A synopsis is this, A boy named Shuzo Natsutani aka Shu is a happy go lucky kid with a positive attitude of life, but that all changed on one particular day.
[Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk.]
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While a his way home from Kendo practice, Shu meets a mysterious girl named Lala Ru on top of a smoke stack. When suddenly, a mysterious group of people came abducted her, taking Shu with her. He is transported into a distant future, where the earth has become a desert planet where the water resources are scarce, and is torn by war. Shu along with Lala Ru find themselves in a battle fortress Hellywood, ruled by a tyrannical madman King Hamdo. And by madman, I mean a totally crazy, possibly schizophrenic, paranoid megalomaniac with a mentality of a child. He uses child soldiers as a part of his forces in his quest for world domination. He is obsessed with Lala Ru and her ability to control water with her mystical pendant, as Hamdo relies on water as a source of fuel for his battleship Hellywood. But as water is so scarce, that is an unlikely possibility.
As Shu was taken prisoner after his interrogation, he meets a fragile named Sara Ringwalt, who is also from Shu’s world. Apparently, she was abducted by Hellywood because they’ve mistaken her for Lala Ru, due the similarities she shared with her. However, she was taken prisoner and is used as a sex slave to produce more soldiers for Hamdo’s cause. It wasn’t until later that she was able to escape after almost being raped for a third by killing her attacker. She was later rescued by Sis, a woman who found her in the desert and took her in the village of Zari Bars.
Shu was later conscripted into Nabbuca’s child soldier corp, under the orders of Hamdo’s right hand woman Abelia. Tabool, one of the boys in Nabbuca’s group, beats up and interrogated Shu, demanding to know where Lala Ru’s pendant is, after it got lost at the beginning. He was caught by Nabbuca and was whipped by a senior officer for his offense of attacking a fellow soldier. During an expedition of recruiting more soldiers, albeit by force, Shu interfered by freeing the captured children, but was caught by Nabbuca and is brought back to Hellywood to be sentenced to death. He managed to escape when he found Lala Ru’s pendant and went to rescue her. Lala Ru used her pendant to unleash a vast wave of water in Hellywood, allowing her and Shu to escape.
Days later, Shu and Lala Ru came to the village of Zari Bars, where Sis took them in to live with her and the orphans under her care. Unbeknownst to them, Hellywood has enough water resources to give it fuel. Hamdo has ordered his soldiers to spread out and find Zari Bars so he can use Hellywood to wipe them out. One of the soldiers, a man named Kazham, entered Zari Bars on the verge of death, claiming that there was a mass desertion at Hellywood due to Hamdo’s increasing madness. However, that was a ruse to pinpoint the village’s location for the attack. At the village, Shu is later reunited with Sara, who saw Lala Ru. She blames Lala Ru for what happened to her and proceeded to beat her, but was stopped by Shu.
Sara’s suffering didn’t end here. After she collapsed from exhaustion and stress, she was taken to the doctor, who revealed that Sara was pregnant, a result from the trauma she suffered at Hellywood. Unable to cope the torment that she suffered, Sara choose the night to end it all, by attempting to drown herself in the watering caverns. Shu was able to stop her, and prevent her from slamming a rock into her abdomen to abort her unborn child and kill herself in the process. He attempts to talk her out of suicide and spare the life of her unborn child, and promises to leave the village with Lala Ru.
Back at village, Elamba, one of the citizens who was sending various assassins to kill Hamdo, seeks out Lala Ru to use for the negotiation to bring Hamdo to him to settle his vendetta for the deaths of his family. That soon backfired as Hellywood descends to the village and began its massacre, and Elamba was gunned down in his attempted negotiation. As Shu was protecting Sis’s children, Nabbuca attempts to execute them. While admitting that he killed the assassins after Hamdo, Soon, the daughter of one of the said assassins, aims the gun she picked up to kill Nabbuca, only for the small boy and fellow soldier named Boo to take the bullet for him. Nabbuca then retaliated by shooting Soon, killing the child instantly. Shu, witnessing the horror of the two children murdered before him, tries to shoot Nabbuca’s gun at him, only for him to fire at the ground instead due his strong belief in not killing. Tabool was about to kill Shu and the children, but Nabbuca tried to stop him, finally fed up with all the killing. Abelia then ordered all troops to cease fire, sparing Shu and the children as they were taken prisoners along with the surviving people of Zari Bars.
