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(September 2010)</td> </tr> </table> <table class="infobox" style="width: 22em"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; background:#CCF;;">Now and Then, Here and There</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/File:Now_and_Then_Here_and_There.png" class="image"><img alt="Now and Then Here and There.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/10/Now_and_Then_Here_and_There.png/230px-Now_and_Then_Here_and_There.png" width="230" height="334" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Now_and_Then_Here_and_There.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Now_and_Then_Here_and_There.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="436" /></a> <div style="font-size:smaller;;">Promotional image for Now and Then, Here and There depicting Shu and Lala-Ru</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background:#DDF; font-weight:normal;;">今、そこにいる僕 (Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku)</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Genre</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">Drama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">Military</a>, <a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction" title="Science Fiction" class="mw-redirect">Science Fiction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia">Dystopia</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background:#CCF; font-weight:bold;;">Anime television series</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Directed by</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Akitaro_Daichi" title="Akitaro Daichi">Akitaro Daichi</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Written by</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Hideyuki_Kurata" title="Hideyuki Kurata">Hideyuki Kurata</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Music by</th> <td>Taku Iwasaki</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Studio</th> <td><a href="/wiki/Anime_International_Company" title="Anime International Company">AIC</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Licensed by</th> <td> <div style="overflow:hidden; width:100%;"> <div style="width:1.7em; float:left;"><a href="/wiki/Australasia" title="Australasia">AUS</a></div> <div style="margin-left:1.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Siren_Visual" title="Siren Visual">Siren Visual</a></div> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden; width:100%;"> <div style="width:1.5em; float:left;"><a href="/wiki/Northern_America" title="Northern America">NA</a></div> <div style="margin-left:1.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Section23_Films" title="Section23 Films">AEsir Holdings</a></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Network</th> <td><a href="/wiki/WOWOW" title="WOWOW">WOWOW</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">English network</th> <td> <div style="overflow:hidden; width:100%;"> <div style="width:1.5em; float:left;"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a></div> <div style="margin-left:1.5em;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anime_Selects&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anime Selects (page does not exist)">Anime Selects</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Channel" title="International Channel">AZN Network</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel_(United_States)" title="Sci Fi Channel (United States)" class="mw-redirect">Syfy</a></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Original run</th> <td>October 14, 1999 – January 20, 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Episodes</th> <td>13</td> </tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background:#CCF; font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan_face.svg" class="image"><img alt="Portal icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Wikipe-tan_face.svg/16px-Wikipe-tan_face.svg.png" width="16" height="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Wikipe-tan_face.svg/24px-Wikipe-tan_face.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Wikipe-tan_face.svg/32px-Wikipe-tan_face.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="440" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Portal:Anime_and_Manga" title="Portal:Anime and Manga">Anime and Manga portal</a></td> </tr> </table> Now and Then, Here and There (今、そこにいる僕, Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is a thirteen episode <a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a> series directed by <a href="/wiki/Akitaro_Daichi" title="Akitaro Daichi">Akitaro Daichi</a> and written by <a href="/wiki/Hideyuki_Kurata" title="Hideyuki Kurata">Hideyuki Kurata</a>. The story was originally conceived by director Daichi. It premiered in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> on the <a href="/wiki/WOWOW" title="WOWOW">WOWOW</a> television station on October 14, 1999 and ran until January 20, 2000. It was licensed for <a href="/wiki/Region_1" title="Region 1" class="mw-redirect">Region 1</a> <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> <a href="/wiki/English_(language)" title="English (language)" class="mw-redirect">English language</a> release by <a href="/wiki/Central_Park_Media" title="Central Park Media">Central Park Media</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Central_Park_Media#US_Manga_Corps" title="Central Park Media">US Manga Corps</a> banner. Following the 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, <a href="/wiki/A.D._Vision" title="A.D. Vision">ADV Films</a> picked up the series for a release on July 7, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> As of Sept. 1, 2009, the series is licensed by ADV's successor, AEsir Holdings, with distribution from <a href="/wiki/Section23_Films" title="Section23 Films">Section23 Films</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> 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 is possibly the Earth in the far future. The