WorldEnd (I am not typing out that whole title every time) is a post-apocalyptic tale that’s pitched to be a little more… complete than most, starring as it does Willem Kmetsch, said in this setting to be the last surviving human. The grim oppression of such a scenario, as would be familiar to the likes of Girls’ Last Tour or a few downer endings, is defused significantly by the setting and supporting cast.
For one, while humans are basically extinct, civilization endures with other humanoid races on a series of islands floating in the sky – mostly animal people as we see when Willem intercepts a mysterious blue-haired girl and shows her around for a day, hats required to hide that they don’t have horns or anything.
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