Girls' Last Tour


Girls' Last Tour is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukumizu. It was serialized monthly through Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch manga website between February 2014 and January 2018 and collected in six tankōbon volumes. An English release of the manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press. A 12-episode anime television adaptation produced by White Fox, mainly covering the manga's first 4 volumes, aired in Japan between October and December 2017.

Plot

The series follows two girls, Yuuri and Chito, as they navigate the ruins of civilization after an unknown apocalypse. As they travel in their Kettenkrad, they seek food and supplies while surviving day-to-day, sometimes encountering other survivors during their journey.

Characters

;Chito
;Yuuri
;Kanazawa
;Ishii
;Nuko

Media

Manga

Girls' Last Tour was written and illustrated by Tsukumizu and serialized in Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch online magazine between February 21, 2014 and January 12, 2018 and collected in six volumes. Yen Press released the series in North America. A manga anthology illustrated by various artists was released on October 13, 2017.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation by White Fox was announced by Kadokawa at Anime Expo 2017, with Takaharu Ozaki as director, Kazuyuki Fudeyasu in charge of series composition, and Mai Toda adapting the character designs for animation. The series aired in Japan between October 6 and December 22, 2017 on AT-X and other stations. The voice actresses of the protagonists, Inori Minase and Yurika Kubo, perform the opening and ending themes, "Ugoku Ugoku" and "More One Night". Sentai Filmworks have licensed the series and streamed the series on Anime Strike. MVM Films has licensed the series in the UK.
Each episode consists of 2 to 3 short interconnecting stories.
TitleOriginal air date

Reception

The English release of the first two volumes were included on the American Library Association's list of 2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. The manga also won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2019.
The anime series won the "Best Slice of Life" category in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2018. IGN also listed Girls' Last Tour as one of the best anime of the 2010s, describing it as a "morose anime" which is "made brighter through perspective on a barren world".