Bokura Ga Ita movie (my fav manga)

Bokura Ga Ita/ We Were Here

Bokura Ga Ita, is one of my fav manga, this story always make me crying and smiling, if you read 1st book, its a lot comedy but in the end this story verry make me sad.

This manga profile from wikipedia ^.<

We Were There (僕等がいた Bokura ga Ita?) is a Japanese romance manga by Yuki Obata, which chronicles the love relationship between a boy called Motoharu Yano and a girl called Nanami Takahashi, starting from their teenage years and continuing during their early twenties. 

It has been serialized in Betsucomi from 2002 to 2012. The series went on hiatus in early 2008, but resumed publication in June 2009. It is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media. It was adapted into a 26-episode television anime series which aired from July 3 to December 25, 2006.

In 2005, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo *OMEDETOUU

Plot

The story starts with Nanami Takahashi, a teenage girl in her first year of highschool, who hopes to make new friends as soon as possible. The center of attention at her school is Motoharu Yano, a very popular boy, whom Nanami dislikes at the beginning, due to his apparent superficiality. However, she soon falls in love with him, but Yano is still affected by the loss of his girlfriend, Nana Yamamoto. Nana's death occurred in a car crash a year before the beginning of the story. Because she was with her ex-boyfriend at the time of her death, Yano suspects she was cheating on him. Due to this, he is unable to trust people or to talk about his late relationship; instead, he chooses to pretend he does not care very much about the situation.

Nanami ends by confessing to Yano, but rejects him when he is unable to tell her if he loves her back. Despite of that, she is still willing to support him and reassures him she will always be by his side. Soon, Yano realizes he fell in love with her as well, so they start going out. However, Yano's secrets (including the fact he slept with Nana's little sister, Yuri, after the accident and his unwillingness to talk about his feelings for his dead girlfriend) make Nanami unsure until the point she ends the relationship, believing she is unable to make him happy. The story becomes even more complicated when Masafumi Takeuchi, Yano's best friend, also falls in love with Nanami and becomes Yano's rival.

Due to these circumstances, Nanami is confused over whom she should choose, but she soon realizes that Yano is the one she genuinely loves. She accepts to start going out with him again, with the condition to find out more about the relationship between Nana and Yano and his true feelings about what had happened. Their romance takes an unexpected turn when Yano finds out that his mother wants to move to Tokyo. Nanami tells him not to take her into consideration, so Yano leaves the town with his mother. After half a year, he stops contacting Nanami and disappears without a trace.

After expecting him for four years, Nanami starts a relationship with Takeuchi. Even so, she is still in love with Yano and unable to forget about their common past - which is why she rejects Takeuchi when he proposes to her. She soon befriends a girl named Akiko Sengenji, who is later revealed to be one of Yano's classmates from the Tokyo highschool he transferred at. Akiko is in love with Yano as well, but, despite of that, she sees Nanami as a friend, not as a rival. She is the one who reveals Yano's whereabouts to Nanami and also the fact that he lives with Yuri Yamamoto. Upon meeting Nanami for the first time in more than five years, Yano claims he is in love with another woman, but when Nanami tells him that she knows about the relationship between him and Yuri, he admits that he only stays with Yamamoto because her mother is dying and he feels he can't leave her alone. He also tells Nanami about his mother's suicide, and also about his panic attacks. During this meeting, it is hinted that he's still in love with her.

Meanwhile, Takeuchi decides to continue his relationship with Nanami, but only as friends. He tells her that she will eventually reach Yano and asks her to wait for him. He also starts to push Yano to admit his own feelings for Nanami and points out that no matter how strong she seems, she is unable to deal with the situation by herself. Nanami and Yano have an unexpected meeting, during which Yano finally confesses he wanted her to hold him back instead of letting him leave with his mother. Shortly after, Yuri's mother dies, which prompts Yuri to end her relationship with Yano. She reveals to him that her sister Nana never cheated on him and that she only wanted to have a proper break-up with her ex-boyfriend at the time of the accident.

Yano decides to start over with Nanami and tries to contact her on the telephone. He fails several times due to her busy schedule, but eventually reaches her. During their talk, Nanami is involved in an accident and brought to the hospital unconscious. Terrified by the possibility of losing her, Yano rushes at her side - as a result, the two of them are reunited. The final of the manga shows Yano proposing to Nanami and then visiting Nana's tomb with her.

