Audience reviews
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sykuningen
Bokura no started with a promising premise and a fantastic OP, but went downhill so egregiously that I am walking away considering it one of the most incompetently directed stories I have ever encountered. The plot holes are endless, the majority of the cast are highly unlikable, entire episodes are wasted covering boring, ultimately meaningless subplots, and almost nothing that happens makes sense. I will quickly cover each of these major issues.
Almost nothing that happens makes sense: This is my major issue with the show. The premise (essentially, without spoiling too much) is that 15 kids are chosen to pilot a giant robot in order to protect the Earth from opposing robots in one-on-one battles. You would think, as the world discovers what is going on, that every available resource wou…
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Bokura no I don't want to watch this anymore.
I dropped this series a little bit past the halfway point... perhaps on episodes 14-15. Not sure. I did read up on what happened later, and it just gets bleaker, and very apocalyptic--except on a cosmic scale. For a point of reference, the direction it goes in reminds me a lot of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica series--which I'd definitely recommend over this, because it's better in pretty much every way.
Anyway, this is known as one of the MOST DEPRESSING ANIME EVAR!!!11... Yeah, it's sad, depressing, I'd even say affecting. There's something about Mohiro Kitoh's stories that are compelling at first, but they never quite enrapture me. The characters always look so sad, there's realistic drama, and many of the scenarios are upsetting. I was sim…
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Overview:
Time for a totally random review! Today, I'll be covering the always polarizing Bokurano. One of my offline buddies loves this series, so he let me borrow it. I really wanted to like it but...yeah.
Story:
The story is that God is an utter asshole. He arbitrarily decides that there are too many universes and now a fighting tournament is needed to see which universe survives. This series has the same plot as Dragon Ball Super Tournament of Power, but plays it DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS! You are setting yourself up to fail if you create a plot that Akira "poop on a stick is funny" Toriyama would come up with and take it this seriously. Each parallel Earth chooses a bunch of random children and forces them to pilot a giant robot in a best of 12 contest. However, the robot is powered by…
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I wanted to watch a MECHA anime and saw this one, Bokurano, had very good reviews. Without spoiling anything, this anime is NOT ABOUT mechas.
The CGI is badly implemented and stands out in a terrible way. The characters are poorly drawn too and the animation... Oh my...
The one thing you should know is every episode more or less, ends with a mecha fight. But there's NO SATISFACTION. 90% of an episode is about the character's life and drama and it literally cuts / jumbs into the mecha fight which lasts 1min.
The whole show is depressing from beginning to end. Would not recommend at all.
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This will contain spoilers.
The worst plot of an anime, which takes itself so very very serious, I've ever seen. Natural selection of parallel universes, this doesnt make any sense in any possible universe. Dont get me wrong, Im not mad because it doesnt make sense, Im mad at the constructed nonsense of this anime. Given the fact there are several parallel universes - How does them competing make any sense? It doesn't, like at all. Why can the creators of this system only leech "energy" from a world that wins 15 robot fights? No reason. In a world where there ARE parallel universes, wouldnt there only arise even more universes? I.e. the ones that died in the first fight, the ones that died in the fourth fight etc.
The dramaturgy doesnt work for me, we see a portrait of every kid for 20 m…
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I don't think I've enjoyed anything this much for a long time.
Writing a spoiler-free review is hard as the entire thing consists of tragedy. At first everything seems to be going fine but by the end of episode 2 it's fallen into the depths of heartbreak and it only gets worse from there.
One of the reasons I adore Bokurano with a passion is the characters.
I can say for certain that I enjoyed every one of them. You really learned about all of their lives and that only served to make it all the more painful as the show went on. Many of them have a reason for fighting that makes it even harder to bear the pain of what's happening to these kids. And there's a huge amount of character development for a particular character that left me in tears by the end of the show.
Note that characters…
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So, what would you do if tasked with saving the world? That’s the question each one of the fifteen middle school children are forced to answer after having been bound to a contract. At first, they just believe it to be some computer game created by a man named Kokopelli that they encounter. But, by the time the first episode ends, we, along with the fifteen children, realize that something far more sinister is at play.
