Rolling Girls Episode 1

An important part of any post-apocalyptic story is tone. If the viewer doesn’t feel at least a little bit of the despair that comes with the world ending, then your premise and world-building have gone to waste. This is why I’m confused by the fact that Rolling Girls is a light-hearted cute-girls-doing-cute-things story. It takes place in a world where any semblance of government was done away with a while ago and where people just recently started to feel safe walking outside of the city limits. What creator thinks that’s supposed to be a light-hearted story?