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Nana #7
Nana, Vol. 7
A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny!
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!
Hachi was happy to be Blast's biggest cheerleader, but now that the band is taking off, she's discovering that there are hordes of fans eager to take her place. At the same time, her involvement with Trapnest hottie Takumi is turning into a romantic entanglement she hadn't expected. When a chance for another kind of happiness presents itself, will Hachi be strong enough to face the difficult choices that result?
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!
Hachi was happy to be Blast's biggest cheerleader, but now that the band is taking off, she's discovering that there are hordes of fans eager to take her place. At the same time, her involvement with Trapnest hottie Takumi is turning into a romantic entanglement she hadn't expected. When a chance for another kind of happiness presents itself, will Hachi be strong enough to face the difficult choices that result?
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2002
About the author
Ai Yazawa
259 books2,592 followersAi YAZAWA (矢沢あい) is a Japanese manga author. Her pen name comes from Japanese singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom she is a fan.
Yazawa started her manga publishing life in 1985; throughout 15 years of publishing, she wrote over ten series on Ribon magazine. While most of her manga continues to be published in Japan by Shueisha, publishers of Ribon and Cookie (in which Nana is serialized), series like Paradise Kiss now appear in other magazines such as Zipper, published by Shodensha.
Yazawa's most famous manga include Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (I'm Not an Angel), Gokinjo Monogatari (Neighborhood Story), Paradise Kiss, and Nana.
In 2003, she was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for Nana.
Some of her manga works were made into anime, and live action moves too.
Yazawa's works are most popular among women and young girls. The storylines generally are centered on young women and their relationships, something with which her young fanbase identifies. The characters are always very stylish, and she is known especially for her hip sense of fashion. Yazawa herself attended a fashion school after high school but did not complete her studies there. Another key point is her strikingly unique, often rebellious characters, who tend to be juxtaposed against the more traditional ones.
She has also published three artbooks.
Works (in chronological order)
15-nenme (1986)
Love Letter (1987)
Kaze ni Nare! (1988)
Escape (1988)
Ballad Made Soba ni Ite (1989, 2 volumes)
Marine Blue no Kaze ni Dakarete (1990–1991, 4 volumes)
Usubeni no Arashi (1992)
Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (1992–1995, 8 volumes)
Gokinjo Monogatari (1995–1998, 7 volumes)
Kagen no Tsuki (1998–1999, 3 volumes)
Paradise Kiss (2000–2004, 5 volumes, published by Shodensha)
Nana (2000–ongoing, 21 volumes - on hiatus)
Princess Ai (2004–2006, 3 volumes) (character designs only)
Yazawa started her manga publishing life in 1985; throughout 15 years of publishing, she wrote over ten series on Ribon magazine. While most of her manga continues to be published in Japan by Shueisha, publishers of Ribon and Cookie (in which Nana is serialized), series like Paradise Kiss now appear in other magazines such as Zipper, published by Shodensha.
Yazawa's most famous manga include Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (I'm Not an Angel), Gokinjo Monogatari (Neighborhood Story), Paradise Kiss, and Nana.
In 2003, she was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for Nana.
Some of her manga works were made into anime, and live action moves too.
Yazawa's works are most popular among women and young girls. The storylines generally are centered on young women and their relationships, something with which her young fanbase identifies. The characters are always very stylish, and she is known especially for her hip sense of fashion. Yazawa herself attended a fashion school after high school but did not complete her studies there. Another key point is her strikingly unique, often rebellious characters, who tend to be juxtaposed against the more traditional ones.
She has also published three artbooks.
Works (in chronological order)
15-nenme (1986)
Love Letter (1987)
Kaze ni Nare! (1988)
Escape (1988)
Ballad Made Soba ni Ite (1989, 2 volumes)
Marine Blue no Kaze ni Dakarete (1990–1991, 4 volumes)
Usubeni no Arashi (1992)
Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (1992–1995, 8 volumes)
Gokinjo Monogatari (1995–1998, 7 volumes)
Kagen no Tsuki (1998–1999, 3 volumes)
Paradise Kiss (2000–2004, 5 volumes, published by Shodensha)
Nana (2000–ongoing, 21 volumes - on hiatus)
Princess Ai (2004–2006, 3 volumes) (character designs only)
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October 23, 2022
It's so realistic that it makes me depressed. With Takumi, I have a love-hate connection. Nana O has a very nuanced personality. I guess I understand her acts since I love her so much. But I'm so sorry that she's not there right now for Hachi. The backstory was definitely necessary. The relationship between Shin and Nobu appeals to me. Yasu is unquestionably the group's father and continues to be the best boy.
May 10, 2021
Update: This definitely still has a lot of drama and since this is a re-read I know exactly how it's going to turn out. I feel so bad for the changes that happen between the two Nana's but it's definitely necessary to keep the story going. I definitely have my characters that I ship in this book, but I know that they don't make it when it's all said and done.