Bokurano starts out incredibly well. The pacing is excellent, the hints and foreshadowing are all expertly woven to induce a sense of dread to the audience and the children. This is not a happy show. It explores the psyche of each one of the children, their pasts, and how they deal with adversity, all before they are required to fight the next alien invader.
Now, some of t…
Read at the sourceAsbestos_In_Cans
"Where in my frail body am I supposed to find the strength to stand?"
--Ishikawa Chiaki - Uninstall
This review is written with the intention of being spoiler free, but I will attempt to analyze various aspects of the show which may result in me giving hints to events of the show to some viewers. I apologize in advance if I do this and I hope to avoid spilling the beans on a very good anime. I'll admit my review is also kind of long. For a tl;dr, go the second to last paragraph.
Bokurano has always seemed to me to be a very contentious and controversial anime. Viewers and commenters appear to either love it to death or hate its very existence. Enjoying Bokurano is highly dependent upon bonding with the characters, feeling their pain, weeping with them, and leaving each episode like you…
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Bokurano was recommended to me by another MAL member on the IRC channel, because I said I liked Clannad. According to him "Bokurano is an instant feels trip from start". Now, that I watched the series, I do understand where he is coming from, but I have to disagree with that. Here is why...
If I had to summarize what Bokurano is, it's a mix between Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Gantz, sans blood. The story follows 15 high-school students, who are tricked into piloting a giant mecha, fighting off periodically arriving enemies to save the world from certain doom. Now, as far as basic premise goes, this is as simple and cliché'd as it gets. But what sets Bokurano apart from all the tons upon tons of mecha anime is the tone and the underlying story behind the mask, full of symbolism and metaph…
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Spoiler free.
I found this show by browsing through related anime of my favorite shows, and I'm so glad that I did.
Bokurano follows the events of a group of children who have inadvertently been thrown into a large scale event, thinking it was just a small game. From there, they have to fight to secure the safety of everything they know. About now, I imagine some of you are yawning. Something like this is seen in so many different shows, and the concern I had was it was going to be another show just like that. I was surprised to find that wasn't the case.
Bokurano had no problems with kicking off immediately. I thought there were going to be a few primer episodes, but if I recall correctly, you're being introduced to the main plot point in the first episode. This can either succeed or…
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I‘d like to start this review with this first thought.
Gonzo fucks up everything.
Now that this is out of the way let me explain why and how I mean it.
Bokurano isn‘t a bad anime don‘t get my wrong. I just feel it could have been a better one, when done by a different studio and different budget.
But I will cover this whole issue in the single segments of this review.
Also note, this review will most likely contain minor spoilers, so please don‘t read it if you don‘t wanna get spoiled anything, even if it's just slight ones.
This is due to my comparison with the manga (but only superficial I don't mention any characters and what happens to them, just themes and some emotions that might come across)
All I can say to you is, watch this show it‘s good, but bad presented.
And no…
Read at the sourceMillennial_Mike
An aspect of Bokurano that I love is how well it executes the story effectively. The anime is an ensemble character study of fifteen kids who pilot a mecha to save the world and the anime makes efficient use of its 24-episode run. If you pay enough attention to the first episode, it does an excellent job of foreshadowing future events early. It gives hints of what the characters are like, these minute details help you understand why the characters react in certain ways later. As for the characters themselves, they are intriguingly distinct, in a matter of fact their personalities are almost polarizing. More than once, while watching this anime, I have seen nuances about their personalities that reminded me how I might react like them in comparable situations.
Mohiro Kitoh is great at exp…
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“I have no choice but to pretend I am a warrior who knows no fear.”
Truer OP lyrics have rarely been attributed so well to an anime series.
Fifteen children are tricked into participating in a battle for Earth itself. However, don’t be fooled by video clips of huge mecha fighting each other – this is not a classic mecha series with epic space battles and the like. Instead, each child who comes to pilot the mecha known as Zearth faces not only the struggle to save the world but also a struggle of their own. What do they fight for? Some fight for their loved ones. Others fight for themselves. A few see it as their duty. Some don’t know why and struggle to find a reason to look death in the face for the sake of complete strangers.
