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"All the good people of this world are already dead."

Not for the faint of heart.

Now then, Here and There (aka Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku or "The Me That's In that location Now") is a grim piece by Akitaroh Daichi, the manager responsible for such manic comedies as Kodocha and the outset Fruits Basket anime. According to Daichi himself, he was influenced to create this story based on reports coming out of Rwanda during the genocide taking place in that country - and boy, does it show.

Now so, Here and There takes the onetime anime plot of being transported to some other world and turns it on its head. Shuzo "Shu" Mizutani, a normal Japanese young teen, is on his style home from kendo do one day when he sees a strange girl sitting atop a smokestack. Curious, he goes up to see her. The girl'due south name is Lala Ru and as Shu is introducing himself and talking to her ii foreign machines warp in and attack them. Shu attempts to defend the girl but is hands brushed bated and Lala Ru is taken. Shu renews his attack as Lala Ru calls for help but anybody ends upwardly getting transported back to where the machines came from.

Every bit a result of this, Shu is transported to a dying desert planet orbiting a swollen lord's day in the early stages of nova. Merely the worst of humanity has survived this crucible and Shu has been dumped alone into the eye of this hell. Shu tries to deport every bit the hero would, always optimistic that expert will always triumph and that if he tries difficult enough he will win and restore goodness to the world. Things don't work that way in Hellywood, the fortress ruled by an insane king (Hamdo) served by a super-efficient minion (Abelia) who inflicts his every demented whim on a helpless population...

In this globe, children are the targets of atrocities committed past other children. Neighboring villages are raided for vital supplies and young boys to be conscripted into the insane king Hamdo's army - Shu is just one of them and witnesses how boys like him (similar his squad leader Nabuca, his Number Two Boo and his rival Tabool) are forced into this. Women and young girls are captured to be passed around to and raped past Hellywood soldiers as a reward for good functioning, in the hope that they volition become pregnant and provide future soldiers and breeders. This latter fate befalls to the first friend Shu actually makes in the new world, a young American girl named Sara Ringwalt who was mistakenly grabbed because of her resemblance to Lala Ru. And notwithstanding, poor Shu does what he can to not fully lose himself in this violent world, trying to reach for Lala Ru, Sara, Nabuca, Tabool and Boo and so they tin can all survive in the middle of Hamdo'south crazy reign. . .

Tropes used in Now and So, Hither and There include:

• Adorably Precocious Child: Boo, though the responsibility is of the emotionally scarring kind.
• Adrenaline Makeover: Sara is introduced as a Shrinking Violet with long blond hair and a rather girlish pinkish bluse/brim outfit, right earlier she's forced into Sex Slavery and hit with lots of misfortune. When she kills one of her rapists and escapes from Hellywood into the desert, she gets rid of the blouse and skirt plus cuts her hair with a knife; from then on she's seen in a more practical t-shirt/pants get-up, marking how she evolves into a still kind but more serious young woman who somewhen becomes determined to protect herself and others.
• Adult Fear: Children are stuck alone in a foreign state. And that's but the beginning.
• Aerith and Bob: The girls and women all accept existent names, fifty-fifty in the future; Soon is a Korean name, Abelia is the name of a plant, and Sis is likely a nickname. And then you lot accept the guys; Boo, Tabool, Nabuca...
• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: Lala Ru'south pendant has the still great remains of a massive store of h2o tied directly to her ain life. How much more concentrated do y'all get?
• Anyone Can Die: And by anyone we actually mean everyone. Especially if yous can feel whatsoever sympathy for them.
• Applied Phlebotinum: Hellywood'southward airship is fueled past...water? To be off-white. They put in the briefly shown "Converters" which allow the water to be used as fuel.
• Apron Matron: Sis, the local Squad Mom.
• Art Style Dissonance: It'southward not exactly cutesy, but it's unusually stylized for such serious field of study thing. This arguably works in its favor, softening the accident of the nearly traumatic scenes.
• The Atoner: Abelia is strongly implied to become this, afterward Sara shows her mercy.
  • Kazam, the spy soldier who brought Hellywood to Zaribars (and i of Sara'southward rapists) pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save 1 of the kids Sara'south escorting.
