Shuumatsu Touring

Strangely effective, complicated tones of wonder and optimism — layered throughout with a sort of gnawing sorrow. The series takes its time and leaves a mark, despite being gentle and upbeat on the surface. It's an unusual one, and I'm glad I gave it a chance. It uses my personal favorite style of apocalypse design: reclaimed by nature. The world has ended, and the world has just begun. The landscape is lush and green and teeming with life after the end of civilization. The art really pulls you in, offering equal measures of sadness, beauty, and mystery. There's a loving attention paid to each ruined building, and hints of untold stories can be glimpsed in all of the weird, quiet corners and distant calamities of the world. Not even the Moon has survived unchanged. I really enjoy the visual details — the background art is essentially a major character in its own right. The two leads are mysterious without feeling too gimmicky. There are none of the embarrassingly amateurish exposition dumps in dialogue that we're used to getting in anime. We're just along for the ride, and we see what we see. Even without knowing much about their circumstances for most of the journey, we're still given an enjoyable sense of their personalities. They're adventurous, curious, kindhearted, and, more than anything else, indomitable. Their nostalgic joy and excitement works to offset — and reframe — the overarching sense of loss. A microcosm for the tone of the series is when the characters look out toward the destroyed remains of Mt Fuji. It's an iconic reminder of the scale of how much has been lost — yet they're filled with delight and gratitude, just to have the opportunity to see such a sight. In a devastated world, they're making the most of what they can, and moving forward. The series is quiet, slow, strange, and lovely, and it does not overreach. If you're able to give it your patience and attention, it stays with you.

As a big fan of travel anime, I was excited hearing about Touring After the Apocalypse for the first time. To my surprise this anime exceeded my expectation. It was wholesome, exciting, myterious, funny and emotional. Spoiler warning First off, one of the biggest strength is it post-apocalypse setting. The world isn’t a new created world, it is based on real life locations, which makes this show work similar like Laid-Back Camp or ZatsuTabi but in comparison to them, the interaction with the visited places are way different because everything is overgrown by nature, animals and without humans anywhere. This makes it very unique, especially because the implementation of this post-apocalypse world is so beliveable and authentic. For example the protagonists Yoko and Airi visited Akihabara but there are only hints left that this was an electronic area back in the past. Now it is an overgrown area for lots of animals, which escaped from the zoo and settled within the city. In addition there are always connections to how the places were supposed to be in the past and how they changed, which helps the immersion even more. Speaking of the past, I really like how this show connects the past and present also outside its environment. For example the robobt from episode 2, the Akihabara radio, all those vehicles from the raceway or even the aliens. Each one of them has a legacy, a dream which survied the apocalypse in a way and reawaken within Yoko and Airi. There were a lot of emotional scenes connected to those story which got me of guard all the time. For example th robot from episode 2 who had a good time with Yoko and Airi but misses his family so much, that he chose to "join" his family in the after life. What all those emotional scene had in common is a good presentation. I admit, it is obvious that the animation quality isn’t that high and in some episodes it felt annoying how often they used static environment pictures sometimes. But in contrast, it delivers in their key scenes ever time with solid animations, good music and beautiful colors. All in all this anime looks fantastic. The background art is astonishing and the colors are so vibrant, they helped the immersion a lot. However in this colorful world lies a cruelty our heros had to face lots of time. This world is dangerous with their nature catastrophies and their mutant animals. The anime succeeds in combining the beauty and danger this world offers. Like for example when our duo got chased by a horde of rats they survied and were rewarded with a beautiful night scenery of the city. This scene was also a nice character moment for Yoko, who was sick of staying in the safe room and wants to travel around although she could die. Our duo Yoko and Airi in general very likeable. Looking at them one by one they are fine characters but they shine as a duo even more because of their fun dynamic. Yoko is the more exciting/out-going character, who enjoys herself as much as she can. Airi is the voice of reasoning and logic as a cyborg but still takes part with Yokos shenanigans. You can clearly feel how they adore and care each other. I also love how selfless they are sometimes by letting some found food rations behind for possible travellers coming by or how they resepect dead humans they found and letting them rest. Before I rest my review I want to mention one more thing which carries this anime a lot and that is the hole mystery of this world. We only get some hints within the environment of what caused the apocalypse and only vague answers. Also Yoko as a character is a mystery herself, because he wounds heals pretty fast and with the flashback and her dreams, she existed in the distant past too. Sadly we got no clear answers because 12 episodes were too less and the manga is still going and not fully adapted. However it was so fun speculating after every episode with every new hint of what could happend and who Yoko is. That's why I will definitely read the manga. In the end for me Touring After the Apocalypse was a fantastic journey, with fun characters, super environment, curious secrets, emotional stories and exciting moments. Maybe not everyone might get excited by this anime as much as I do because I like that genre a lot, so this anime is perfectly made me at least.

