23 minSeason 1 • Episode 24
LatestJun declines Seki's offer and becomes the pilot for the final round. During the long battle, he reminisces about his fallen comrades while struggling to save the Earth once and for all.
During a summer camp, 15 children, 8 males and 7 females, find a grotto by the sea. Deep within they discover working computers and some electronic equipment, and later the owner, a man called Kokopelli. Kokopelli claimed to be a programmer working on a brand new game, in which a large robot has to defend the Earth against fifteen alien invasions. He persuades the children to test the game and sign a contract. All but one of them signs; barely a moment later they mysteriously awaken on the shore believing what happened was just a dream.
Writing
Each episode is a complete character tragedy. No one is safe.
Direction
Deconstructs mecha tropes into something genuinely horrifying.
Acting
Koemushi's voice performance is cheerfully malevolent perfection.
Junko Minagawa
Jun Ushiro (voice)
Akira Ishida
Koemushi (voice)
Naomi Shindo
Misumi Tanaka (voice)
Yuko Sanpei
Yōko Machi (voice)
Kana Asumi
Kana Ushiro (voice)
Shinji Kawada
Masamitsu Seki (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Takami Komoda (voice)
Kenji Nojima
Kanji Yoshikawa (voice)
Shintaro Asanuma
Yōsuke Kirie (voice)
Yui Makino
Aiko Tokosumi (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
Daiichi Yamura (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Takashi Waku (voice)
Yuka Iguchi
Mako Nakarai (voice)
Soichiro Hoshi
Masaru Kodaka (voice)
Keisuke Oda
Isao Kako (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
From the creator of Narutaru, another 'kids in trauma' classic. Mohiro Kitoh genuinely enjoys making readers suffer.
Often compared to Evangelion, but Bokurano strips away any hope of parental figures or cosmic redemption. The kids are utterly alone.
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Finished this outside of a story based around hell this is the MOST DEPRESSING story that has and will ever be made topping it is with the above exception legitimately impossible to do... while you may not cry as much as or as hard as some others realizing the magnitude of everything on and off screen combined is just insane... regardless i don't regret it it was a easy watch(not overly brutal or rape/over the top dark scenes) i wont say anymore watch it your self its 24 episodes
@shayoko6 43
Reading the manga, I was convinced halfway through that this is the most depressing manga every, but by the end, I thought it actually ended on a pretty hopeful and optimistic note. Reading the manga was kinda like going through the different stages of grief. Once you accept the fact that no one is surviving, it's a little less difficult to deal with what you just read.
@shara30000 2
@Ergoagent NO. Bokurano is more similar stylistically to Gantz. The story is very different from Evangelion, and some reviewers even say that the overall theme is opposite. Depressing (even makes EVA look optimistic!) but quite interesting.
@polynesiapolygon 17
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