If there was one defining feature of previous volumes of Hisona’s Goodbye Dystopia that I truly loved, it was not learning a damn thing about either of the protagonists.

Yes, we got the vaguest idea that Asami travels to find things and Mizuki was running away from home in Volume 1 and in Volume 2, we learned that the world they inhabited had people in it, and that they both had past loss they weren’t thinking about.

In Goodbye Dystopia, Volume 3 (グッバイ・ディストピア), I was desperately afraid that the story would give too much away. I am pleased to say that we know only a very little bit more.

Asami’s loss is a sister. A sister, old friend Uzuki points out, that MIzuki is taking the place of.

Mizuki lets us – and no one else – learn that she’s not running from home, but from a failed romance with a schoolmate, in which she was the only one who was serious. We had guessed as much for Mizuki and while it was news about Asami, when all of that has been pulled out and aired, we really know very little about either woman other than what we’ve seen.

Nonetheless, having had what of their dirty laundry we’ve seen laid out, both women seem lighter and more able to face what is ahead of them. As the manga draws to an end, they discover an abandoned amusement park at which they abandon the last of their worries, and head on into the unknown, together.

Ratings:

Art – 9 This is my kind of art
Story – 10 There is none. I love it.
Characters – 9
Service – 0
Yuri – 4 We learn what we already had guessed

Overall – 9

I loved this series and would have been glad to follow it for decades through dilapidated buildings and abandoned places. I loved the art, the sketchbook quality of the physical locations, Mizuki’s wind-blown hair and the unpaved tracks of the landscape. I loved that we’ll never know their full names or whole histories. I love all the things we don’t know and just enjoyed the heck out of the journey.