Oh my goodness oh my goodness! This volume had so much drama! But it definitely was good drama and I'm stupid excited to see what exactly is going to happen to with both ladies. I don't want to say too much because of spoilers. But if you haven't started this series yet you definitely need to read it.
Oh my goodness oh my goodness! This volume had so much drama! But it definitely was good drama and I'm stupid excited to see what exactly is going to happen to with both ladies. I don't want to say too much because of spoilers. But if you haven't started this series yet you definitely need to read it.
March 15, 2022
“if, for example, we had been a love couple, would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness? or then, does every single being carry this loneliness like a burden?”
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November 1, 2021
These bitches gay. Good for them. Good for them.
January 18, 2023
Pasan muchísimas cosas importantes en este volumen. Hachi termina y empieza relaciones abruptamente y se ven las intenciones y miedos reales de Osaki Nana...
February 16, 2008
I'm completely addicted to Ai Yazawa's shojo manga Nana. Nana is the story of two young women, both from small towns, who meet on the bullet train and end up moving in together in Tokyo. Nana Komatsu (a.k.a. "Hachi") is a small-town girl who has big city dreams of romance and leaving her old life (and self) behind, while Nana Osaki has come to Tokyo to try to find success as the singer of her (psuedo) punk rock band, Blast. This all sounds like pretty standard fare so far, but once you throw in copious piercings, an underage bass-playing rent boy, art school friends, non-stop smoking, all-night parties, a cute sweety gothy fangirl, a deep romance between Nana O. and Ren (guitar player for rival band Trapnest), secret hotel trysts, crazy fashion, levels of girl bonding that are off the charts, and melodramatics like you haven't seen since you stopped watching Days of Our Lives, then you'll have a better idea of what you're in for in this series.
Yazawa does a few things really well in Nana. First, she creates characters that you can get attached to really easily so that you want to follow their stories. Once you're invested in the characters, the melodrama and gossip that mounts are unrelenting. Reading this manga kind of feels just like when one of your friends hands you some delicious, and perhaps slightly malicious, secret tidbit about a friend or acquaintance, usually prefaced with the phrase "Don't tell anyone." Yazawa is also frightfully adept at deploying a battery of shojo manga techniques used for the illustration of intense emotional states (startle lines, blushing cheeks, disembodied flowers floating in the air, smile octagons, etc.). This use of a secondary emotional language in illustration works in conjunction with the melodrama in a way that's far more affective than anything I can imagine in cinema. What Yazawa does best of all, however, is to deeply imagine the wide variety of affections, desires, and types of love that can run through groups of people without trying to simplify the complex emotional relationships that result. The (non-sexual, but definitely erotic) love between Nana and Nana is given more space in this manga than even the more traditional romantic encounters between the Nanas and their heterosexual partners. The idea of "love" that has managed to drop itself into the English language is severely inadequate to describe the types of emotional attachments that Yazawa instigates and investigates in Nana — perhaps a more appropriate way to approach the relationships presented in Nana would be to invoke the numerous Greek words for love and use those varietals as a jumping off point.
For all its melodramatics and emphasis on young love and rock-and-roll, this series is hauntingly elegiac. The events told in the story itself take place in a past that's registered in the key of loss by the voice of a disembodied narrator that appears throughout the course of the narrative: "I'll still call out for you, Nana . . . no matter how much it hurts . . . until you answer me." I'm not sure what future traumatics are in store in this series, but my guess is that the series ends with the loss of something unrecoverable. Whether or not anything is gained in the tradeoff will be the point of interest to look out for.
The reason I give four stars to the series instead of five is that, as entertaining as it is, it's mostly a kind of pop entertainment. Sharply felt, deeply delightful, but finally not one for the ages.
Yazawa does a few things really well in Nana. First, she creates characters that you can get attached to really easily so that you want to follow their stories. Once you're invested in the characters, the melodrama and gossip that mounts are unrelenting. Reading this manga kind of feels just like when one of your friends hands you some delicious, and perhaps slightly malicious, secret tidbit about a friend or acquaintance, usually prefaced with the phrase "Don't tell anyone." Yazawa is also frightfully adept at deploying a battery of shojo manga techniques used for the illustration of intense emotional states (startle lines, blushing cheeks, disembodied flowers floating in the air, smile octagons, etc.). This use of a secondary emotional language in illustration works in conjunction with the melodrama in a way that's far more affective than anything I can imagine in cinema. What Yazawa does best of all, however, is to deeply imagine the wide variety of affections, desires, and types of love that can run through groups of people without trying to simplify the complex emotional relationships that result. The (non-sexual, but definitely erotic) love between Nana and Nana is given more space in this manga than even the more traditional romantic encounters between the Nanas and their heterosexual partners. The idea of "love" that has managed to drop itself into the English language is severely inadequate to describe the types of emotional attachments that Yazawa instigates and investigates in Nana — perhaps a more appropriate way to approach the relationships presented in Nana would be to invoke the numerous Greek words for love and use those varietals as a jumping off point.
