Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) (Girls' Last Tour, 1) Paperback – May 23, 2017

a really great manga with a simple, yet amazing story and a simple, yet amazing art style, could not recommend more

pages dont feel thin and the cover is nice

At first I thought the story was cool but kindaaaaa bland but still cool. I bought half of the series and was kinda nervous I wasn’t gonna like it BUT NO- this is by far one of my favorites and I didn’t even realize it until I caught myself thinking about it ALL THE TIME and how inserted I was about reading the next one when it shipped, so so SO happy and just bought the last two missing so I will soon have them all!!!! So good love the characters and I was mostly interested in the past and what the heck is happening in this dystopian city where everyone’s gone!!! LOVE IT HOLY BUY IT ITS SOOOO WORHT ITTTT

Girls Last Tour is unlike a lot of other post apocalypse stories. In a world where hardly any life remains and man made structures are breaking down. Two girls Yuuri and Chirp simply wander finding food and trying to understand the fragments of the past they encounter.It's both an odd mixture of melancholy and hopeful all at the same time. All the it somehow maintains a relaxed atmosphere.The artwork of the series is simple and but charming. It's landscape are a big highlight as each page brings a new view unlike the previous ones. If your curious as a sidenote the first volume covers the first 3 episodes of the anime adaptation. If you are looking for something unique and off the beaten path of more traditional stories. Then look no further than Girl's Last Tour, it's a journey worth travelling. -MickManga

Girl’s Last Tour was recommended to me by Amazon’s algorithms and while it did hit my taste this time, usually it seems to just randomly pick things by the same authors or stuff other members also bought. Honestly I’m not sure Amazon is that good at suggesting stuff, except for this time. The one sixty page read is a very fast one, especially since it is a comic, but I still enjoyed it. So, thanks Amazon I guess.From the cover art you aren’t given a lot of information about Girl’s Last Tour, but the world looks trashed and the girls look young. There is a lot of mysteries in just the art, but not a lot of answers. This isn’t really a plot driven story, instead the art and the interactions gives you an internal narrative about the sort of depressed world these girls inhabit. Is it our future, or a commentary on our today? The obvious hint that fixating on war will ruin us is clear enough, but there is more to it than even that. With the abundance of weapons, or stuff that really doesn’t matter taking priority over food, nature or life itself almost suggests it is about our reliance on distractions and fun technology. Could you replace the guns in the story with iphones? Maybe.There aren’t going to be a lot of characters, but they’re all going to in some weird way take a simple view on life, the lessons aren’t necessarily deep or hard to spot in this story. What keeps you reading is a little bit of what will happen to them, but more just to experience a little time with the girls and their journey with seemingly no purpose. Another analogy of life, but purpose does eventually become the theme to the story, at least in book one.I’d love to write a longer review, but there isn’t a lot here to write about. You could analyze the story more, but not without spoiling it and the plot is so thin already that I’ve maybe already said more than I should. The pages in this book will last no time at all and while the art is interesting, it carries the same despondent hopelessness the world does. There isn’t really much to dig out of it that I could see and while beautiful in some ways, for the most part it all just did its job. A fun manga, but perhaps a bit shallow.

My son loves these books!

This series is like getting punched in the stomach by Ivan Drago...repeatedly...at random intervals...no warning whatsoever.This is not your average 'cute army girls' slice of life. The journey is dark and serious, and the scenery is a look into the human soul. This is a story about trying to keep a full belly, about trying to find a warm place to sleep, about simply finding some sense of safety for tomorrow... and maybe the day after.If you've ever seen a time where you didn't know where your next meal was coming from, if you didn't have a comfortable place to sleep, if you didn't know if you would open your eyes when you closed them... well, Chito and Yuuri will feel as familiar to you as a broken-in pair of boots, a good field jacket, or that reassuring weight you carried on your shoulder or in your hands.It's not going to be a long journey, you get hints of that from the very start.It's going to be mostly a sad journey, with a little happiness snatched from a world without much left to give... and which parts with it reluctantly.It's going to be a story of simple joys and things that we take for granted in our comfortable existence will become luxury beyond imagination.So join Chi and Yuu for their tour.It is an emotional ride through your own soul as much as their world. Will you find joy along with them, or only dispair at a world fallen from dizzying heights?Just remember, this is a last tour.There is nothing waiting when it's over.There is only what they will find along the way... and the question of how long they can keep it going.

I got into the book from the anime, and its basically just the anime ( I know the book came first). But that said I really love the book and especially the last 2 manga issues that the anime didn't cover. Came to the series for something cute to watch/read. Instead I got way more in terms of tough questions, the point of living, philosophy, and questions about life. I really love the book series and loved the anime, I really recommend this book and the books that follow.