Shuumatsu Touring. Shuumatsu has a bit of wordplay in Japanese. It can both mean "weekend" and also "the end." This fully demonstrates what this series is about. We got two girls, Youko & Airi touring. They are touring in a post-apocalyptic setting. You might think of many questions like, what happened to the world? Why is it like this? However, the series also means weekend touring. This is the true atmosphere of the series. Weekends are meant to be relaxing and comfortable, and this is what this series tries to aim for. Essentially this show is what you expect in a touring show around Japan, just in a post-apocalyptic setting. This is a show that will set up various things but isn't too interested in giving you many answers right away. So if the post-apocalyptic theme interests you most, then you may run into issues and may end up being frustrated in watching. But if you are more interested in seeing these various tourist attractions in a more SoL story, you may really enjoy this one. As someone who read the manga, the anime is a notable step up in art direction compared to the manga. Which is a pleasant surprise. Also solid animation and music to boot. I listed this as a mixed review because I could see that not getting answers could frustrate some people watching this show. But if you are not intent on getting those answers, you can have a great time with this one. I rate it 7/10.

This Is Not a Cute Post-Apocalypse Travel Anime If you think this is a cozy road trip through the ruins of Japan, you are already watching it the wrong way. If you’re going into Touring After the Apocalypse expecting a soft, atmospheric “let’s explore Japan after the end of the world” series, you should recalibrate immediately. That framing is not wrong — it’s incomplete. Yes, the show is quiet. Yes, it’s visually gentle. Yes, it lingers on empty cities, animals, music, and routine. But this is not a slice-of-life anime set after an apocalypse. This is a psychological work disguised as one. From the very first episode, the series establishes contradictions it never rushes to resolve. Warnings and environments do not align. Systems insist on danger while the world behaves as if it has adapted. Information exists, but arrives indirectly, through automation, routine, or memory rather than dialogue. Most strikingly, the characters themselves rarely question these inconsistencies — not because they aren’t visible, but because the show is quietly exploring what it means to accept a framework rather than challenge it. This is not accidental storytelling. It is structural. The tension here does not come from threats or action, but from implication: from what goes unasked, from what repeats without explanation, from how the world communicates around the characters instead of to them. The series consistently shows you two incompatible truths at once and trusts you to notice. If you watch passively, this may feel slow or uneventful. If you watch attentively, your mind will never stop working. Rather than explaining its setting, the show invites you to triangulate it. Rather than delivering revelations, it allows realizations. By the time you understand what kind of story this really is, you’ll realize it never hid anything — it simply assumed you were paying attention. Comparisons to cozy post-apocalypse anime miss the point. This series is far closer in spirit to works that interrogate control, memory, and purpose — not through spectacle, but through restraint. What makes the series quietly unsettling is not what happens, but how perception behaves. Time does not move cleanly forward. Memories surface out of sequence. Locations feel familiar before they are encountered, as if the world is being recalled rather than discovered. Information arrives through dreams, routine, and repetition instead of exposition. The result is a persistent sense of drift — not just through space, but through identity and time itself. This is not what you think it is — and that is exactly why it works.

