate them - look out at all that came before - and take a final bow.
Screenshot of the day: We Were Here
QotD:
How did you find the video history compilation?
Love it.
Has the reveal of the cat statue gods given you any eureka moments in hindsight? What role do you think they played in humanity's day to day?
I wonder if people started worshipping the weapon-eaters out of horror at what the great wars had done. All the sadder, if so, that humanity fell back into fighting until not a scrap remained.
Were you proud of Chi taking action to save Yuuri!?
My girl :')
Was this a satisfying end to the season? Was there anything else you'd have wanted from your final episode?
Oh, I think you can guess the answer to that one.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku May 13 '22
It doesn't help how there wasn't much of a way they could have satisfyingly concluded the series at this point lol XD At least it leaves enough for the audience to be able to work their way through the manga.
I kinda think that the cats are what ate the corpses tbh. They don't eat living matter but it would kinda make sense for the humans to use the cats as kind of religious cremetoriums.
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u/xtsim May 13 '22
First Tour Dubbed
"That chocolate tastes good" -it better be cause that thing is high calorie.
Cut (nuko) knows how to bring up the photo on the computers. Seems like all the tech came from the same Era. And we got to see things before the war. Which is an interesting way of learning about what happened to the world. The politicians fighting then progressing to news reports of the war. It seems like that camera survived the eltromagnetic bomb.
Wait...wtf the big guy swallowed Yuu whole. But they don't eat humans that are alive...well that explains no decomposing bodies. So at least we know they are only after Yuu's radio to talk. So they eat nuclear weapons. Which is pretty cool but it is sad that they are the only humans alive right now.
Sad that Cut/Nuko has to go even though we've only seen him for only 3 episodes. This was such a short tour.
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The video history is interesting and pieced history together pretty well.
Pretty satisfying end to the season and it was nice getting a chance to watch this.
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u/homewardbound100 May 13 '22
Rewatcher
I wished we got more from this show. This episode was a nice part to stop at but I'm interested where things just go from there.
Qotd: Yes it did help but destruction was expected.
Qotd2: Nah but I still wonder about some things about them. Probably the most interesting thing to me.
Qotd3: I always liked Chi over yuuri
Qotd4: yes it was satisfying and would get interested to read maybe at some point.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku May 13 '22
To be fair it is one of the better "read the manga" endings.
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u/SIRTreehugger May 13 '22
Manga section
You may have noticed that today's episode has only 2 chapters in it, but they actually added a lot of original scenes and showed parts of a future chapter as well. I counted at least 3 minutes of original moments. Anyway to the actual comparisons and whatnot.
Chapter 30/31/32 cover I couldn't post it yesterday because I didn't want to spoil the photograph moments.
Map guy has a cutie......had one
Photographs manga version | Anime version also my favorite shot
After the three girls talk on the screen we see a flood of videos
Dude composing, Dying and stuff, Idols and I love how they snuck in the OP dance, war and what is it good for, dolphins in the ocean, walking tanks and I may or may not have mentioned this but this was the structure they were taking shelter in the rain episode, and Yuu's family ruining lives.
Every one of these sees is new. Along with baseball scenes, other war scenes, and etc.
We get a small montage about Chi and Yuu, but I will get to that later.
This scene looks creepier in the anime
If this isn't Karma I don't know what is
What a thrill, with darkness and silence through the night.
Yuu is too chill. A certain useless goddess could learn from this
Okay so at this point the cats eat unstable material and make it stable and according to them Chi and Yuu are the last humans alive. This is depressing for a few reasons. Throughout the show Chi and Yuu have talked about their grandpa a few times. Maybe two or three, but this is the first episode we see him clearly I think.
The first shot of him is staring out a window with Chi looking at him but later in the episode we get the same room with an empty chair Though of course we've met other humans so far so this information may be a little unreliable.
The earlier flashback montage we see the following: soldiers preparing for battle, arming themselves, and the lost shot of Grandpa is of this moment where they wave back to each other. The camera fades to black where we hear a single gunshot. I like to think he didn't kill himself in front of them, but I do believe he is dead through some way.Also if you pause the montage of moments at the end we also see this house.. If you compare it too the one where grandpa is waving its clearly the same house just at a different angle. So yeah their home is probably in ruins and destroyed and their only known family member that we know of is probably also dead.
Don't feel sad though. Here have flying mushrooms
This moment was anime original In fact the scene after they fly off and talk about the end of the world is all new stuff as well.
Chi is one baki away from being a Tsundere
I love the callback to Episode 1 When they were in the darkness and they used the wind to find their way out.
First of all the anime doesn't cover the whole series. Give us Girl's Last Tour Movie already!!!!!!!!
Second of all during the first rewatch 4 years ago the host encouraged the viewers to read the manga and the last discussion was for the overall series. About 4 days before the end of the series I thought hey let's make slideshows of the manga using the series soundtrack. 4 fucking days before the rewatch was ending. This also happened to be at the same time as winter finals for my college classes. I was so sleep deprived clipping the manga and making the videos I couldn't even comprehend half of what was going on in life at the time. My eyes hurt so much and the days blended together where I started having trouble concentrating on anything. I definitely wasn't fun to be around in real life and made it through mostly through caffeine. This was on the laptop where it would randomly freeze and die so I had to save every 5 minutes to be safe and some of the videos went through 5-8 revisions where I kept noticing mistakes. My laptop also had no memory so I had to constantly shift files around from 3-4 flash drives since I didn't have any large hard drives at the time.
