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Nana, Vol. 4 (Nana #4)

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This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of NANA is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip, and all-night parties.

Paperback, 208 pages

Published October 3rd 2006 by VIZ Media LLC

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May 22, 2013 Maite rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-shelf, favorites

El cuarto volumen de Nana, ナナ, por Ai Yazawa es quizás, hasta ahora el más complejo y revelador en cuanto a la vida de sus personajes. No es la primera vez que Hachi, 八, se enfrenta a una ruptura amorosa, pero si es éste el debut de los dos puntos de vista de los involucrados en la separación.

Hachi, 八 y Shouji Endo, 遠藤章司, quienes en mi opinión, no debieron desligarse tan pronto, realmente no tenían un futuro juntos, al menos no de esa manera; por lo que fue muy interesante el conocer como la au...more

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Feb 15, 2008 Trane rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: girls, ladies, women, boys, men, grandpas and grandmas (but not if you're easily shocked)

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

Shelves: favourites, manga, teens, online-manga

I always forget which volume is which. But all I can say is finally! Hachi finds out about Ren and Nana and she's determined to get them back together. And finally, we see Trapnest in the flesh. Well, not really, but we get to see them live. :D I just love Nana! The art and all this drama just captivates me.

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Jun 01, 2010 Valeriane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bd-manga, série

Les aventures de Nana & Nana continuent. Nana, fleur bleue, est larguée par son copain. Les nouveaux Blast donnent un concert mémorable. Nana, l'amoureuse affichée, emmène Nana, l'amoureuse secrète, a un concert de Trapnest. Groupe de Ren, bassiste qui possède toujours le coeur de cette seconde Nana.
Une très jolie histoire d'amitié se profile entre les deux jeunes femmes. La première, toujours aussi exubérante, la seconde, toujours aussi mystèrieuse, mais commence à confier son passé... ou p...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Sara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: current-fiction, manga, library-book, 2013, nana, series

So Nana K found out about Shoji and is now single. She seems to be growing as a person so that's good news. This volume revolved around Nana O and Ren.

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Aug 19, 2010 Patricia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Le fait que Shoji trompe Hachi est déchirant (et montre délibérément la différence de caractère entre elle et Nana). Les personnages sont tellement attachants.

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Jan 18, 2012 Jenni rated it 5 of 5 stars

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

Ren is so gorgeous. Ai Yazawa did a really good job with this character.

Read it in swedish.

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Sep 03, 2012 Nameh dah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Tomo en el que no pasa nada pero que nos advierte que pronto va a pasar todo.

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May 12, 2012 MissSugarTown rated it 5 of 5 stars

This manga is so sad... Don't read it if you're heart broken !

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Oct 30, 2010 Chani rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hâte d'aller à la bibliothèque pour me procurer la suite...

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

Shelves: manga, nana

I love this manga! I'm anticipating romance between Nana and Ren! YAY!

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Aug 20, 2009 Amy added it

Nana, Volume 4 by Ai Yazawa (2006)

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Aug 11, 2012 Maddie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

Another good volume in this series.

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Jan 13, 2013 Ch0u:) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ce tome est tellement émouvant... Mon petit cœur en est tout serré :$.

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Dec 20, 2008 Helena rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

ah...sad...SOB***

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Apr 12, 2009 Caroline rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, series, young-adult

While readers of the first book already know that Nana Osaki used to be in a relationship with Ren Honjo, the face of Trapnest (chart-topping rock band)...and he used to be bassist for Nana's band, Black Stones. But Hachi, Nana's best friend and roommate didn't...and when Nana's groupie Misato assumes she did, let's just say Hachi comes up with a little plan to get the singer back together with her ex!

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Oct 02, 2012 Yukino rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: miei, 2009

ODIO E AMORE

Adoro questo manga, la storia e ogni personaggio.

Odio invece la dipendenza ad esso. Leggo sempre tutto di fila, col fiato sospeso,e ogni pagina la leggo con la tachicardia come se lo vivessi in prima persona...

Forse è proprio questo che mi piace?
Io dico di si..ormai è parte di me...ogni tanto mi chiedo cosa faranno i personaggi come reagiranno..

E' entrato dritto nel mio cuore, e credo che lì ci rimarrà un bel pò..se non per sempre...

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Jun 17, 2011 Patrice rated it 4 of 5 stars

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

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Mar 05, 2010 Federiken Masters rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Casi todo el mundo.

Recommended to Federiken by: Obligación laboral

Qué lástima que el #4 de edición argentina nunca haya salido porque acá la historia se ponía mejor de lo que ya venía. Con la mayoría de los personajes presentados y las Nanas más sinceras entre sí, sólo queda sentarse a disfrutar de esta telenovela en formato historieta que le rompe el culo a cualquiera de sus contrapartes actuadas.

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Sep 26, 2008 Toni rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: manga fans, best friends

Shelves: manga

I have dedicated my book budget for the month to Nana. This is the best in the series so far. Blast performs, and the art is so well done I swear I could hear music. The mystery just keeps continuing, and the narration is beautiful. I can't wait to read more!

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

Oh, this manga.

Be still, my heart.

No seriously be still, this manga is trying to break it.

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Oh Nana, oh Nana.

5/5

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Aug 14, 2007 Summer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2007, i-will-lend-this-to-you, graphic-narrative

Volume 4 has some great artwork - it's the first time both bands are shown performing, and Yazawa's love for fashion and rock really show through.

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Nov 03, 2012 Diana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, read-in-2012

I can honestly say that I didn't like Shoji from the moment I met him. Hahaha! I can predict manga characters!

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

Shelves: manga, bibli-paris

Lé début de Blast à Tokyo et peut-être bien la rencontre avec Trapnest.
Comment réagiront Nana & Ren ? o.O

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Nov 14, 2007 Danielle rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: NANA fans!

Shelves: graphicnovels, 2007

The story gets deeper! I couldn't wait to get my hands on this volume and all it does is make me want more!

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Jul 25, 2008 Jessikah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Where do I go from here? Is it worth spending money on the rest of them?

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Jul 03, 2008 cubbie rated it 4 of 5 stars

fantastigay!!!!!

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May 22, 2013 Chelsea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga-favorites

May 22, 2013 Natasja rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Ai Yazawa (矢沢あい ,Yazawa Ai, born 1967-03-07 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga author. Her pen name comes from Japanese singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom she is a fan.

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