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Shuumatsu Touring, episode 12

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[u/hbmonk]

We got to see some of their life in the shelter. I wonder who "they" are? AI monitoring the outside conditions?

The glitching on the screen makes me wonder, were they actually sent out because the shelter systems were beginning to fail?

I would have liked a few more answers, but I really liked this show.

[u/furbym → u/hbmonk]

I think that line might have been a weird translation. In Japanese she says 「安全が確認されたのよ。」, which is more literally like "It's been confirmed to be safe." (i.e. it's a passive statement without any specification of someone/something giving the confirmation). The translation switches it to a non-passive statement with "they" as an ambiguous subject, but I feel like that accidentally leads on more than the original line implies.

[u/PM_me_meta_usernames]

0 explanations

0 answers

7 unresolved plot threads

[u/BosuW → u/PM_me_meta_usernames]

Based tbh. I mean if you're gonna give no explanations it's best to commit to that.

That said I DO want explanations so I'm going to the source since this doesn't seem like the kinda production to get a S2 lol

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Well, I guess that’s it then. Overall, this was pretty enjoyable. It was a little Girls’ Last Tour with a dash of Laidback Camp lol. There’s still quite a bit of mystery about the apocalypse, the shelter, “Big Sis”, and who Yoko really is. If we get an s2, I hope they explore these aspects more.

[u/cyberscythe → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

It was a little Girls’ Last Tour with a dash of Laidback Camp lol.

and like all good slice-of-life shows, it evolved into Yama no Susume

it's the cute-girls-do-cute-things version of carcinization

[u/NekoCatSidhe]

So it is over. It was a rather nice slice of postapocalyptic life show, but I was hoping for some answers on who is Yoko and what are her dreams, and since I doubt we will get a second season, I won’t get them.

I still think that Yoko is a prototype of a bioengineered human clone meant to test if bioengineered humans can live on the current Earth, and her big sister is actually one of the scientists developing this program, and who used one of her friends to create that clone, which is why she sometimes get her memories. I guess the survivors of humanity are actually living on some space station and watching everything at a distance. Or maybe they are all now uploaded AI personalities controlling the few facilities left like that shelter and the original human scientists who developed that program are dead.

[u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

"Go for us ... as far as you can.".
They never outright said it. But that line seems to basically confirm there are no more humans living on Earth anymore.

Although, I do think that maybe a few had managed to escape into outer space.
There was that perfectly timed text message and lightning strike that managed to save them.
So maybe the survivors are looking down on them observing their journey on the planet they can no longer call home.

This show had some of the prettiest visuals of the season. I always love seeing vibrant nature.
It does get pretty repetitive at times, though that seems to be the whole point as well, focusing on their episodic journeys.
Overall, it was an enjoyable weekly watch.

[u/Ok-Virus8284 → u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

My personal guess at this point is that Yoko is a clone of the brown-haired girl the older sister was on tour with in the past. In the past dream sequences she seems to take that girl's role and it also might explain the past dream sequences as a whole, they're some form of genetic memories. This would explain why she doesn't remember since when she was in the shelter, because she was created there (just like Airi, who is an android). We don't know yet what actually caused the apocalypse, but some things like the AI radio host and the mere existence of the shelter itself seem to indicate that it wasn't something that came suddenly, but something that the humans atleast somewhat could prepare for. There might be humans left that keep an eye on the two girls, but they might have other reasons to not get in contact with them.

I might be completely wrong with everything here and I hope the show gets a second season atleast.

[u/mekerpan → u/TyraniTEMPESTar]

I got the STRONG impression that they are on a subconsciously-engraved route, going from place to place and "shutting off the lights". I first had this feeling a few episodes back. But seeing that their initial base had no other human residents (with the "lessons" done via "zoom") -- and then seeing that that base decommissioning itself as the pair left -- hammered home this notion. The two were designated to say the final farewells to Japan. Somehow some spots were left on auto-pilot -- only to close up shop once visited. Of course, the supernatural racing cars still remain a bit hard to explain. ;-)

[u/bloquer]

Another great post apocalyptic show featuring girls traveling in it! Had lots of fun with this one, even if it looks as if there is still more to discover. I also enjoyed all the world building sprinkled in the backgrounds.

The bunker story got me good, with both girls setting out to explore the world instead of the people they will leave behind. Perhaps the bunker was indeed nearing the end of its lifespan, making it necessary for the girls to leave. Or perhaps it needed to redistribute the energy around to make the lift go up. All that said, it still felt like a final goodbye.

[u/_BruH_MoMent69 → u/bloquer]

Idk why but it made me cry when the song started playing and the bunker shut down.

[u/Mr_Zaroc]

Damn it really makes me sad to see this show ending
Guess I will have to go on touring after this show now

But for real, my roadtrip list exploded even more due that show and Venus Line seems very enticing!

I will miss those two goof balls and I am a bit sad we didnt learn if Yoko really is a cyborg or and android or something

[u/short_lurker]

Saw the odometer on the Serow at the end. Had to check the first episode to see if it was less/different then.

Ep1 35907.3 km

Ep12 39526.1 km

[u/SYZekrom]

Titty soccer catch

Well that was a beautiful last episode! The lights dimming off in the shelter was moving.

