Well, that was stressful

Not him but you expect anyone who wants information to dig through the archive for it? Not spoonfeeding is a retarded ass unwritten rule on this board. I've been against it for years and I'm probably in the minority for that. Stop following Yea Forums's retarded hivemind. I usually spoonfeed just to piss off elitists like yourself.

I don't even know why I liked this show so much

He's basically every shounen protagonist.

It was stressful when he finally went to town beating the guy with the stick.

Long running shit is the problem. Even medium length stuff doesn't have properly planned pacing. This was a nice, concise story with a clear ending. Well, ok, the last episode was a little rushed, nothing is perfect.
Point being, we don't get stories like this anymore because writers nowadays are not humble enough. They either want to cram more shit in their story or they want more money and prolong it.

Yeah, honestly he seemed pretty generic at base. What was interesting is how the world affected him, how his naive courage reacted with the cruel world. Such as

Where he showed an ugly side to him and succumbed to rage and vengeance.

The name was literally in the title of and a reverse search of the OP would have pulled it up. It was all on a silver platter. It's not like the old days when there was no reverse image search and information was much harder to come by so you had to actually hunt for shit, it's brainless these days. Lurk and learn basic critical thinking and analytical skills before posting, that's all I ask.

Some people need to get the shit beat out of them, even pacifists should realize that. Shuu goes from tragedy to tragedy, it's impressive he didn't beat someone's ass sooner.

Sara....

Fuck

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Holy autism.

He's a generic shounen protagonist thrown into a genuinely cruel world, the shows is basically
>"what if Isekai but everything fucking sucks"
decades before other shows pretended to do the same thing, only to turn into more generic shit after a few episodes

>that resolution
what the fuck are you doing user

>Well, that was stressful.
Try Texhnolyze next

I hate this shows ending.

Sure. Have a 12 year old rape victim choose to stay behind and help one of her rapists wife who assisted the rapists with the gang rape in the first place! Fuck this show.

Sara was just shat on the entire series. Not that anyone else did much better.
Did anyone get a happy ending?

No, user! Stop! We had that thread several times! There are other characters besides Sarah! Other facets of the story! What have you done...

Shu is typical boy protagonist who is energetic and absurdly naïve. He’s the messianic “voice of reason” in the series who is the main problem with Now and Then, Here and There. Shu is thrown into a foreign world, tortured, whipped, beaten, kicked, hanged, shot, and pecked on by a bird yet his only thought in mind is to save the magic girl who he barely talked to for 3 minutes. His every other line is “Where is Lala-ru?” or “I have to save Lala-ru!” or simply “Lala-ru!” He suffers no psychological trauma from so much punishment and is still the moral compass for a “world gone mad” as a cheery cheeky Japanese adolescent. I’d rather ask what is wrong with him, is the Japanese education system so thorough that they include torture resistance lessons? Even Jesus on the cross asked “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Lala-ru is no better as she is the archetypal ice girl(or water in this case) with little dialogue and even lesser interest. She is simply an object to be fought over rather than a character. The chief antagonist is King Hamdo, who is a generic insane leader, he is a bore to watch. He rants and such, but his script and behavior is ever so recycled. These three inhuman freaks dominate the screen time while more nuanced and human characters like Nabuca, Abelia and Sara take a backseat.

For an anime that brings up so many real problems of child soldiers, slavery, rape, abortion and war, it sure dodges any solution or resolution. The ending is so saccharin and unsatisfying, one must ask, what was the point? Shu repeats his mantra ad naseum, “As long as you’ve got your life, something good is bound to happen.” This lazy conclusion is sickening and pathetic when faced with these atrocities. Now and Then, Here and There tries to add realism to the majou shoujo genre yet its result is even more unrealistic and ends up worse off; it’s sad pathetic experiment for all the wrong reasons.

>Other facets of the story!