Shuumatsu Touring is an anime full of wasted potential that, in the end, leaves a lot to be desired. It starts by drawing the viewer in with a unique blend of chill, ambient travel and worldbuilding with dark, uneasy undertones. It raises all the right questions but answers none of them. Ultimately, while Shuumatsu Touring definitely had its moments, it ends as a forgettable mess. The main premise of the show and how it’s introduced is actually quite good. Two girls, Yoko and Airi, travel through a post-apocalyptic Japan. What the show initially does well is contrasting the sheer joy the girls experience seeing the world for the first time with the remnants of civilization and the dangers of a post-apocalyptic setting. That mix of vibes, shifting between haunting and peaceful, is rarely seen and is pulled off amazingly at first. However, for some reason, they simply stop doing it. After five or six episodes, the show focuses more on being purely lighthearted and "cute." Sure, there are moments that are more serious than others, but not in the same way. At certain points, I asked myself what I was even watching. In the end, none of my questions were answered regarding the characters or the world, leaving me with a sense that the story is incomplete. Regarding the characters... Well, there are barely any. Yoko and Airi are essentially alone in the world, and the few other characters have such minimal screentime that I can't even begin to discuss them. In terms of the main duo, I’m surprised by how undeveloped and flat they are, considering they are the only two characters in the show. While both are likable and their dynamic is cute, you never really get to "know" them. Not once does the series explore their deeper thoughts or desires; the most we get is a surface-level "I want to travel." All in all, neither Yoko nor Airi feel like unique or memorable characters, which, coupled with the lack of growth, leaves them feeling underwhelming. The art in this show was plain bad. While the backgrounds had pretty colors and the scenery was nice, that isn't particularly difficult to achieve. The animation consisted mostly of panning over still shots or using ugly 3DCG. The character designs were also lacking, especially the facial expressions, which were occasionally hard to look at. Overall, the art and animation felt cheap and incoherent, and the quality only dipped further toward the end. You would expect much better given the studio and producers involved. The sound production is actually quite good. The OST, while not especially memorable, does its job by creating a soothing atmosphere alongside the ambient noise. While neither is top-tier, they are both more than passable. As for the voice acting, it’s just average. There isn't much more to say about it. I personally really enjoyed the first half of this anime, but as it progressed, it became less and less enjoyable. It never reached the point of being a chore to watch, but it was getting close, so I’m lucky it was only 12 episodes. Even when there wasn't much to keep me engaged, I found the episodes went by quite quickly. In my opinion, the aforementioned contrast between Yoko’s happiness and the grim reality of the apocalypse was a unique take that captivated me. Once that stopped being the focal point, I naturally lost interest. In the end, I’d say it was an "okay" watch. Due to Shuumatsu Touring’s lack of any real selling points, I’m hesitant to recommend it. It leaves loose ends, features uninteresting characters, and looks ugly. As such, even though I enjoyed parts of it, I can’t recommend it to others. Personally, I still want to know more about the world, so I might check out the manga (though I’m worried no development will happen there, either). It felt like they were trying to leave things open for a second season, which I would be open to watching. If not, I don't think I'll remember this anime for very long.

Touring After the Apocalypse — Well, if you want Girls' Last Tour-like adventure and mystery, I'm sorry, but you've found yourself in the wrong post-apocalyptic world. Try searching the word "post-apocalyptic," and see how many results you can get from a word that speaks of the bare unknown, of worlds broken apart from some world-defining disaster that leaves brutal marks of how humanity has all but been wiped off the face of the Earth, replaced with other potential beings for a society that doesn't feel human at all, when Earth still strikes of human creation. That's what series like mangaka Tsukumizu's Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou a.k.a. Girls' Last Tour, attempt to do, and the stark results from both the manga and anime's reception when the latter debuted way back in fall 2017 truly show off an award-winning series that delves into the area of the unknown, when authors of similar sizing couldn't muster quite the grandeur of what the aforementioned series attempted to do at its heyday. In a similar manner, as is trying to imitate the success of authors who've come and gone to make their mark in the industry, the "copycats" can come forward to give us that same feeling again, but it'll never capture that exact endeavour that is the Midas touch of the original authors themselves. My focal case in point: mangaka Sakae Saito's Shuumatsu Touring a.k.a. Touring After the Apocalypse, which, like Girls' Last Tour, attempts to do an exact replica of a post-apocalyptic setting, but its rather different and meek-ish storytelling proves otherwise of a potential that somehow got lost along the way. Rather than stick to the traditional human-human "couple" to see the post-apocalyptic world in its post-devastation, the sci-fi adventure rests on the laurels of 2 girls: the human girl Yoko and the cyborg girl Airi. Both who have seemingly awakened in the wake of the Earth (at least in Japan) having self-destructed in some way, shape, or form, there's only one thing to do in this regard: take whatever vehicle they can find and call it an adventure to the "Abyss." That's not to say that the story starts on similar footing that you can find in other similar works like these, but it at least sets a precedent for what's to come, journeying alongside the 2 girls, along with their trustful battery-powered Yamaha XT225 Serow sport motorbike, to places where no other human would go...or at least, in this already-decimated world, the ONLY human and cyborg left in Japan. In the same way, I guess you can see Shuumatsu Touring as deviating from the Girls' Last Tour formula and, due to its slice-of-life elements of touring around Japan, see this as more like Yuru Camp and other Iyashikei series, but adding in the mystery of the supernatural. It's more or less the journey of how far both Yoko and Airi can venture to see what is left of the country they're in in its apocalyptic state, as is wandering through different famous towns, states, and places of interest (that's all well documented in the show's Wikipedia page if you want to check it out), and just simply having fun while at it. The thing is, the sci-fi blends somewhat of a mystery as to who Yoko is, because she has recurring memories with her big sister of the Japan that they're familiar with, before the whole Earth destruction narrative comes into play that'll always take her out of focus with the reality. This is where Airi comes in as the cyborg girl that Yoko seemingly found right after the apocalypse and serves as the tongue-in-cheek companion that follows wherever Yoko goes. The issue, however, is that apart from the vastness that is Japan, not much is actually dived into the supernatural, apart from, say, spirits and the like that Yoko and Airi occasionally frequent to imagine how the world was like pre-apocalypse, which that execution can be rather hit or miss. Studio Nexus is back after almost 6 years off the anime production phase (save for counting the Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! a.k.a. The Eminence in Shadow series that the animation studio has invested in since 2022), and while I'm kind of glad that Shuumatsu Touring has been given its fair treatment, it somehow just seems kind of off for a studio that, to the best of my understanding, had created works that are distinguishable just by production values alone. Still, if quality is what we get with Aniplex as the main producer for a higher budget, then this will do just fine. With Kenichiro Suehiro as music composer for the series, his OST may be a fine job at trying to bring out the post-apocalyptic values for which the series has going for it, but it seems rather kind of cheerful for an apocalypse story that the majority of the time sees glee and happiness, though occasionally dealing with the depressing nature that doesn't quite have a nice balance as what I would come to expect. Still, if hearing good Anisongs is my bread-and-butter, then Cotton Candy's OP is a good one (to speed up a bit), while Myuk's ED kind of plays it safer than what her repertoire would allow her to. At the end of the day, I think the perception that Shuumatsu Touring a.k.a. Touring After the Apocalypse, is as tongue-in-cheek as it is in trying to carve out a Girls' Last Tour-esque story for itself, its narrative is one that I'll take issue with. Not just as a series that still has its ongoing serialization that will leave its ending in an open state, but it feels as if it's going somewhere, putting the focal point at the back burner. The plot is there, no question at all, but more than the journey carving its shape, it's the destination that'll determine everything when all is said and done. A decent replica of a post-apocalyptic adventure...provided you're OK with the destination not being its end game.