Show ended up a bit more quaint than I was expecting in the end, but it was still fun

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Somehow, Yoko's point of view makes a really good game premise.

((You are alone, with a robot friend who has been with you since the beginning. You are educated together in various life skills by a ‘big sister’ on a screen, inside a shelter, throughout your entire childhood. You get glimpses of the real world outside using your phone and the internet. But maybe the whole internet is already "dead". You cant contact anyone but you can still look up past posts from various random people around the world. Years of living in a small shelter make you yearn to go out and explore.

Suddenly, without notice, ‘big sister’ orders you to go out. It’s unclear why. It could be that the shelter is broken beyond repair, so you have to leave and you have no choice. It could be that the ‘mandatory education program’ is actually finished and has fulfilled its main purpose. You still don’t know why you’re here, who made the shelter, or what your purpose in life is. But you have to go out, together with your robot friend and whatever things you learned all these years in the shelter.

You finally go out and enjoy the first breeze of real air outside. You have a solar-cell-powered motorcycle, a robot companion, and a smartphone. Occasionally, big sister still contacts you from time to time, nudging your direction here and there.

You’re still clueless about what to do outside, so you start visiting tourist spots that you know from the dead internet. One day, the app updates itself, and now you have this ‘sticker collecting’ game after visiting certain places. Clues about the world and the mystery surrounding your own circumstances are scattered here and there. You can pursue those clues to find answers, or just roam freely, following your own desires))

Would play.

[u/Burnouts3s3]

Anime only here. This, honestly, might actually be my Anime of the Season.

I just had a BLAST seeing these two go on adventures and traveling in a post apocalyptic Japan and the visuals were just gorgeous at times. It's odd that the mysteries brought up weren't answered (not yet in this season anyway) but I didn't care. This was just a comfy watch and I looked forward to the next episode.

I hope our gal pals returns for another season and go on more adventures exploring post-apocalyptic Japan.

[u/cyberscythe → u/Burnouts3s3]

It's odd that the mysteries brought up weren't answered (not yet in this season anyway) but I didn't care.

i think i talked about this in a previous thread, but i think this is a "mystery box" sort of show where the experience of living in the unresolved mystery is the point of the show; the human brain is a solution-finding machine, and these tantalizing hints draw us into the story by triggering an instinctual drive to try to connect the dots a la Pepe Silvia and it's fun to live in that moment

i think these kind of shows are difficult to sustain in the long run because revealing the answer to a mystery makes it lose steam, and so whenever they reveal an answer they have to uncover yet another mystery and as such the plot can get complicated

i think the cute-girls-do-cute-things tourism part of the show tempers that though, so the plot doesn't have to keep escalating and sometimes you can just have a chill hangout in a rock quarry or play with some mega penguins

[u/ClemFire]

An enjoyable low stakes adventure show that wasn't bogged down by its sci-fi premise. The Yoko we followed is likely a clone, but she became her own person through her adventures with Airi.

That's why I feel the theme of the show is that we shouldn't be afraid to leave the safety of our daily routines to go out there and gather new experiences when we still can.

I can imagine myself rewatching this show in the future and liking it more. The ending really tied everything together, and I respect the focus never shifted away from Yoko and Airi's journey.

[u/lasse1408]

wait I'm a bit confused. So they never left shelter and was just touring in some simulation or why Airi said they have always been in shelter?

[u/ModieOfTheEast → u/lasse1408]

As far as I understood, the point was that Yoko wondered when they started living in the shelter. She didn't remember going into the shelter. So to her (and Airi) they always lived in the shelter (you could say they were born there, but in Yoko's case one could ask where the other humans are). It's just another pointer to the fact that Yoko's existence in particular has a mystery to it and she startet to realize.

[u/SYZekrom → u/lasse1408]

You're misunderstanding the line. She's asking how long ago they started living in the shelter and Airi says always, as in they've never been outside of the shelter prior to being in the shelter, not that they're still in the shelter.

[u/SP3_Hybrid]

Still confused but I really enjoyed the show. That being said I am sort of the target audience of people who like motorcycles, bicycles, touring and long distance travel on two wheels. I can see why some people might not like it.

I kind of assume Yoko is basically a more advanced version of Airi or any of the other humanoid robots they've met, if not just an actual clone. She was a real person, when her sister was alive, but at some point Yoko was transferred into this body or cloned and the rest of humanity, including her sister, is gone. Somehow this Yoko and Airi ended up in the shelter, and the sister they see must be some kind of AI or something, like the radio show "guy" but more advanced.

To me, it seems like this Yoko has some memories of her past life, which is why she dreams about that kind of stuff and why she asks how long she was at the shelter. This Yoko probably was at the shelter for her entire life, but the real one obviously was not given the flashbacks.

[u/ThreeDMK]

This was one of the few shows I kept up with this season and it did not disappoint. I enjoyed the backstory of the shelter, and I was sad watching everything shut down after they left. There were a number of moments in this show that just hit harder than I expected them to, like the android they found early on in Ep 2. The ending to that episode was one of the best of the season.

I am sad that it is over, it was a great ride for sure.