Like how theres literally no reason for anyone(but especially Sara_ to continue to stay behind in Hellywood when they have a time machine that will allow them to escape to a time in history where the human race isnt about to go extinct due to the sun exploding?

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It could be worse user.
It could be much much worse.

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>Watching Texhnolyze right after finishing Now And Then Here And There.

Are you trying to make OP commit suicide user?

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Reads like an ANN article.
>Shu is typical boy protagonist who is energetic and absurdly naïve
True.
He’s the messianic “voice of reason” in the series
False. He was proven wrong many times and he couldn't even live up to his own principles by the end (beating up Hamdo).
>Lala-ru is no better as she is the archetypal ice girl(or water in this case) with little dialogue and even lesser interest. She is simply an object to be fought over rather than a character.
For the most part of the series, but later when we get her backstory it actually makes sense for her to be quite so nihilistic and emotionless. She's too old for this shit. Shu wasn't "Objectively Correct" or anything, what he did is convince Lala-Ru, and she just sacrificed herself to try and make him correct.
>The chief antagonist is King Hamdo, who is a generic insane leader, he is a bore to watch
Yeah, just like Joffrey and Ramsey Bolton from GoT... That is to say the most entertaining kind of villain. His depth is not in his personality, but the theme is that of power falling into the wrong hands.
>while more nuanced and human characters like Nabuca, Abelia and Sara take a backseat.
I do like those characters more, but we got quite enough of them too. Case in point, if we didn't we wouldn't think they're so great.
>For an anime that brings up so many real problems of child soldiers, slavery, rape, abortion and war, it sure dodges any solution or resolution. The ending is so saccharin and unsatisfying, one must ask, what was the point?
Remember the poem at the start of every fucking episode? That was the point. That our modern peaceful life of watching anime and dicking around and such is beautiful but ephemeral. Good things may happen while you stay alive, but so will the bad, so enjoy the good while it lasts. Also, human beings are both great and terrible, now and then, here and there.

Was it though?

God damn it, man. I want this show to be my favorite thing ever, but it’s so crushingly devoid of characterization I simply cannot come to care about it. Even the first time around I didn’t bat an eyelid at Lala ru fading away, because she never meant anything emotionally to begin with. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

>Reads like an ANN article.
I'm almost positive that it is. I swear that I read this before.
>one must ask, what was the point?
This bugs me the most. Is there suppose to be a point to everything?

Average protag that has no special powers, no knowledge, no special skills besides rudimentary martial arts, very little plot armor, tossed into the worst world imaginable that wants him dead and everyone that doesn't want him dead dead too. An actual average kid that holds onto naive beliefs that are challenged every day of his life in isekailand.
He lacks the usual shounen MC bullshit, he's active but lacks the power to magically change the world around him; that's reserved for the waifu who's really just a plot device, the real female protagonist is Sara who's also your average kid but since she's female and not viewed as usual for the war effort, she's put into sex slavery.
The theme of the story being "Even if everything goes to shit, once there's life there's hope" is a powerful one, but in the context of the show its the only thing left to believe in. They know they got a new start, and they know that start will have an end with nothing better to follow. Rather melancholic.

Every option for her is shitty. What was she going to do, go home and tell her parents she just spent months getting raped daily and killing to survive at the end of the world? Her old life is over and she's going to try to make the best of the new one she was forced into. She learned from Sis and will take care of the orphan children and her own in her steed.
Abelia wasn't killed, but that doesn't mean she won't be punished. She'll at least be on all tight leash for a long while to see if she really is going to repent for what she did and was complacent in. If she looks like she's up to some shit Sara would have her killed or would do it herself.

>Are you trying to make OP commit suicide user?
Weirdly enough, I actually thought Texhnolyze was kind of uplifting, a bit in an indirect way.

I love how he forced that stupid slut into keeping the baby, that was pretty based.

