![]() Due to her long and disillusioned experience with humans, she feels little to no emotions with them. She is quiet and non-violent (often failing to resist violence against her) and appears to be a child, although her age is unknown (she claims to be thousands of years old). Lala-Ru ( ララ・ルゥ, Rara Rū) possesses the power to manipulate water using a pendant containing a now nearly-depleted water reservoir, which is directly tied to her physical strength and health.In the anime television series, Shu is voiced by Akemi Okamura in Japanese and Ted Lewis in English. After saving the world by convincing Lala-Ru that people are good, Shu is sent back home by a reformed Abelia. Despite overwhelming odds, he retains his principles of not killing and of believing that good will still come while one is alive. His experiences and interactions with Lala-Ru, Hamdo, and Nabuca open his eyes to the new world. His devotion to protect Lala-Ru is one of the main aspects of the story. Shu's character is strong-willed, uncompromising, obstinate, and believes that good can come from all situations. After being thrust into a new world and brutally interrogated, he is forced to join the child army of Hellywood. Shuzo "Shu" Matsutani ( 松谷 修造, Matsutani Shūzō, シュウ Shū) is a student of kendo and carries a shinai, though he fights primarily with a wooden stick, which also is a motif for his non-lethal combat style.Much of the series deals with serious moral issues relating to war and famine, the consequences of war, slavery, rape, and the exploitation of children. It is a haunting story of a dystopian world, and of Shu, who has to endure torture, hunger, and the horrors of war in order to save the lonely girl he found sitting atop a smokestack. After an assault by an unknown enemy landship, Shu is forced to join an army of child soldiers children trained for the looting of villages, in which they kidnap female villagers for breeding, and conscript orphaned male children into the ever dwindling ranks of Hamdo's army. Sara is forced into the quarters of exceptional soldiers to be impregnated and is traumatized by her repeated rape. Sara's reason for her capture was being mistaken for Lala-Ru by Hamdo's minions. While locked in a cell he meets an abducted girl who introduces herself as Sara Ringwalt of America. Shu is trapped in this new, harsh reality, and he is beaten and interrogated repeatedly inside the warship commanded by the ruthless, manic dictator, Hamdo. Lala-Ru possesses a pendant containing a vast reservoir of water, and she has the ability to control it. While walking home from school, "Shu", the main protagonist and a boy who loves kendo, intercedes to protect a girl, Lala-Ru, who is attacked by abductors piloting dragon-like mechas and is accidentally transported to the attackers' world as a result-a wasteland devoid of water and dominated by a red giant star. ![]() The world is desolate and militarized, survival is a daily struggle for displaced refugees, and water is a scarce commodity. Now and Then, Here and There follows a young boy named Shuzo "Shu" Matsutani who, in an attempt to save an unknown girl, is transported to another world which may be the Earth in the far future. ![]() The series is available for purchase through iTunes, YouTube and Google Play. However, the ADV re-release is now out of print. Following the 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films rescued the series for a boxset re-release on July 7, 2009. It was licensed for Region 1 DVD English language release by Central Park Media under their US Manga Corps label. It premiered in Japan on the WOWOW television station on Octoand ran until January 20, 2000. Now and Then, Here and There ( 今、そこにいる僕, Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) is a Japanese anime television series conceived and directed by Akitaro Daichi, with a screenplay by Hideyuki Kurata.
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