world is desolate and militarized, and water is a scarce commodity. <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Plot">1 Plot</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Characters">2 Characters</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Media">3 Media</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Anime_episode_list">3.1 Anime episode list</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Soundtrack">3.2 Soundtrack</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Reception">4 Reception</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also">5 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References">6 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#External_links">7 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> <h2>Plot[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot">edit</a>]</h2> While walking home from a somewhat bad, but regular day of school, "Shu", the main <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>, spots a girl on top of a <a href="/wiki/Smoke_stack" title="Smoke stack" class="mw-redirect">smoke stack</a> in an <a href="/wiki/Industrial_park" title="Industrial park">industrial park</a> where he used to hang out as a young child. Shuzo tries numerous attempts to communicate with the young girl but she acts emotionless and quiet, and hardly acknowledges his presence. After decoding her name from her lips (Lala-Ru) the only other piece of information he finds out about her is her love of watching sunsets. There is a sudden explosion and time stops; Shu finds himself defending Lala-Ru from abductors in mechanized snakes. After attempting to defend the girl, he is caught in a transportation to the world from which the strangers hail, a wasteland devoid of water and dominated by a <a href="/wiki/Red_giant" title="Red giant">red giant</a> star. Lala-Ru possesses a pendant containing a vast reservoir of water, and has the ability to control that water. 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. While locked in a cell he meets an abducted girl who introduces herself as Sara Ringwalt of America. Sara's reason for her capture was being mistaken for Lala-Ru by Hamdo's minions. Sara goes through extremely horrific experiences and eventually becomes emotionally scarred. After an assault by an unknown enemy <a href="/wiki/Landship" title="Landship">landship</a>, Shu is forced to join an army of <a href="/wiki/Child_soldiers" title="Child soldiers" class="mw-redirect">child soldiers</a>; children trained to for the <a href="/wiki/Looting" title="Looting">looting</a> of villages, in which they kidnap female villagers for breeding, and conscript orphaned male children into the ever dwindling ranks of Hamdo's army. From the start, the series may seem lighthearted in nature, but this is far from the truth. Much of the series deals with serious moral issues relating to <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, the consequences of war, <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Military_use_of_children" title="Military use of children">exploitation of children</a>. <h2>Characters[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characters">edit</a>]</h2> <ul> <li>Shuzo "Shu" Matsutani (松谷修造, Matsutani Shūzō<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>, シュウ Shū) is a student of <a href="/wiki/Kendo" title="Kendo">kendo</a> and carries a <a href="/wiki/Shinai" title="Shinai">shinai</a>, though he fights primarily with a wooden stick, which also is a motif for his non-lethal combat style. After being thrust into a new world and brutally interrogated, he is forced to join the child army of Hellywood. Shu's character is strong-willed, uncompromising, obstinate, and believes that good can come from all situations. His devotion to protect Lala-Ru is one of the main aspects of the story. His experiences and interactions with Lala-Ru, Hamdo, and Nabuca open his eyes to the new world. Despite overwhelming odds, he retains his principles of not killing and of believing that good will still come while one is alive. After saving the world by convincing Lala-Ru that people are good, Shu is sent back home by a reformed Abelia. In the anime television series, Shu is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Akemi_Okamura" title="Akemi Okamura">Akemi Okamura</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Lewis_(voice_actor)" title="Ted Lewis (voice actor)">Ted Lewis</a> in English.</li> <li>Lala-Ru (ララ・ルゥ, Rara Rū<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) 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. 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). Due to her long and disillusioned experience with humans, she feels little to no emotions with them. Her relationship with Shu changes her to be more protective and open with Shu and Sis; Shu for risking his life despite being in a foreign land as well as knowing nothing about her, and Sis for treating her like a daughter despite not knowing her very long. After using her power to flood Hellywood and parts of the world with water she soon vanished from existence right next to Shu after seeing the sunset for the last time. In the anime television series, Lala-Ru is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Kaori_Nazuka" title="Kaori Nazuka">Kaori Nazuka</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Ortiz" title="Lisa Ortiz">Lisa Ortiz</a> in English.