Hamdo

"Lala Ru, Hellywood's fuel will eventually run out. I need your help in guarding against that event. I want you to supply water with that pendent of yours. Well? You don't want to? Is that it? If you refuse I will kill all of your friends! I'll grind them up, squeeze out their blood and drown you in their bloody poll!"

- Hamdo to Lala Ru.

"All personnel on board, take a look outside. Watch what happens to those who dare to threaten our nation. Their presence is ever visible. There is no peace for the wicked. Our ongoing war efforts will subject you citizens to further hardship. Bear down for the sake of our holy crusade. This is the inevitable path to our nation's dominion. Rest assured, I've already devised a plan to drive foreign aggressors... In the very near future, this nation will rise as a superpower... above and beyond those in the past. Our glory days are near! To that end, you must offer yourselves as the footstones of a great nation!"

- Hamdo's speech to his kingdom.

Hamdo (in Japanese: ハムド Hamudo), better known as King Hamdo or the Mad King is the insane and childish dictator of Hellywood battleship that is an equivalent to a kingdom and is the main antagonist of the 1999 anime OVA series Now and Then, Here and There.

While Hamdo preaches of his desire to spread "peace" across the land, all of his actions show him to be a cruel tyrant who delights in causing pain and only cares about his own gains. Being the former ruler of Earth in an alternative future, Hamdo onced ruled the world with iron fist until the water of the oceans vaporized by the incoming destruction of the Sun and its transformation in the Red giant. Without power to rule the world, rival nations rose to fight the tyrannical Hamdo, making Hellywood an immovable nation until he discovered the existence of a magician known as Lala-Ru who had a pendant that could create water.

Seeking to retake the world once again, Hamdo had his forces invading other villages to take their men and children as child-soldiers and offered his army women and little girls as "comfort women" to give birth to new soldiers for his nation. Much later, Hamdo sent his forces after Lala-Ru to use her pendant for his own gain but accidentally brought a young Japanese named Shuu to his ship.

He was voiced by Koji Ishii in the Japanese version and Jack Taylor in the English version.

Official Description
Hamdo is the military leader of a kingdom called Hellywood, he is a shrewd but has the mentality of a spoiled ten-year-old child, paranoid megalomaniac. He feels a sense of entitlement to water, an essential resource in his plans to rule the Earth, that leads to an obsession with the mysterious Lala-Ru and the suppression of any who stand in his way. Water is also required to launch his flying fortress, which is powered by water.

In a quest to secure water and other resources needed for his ultimate goal, Hamdo's army abducts children and other villagers to use as human capital in his endeavor. Hamdo suffers from uncontrollable bursts of rage. In a gruesome display of his blind emotion, he kills a cat, only to throw it on the ground and step on it later while interrogating Shu. Later in the series, Hamdo's lust for water and power begets paranoia and he begins to doubt the loyalty of his adviser. He died at the end of the series when he drowned in the transport chamber (all the while suffering a complete mental breakdown, screaming and shrieking like a frightened child), his lifeless corpse dragged away by the current.