Touring at the end of The world....Touring was part of it sure.But the Schizophrenic paranoia from the MC was also a big part of it. This is a travel anime.Usually my cup of tea if i am being honest.Although usually travel anime would feel far better in a fantasy setting.But this one is set in a post-apocaliptic world so that hits just as good. So the ideea is there,the setup is there.... What about the execution? Jesus Christ no. This anime has all the ingridients to cook a full course meal but it burns the kitchen down.The main and biggest issue is this show just tries to start too many plotlines in a short 12 episode format.And it delivers on absolutely none of them. First and foremost is what the hell actually happend with the world that there's literally nobody else alive on the planet. Sure we see the classic nuke crater.So we are left to asume it was just a full on global nuclear war.Because nothing else is explained. Then there's the plotline about Yuko and all the dreams with her "big sis" and the second Yuuko who's older and appears throughout the entire series as well,in the flasbacks and said "dreams". Another mystery that goes literally nowhere. More then halfway through we got supernatural events.Ghosts altering reality or inducing the Schizophrenic paranoia to a unseen degree.Even in Airi. Not to mention the aliens coming from a faraway planet.Another abandoned plotline.And in literally the last episode we get the whole facility closing up permanently while Big sis starts glitching on the live screen. A secondary issue is the world building.It's chaotic,it's random and it's barren.We also get glimpses of random huge animals,only for the duo to be attacked by...normal sized rats...who's eyes glow red and are cartoonishly evil chasing them like a zombie horde. And since im talking about the duo... Am i the only one who feels this would've been better with a male/female pair instead?Adding a secondary plotpoint that they could actually finish about them being raised by themselves in that facility to save the species or something. Instead we got female Timmy Turner and Robotgirl going on vacation. Also,the most important bits that were supposed to hit you were all cheap CGI. This anime had a budget of 5 bucks and a chewed gum it seems. If this show stayed true to it's original traveling plot and didn't force all these fake misteries that they just abandon without any satisfying conclusion i'd recommend it.But as it stands i simply can't.Not because travel anime is a bad sub-genre,but because this one simply decieves the viewer and baits him along the way,swinging a carrot in our faces.

I will start by saying this show is a Moe first and foremost, there is not really going to be this deep and impactful storyline that is going to keep you at suspense. However, watching this is truly a fever dream as the next series of events pop up, it will just go in a completely different direction that keep you on your toes a little. It was very interesting to watch and it was the first show I've binge-watched with my friend in over 5 years. I would recommend it for anyone as it's a decent introduction to Moe as it's pace is very friendly for most viewers.