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A lot of people have started to criticize this play harshly, for being boring, cliché and many other things.

And although it has all the things that make a RomCom what it is.
Boku no Kokoro manages to keep the viewers always satisfied with the passing of the chapters and most of all excited for the next chapter and until the end of the series.

This season remained stable from the first to the last chapter (unlike the first season where it had a strange start). Here, the series kept viewers hooked with a premise that doesn't go beyond a normal romance between two high school kids who ... spend the day discovering each other and developing their relationship.

But even despite the simple premise, the series tries to delve deeper into its characters by showing us how their different ways of acting are due to the way they are, Characters like Yamada are shown from the beginning as simply the girl the main character is interested in, and although throughout the series we are shown mostly funny and romantic scenes. The work deepens at times making her look not only as the tender and cute girl she is in front of people. But how despite everything, she suffers for things that most people would not do, giving more weight to the relationship she forms with the protagonist, being the only one who somehow understands her.

But it is above all the evolution of the protagonist that stands out the most in the play.

The work always tried to highlight from the first season how the protagonist all the time saw others with hatred and envy, although he always carried an emptiness and loneliness that can be seen reflected in his behavior at the beginning, but it is due to meeting Yamada that finally his life manages to turn around and change.

In other anime there are cases in which the protagonists suddenly change after a certain moment, as if all their previous complexes disappear. But in this case it is different.

Kyoutarou is still the same strange and weird person who thinks everyone hates him, regardless of whether he has a friendship with Yamada. But it is due to the development of this that we can see the evolution that has the protagonist covering and overcoming traumas and complexes that the protagonist dragged, And especially the fact that, They show how even despite all the romantic development that there is between the two protagonists, Kyoutarou learns to enjoy his school life and his friends without the need to be always supported by Yamada.

It is a detail that makes that leaving aside the romantic theme, you realize that in the end it is still a relationship between two children. And how in the end the help of one managed to change the life and the way of seeing things to the other, accompanying him and showing him that several things were not so bad after all.

It's a beautiful story even leaving aside the Romance.



P.S.
NO ONE HAS TALKED ABOUT ITS SOUNDTRACK??
Bummer.

While most of its music is upbeat and cheerful (characteristic of a Romance anime) and not too bad.

Their music in the more serious and important scenes are freaking awesome and so unique ....

It's been a long time since I've heard a soundtrack that stuck in my head.

Is it better than the first season?

Yes.


Is it the best of this season?

No.


... That said, I feel that many of the things in which the first season failed are repeated in this one but to a lesser extent.

Things like slow episodes or unnecessarily stretching out plots mean that in just one season you don't get to see and know as much about some characters.

I mean...
MORE THAN 5 EPISODES FOR A SLOW PLOT OF A BULLY?

Remembering that it's a 13 episode season, to throw away half of the series in a slow plot that could easily be solved in one or two chapters makes you less interested in it.

Even so, I think that this season is superior to the previous one because of the development that the protagonist brings in the first season, so in this one we see a different and new facet about him, that makes some chapters not only the protagonist learns to improve his problems and social anxieties. But also to be able to help people who are in the same or even worse situations than him.
And showing us making a contrast with his way of being in the first season and how to develop some romantic situations.

In the end this work, unlike the first season leaves aside the "personal development of the protagonist" and makes all the learning he got in the first season is reflected in this one.
It's a good thing, but only if you really got to connect with the series. Overall it's decent.

But I'm still waiting for something more...

Ao no Flag changed the way I view love.

When I read "Ao no Flag" for the first time I had a mixture of feelings, it was something I had never experienced with any other work and it was much more when I finished it completely.

And the fact is that .....
How can you put into words a manga that manages not only with its dialogues but also with its art, the looks, the silences and the fear reflected in the faces of the characters to represent you in a different way what we know as love.

When you read the synopsis of this manga it seems that ... it is going to be the typical work with a love triangle where the protagonists will be harmed by stupid and cliché situations.

And while the play doesn't stray too far from this, Ao no flag is encouraged to deal more with the romance theme, not simply letting the characters have sympathetic situations with each other, but showing how love and affection can be seen from different layers and points of view.
Everyone has their own way of loving because of how they have lived their lives, and there may be times when characters may unintentionally hurt others simply because they cannot understand and accept the other person's way of seeing, even if they want to.
Thus, there are several situations seen in this manga that make the reader feel identified in one way or another.

