Bokurano

[Psyke]

Just picked this up and watched 4 episodes in one go. Good stuff and probably won't post till I've caught up......

[DDBen]

Good series but man was that rough to watch definitely not something to marathon. I can't say I'm usually one for pointless comic relief characters but this series sure could have used a little something to break up the endless stream of depression that it seemed to be based on.

[seanos]

Watched first episode when it first came out, and for some reason didn't bother again till yesterday. For me - at the time, the first Episode was a little off-putting, though after spending all day watching the remaining episodes - have to admit it's well worth it.
Though I do like mecha-anime, I liked how this didn't concentrate on the mecha side of things (battles were ~5ish minute range?).
Raises various questions, and makes some fairly interesting observations of human behaviour.

[Darknodin]

Well... I did marathon the last few eps (10-24) and seriously, the series is not as sad as I thought it'd be. After watching the first few eps, i thought this would get into a sadistic frenzy, but it ended up being a great drama show with believable characters.
yea, we didn't end up knowing about the Masterminds or the battles, but in the end, that's how it'd be in real life. I personally find that the story is complete.

About the bread being the lifeforce... it didn't work like that. They always could fight for 48 hours. Ushiro was simply starving from fighting that long (like he would in other situations). The fight in front of the tower was also very long (where the tower was controlling the robot).

In the end... great show... i do recommend it. although, make sure you have time before you start the season... because stopping will be hard .

[Harima Kenji]

Just finished watching it in about 3 days..

stopping in between is incredibly hard. My experience was that I had to stop for a few hours after every 7 episodes or something to let it all sink in. Up until the last episode I thought that it would end the 'it was just a computergame' way, with all the kids waking up in the cave or something.. I couldn't believe that it all really happened. But it did . the final episode ended great. No miracles or anything. I'd love an additional series or OVA that explains the loose ends discussed above.