Volumes: 6/6 (Complete), In Print
Seinen
Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Slice of Life, Scifi
Summary: The world has ended sometime in the far future and in the ruins of it, two girls, Chito and Yuuri, travel around a gigantic desolate formerly high tech city in their three wheeled motorbike with tank treads. As they travel and explore what’s left of the once futuristic city while looking for food, water and supplies, they talk about how things used to be.
This won the Seiun Award for best SF comic in 2019. (The Seiun is more or less like the Hugo Award.)
Review: The post-apocalypse is surprisingly peaceful. Chito is smart, bookish and responsible, and the other girl, Yuuri, is more ditsy but fun-loving. They travel through a gigantic multi-layered city that was once built to be extremely automated, but is now falling apart and almost completely empty. There’s a sort of eternal mystery of what happened to all the people, but while the series drops some hints, it’s never explained outright.
While they explore, the two girls rediscover old artifacts of humanity’s ruined civilization and speculate about things- everything from old books, an art museum, a giant old memorial, strange statues, photographs, champagne, and old map of the solar system, a submarine, a fish farm and so on. In a lot of ways the girls talk about our civilization as outsiders, all things from a past they have only vaguely heard of. And yet they are also strangely content too, they’re both happy as long as they have each other. They seem to be sisters or at least cousins that grew up together.
Lastly, I found the open-ended ending kind of frustrating but it is still an enjoyable read, and a very unique comic.
Recommended: If you want to read about a peaceful post-apocalypse with some vaguely military and industrial overtones (they travel in a sort of tank and have a gun, helmets etc.) And also read about their speculations about our society and the mysterious things that happened before civilization failed.
Age Rating: PG
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