Bokurano

Better than Evangelion?
Why?

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>Better than Evangelion?
Haha, no. It's damn great, though.

More feels. Not better or worse though. Still makes me cry.

Dunno about Evangelion, never watched it. But it definitely better than Madoka. The latter even copies some of its elements.

The manga is far superior to Eva

I love Mohiro Kitoh

Anime is fucking shit, manga is pretty good. Still better than Eva cause Bokurano goes by the lets make everything terrible for each character. Fights are also less interesting,

UNINSTALL

yes.
fewer shitty characters.
story makes sense.
but still emo af.

That's kind of a low bar to set I felt like you only did it to draw in free bumps.

Can we actually discuss the show though? I like how the anime and manga both had intertwining endings. Also it gave me a Digimon feeling. Not sure why but pic related maybe why.

>Also it gave me a Digimon feeling. Not sure why

Me too.

Didn't read the manga yet but I liked the anime and its ending was great. It's nice if it's intertwining. Apparently Kitoh gave the anime team some tips?

>manga-news.com/index.php/report/Mohiro-Kitoh

>He always wanted to be a mangaka, without truly believing he could achieve it. He works as a salaryman for 3 years.

>The story of "The right hand of Vendemiaire" (a short, that inspired him to do the short series Wings of Vendemiaire) came to him for a android-themed doujin a friend of his was publishing. It's one of the only stories he wrote without thinking deeply about it first, solely with his own interpretation of the word android. The next year, by reflecting more deeply on all of this, he made Wings of Vendemiaire.

>With the agreement of an Afternoon editor, he developed Narutaru, his first hit series, his longest to this day. He then quits being assistant for Kikuchi Shota (author of Onsen).

>Creating Narutaru's story wasn't quite easy. First built around characters leading the action, like his editor advised him, Kitoh wasn't satisfied and went back, lowering the importance of those, which is his favorite workflow to date [TN: not sure about "lowering the importance of those, it literally says "subordinating the characters", I'm not using this word often].

>He has a great inferiority complex drawing-wise, he's searching for a clear mid-level between shounen and seinen, far from his ideal style constituted by authors like Matsumoto Jirou (Freesia) or Takako Shimura (Hourou Musuko) that he loves the compositions.

>Not discouraged by the reserved reception of Narutaru's ending, he gives a mecha-story draft to an Ikki editor, with the simple idea that the pilot dies after piloting. The story who wouldn't have found its place in Afternoon by the side of Sonoda Kenichi's Exaxxion finds its place in Ikki which gives him a lot of freedom of action.

>He tries to quit the weirdness of his previous stories to focus on the characters and their psychology.

>The anime differs from the manga in its second part to bring an original conclusion thought by Kitoh since the beginning of the anime project. [TN: I read somewhere that Kitoh told the manga fans not to watch the anime, I thought he didn't like it but maybe he just wanted to prevent disappointment since he knew]

>Kitoh told the director ignored elements of the manga for the anime to go in a specific direction, to the free will of the anime staff. It also contributed to renew Kitoh's imagination.

>Kitoh likes fishing, cycling and planes.

>He always wanted to be mangaka but it's a source of unexpected hardships. His will to tell stories is like a fire that he has to feed constantly with new elements. He always listen to the news.

I prefer the Bokurano manga to NGE by far, but they aren't the same thing and I'm tired of retards who think that having robots and character drama makes them directly comparable.

Why did no one arrest the pedo teacher?

>Apparently Kitoh gave the anime team some tips?
What? No, the exact opposite. The anime director hated the manga and changed a bunch of shit (in my and a lot of others' opinions he completely ruined it), and even made a statement telling anyone who liked the manga to basically just not watch it and stop criticizing him.

There are two more pages that I didn't read yet, didn't notice, but it seems interesting.

Source is, the writer of this article said, an article in the magazine Erotics F N°51 (in which Hallucination from the Womb was published).

Yeah that's what you usually read but in the article I partly translated (which was translated from what I just said) he doesn't seem that negative to the anime, or at least at the beginning. Maybe he didn't like the direction in which the director went, despite giving him free reins.

Anyone else think that Narutaru is total shit in comparison to Bokurano (the manga versions)? They're both incredibly dark and depressing but Bokurano always worked in a surprisingly hopeful message into almost every kid's arc about how valuable life and everything in it is and having them reconcile that with the fact that they had to sacrifice their lives. Narutaru, meanwhile. felt like fucking edgy misery porn with no real message other than generic nihilism about how bad humans suck. I read Bokurano first aside from children dying it was hard to believe it was written by the same person.

I liked it, it's not dumb edgy, even if a bit gratuitous at times.

Best part of the anime.
Anko best girl

Bokurano is far better, but I actually liked Narutaru well enough on a recent reread. Still one of his weaker manga, but not as bad I originally felt.

The manga yes, for sure

Weaker, compared to what? How good are his other things?

Vendemiaire? Noririn?

I think his best are Bokurano, Vendemiaire, Hallucinations from the Womb, and the small amount we got of Miles. I also did like the translated parts of Noririn quite a bit, despite the general reception it got. Not the same kind of thing, obviously, but the characters were likable and age gap is my fetish.

But in boku the overall feeling was that their was always a constant threat that they couldnt escape from so it didn't really matter if they won or lost

I've only read both of them the one time but stuff like the rape/murder/mutilation by the random thugs and then the bullied/abused girl who had been absent for well over half the story returning at the very end just so they could show her committing suicide really left a bad taste in my mouth as far as making it feel ridiculously sadistic. I exaggerated in saying it's total shit but I definitely felt a big difference between the two works when it came to depth.

Not him, but what? I didn't get that feeling at all. Of course it mattered if they won or lost, because there are things that matter besides just their own lives. That's the whole damn point.

It definitely still mattered because if they lost their reality ceased to exist and if they won then their earth got to keep existing. The big thing they had to deal with was that either way, the person fighting was going to die either way and that by winning they were also killing billions of people in their opponent's reality.

I have to say, I liked how the anime included a more hopeful ending. What with the threat being actually gone, instead of "well the Earth was saved for now..."

That's about the only thing I'd keep from the anime, though. I want to keep all the despair of the manga, Jun's sister dying, Jun having to personally eliminate every single person on the alt-planet, etc. Just let me know that the Earth is permanently removed from the system and won't have to undergo this sort of horror in the future.

>kitoh did a cycling shonen manga before it was cool

I really disliked the hopeful ending, actually. It's not like the manga said their world was surely going to come back up, it just didn't really address it either way because no one knew what it was or how it worked. It was some mysterious arbitrary event, and I liked it that way.

it's not like the manga was a bad ending or anything, I just liked how the anime gave me an alternate version where things are just a little bit happier.

Plus I'm not a fan of arbitrary cosmic bullshit, like Milk Closet.

They killed billions of people, sure they saved the lives of their own people for a while but why did it matter if in a few weeks they might be subjected to it again. It just seemed to convey death is inevitable no matter how hard you struggle

> why did it matter if in a few weeks they might be subjected to it again
There was no suggestion that it was going to suddenly come back, though. There's just always the chance of death, which is, yes, inevitable. But death being inevitable isn't the message, that's the premise - a premise that, in case you're somehow missing this, is 100% true to life, despite the exaggerated context of the manga - and the message is that you do what you can despite that and make the choices available to you.

The anime is shitty but that op music is so good.