In Volume 1 of Hisona’s peripatetic manga, we met “Asami” who has left her past behind and “Mizuki” who has left home, after having been thrown away. The two women walk and ride their way through an often-deserted landscape, visiting abandoned buildings and unused railways.

In Goodbye Dystopia, Volume 2 (グッバイ・ディストピア), Mizuki finds herself accompanying Asami to what appears to be a place from Asami’s past. There, she meets Uzuki, a woman who clearly has a history with Asami and there’s something between them. What that is we don’t know by the end of the volume, nor may we ever know. I’m okay with not knowing, frankly. 

What we do learn is that Uzuki is not much interested in the world outside her town (which we, the reader, can guess is at least part of the history between Uzuki and Asami) and also that Uzuki is not particularly troubled to smooth over awkward situations.

We and Mizuki also learn that Asami’s home once stood on the hill where Asami has headed, but it burned down years ago. Amid the plants growing on the plateau, Asami finds another relic of her past as the volume comes to a close. 

I know I’ve said this before, but I genuinely love this story, and all of its unknowns.  There’s no compelling need to know the whole story and I kind of hope we never really do know everything that Asami and Mizuki have walked away from. Instead, I hope that space is given to the future they are headed towards. I love the loose, josei-art style, the fact that panels and sometimes whole pages go by with no dialogue.  

Ratings:

Art – 9 YMMV, but this is right in my wheelhouse 
Story – 10 There is none. I love it.
Characters – 8 
Service – 0 
Yuri – 2 At the moment, it’s in flashback and memory only

Overall – 9

This is one of my favorite series in Comic Yuri Hime and I hope it goes on for a long time.