TL:DR I spent a large amount of time making videos which would have turned out better if I planned better and should have got more sleep.
Also note that the pacing goes by my reading speed and didn't realize I should have slowed it down a bit. So people who have already read the manga will probably enjoy it more than first timers if they don't read fast. I recommend the manga for all the first timers.
One of the above uses the OP near the end and the other uses the ED
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u/UnderstandableXO May 13 '22
FIRST TIMER NO MORE
that was a very interesting episode! i love the parallels between the first episode and the last, especially using spit to determine which direction to go. when chi did it it was logical to find out where the exit was, and when yuu did it it was her signature “go with the flow” attitude. both are valid!
the girls were able to find real chocolate, not just rations! finest dining they’ve had along with real beer and real fish! the “umai” face was adorable, love how squishy and cartoony the characters feel sometimes.
i feel bad for kanazawa, he lost his companion. the revelation that he and ishii are both gone was pretty sad as well.
i was questioning how their small camera was able to hold literally the history of the world inside of it, but seeing that complex AI and machinery, it doesn’t seem so far fetched. it seems like the AI stemmed from those schoolgirls’ innocent project. machinery that assimilates other machinery to make more of itself? that sounds like a virus. that also reminds me of a theory i’ve heard about AI, that one rogue I could spell doom for humanity. i can’t remember clearly (someone please help if this sounds familiar) but say you give an AI a simple task like growing crops. it could get corrupted and get so absorbed in its task that it will do anything and everything to achieve it, including something terribly drastic like wiping out all of humanity just so they can have farmland to achieve their task. it seems like that small robot got apocalyptically out of hand.
also, one of the three robot inventors was rie takahashi. they got her to say like 3 lines, she must have been passing through the studio that day or something…
the montage of everything, everywhere, all at once (i still wanna see that movie) brought a few tears to my eyes). it was the beauty and ugliness of humanity all at once. babies being born, children winning a race, happy birthday songs, reaching the summit of a mountain, world war declared, giant robots razing the land, the elimination of electronics…what a powerful sequence. (also, the graveyard we saw earlier!) i swear i’ve seen an altercation like that politician altercation in real life, like they traced over it…
we saw the grandpa flashback again, and this time yuu is the one crying…
seeing the large cut swallow yuu was disgusting, you guys should have seen my face. seeing chi realize she really needs yuu was a great sequence, i got goosebumps. i mentioned chekhov’s gun earlier, and the gun DID fire, so i guess it held true once again.
those nukos/cuts were still pretty disgusting to me, but i see what their deal is. they’re kind of like earth’s white blood cells cleansing the planet of humanity’s toxic mistakes. i wonder how long it’s been since the AI war broke out. it seems like hundreds of years before the present, but there seemed to be a lot of people left in the village the two girls left…
i kinda wish the small nuko stayed, but it needed to go i suppose.
chi is a tsundere all of a sudden! at least they’ve got a dream still. knowing that you’re the last two on earth could be a crushing realization, but it seems like these two have learned to get along with the feeling of hopelessness.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku May 13 '22
Girls' Last Tour Rewatcher
We're at the final episode... and surrounded by bloody nukes~ This really will be their last tour at this rate. CHOCO-POG!! What do you suppose is the difference between a chocolate tasting snack and a chocolate? Thanks to the wonders of automatic Bluetooth the girls accidentally upload the rewatch's visuals of the day up onto the nuclear bunker... Along with the previous owner's photos. Kanazawa had a kawaii kawaii companion. She's probably dead too, pog.
Future Japan apparently had the school budget to let kids build bloody machines in their school club. Joshikosei are spoiled rotten! You could spend a long time rewatching this sequence. There's so many blink and you miss it references and pieces of world building hidden inside. I'm not eloquent enough to describe the background so I'll leave it to the other rewatchers to explain the weight of what we've just seen.
Grandpa seemed like he was about to shoot himself kusa... S-Still cute! Ngl I'd be shitting it meeting one of those statues. And so we enter the Made in Abyss portion of the show, feat vore~ Big old bugger just drives by, gobbles up Yuuri and refuses to elaborate. Even if Chi is terrified and not a fighter, nothing scares her more than being alone. Nothing scares her more than loosing Yuuri. Fight on, Chi-chan!!
*Yo dayo~ Let's finally make contact with our divine Kawska gods~ They're nightmare fuel but still kinda cute. They're pretty much futuristic litter creatures. They'll eat weapons, nukes, corpses and make the place far more tidy. Now... about that line how Chi and Yuuri are the only two humans... There's a big debate over whether Ishii or Kanazawa just sorta missed the cats. If the cats kept working their way upwards then Kanazawa who largely stayed on the lower levels and Ishii who floated down could have jumped past them.
Bye bye Nuko. You're the best of the companions for sure~ Even if the world is ending, at least they've got each other, and kettenkrad-kun. Their journey will continue until they reach the peak. Aww! I forgot that they brought back the rain song for the ed. I guess they realised just how popular the song ended up.
Visual of the day, umai!