Review: Bokurano is a sci-fi/fantasy in the extreme but it surprisingly retains very solid and realistic atmosphere because the anime never gets carried away by its own fantasy elements. It always stays on the ground where we all are and … Continue reading →
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The best character in this anime, doing what he does best! My first review for this month is for a 2007 anime titled Bokurano. This means that Nodame Cantabile will have to face yet another challenger to its throne. Just like Doujin Work, this psychological thriller cum part-time mecha anime is actually a very good [...] Related posts:Review: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (天元突破グレンラガン) Review: Wolf and Spice 2 (狼と香辛料Ⅱ) Review: Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula (機神大戦 ギガンティック・フォーミュラ) Review: Heroic Age (ヒロイック・エイジ) Review: Claymore (クレイモア) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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Good literature, I think, makes us feel our membership in the human race. It engenders within us an empathy and a love for living things that can be hard to come by during the natural course of our everyday lives. That’s no small feat, and it’s one of the reasons I’m so averse to selling [...]
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Shadowmage from The Nihon Review once said he must be a sadist for finding fascination in watching children suffer in Bokurano. Indeed, why would you want to watch something so cruel and hurt yourself emotionally? One answer to this could be that we can not truly appreciate the value of life before confronting and accepting [...]
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Bokurano is a manga by Kitoh Mohiro, creator of Shadow Star: Narutaru. The centerpiece of Bokurano is a large robot called Zearth, and so one technically is able to call it a giant robot manga, though as you might expect from the man who created Narutaru there are some serious twists. When it was adapted [...]
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Are you ever drawn to an anime/games/etc by music alone?  Happens to me from time to time, recently thanks to the song アンインストール (Uninstall). Really love the vocals ^_^  Found out it was the OP to ぼくらの (bokurano) and was immediately interested. Quick Japanese lesson.  Boku == I (normally used by males, slightly informal.  young boys and [...]
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Damn, are you serious? As if it’s not sad enough that Yoko was going to die anyhow as a Zearth pilot, she gets blindsided in a random playground.  Jun and Yoko were on the last of their visits to parents of the Zearth children, and Yoko had even just confessed her feelings toward Jun.  Their interactions [...]
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I finished Bokurano this weekend, just as planned. 24 episodes in 5 days isn’t bad at all, as I’ve never been one to enjoy marathoning through anime. After all, I ended up needing nearly 2 whole years to catch up with 300+ episodes of One Piece, so, starting and finishing Bokurano in a matter of [...]
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What I mean by “the point of adaptations” isn’t “the point where adaptations start sucking”, but more of like “what is the point of adaptations?” After all, regardless of how good or bad an adaptation will be, you’ll always have the grassroots insisting on the superiority of the original. The fanbase is fickle and insatiable, [...]
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Final Impressions - Series Review It’s finally over and when it’s all said and done Bokurano was the most unique of the Spring Anime 2007 lineup. Bokurano was much more than a typical mecha anime. It was even much more than a non-typical mecha anime, even if that’s possible. When you experienced the opening theme song [...]
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So, Bokurano finally reaches its conclusion. It’s disappointing to see so few of us have followed this show to the end after all that controversy, because all things considered the ending isn’t too bad at all. Hopefully these musings will help you see the show in a better light, or at least understand how its [...]
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And so, we lose one who is possibly one of my favourite characters in the show. His family issues are brought to a head and after a period of ‘they can all just die’ syndrome, he finds it in himself to fight for her sake - or rather, which is more telling, fighting so she [...]
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This series really has shifted its focus and tone during its run. Whether or not I’d have noticed had the adaptation debacle not surfaced is a different matter entirely. That is to say, I expected a change in direction and therefore noticed one: it’s departed quite markedly from the episodic structure of the earlier days. Tamotsu [...]
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“…in the back seat there was a gun/Words were passed in a shotgun blast/Troubled times had come…” Wow, talk about plot progression! There appears no downtime from my change of domain name host either (I figured that since my web host now does domain names too, I might as well transfer the domain name over to [...]
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I now know what Peter S meant when he said in his comment that episode #15 had a plot twist! It all comes out after a gangster named Tamotsu is released from jail and returns to his former employer. The old boss suggests he ‘goes straight’ and sets off to look after an old friend [...]
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“You hide your eyes but the ugly truth just loves to get in the way…” Ah, back to normal. My fave subbing group for this show seems to be really on a roll with releasing new episodes so expect more angst-ridden Bokurano goodness before the week is out. Anyway, these episodes reveal quite a bit about [...]
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Hah, I have been a little slow with writing out entries, especially when the workload is starting to increase bit by bit. Nevertheless, it’s a good thing that I am still not drained enough to stop blogging. The summary will be shortened since I am somewhat lacking in time, but it will cover most of [...]
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With the discovery of an important fact in the last episode, the kids find themselves back in the same predicament but in a worse state. It is an inescapable truth, one truth that they cannot get out of. As long as the contract remains, the kids will be living their life until the point where [...]
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Warning: contains major spoilers for Bokurano. You heard Ray’s column: now it’s my turn! My column is called “Art and Soul,” which will be a biweekly audio column about anime, religion/Christianity, and ethics. It’s an attempt to integrate anime with what I spent the other 75% of my day doing–reading, studying, and praying theology. (I am [...]
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Once again, I’ve left it for too long before continuing this show. Unlike the other fansub series I’m currently following, Bokurano is so powerful and tragic I can’t really sit through too much in one go - for that reason, this review took two days to write. I find it best to watch one episode, [...]
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