Ai Yazawa

Allison Wolfe

When two twenty-year-old women with the same first name meet and become best friends despite their different personalities, they experience a world of music, fashion, sex, gossip, and all-night parties.

Nana

Nana.

Kiran Aftab

i'm hooked but also waiting for the show to be on netflix

shoutout to my hair stylist for convincing me to binge read this. it’s going to hurt so good

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           yasu <3
shoji sucks
nana got rizz
hachi’s friends suck for not telling her what

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           i hate the way that people talk about hachi but also i really wish she would learn from her mistakes but i suppose everyone has their own journey. i’m glad blast has hachi’s back though. girl nobu is right in front of you and he’s a good guy. just tell takumi to fuck off please.

it makes me sad that trapnest really has been taking away everything from yasu and nana but also the relationships between the band members are starting to get so messy. 

again i love yasu and how dependable he is.

hachi deserves to have a guy treat her right. 
their thoughts about loneliness are so real that it HURTS. 
i wish hachi didn’t go from guy to guy to fill the void and instead found what she was passionate about :(

Two best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties!

so much happened. my mind is whirling. jaw dropped. laughs were had

La presse à scandale dévoile le secret auquel Nana Osaki tenait le plus : le fait que sa mère l'ait abandonnée. Inquiète, Hachi vient vivre chez elle, mais la chanteuse n'a pas l'air affectée par l'article et se montre plus qu'enthousiaste pour la première tournée nationale de Blast qui approche. Lin incident inattendu va pourtant tout bouleverser

(suivi de) Takumi

Nana, Vol. 21

i cried throughout the whole book and had chills. i’m going to throw up

The all-time best-selling shojo title in Japan R to L (Japanese Style). Ren's drug use is spiraling out of control and he doesn't want to drag Trapnest down with him. Neither Takumi nor Reira are willing to let Ren quit the band, and both do their best to give him the time he needs to get it together. But Ren isn't sure this is something he can handle on his own. Will he turn to Nana for help, or will their strained relationship make him try to face his demons alone? Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties!

first of i’m in pain
second of all their loneliness feels too real. i’m not okay and it’s hitting the spot too well
WHY DID FRANCIS FOREVER BY MITSKI JUST PLAY ON SHUFFLE WAHHHH

Blast a dû suspendre ses activités suite à l'arrestation de Shin et Nana Osaki finit par décider de se lancer dans une carrière solo. Mais sa relation avec Ren reste tendue et Nana Komatsu fait son possible pour arranger les choses.

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           btw i cried and am already feeling so much pain. 

was that the right time to scold hachi after she was cheated on??

i’d lose my mind if hachi was so clingy with me and she is so boy obsessed. i hate when people lash out on others too.

it’s the way nana doesn’t talk about ren. ah you know that shit hurts and my heart also hurts for her.

i like how nana osaki is someone who hasn’t really had girl friends before and hachi is so boy obsessed but they still have too much pride to let guys do them dirty and continue being with them

Sarah Sammis

Back in July I reviewed the first volume of the shojo manga, Nana by Ai Yazawa. I had been interested in it since Amazon had recommended it to me but I didn't start the series until Dewey also recommended it.The series is rapidly becoming one of favorite "guilty pleasures." I plan to review more in the series over the course of 2009.

Nana Volume 2 finds both Nanas on the train to Tokyo. They expect to go their separate ways but fate (or the demon lord if you ask Nana Komatsu) brings them back together in a most unexpected way. They both want the same apartment. It's in an ideal location and though still very expensive, very cheap for Tokyo prices. The only way to get the apartment they both want but can't afford is to share the lease.

Most of volume 2 centers around the apartment and the difficulties they have with it. The apartment is old and they are novices at renting, especially Nana K. There is the lack of power, lack of heat, and the need for cosigners. The other half is divided between Nana K's new job (at an awesome looking retro furniture and clothing store) and the growing friendship between the two Nanas.

Every apartment and now our home has been something we could only afford because it's been old and somewhat funky. I was laughing at the problems the Nanas were having with their new home, the shock of expense of living in the middle of a booming city and all the fiddly bits of setting up a home.

The summer of 2008 I got into reading the shojo manga series, Nana by Ai Yazawa. I tore through volume 1 and volume 2 and volume 3. Unfortunately for posting reviews, my reading for fun often takes a back burner for challenges and books sent for review. I am trying now to change my priorities to bring the fun back into book blogging.

Nana is the tale of two young women both named Nana. Fate has brought the together to share an apartment in Tokyo. One Nana is in a rock band and the other one wants to be an art student. They both have had rocky love lives and part of their moves is a means of escape from those memories.