Each story arc deals with the next pilot set to fight on Ea…
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I posted this review on a forum as a recommendation to someone who was looking for a depressing and slice of life anime, and I was told by two people that my review was able to get them to watch the series and I believe they enjoyed it, so I decided to share my review here in hopes of intriguing more people into watching it.
Thoughts: This anime cannot be completely enjoyed unless you have the patience to watch it all the way through. Even if you do not have much patience, I still think the first episode ends in a way that compels the watchers to continue watching because it really does leave you at a cliffhanger. I would go more into detail, but I really rather not spoil it for anyone. Even though Slice of Life is not one of the genres for this anime, I still think it has its moments wh…
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Bokurano is a show that sets itself apart from most conventional standards and clichés. It doesn't have the high-tempo, flashy battles of most mecha anime, nor does it have characters which fit into any standard role, or any of the type.
The first episode of the show can be quite overwhelming to some; you will rather suddenly be introduced to the entire cast of fourteen seventh-graders and one fourth-grader. They are gathered from various places on a summer camp, enjoying a seemingly peaceful summer. That is, until they decide to explore a hidden cave. here they encounter a peculiar man with an even more peculiar name, who invites them to play a certain game...
To put it simply, they are tricekd into a contract binding them as pilots for a giant robot, and what's worse, they have to figh…
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Ok when i first started watching this i thought the same thing everyone does... "WTH". It is not something you expect from a show about kids. It is well writen and almost scary. At the same time the author managed to draw me in with the sick story line. I found myself both appaled and atracted. He managed to take an old time dream of many children and twist it into a dark sinister thing. If you are looking for a good story to make you happy this is not it, but if you are looking for a deap story that makes you think than this is one you should watch.
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Bokurano was one of those shows that you can't really like unless you really look at the deeper meaning. If you're looking for a series that you can watch without thinking about, then you might as well stop reading right now.
STORY:
Bokurano's story is very unique and interesting. You may think of it as just mindless killing, but similar to Gantz, it is a psychological anime that shows what happens when normal people are put into hopeless situations and are forced to put their lives on the line.
ART:
The art was not as good as it could have been, but I had no problems with it. It was a bit annoying having to switch from 2d to 3d a few times in every episode, but it wasn't something intolerable.
SOUND:
I thought the sound was pretty good, and was able to partially cover up for the slight…
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Well i thought a lot before picking up Bokurano.I don't quite remember why, but i did have some doubts about it.I feared it would turn out just your everyday crappy mecha.And the previews of the story line suggested so.
Anyway in one boring afternoon i decided to try out the anime.It tunred out very good.Way beyond my expectations.
The story goes on and unravels into something that you haven't quite expected,becomes really interesting and complicated.
The Art, well, what can i say about it.Some people find it quite ugly while others like it.As for me,it didn't bother a bit.It's true that sometimes the 3D can get under your skin, and that sometimes the art gets rather simple.But at the other end, sometimes the art is really helping you get into the "flow of emotions" if i may say so.
As…
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i am a diehard giant robot junkie. but be warned. this is not an anime about giant robots. this is an anime about feelings. not just regular feelings. teary-eyed, near rape, sibling abusing feelings. these feelings get brought up every episode, giving each character a uniquely depressing flair. this drives them to literally pilot their hearts out, fighting any moral feeling they may have against killing enemy pilots.
this anime is terribly bogged down in cliche and emotions, with not a single climactic fight. the cg makes the action clunky and slow, leaving me wondering what the point of even having giant robots was.
this anime tries to combine a lot of better things, most notably neon genesis evangelion, but it comes up with something not worth mentioning.
if youre looking for true…
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I started watching bokurano thinking it would have a good story and some cool fights but that proved to be partially wrong, it has a good story but the fights, not really good. I still enjoyed it but its quite different from the story summaries, previews, etc.
At start the story seems lame and rushed, just a little excuse to put some kids fighting for earth in some big robots, the fights are quite dull as well and the animation is quite average with some bad parts even but thats mostly at the start.
I'm glad I kept watching it because it gets much better, the story twists, or better, it unveils a completely different plot from the first appearances becoming rather interesting. The fights improve allot compared to the first ones but this is not a mecha style anime with lots of cool fights a…
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