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Nana #7
NANA―ナナ― 7
ライブを重ねる毎に歓声が大きくなっていく『ブラスト』。そんな中、プロデビューのかかったライブは大成功を収めたが、ナナたちの輝きを目の前にした奈々は…!?
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 15, 2002
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Ai Yazawa
286 books3,048 followersAi Yazawa (Japanese: 矢沢あい, Yazawa Ai) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator. Her pen name comes from singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom she is a fan.
Yazawa started her comics career in 1985. She specialises in shojo manga (girls' comics). Most of her works have been serialised in the magazines 'Ribon', 'Cookie' and 'Zipper'.
Yazawa's stories focus on young, often rebellious women and their relationships. The characters are always very stylish, and Yazawa herself is known for her sense of fashion. (She even attended a fashion school for some time after high school.)
Among her most famous manga are Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (I'm No Angel, 1992–1995), Neighborhood Story (1995-1998), Paradise Kiss (1999-2004), and Nana (2000-2009), the latter awarded a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2003. Some of these works have been adapted into anime and live action movies.
Yazawa started her comics career in 1985. She specialises in shojo manga (girls' comics). Most of her works have been serialised in the magazines 'Ribon', 'Cookie' and 'Zipper'.
Yazawa's stories focus on young, often rebellious women and their relationships. The characters are always very stylish, and Yazawa herself is known for her sense of fashion. (She even attended a fashion school for some time after high school.)
Among her most famous manga are Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (I'm No Angel, 1992–1995), Neighborhood Story (1995-1998), Paradise Kiss (1999-2004), and Nana (2000-2009), the latter awarded a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2003. Some of these works have been adapted into anime and live action movies.
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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.
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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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.
November 1, 2021
These bitches gay. Good for them. Good for them.
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
October 27, 2024
i was already down bad for nana and then she had to get into her manipulator phase 😩
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...
July 30, 2023
Why do I have a feeling your happiness is not going to last...?
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.
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...
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!
November 24, 2022
misato thinking hachi was in love with nana
March 2, 2024
est-ce que vous entendez mon cœur se briser petit à petit ?
May 25, 2025
3.5✨
June 16, 2025
nana RUN AWAYYYYYYYYY from takumi plsss 😣🩷
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 20, 2025
4.5 ⭐️
March 3, 2024
nobu i hachi xfin!!!!🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
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August 22, 2025"If, for example, we were a couple, would a hug from you be enough to wash away all my sadness?"
Nobu is a nice guy, but Hachi's quality of life overall would probably improve if she was single for a while or realized who the real love of her life is (and I think we all know who this is). Another amazing volume!
Nobu is a nice guy, but Hachi's quality of life overall would probably improve if she was single for a while or realized who the real love of her life is (and I think we all know who this is). Another amazing volume!
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
June 25, 2025
When will Hachi and Nana admit they love each other 😔
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💙
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.
December 23, 2024
FINALLY MY DREAMS CAME TRUE MY PARENTS ARE TOGETHER FINALLY !!! MOTHER AND FATHER LITERALLY OMFG. (theyre going to break up. Takumi is a bitch fr.)
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.
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