The art is rather nice, but annoyingly standard. No exciting stylistic choices, nothing high-brow. The sound is rather nice, despite the fact that I disliked the opening theme, the editing and feel are great. The characters are not boring, but tend to be very cliche. If you've watched enough anime, you already know all the themes to all of them. The plot is sub-par. It's standard, throw-away, recycled mecha stuff; Kids get giant robot, fight aliens to save the world! Evil government, military involvement, etc. My gripe is not that this is bad. My gripe is that it feels the producers chickened out. This could have been so much more.
As it is, this is a mix of Evangelion and Gantz, each of which was more daring because it went deeper into it's own thing, while Bokurano remains annoyingly neutral. It's shocking but doesn't dare to be disturbing. There is no fast paced fun, nor eery and deliberate atmospheres developing slowly. It just feels neutral. It focuses on a character each chapter, and excluding a few, none of them get enough focus for us to feel for them. This should have been an amazing show, I cannot stress this enough. And I'm sure than in the manga form, this is a brilliant work.
Yet at the end of the day, I have to sum it up as "meh, wasn't bad".
