http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/06/20/bokurano-hiroyuki-morita-on-trial/ Get decultured Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:27:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/06/20/bokurano-hiroyuki-morita-on-trial/#comment-19988 Son Gohan Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:23:30 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=217#comment-19988 I can understand the need to tone down some scenes involving underage sex and violence, but Morita totally ruined Chizu's story IMHO. In the manga, she willingly killed Kako because he was a selfish brat that didn't want to fight and he was beating Kirie. Then she took control of Zearth and immediately tracked down and killed the people who abused her (she was gang-raped by the professor's friends). In the anime she comes off as completely innocent. Kako's death was an accident and she didn't kill anyone. Morita took a tragic character and made her boring. That's what I criticize of him. I can understand the need to tone down some scenes involving underage sex and violence, but Morita totally ruined Chizu’s story IMHO. In the manga, she willingly killed Kako because he was a selfish brat that didn’t want to fight and he was beating Kirie. Then she took control of Zearth and immediately tracked down and killed the people who abused her (she was gang-raped by the professor’s friends).
In the anime she comes off as completely innocent. Kako’s death was an accident and she didn’t kill anyone. Morita took a tragic character and made her boring. That’s what I criticize of him.

]]> http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/06/20/bokurano-hiroyuki-morita-on-trial/#comment-19872 Vertago Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:16:48 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=217#comment-19872 Great post, Actually before the spring season started Bokurano was one of the top shows on my "to watch list". Sadly I got impatient and started reading the manga. I ended up reading everything to what was currently out at the time in a week and was quite amazed at how good the story was. It was quite depressing but still a great work. After reading it I realized, like you said, that there were a lot of situations that probably would not be shown on TV, plus the manga is still ongoing with only one chapter released per month so the ending of the anime would have to be different. I still wanted to see the anime adaption because I thought they would stick to the manga up to a certain point (like Narutaru). But after watching the first 5 episodes and seeing some major and minor pointless changes from the manga that completely change the impact of the story on the watcher, I just wasn't motivated to continue watching it. I know I would have probably really enjoyed the anime if and only if I hadn't read the manga. As a final note of my comment, to anyone enjoying the anime and wanting to read the manga, I suggest you read it after the anime is over from the beginning. Great post, Actually before the spring season started Bokurano was one of the top shows on my “to watch list”. Sadly I got impatient and started reading the manga. I ended up reading everything to what was currently out at the time in a week and was quite amazed at how good the story was. It was quite depressing but still a great work. After reading it I realized, like you said, that there were a lot of situations that probably would not be shown on TV, plus the manga is still ongoing with only one chapter released per month so the ending of the anime would have to be different. I still wanted to see the anime adaption because I thought they would stick to the manga up to a certain point (like Narutaru). But after watching the first 5 episodes and seeing some major and minor pointless changes from the manga that completely change the impact of the story on the watcher, I just wasn’t motivated to continue watching it. I know I would have probably really enjoyed the anime if and only if I hadn’t read the manga. As a final note of my comment, to anyone enjoying the anime and wanting to read the manga, I suggest you read it after the anime is over from the beginning.

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