It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from November 2003 to June 2009, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes.

In 2010, Bokurano received the Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Kokopelli claims to be a programmer working on a brand new game, in which a large robot has to defend the Earth against fifteen alien invasions.

Fourteen of them agree, but one of them is kept from entering the contract by her older brother, and a moment later they all mysteriously awaken on the shore, believing what happened was just a dream.

Thus, the children must now defend the world and face the many trials and tribulations of doing so, including the fact that ultimately none of them will get out of this situation alive.

Bokurano, written and illustrated by Mohiro Kitoh, was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from November 25, 2003,[4] to June 25, 2009.

[12] It was also licensed in French by Asuka,[13] in Italian by Kappa Edizioni,[14] in South Korea by Daiwon C.I.,[15][16] and in Taiwan by Ever Glory Publishing.

He also wrote that, at one point early in the development of the show, he asked manga author Mohiro Kitoh if he could find some way to save the main characters — the kids who must pilot Zearth.

Morita closed out the blog entry with the statement "The director of the animated version of Bokurano dislikes the original manga.

Five volumes written by Renji Ōki with illustrations by Mohiro Kitoh were published by Shogakukan between May 2007 and June 2008.