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僕等がいた

We Were There

Nanami Takahashi welcomes the start of her high school life with great expectations of making as many friends as possible. There is much talk among the girls about a popular boy, Motoharu Yano, who has 2/3 of the girls in his middle school liking him. When Nanami asks Yuri Yamamoto, the girl sitting next to her, about Yano, the latter curtly replies that she dislikes him. Nanami is clueless of who Yano is until the day of the class nomination when she made a fool of herself by calling the name of her new friend wrongly. It turns out that she has actually met Yano along the corridors (unaware of his true identity) and he tricked her by providing a random name, resulting in the embarrassing incident in class. Nanami was initially mad at Yano but after a few encounters with him, she begins to find herself liking him.

Names

Original僕等がいた (japanese)
RomajiBokura ga Ita
EnglishWe Were There
Chinese我们的存在 (simplified · via bangumi)
Also known asBokuraga Ita · We were there · C'était nous

Facts

FormatTV series · 26 ep · 25 min · 11h total
Aired2006-07-04 → 2006-12-26 (Summer 2006)
StatusFINISHED
StudioArtland
SourceManga
OriginJapan (Anime)
DemographicShoujo
GenresDramaRomanceSlice of Life
ThemesShoujoFemale ProtagonistLove TriangleComing of AgeHeterosexualSchool

Reception

Community score6.86 / 10
Bayesian score6.95 / 10
Composite48.3
On lists37,627
Favourited412 (1.1%)
Completion76.9%
Drop rate9.5%
In backlog47.2%
Score spread σ1.91
MyAnimeList7.23 / 10

Score distribution

115821463301451551,00461,71972,64482,00991,15710776

Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
StudioArtlandC11 of 28
Broadcast seasonSummer 2006C17 of 44
Year2006C107 of 232
DemographicShoujoD195 of 297
LengthTwo-courD479 of 699
EraLate 2000sD582 of 1,149
Season (all years)SummerD872 of 1,662
GenreRomanceD932 of 1,687
GenreSlice of LifeD1,008 of 1,578
GenreDramaD1,308 of 1,917
FormatTV seriesD1,904 of 3,322
Source materialMangaD1,912 of 3,025
OriginJapanD3,833 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorAkitarou Daichi, Tomoyuki Shimizu, Kazuya Tanaka
Series compositionMamiko Ikeda
MusicSeiji Mutou, Jun Abe
Original creatorYuuki Obata

AniList id 1222 · MAL id 1222 · Bangumi 1275 · record updated 2026-08-27