After the end of the world when all of civilization has collapsed and everyone appears to be gone, two girls are touring the ruins of Japan on a motorbike to see the sights—in whatever state they may be in.
I’ve seen the end of the world, I’ve seen tours of it, but I’ve never seen it done this happy before. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Touring After the Apocalypse, head on down below.
Anime Like Touring After the Apocalypse
For Fans of Traveling The Apocalypse
Girls’ Last Tour
With all civilization dead, only Chito and Yuuri remain. Together they decide to hop on their motorbike and wander aimlessly looking for their next meal and fuel.
Despite a bleak existence, they remain each other’s light in this dead world.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Girls’ Last Tour
- Two girls, traveling the apocalypse, on a motor vehicle
- The girls happen across sparse other people and hear their sad stories
- Melancholy setting with an emphasis on enjoying small movements when and where you can
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Girls’ Last Tour
- Touring After the Apocalypse is wildly cheerful much of the time, Girls’ Last Tour is bleak most of the time with small nice moments.
- Girls Last Tour is more focused on scavenging supplies in a world that is dead, and doesn’t shy away from letting you know the ride is not forever.
- Touring After the Apocalypse is essentially a sightseeing anime, Girls Last Ride takes place in a more war-torn world where the sights to see are captivating only in their devastation.
Rolling Girls
After the Great Tokyo Wars, Japan’s power vacuum was filled by ten different territories, each vying for the control of the other. Within these territories, their leaders are primarily made up of heroes from the war called Mosas that lead groups called Mobs.
This is the story of young Mob Nozomi Moritomo who is ordered by her Mosas to travel and observe other territories.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Rolling Girls
- Dystopian future in a war-torn Japan where girls roam the land on motorbikes
- Despite the setting, both follow cheerful girls enjoying friendship and travel
- Sightseeing on motorbikes
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Rolling Girls
- Rolling Girls does technically have a plot to it, but the plot is sometimes more just an excuse to get the girls to travel and bond.
- The world in Rolling Girls is war-torn, but it hasn’t ended. There are a fair few people still alive and living their lives.
Train to the End of the World
The innovative upgrade to a 7G network promised technological advancements beyond belief. However, the aftermath of its official launch has turned Japan upside down. With people now suffering from a wide range of bizarre mutations and the landscape itself transformed, society has crumbled.
In the rural town of Agano where everyone over the age of majority has turned into an animal, high schooler Shizuru Chikura is desperate to find out what happened to her friend, Youka Nakatomi. Youka had gone to Ikebukuro on the day of the official 7G launch, and hasn’t been heard from since. However, with the world dangerous and all transportation shut down, she struggles to find a way to search for her.
However, hope comes in the form of an abandoned country train and a senile conductor that teachers Shizuru how to drive it. With three classmates that decide to tag along at the last minute, Shizuru sets out on a long, strange trip to Ikebukuro to find her friend.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Train to the End of the World
- The world has ended, and some girls are traveling it in a vehicle
- New sights, new adventures/problems to deal with
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Train to the End of the World
- Train to the End of The World has a robust “travel to try and find someone” plot to it.
- The apocalypse may have happened in Train to the End of the World, but people still live there. The world is just weird and cut off from each other now.
- Train to the End of the World follows four girls on a train, and occasionally they have interpersonal problems with each other that need dealt with.
- Train to the End of the World has far more serious moments of character drama
Zom 100 – Bucket List of the Dead
While initially excited to begin his adult life, Akira Tendou ends up employed at an exploitative company that breaks his spirit and saps his energy. Unable to quit and contemplating suicide, he dreads each new day of going to work.
That is, until one day when he leaves for the office only to discover that a zombie apocalypse is in full swing.
Realizing that the world as we know it is now over, Akira is overjoyed! He creates a bucket list of all the things he wanted to do but never had the time or energy for as a working adult. Now, he enjoys the apocalypse to the fullest before he becomes a zombie like everyone else.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Zom 100
- The world has ended, and the main characters aren’t particularly unhappy about it
- Characters traveling around to do or see specific things, and sometimes getting involved in incidents
- Bleak setting/situation, often cheerful or energetic story with only momentary serious moments
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Zom 100
- Zom 100 is a zombie apocalypse story, and set in the early stages. So there are people alive, and there is also a threat in the world to the characters.
- Zom 100 is occasionally an action story, but it makes plenty of time for silliness.
- Zom 100 follows a gender-mixed group traveling for survive, but also the main character reminds them to make time for fun as well.
