Bokura ga Ita Episode 20 – Nana’s forebording

Nana’s hairstyle can be totally atrocious sometimes. She changes her hairstyle more than a superstar.

End of before thoughts.

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Episode summary

Takeuchi’s friend had forced him to go for another Goukon, since he was always free. As he went with another friend, it seemed that they were all lovey dovey with each other, making him feel like a total lightbulb. Eventually, we realized that it was the other girl tagging along, Isa, who was interested in Takeuchi and asked him to give her a month to be together.

He agreed, even though he did not like her. As Yano was sleeping, Lala the dog was sleeping on him, as he tried to shrug him off. As he finally opened his eyes, his two friends were there as they were celebrating Takeuchi having a new girlfriend. Yano simply called him an idiot and said that he had a date with Nana.

As they went out, Yano forgot that he was not to wear the red track suit because it would look very couple like and daring. She was annoyed but Yano said he forgot due to a little problem that happened when he came and appeased her by bringing her to a pet shop. She forgot all about it with all the cute things around. As Yano asked whether someone could fall in love with a person that they did not like at all, Nana gave him the example that she used to hate him a lot.

As a passerby said about their dressing, she immediately was annoyed but was calmed down by Yano as they had a romantic dialogue with Nana saying how she could not hate him even though he always made her angry. Back at school, Yuri (aka Yamamoto) was having reddish eyes due to being unused with contacts and Yano teased her to be a rabbit, eliciting a slight blush in her.

During PE, Yano and Takeuchi had a clash over Takeuchi’s new girlfriend since Yano said that he was being cruel for dating the girl even though he did not like her. Takeuchi said he might grow to like her. As they got at each other, Nana came as they stopped. After the incident, Takeuchi acknowledged that Yano was right but asked him to consider his feelings as he tried to move on.

At night, Yano met Nana as he passed back her notes. Nana asked why Yano isn’t happy for Takeuchi. He then hinted that Takeuchi was dating a girl that he did not like but Nana said it was ok and Takeuchi might grow to like her. Yano then noticed that Nana’s hair was wet and wanted to pass her the sweater before hugging her.

He then realized she was not wearing a bra as he kept his distance. He then used a red bandanna to cover her wet hair. Yano then wished he could be with her forever and go on a holiday where the two of them could be alone. He added that he wished to be an adult faster and Nana added that it would be great if they could be together forever as they kissed under the starry skies.

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Episode thoughts

This is the setup of small little things that will soon acculumate to the finale of this show. This show is clearly one of the best romance series in history in my humble opinion, because it purely captures the emotions of true, imperfect people that are geninuely living in this place. They are not totally unattainable people, simply normal teenagers that are living in this world.

Bokura ga Ita has this charm with it, the fact that every single person in the series is struggling with their own lives, yet braving, stumbling through trial and error to find their path. It is so saddening yet interesting to see Nana and Yano finally having some time together. I will take the issue about the forebonding that is very very strong at the start and end a bit later.

The little incident with Yuri seems to disturb me. She seems to be changing for Yano and the fact that she blushed when he teased her about her red eyes makes me suspicious, especially with the preview on her calling Yano over after something happened in her house. I do not know, but the drama seems definitely to be starting next week, as we go through the last roller coaster of this wonderful series.

Some people are definitely hating Yuri quite a bit, calling her a whore and the likes. I admit that I do not have a good impression of her due to episode 11-12, as she is trying to be horrendous. As I am given time to think, I realize that she simply did not know what to do to deal with Yano, a man that she really loved. If you loved a man that had sex with you, yet have no way to capture his heart…..Perhaps that is what you do. The previous few episodes also brought her to a better light and I am starting to pity Yuri quite a bit.

In a way, I wish she finds her happiness, however she will get it.

The above ending could have been the “ending” if they wanted it to end the show beautifully, especially with the slightly open ended style in some shoujo anime. With the monologue of Nana in the future talking about how she could still remember his face when he was 17, it feels as though that they would soon be apart at the end of this series.

This definitely does not bode well for anyone who wishes to see a fairy ending because the style of speech used feels to be speaking of someone in the past tense, aka someone who is no longer around with her or someone that is already dead.

I can only feel that this is an extremely big hint that the ending will be a very bittersweet one, either that or totally depressed one. Someone please grab my box of tissues because I am sure I will be weeping and shedding tears at the last few episodes.

The remaining of her talk involves her saying about how she realized that forever does not exist once they grow up. It was simply the notion of being kids that thought of forever being a possibility but she remembered then that during that night, the time that had together seemed to be everlasting.

That monologue to me was a great special speech by Nana because it was so true and painful.

The next episode had Takeuchi making his move (finally?) and Nana asking Yano to come to her house but he said he had to visit Yuri because there is a problem with her mother or something. Cheers.