Nana (manga)

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Nana
Original title ナ ナ
transcription Nana
Nana anime logo.svg
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Ai Yazawa
magazine Cookie
First publication Shueisha
expenditure 21st
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Studio Madhouse
Episodes 47
Director Morio Asaka
music Three Days Grace
First broadcast April 5, 2006 - March 27, 2007
synchronization

NANA ( Japaneseナ ナ) is a manga series from the Japanese mangaka Ai Yazawa that has been published since 1999.

action

Komatsu Nana and Osaki Nana are two completely different young women for whom a common fate awaits in Tokyo . Komatsu Nana is down to earth and naive. She and her best friend Saotome Junko want to go to an art academy in Tokyo. Her friend, as well as her boyfriend Endō Shōji and her buddy Takakura Kyōsuke pass the university entrance exam and travel to Tokyo, only Nana remains behind because she failed.

At the same time, Osaki Nana is the singer of the punk band Blast. She lives with her friend Ren, who is also the band's bass player. The band Blast, which also includes Nobuo (guitar) and Yasu (drums), is about to break up because their friend Ren has received an offer from the band Trapnest and decides to accept it and go to Tokyo. With a heavy heart, Nana separates from her boyfriend.

Almost two years later, both Komatsu Nana and Osaki Nana decide to go to Tokyo to pursue their own dreams. The two meet for the first time on the train to Tokyo. Once in Tokyo, the two girls part ways at first, but they meet again when they are both looking for an apartment and inspecting the same apartment. They decide to move in together. Komatsu Nana, called "Hachi" by her roommate, and Osaki Nana become friends.

people

  • Nana Komatsu is superstitious, dependent, affectionate and naive. Despite constant disappointments, she firmly believes in great love. She went to Tokyo because her boyfriend Shōji lives there. Despite her firm resolve to grow up and become independent, she remains very exhausting (especially for her boyfriend). Basically she is a good-hearted girl who just needs a lot of love and attention. For better differentiation it is baptized "Hachi". In the course of the series, she raves about Takumi from Trapnest and also meets him briefly, separates from him to get together with Nobu, but then gets engaged to Takumi because she is pregnant by him. Although Hachi is married to Takumi, she often feels lonely and neglected, but stays with him. She has only two children from Takumi and names them Ren and Satsuki. Ren chose the name of her daughter Satsuki.
  • Nana Ōsaki was the singer of the punk band Black Stones ( Blast ) and was in a relationship with bassist Ren - until he left her and the band to become successful with another, more professional band called Trapnest. She moves to Tokyo and would love to live there as a lonely professional musician wolf. Thanks to Nana Komatsu, she becomes a professional musician wolf with a dog named Hachi, longing for loneliness. She sees Reira from Trapnest as a great rival and wants the Black Stones to become bigger than Trapnest because she realizes that Trapnest is taking everything away from her that is dear to her. Nana Ren married, but the relationship didn't last long. Some events cause Nana to move back to Apartment 707. She never gets back with Ren because he dies on her birthday. One learns that she later disappeared and Hachi and Co. have been feverishly looking for her for years.
  • Junko Saotome is Hachi's best friend, and Kyōsuke Takakura is Shōji's favorite friend . Junko and Kyōsuke are a couple. They appear more adult and are often used to explain, mediate and protect. She is later apparently married to Kyosuke.
  • Nobuo Terashima is the guitarist of Blast and heir to a great ryokan. However, he follows Nana to Tokyo because music is the most important thing to him. He falls in love with Hachi and becomes her boyfriend too, but the relationship breaks up when Hachi realizes that she was pregnant by Takumi even before she got together with Nobu. Nobu doesn't stay alone for long, however, he falls in love with Yuri Kosaka, a porn actress. It is not yet known whether they will still be together later. He later works in his parents' ryokan.
  • Reira Serizawa is the singer for Trapnest. Her mother is of Japanese descent and her father was Euro-American (died when Leila was five), but she's hiding it because she doesn't want people in Japan to blame her partly European origins for her talent. She was in high school with Yasu, but has loved Takumi since childhood, but he seems to have only brotherly feelings for her. From an initial affair with Shin, she falls in love with him. However, she ends the relationship because she fears there could be a major media scandal that will end Trapnest's career - especially because Shin is still a minor.
  • Ren Honjō is Nana's friend who went to Tokyo to play guitar at Trapnest. He's a big Sid Vicious fan. Even if he and Nana haven't seen each other for almost two years, he still loves her, and when they meet again, they immediately get back together. Ren marries Nana, but the relationship begins to break up due to some events. Ren and Nana will never be a couple again after Ren dies in a car accident. He chose the name Satsuki for Hachi's daughter.
  • Shin'ichi Okazaki is the one who takes Ren's place as Blasts bassist in Tokyo. He didn't grow up in Japan, but in an unspecified English-speaking country, only 15 and ran away from home, which doesn't seem to bother his guardians very much. It is later learned that he has a half-brother, that his “official” father is not his sire and that Shin is most likely a Eurasier who emerged from an affair between his mother and a man of European origin. Shin gets by by sleeping with women for money, which Nana and Hachi are anything but enthusiastic about. Reira becomes one of his customers. He falls in love with her. He later made his comeback as an actor. Hachi's daughter Satsuki later falls in love with him a little.
  • Shōji Endō is Hachi's friend. She wants to come to Tokyo because of him. With that he decided on a time-consuming, exhausting and difficult project. But Shōji gets to know his fellow student Sachiko Kawamura and cheats on Hachi with her. He breaks up with Hachi, in favor of Sachiko. Shōji does not play a major role after that, but you learn that he and Sachiko are serious and move in together.
  • Takumi Ichinose is the bass player for Trapnest. He has a high wear and tear on women, but this changes drastically when he impregnates Hachi and decides to marry her. But Takumi does not remain loyal to Hachi and sleeps with Reira. Takumi later lives with his son Ren in London, where he and Naoki look for Nana O.
  • Yasushi Takagi already knows Ren and Nobu from his school days, as do the band members of Trapnest, with whose singer Reira he also had a very long relationship. Back then, however, Blast was still in its infancy. Yasu has a very close, almost brotherly relationship with Ren. After he left the band "Blast", Yasu stayed at home with Nobu and Nana to complete his legal training there. When Nana later packs her bags (and Nobu just follows her) and goes to Tokyo, Yasu doesn't last long either and he looks for a new job in Tokyo. In general, Yasushi is a very thoughtful, helpful, and trustworthy person. He lovingly takes care of Nana O., whom he secretly loves at first, and takes care of all people around him. Even if it looks quite daunting at first, it is the first to make contact with the outsider. In contrast to Nana and the others, he never intended to become a professional musician, but then he can still be convinced. He falls in love with Myu, with whom he seems to have had a happy relationship for years. He loves Hachi's daughter Satsuki like his own child.

