This is a spoilerfree review : When I started reading Bokurano I really wasnt expecting much. But by the time I finished the first volume I knew that I was in for one hell of an emotionally devastating ride. Story Bokurano written and illustrated by Mohiroh Kitoh is a series that goes in depth about acceptance despair revenge lifes value and more but its premise is pretty simple. One day a bunch of middle school teenagers come across a random stranger and he offers them a chance to play an exciting new real life game. The kids all take turns riding an enormous and powerful 500m tall robot later called Zearth that can shoot lasers from everywhere on its body and the goal is to use it to protect the planet from enormous alien monsters. Yup the planets actually at stake in this game. 640https://externalpreview.redd.it/Zoit4TTp9vKI8MR0Y8XUz1GZDjvq452hPRzFUzjwCs.jpg?width=640crop=smartauto=webps=e63657e86cc367673b7355180417559a55bf28b0 The story doesnt focus just on the deep heavy and complex themes I mentioned about earlier but the twists and turns of the story provide plenty of gutpunching moments and events that make you HURT. As we move further and further into the manga we see that not all fights are the same as we can see from how different each Zearth pilot is and how differently each enemy alien fights. As time goes on the plot thickens and thickens more and more people get involved and the feels just keep on hurting. I wont say much more but at the time of writing this review its been one day since I finished reading and I still feel wrecked. Characters 640https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834148174490894386/861054007283286016/unknown.png As we know all these kids have to fight the aliens to protect their home and their loved ones but what really makes this story shine is how much depth and uniqueness Kitoh added to each of these kids backgrounds outlooks and the way they handle the enormous responsibility they have to protect the lives of around 7 billion people. One by one we go through the whole group of 15 kids. We learn so much about these characters and their thoughts burdened as they are with such a heavy responsibility. Each characters story is varied and interesting from heartwarming to disturbing to sad and so forth. Each arc is always different from the last and every time we finish an arc we think man this kids arc was so good theres no way this ones gonna be as good and the next kid does just that. Because of how great each arc ends though it is pretty easy to get burned out because of how high each character sets the bar although this might just be a me problem. With each of these characters arcs having so many great themes attached combined with the twist and turns of the plot we get a tragic yet amazing story. Art When the story focuses on humans the art is pretty average. Not groundbreaking not terrible. But when Kitoh wants to put in effort on a shot with landscapes the giant Zearth and his welldesigned aliens its really good 640https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/137201990546489345/860040619623317504/unknown.png?width=902height=676 640https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/137201990546489345/860639169033666590/unknown.png 640https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/137201990546489345/860655624962048000/unknown.png In the end the art gives more than enough compliment to this tragic and hearttwisting story. I have zero complaints about it. So long story short its great. Im aware that there are people out there who dont like these kinds of emotionallyheavy stories and after finishing Bokurano I cant exactly blame them. If you dont like stories that pull your heart out and twist it 5 times this isnt really for you. But dont get me wrong the fact that this manga shook me so much that I still feel it a day after finishing it only proves its genius.