With Zari Bars decimated and its people imprisioned, the world is now at Hamdo’s mercy. But because of his ever increasing paranoia, Hamdo sets his sights to shot the rest of the world. Nabbuca, now crestfallen at the loss of his friend Boo and his decision of killing, believed for the war to be over and is now free to return to his home village, only for Tabool to inform him that it was all a lie, and that he has no real desire to return home since Hellywood is the most powerful force on earth. He then betrays Nabbuca by shooting him in the gut, promising he would one day take over Hellywood.
Sara, along with Sis, were taken prisoner aboard Hellywood. Sis was slowly dying due to her bullet wound in the leg by Elamba, and had lost a lot of blood. Before dying, she begged Sara to not hate her unborn baby, telling her that “No child comes into this world wanting to be rejected by its mother.” With those last words, Sis has passed away, and Sara held her hands close to her as she wept. An injured Nabbuca came to Shu returning his stick that he brought from his world, and told him go back to where he came from, and that’s where he belongs before dying. Shu with his newfound resolve, frees himself and the others and sets out to save Lala Ru, who is being held captive by Hamdo, demanding her to refuel Hellywood with her water. Shu was attacked by Tabool and the other child soldiers, but was saved by Lala Ru with her rush of water. Abelia attempts to shoot Shu, but he knocked the gun out of her hands, only for the demented Hamdo to shoot at him, grazing Abelia in the process. Shu attacks Hamdo by slamming him with his stick until it breaks, causing Hamdo to flee in panic. Hellywood soon begins to crash due to Lala Ru’s water damaging the core. Lala Ru then proceeds to use the last of her strength to restore water to the whole world. Tabool and the other soldiers drowned as the water flooded the falling fortress.Sara was able to save the kids along with two of small child soldiers, with one nearly drowning when Kazham sacrificed himself to save the child. Hamdo, in the portal chamber, calls for Abelia to send him anywhere outside of Hellywood, only for her to abandon him because of his madness. While raving frantically, the chamber flooded as the waves crashed into him as drowns, with Abelia watching.
Water was then restored to the earth, and humanity were given a second chance. Shu watched the sunset with Lala Ru, who suddenly vanished with Shu’s hand on her shoulder. Sara decided to stay behind to take care of the children, along with her own and start a new life in this rejuvenated world. Abelia use the portal system to send Shu back. The people of Zari Bars were about to execute Abelia, but Sara stopped them, choosing to give the woman a second chance. Shu then returned to his own world, with a new outlook on life and the things he taken for granted.
As Shu was taken prisoner after his interrogation, he meets a fragile named Sara Ringwalt, who is also from Shu’s world. Apparently, she was abducted by Hellywood because they’ve mistaken her for Lala Ru, due the similarities she shared with her. However, she was taken prisoner and is used as a sex slave to produce more soldiers for Hamdo’s cause. It wasn’t until later that she was able to escape after almost being raped for a third by killing her attacker. She was later rescued by Sis, a woman who found her in the desert and took her in the village of Zari Bars.
Shu was later conscripted into Nabbuca’s child soldier corp, under the orders of Hamdo’s right hand woman Abelia. Tabool, one of the boys in Nabbuca’s group, beats up and interrogated Shu, demanding to know where Lala Ru’s pendant is, after it got lost at the beginning. He was caught by Nabbuca and was whipped by a senior officer for his offense of attacking a fellow soldier. During an expedition of recruiting more soldiers, albeit by force, Shu interfered by freeing the captured children, but was caught by Nabbuca and is brought back to Hellywood to be sentenced to death. He managed to escape when he found Lala Ru’s pendant and went to rescue her. Lala Ru used her pendant to unleash a vast wave of water in Hellywood, allowing her and Shu to escape.
Days later, Shu and Lala Ru came to the village of Zari Bars, where Sis took them in to live with her and the orphans under her care. Unbeknownst to them, Hellywood has enough water resources to give it fuel. Hamdo has ordered his soldiers to spread out and find Zari Bars so he can use Hellywood to wipe them out. One of the soldiers, a man named Kazham, entered Zari Bars on the verge of death, claiming that there was a mass desertion at Hellywood due to Hamdo’s increasing madness. However, that was a ruse to pinpoint the village’s location for the attack. At the village, Shu is later reunited with Sara, who saw Lala Ru. She blames Lala Ru for what happened to her and proceeded to beat her, but was stopped by Shu.