</li> <li>Hamdo (ハムド, Hamudo<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>), the military leader of Hellywood, is a shrewd but childish, <a href="/wiki/Paranoid_megalomaniac" title="Paranoid megalomaniac" class="mw-redirect">paranoid megalomaniac</a>. He feels a sense of entitlement to water, an essential resource in his plans to rule the Earth, that leads to an obsession with the mysterious Lala-ru and the suppression of any who stand in his way. In a quest to secure water and other resources needed for his ultimate goal, Hamdo's army abducts children and other villagers to use as human capital in his endeavor. Hamdo suffers from uncontrollable bursts of <a href="/wiki/Rage_(emotion)" title="Rage (emotion)">rage</a>. In a gruesome display of his blind emotion, he kills a cat, only to throw it on the ground and step on it later while interrogating Shu. Later in the series, Hamdo's lust for water and power begets <a href="/wiki/Paranoia" title="Paranoia">paranoia</a> and he begins to doubt the loyalty of his advisor. He died at the end of the series when he drowned in the transport chamber. Hamdo is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Kouji_Ishii" title="Kouji Ishii" class="mw-redirect">Kouji Ishii</a> in Japanese and Jack Taylor in English.</li> <li>Abelia (アベリア, Aberia<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is the devoted commanding officer of Hamdo's army. She is a capable <a href="/wiki/Military_strategist" title="Military strategist" class="mw-redirect">military strategist</a>, though Hamdo does not always heed her advice. Abelia thanklessly yields to the whim of her senior. By the series' end, she'd given up on supporting Hamdo's ambitions and leaves him to die amidst the chaos of his eroding empire. She then joins the free world to establish a peaceful future alongside them. Abelia is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Reiko_Yasuhara" title="Reiko Yasuhara">Reiko Yasuhara</a> in Japanese and Dana Halsted in English.</li> <li>Nabuca (ナブカ, Nabuka<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is the leader of the child army unit Shu is forced to join. He resents Shu and sees him as a troublemaker. He feels ashamed for Shu having saved his life during a fight. Nabuca, just a child himself, devotes himself entirely to the army in the hopes that he will someday be allowed to return to his home. He repeatedly tells himself that what he does is the only thing that will enable him to return home, and this thought is the only thing keeping him going. Once Boo dies trying to protect him, he eventually comes to realize all too late the nature of his actions and has a sudden change of heart. In the last episode, he is betrayed and mortally wounded by Tabool, one of the boys in his unit. After painfully making his way to the jail cell where Shu is being kept with other prisoners from Zari-Bars, he tells Shu to go back to where he came from and that it is where he belongs. He dies immediately after in the arms of Shu who holds him through the prison cell bars. Nabuca is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Yuka_Imai" title="Yuka Imai">Yuka Imai</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Green_(voice_actor)" title="Dan Green (voice actor)">Dan Green</a> in English.</li> <li>Boo (ブゥ, Bū<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is the youngest soldier in Nabuca's unit and his closest companion. He is naïve, and like Nabuca, believes he will be sent home after the war. Boo dies during the invasion of Zari-Bars in episode 12 where he takes a bullet for Nabuca. Boo is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Hiroko_Konishi" title="Hiroko Konishi">Hiroko Konishi</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Rachael_Lillis" title="Rachael Lillis">Rachael Lillis</a> in English.</li> <li>Sara Ringwalt (サラ・リングワルト, Sara Ringuwaruto<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is an American girl who is mistaken for Lala-Ru and is kidnapped on her way to pick up her father from work. She is taken to Hellywood where she is regularly raped by the Hellywood soldiers, one of whom she murders in self-defense. After escaping from Hellywood, she is rescued from the desert sands by Sis who brings her to Zari-Bars. Sara resents Lala-Ru and blames her solely for the predicament she is in. Unable to cope with the pain of being raped and carrying a child as a result of her ordeal, she attempts to commit suicide and abort the baby by pounding a rock into her abdomen. Shu, however, intervenes, taking the blows of the rock on his hand which he uses to cover her abdomen. Sis' dying request that she not hate the faultless baby changes Sara's mind and she decides to stay in the future with her unborn baby, Sis' orphans, and ex-Hellywood child soldiers to start a new life. Sara is voiced by Azusa Nakao in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Kayzie_Rogers" title="Kayzie Rogers">Kayzie Rogers</a> in English.</li> <li>Tabool (タブール, Tabūru<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is a boy soldier in Nabuca's unit who came from the same village as Nabuca. He appears captivated with the actions of Hamdo and his war and is uninterested in returning home. He is attracted to the strength of the military, and bullies others in the unit. In the final episode, he shoots and mortally wounds Nabuca, and not long after, he apparently dies while trying to survive Hellywood's destruction by Lala-Ru's flood. Tabool is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Akio_Suyama" title="Akio Suyama">Akio Suyama</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Crispin_Freeman" title="Crispin Freeman">Crispin Freeman</a> in English.</li> <li>Sis (シス, Shisu<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is a tough and respected member of the city-state Zari-Bars. She acts as a caretaker and stand-in mother for the children who were orphaned as result of the war state. She advocates non-violence. When Sis tries to stop Elamba from taking Lala-Ru hostage, she is shot in the leg and dies in the final episode from the bleeding. Sis is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Rica_Matsumoto" title="Rica Matsumoto">Rica Matsumoto</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Rachael_Lillis" title="Rachael Lillis">Rachael Lillis</a> in English.</li> <li>Elamba (エランバ, Eranba<a href="/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets">?