Bokurano - Mohiro Kitoh-san's latest manga series

[Griffith]

I haven't really caught up with the series recently so I downloaded chapters 6-9, and I'm having a problem with chapter 6. All of the images except the first are showing up as red X's when I view them with IE. The other chapters seem fine, I'll have to try re-downloading chapter 6 I guess, maybe the download was corrupt or something (though I can view them in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, which is odd.)

[Griffith]

Finally got caught up and read chapter 9 earlier. The story definetly has potential to be really good I think, now that we know about

Spoiler:

the pilot losing their life after they use Zearth, it's starting to feel like a Mohiro Kitoh series now.

[tsurumaru]

Hmm, just re-read some of the earlier chapters and am wondering if anyone else had considered whether Kokopelli actually died after piloting Zearth against the first alien? He certainly seemed to be interupted in what he wanted to tell the children, perhaps he was just remorseful for getting them into that situation without explaining the consequences......

[Briareos]

Originally Posted by tsurumaru

Hmm, just re-read some of the earlier chapters...anyone else had considered whether Kokopelli actually died...

I asked the same question and posted a theory back in post 43.

I thought that no one had responded to my theories because they (at least some of them) seem so obvious once you go back and re-read the beginning once you've read through chapter 8 or so.

[tsurumaru]

Originally Posted by Briareos

I asked the same question and posted a theory back in post 43.

I thought that no one had responded to my theories because they (at least some of them) seem so obvious once you go back and re-read the beginning once you've read through chapter 8 or so.

Sorry Briareos, missed your edit! I'm glad someone else thought the same.

I was thinking that perhaps Kokopelli was the last survivor of another "Earth" and that it had been destroyed by the aliens, Kokpelli learning that our Earth was the next target had created Zearth (perhaps from the wreckage of previous aliens) but lacking the "core" (which had been destroyed to immobilise the alien) it was only able to able to be powered by the limited Life force of the pilot.

Actually I had another thought, 14 children + Kokopelli = 15 Pilots...... The narrator at the beginning must be little Kana looking back on the events, but what if by some cruel twist she as the only surviving witness must take on Kokopelli's former role and try to recruit 15 pilots on the next world to be threatened as part of the "game" organised by the aliens......

[TronDD]

3 more chapters have been released and a haigh quality version of Volume 1 was released.

Time for me to go back and start from the begining, I haven't reread any of the series yet.

EDIT: Just read the new stuff. I found Mako's story a bit disturbing. The deepest one yet. I probably wasn't paying close enough attention, but I didn't see any new hints to speculate about the main story. Oh, except

Spoiler for not much of a spoiler but...:

The last attempt to minimize innocent casualties failed with the steamroller alien, however, the alien waited around for Mako. They mentioned it seemed like it was waiting for the evacuation to complete.

As an aside, I totally love Komo. She's pretty expressive for being in the background most of the time. And when she talks, she points out some important things.

[stpehen]

No comments on my monumental efforts? D:

[TronDD]

Originally Posted by stpehen

No comments on my monumental efforts? D:

Well it's definatly good work. The high quality scans are mint. I'm glad an HQ version was released since you could see the other side of the page on the magazine scans.

I hope this "experimental" project remains fun for those working on it and that it continues to be released.

[petr]

Originally Posted by stpehen

No comments on my monumental efforts? D:

ZOMG youre da man!!!1! But why all of the sfxs werent edited...?
Now just go edit all of your translations ;]

[FlyByNite]

No posts in awhile, but I recently caught up and have read through the 13th chapter released by Manga-screener. Man this series is depressing

Spoiler:

Daichi's story and seeing his siblings left without him was pretty heart-wrenching and then the whole storyline with Mako She made them cute uniforms as her last act.

I still don't know why the enemy waited all that time for the battle though. Could it be that the enemies are also citizens of the cities they fight in and think they have to fight the other side the same way Zearth's pilots do? Although for some reason they have a new robot each time so perhaps it's two factions of aliens using the Earth to play with?

I wonder what the military is going to do now that know all about it. I don't think they can stop Dung Beetle from teleporting anyone when he wants to so I don't see how they can do much of anything

[ZeusIrae]

I am at chapter 27,it seems we will have some big news in the next chapter.
I really don't know what's in store for Zearth but I think it's going to be huge.
If a great master of speculations have an idea,I want to hear it.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by ZeusIrae

I am at chapter 27,it seems we will have some big news in the next chapter.
I really don't know what's in store for Zearth but I think it's going to be huge.
If a great master of speculations have an idea,I want to hear it.

Wait, are you refering to me?

Well, let's see now...

Spoiler for speculation:

Mysterious plane bombs Zearth, plus HQ doesn't respond. Obviously military has decided that dead giant robot = good giant robot, despite the merchandizing possibilities. So they brought out whatever secret military weapons they've got. It IS probably the japanese military and not someone else, since otherwise HQ would be responding fine.

I guess the military brass made the decision that they truly couldn't control it no matter how much they wanted to, so instead they've decided to destroy it (by any means, I'd guess). Knowing Kitoh, nuclear bombs will be forthcoming. Though it'll probably wait until JUST after Maki's baby brother is born. As for the cockpit's on the opposing robots being the same as their own, well... I think we all figured that out a while ago . The question is who exactly is in there. Children from parralel worlds? Clones/alter ego's of the 14 main characters? Rei 4-17? We won't be finding out for a while, probably.

[ZeusIrae]

well,yeah among others.

Spoiler:

But if they destroy Zearth,what about the other "machines",I had an even crazier theory:the "invaders" are from the future and Zearth is in fact the big bad guy.But it's a little difficult to swallow,a parallel world is more acceptable.