• Barrier Maiden: Lala-Ru, also the MacGuffin Girl.
• Bedouin Rescue Service: Sis does this with Shu and Lala-Ru
• Bodyguard Crush: The straight trope and the inversion are both played with betwixt Abelia and Hamdo. It'due south heavily implied that Hamdo used to be sane, and that the merely reason Abelia stays with him is considering she remembers what he used to exist like. That combined with the wistful look in her eyes when he dies, especially when she was perfectly capable of saving him, made information technology look like she was saying cheerio to someone she cared securely virtually, but she finally admitted had already been gone for years. There's also her rage towards Lala Ru, who Hamdo talks to similar his lover half of the time. As for Hamdo'due south feelings, the mode he touches Abelia (caressing her confront, hugging her from behind) is not quite sexual but definitely more than friendly.
• Break the Cutie: In spades.
• Breather Episode: Episode 8. While Shu and Lala Ru do talk most the horrors of the earth they're in, it'due south not upward in your face, so yous can take a break from the low brought on by the terminal 7 episodes while they fight a giant desert plant monster with grenades.
• The Caligula: King Hamdo
• Character Evolution: Some of them modify almost completely throughout the show.
• Child Soldiers: played much more than realistically and darkly than usual withn Shu, Nabuca, Boo and Tabool.
• Children Are Innocent: Arguably the entire bespeak of the show, to such an extent that Nabuca is treated like a monster for killing Soon, even though she just killed Boo.
• Common cold-Blooded Torture: Abelia goes right past the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique and into this. An adult woman torturing a young boy into unconsciousness for information is just not something yous meet in many media.
• Cool Airship: Hellywood
• Crapsack Globe: The epitome and the definition.
• Death Glare: The plainly emotionless Lala Ru managed one when Hamdo had Abelia shoot Shu. For half the serial, he bribed, cajoled, pleaded, and threatened her without so much as getting her to look at him. After the shooting? "Why are you looking at me similar that?... Stop looking at me like that!"
• Decoy Protagonist: While near the entire series is shown to us as seen through Shu'south eyes and then as to attain the haunting effect of a child'southward perception of brutality, surprisingly little of the story has annihilation to do with him. The real protagonist is Lala-Ru.
• Deconstruction: This show is supposed to deconstruct the whole Trapped in Another World plot, but actually averts it in other means. While the world is brutal, "realistic", and plausible in his apocalyptic mindset, it isn't a true Deconstruction because it doesn't really follow the tropes in Trapped in Another World. Most works are done in the Medieval European Fantasy setting, with White and Black Morality or at least gray ("All the good people of this world are already dead." indeed), Heroic Fantasy conflicts and following the The Hero'south Journey... which this work doesn't. Information technology would be like trying to deconstruct the Lord of the Rings using the Dark Sun setting past Terry Goodkind.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Lala Ru and Abelia.
• Determinator: Shu
• Did Non Go the Girl: Arguably, Lala-ru wasn't up for grabs to begin with.
• Downer Ending: Certain, Earth survives ten billion years into the futurity, but you've sent back a young homo that knows that the globe will eventually devolve into the world that Shu experienced. Not to mention the fact that he won't be there to salve the day when that fourth dimension comes.
  • The world is already like that, so eather than the world devolving, the point seems to be that the world did not and will not alter at all. Both the good (people like Sis) and the bad (kid armies like Hellywood) persist.
  • Bujt since it'southward never made exactly clear how fourth dimension travel (if it is that) works, Shu can try to change the world in The Slow Path using the knowledge he'south gained.
• Driven to Suicide: Sara, though Shu stops her.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Shu knows Lala Ru's proper name and precisely zippo else at the fourth dimension he starts casually risking his life at every turn for her.
• Enfant Terrible: Tabool
• Evil Versus Evil: Elamba vs Hamdo
• Emotionless Girl: Lala Ru, and to a bottom extent, Soon.
• Eternal English
• Expy: Tenchi? Tenchi who?
• Fallen Hero: It'southward strongly hinted that Hamdo in one case was a sane leader, just he'south VERY gone in the nowadays.
