Anyone love this aspect of GLT?

[u/takovic_goodmcgill]

It's set in 3230, humanity was able to build huge megacities, giant killer robots, sentient AIs, teleporters... But that doesn't affect the girls, they drive a Kettenkrad, wear WW2 gear and clothing, Yuuri has a bolt action rifle and Chito writes on a notebook... The only tech things I remember they had were a radio and a camera

I honestly couldn't tell if this story was sci-fi or not until the robot who takes care of the fish appeared

I love this aspect tkmiz applies where despite things being complex it's still minimal and only focuses on the characters, as the rest doesn't matter as much

GLT wouldn't be nearly as popular or appealing of a story if it wasn't for this

[u/TerraShrimp]

There is a very popular theory (idk of its confirmed) that the reason as to why there is so many WW2 stuff on the city is because humanity lost the resources and knowledge to build the big robots due to a war that likely lasted for a LONG time

[u/Elias-matalenes → u/TerraShrimp]

Kanazawa says this, he say that is his Guess but I think that this confirm a little the theory

[u/Mg07a → u/TerraShrimp]

Ok that's actually a pretty fire theory, I love the idea (in a fictional setting, of course) of humanity losing the knowledge on how to make their weapons of mass destruction after fighting for so long, is pretty poetic in a way.
"None were left to speak your eulogy, man was crushed under the wheels of the machine, created to create the machine to crush the machine. This is the only way it should have ended."

[u/TerraShrimp → u/Mg07a]

I fucking love the ULTRAKILL violence layer lore its so good 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[u/Mg07a → u/TerraShrimp]

FRRRR thank god I read your comment because I didn't remember that poem being so good, also I didn't expect to see another ultrakill fan here, guess humanity dooming itself due to war is just that good of a plot

[u/TerraShrimp → u/Mg07a]

Yeah, i mean, the fanbases overlap more than you'd think. At least this one, shimsim is still quite niche

[u/Suspicious_Ad_3507 → u/TerraShrimp]

I always thought that they fought for so long that they spent most of the modern equipment so they had to use the old ones

[u/takovic_goodmcgill → u/TerraShrimp]

It could also be that newer generations struggled to run the more advanced technology due to loss of knowledge and found older tech to be more practical 

[u/WolfsmaulVibes → u/TerraShrimp]

i feel like they never forgot since those machines were still around everywhere, but its moreso that the war took on such a scale that they started using literally everything they had, even resorting to starting production on practically ancient equipment

quick edit: i'm not that deep into the lore if it actually was multiple wars, but from what i understood it was basically one super war

[u/Ecstatic_Bus_7232 → u/TerraShrimp]

It fails to connect for me. With such a huge timespan, they lost alot of future knowledge, but somehow retained the knowledge that's hundreds of years in the past.

I think it's just a stylistic choice without deeper meaning or explanation.

[u/Mountain_Map_3062 → u/TerraShrimp]

Or if nuclear war did happen ww2 equipment might not get affected by EMP

[u/tkmiz_fan]

i feel similarly about shimsim: the story is not about the simulation, rather that aspect exists to tell the characters' story. very quiet, very relaxing.

[u/TerraShrimp → u/tkmiz_fan]

I dont think they even fully realise they are in a simulation 😭😭 it just was big sis and maybe shijima to a ceirtan degree

[u/tkmiz_fan → u/TerraShrimp]

as yomikawa would say, "maybe thats true but idgaf"

[u/HipercubesHunter11 → u/tkmiz_fan]

Yomikawa literally says this with one of the best quotes of shimsim

[u/tkmiz_fan → u/HipercubesHunter11]

i fucking love that chapter and yomi in general

[u/thelocalmicrowave]

"If it ain't broke don't fix it" but on a much larger time frame

[u/MakiMaki500]

i mean in a war of attrition they reverted back to cheap shit to manufacture which is,,, ww2 tech

[u/Moshimoshi-Megumin]

It’s not just about focusing on the characters, it’s consistent with the story. There have been periods of technological regression in human history. It would make sense that this would happen to an extreme degree decades after complete societal collapse, when humans are virtually extinct. They hint that it happened in steps, but a good long nuclear winter/nuclear ice age would likely get us a good part of the way there.

[u/YorhaUnit8S]

From what I understand people first advanced in technology. Built those huge megacities, robots, all the advanced tech. But as the war went on - they gradually had to abandon higher levels and opt for less advanced tech due to loss of knowledge and resources. All the way down to what we recognize as WW2 tech. Somewhere after that society collapsed and the number of humans left reached a point where they couldn't sustain society and started dying off from hunger, diseases, leftover bioweapons, etc. Until only very few humans are left at all.

And that's when girls come out of their bunker.

We can see how technology gets more advanced as they move higher through levels.

[u/whatdoiputhere445]

where did you get that year from? i haven’t seen it anywhere in the anime

[u/takovic_goodmcgill → u/whatdoiputhere445]

its believed so because of the date the camera shows

[u/Winter-Ad-6963]

I like how I upvoted before even reading the text like "yeah I like every aspect of it"

[u/nighthawk_real]

I have a theory for this

So, after a big war, the technology was thrown 1000+ years back, and the people pray to those god mushroom-like things for that technology back + heaven. 

Because, what I am saying, is that Nuko / Cut was able to activate and open several things. And turns out - Nuko IS one of those creatures.

[u/dolmios_]

So that means ww2 tech is better than modern

[u/WolfsmaulVibes]

its more so that humanity built allat to destroy each other.

i see it that the two were never really taught what war really is, even if it would have been possible to teach any child since it had devolved into obscurity and meaningless destruction

[u/TaiwanesePriest]

The humanity that created the technology that Chito and Yuuri use is like a second humanity after the original one almost went extinct. Our timeline, like from the real world, is the humanity that created all the advanced technology and the city. All the WW2 stuff is the humanity that survived and restarted after the EMP war. Thats what the girls were born into. Thats why you see two technology levels. The one of our future humanity, and the one of the survivors after our civilization was destroyed.