In Volume 3, things are starting to gel for the girls. Nana Osaki has teamed up again with the guitarist and drummer from her old band. They've found a new bass player and are ready to play some gigs again.

Nana Komsatsu isn't faring quite as well. She's still troubled by the "Demon Lord" whom she blames for her own bad luck and poor decisions. She's found a job but it's not what she expected. Instead of being an up and coming editor, she's basically now Ugly Betty.

In fact, it's the similarity in many ways to Ugly Betty that keeps me coming back to this series. I am reading volume 4 now and have volume 5 waiting in my to be read soon pile.

Nana Volume 1 by Ai Yazawa is a shojo manga and quite a departure for me from my usual manga choices. I saw this volume reviewed on my of favorite book blogs but it was months ago and I can't remember where. Anyway, the cover art appealed to me as did the title and I was looking for a change.

There are actually two young women named Nana: Nana Komatsu, who is introduced on pages 3-104, and Nana Osaki who is introduced on pages 105-176. The first volume comes to a close with a coda dedicated to a character named Junko but her role here is more as a source of "coming attractions" than anything else. Both Nanas are drawn to Tokyo but the paths they take are very different.

Nana K. is an emotionally scarred girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places, including having an affair with an older married man. She goes to Tokyo to follow a pair of men: the married one and a young artist who has transferred to a university there. Her time in Tokyo will probably be a rough one; she's unprepared for the big city and lacks the confidence to make the move work.

On the other hand, Nana O., a member of rock band, goes to Tokyo to follow her lover when he is offered a better gig. Although she is hurt by the break up she is strong enough and stubborn enough to charge into Tokyo and claim her piece of it.

The two Nanas will obviously meet in the future but in this volume they lead separate lives. There are enough similarities in their lives and in how they look that it is easy sometimes to accidentally confuse one for the other. In this regard, their parallel lives reminds me of a wonderful French/Polish film: La Double vie de Veronique / Dvojnaja zhizn Veroniki (1991).

Tragedy strikes as the Search Weekly team takes their snooping too far! Hounded to the limit by remorseless reporters, Ren spins his car off the icy road in a horrible accident that will change the course of everyone's future... -- VIZ Media

that kind of work that tears your heart apart

Camilla

samira 

SO GOOD !!! immediately i really liked this manga and i desperately want volume 2 :(

to keep this review straightforward i'll bullet point some aspects of this series that kept me satisfied as a reader

- aesthetics (beautiful art, each character seems to have a unique but visually pleasing sense of style, a nice touch of punk to a lot of things, tons of vivienne westwood refs)

- realistic characters (characters' strengths and weaknesses are much like the strengths and weaknesses we see in everyday people in the real world)  

- upsetting (this is a personal preference and of course a lot of people don't like sensitive content and that's totally understandable but i think that i enjoy a series that can really mimic the real world and its cruel side more than something that waters down the brutality and sadistic aspects of a society because it can teach us some important lessons and give us a bit of an exercise on using empathy) 

and finally, i like how it doesn't solely focus on one character's life and problems, now that's definitely not some unique and exclusive aspect of the series, but i just appreciate that we get to look into some of the other characters minds and get a real understanding of what each character is genuinely like! 

to keep this review straightforward i'll bullet point some aspects of this series that kept me satisfied as a reader

- aesthetics (beautiful art, each character seems to have a unique but visually pleasing sense of style, a nice touch of punk to a lot of things, tons of vivienne westwood refs)

- realistic characters (characters' strengths and weaknesses are much like the strengths and weaknesses we see in everyday people in the real world)  

- conflicts (characters would have deeper more realistic conflicts with each other compared to other mainstream manga/anime series)  

- upsetting (this is a personal preference and of course a lot of people don't like sensitive content and that's totally understandable but i think that i enjoy a series that can really mimic the real world and its cruel side more than something that waters down the brutality and sadistic aspects of a society because it can teach us some important lessons and give us a bit of an exercise on using empathy) 

and finally, i like how it doesn't solely focus on one character's life and problems, now that's definitely not some unique and exclusive aspect of the series, but i just appreciate that we get to look into some of the other characters minds and get a real understanding of what each character is genuinely like! 

Diana_Ioana

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           I thought the train (how they met scene) would also be in the manga at first. Just like in the anime. I really love the dynamic between Nana and Hachiko

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           4.5 🌟
Takumi is such an asshole! "A dream and being happy are different things" Bruh I get it but just because he said it, makes u feel depressed. 
Also the way Nana and the band found out about Hachiko and Takumi is meh.

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           So disappointed Hachiko kissed Takumi before breaking up with Nobu. 
Also, Miasto doesn't use her real name?? She just became 10x more interesting. 
Also holy grail Nana is really calling dibs on Hachiko.

Nana

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