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Nana, Vol. 5 (Nana #5)

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Nana K. is going home--for an awesome TrapNest concert! She drags Nana O. along, convinced that somehow Ren will sense his ex-flame in the audience. But life is never that easy, and Nana O. isn't sure if she even wants Ren back. As for Nana K., is she prepared for TrapNest to come down off the stage and into her life, or will her fan-girl attitude land her in a heap of tro...more

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Published February 6th 2007 by VIZ Media LLC (first published July 15th 2004)

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Feb 15, 2008 Trane rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: manga heads, people who like hairstyles, shojo manga fans

Shelves: manga-and-comics

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...more 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.

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May 23, 2013 Maite rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-shelf, favorites

Ai Yazawa nos presenta en este quinto volumen de ナナ Nana, el reencuentro tras el concierto de トラネス Trapnest de ナナ Nana y レン Ren, que juntos establecen mis momentos favoritos de este manga. Su reconciliación introduce a los miembros de la banda de レン Ren nuevamente en la vida de los ブラスト Blats lo que es un giro completamente genial.

Por otra parte, ハチ Hachi y タクミ Takumi no son precisamente mis personajes favoritos y aunque ハチ Hachi ha logrado entrar en una zona neutral con mi yo lector, タクミ Takumi...more

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Jul 14, 2011 eleonora - rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, manga-fumetti-gnovel

Review dell'edizione italiana, ossia dei capitoli 5 e 6.
Hachi si impegna nella ricerca di nuovi membri per i Blast e Shin diventa il loro nuovo bassista. Arriva anche la tanto temuta Sachiko e, per Hachi, si mettono in mezzo anche i problemi economici.
Un volume divertente che non perde niente dei tratti eleganti ed esperti della Yazawa. Inoltre, come al solito, la serietà della storia e quel suo lato triste, che ha contribuito a far classificare questo manga anche come 'drama', sono sempre evide...more

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May 15, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2-manga

While I adore the Nana series, this volume was so-so compared to the others. Not that it was bad or anything. Hell no, it was actually okay. But until this volume, Nana seemed to follow a pattern of realism in everyday life and love lives. But the whole Takumi x Nana thing was way too... dream like. It was just too easy and too perfect. I already know it ends well, so that's how I know it's too perfect. Unlike with Shoji and Nana, we see no development between Nana and Takumi. It was just 'I adm...more

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Jun 01, 2010 Valeriane rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bd-manga, série

Après un petit arrêt et des critiques laissées en suspens, je me suis replongée dans la série Nana et j'ai dévoré le tome 8. Tout au long des 4 tomes, le groupe punk de Nana, la brune, se développe et prend de l'ampleur. Ils assurent en concert. Peut-être que son rêve de surpasser le groupe de Ren va enfin se réaliser.

De son côté, Nana, la blonde, replonge dans une nouvelle histoire d'amour avec Takumi... du groupe rock de Ren. Ce mec est imbuvable avec les filles et imbus de sa personne (oui je...more

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Sep 11, 2008 Nick rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

Overall Rating: A
Synopsis: Nana Komatsu is a 20 year old with a penchant for falling in love at first sight. After a year at art school, her best friend and her boyfriend move to Tokyo, so Nana decides to save up her money and follow them after a year.

Nana Osaki is a punk singer in the band Blast with her boyfriend Ren. When Ren gets an offer to join an up-and-coming band in Tokyo, he leaves Blast and Nina behind. A year later, Nina heads to Tokyo as well.

The two women meet by chance on the tr...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Yukino rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: miei, 2010

SONO LACRIME QUESTE?

E' la domanda che mi sono fatta quando leggendo il manga..ho iniziato a piangere...

Finalmente ho recuperato tutti i volumi e così ho deciso di leggermeli di fila...

ADORO TUTTO DI QUESTO FUMETTO!!!
I tratti, le storie ei personaggi...tutto!

