Info
- Title:: Bokura no
- TitleEN:: Bokurano
- Studio:: Gonzo
- Year:: 2007
- Episodes:: 24
Log
2024-01-03 – 2024-01-30
ep1: 2024-01-03
mainly because uninstall is a bop. my roommate told me about it because i was playing unbuild of sharpnel and she recognized the song because it’s a bop, and she told me that it came from this show. i told chloe that i started watching this because of the opening song, and she said recognized uninstall immediately because it’s a bop. she didn’t know anything else about the show.
so i guess it’s on me to watch it now!
- these kids act and talk like how adults think kids act and talk
- this setup feels exceptionally contrived? like a lot of things that line up here are rather suspicious, and i wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some twist like they were in the simulation from the very start
- aww is this gonna be like geneshaft where the show is partially an excuse to have a cgi robot
ep7: 2024-01-08
you know, posting pics of yourself committing statutory rape in a very public place online is generally considered unwise.
chizuru deserved better. i would’ve protected her heart better. i would’ve been a better sensei to her.
…do i have a crush on this anime girl now?
ep11: 2024-01-21
there’s something about this show which is heartbreaking in a way that feels overt, though that doesn’t stop it from still working on me.
the interiority of these kids who are going to die nameless, with dreams unfulfilled.
conclusion: 2024-01-30
this show was…
- it really felt like it was trying to pursue four different plot threads and, given 24 episodes, there was no real way they could wholeheartedly follow all of them…
- the story and backstories of the individual children
- the government and military intervention + the simultaneous coverup of zearth while seeking to profit from it
- the interrelations of the families with the kids and the yakuza and the government and how they’re all more related than they realized (i think this one actually works surprisingly well?)
- the game itself and its connection to the masterminds
- speaking of the game and the masterminds, is it me or did all of those stakes get set up just to be dropped? and even the ending didn’t have them rising up to try to defeat their overlords or abolish the game for good; they just opted out of continuing the cycle of violence
for now- really, it’s sorta insufficiently argued as to why the parallel universes needed to be culled in the first place, when even the winners become feeders for the empire. this could just be the writers inventing stakes for the sake of having stakes, and i’m well enough done with things like that
- and while i’m here, is it me or is the earth these kids are saving honestly one of the worst ones portrayed? the others either seem to have a sort of “society if” futurism to them or have a much more communal orientation (shoutout to pit world). and most of the kids have shitty lives that make it seem like this world isn’t worth saving if it treats them like this…
- these are the most geriatric giant robots i’ve seen in fiction todate, perhaps only rivaled by the junkers in Casshern Sins (2008). they possess technology far beyond any current civilization’s but they didn’t think to lube em up with wd-40
- i’d kiss ushiro jun just as soon as i’d curbstomp him for how he treats his sister, the negligent entitled brat who lacks the bush to call himself ore. don’t you get it? little sisters are meant to be loved! and she’s dripping to be loved by you!
- if either of my little sisters ever looked at me like kana-chan did then i would’ve readily devoted my life to serving them