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| Reviewer: Chromus |
Run Time: 64 mins |
Format: Subbed |
Distributor: Pioneer |
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N O W A N D T H E N , H E R E A N D T H E R E |
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Sometimes when you look at anime, it seems that it’s just an endless repeat of cheesy romances, magical girls, card collection and depressed pilots of oversized robots. Then, occasionally, something comes along that re-energizes your faith in anime, something that proves that the genre can be original, and it just engrosses you from the offset. Now and Then, Here and There is one of these. The story circles around a boy named Shu, who one day spots a girl sitting at the peak of some smokestacks on his way home after one of his Kendo classes. Attracted by this girl’s mystical eyes, he climbs up a adjacent smokestack and begins to talk to her. Before he knows it, they’re both attacked, out of nowhere, by giant snake machines, piloted by humans, and LaLa-Ru is taken captive. Shu does his best to defend her, and puts up a pretty decent fight, but is eventually overpowered. The enemy makes a quick escape into a time warp, but Shu managed to follow after them. Shu is stuck in on earth – 5 billion years into the future – to a desolate wasteland. The sun, over the millennia, has expanded and all signs of water have vanished. In this run down new world, Shu finds himself on the run, in a city that’s more like a military camp and with no idea what’s going on. He’s separated from LaLa-Ru, and the pendant she used to carry. General Hamod – leader of this city, believes that he can use the pendant to rule the world, as it’s the key to a new water source, and he’ll do everything in his power to get his hands on it. Now and Then, Here and There was originally released in Japan in 1999, and is finally making it’s way over to American shores. It’s excellent production values really do shine out throughout the show – great colour usage and brilliant imagery are commonplace here, as well as wonderful animation. However, it contains some rather brutal imagery at times, especially as most of the people you see throughout the show are children. It’s not light hearted, but it does pull some very hard punches – anyone who’s a fan of serious, well scripted anime should really get into this. 9/10 - Heavy, dark and captivating - a quiet classic. Back to Menu |
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