Bokutachi ga Yarimashita

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Synonyms: We Did It

Japanese: 僕たちがやりました

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 9

Chapters: 87

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 6, 2015 to Jan 23, 2017

Genre: Drama

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Araki, Hikaru (Art)

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Ranked: #863²

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Popularity: #699

Members: 26,835

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MangaYoung Magazine (Weekly)Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Araki, Hikaru (Art)

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Although satisfied with his average lifestyle, Tobio Masubuchi wishes for a long and fun existence, hoping that nothing will get in his way. Alongside his good friends Sho Isami, Yuki "Maru" Maruyama, and Hidero "Paisen" Kosaka, the group passes each day worry free, doing as they please. But when delinquents from a neighboring school overhear Maru saying that they should die, their troubles begin.

After being kidnapped and brutally assaulted, Maru is found by his friends, who are shocked to see what has been done to him. Angry, Tobio proposes that they take immediate revenge, and after deciding how they should do so, the four put their plan into action. But when what should have been just a prank turns deadly, Tobio's aspirations for an undisturbed life are shattered forever.

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Bokutachi ga Yarimashita ranked #11 on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! manga list for male readers in 2017.

The series has also received a live-action television series adaptation, premiering on Fuji TV in July 2017.

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Masubuchi, Tobio

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Kosaka, Hidero

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Yuki, Maruyama

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Sho, Isami

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Ichihashi, Tetsuto

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Renko, Aokawa

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Koyoi, Niizato

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Feb 16, 2019

xyenne

Recommended

I've been a fan of Kaneshiro Muneyuki for some time now and Bokutachi no Yarimashita is no exception. Dark and ponderous, it follows four high school boys after they carelessly commit a crime that goes on to torment them for the rest of their lives. It's certainly not your typical manga. The characters are all incredibly flawed and the events and message are uniquely grim. However, like Kaneshiro's other works, it shines in how it forces the reader to rethink the meaning of life and the world around them.

The story begins with Tobio, an ordinary high school boy who spends his time with three other ... questionable friends, including the shrimpy, gossipy Maru, the incredibly lustful Isami, and last but not least, the much-older high school dropout Paisen who throws around his money in order to keep his friends around. When Maru is attacked by a gang from a nearby high school, Tobio and his friends decide to bomb the school as revenge (all over the course of a couple chapters, which goes from 0 to 100 real fast.) Although they commit the crime jokingly, they quickly see the consequences: the death of four students and a hunt for the criminals.

It's incredibly clear from the start: Tobio and his friends are, to be frank, assholes. They're immature. They're materialistic. They care about money, sex, and having fun, without ever really thinking their actions through. However, after their crime, they're forced to develop and change as they run from the law. They each come upon their own answers for right and wrong and struggle to live when burdened with incredible guilt. They don't magically end up good people, and they don't magically end up happy. Even many years after they graduate, they're still plagued with the consequences of their mistakes and unsure with how to move on. However, the change they each go through as they find meaning in their lives is remarkable. Each one of them has personal adventures and personal turning points in their character, including an unexpected pregnancy and a confrontation with parental neglect. What's interesting is how they approach these issues. They each go through their own personal journeys and character arcs and thus end up different places. Kaneshiro Muneyuki carefully illustrates how their lives change as a result of the single incident and turns the four boys into real people, however flawed they may be. He explores their relationships with the people around them as well as one another, and although he covers many honestly terrible things, the raw emotion and the reader's immersion in the story makes it new and thoughtful, rather than graphic and dark simply for the sake of being grotesque.

I have to say, I'm not really huge on the art. However, I also have to admit that it suits the story perfectly. The expressions of the characters in particular are incredibly well-drawn and always go a long way in telling the story since they're just so in-your-face. The art is graphic when it needs to be and subtle when it needs to be. It honestly just works. I'm reminded vaguely of the art in Imawa no Kuni no Alice (Alice in Borderland), my favorite psychological manga, with some of the stylistic decisions (and even some aspects of the character development).

To conclude, Kaneshiro Muneyuki does an excellent job of developing the four friends into their own individual people. Although the series is dark and many of the events are graphic and grotesque, the uncomfortable feeling the scenes leave you with also serve the story's purpose: to make you think about how you're living your life. In this case, each character asks himself the same question: what is the meaning of life and how can you move on from your past? As much as they try to move on from their mistakes, they are forced to confront them and deal with their feelings of remorse and guilt indefinitely. It ends with a note of hope as they each continue to struggle through life. However, no matter how much they progress, they will always remember the bombing and the fact that they were the ones who did it.

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Jun 23, 2022

keiler_shura

Mixed Feelings

I genuinely tried to like Bokutachi ga Yarimashita. I like the bastard characters, I like their broken relationships, I like the drama, and I like the themes.

But my god I don't like the ending. The chapters from 65 with the boys wanting to confess and exonerate their sins seem great to me, why couldn't it end there?

everything that follows feels like an inorganic and forced articulation of events to make another joke of black humor, throwing everything built overboard. It even feels like a cowardly move. (I mean, even the blonde comes out of nowhere, at the specific place at the specific time to have ...

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Jun 5, 2023

PixelB

Not Recommended

I thought Bokutachi ga Yarimashita would be a "realistic" version of My Home Hero.

That is, I thought this series would be about a group of high school kids that accidentally get caught up in an incident that eventually leads to people dying. In it would be gunfights, teenage angst, drama, and a bunch of edgy shit happening. Unlike the controlled, slow, and scripted encounters that My Home Hero was dealing with, Bokutachi ga Yarimashita would be more chaotic with action to boot, but that's kind of where the charm is.

And much like My Home Hero, it overstays its welcome while also derailing from the core ...

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Poll: Bokutachi ga Yarimashita Chapter 87 Discussion TheFreycook - Aug 21, 2019	17 replies	by INoLuv »» Oct 5, 8:17 AM
Poll: if you and your friends were to be in a similar situation as tobio and the gang, what'd you do? FruitPunchBaka - May 12	5 replies	by removed-user »» Sep 26, 5:57 AM
Is this an ecchi? frosty_thoughts - Aug 31	5 replies	by shivomkrishnan16 »» Sep 23, 2:22 PM
Poll: Bokutachi ga Yarimashita Chapter 74 Discussion removed-user - May 8, 2019	1 replies	by MichaelJackson »» Jun 12, 8:46 PM
I want to read this in English or Spanish. Has this been published? El_Enemigo - Dec 3, 2022	2 replies	by 21sacraments »» Jan 9, 2023 5:40 PM

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