#1
Posted 27 March 2012 - 07:23 PM
Really interesting and amazing.
I've heard the anime is good, but also not as dark which is what they tend to do when they make anime.
I can appreciate wanting to lighten it up a bit, but it usually takes away from the story.
Thoughts?
Favorite characters or individual stories?
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#2
Posted 03 June 2012 - 09:15 PM
My favorite character is Jun Ushiro, in both versions he is well-developed, though Komoda, Kirei and and Nakama´s arcs are arguably the best and most meaningful ones.
EDIT: The anime actually it´s really good, if you are able to see it from its own merits
Edited by Alicepheeze, 26 August 2012 - 10:20 PM.
#3
Posted 29 June 2012 - 07:15 PM
#4
Posted 20 September 2012 - 04:59 AM
My 3 fave pilots would be:
-Mohiji
-Nakama
-Daichi
But gawd everyone is so admirable, dunno about Kako and Kodama.
Maki's arc was so heart-wrenching...
#5
Posted 07 October 2012 - 03:46 AM
Still, this is one of my favs, and I'll usually recommend it to anyone looking for an epic sci-fi or tragedy piece.
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#6
Posted 17 January 2014 - 12:06 AM
First of all I'd like to say sorry for bumping this old thread but I guess being this the only thread about this manga this should be forgiveable right?
Moving on, I would like to say that this is easily one of the best manga/anime that I have ever read/seen. It had been dormant for a long time, even a couple of years, since I began reading it. At the time it had not been completed and for some reason or another I forgot its name and when I finally found it again I rejoiced and almost jumped of joy for finding it back again and it being complete.
Since the first few chapters you can see that this will be a work worth of expectations for its daring and ruthlessness. I, for one, tire myself of the shounen like mangas where teenagers are suddenly transformed into heroes and fit their roles completely and flawlessly. Sure, shounen manga does have its worth, I will not deny that I enjoy them from time to time, but Bokurano a along with another anime I forgot the name, one in which a bunch of teenagers suddenly find themselves in command of this huge space battleship and have to fight their way out of it or die trying, truly depict, IMHO, what a teenager would feel like if suddenly thrown in such a situation. Heck, even adults that were not prepared physically and even more so mentally to have to face such situations would fall in panic.
Now, not everything is really "real", I mean if we forget the huge sci-fi thing that is, as the teenagers were in more than one occasion really a bit too mature but considering that it IS a MANGA, and in this case a work of fiction, it should and must be excused in its moments of surrealism. Even if there is moments as these, the fact that the story is more about the whole situation, the scenario faced by the children, these moments are enriching actually.
To be able to see the growth in maturity of them rather than their growth in physical potential is actually a lot more rewarding if we were to consider the fact that a lot of manga/anime out there are more worried about an immediate usefulness of their growth and not a growth that can be not so useful "tomorrow" but through out life as a whole.
Also, as someone has already said before, the fact that from beginning to end there be no real miraculously changes in the story (reminds me of MaiHime, sorry!) could actually make it somewhat boring, but since you can actually see changes in the characters and their way of seeing the world along with the never ending twists in the story, twists that actually made sense, does not allow you to have that urge of "just finish already!" that some mangas fall pray to.
Finishing up the post,
Edited by Tsumi, 28 September 2014 - 04:46 AM.