Strange Dawn

Both shows use Teletubby styled character designs to contrast their dark, gritty and mature fantasy story for a cognitive dissonance effect. 

Both shows are deconstructions of the Isekai trope with very strong anti-war message. Strange Dawn is targeted at a female audience and softens the gritty story by using Teletubby character designs, whereas Now and Then, Here and There is explicit up to edge lord levels. The stories themselves are quite similar though. The MC(s) travel trough a war torn other world and witness plenty of violence, futile death and pain, political madness and acts of resistance. Yet, the powers at work are too large for them to control or even make a major difference. They are not overpowered heroes but mere observers and in part victims themselves. There's no happy end in either story as well, MC(s) leave without fixing the world they just explored.  read more