You have to respect Texhnolyze for commiting to how miserable the world is, but I feel like it robs you of any emotional attachment once you realize nothing good is ever going to happen.

snipping tool because my player wouldn't screenshot the subtitles for some reason

Lala ru genuinely acted the way I'd expect a demigod(?) to behave, completely jaded and unimpressed by normal humans. Took episode after episode to get any emotional reaction out of her

>but I feel like it robs you of any emotional attachment once you realize nothing good is ever going to happen.
Just keep in mind that Texhnolyze does not advocate or promote Nihilism.
If that is what you got from watching it, you didn't really understand it.

spoonfeeding enables low IQ faggots. Why would you want to do that?

I just wish there were more shows like this in general, that actually get me emotionally invested or manage to leave a lasting impression on me

Nabuca's learned helplessness really affected me. I started honestly considering just how many things I think I must or can't do which I have merely been conditioned to do... And now I'm reminded it didn't really help me resolve those behaviors...

>you didn't really understand it.
Are you going to elucidate on that?

>learned helplessness
Oh wow, thats a term I didn't know

Just like with Nabuca, breaking that conditioning is incredibly hard to do. Sometimes it takes something on the scale he had to go through to do it, but hopefully in your case it's not as intense. Knowing is only half the battle, you need a catalyst to act.

I'm not him so he might have a different view than me but the message I got from Texhnolyze was that the struggle to survive is what makes us human and that every action you take means something to somebody, even if you ultimately fail at least you tried. If you stop caring and give in to nihilism then you end up like the surface dwellers, living ghosts just waiting for death.

>Knowing is only half the battle, you need a catalyst to act.
This is literally what I've been thinking about for a while now, my life is so sterile I almost wish something unexpected would happen just so I could change my habits up

Personal problems aside, it's an interesting situation Nabuca was in. He clearly thought that it would be too dangerous to desert the army, but really his comrades have been dying left and right too. Neither option was safe and he was only relying on the fact he survived up til then to assume he would survive the whole war. Some kind of bias I'm not sure what it would be called. It is also conditioning but not really helplessness because he did train to become the best soldier possible... I guess it does fall back into learned helplessness, just thinking he couldn't live on his own or with a different organisation.

Of course fear wasn't the only motivation, he also had the positive goal of returning back to his village that he was promised, and learning that was a lie was what broke him the hardest (arguably, maybe the lil blackie's death).

Pretty much what this user just saidYeah, humanity became extinct at the end of Texhnolyze, but I don't think that this was in any way inevitable or meant to be. The show borrows a lot from Nietzsche's stuff like how the surface people are literally the last men/race.
Nietzsche was big on imposing your own meaning on a meaningless world. A complete rejection of the surface ghost people's philosophy.

By the way, the biggest asspull was Sarah surviving being covered in sand for who knows how long until Sis found her.

>shonenfags being delusional again

Its reposted from another thread.

You know what the fucked up thing here is? Hellywood is kind've in the moral right to do the fucked up things they do. They kill, murder, take resources because there literally isn't enough to go around because the planet is dying and the sun is a red giant. They abduct and rape children because in a world where humanity is going extinct and everything is so harsh. You have to rape people until they're pregnant to make up for the loss when more humans are dying than being born. It's a fucked up logic, but if the human race was ever in a place where that was actually happening? It's absolutely plausible that could happen if humanity survived to see the sun die.

I fell violated after watching this. I can't be the only one.

t. Sara

Still too soon user. Still too soon.

I think I was too young when I watched this. It really fucked me up. It left me empty for about a week, and I still felt that emptiness now every time I reminisced about the show.

I rewatched it once just so I can have an updated view on it; as it turns out, it probably fucked me up more than it did back then. Man, I love this show.

Does the show get better? I stopped watching it on ep 4 a few years ago and never got back to it.

It gets more fucked up.

Garbage

God really. What a miserable abortion.

She stayed because she wanted to look after the children with Sis gone and all. Honestly, she's the character that stood out the most for me.