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Story: Now and Then, Here and There is the story of a boy who gets pulled into a post-apocalyptic future with a girl that he met about five minutes before. When he gets there he tries to rescue her from the person that captured them both and escape from the ship that they are living on and try to overthrow the leader of said ship.

Animation: Messy. Both the environment and the character animation leave a lot to be desired.

Sound: Nothing really special to speak of. Voice acting is average, which is sad because some voice actor greats like Crispin Freeman and Lisa Ortiz are in this show. Music is forgettable at best.

Characters: This, in my opinion, is the show's weakest attribute. You have the  ever-optimistic main character who risks his life for a totally one-dimensional girl that he’s known for all of about five minutes. You have a member of a child army who like to inflict pain on others, who is pretty one-dimensional himself. A psychotic bad guy. A woman who supports the psychotic bad guy even though she kinda knows what he does is wrong. And finally a woman from earth who got captured for looking like the one-dimensional girl that the hero is trying to save (I guess they added that last woman in here for sympathy points, as in “This is how evil the bad guy is, you should hate him”, but she just comes off as being an annoying, whiny bitch). That’s it. No character development, no multi-faceted personalities – just a bunch of forgettable characters acting out anime stereotypes.

Conclusion: It’s bad. Not exciting, predictable at best, and just all-around mediocrity mixed in with the over-used “save the world” vibe. Some may say that “It’s a social commentary, it’s not supposed to be overly exciting” to which I say “Look up Skycrawlers and Jin-Roh, those were pretty good social commentaries that actually have a point.”