• Foe Yay: Tabool's unhealthy obsession with Nabuca and subsequent rage whenever Nabuca rejects his attending are typically interpreted as an instance of this.
• Freeze Sneeze
• Go a Concur of Yourself, Homo!: Shu tries this on Sara when she's Driven to Suicide. Doesn't quite accept the result he'd probably hoped for.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Shu and Sis dissuade Sara from having an abortion
• Gory Discretion Shot: Played straight with Boo; averted with Before long and her begetter.
• Harmful to Minors: Very.
• Heel Face Turn: Abelia; washed beautifully in a gradual buildup rather than a concluding-minute decision.
  • Also Nabuca in the last episode. It's a chip late for him to do much though.
• Heel Realization: Boo and Nabuca commencement to realize the wrongness of their deportment in Hamdo'southward army afterward Shu shows upwardly.
• Heroic Cede: Boo, Kazam, and Lala Ru.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Elamba is so drastic to get his hands on the MacGuffin that he's willing to shoot Sis and allow her die slowly. When the village doctor wants to tend to the wound, he refuses and shoots the md subsequently he invokes this trope to call him out on his shit.
• Hey, It's That Vox!: Dan Green as Nabuca in the English dub.
  • Rachael Lillis (aka Misty from Pokémon) as Boo and Sis. The fact that the warm and motherly Sis sounds exactly like Jessie from Team Rocket is more than than a little nightmare inducing.
  • Lisa Ortiz (Lina Changed) as Lala Ru, of all people.
  • Tabool is none other than Crispin Freeman. STORM OF LOYALTY, my foot. On the other hand, Shu is Ted Lewis, otherwise known equally Giovanni, Tracey, Bakura, King Dedede, and JACK ATLAS.
• Honor Earlier Reason
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Abelia to Hamdo.
• I Choose to Stay: Sara, to replace Sister.
• Identical Stranger: Salvage for their hair colors and .pupils, Sara looks quite a bit like Lala-Ru.
• Important Haircut: Sara, after murdering a soldier to escape from Hellywood.
• Babe Immortality: Not fifty-fifty. No one is safe, no matter the age.
• Instant Crawly, Merely Add together Mecha
• Interrogated for Zero: Happens to Shu over the grade of several episodes. He'southward only released from the torture regimen when Hamdo has one of his very brief lucid periods and realizes that possibly the boy doesn't really know anything.
• Interrupted Suicide: Sara, after she institute out she was pregnant from being raped, tried to drown herself. Shu interrupting her merely made her hurry.
  • Given that her response to being interrupted was to catch a rock and start pounding on her stomach, are nosotros sure she was trying to kill herself?
    • Yes. After Shu successfully stops both the suicide effort and the abortion endeavor, Sara says to him, "You lot won't even allow me die in peace." It's likely that after she failed to kill herself, she decided she would get for the second best selection and impale the baby.
• It Got Worse: Every five minutes or so.
• Jerkass Facade - Tabool. Many write him off as a plainly one-time Jerkass, yet he spends an awful lot of time trying to pal around with the same people he antagonizes. Closer inspection during and afterward Zari Bars' outset attack also reveals scenes where he is both terrified and depressed by the battle, which does not seem to fit the heartless/militaristic attitude he otherwise displays.
• But Following Orders: The soldier boys, especially Boo. They just want to go dwelling house, so if they have to pull lots of crap to do that... They volition.
• Karmic Death: Male monarch Hamdo wanted h2o? He got water.
• Kill'Em All: Only Shu, Sara and Abelia are left standing afterward all the other primary characters are killed off.
• Kill It with Water: Lala-Ru drowns Hamdo and takes Hellywood with him at the toll of her life in the last episode.
• Larynx Noise: The English dub is notable in that none of the child characters sound like children, which takes away at least 50% of the story's impact. Shu suffers from this in the French dub as well.
• MacGuffin Girl: Lala Ru deconstructs this via getting to requite a speech well-nigh how beingness ane sucks. People only want to utilise her, and eventually kill each other over her.