Whether you are young or adult, "Ao no Flag" teaches you that even if you don't agree with the way others think, whether you are accepted in society or not, it doesn't mean that you are wrong. Each of us is different and we will all experience things that will change the way we look at things.

KAITO is a genius and yes, many may not like the ending (I didn't like it the first time I read it either) but it is not at all a forced or illogical ending.

Everyone changes and matures over time. And as the manga itself shows us, everyone will live their own life and their own experiences and you won't know if those experiences will change the way you think and see people.

If you have never read this manga, give it a chance. It will give you food for thought when you finish it.

As for me, I will revisit this work periodically.

Touma deserves heaven.

Nozoki Ana is a manga that at first seems like a typical erotic manga that takes every opportunity to show nudity and bouncing boobs all the time.
And when you start reading it you realize that it really seems to be like that.

I'm not going to lie, I had to have a lot of patience to really get interested in the story, as it takes its time to form the personalities and characteristics of each of the characters.
But always including the occasional sex scene in between, so I didn't quite connect with the characters when some of the sex scenes sometimes seemed convenient and stupid.

The hole ... plot is something that is dealt with during almost the whole work (besides having a quite important background for Emiru's character) and including the espionage theme from the beginning of the work, it is what forms the main axis of the whole manga.

Mind you, the main romance is so slow probably because of how strangely poorly written the protagonist is and how some situations force him to act like someone idiotic and cowardly.

And because it's these situations that conveniently provoke the erotic scenes. The protagonist gives the impression of a guy who doesn't act even though he himself knows that what he is doing is wrong.

Still, Nozoki Ana makes use of its "Erotica" genre to deal with themes such as infidelity, physical/psychological abuse, toxic relationships, homosexuality, etc. and it is these that save the story a little.

Although that doesn't take away from the fact that certain parts of the manga have unnecessary drama that if avoided could have made this journey a little more enjoyable.

If you came looking for a manga specifically to look at +18 stuff you'll probably enjoy this work. But if you came to this manga thinking to read some romance combined with psychological themes (like me) then it's ok....

But don't get your hopes up.

This is the best example of what seinen really should be.

Bokutachi ga Yarimashita is probably one of the most unique manga I have ever read.
I got to know Kaneshiro Muneyuki's work thanks to "Blue Lock" and became a big fan of his work, so big was my surprise when I discovered that Kaneshiro had also created "Jagaaaaaaaaaan" and even more this work.

I discovered this manga by pure chance one day, and beyond its synopsis or its art. What caught my attention the most about this one, and what made me keep it until today was its title.
Bokutachi ga Yarimashita or "We did it" in English.

We ... did it?

The title itself was the one that caught my attention without knowing anything else about the work.
Bokutachi ga Yarimashita is a play that shows us a group of 4 friends, all very different from each other, having a good time with the passing of the days, living their ordinary lives. The main character, Tobio Masubuchi, is a boy who loves to live his mediocre life, with no dreams or goals. And having nothing to disturb his life at all.
The manga may seem a bit strange at first, and the reason is because this manga is also a comedy manga. So there are several scenes in which you will see things that will make you even feel uncomfortable.
But it shows how much this group is close-knit and how they support each other even though they are total idiots.

But is it really like that?

The first chapters of this manga are made with the sole purpose of seeing how is the ordinary life of a group of friends before a certain event completely changes their lives.
And yes, that event is something that they cause themselves (That's why the manga is called as it is called).
The change that has the manga from this moment is brutal, because now they can no longer live their normal lives as before. Those mediocre lives that they treasured so much in a certain way before vanished. And now they carry a weight on their shoulders because of an accident that no one knows they caused.

As the personalities of all the characters are very different from each other, we can see how each one struggles with regret and guilt in a different way.
To such an extent that issues such as suicide are dealt with in this manga.
The event that leads to everything that happens in this manga makes the characters grow, change and mature, even though what they do may be cowardly, horrible and unforgivable acts.

This manga can portray the funniest and humorous part of a person and also the most broken and dejected part of them.
I feel that some parts of this manga may turn you off because of its comedy but that's what makes this work even as bizarre as it can be.
It can represent how shitty and disgusting humans can be.


Bokutachi ga Yarimashita made me laugh and cry.


And his final plot twist destroyed me.