None of those superpower stuff, alternate universe, robots, monsters, aliens and talking cute pets.
Like probably most of the Pinoy couch-potatoes, it is the first time for me to watch an anime that is closest to reality. – )Īs if the Filipino audience hasn’t had enough of romantic telenovelas from Korea, Taiwan and Mexico, here comes another one that offers something different yet very familiar, too familiar indeed that it brings back that not so distant past some people call, first love. While most shoujo manga tend toward romantic themes, the content can vary from science-fiction (They Were Eleven) to the macabre (Vampire Princess Miyu) to the cute and inane (Fairy Princess Minky Momo). (Shoujo, defined as an anime and manga written for an audience of young girls but can appeal to boys as well. Simply because, all the elements of a hopeless romantic and melodramatic tale are there – a brooding, emo, snobbish yet adorable teenage guy meets a sweetie-pie, cutie-pie, crybaby for a girlfriend with a close-to-perfect third party which happened to be the boyfriend’s bestfriend and a mysterious dark past that unfolds before them. īokura Ga Ita (We Were There) is probably a typical shoujo anime or manga for hardcore anime fans or enthusiasts. It was adapted as a television anime which began airing on. Translated in English as We Were There, it is a Japanese romance manga by Yuuki Obata, centering around the high school life of young freshman girl, Nanami Takahashi.
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