Characters

Nanami "Nana" Takahashi (高橋 七美 Takahashi Nanami?), the series protagonist, is a girl who falls in love during high school with the popular Motoharu Yano. They struggle with issues of trusting one another as the shadow of Yano's dead girlfriend, who was with another guy at the time she died, looms over them. In the manga, eventually Yano's inability to let go and her inability to focus on the future rather than the past lead to their breaking up. She eventually begins dating Takeuchi, Yano's best friend, but is unable to forget her former love. She is shown to be very sweet and caring, and she supports Yano unconditionally, even putting her own feelings and needs aside. She is described as having a "baby-like" face by both Yano and Takeuchi. In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Nozomi Sasaki.

Motoharu "Moto" Yano (矢野 元晴 Yano Motoharu?) is a popular boy whose girlfriend was killed in a car crash while out with another guy. He has a hard time trusting Nanami, and displays jealousy and possessiveness, but he is also shown to be really childish and willing to receive affection (Nanami even compares him with a cat at one point). As the series progresses, he wrestles with his feelings for his dead girlfriend versus those for the living Nanami, whom he even calls "Nana-chan" at times. Yano moves to Tokyo with his mom, but after half a year he stops contacting Nanami, effectively breaking up with her. Eventually it is revealed that his mother killed herself, after which he disappeared. He reappears four years later, living with Yamamoto but still remembering Nanami. The tragedies he had to cope with left him in a deeply state of despair, making him to blame himself and believe there is something wrong with his way of loving. He lately manages to recover with Nanami and Takeuchi's help. In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Hiroshi Yazaki.

Masafumi "Take" Takeuchi (竹内 匡史 Takeuchi Masafumi?) is Yano's close friend and becomes a friend and confidant for Nanami after she begins dating Yano. As the series progresses, he finds himself falling in love with her, leaving him unsure how to proceed. When Yano breaks up with Nanami, they begin dating. He eventually proposes, but she turns him down. He is a really understanding, calm and nice person and cares deeply for both Nanami and Yano (whom he calls "Moto"). After being rejected by Nanami, he decides to do his best to support her and bring Yano back to her. In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Takuji Kawakubo.

Yuri Yamamoto (山本 有里 Yamamoto Yuri?) is the younger sister of Nana, Yano's late girlfriend. She suffers a lot because of her unrequited love for Yano. A week after Nana's death, Yano had sex with her. She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he was pitying her. After Yano begins dating Nanami, she becomes an obstacle for their relationship as Yano continues displaying some closeness with her. After her mother gets sick, Yano moves in with her. When her mother dies, she decides to let Yano go and ends their relationship. She also reveals to Yano the truth about her sister's feelings for him. In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Erina Nakayama.

Akiko "Aki" Sengenji (千見寺 亜希子 Sengenji Akiko?) is Yano's former classmate from Tokyo. She is also in love with Yano, but is well aware by the fact he only sees her as a friend. Therefore, she does not see Nanami as a rival. She is the one who reveals Yano's whereabouts to Nanami and is shown to have a hard time dealing with the whole story - she confesses at one point that she would be unable to wait for someone as long as Nanami did. Her character does not appear in the anime at all.

Nana Yamamoto (山本 奈々 Yamamoto Nana?) is Yano's girlfriend who died in a car accident before the start of the series. Despite of the fact she was older than Yano, she had a really childish personality, therefore being considered stupid by most of Yano's friends. She was the first woman Yano ever loved, which made her one of the most important obstacles in the relationship between him and Nanami. In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Yurin.

Anime

See also: List of Bokura ga Ita episodes

We Were There was adapted into an anime series by ArtLand which premiered in Japan on July 23, 2006. It aired for twenty-six episodes until its conclusion on December 25, 2006. The episodes were released to nine Region 2 DVD volumes by Pony Canyon, with each volume containing three episodes, except the final volume which contained two. The first volume was released on October 4, 2006 and the last on June 6, 2007.

Film

Main article: Bokura ga Ita (film)

In May 2011, production on a live-action film adaption of the manga was announced and the film will be released in two parts.The film is being directed by Solanin and stars Ikuta Toma and Yoshitaka Yuriko.It is expected to be released in Japanese theaters in the spring of 2012.

Other media

Two CD soundtracks, produced by Marvelous Entertainment, were released by Geneon Entertainment on February 7, 2007 using music from the anime adaptation. Eternity (永遠 Eien) contained twelve tracks, while Locus (軌跡 Kiseki) contained twenty-two.

A fan book, We Were There Official Fan Book (僕等がいた 公式ファンブック Bokura ga Ita Koushiki Fan Bukku) containing character profiles, a summary of the story, and commentary on the series from Obata was published by Shogakukan on November 25, 2005.A 36 page post card book was released December 21, 2007.