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We Never Learn (Japanese: ぼくたちは勉強ができない, Hepburn: Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai, lit. "We Can't Study"), also known as BokuBen (ぼく勉), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taishi Tsutsui. The series follows the story of Nariyuki Yuiga, a high school student tasked with tutoring three female geniuses as they start to gradually develop romantic feelings for him. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February 2017 to December 2020, with its individual chapters collected and published by Shueisha in twenty-one tankōbon volumes.
We Never Learn | |
![]() Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring (from left to right) Fumino Furuhashi, Rizu Ogata, and Uruka Takemoto | |
ぼくたちは勉強ができない (Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Taishi Tsutsui |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
English magazine | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | February 6, 2017 – December 21, 2020 |
Volumes | 21 |
Light novel | |
Written by | HamuBane |
Illustrated by | Taishi Tsutsui |
Published by | Shueisha |
Imprint | JUMP J-Books |
Demographic | Male |
Original run | April 4, 2019 – December 4, 2019 |
Volumes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
We Never Learn: BOKUBEN | |
Directed by | Yoshiaki Iwasaki |
Produced by |
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Written by | Gō Zappa |
Music by | Masato Nakayama |
Studio |
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Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, AT-X, MBS, TVA |
Original run | April 7, 2019 – December 29, 2019 |
Episodes | 26 + 2 OVAs |
An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Silver and Arvo Animation aired from April to June 2019. A second season aired from October to December of the same year. The manga also spawned two light novel spin-offs released in 2019.
Viz Media licensed the manga in North America and serialized it in their digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and started releasing it in print in 2018. Shueisha simultaneously published the series in English on the website and app Manga Plus in January 2019. The anime series is licensed by Aniplex of America.
Nariyuki Yuiga is a senior high school student attending Ichinose Academy who, in order to secure a university scholarship, must tutor three female geniuses in different subjects: Fumino Furuhashi is a genius in humanities, but horrible at science and mathematics; Rizu Ogata is a genius in science and mathematics, but terrible at humanities; and Uruka Takemoto is a genius on the athletic field, but dreadful in academics. As the girls work with Nariyuki to achieve their academic goals, they must also deal with their growing feelings for him. As the story progresses, two other girls are focused upon: Mafuyu Kirisu, their teacher who despite her professionalism, is a slob at home, and Asumi Kominami, a rōnin who has the appearance of a middle schooler despite her age.
Near the middle of the story, at the Ichinose School Festival, rumor has it that people who are touching when the first firework goes off are destined to become a couple. During this event, Nariyuki encounters one of the girls, but her identity is obscured upon the chapter's first release. The story has five separate endings with Nariyuki ending up with one of the five girls. While their endings vary, the focused girl is the one who Nariyuki encountered at the fireworks. The final chapter shows instead another continuity where all the girls, including various secondary characters, end up touching Nariyuki during the festival, and the fireworks school legend is revealed to have been created by Nariyuki's late father in his youth. Flashes of the other endings are seen by the girls, signifying that in this new reality any of the events leading up to them have the same probability to occur.
Written and illustrated by Taishi Tsutsui, We Never Learn was launched in the 10th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on February 6, 2017.[7][8] The series "Ephemeral Mermaid Princess" arc finished in Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 9, 2020.[9] It was followed by the series' last arc, the "Parallel Story" arc, featuring Nariyuki having endings with other characters in the series, which started in Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 16, 2020.[10] The series finished on December 21, 2020.[11] Shueisha has collected its chapters twenty-one into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on June 2, 2017, and the last on March 4, 2021.[12][13]
Viz Media announced in April 2017 that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America, and serialized it digitally in their Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.[14] On March 30, 2018, Viz Media announced the print release of the manga later that year.[15] Shueisha began to simultaneously publish the series in English on the website and app Manga Plus in January 2019.
A light novel titled Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai hi Nichijō no Reidai-shū (ぼくたちは勉強ができない 非日常の例題集) written by Hamubane and illustrated by Tsutsui was published on April 4, 2019, by Shueisha under their JUMP j-BOOKS imprint.[16] A second light novel titled Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai: Mitaiken no Jikanwari with the same writer and artist was released on December 4, 2019.[17]
An anime television series adaptation was announced in the 39th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on August 27, 2018.[18] The anime series was directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki and written by Gō Zappa, featuring co-animation by Studio Silver and Arvo Animation and character designs by Masakatsu Sasaki.[19] Masato Nakayama composed the music.[4] The series aired from April 7 to June 30, 2019, on Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, AT-X, MBS, and TV Aichi.[6][20][lower-alpha 1] The opening theme is "Seishun Seminar" (セイシュンゼミナール) and the ending theme is "Never Give It Up!!", both performed by Haruka Shiraishi, Miyu Tomita, and Sayumi Suzushiro under the name Study.[21] Aniplex of America licensed the series for distribution under the title We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, and streamed it on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow.[22][23] In Australia and New Zealand, AnimeLab streamed the series in the region.[24]
After the first season's finale aired, a second season was announced, which aired from October 6 to December 29, 2019.[25][26][lower-alpha 2] The second opening theme is "Can now, Can now", performed by Study, while the ending theme is "Hōkago no Liberty" (放課後のリバティ), performed by Halca.[27] The second season ran for 13 episodes.[28] An OVA episode was bundled with the manga's fourteenth volume, which was released on November 1, 2019.[29] Another OVA episode was bundled with the manga's sixteenth volume, which was released on April 3, 2020.[30]
In May 2018, the manga reached 1 million volumes in circulation.[31] In February 2019, the circulation reached 2 million volumes, including digital sales.[32] By March 2021, the total circulation of the series exceeded 4.4 million copies.[13]
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