One Shot Posts: Girls Last Tour Episode 5

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   Some things don't fit into anywhere else  on this blog or we don't have enough to talk about a whole series or whatever. This is One Shot Posts were we can talk about an episode of something random , aspects of a show even a random detail we notice, or something like that. Or just a chance to be off the cuff and try something new. 

     We look at an anime called "Girls' Last Tour" it came out in 2017 and boiled down to three sentences.  It's a show takes place during an apparently  post-apocalyptic world where most of the people are gone. Instead of show about our main characters trying to fight off monsters,zombies, or other people because the world ended, they have are focused on getting around and finding food and surviving.   Yuuri and Chito are the main (only) characters of all the episodes, sometimes they run into other people but mostly it's just them.  

     I decided to talk about episode 5 because it  looks at things we kind of take for granted. Episodes in this series are divided into 2 or 3 segments  that may or may not connect.  In this episode we have three : "House" , "Nap", and 'Sound of Rain.   

      In House  Yuuri and Chito are traveling  past some houses where people used to live but don't now.  In this series if you choose to watch the whole thing, the two girls don't know a lot about things we know because they've not experienced them or have a remembrance of them , themselves. So  Yuuri or Yuu (the blonde girl ) wonders what houses were used for and Chito or Chi (pronounced chee) (the dark haired girl) explains that people couldn't live without a house. They find a room and enter it.   Chi remarks that it's nice to have an actual room and four walls surrounding you.  Then they imagine stuff in the room like a bunk bed, bookshelf, a pantry, and more until the room looks very nice. 

      It gives a beautiful feeling of warmth and happiness  that many do experience at home the room they imagine isn't too grand or nothing too out of place but it is something they don't have.  Most people don't think about this because of what we have now , that see these sort of things all the time in our own homes with tables, chairs, beds, and etc.  Sadly, the images were just in their heads and the room returns to its more bairn state.  The next day they get back on their Kattenrad and travel on.   Yuu remakes that road is their house  and she imagines a roof on the Kattenrad but Chi, kills this. 

  

      Does make one thing about our characters as Chi remarked about how they can't stay there anyway because they'd run out of food, that the whole focus for them is their survival. They have to move on  even if they didn't want to.  

        In Nap   it gets surreal.  Since Yuu and Chi have had a long night they end up taking a nap. Chito has some strange dream, One where Yuu grows huge but still herself and makes her fall into the water because why not?  Then she imagines Yuuri as a giant fish who wants to eat her. She wakes up from that strangeness before she gets eaten.  She looks at Yuu dreaming of eating food because she really likes food and Chi stuffs a rock in Yuu's mouth.   Not much to opine on in the segment but it was fun and surreal.

    

    In Sound of Rain   I love how the show looks in general great imagery and sound usage  this segment uses that to the fullest. It's raining and the duo take cover to let the storm pass.  Yuu finds a metal stick and decides to hit it against a beam to hear its sound.  Yuu takes collects some water and hears the sound of the dripping on the floor and decides to see what happens when it hits her helmet. They take some other objects and position it around dripping spots. They enjoy the sounds it makes.  Chito says this is maybe what is called music, Yuu wonders what music is.    The credits play with the music made and some singing to give it a nice effect.  It comes back to them when the rain stops which also ends the music.

   

       The simplicity of the rain even it can make something grand like music. It was calm relaxing segment that kind of just takes a breath and shows the simplicity of what's around us.

 I picked this episode to show how well even something simple can be a fun and well done story and how a show can get to feel into its emotions very well.  I say give the whole series a chance if you haven't seen it already.. You can stream in the US on Amazon Prime streaming.