Sara’s suffering didn’t end here. After she collapsed from exhaustion and stress, she was taken to the doctor, who revealed that Sara was pregnant, a result from the trauma she suffered at Hellywood. Unable to cope the torment that she suffered, Sara choose the night to end it all, by attempting to drown herself in the watering caverns. Shu was able to stop her, and prevent her from slamming a rock into her abdomen to abort her unborn child and kill herself in the process. He attempts to talk her out of suicide and spare the life of her unborn child, and promises to leave the village with Lala Ru.
Back at village, Elamba, one of the citizens who was sending various assassins to kill Hamdo, seeks out Lala Ru to use for the negotiation to bring Hamdo to him to settle his vendetta for the deaths of his family. That soon backfired as Hellywood descends to the village and began its massacre, and Elamba was gunned down in his attempted negotiation. As Shu was protecting Sis’s children, Nabbuca attempts to execute them. While admitting that he killed the assassins after Hamdo, Soon, the daughter of one of the said assassins, aims the gun she picked up to kill Nabbuca, only for the small boy and fellow soldier named Boo to take the bullet for him. Nabbuca then retaliated by shooting Soon, killing the child instantly. Shu, witnessing the horror of the two children murdered before him, tries to shoot Nabbuca’s gun at him, only for him to fire at the ground instead due his strong belief in not killing. Tabool was about to kill Shu and the children, but Nabbuca tried to stop him, finally fed up with all the killing. Abelia then ordered all troops to cease fire, sparing Shu and the children as they were taken prisoners along with the surviving people of Zari Bars.
With Zari Bars decimated and its people imprisioned, the world is now at Hamdo’s mercy. But because of his ever increasing paranoia, Hamdo sets his sights to shot the rest of the world. Nabbuca, now crestfallen at the loss of his friend Boo and his decision of killing, believed for the war to be over and is now free to return to his home village, only for Tabool to inform him that it was all a lie, and that he has no real desire to return home since Hellywood is the most powerful force on earth. He then betrays Nabbuca by shooting him in the gut, promising he would one day take over Hellywood.
Sara, along with Sis, were taken prisoner aboard Hellywood. Sis was slowly dying due to her bullet wound in the leg by Elamba, and had lost a lot of blood. Before dying, she begged Sara to not hate her unborn baby, telling her that “No child comes into this world wanting to be rejected by its mother.” With those last words, Sis has passed away, and Sara held her hands close to her as she wept. An injured Nabbuca came to Shu returning his stick that he brought from his world, and told him go back to where he came from, and that’s where he belongs before dying. Shu with his newfound resolve, frees himself and the others and sets out to save Lala Ru, who is being held captive by Hamdo, demanding her to refuel Hellywood with her water. Shu was attacked by Tabool and the other child soldiers, but was saved by Lala Ru with her rush of water. Abelia attempts to shoot Shu, but he knocked the gun out of her hands, only for the demented Hamdo to shoot at him, grazing Abelia in the process. Shu attacks Hamdo by slamming him with his stick until it breaks, causing Hamdo to flee in panic. Hellywood soon begins to crash due to Lala Ru’s water damaging the core. Lala Ru then proceeds to use the last of her strength to restore water to the whole world. Tabool and the other soldiers drowned as the water flooded the falling fortress.Sara was able to save the kids along with two of small child soldiers, with one nearly drowning when Kazham sacrificed himself to save the child. Hamdo, in the portal chamber, calls for Abelia to send him anywhere outside of Hellywood, only for her to abandon him because of his madness. While raving frantically, the chamber flooded as the waves crashed into him as drowns, with Abelia watching.
Water was then restored to the earth, and humanity were given a second chance. Shu watched the sunset with Lala Ru, who suddenly vanished with Shu’s hand on her shoulder. Sara decided to stay behind to take care of the children, along with her own and start a new life in this rejuvenated world. Abelia use the portal system to send Shu back. The people of Zari Bars were about to execute Abelia, but Sara stopped them, choosing to give the woman a second chance. Shu then returned to his own world, with a new outlook on life and the things he taken for granted.
Sorry for this incredibly long post.
I enjoyed this series overall, despite it only being 13 episodes long. This series can be really dark and depressing, but it was all worth it in the end. Out of all characters who suffered a great ordeal, Sara had it worse. The poor girl had suffered too much, I don’t know how she can recover from all that. At least she has taken her first step on the road to recovery. Shu had had it rough too, but thanks to his belief that things will work out somehow, he kept going. There had been many atrocities presented in this series, such as war and the effects it has on the innocent.
If you haven’t seen the series, I highly recommend it.
I put the plot synopsis into a spoiler tab to make the post into lighter reading.
-Zusuchan