• Mama Carry: Sis will Non let any of her adoptive children be mistreated.
• Monochromatic Eyes: No guys in the future have pupils.
  • Lala Ru is the real oddity, having blueish eyes surrounding blueish-white pupils.
• Mysterious Waif: Lala Ru. Discussion of God says she's a metaphor for whatsoever natural resources that humans greedily consume or exploit during a fourth dimension of warfare without taking into consideration the longterm effects said greed will have on the planet and future generations. It's not uncommon for fans to perceive her equally the spirit of the dying planet, or even h2o itself. Technically speaking, either would be a correct interpretation.
• Necessarily Evil: Most of the Child Soldiers as well as Abelia. They know that all of the killing and kidnapping is evil, only just want to go the fighting over with and get domicile. Hamdo, being a Dangerously Genre Savvy Omnicidal Maniac, fabricated certain that'll never happen past destroying every village he "recruited" from after.
• Non-Indicative Showtime Episode: The first episode seems like a light-hearted, silly, generic Shonen series; the remainder of the series is much darker and a lot more than cruel.
• Non So Harmless: Hamdo is presented as so utterly insane, childlike, and paranoid that it's initially hard to take him very seriously. Fast forward to the episode where assassins break into Hellywood. Hamdo unloads six rounds from a semi-automatic into a single assassin's torso inside the span of about two seconds. Holy shit., Overkill much?
• At present Which One Was That Voice: Completely averted. The opening theme begins with a Dramatis Personae showing the main characters with their names in English and Japanese, pictures, and the names of both their seiyuu and English VA. The end credits also show both actors for each character.
• Opening Narration: A loose example describing the general tone of the series outset each episode: Considering ten billion years' time is and then fragile, and then ephemeral, it arouses such a bittersweet, almost heartbreaking fondness.
• Parental Substitute: Sister to the war orphans.
  • Likewise Nabuca to Boo, which is fabricated especially more than poignant when taken into consideration that Nabuca is barely a teen himself.
  • Sara takes over for Sister when she is killed.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Hamdo is not just insane, merely childishly and so.
• Rape as Drama: Sara; also hinted with Lala Ru. More than tragic than usual in that they're both pre-teen girls (Albeit Lala-Ru is Really Seven Hundred Years Onetime, so...).
• Rape Discretion Shot: The first time Shu'due south newfound friend Sara is raped goes like this. Nabuca and Boo escort her at gunpoint to a spot outside a cell, so a haggard-looking homo grabs her by the arm and pulls her inside the cell, and the scene switches dorsum to Boo and Nabuca outside. The next time she shows up, she's seen bruised and despondent on a corner until Shu speaks to her and she begins to cry.
  • Hamdo already tends to be very handsy with Lala-Ru, but at some indicate he closes in on the poor daughter earlier the scene featuring the two switches to another. . .
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Lala Ru, equally said in a higher place.
• Redemption Earns Life: When Abelia helps ship Shu back to Earth, the guards present heighten their guns... and Sara lowers them, despite being more or less directly responsible for all the cruelty she endured.
• Redemption Equals Death: Boo in the 12th episode by taking a bullet for Nabuca, could likewise be Heroic Sacrifice. Nabuca in the terminal episode when his change of heart gets him shot past Tabool. Kazam in the terminal episode, exchanging his life to save a kid soldier from Hellywood's flood.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Lala-Ru
• Right-Hand-Cat: Subverted. Rex Hamdo kills his true cat in a fit of rage during the second episode, and when Shu sees it, information technology takes a while for him to realize information technology's expressionless. Arguably also a Squick moment.
• Right-Manus Hottie: Abelia qualifies for this, peculiarly considering that the series has niggling to no fanservice whatsoever.
• Rival Turned Evil: Tabool to Nabuca, culminating in the latter's death.
• Rock of Limitless Water: Lala-Ru's pendant is sought after for its power to produce big amounts of h2o.