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For Fans of Travel Stories
Kino’s Journey
Accompanied by her talking motorcycle, Hermes, Kino travels through her mysterious world, spending only three days and two nights in each town. The idea is that three days is enough to learn almost everything about a place. This is the story of her journey.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Kino’s Journey
- Girl on a motorbike traveling
- The story is seeing sights and experiencing the stories of others as the main character’s own
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Kino’s Journey
- Kino’s Journey is meditative, melancholy, and philosophical. It is rarely cute or cheerful.
- There is only one girl traveling in Kino’s Journey, but her motorbike does talk, so…
- Kino’s Journey is more about visiting other towns than seeing natural sights. The world has light elements that show some sort of long-past apocalypse, but people still very much live their lives in this fictional world.
Zatsu Tabi – That’s Journey
Chika Suzugamori is a rookie manga artist that, after winning a new artist award for her debut, has had every draft she brought to her editor rejected.
On the verge of giving up, she decides to use some of her prize money to take a trip. On that trip, she finds the natural scenery healing and is inspired to continue working—as well as start planning her next journey.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and That’s Journey
- A girl goes traveling
- Sightseeing, eating, and travel are the plot
- Cute, cheerful, and, very rarely, serious and contemplative.
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and That’s Journey
- That’s Journey doesn’t take place in the apocalypse. It is a modern-set sightseeing travel anime.
- The main character in That’s Journey travels alone, though she had friends that she invites with her at times too.
- As That’s Journey doesn’t take place in the apocalypse, it is more clearly a tourism-hyping anime for the areas of Japan she visits.
Laid-Back Camp
After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting.
When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she is saved by Rin, a girl who was out camping by herself.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Laid-Back Camp
- Girls traveling and being cute
- Travel and sight-seeing is the plot
- Often cheerful with very sparse serious moments
- A big emphasis on the beauty of natural sights
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Laid-Back Camp
- Laid-Back Camp does not take place in the apocalypse.
- Laid-Back Camp is technically about camping rather than specifically traveling.
- Laid-Back Camp works with a larger cast of girls
Super Cub
Koguma is a student who has nothing. She lives alone, has no hobbies, and no friends. However, one day she stops by a vehicle shop in hopes of getting a motor scooter for her commute.
Disheartened by price tags initially, she is sold on an old pre-owned Super Cub. However, what she didn’t know is the many different ways that the scooter would open up her world.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Super Cub
- Girls traveling on motorbikes (specific motor bikes you con conveniently buy in real life, at that.)
- An emphasis on friendships and enjoying the small moments when you can
- A big emphasis on the beauty of Japan’s natural sights
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Super Cub
- Super Cub does not take place in the apocalypse.
- Super Cub is a bit more subdued with any cheerfulness and can even be a bit melancholy even in its moments of quieter happiness.
For Fans at Cute Girls At The End of the World
School-Live
Yuki Takeya is in love with school life. She loves it so much that she joined the School Living Club with three other girls, their supervising teacher, and the club dog Taroumaru. This club makes the most of living at school.
However, Yuki’s blissful school life is all a delusion.
The real purpose of the School Living Club is to prevent Yuki’s fragile reality from shattering. In reality, these girls are surviving the zombie apocalypse by barricading themselves within the school.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and School Live
- Cute girls being cute in a world that has ended.
- Cheerful female friendship and occasional bleak moments
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and School Live
- School Live takes place in the a school during a zombie apocalypse. There is no traveling.
- School Live is cheerful, but it’s also a bit of a twisted mental delusion that adds another interesting, but more serious, layer to the story.
- School Live follows four girls, so sometimes they have interpersonal issues with each other.
- School Live has lots of fluffy moments in this apocalypse, but it can be very brutal to its characters when it does get serious.
Apocalypse Hotel
In the midst of an apocalypse, the remnants of humanity fled earth. For the owner of the Gingarou Hotel in Ginza, he told his robot staff that humanity would return someday and they should be ready to serve guests when they did.
Hundreds of years have passed since then, and Yachiyo, the hotel clerk at the front desk, has kept the hotel running despite no guests and the dwindling functionality of the other staff members.
As they await humanity’s return, a small miracle occurs—they receive their first guest.
Similarities Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Apocalypse Hotel
- The world has ended and all the humans have gone.
- Characters in the apocalypse living like nothing really happened
- Cheerful, comical, comically weird stories most of the time, but a spare few serious moments as well.
Differences Between Touring After the Apocalypse and Apocalypse Hotel
- Apocalypse Hotel is about robots still maintaining a hotel after all humans fled earth.
- The characters don’t really travel much in Apocalypse Hotel
- Apocalypse Hotel features aliens starting to become patrons at the hotel, so the cast sort of expands quite a bit over time.
- Apocalypse Hotel enjoys its wacky, weird comedy much more.
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