E poi è più forte di me..sono ormai con le due Nana, vivo con loro ogni loro momento..fino in fondo...e ora..

leggo subito il successivo! e' praticamente una droga...così dolce e malinconico, così divertente...così meraviglioso!

Quello che mi p...more

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Jul 23, 2010 Violet Sakura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, nana

Getting better and better... Gosh, I'm starting to hate hachi's poor emotional status and her opinion about love, she's a masochistic IDIOT!

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Jan 03, 2011 Mazohyst (Edel) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites, teens, manga, online-manga

More twists, and some more gooey stuff. I'm starting to like this series, and I seem to be very fond of Osaki and Shin.

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Dec 20, 2008 Helena rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

OMG NANA IS SO KOL AND REN IS SO HOT!! THEYRE A PERFECT MATCH!!OMG SO HAPPY THEYRE TOGETHER AGAIN.

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Jul 26, 2011 CJ - Secret Charm rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, shojo

3.6

Hachi is driving me nuts. Why this book is from her POV is beyond me.

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Aug 19, 2012 Maddie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

Another good volume. :)

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Jul 25, 2012 Ariana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Nana & Ren <3

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Sep 30, 2011 Victoria rated it 4 of 5 stars

I love this manga!

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Jan 20, 2012 Jenni rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manhwa-manga-graphic-art, swedish-books, music

Read it in swedish.

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Jan 15, 2013 Ch0u:) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Je le sens pas le Takumi, Nana fait bien de se méfier !

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Mar 01, 2011 Caroline rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, manga

<3 <3 <3

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Mar 17, 2013 Kereesa rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of Nana and contemporary, adult romance

Recommended to Kereesa by: Christine Cornell

Shelves: own, own-softcovers, own-manga, 2013, cuddle-plus, favorites, fangirling, friendship, grrl-power, lives-up-to-the-hype, manga, manga-english, manga-shojo, romance

I'm giving this volume 5 freaking stars exclusively for the scene at the beginning (view spoiler)

This is definitely more of a set-up volume, as much of the drama that had been building up has been partially resolved at this point.

God, I hope everything works out for these peeps. Five volumes in and I'm already worrying about imaginary people.

Great.

4.5-5/5

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Jun 17, 2011 Patrice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-issues, graphic-novel, romance, series

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Apr 30, 2009 Caroline rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, series, young-adult

Nana and Hachi have new twists in their love life, as Nana reunites with Ren and introduces Hachi to the man of her dreams...and he isn't as dreamy as she pictured. But she's a bit more realistic now so it isn't as hard...or so she thinks.

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Oct 25, 2007 Misono rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga

This is the turning point where the story starts to get muddy and the whole mood of the series suddenly gets much heavier. I personally enjoyed the earlier half better, without all the betrayal and love triangles and such, but I have continued reading NANA just so I can finish it and see how the whole mess ends.

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Nov 04, 2012 Diana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, read-in-2012, made-me-cry

These go by way too fast!!! But they are pretty dang good. I'm thinking that I actually like Nobu for Nana K. I think he's a good fit. :) and finally, Ren and Nana!!!!! It made me cry when they reunited. :,)

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Oct 07, 2008 Kricket rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Kricket by: Joy Kim

Shelves: 2008, manga, josei

i am so, so hooked on this series. very exciting developments in this volume. i can't wait until vol. 6 gets returned.

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Dec 25, 2011 ArdnAskelA rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga, bibli-paris

Ne jamais dire jamais, je crois bien que c'est le message secret de ce volume de NANA :D Pas vrai, Hachi? ^^

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Jul 24, 2007 Oyceter rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

http://oyceter.livejournal.com/608887...

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Jul 29, 2008 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: crazy_love, shojo_manga

Nana is addictive!

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May 24, 2013 Ahri Ferreira rated it 5 of 5 stars

May 23, 2013 Sarah Schrotenboer rated it 5 of 5 stars

May 22, 2013 Brandon Lee rated it 4 of 5 stars

May 22, 2013 Amanda marked it as to-read

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“If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.” — 13 people liked it

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