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...
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Nov 07, 2008
Cera
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Jan 07, 2009
Sarah
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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 More...
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 More...
Feb 15, 2008
Trane
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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
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Sep 11, 2008
Nick
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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 More...
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.
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Jun 01, 2010
Valeriane
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Deuxième tome de cette série. Nana part à Tokyo et Nana part à Tokyo. Dans le train elles se retrouvent assises l'une à côté de l'autre et font connaissance. Est-ce une simple coïncidence que ces deux jeunes femmes, portant le même nom et ayant pris une décision similaire se retrouvent côté à côté pour un voyage vers une destination commune?
Arrivée à Tokyo, Nana-fleur bleu décide de se trouver un appart. Arrivée sur les lieux à visiter, elle tombe sur Nana-rockeuse qui comptait également l More...
Arrivée à Tokyo, Nana-fleur bleu décide de se trouver un appart. Arrivée sur les lieux à visiter, elle tombe sur Nana-rockeuse qui comptait également l More...
Feb 15, 2009
Circa
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I have mixed feelings about this volume. I love the interaction between the two Nanas but their individual conflicts and character flaws come off kind of cliche and dull. I keep hearing that the character development is the serie's success but I don't feel hooked yet. I'll give volume 3 a chance.
Jan 02, 2011
Mazohyst
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Both Nana's have such addictive personalities! Their private lives are completely separate and different, but I couldn't help but feel that they're somehow the same lives. Crazy thought, am I right? It's rather interesting how these two people met by chance. I love this series so far!
Dec 21, 2010
Laurisa
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I liked this volume a bit more than the first (however I had to go back to the first volume and re-read some), these manga's are sort of high-matinence and very witty. I think sometimes you have to read some of the jokes again to understand (or for me at least). Still very good, though!
Jul 20, 2009
Aarti
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i am desperately afraid that Nana and Nana will become a couple. which would really suck. i would hate that, and i'd stop reading this. I see them as sisters, so that would be an ouchie. but it's a cute manga [for now:], and my favorite character is Nobu.
Feb 26, 2011
Caroline
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This continues to be adorable. And I laughed at how the "Naive Nana sees Ren's poster in the record store" echoes the Knives/Envy/Scott dynamic in Scott Pilgrim. (Though funnier because it turns out she doesn't actually CARE about Ren).
Feb 10, 2011
Lucius Kwok
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Shoujo manga. One of the first in this genre that I've read so I don't have much to compare it to, but I liked it. It's a series so you really should start with volume 1 and go through incrementallly.
Dec 25, 2011
Aleksandra
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Haha, le "roi des démons", mais quelle théorie!
Et moi, qui pensait qu'il n'y aura plus de Blast..
Je suis contente de savoir que ce n'est que le début de ce groupe :D
Et moi, qui pensait qu'il n'y aura plus de Blast..
Je suis contente de savoir que ce n'est que le début de ce groupe :D
Jan 18, 2012
Jenni
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It's getting interesting when Nana K, finally met Nana O.
Read it in swedish.
Read it in swedish.
Sep 26, 2008
Toni
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Absolutely fantastic. During the first volume I could not figure out why Nana is so well respected. The story was ok, the characters were normal, and the plot seemed to be nothing special. However, volume two has completely blown me away. The friendship between the two Nana's is incredibly entertaining and touching. The dialog is very unusual, and compelling. I love the art, and the way photographs are used as some of the backgrounds. This is a manga unlike any other I have read, and I can't wai
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Dec 17, 2009
Ysabet
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After the somewhat slow start in volume one, this is where the story really gets going as the two Nanas meet each other. Their friendship is the heart of the series; it becomes the thing their lives center on while other relationships come together and fall apart, and while the friendship itself goes through a huge array of change. This is a gorgeous, heartbreaking story about very believable, deeply messed-up people trying--with very mixed success--to make their way through life.
Apr 10, 2008
Kricket
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the two nanas decide to move to tokyo, and end up sitting next to each other on the train. they talk the whole way there, even when the train is delayed by snow. at the train station, they go their separate ways but meet again serendipitously when they are both taken to see the same apartment. after fighting over it, they decide to become roommates and a strange friendship is born...
Jul 02, 2007
Summer
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This series takes a definite upturn when Nana O. and Nana K. meet, if only because they play so well off of each other. Nana K. turns from cute and flirty to calculatingly cute and distressingly promiscuous. Nana O.'s punk rock attitude and hidden vulnerability show up in stark relief against her roommate's larger-than life personality. The art continues to be original, yet strong.
Jul 27, 2008
Shal'tiar
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Every bit as good as volume one. I really like this series and I look forward to reading the 3rd one. Damn my addictive personality. I'll probably have to read them all.
Aug 23, 2008
Caroline
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Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki meet up on a train...and while looking at a seventh-floor apartment! It's fate! Or is it just the demon lord...?
Jul 24, 2008
Alison
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Both Nana's are SO adorable and I love the humor.....and Kyosuke....I don't know why...I am just OVERLY obsessed with him lol
Apr 14, 2008
Marie
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The two Nanas meet in this highly readable and enjoyable second volume. Blonde Nana gets her nickname too!
May 17, 2008
Jessikah
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A little better than the first but I'm still waiting for it to pick up.
