WE WERE THERE VOL. 2 E-mail
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009
 ▪RELEASED BY: VIZ MEDIA
 ▪ AUTHOR / ART: 

YUKI OBTA

 ▪ FORMAT: JAPANESE / B&W
 ▪ PAGES: 200
 ▪ RATING: T+
 ▪ RELEASE DATE: 01/06/2009
 ▪ REVIEW DATE: 01/07/2009
 ▪ REVIEWED BY: HOLLY ELLINGWOOD
Nana confessed her feelings to Yano but was met with a rebuff of indifference. Now it seems like Yano is avoiding her. He isn’t coming to the school play rehearsals and she fears he won’t go to the summer festival. Already he is constantly on her mind and the tragedy of his past seems only to cement her determination to discover his true heart.

Nana has set upon a path of potential heartbreak and difficulties. The next words she exchanges with Yano surprise them both and leads to an even more surprising result – he begins to go to rehearsal. Despite this upswing, he still seems to be avoiding her. Is it a simple case of rejection or is there another reason he is avoiding her? Nana can’t keep up with his hot and cold act. The more she sees him the more she wants to reach him yet she fears her efforts and her feelings are futile.

The tale grows even more emotionally complex when further details around Yano’s past and the death of his unfaithful girlfriend are related to Nana. In the end he makes a confession of his own to her and it starts a timid path towards their first steps as a couple romantically. But first dates and a heavy past do not an easy relationship make. As the series explores Nana and Yano’s wounded hearts and foray along their first steps to adulthood, it reveals an increasingly complex emotional situation for two fifteen-year-olds to handle. It creates are more deep and mature reading experience for a shojo series and so far one well worth the read for its thoughtful and sensitive portrayal of young hearts yearning and struggling to overcome the past and the challenges of the present.

IN SUMMARY:
We Were There (Bokura ga Ita) is a bittersweet tale of first love and faith in love renewed.
 
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