For all its melodramatics and emphasis on young love and rock-and-roll, this series is hauntingly elegiac. The events told in the story itself take place in a past that's registered in the key of loss by the voice of a disembodied narrator that appears throughout the course of the narrative: "I'll still call out for you, Nana . . . no matter how much it hurts . . . until you answer me." I'm not sure what future traumatics are in store in this series, but my guess is that the series ends with the loss of something unrecoverable. Whether or not anything is gained in the tradeoff will be the point of interest to look out for.
The reason I give four stars to the series instead of five is that, as entertaining as it is, it's mostly a kind of pop entertainment. Sharply felt, deeply delightful, but finally not one for the ages.
March 29, 2024
Imagine how much easier this would all be if the Nanas realized they liked GIRLS!!!!!!! Nobu best femboy fr tho, I am eating these characters UP
July 30, 2023
Why do I have a feeling your happiness is not going to last...?
March 2, 2024
est-ce que vous entendez mon cœur se briser petit à petit ?
December 20, 2019
Che tenero è Nobu!! Mi chiedo come quella senza-cervello di Nana riesca a finire prigioniera di Takumi nei volumi successivi? Cosa cavolo succedeva tra lei e Nobu?
Rileggendolo da adulta ha forse un sapore diverso, anche se Hachi continua a farmi venire voglia di sdrondonarla per bene per metterle un po' di sale in zucca.
Adesso tocca a Shin, un altro dei miei personaggi preferiti. Ma, forse, tutti i Blast sono dei personaggi talmente ben riusciti che è impossibile non fare il tifo per loro. Certo che non mi ricordo più la storia di Shin.
Va beh, Soobie, datti una mossa e vai in fumetteria a prendere in numero otto...
Rileggendolo da adulta ha forse un sapore diverso, anche se Hachi continua a farmi venire voglia di sdrondonarla per bene per metterle un po' di sale in zucca.
Adesso tocca a Shin, un altro dei miei personaggi preferiti. Ma, forse, tutti i Blast sono dei personaggi talmente ben riusciti che è impossibile non fare il tifo per loro. Certo che non mi ricordo più la storia di Shin.
Va beh, Soobie, datti una mossa e vai in fumetteria a prendere in numero otto...
September 10, 2024
Nana K gets herself involved in a shaky kind of love triangle..as her friendship with Nobu goes further.
Blast are on the verge of signing a record deal.
I just love the secondary characters are so well defined...each with backstories and motivations that are gradually being revealed.
Blast are on the verge of signing a record deal.
I just love the secondary characters are so well defined...each with backstories and motivations that are gradually being revealed.
March 3, 2024
nobu i hachi xfin!!!!🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
September 24, 2015
Shin is funny in this one, how he mooches off all the girls and seams so mature... and then... SUSHI!!!!! Ahhahaha
Kinda torn about Takumi. He can seem sweet, but in the other volumes.. grrr I dont know.
I'm confused... Who is Misato? Does Nana know the truth? And Shin is????
I love how Misato and Hachi are both girlie girl style but yet love hard rock/punk
Kinda torn about Takumi. He can seem sweet, but in the other volumes.. grrr I dont know.
I'm confused... Who is Misato? Does Nana know the truth? And Shin is????
I love how Misato and Hachi are both girlie girl style but yet love hard rock/punk
January 10, 2017
Oh Nana! What have you done!
I find the emotional levels of this series to be so surprising. The panels are drawn in such a way as to tug at your heart and sometimes bring tears to your eyes. Deep...complex...sigh...I want to own this series!
I find the emotional levels of this series to be so surprising. The panels are drawn in such a way as to tug at your heart and sometimes bring tears to your eyes. Deep...complex...sigh...I want to own this series!
March 5, 2024
“... Se, per ipotesi, tu e io stessimo veramente insieme... basterebbe gettarci l'una nelle braccia dell'altra, per sanare la frattura che si è creata tra di noi? O piuttosto, la verità è che nulla può diminuire questo mio senso di solitudine?”
“Sai, Nana... gli errori che ho commesso, e le ferite che ho ricevuto... non si cancellano semplicemente ricoprendoli di tinta. Per questo continuo a invocare il tuo nome... anche se è molto doloroso. Continuerò a invocarlo, finché non otterrò una risposta...”
I'm drowning in my tears.
“Sai, Nana... gli errori che ho commesso, e le ferite che ho ricevuto... non si cancellano semplicemente ricoprendoli di tinta. Per questo continuo a invocare il tuo nome... anche se è molto doloroso. Continuerò a invocarlo, finché non otterrò una risposta...”
