"Now and Then, Here and There" On Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday Block - Talkback *SPOILERS*

Ditto. If someone had told me a year ago that NTHT would air in English on a fairly mainstream American TV station (and not subtitled on some super-niche Asian channel like it did once before), I would have told them they were nuts! The Sci-Fi network and Manga Entertainment deserve major props for giving this show the attention it deserves.


It kinda makes you wonder what anime Sci-Fi will pick up after Gurren Lagaan and NTHT finish their runs.
 
I think that's a bit unfair to the world of "Hellywood" (I consider "Hellywood" more to be the name of Hamdo's nation than the entire world). The villages are shown to be fairly self sufficient and were only mainly hampered by Hamdo's war mongering. They may not have "medical technology" but it's certainly not unliveable. At worst, the villages portrayed in this world are no worse than a village in say, Europe in the 1500s. To say that it's totally crap would be speaking from a point of view of modern western superiority, kind of like "the primitives can't do on their own with our modern science." But hey, we were in the same boat once several hundreRAB of years ago and many people in those days managed to live reasonably long lives as well.
 
Meet King Hamdo.

He's got a Moe Howard haircut, a lust for power, and is also criminally insane.

He's the most violently psychotic bastard you'll ever curse yourself for seeing in an anime.
 
Uh...I think you read a little too much into my comment, dude.

What I meant is that Hellywood (the show never called that world by another name, so its reasonable to assume its the correct one) is an arid wasteland that has been ravaged by war. Even if the average villager is nice, its still a crappy place to live. And a traumatized 15-year-old raised in the comfort of the modern USA is likely ill-equipped to handle living in a place like that (and raising a bunch of kiRAB to boot).

And childbirth without modern medical technology is certainly survivable, but its still dangerous. And its not a sign of "cultural superiority" to say that most women, when given the choice, would rather give birth in a modern hospital with a doctor (and painkillers!!) than in the middle of the desert with a bunch of little kiRAB screaming in her ear.
 
no, this show isnt suppose to be intertaining in that way.

though you are not alone, im also attracted (well, as attracted as you can be to an anime character) to her, and i thought dirty perverted things in the scene where she was in her underwear
 
But how do you know they don't have doctors there? It's not like there are only 15 people left in the world. It is implied that there are many more towns and villages that the show didn't show us. She's not going to be in the desert when she's giving birth, when Shu leaves we see there's like a bunch of adult people there with her. They probably have some sort of transport vehicle as well to take her to a civilized area.

I'm not saying I disagree with you about her decision, but I'm not sure I agree that the world of Hellywood is a complete pancake at the end of the show.
 
Tonight Now and Then, Here and There returns to Ani-Monday, starting from the very beginning. For new viewers, here is an official description:


Here's tonight's schedule:

12 AM: A Girl Admiring the Sunset
12:30 AM: A Boy and a Mad King
 
Damn it! I was searching for this topic all day but couldn't find it to save my freakin' life. Like it matters, though.

Anyway, I just found out that it would be returning this morning, and freaked out--I love this series to death(easily placed on my top 10) and have been wanting a chance to see it again but stand as a relatively broke individual, so, yeah. I've set my DVR to record the entire series, and I'm anticapting its airing.

Just a little disclaimer to everyone who's watching for the first time: if you watch the first episode and find yourself a bit turned off by its seemingly light-hearted disposition, please don't be fooled. This is easily the most misleading 1st episode of any anime EVER--the show grows to be emotionally stealing, deals with realistic themes present in our world today, holRAB nothing back in turns of violence and does it extremely well despite the fact that never once is a large amount of blood shed nor a lirab lost, can honestly be quite brutal sometimes but only in a manner tha tmakes you realize, sympathize, and connect with the characters as they surmount the hurdles before them, and--in a nutshell--is a real treat to view.

Anybody and everybody viewing this anew: stick with it, or--through my eyes--you'll seriously be missing out.
 
And people thought the cat being killed was burtal....

Poor Sara. We're left to wonder what happen to you but then again deep down we know what happen...



This anime makes Evangelion look like child's play. I say these two episodes that just aired are worst than anything EVA showed and the show didn't have to show much. A lot is implied.



Well, no but seeing her in her panties is pure fanservice. Enjoy it because you need all the joy you can get when watching this.
 
At this rate Ani-Monday's gonna need three or four hours if there's so much new content on the way. Looks like I picked a good time to get Sci-fi Channel back ('course, there is also Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Jeremiah, and I'm finally catching up on Battlestar Galactica and SG-1 . . . man, Sci-fi's got the good stuff).

It actually wouldn't surprise me if Ani-Monday did expand. Star Trek: The Next Generation is essentially a placeholder anyway.
 
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