• Rule of Symbolism: Shu's kendo stick, arguably. Kendo is taught to Japanese youth primarily equally a ways of instilling respect, integrity and honor, ideals that Shu attempts to spread all effectually him, nevertheless he fails miserably given the circumstances of the new globe. The significance of this is that regardless of how much abuse the stick takes or how many times it changes hands, it never seems subject to whatever deposition any, parallel to Shu's wide-eyed idealism throughout the series — until he finally snaps and uses it to trigger what he knows volition plough into a violent jailbreak and smashes information technology to splinters over the back of a cowering Hamdo.
• Shoot the Dog: Male monarch Hamdo strangles a cat. You hear the concluding cry it makes.
• Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter: Partially subverted at the end of episode seven, where (during the previews for the next episode) Male monarch Hamdo has a conversation with God, calling him a "tease" for presenting him with then many problems.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Sara's name becomes Sala in the French dub, which specially does not brand sense considering she's supposed to have an everyday American name. Hellywood/Helliwood/Heliud, Tabool/Tabur, and Zari Confined/Zali Barth besides suffer from this depending on whether you watch the original, fansubs, the English subs, the English dub, or the French dub.
• Accept My Hand: Shu saves Nabuca from falling off to his certain death despite the fact that the two were fighting just a few moments previously, thus establishing Shu equally a definite Wide-Eyed Idealist.
  • He does it once again in episode seven. It'due south a neat juxtaposition in that both times this occurs, in that location's a definitive clash between Shu's philosophy and Nabuca'due south, but the 2nd time around, it's Nabuca who saves Shu.
• Sex Slave: The women in Hellywood, save for Abelia. Sara is just one of them.
• The Stoic: Nabuca, until the end. Also Lala Ru, and Abelia
  • Interestingly, he fits the Kuudere pattern as well. While he seems cold and impersonal, he is shown property hands with frightened children (episodes 6 and seven) and besides shares his water (a scarce article) with a boy who refuses to do his share of the work. He is even shown covering up for kids in his corps who misbehave, making him something of A Father to His Men as well.
• Team Mom: Sister. Sara subsequently shows potential to be this.
• Time Abyss: Lala-Ru claims to be thousands of years older than Sis. In addition, until Hamdo captured her she seems to have faded into myth in the setting, despite challenge that wars have been fought over her time and fourth dimension again. She may well be tens of thousands of years old.
• Token Adept Teammate: Kazam, among the adult soldiers of Hellywood. The fact that 1 of Sara's rapists (and the most likely "father" of her kid) is this shows how crappy the world is.
• Took a Level In Badass: Shu in the last episode, prompted past Nabuca's decease.
• Training From Hell
• Trapped in Another Earth: Shu and Sara.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Even off the battlefield, the child soldiers tend to talk and act exactly like adults, though information technology is shown to be a facade/coping mechanism for at least two of the main characters.
• Tyke Bomb: Implied that Hellywood is trying to do this with its convenance program, although interestingly enough, none of said tyke bombs are ever depicted on screen.
• Used Future: The futuristic flying fortress Hellywood is aging and can barely become off the footing. Guns appear to be held together with tape.
• Villainous Breakup: King Hamdo is introduced smack in the eye of 1, and never recovers.
• We Can Rule Together: Tabool tries to convince Nabuca that they can rule Hellywood together in the hereafter. Nabuca isn't convinced. It doesn't end well.
• Nosotros Have Reserves: Hellywood has a Moving ridge Motility Gun capable of felling unabridged Land Battleships and the surrounding environment... which Hamdo has no attrition using despite his troops beingness engaged with said enemy. Interestingly though, they don't quite have plenty reserves, as this shot in the pes left Hellywood highly understaffed.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Brutally averted. Hamdo's sacrifice of his troops is presented as senseless tragedy. His army is made upwards of people forced into information technology at gunpoint and with the empty promise that if they're obedient, once the war is over they can get home. Some (like Nabuca, Tabool and Boo) are children.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Again, Shu; encounter Take My Mitt example above.
• World Half Empty: The dying globe ten billion years into the future that Shu is transported to.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Kid: The reason Hamdo employs a kid army, other than children being extremely easy to corrupt, is because he'south banking on his opponents' hesitance to impairment them. It'due south shown to work at least once during series.
• You Gotta Have Bluish Pilus: Lala Ru and Abelia.

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