I'm drowning in my tears.
August 2, 2024
a partir de este tomo se va todo a la mierda así que creo que voy a dejar de leer por mi salud mental <3
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March 27, 2022so far, this is the only volume for which i didn't feel as strongly invested as the others. maybe because we got less scenes of nana & hachi together and this one focused more on the love lives of every character. so happy blast is finally getting the attention they deserve though !
May 10, 2023
TE AMO TANTO
April 14, 2020
Le prime lacrimucce sono arrivate💙
November 24, 2022
misato thinking hachi was in love with nana
June 23, 2023
The scene where Hachi explains how much she loves Nobu’s music is going to live in my head rent-free for eternity.
August 28, 2018
Nuh-uh Takumi, you need a lesson in humility and heartbreak; get a taste of your own medicine for a while (but I bet that’s gonna be a hard pill to swallow 😅)
On that note though, I’m really happy for Hachi and Nobu!!
I don’t want to think too much of Nana’s darkness, but I don’t doubt it’s gonna rear it’s head in the next volume.
Ah and Shin, he’s so cute but so dangerous!
Maybe Yasu is the only remotely normal guy in this picture *ah knock on wood 😭
In an emotional tailspin once again.
On that note though, I’m really happy for Hachi and Nobu!!
I don’t want to think too much of Nana’s darkness, but I don’t doubt it’s gonna rear it’s head in the next volume.
Ah and Shin, he’s so cute but so dangerous!
Maybe Yasu is the only remotely normal guy in this picture *ah knock on wood 😭
In an emotional tailspin once again.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 19, 2022
*4.25
This was SUCH a good volume.
The last book did a great job going more in-depth on the members of Blast and Trapnest, and I loved that that continued in here. Following these characters is such fun, as is watching the further development of the two Nanas' dynamic. I can't wait to read more.
4.25/5 stars.
This was SUCH a good volume.
The last book did a great job going more in-depth on the members of Blast and Trapnest, and I loved that that continued in here. Following these characters is such fun, as is watching the further development of the two Nanas' dynamic. I can't wait to read more.
4.25/5 stars.
April 25, 2023
Es entretenido se lee rápido y te engancha a la historia!
February 25, 2024
chaque personnage (nana), chaque relation, chaque situation (le groupe et le contrat) est si réel que l’on a presque l’impression de se trouver face à un miroir : du cœur, de soi, de l’âme. impressionnant.
August 29, 2022
amigas LO QUE SUFRIIIII solo quiero q sean todos felices
March 13, 2023
i’m really starting to like reira she’s kinda weird lol
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why tf is nobody else talking about reira !!?!
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why tf is nobody else talking about reira !!?!
October 29, 2023
Oh this was such a deliciously messy volume.
The juxtaposition of Hachi leaving her boyfriend not particularly worried about when she'll see him next and not even jealous of his possible relationship to another, versus her despairing because she's not going to see Nana tonight even though she literally saw her on stage the previous day is so funny... AND THEN walking hand in hand with her boy thinking "a pleasant warmth emanates from his hand, like Nana's hand" ?! My girl is so close yet so far to an important realization.
Meanwhile we have Nana O setting up Hachi with her friend, not because she thought they'd make each other happy, but so that she can "keep an eye on Hachiko, by releasing her in my own garden" (admission immediately followed by a scene of Hachi running briefly to hug her boyfriend and then straight to Nana...).
Aah these two. I mean, I for sure am reading with my queer glasses on, but truly I don't understand how there could be any other interpretation of Nana and Hachi's relationship that doesn't hinge on them being codependent repressed wlw.
The juxtaposition of Hachi leaving her boyfriend not particularly worried about when she'll see him next and not even jealous of his possible relationship to another, versus her despairing because she's not going to see Nana tonight even though she literally saw her on stage the previous day is so funny... AND THEN walking hand in hand with her boy thinking "a pleasant warmth emanates from his hand, like Nana's hand" ?! My girl is so close yet so far to an important realization.
Meanwhile we have Nana O setting up Hachi with her friend, not because she thought they'd make each other happy, but so that she can "keep an eye on Hachiko, by releasing her in my own garden" (admission immediately followed by a scene of Hachi running briefly to hug her boyfriend and then straight to Nana...).
Aah these two. I mean, I for sure am reading with my queer glasses on, but truly I don't understand how there could be any other interpretation of Nana and Hachi's relationship that doesn't hinge on them being codependent repressed wlw.
July 6, 2016
I have so many feelings, you guys, and they're all so intense! So many things happen in this volume, and I'm still kind of dying of feelings - in the best way.
November 20, 2019
Este tomo fue la calma antes de la tormenta y disfruté cada página como si no conociera la historia de memoria. AMO.
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