Category Archives: Now and Then Here and There

Hamdo arrives with his forces, scattering what meager opposition there is and ordering the complete slaughter and destruction of Zari Bars. The final confrontation between the dictator and his hated enemies can’t even be called a battle, but amidst it several characters and issues come to a head. All the characters come together again, facing [...]

After the restful respite from the horrors of the world in the almost idyllic Zari Bars, the outside world and past events come back hard on the main characters. And on a larger scale things are looking bad now that Hellywood is operational and the location of the one decent settlement in the world is [...]

Shu and Lala Ru wander through the deserts and find their way to a large, deep canyon filled with people, agriculture, and evidently a large supply of water. They find out that this place is Zari-Bars, the main enemy of Hamdo and the place that, at least according to the dictator, send the land battleship [...]

Lala Ru makes this statement to Shu. She has the power to provide the water that’s in such short supply in this world, but doesn’t want to since people would just kill each other for it (and her.) Shu is taken aback for a moment when she explains her views, but continues on with his [...]

As Shu and Sara continue in the roles forced upon them by Hamdo’s regime, they both come to face certain choices and make decisions in their own horrible situations. Nabuca is also brought to face certain realities and is given a decision to make that resonates with him in a very personal way. Hellywood continues [...]

Shu awakes in his cell the next morning after being beaten and tries to talk with his cellmate, at first to little avail. Outside, we’re given an insight into the daily lives of Hamdo’s child soldiers as they train against each other for actual combat, overseen by a strict instructor who beats his charges for [...]

Bidding farewell to most of the Macross canon, the next retroblogging series is Now and Then, Here and There. A 13 episode series from 1999, Now and Then, Here and There follows a boy named Shu, who is going about his daily life in a town in Japan until he sees a strange looking girl [...]