</a>) is the leader of the radical faction at Zari-Bars. His entire family was murdered by Hellywood's soldiers. Periodically, he sends assassins into Hellywood to try to kill King Hamdo. Ironically, Elamba's ruthless methods resemble those of the man he hates. He seizes Lala-Ru and tries unsuccessfully to use her to negotiate with Hellywood. This ends with him being sprayed by bullets and falling to his death. Elamba is voiced by Hisoka Yamamoto in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Scottie_Ray" title="Scottie Ray" class="mw-redirect">Scottie Ray</a> in English.</li> <li>Soon is a quiet young girl living with Sis and the orphans in Zari-Bars. She spends many days separated from the other children her age in hopes that her father may one day return. Little does she know that her father was one of Elamba's assassins that died at the hands of Nabuca and the other Hellywood soldiers. In the meanwhile, she begins to open up to both Shu and Lala-Ru, requesting that they stay even when the radicals of the village turn against them. When she overhears Nabuca admit to killing the assassins, Soon attempts to kill Nabuca with a rifle but fails to do so due to Boo's self-sacrifice. Nabuca, horrified and almost reflexively shoots her to death in return. Soon is voiced by <a href="/wiki/Ayaka_Saito" title="Ayaka Saito" class="mw-redirect">Ayaka Saito</a> in Japanese and <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Williams" title="Kerry Williams">Kerry Williams</a> in English.</li> </ul> <h2>Media[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Media">edit</a>]</h2> <h3>Anime episode list[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Anime episode list">edit</a>]</h3> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <tr> <th width="5%">#</th> <th>Title</th> <th width="15%">Original airdate</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#CCF"></td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep1" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">1</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"A Girl Admiring The Sunset" "Tasogare wo mitsu meru shōjo" (黄昏を見つめる少女) </td> <td>October 14, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Shuzo_Matsutani" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Shuzo "Shu" Matsutani</a> loses a kendo match at the dojo, where his opponent criticizes him for his lack of defense. Walking across town later in the day, Shu finds a girl, <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Lala-Ru" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Lala-Ru</a>, sitting on a smokestack watching the sunset. After a short amount of time talking to her, time suddenly freezes as a green beam of light covers the surrounding area. Lala-Ru ends up being captured by officers controlling snakelike machines and transported back into a stationary battleship named Hellywood, but Shu is accidentally brought there as well. The two, after being chased by more soldiers, are separated at an operated bridge in the water tower, where Shu grabs Lala-Ru's pendant before he plummets into a tunnel to the outside, one of a barren wasteland. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep2" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">2</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"A Boy and a Mad King" "Shōnen to kyō ō to" (少年と狂王と) </td> <td>October 21, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Lala-Ru is taken to see <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Abelia" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Abelia</a>, who sees the pendant missing but then realizes that Shu might have it. <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Nabuca" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Nabuca</a>, finding Shu at a lower-level bridge over a large furnace, starts to attack, and the pendant unknowingly drops off the bridge. Shu stops when he holds Nabuca's knife instead of his wooden stick. Shu also saves Nabuca from falling when the bridge nearly collapses. Shu is arrested and sent to see an aggravated <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Hamdo" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Hamdo</a>, concerned of the pendant's whereabouts. It is explained that Lala-Ru has the power to manipulate the source of water within the pendant, which will help reconstruct the battleship. Hamdo orders Abelia to do whatever means necessary to torture Shu. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep3" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">3</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"A Feast in the Dark" "Yami no naka no utage" (闇の中の宴) </td> <td>October 28, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Shu wakes up and finds a traumatized girl, first thinking her to be Lala-Ru. Meanwhile, Abelia brings Lala-Ru to see Hamdo, though Lala-Ru refuses to talk, much to Hamdo's chagrin. It turns out that the girl is from America and is named <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Sara_Ringwalt" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Sara Ringwalt</a>, who was abducted by mistake. Abelia orders Shu to be hanged after another failed interrogation. As an enemy battleship approaches Hellywood, a missile is launched from the rig and successfully makes impact, thereby making a statement for any future attacks. Abelia is given the order from Hamdo that all male soldiers will scout the whole tower to find the missing pendant. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep4" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">4</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Discord" "Fukyōwaon" (不協和音) </td> <td>November 4, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Nabuco requests <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Boo" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Boo</a> to keep an eye on Shu, who will be forcefully enlisted with the crew as soon as he recovers. A frustrated Abelia suspends the search of the missing pendant for the remainder of the day, for it was found neither in the engine room nor the prison cells. It is revealed that all the soldiers were kidnapped from their hometowns and sent to Hellywood for unknown reasons. The only way to be released is when the war has ended. <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Tabool" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Tabool</a>, growing impatient, beats Shu up for not saying where the pendant is located. However, Tabool is caught by Nabuca and is to be given lashes as punishment, yet Shu rejects the offer of handling the whip. Nabuco later advises Shu not to run away, lest he be killed by his fellow crew members. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep5" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">5</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Murder" "Hitogoroshi" (ひとごろし) </td> <td>November 11, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Shu and Nabuca enter into a mock battle, wooden stick versus sharp knife. However, the match ends due to Shu's reckless style of combat. Two unknown assailants later invade the battleship and try to assassinate Hamdo. Though Hamdo is able to shoot down one of the assailants, the other one escapes and uses Boo as collateral to prevent Nabuca from shooting. The assailant is then attacked by Shu, allowing Boo to break free and stab his hand, and enabling Nabuca the chance to shoot him in the chest. Shu is troubled upon seeing Nabuca fire a bullet at the assailant in the head right in front of him. All troops are to travel through a sandstorm to recruit more women and children from a nearby village. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep6" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">6</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Disappearance in a Sandstorm" "Sunaarashi ga kieru" (砂嵐が消える) </td> <td>November 18, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Sara is sent inside a room with a man, and, after being violated, beats him to death. She flees from Hellywood at night, cuts her hair off, and runs deep into the desert. Tabool believes that Shu does not deserve to drink water because of his nonviolent views, while Nabuca tells him that there is no way around this. The Hellywood army begins to attack the village, recruiting women and children by force. However, Shu attempts to release all captives, going against the order. Nabuca shoots Shu in the leg to subdue him from interfering. On the way back to the fortress, Nabuca feels guilty and empathetic for taking part in seizing these innocent victims. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep7" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">7</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Night of Flight" "Nogare no oru" (逃れの夜) </td> <td>November 25, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Shu not only is told by Tabool that he may be sentenced to death, but he is also informed of what has happened to Sara. Shu, remembering his resolve to save Lala-Ru, finds the pendant in an underground cell. He breaks out of prison with Boo's help and manages to slip pass the other male soldiers. He finds Lala-Ru with Hamdo in a greenhouse, shattering through the glass to give her back the pendant, but Abelia shows up and shoots Shu in the arm. Lala-Ru then activates her powers through the pendant and fills the entire fortress with water to make her escape with Shu. The two try to hide in a cavern, but Nabuca ends up chancing upon Shu. After Shu tries to convince Nabuca to join him to avoid anymore bloodshed, Nabuca declines the offer but allows him to escape to return the favor of once being saved by him. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep8" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">8</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Two Lone Souls" "Hitoribotchi no futari" (ひとりぼっちのふたり) </td> <td>December 2, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">An unknown person finds Sara buried in the desert, taking her back to a village. It is theorized that Hellywood could be mobilized by using the available water as fuel. Nabuca and Boo have to keep their mouths shut on the whereabouts of Shu and Lala-Ru. Shu rides on a motorcycle with Lala-Ru in tow, but it lands in quicksand, and Shu fends off a carnivorous plant that had latched onto Lala-Ru with its red vines. It is revealed that Lala-Ru becomes weaker each time she uses her pendant as well as that her powers are taken for granted especially if needed on demand. Shu destroys the carnivorous plant using grenades he found in a backpack left behind by a nearby corpse. As the two continue their journey, he says to her that not all people in the world are bad. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep9" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">9</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"In The Chasm" "Hazama nite" (狭間にて) </td> <td>December 9, 1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="description" style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" colspan="3">Shu and Lala-Ru arrive in Zari-Bars, where they meet <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Sis" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Sis</a>, who runs an orphanage. Shu has to keep Lala-Ru's identity a secret from Sis to avoid any trouble that could arise. Sis allows the two to stay with her in exchange for working in the fields with the other children. Later at night, <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Soon" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Soon</a> says that she misses her father, but she is unaware that he was one of the assailants who was killed in Hellywood. Also, <a href="/wiki/Now_and_Then,_Here_and_There#Elamba" title="Now and Then, Here and There">Elamba</a> tells Shu that his entire family was killed by the Hellywood army, for this is the reason why he wants Hamdo to be assassinated. Shu is perplexed after hearing all this, and he starts to cry when Lala-Ru comes to see him. </td> </tr> <tr class="vevent" style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"> <th scope="row" id="ep10" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; background:#F2F2F2">10</th> <td class="summary" style="text-align: left;">"Prelude to Chaos" "Konton e no josō" (混沌へ