bokurano

There are a few good friends I have to thank for getting me active into anime consumption in the last few years; It was in 2016 when Kimmy, a Hollywood stuntwoman, put me onto an anime titled Bokurano, the coming-of-sage sci-fi epic about a group of fifteen unwitting teenagers contractually swindled by a so-called “game designer” into test-playing a unique new video game. As the story goes, that game turned out to be in the form of Zearth, a giant black mecha they would each take turns piloting against hordes of monsters that would attack Earth. Here, with the consultation of a floating creature named Koyemshi, each battle would be fought using Zearth, which not only operates on life force, but also asserts the cost of victory would be the pilot’s death following each insane battle. The 2007 anime arose from Kitoh Mohiro’s 2003 manga publication, and includes what remains […]

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