Publications

Manga

NANA has been published in Japan in individual chapters in the manga magazine Cookie by Shueisha publishing house since 1999 . These individual chapters are also summarized in 21 anthologies so far. The publication has been paused since 2009.

In Japan, NANA was the best-selling shōjo manga of 2003.

In the August issue of Cookie magazine on June 26, 2009, it was announced that due to Ai Yazawa's sudden illness, the publication of Nana had to be suspended until further notice.

The Manga series has been published in German by Egmont Manga since February 2005 ; 21 volumes have been published to date.

Real film

A film based on NANA was released in Japan on September 3, 2005, starring Mika Nakashima as Nana Osaki and Aoi Miyazaki as Nana Komatsu. The film grossed 4.03 billion yen (approx. 29 million euros) and was ranked 5th in the list of the most successful Japanese films of 2005.

In 2006 a second part of the film was shot and released, with Nana Komatsu having to be cast differently.

Anime

As usual with most successful manga, an animated television series for NANA followed, which ran successfully on Japanese television from April 5, 2006 to March 28, 2007 (a total of 47 episodes).

To explain even more story elements, there are three more specials that were stretched between certain episodes, which concluded the anime with 50 episodes. These would be 11.5, 21.5 and 36.5.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Nana Ōsaki Romi Park
Anna Tsuchiya (vocals)
Nana Komatsu Kaori
Yasushi Takagi Yoshihisa Kawahara
Nobuo Terashima Tomokazu Seki
Shin'ichi Okasaki Akira Ishida
Reira Serizawa Aya Hirano
Olivia Lufkin (vocals)
Ren Honjō Hidenobu Kiuchi
Takumi Ichinose Toshiyuki Morikawa
Shōji Endō Hiroki Takahashi
Junko Saotome Takako Honda
Kyōsuke Takakura Jun'ichi Suwabe

music

For the real film and the anime there were some music productions that were very popular, as part of the manga there was also a special project for which unknown bands could send in songs. The best were released in a compilation called "A Punk Night From NANA". For the real film, Mika Nakashima acted as the singer Nana and Yuna Ito as the singer of Trapnest Leila. Anna Tsuchiya sang the blast songs for the anime and Olivia Lufkin sang those for Trapnest. The songs were also used as the intro and outro for the anime.

Awards

In 2003, Nana won the 48th Shōgakukan Manga Prize in the Shōjo category. The manga series was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2004, 2006 and 2008 , but had to admit defeat to other mangas every time.

Web links

Commons : Nana  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ai Yazawa plans to end the NANA story. In: Suikai.com. August 28, 2016, accessed September 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Nana's Ai Yazawa Puts Manga on Hold Due to Illness. Anime News Network , June 26, 2009, accessed June 27, 2009 .