[raphaël]

I'm not really sure this is the place to post this, but i'm just finished watching the first episode of Nana, wich was aired just a while ago, and i wanted to give my first impressions.

Unfortunately, i missed the opening. If the song is the one you hear in the next week preview thing, it sounds quite cool. The ending theme is a bit plain to me, though...

This first episode basically ends like the manga ends at the vol.1, if i'm not mistaken.

Technically, i wouldn't say it's bad, but i think Aizawa's graphic style doesn't fit anime graphic style at all. Too rich, i guess. I already noticed that on Gokinjo Monogatari or Paradise Kiss. That's why it's sort of a disappointment. The colors are quite well-chosen, so i guess it makes up for the rest. Though the animation is satisfying, nothing great comes out of it, like you would be expecting from such a great original work. You just wish there was more...
The voices sound convincing, Hachiko not too noisy or whiny, Osaki not too "virile" or distant. But yet again, there's nothing special about them. You don't really feel like they give you something the manga don't.

In the end, just as the movie does, it makes you feel like you can't deal with upper-class arts and stories like Nana the way you'd do with any other shoûjo or Shônen manga. I know some won't agree, once they've watched it, and maybe ep.2 will make me change my mind, but for now, that's the conclusion i came to.