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When the world is crumbling, you better climb on the debris.

Girls Last tour set itself up pretty quickly, our two accomplices Chito and Yuri wander in a ruined world with their weird tank-car with the final goal of going all the way to the top of the mega-structure. It'll only take us a few chapters to understand that food isn't a problem, the two of them having food a decent stock in the very first chapter, and that hostile entities are pretty rare in this world.

What GLT focuses on, it's on the road-trip of our two friends. The author is pretty miser when it comes ... to giving us details about the past of the heroins or the reasons of this beautiful trip towards the superior levels, we'll just learn that there was apparently war and that they had to flee through a big door that led them all the way here. Kind of like Blame!, it's pretty obvious that the author concentrates a lot more on the world he's trying to built than the causes that led to it. Of course, they're pretty obvious, Humanity fucked up, but it's still pretty shadowy.

But the lack of context doesn't really matter since we can cleary see that Tsukumizu don't care about it, and it may be better this way. Over the chapters and volumes, the two teens will wander through this world, trying to climb from levels to levels to try and get, finally, to the summit. In their journey, they'll meet the few remaining humans which always lead to really good story arc that are a few chapters long, they will also come to observe all the oddities of this gigantic world, completely excessive, this cray library, this mega-factory, this whole network of massive pipes that seems to have served as a way of transport, all those human buildings, the author deliver them to us with this magistral feeling of gigantism, but also of pure solitude, GLT's drawings leave in us an inexplicable feeling, half-way through dizziness and melancholy.

The other big strong point of the work, it's, of course, the relationship between Chito and Yuri, most of the chapters leave us with the feeling i just talked about also because of the great discussions between the two of them. They are beatifully intelligent and deep, like us, human beings lost in their loneliness that ask themselves questions, of course, this whole aspect is sublimated by this world and the author's art. In the end, this alchemy between the art and the dialogs is what leave us this lasting impression.

I will never forget GLT, i will never forget this whole aventure and i will especially not forget the end. I cried and when, in a year or two, i will re-read GLT, i'll cry again, without any shame. GLT is a masterful work, not everybody will live it like i lived iit but it's a work that marked me deeply with its world, its drawings or its universe.

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(This review is my pretty litteral traduction of my french review of the work, apologies for the poor grammar)