Girls' Last Tour
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| Why they don't explain about the past? How the girl survive and why she's alone? Why they always leave the new character they met? They can travel together! |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
YamEnele said: Why they don't explain about the past? How the girl survive and why she's alone? Because it doesn't matter. Nothing does, that's the point. |
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| "Maybe she's getting along with it now" "The feeling of hopelessness" For some reason, what Yuu said stuck with me. Also my hair stand on end when the plane break into pieces. I'm glad Ishii was safe. |
  ★━━─ 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺? |
| this episode had absolutely no right to be that sad ;-; im so glad ishii is safe, i love her. |
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| The legend says that Ishii is falling to this day. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Once the plane is done, I had the feeling that the plane would fail at any moment. Thought my guess is wrong and it came true what a hopeless episode :) When we did our best and still fails, we just not care anymore and try other stuff instead. |
| This just barely glances off being disturbing, it always gives you soft cuddles instead. But I was imaging the scenarios...so it's kind of nice for things not to veer off into disturbia all the time. |
| Damn what a great episode. Yuuri and Chi meet another person building a plane to get out of here. I like how they sped up the plane building part. Kinda sad to see the plane being worked so hard on to break moments after flying. |
KarsaaaNov 23, 2020 1:56 PM
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| I don't think the message of this episode is dark, but it's about failure. When you fail at something, it's okay, as long as you tried your best; nothing more can be expected of you. By trying her best and working to escape, she made friends and lived. Life is like that too. We all fail and die in the end, but we work hard to accomplish goals and make friends, all that. If we felt hopeless and gave up because we knew we'd die, we'd never truly live. |
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TrueReset said: I don't think the message of this episode is dark, but it's about failure. When you fail at something, it's okay, as long as you tried your best; nothing more can be expected of you. By trying her best and working to escape, she made friends and lived. Life is like that too. We all fail and die in the end, but we work hard to accomplish goals and make friends, all that. If we felt hopeless and gave up because we knew we'd die, we'd never truly live. That, and I think it was also about finding a new goal once the one you're working on doesn't pan out. Ishii is the second person so far, after Kanazawa, who's seen their life's main purpose be destroyed in front of their very eyes. There's also the theme of leaving something behind, to be remembered by. Sure, Kanazawa can redraw the maps, but for whom? Probably so he can say "I did this, this is my achievement". Ishii describes herself as possibly the last pilot in humanity's history. She worked hard and built a plane only from studying blueprints — something that should get recognition. Ishii also says she is glad Chito and Yuuri are there to witness her achievement, write about it and pass it on. It's even more telling when, later on (at least in the manga, I've not reached that point of the anime yet), There are a lot of remnants of humanity, but they take the form of cities and large, metallic, impersonal structures. There is no sense of individuality attached to them. They're hunks of metal and stone, each a carbon copy of the other, without any distinguishing marks, functioning just fine on their own until their maintenance mechanisms break down. The only signs of humans are the experiences they live (reflected in Yuuri's "go with the flow, live in the now" atittude) and the books and paintings they come across (see Chito's interest in the past and recording everything). |
Pande91Dec 12, 2020 12:24 PM
| I was really into this episode for some reason. It felt like the most relaxing thing I've watched in such a long time.. Nice side character, sure she's just there for 1 episode but it made things even more interesting & entertaining~ |
3099Mar 27, 2021 12:43 PM
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| This was pretty much just a better version of the map guy's episode, which makes me wonder why they were two separate episodes to begin with (even their themes aren't so different). Oh well, the handful of characters are just about all that's keeping this from being nihilistic fluff so far. |
TrueReset said: I don't think the message of this episode is dark, but it's about failure. When you fail at something, it's okay, as long as you tried your best; nothing more can be expected of you. By trying her best and working to escape, she made friends and lived. Life is like that too. We all fail and die in the end, but we work hard to accomplish goals and make friends, all that. If we felt hopeless and gave up because we knew we'd die, we'd never truly live. Pande91 said: That, and I think it was also about finding a new goal once the one you're working on doesn't pan out. Ishii is the second person so far, after Kanazawa, who's seen their life's main purpose be destroyed in front of their very eyes. There's also the theme of leaving something behind, to be remembered by. Both of these summed up this episode very well. While I was hoping this show would take a darker approach, it's subtle approach to these messages are keeping a nice balance between it's Slice of Life feel and dark undertones |
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| This episode somehow felt grim to me |
| As soon as I saw that flip of that switch, I was half thinking that it was going to all be okay and half thinking that something was about to go wrong and the plane would break down or something. It's kind of sad that my gut was right... |
Junko Enoshima looking proudly at Yuuri |
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 I audiably gasped when Ishii's plane broke in midair. Holy crap that was terrifying, but while I'm glad she's okay, it's depressing to know that she's now trapped somewhere in the city's lower level, potentially stranded without any possible means to get back to her base, let alone the upper level. I love Girls' Last Tour for its delve of humanity's future in the past tense, where the characters re-explore history and technology as if they're entirely new discoveries. The characters attempted to develop airplanes using a mix of antique and advanced technology, both of which they don't completely understand. They're rediscovering flight, reliving all the triumphs and failures that went along with past inventors. Chi and Yuu are also witnesses of potentially the final flight in human history, documenting its successes and failures through text and photography. They're both part of history and recorders of history, or at least what's left of it. That thought gave me chills. It's ponderous to learn what could possibly lie beyond the city Chi and Yuu are traveling in, but also frightening to consider how many unknowns are there both within the city and beyond. That, and the dangers involved with trying to traverse that unknown. Ishii's plane could have easily broken down in the middle of the two cities, plunging into the depths of the Earth. She also could have made it to the next city, only to find it somehow worse off than the current one. She could have also miscalculated the flight, and the distance between the two cities could have exceeded her fuel capacity. There were a number of ways she could have died, but then again, she could have also died in her base, alone and without hope of ever escaping. In the same sense, Chi and Yuu could have also died, stranded in that steel beam forest. Simply existing in this city has a risk of death, if just by the hopelessness associated with a lack of direction and a means of moving forward. Somehow, Girls' Last Tour can be both uplifting and depressing. This is amazing. |
ShockedDec 9, 2022 10:12 PM
| in the back of my head I was hoping she would crash and burn but she was smart enough to have a parachute. |
 Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
| Ok holy cow that was good! They using hopelessness and despair in a calm and realistic way Damn this anime ia good! Ngl i shocked so hard when the plane broke |
| Zetsubou... Zetsubou.... Zetsubou.... Damn for a second i thought the plane gonna explode and she dead. Thank You Ishii!! |
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| My heart stopped for a moment there when I saw the plane crumple. I'm glad Ishii survived, and as Yuu said she has embraced her failure or hopelessness and now she is free. |
“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro  |
| This was an amazing episode just like the last one. I was fuming when her plane broke down but I'm glad that she's alive atleast. |
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