We Never Learn: BOKUBEN Season 2
ぼくたちは勉強ができない！ (Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai!)
- Comedy
- Romance
- Harem
- School
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 6, 2019 to Dec 29, 2019
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Nariyuki Yuiga continues tutoring Ichinose Academy’s standout trio—Rizu Ogata, Fumino Furuhashi, and Uruka Takemoto—as they inch their way up from shaky results in the subjects they struggle with most. With university entrance exams approaching, “average” isn’t enough, and the pressure to improve clashes with the girls’ ambitions and the feelings they’re gradually developing for their well-meaning, oblivious tutor.
The circle widens with two familiar faces: Mafuyu Kirisu, a teacher whose strict outlook on talent and effort is shaped by her past as a promising figure skater, and Asumi Kominami, an alum determined to reach a national medical university. As Yuiga’s final year of high school rolls on, studying becomes only one part of an increasingly lively routine filled with mishaps, misunderstandings, and shifting relationships.
Otaku Consensus
We Never Learn: BOKUBEN Season 2 lands as the stronger cour for viewers invested in the cast, with the Fumino material, the expanded focus on Mafuyu and Asumi, and the school-festival stretch giving the comedy more emotional texture than Season 1. The verdict is still genre-specific: its harem misunderstandings remain familiar by design, and the most repeated complaints target the weaker OP/ED pair, early fan-service overload, and a rushed, divisive finale.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Season 2 if you want a low-friction harem rom-com where the reward is character chemistry rather than a dramatic reinvention of the formula. It scratches the same itch as Nisekoi and The Quintessential Quintuplets, but with more classroom routine, exam-season pressure, and small comic humiliations than high-concept romantic warfare. The season is best for viewers who like ensemble heroines getting individualized spotlights: Fumino receives a more emotionally clarifying thread, Mafuyu’s stern persona gets context, and Asumi adds an older-student dynamic without turning the show mean-spirited. At 13 episodes, it is compact enough to binge, and its cultural festival material gives the second half a familiar but satisfying school-anime anchor. Skip it only if you need decisive romantic progression or dislike harem comedy built on obliviousness and misunderstandings.
Key Characters
- FFumino Furuhashi(VA: Haruka Shiraishi)
Fumino becomes one of Season 2’s clearest beneficiaries, with reviewer-noted backstory material that turns her from the gentle mediator into a more emotionally legible fan favorite.
- MMafuyu Kirisu(VA: Lynn)
Mafuyu’s appeal comes from the gap between her strict teacher image and the personal history behind it, making her one of the season’s most discussed sources of both comedy and sympathy.
- AAsumi Kominami(VA: Madoka Asahina)
Asumi brings a sharper, older-senpai rhythm to the ensemble, giving the series a different kind of banter from the usual classmate-focused harem setup.
- UUruka Takemoto(VA: Sayumi Suzushiro)
Uruka remains the athletic, emotionally transparent counterweight to the cast’s more guarded personalities, which makes her scenes land through momentum rather than mystery.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The season is a 13-episode Fall 2019 production by Arvo Animation and Silver, airing from October 6 to December 29, 2019, giving it the tight one-cour structure typical of late-night romantic comedies.
- 2
Critics and user reviews consistently frame Season 2 as an incremental improvement over Season 1 because it spends more time giving the heroines individualized emotional context instead of relying only on tutoring gags.
- 3
The cultural festival episode is specifically called out in user reception as the season’s expected school-anime set piece, and it functions as a recognizable genre checkpoint rather than a disposable side event.
- 4
Fumino’s backstory material is one of the most frequently noted additions in reception, singled out for helping viewers understand her beyond her usual group-role function.
- 5
The ending became a conversation point in fan commentary, with criticism focusing on the season feeling rushed near the finish rather than on the week-to-week comedy losing its charm.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- On MyAnimeList, Season 2 holds a 7.33 score from 184,669 votes, placing it at rank #2964 and popularity #873, a profile that suggests broad visibility more than elite critical placement.
- Fun fact 2
- The anime is credited to two studios, Arvo Animation and Silver, a production pairing that carried the series through its second televised cour.
- Fun fact 3
- Multiple critical summaries note that the opening and ending themes were received less warmly than Season 1’s, making the music package one of the rare recurring complaints outside the story structure.
- Fun fact 4
- One review describes the early stretch as oversaturated with fan service while still judging the overall season an improvement, capturing the split between the show’s rom-com comfort food and its more indulgent genre habits.
- Fun fact 5
- Fan commentary singled out the finale as unusually memorable, not because it resolved every romantic thread cleanly, but because its handling made the ending itself part of the Season 2 discourse.
Studios
- Arvo Animation
- Silver
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