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

weelll thers a girl called takashi nanamii and she falls in love and iz dating the most populer guy in school, yano but he already HAD a girlfriend called nana awwwww yanos soooooo cute his laugh is soooo cute awwwwww

i like bokura ga ita !! i at first when i was watching it with my friend,, i thought it would be boring ^.^
but now i quite like it.. i don't really read the manga...but ilove the anime. i like yano the best !!
it's got great storyline and nice music along with it !

This anime is difficult to sum up in a short space! what starts off as a straightforward girl meets boy romance rapidly developes into a series of overlapping love triangles, as the main characters struggle to alternately surpress/express their emotions towards each other. The fact that one of the triangles involves a dead person (no ghosts or spirits) shows how complex this storyline becomes.
It is their first year in High School, and all the girls are talking about Yano Motoharu. The most popular boy at his middle school, he has had a number of girlfriends. It is said that 2/3rds of the girls in his class were in love with him.

Coming from a small middle school, Takahashi Nanami is initially unaware of Motoharu’s reputation. Gawky, and a bit plain, she doesn’t usually attract the attention of the popular boys. After a prank, she is hostile towards him, especially as her classmate, Yamamoto Yuri, appears to hate him! She has to spend time working with him, as they have been elected as Class President and Vice President.

After a series of encounters, she begins to be drawn in by his outgoing and friendly nature. She is intrigued by the fact that he seems to know a lot about Yuri, even though they never seem to talk together. She is shocked to find out that Motoharu was dating Yuri’s older sister, Nana, who was killed in an accident the year before.

To the bemusement of their classmates, Popular Boy and Plain Jane start to hang out together. They both turn to Motoharu’s childhood friend, Takeuchi, for advice and information. He gets drawn into the developing relationship between the two, and doesn’t altogether approve of the way Motoharu sometimes uses Nanami, and so the stage is set!

Why does Yuri hate Motoharu so much? Is it to do with her sisters death, or something else?
Just how obsessed is Motoharu with his previous girlfriend? What part did he play in her death?
How will Nanami overcome his seeming obsession with Nani, and her growing jealousy of the intensity of their relationship?
How much does Takeuchi know of what happened last year? How much will he choose to reveal as he grows closer to Nanami?

Every episode brings new revelations, that make the plot truly absorbing, and kept me viewing for night after night!

Sound, Graphics etc:
The anime is drawn in an unusual way. Frequently, especially in close up, the characters are drawn with only half a face. It can be a bit disconcerting as you view a face with only one eye! Sometimes the backgrounds are quite simply drawn, allowing you to concentrate on the story. Colours are muted, with lots of pale pastels used, enhancing the simple feel.

There is a lot of “internal” dialogue as the characters struggle with their conflicting emotions. In the later episodes there are long pauses in the dialogue as these conflicts lead to periods of indecision.

Avankiri is going to tell me off, but even though I have just rewatched episode 1, I can’t really remember much about the music. What can I say, I was concentrating on the story!

So! A romantic drama! No action! No ecchi! Not to everybody’s liking I know, but I would really recommend this series.


-by emored13

Plot Summary: Nanami Takahashi, a 15 year old high school student, falls in love with and begins dating the most popular guy in school, Yano Motoharu. However, their relationship is not easily maintainable. Yano's past, as well as the complex emotions they bring up, make it difficult to be completely honest about how he feels. Caught in the middle are Yuri Yamamoto, the younger sister of Yano's now dead ex-girlfriend, and Takeuchi Masafumi, Yano's best friend. Yuri's past with Yano goes deeper than one might suspect and her feelings run deeper than she portrays in public. Takeuchi cherishes Yano's friendship, but at the same time, he may lose it for someone dear to him. Nanami must search deep inside herself and find her true feelings for Yano while being able to trust and accept Yano's feelings for her as well, deciding if Yano is indeed the one for her or if someone else can provide better solace. Along the way Nanami will get tips from her love infatuated friends, Mizu and Taka. ~Antoine B.

I really liked this anime. Although it was really sad and made me cry at time over all it was really good! It threw some surprises at me and the characters were exciting. Although i wanted to yell at Nana a couple of times, lol. Although it was sad it was also funny, i laughed so hard i fell out of my chair (not lying).

On first look, Bokura ga Ita looks like it's yet another cliched soap about the beauty of young love. However, it isn't just an ordinary story as the two characters, Takahashi Nanami and Yano Motoharu go through a series of twists and turns that test the strength of their love. It is neither sweet nor bitter and is believable, for the most part. (This is an anime so what can you expect?)



This anime was never monotonous or boring. Some parts were a great laugh, especially the lewd jokes (Don't worry, this anime is still PG-13!) and others drove me nearly to tears. The simple character designs provided a soft touch to this anime, yet it never came across as a rushed job. You could see the effort put into crafting the characters. In addition, these simple character designs helped me concentrate more on the relationships between the characters.



The Characters were really easy to relate to. I could really understand how they felt and why they acted the way they did, though I didn't always agree with them. You have to admit, Nanami and Yano were being a little too indecisive at times and Yamamoto Yuri was more like a phantom than a friend. One character I really liked was Takeuchi Masafumi as he was sensitive and caring. He seemed to really want Nanami to have her happiness in a selfless sort of way and I could tell that he valued his friendship with Yano very much. Those qualities, to me, made him really admirable.



Music-wise, it is merely average. The opening theme song Kimi Dake Wo (Only You) is rather safe but there isn't much else to dislike about it as it's quite fitting to the storyline of the anime in the first half. However, in the second half, where it starts to get a bit depressing because of all the tears, from Nanami, no doubt, it gets a bit weird. I would have prefered a second opening theme. The many ending theme songs, like the opening theme song, are satisfactory.



As for the storyline, I felt it was good that they kept to the storyline of the original manga, up to Volume 9 where the anime ended. However, I felt that the anime should have been continued through the rest of the manga, despite the dark storyline of the rest of the manga. I felt that the rest of the storyline is very good and very real, even more so than the storyline of the anime itself. Thus, it is a pity that it is not on anime.



Thus, in conclusion, it is worth a watch for anyone who loves slice-of-life anime. However, I warn you that most find the cliffhanger ending unacceptable and go on to spend many days and nights wondering what happened to the pair as the character development really makes you empathise with them. That was exactly what happened to me before I picked up the manga.

this anime really made me freak out of my chair(im not actually sitting).
the theme of the story seems to be more modernized because the main cast at the young age learn about love. Not only about puppy love but a more serious and complicated love. Making love became a simpler matter to the character.