I like Yano. He’s sweet especially when he talks to Nana and tells her that he loves her.

btw, where can I download English manga of Bokura ga Ita?

—-> guys, you would also love Kimi ni Todoke!

Watching again the anime I seem can’t help it to compare it to Marmalade Boy, they both reflects pains and sweetness of loving and the complications inflicted with these feelings and life itself. A forgotten promise and questions can’t be answered or be given a right one. You may think “what if’, this is suppose to be or not be as you feel aggravated by unfairness of fighting for your right to be happy yet circumstances always a blocking block to counter your path. Emotions are a very hard enemy to conquer. Nobody knows if you win or loss in this category.

Unfortunately, bokura ga ita ended with a very painful reality of unknown answers for its results while Marmalade Boy ended with a happy one thought in reality in manga the writer really ended it with a painful and sad ending too but it was reconstructed to a happy ending later on, while bokura was still not yet finish and no one knows when it will give its last episode to reveal its end whether it will be sad or a happy end to both the characters.
JLS

this really brought me back to high school, I miss those days…

I guess we really were all there.

@Anna: Totally- (Yuri)I mean com’on get out of his life already!

I guess the writer made it this way because they lied to much to each other. Yano and Nana broke their promises a few times? Haven’t they? So… this time trust, love and time is all they need to mend the love. I really feel sorry for Take after what he’s done for Nana but it’s good that Nana turned down his engagement proposal. “I’ll take her away from you in a heartbeat.” quote by Take. Which made Yano’s eyes kinda 0_o(pop). I think Nana will still be friends with Take. I don’t want him to do anything with Yuri so Nana can forget him.. No! No! NO!!! Please Obata Sensei- your a genius! Figure out someway to make Yano fall head over heels for Nana again, she deserves it after the wait.

A few promises that they broke(Yano and Nana):

They promised each other never to leave each others side(Yano goes to Tokyo).
Nana said she’ll wait for him(now she’s dating Take).
Yano said in a year he’ll come searching for her(he did try to and called once but never came face-to-face).
Yano have dated several women(which is a broken promise).
Nana promised she’ll keep quiet and listen to Yano’s heart and feelings(but she couldn’t stand it and broke up with him.)

I guess in the end they are left with MEMORIES. Sometimes, I feel that boys can act real stupid! Boys, you don’t even have a clue that we love you when it’s stuck in front of your face!(no offense). URGH!! Give up already Yano, we know you’re still in love with her! 0_o.

Well, I really loved the series and all the challenges they went through.
At first, I thought Yano was a really ‘cold’ jerk but later on he expressed his feelings publicly, tried getting her attention and lessen his ‘cool’ just to get Nana back. She ignored him most of the time, ran away and they broke-up. But a promise is and will always be a promise, until one person breaks the promise. Yanana(hehehe.. Yano X Nana) are perfect for each other but sometimes, when it’s too perfect- everything goes wrong. I don’t know about you guys, but I completely hate Yuri! Remember the last lines she said, “I have something I want there.”(or something like that). I think she’s a *tut*(I’m sorry for cursing) for trying to take him away. Obviously, he’s not interested from what I’ve seen in the manga, he just feels sorry. I hope Yanana rekindle their romance. Awww, poor Take, can there be a 85% possibility he can fall in love with Aki?

@YanoKun: You brighten up my day Man! There’s still hope Even if it’s just an anime.. I’ll love it forever(hehee.. not really- just until I find something to play around with or read or watch!)

and to the others who hate Yuki Yamamoto too- I LOVE YOU GUYS! hahhahahaa.. lolz

Sometimes you can’t help who you love and You certainly cannot choose who you love. Someone else might come along and be more “correct” in HOW they love you but if the feelings aren’t there then they just aren’t. Love is not some manufactured feeling. It comes naturally.

I was sad at the ending and I craved more…lol So I looked up the manga and my goodness, it was tragic and amazing. We have more of the complexity of the characters showing through. We see Yano completely dedicated to Takahashi while being away…he tries to go to see her two times but each time, the situation with his mom prevents him. The second time he tries to go he finds his mom dead. She hangs herself. Yikes. =( I felt so sad for him. And from that moment, it’s almost like he can’t think straight anymore.

Yano vanishes for years from everyone’s life. Takeuchi and Nana are still friends. Nana is still waiting inside for Yano to come back to her 5 years later. Take is still in love with her. He tries to get her to give up on Yano, saying he’s never coming back. They try a relationship together finally but I notice through every moment they have together Nana is still thinking of Yano. If it’s not her still missing him, it’s her comparing Take to Yano. It’s sad. She can’t move on really because of the promise she made to him. I think this is where I realized how profound their relationship was. It brought me back to when she started healing him from the loss of the first Nana who died. She told him she’d always be there, that she’d protect him, that she’d never leave his side. And the truth is I think Yano believed she wouldn’t wait…that she wouldn’t be able to keep that promise.

Nana speaks to her mom, who asks whatever happened to that boy Yano…Nana says he left her. She reflects back to the fact that her parents were highschool sweethearts and she’d always hoped her and Yano would follow the same pattern. She’s hopeless lol feeling like a fool for believing it (which gives me more hope that in the end her and Yano WILL be together again. I really believe that). It’s at that time that her mom remembers that Yano called a year after he left asking about Nana. This prompts Nana into wondering why he contacted her. (maybe he never did give up on her inside — that hope brings back more feelings). She tells Take, who then tells her that Yano came to him and told him he was giving up on everything from his past and that he was giving Nana to him, “Take care of her”, he says and he tells Take that it’s his fault his mom died. Take believed he’d come back but he never did.

Take and her continue dating. Nana meets an old friend of Yano’s at work, who remembers Takahashi’s name from her memories of Yano. Aki (Yano’s friend) and Nana become friends. We see that Yuri hasn’t given up on Yano and pathetically stalks him. She’s a mess. I hate her. lol Yano obviously doesn’t love her or anything. He feels sympathy for her. It looks like she tries to commit suicide after Yano rejects her for the 3485745345387534 time. lol

Aki finds Yano. He’s a designer now and is working with the company Aki and Nana work for. Aki meets up with Yano, who say he knows where Takahashi is and that she’s with Take. He also says it was the way he wanted it. Nobody can quite understand his logic but we see that he is shaken up by the meeting. His thoughts run from memories of Nana saying they love each other and his inner dialogue of “Hate me, I’ll betray you. I’ll trample all over your trust. Despise me and then bury me.” UGH! We then see he’s living with Yuri.

No words. lol

Chapter 50, Take proposes to Nana. She rejects him.

Chapter 51, it starts off with Yano having a nightmare about Take and Nana’s wedding. This was a breakthrough moment for me, because you can obviously see he still loves her. He wakes up from a drunken night with his friends. He’s obviously not attached as they show him with lipstick on his face. Other women are meaningless to him. But we see Yano with a box of different cake slices. His friends comment that he’s been doing this same thing every year for 6 years. He celebrates her birthday regardless of them being apart. We then see Nana looking for Yano. She sees the back of someone who looks like Yano and they leave it as a cliff hanger.

I love it…especially since the movie they used to see together as teenagers was about two people who keep missing each other…and finally at the end they find one another. I’m really hoping it’s a good ending to the manga but great show.