Bokura no – 10

I may be wrong, but I think we’re currently at the quietest part of Bokura no, in which the children whose backgrounds can be taken care of in one episode are featured. I think we can expect Kirie next time. Because of this, Bokura no has temporarily become a case-based show (a series which features one character per episode). The thing with the case-based show is that you’ve got the phenomenal and awesome cases (episode nine), and the normal cases (episode ten). This episode was by no means bad, but the previous episode was just so incredibly good, that this episode just doesn’t live up to it. The episode features Mako, and we get to see the reason why she’s so shy: her mother works as a hostess. Because of that, all her classmates think that she’s some kind of weird girl, Mako got ashamed of her mother, and she started to get bullied. She basically spends the episode, trying to understand her mother a bit better. One thing I did like was how Mako tried to be useful somehow, by making outfits for the different pilots. She only had the time to finish four of them, but I like how she turned out to be a very good tailor. Tana also made sure for a nice surprise in the end, when she asked Tanaka to look for Jun’s real mother. This does mean that the two of them have different parents, and that Jun’s mother divorced his father at one point. The father then kept Jun, remarried, and they got Kana. After that, they either died or disappeared. I didn’t expect this, though. A few episodes ago, Sasa noted that she might kill Jun at one point, but right now it looks like she’s trying to save him, despite the hard time he gives her. I think that with this pacing, we can expect Bokurano to be either a 24-episode-series or a 26-episode-series. I’m glad to see that the creators realize this. We’ve got 14-16 episodes left, with eight pilots left. This means that there will be enough time left to give each character enough background without rushing it, and the fact that the creators are turning up the pacing already at this point must mean that they’ve got a rather interesting ending in mind. I can’t wait to find out. ^^; Interestingly enough, this episode also cut back on the animation-budget a bit. Mako looked a bit weird during a few of her shots, and the fight was rather short and meaningless, when compared to the others.]]>