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[[You Have Been Warned|Not for the faint of heart]].
'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''' (aka ''Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku'' or "The Me That's There Now") is a grim piece by Akitaroh Daichi, the director responsible for such manic comedies as ''[[Kodomo no Omocha|Kodocha]]'' and ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. Only this time he put the laughs away in a lockbox for a future project.
''Now and Then, Here and There'' takes the old anime plot of being transported to another world and turns it on its head. Shu, our hero, is on his way home from kendo practice one day when he sees a strange girl sitting atop a smokestack. Curious, he goes up to meet her. The girl's name is Lala Ru and as Shu is introducing himself and talking to her two strange machines warp in and attack them. Shu attempts to defend the girl but is easily brushed aside and Lala Ru is taken. Shu renews his attack as Lala Ru calls for help but everyone ends up getting transported back to where the machines came from.
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* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: While almost the entire series is shown to us as seen through Shu's eyes so as to achieve the haunting effect of a child's perception of brutality, surprisingly little of the story has anything to ''do'' with him.
* [[Deconstruction]]: If this show is not THE quintessential Deconstruction of the whole [[Trapped in Another World]] plot, then what is?
** Actually [[Averted]]. While the world is brutal, "realistic", and plausible in his apocalyptic mindset, it isn't a ''true'' [[Deconstruction]] because it doesn't actually follow the tropes in [[Trapped in Another World]]. Most works are done in the [[Medieval European Fantasy]] setting, with [[Black and White Morality|White and Black Morality]] or at least [[Black and Gray Morality|gray]] ([[Crapsack World|"All the good people of this world are already dead."]] indeed), [[Heroic Fantasy]] conflicts and following the [[Hero's Journey]]... which this work doesn't. It would be like trying to deconstruct the [[The Lord of the Rings]] using the [[Dark Sun]] setting by [[Terry Goodkind]].
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Lala Ru and Abelia.
* [[Determinator]]: Shu
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* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Shu's kendo stick, arguably. {{spoiler|Kendo is taught to Japanese youth primarily as a means of instilling respect, integrity and honor, ideals that Shu attempts to spread all around him, yet he fails miserably given the circumstances of the new world. 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 any degradation whatsoever, parallel to Shu's [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|wide-eyed idealism]] throughout the series -- until he finally snaps and uses it to trigger what he knows will turn into a violent jailbreak and ''smashes it to splinters'' over the back of a cowering Hamdo.}}
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: King Hamdo strangles a cat. You hear the last cry it makes.
* [[Smite Me,
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Sara's name becomes Sala in the French dub, which particularly does not make sense because [[Did Not Do the Research|she's supposed to have an everyday American name]]. Hellywood/Helliwood/Heliud, Tabool/Tabur, and Zari Bars/Zali Barth also suffer from this depending on whether you watch the original, fansubs, the English subs, the English dub, or the French dub.
* [[The Stoic]]: Nabuca, [[Not So Stoic|until the end]]. Also Lala Ru, and Abelia
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