These girls look like beige dragon quest slimes wearing wigs.
Here we are yet again with another anime I would have NEVER picked up purely because of the overtly moe character designs.
#GirlsLastTour #AnimeFriedChicken #SadFeelsAnime
But thankfully I did pick up the show, due to a recommendation comment in another video. Thank you Thank you. Once you look past the cute girl doing cute things otaku bait aesthetics, and allow for the camera to zoom out and pan over the post-war, post-apocalyptic, post-humanity landscape, you’ll find the terrain absolutely stunning.
This show strays from what I would usually seek out in anime. It is a showcase in simplicity and how little meat and potatoes you actually need to contextualise and execute a narrative well, IF the supplementary tools to storytelling are top notch. And by supplementary tools I mean thought provoking themes, exceptional visuals and a memorable soundtrack.
Expanding on that let me first defend why I say the story is simple, and please note I use the term simple and not thin, or lackluster, or wanting. I have no intention of belittling the show in its entirety and I don’t believe it needed 100’s of characters, or a deep lore, or entire flashback episodes chronicling the cataclysm.
In fact, my only real gripe early on was the lack of a bad-guy. Someone to hate. My expectations for good storytelling usually centres around establishing conflict and resolution. But it became quickly apparent that the conflict IS ever present. They are battling the environment day-in day-out as a fight for survival. Scarcity of food, the brutal climate, the unknown, those are the bad-guys. And the resolution is surviving the night.
The themes in the show are what glued my eyes to the screen and kept the cogs in my head spinning. The author’s choice for Moe blob girls to drive the story, while delivering them adult concepts such as the necessity of war for finite essential resources is hard hitting. Who better to deal with these harsh truths than ill-equipped children in the height of their innocence. The cruelty of reality also pulls no punches at all and is best reflected in the only two side characters introduced.
First Kanazawa, who states that creating his maps and surveying the broken land are his sole reason for existing. Only to soon-after lose said maps and states he is better off dead. Ishi is introduced next as humanity's last pilot. And after building that plane I really did think it was going to make the journey. Until it didn’t.
The visuals were breathtaking. And possibly because of the light story line and time allowed to take in all of the artwork, my overactive imagination drew comparisons to the following works:
Most obviously, Made in Abyss. I won’t insult your intelligen
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