Bokura ga Ita

on I watched this anime a year or two ago. It was a sweet bubly story with a bit of trauma

I dont like the manga really because oddly enough, this anime was out before the manga (nice right :D?)
the manga is called: We were There. this anime doesnt completely match up with the anime all that much but hey, when did manga and anime ever repeat the same things ^^? But overall i enjoyed it and would like if it came to crunchyroll some time soon

Alright first off I want to state I'm an 18 year old guy and captained my varsity soccer team at school. And honestly I'm not much for the typical romance anime. Then I want so say this is in my top 3 favorite Amines of all time and the only one that I have re-watched that wasn't English dubbed.

Breakdown:
The storyline was great, original from the other animes that I have seen. In the first half it is the perfect mix of elements including comedy. It keeps twisting and turning and only shows the important parts. It is made like a classic hollywood film this way, there is no fan service just straight character development and plot driving. Like classic hollywood films this anime is very efficient (sorry no fan service) which people mistake as bad animation. At certain points people don't have faces or are missing and eye or something the seems strange but if you take a minute to think why they would do this or why they would leave that out there is always a good reason behind it, it is not simply the animators were lazy, it always propels the story. The characters seem to be real life people and you really get behind, root for, and attach to. To me this is a classy old school story the likes of which can be compared to the movie Casablanca or the Fyodor Dostevsky novel The Idiot. Those are my two favorite pieces of media, and this is right up there with it, it is a masterpiece that makes you yearn for more.


Moral of the story if you like good film making, you'll enjoy this. A casablanca-esque masterpiece in its own right.

first I thought this was just about a sweet boy and girl going out with each other but it had a much more interesting story line
without it making it too complicated you could follow the characters through good and bad times and it was almost you could really feel what they felt at that moment
it is amazing how strong and touching teenage love can be and how it can overwhelm every thing like a tragic past...
definitely an anime i will never forget

I’ve got to stop dropping these boring-looking series without giving them a chance… looking back at what I wrote on my first impression on this series, I realize what an idiot I’ve been, dropping this series in favour of… Binbou Shimai Monogatari. In any case, if you’re looking for good romance, then look no further, because Bokura ga Ita has lots of it, and then some more.

And what romance it is. The beauty of this series is that it just feels like it’s about a real couple, and throughout the series, they explore all of the common aspects of being a couple: rivalry, understanding and compromising for each other, truthfulness, breaking up and saying goodbye, but the common theme for this series is the fact that love can turn sane people into a bunch of inconsistent idiots; the contrast between common sense and your own feelings, and the 24 episodes do an excellent job of exploring said themes in-depth.

Obviously, the characters in this series are deep. About 50% of this series’ dialogue happens inside the characters’ heads, so at the end of the series, you’ll know exactly what went on in those multi-layered minds of them. They way they evolve throughout the series is also pretty amazing, and you can see the subtle changes that occur in just about everything in this series. The pacing is slow, but every single episode hardly ever loses focus on what’s really important in this series.

Let me place a warning, though, and a very important one. The pacing is incredibly slow, so you obviously don’t want to watch it if you generally like fast-paced series, but there’s one more thing to be aware of: the female lead Nanami Takahashi. She’s by no means a bad character, but the creators made no attempts to make her into something like “the perfect girlfriend”, or something similar. She’s weak, incredibly wishy-washy and hardly ever gets to the point she wants to make. I realize that this is exactly the creators’ intentions, but you do NOT want to watch this series when you’re frustrated, because she’ll just make these frustrations worse.

In terms of the production-values, this is a typical Artland series. The character-designs are very stylish, and the animation is consistent, yet you’ll hardly ever notice it. There are so many EDs that they make any Shaft-productions pale in comparison. I now also understand why Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino’s action-sequences felt so low-budget, because it’s just not something they’re good at, and instead they excel in style and subtlety (something that was plenty available in Il Teatrino as well).

This pretty much is exactly what a pure shoujo romance should be. My only real complaint is the ending, as it’s a bit too open-ended for such a series, but mostly because the manga at that point featured a very interesting plot-twist that was omitted in the anime, and which would have had so much potential if the creators included it in a second season somehow. But then again, then it would look a bit too much like a Makoto Shinkai rip-off, and this way Bokura ga Ita really has its own identity as a series.

Bokura ga ita in my overall opinion is the best suitable anime for teenagers who has love ones or who has relationships. They can totally relate to nana and yano. they are the typical couple with a lots of twist in their love life. Though, they proved that nothing can keep them apart. This anime's storyline is very magnificent. Though I still prefer the manga.

If you watch this anime, you will rather cry or be touched. It is a great anime. The couple here is a typical high school couple. They faced normal problems and they resolved it normally too.

Bokura Ga Ita is like my favorite anime/manga ever!!! It is so cute & easy to relate to. It actually made me cry a lot of times. I really recommend it especially to the people who love shojo & romance animes. I know the drawings cold be better but the storyline is so good that you don't realize it after a while. Some people may think that it goes around in circles a bit but it changes & stays very intresting. The anime only finishes the first season wich in the book is in volume 8 so If you decide to watch the anime & want to continue read the manga and what follows the anime is towards the end of volume 8. So don't look past this anime/manga because of the drawing watch/read it anyways because otherwise you will miss something great!!!

What can I say it was a beautiful anime! The ending as sad but good. Some bad things are not much thrill well drama I don't know whats the word? When I first started out watching this anime I couldn't get enough. Nanami was a cute character! Yano's past was great too but after watching the whole thing I thought we know nothing about Nana's past!

This anime is so unbelieveably sad! But I loved it! Best anime yet! Realistic, amazing, and every other good word possible. I recommend anyone who loves romance to watch it. It's a tear-jerker I can tell you that. Especially later on in the episodes. If you wanna watch it, remember to bring your tissues.

This is a love story between nana a simple careless school girl and a popular guy yano...
This is the first anime that made me cry it is so heart warming....it has a lot of twist..it was just amazing...
but the character drawings are a little creepy..sometimes they are drawn with only an eye...

but the story was great i love it