Short Anime Review: “Bokura ga Ita”
Yano: “I wish I could erase my past, to stop you from crying. If I could, I would, but I can’t. That’s impossible. So we’ll just have to make my past pale in comparison to the present.”
Nana: “How do we do that?”
Yaho: “Like this… with you, in the reality of present with me.”
With the complete lack of shoujo anime series this season, I started searching for past season to satisfy my shoujo hunger. Bokura ga Ita happens to be the one I chose.
In the beginning of the first year of high school, the cute, innocent and clumsy Nanami Takahashi falls in love with the popular and cool Yano. She confesses to him, and he replies to her feelings at the school festival. The two starts dating. However, Yano has a deep secret: he has a past, an ex-girlfriend that he is still in love with, whom he cannot forget, Though, she no longer exists, she was killed in a car accident a year ago. Spending lots of time with Takahashi, Yano knows he loves her, but he cannot forget his past, a past that hurts and bothers her so much that he hopes never existed.
An unusual slow pace shoujo series about the couple working out issues and opening their hearts to each other, the entire series is filled with touching and quotable dialogues like the one above. You wouldn’t find the typical shoujo plot, where the story ends when the couple becomes a couple and holds hands; the story is filled with realistic problems and circumstances. I would compare this to Kare kano (minus the comedy). So yes, go watch it, I recommend it!