Thanks.

[tsurumaru]

Originally Posted by ZeusIrae

well,yeah among others.

Spoiler:

But if they destroy Zearth,what about the other "machines",I had an even crazier theory:the "invaders" are from the future and Zearth is in fact the big bad guy.But it's a little difficult to swallow,a parallel world is more acceptable.

Thanks.

Ok I remember thinking about this,

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its a wild guess that Kokpelli was the one who didn't sign the contract (and that is who Dung Beetle has been talking to) but didn't the first few paragraphs of the first chapter refer to events in the past tense that occured "that summer"(meaning that someone survives). Does that give us any clues?

I'm thinking that there will be a major revelation soon, perhaps the contents of the enemies cockpit.

PS Wasn't there an Angel in Eva that returned as a very slightly different version of the original? I wonder if that is the Giant Robo manga that is referred to as in "of course in that manga the world was destroyed at the end" and wouldn't that provide a link between the pilot and the form of the enemy.

Of course the biggest twist would be that the whole thing has been a huge computer simulation with the death of each pilot being their release back into the real world.....(but that sounds like to much of a cop-out for Kitoh to use).

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by tsurumaru

Ok I remember thinking about this,

Spoiler:

Of course the biggest twist would be that the whole thing has been a huge computer simulation with the death of each pilot being their release back into the real world.....(but that sounds like to much of a cop-out for Kitoh to use).

Heh, that's so silly it never occured to me:

Spoiler:

Kana defeats giant stone effegy, Prompty dies in giant symbolic angelic explosion, earth vanishes anyway.... two frames later:
Congratulations!
Your time: 8 months, 32 days, 23.576 seconds
Casulties: 6,243,024,435,123.3
Bonus!
Times you pissed off Dung Beetle: 15 * 1000 points
Times you discovered inner peace with yourself: 5 * 3000 points
Times you went apeshit and started killing indescriminantly: 6 * 5000 points

Overall Ranking: "K" Maybe next time you'd like to try a lower difficulty level?

Thank you for playing! (This game copyright 2026 by Kokopelli productions)

[TronDD]

Glad to see people still excited about this manga. I had missed the last few releases and got caught up by rereading the whole thing last weekend.

Spoiler for Specutation:

One thing I wonder about, will the last pilot have to hand off control of Zearth to the next group of lucky players knowing what's in store for them?

And why is Zearth always on defense? Who are the pilots of the other robots that are always the away team? Battles never take place on any other planet, are the enemies from Earth too? Battles always take place at the location of the Zearth pilot, why not the enemy pilot? Some of the enemies look like they have lights out when they start fightig Zearth. Where did those pilots fight and die? Did their planet get destroyed when they lost? If Zearth loses and the Earth is destroyed, do the remaining pilots survive to fight in Zearth on other planets? And what would be gained by that if winning means you destroy their planet?

Meh, I should let the story unvail itself rather than try to guess at each step of the way.

[Quarkboy]

You know, I just had a new idea. I won't put this in spoiler tags since it's completely guessing...

Maybe the pilots of the other robots are not actually people, maybe not even humans, but are in fact the ghosts or spirits of previous pilots from previous rounds of the "game." One thing no one has really explained is the cyclical nature of the game... we all speculate about things starting anew and what happened when kokopelli originally handed things off to them, but... where was the previous round held? on another planet that was destroyed perhaps? I think maybe the goal of the game is to force the 14 pilots to fight, all the while monitoring their brane patterns under stress and how they react, and collecting it as data to later on be used as future pilot's opponents. The pilots die after the battle is over as their essence is extracted... I don't really buy the whole "Zearth runs on the life energy of the pilot" BS, that's way to cheesy for kitoh. Plus, the delay between the end of battle and the pilots death can be quite long.
Perhaps the goal of whoever is in charge of it all is to collect all kinds of mental failures or human reactions. Or maybe to utilize them all to create the perfect pilot for some greater purpose... I'm not sure. But Dung Beetle's seeming joy at the varied insanities of the his pilot choices definitely points to this "collection" idea.

P.S. Anyone have any idea about the significance of the chair NOT moving to the front for the latest pilot? I have no clue what that's going to mean (but knowing Kitoh, it means SOMETHING, that's for sure).

[ZeusIrae]

Even the characters noticed that,so it's a safe to say that it's important.
The battle wasn't different from the others,Zearth can change shape now but it started after the beginning of the battle so it isn't related.
It must be linked to the misterious plane,perhaps they are moving to the next stage.
Both events suggest a major change.I think it will modify the parameters of the game but how and why?we will have to wait.

[tsurumaru]

Actually Dungbeetle did say something interesting, he said "Eh, it happens sometimes" When maki asked about the seat not going forward. This leads to the fact that Zearth must have had previous pilots, and been in previous battles, in which the same has occured, but obviously not on this Earth. The behaviour of the enemy was also extremely suspicious along with Maki's claims she didn't feel like she was controlling Zearth, although I guess that the fact that she used her tactics means that she is......

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by tsurumaru

Actually Dungbeetle did say something interesting, he said "Eh, it happens sometimes" When maki asked about the seat not going forward. This leads to the fact that Zearth must have had previous pilots, and been in previous battles, in which the same has occured, but obviously not on this Earth. The behaviour of the enemy was also extremely suspicious along with Maki's claims she didn't feel like she was controlling Zearth, although I guess that the fact that she used her tactics means that she is......

Aha, I think maybe Kitoh's pulling another... Hoshimaru on us. He who seems to be controlling is not ACTUALLY controlling. No? That might explain the chair, anyway.