(L) Nana

[AVPlaya]

Originally Posted by poptart

the manga is far from over as i see it. there is still something big to reveal and loose ends surrounding it.

i feel that if a second season were to happen they have more than enough to work with.

NANA has gotten me to read a shoujo manga. It seemed the show is pretty faithful to the manga, so I'd say second season is a most likely a lock. There's a tons more development in the future volumes. I must say to end it right after the flash forward sequence is brilliant - really keep the anime watchers wanting for more.

NANA is a cultural phenomenon in Japan... Unlike most anime, almost everyone has heard of NANA or watched the movie. NANA brought in a lot of women viewers who has never watched anime before; the anime is is about 5 times longer than your average dorama. Together with Saiunkoku, NANA really has broken the mode for shoujo anime. Soon anime for women will be as mainstream as a Kimura dorama, and we'll see all sorts of people who normally won't touch anime watching it faithfully. This is really good for the future of anime. I really, really love this series.

[aliensporebomb]

It's been a long road.

46/47:

Spoiler:

We get closure for Nana and Shouji, although bittersweet.

We see the Black Stones become a major label band with all of the
attendant problems and benefits.

We see Room 707 become a sort of oasis where time has no effect.

We get a very confusing addition in the form of Satsuki, apparently
Hachi and Takumi's daughter (she looked like a young, female Takumi)
but it's obviously years off from the present time.

We see a doting Nobu buying her dolls (and Hachi wants it for herself
but Nobu shuts her down right there).

The scene in the bath spoke volumes about how Nobu and Hachi's
situation is unresolved in many ways yet both have made their choice.
Could there be any more regretful people in the world?

We see Takumi and Reira discussing the possible marriages of the
two most eligible people in Trapnest and she cautions Takumi to
not marry since many of their young female fans would be crushed.
However, it's very plain to both of them that she wants Takumi for
herself but he's never reciprocated.

We also see Nana O confronting Nobu regarding Hachi - she wants
him to take her back. But when the doorway to such a possibility
becomes available, he can't open the door.

There are more questions about the future than there are answers,
with this series licensed I can foresee a lot of purchased DVDs in the
future and the Nana merchandising machine is only going rev higher,
this show is massively popular and it's about to hit america like a
hurricane is my prediction.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by aliensporebomb

We get closure for Nana and Shouji, although bittersweet.

Spoiler for Episode 46:

Out of everything we've seen in the series from the start, i found this part to hit me the most (well, probably after the Shouji night fight scene). It was so magically done, and that includes the conclusion to Nana's reaction in episode 47. I'm guessing its the long wait since the split up that made this scene even more interesting --- being the part of the story that was never finished off, you never got to see there after feelings on the breaking up subject, especially with cheating being apart of it.

Lovely done.

[Kaoru Chujo]

Originally Posted by AVPlaya

....NANA is a cultural phenomenon in Japan... Unlike most anime, almost everyone has heard of NANA or watched the movie.... I really, really love this series.

With Hirano Aya beginning to become known to the general public, I noticed in at least one news item that her role as Layla in NANA was the role mentioned, not Haruhi in Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, which is better known among male anime fans. As I never tire of saying, I think Layla is her best performance so far.

In my opinion, three masterpieces aired beginning in April 2006: Simoun, NANA, and Suzumiya Haruhi. My own preference puts them in that order, but NANA got closer to Simoun as the season continued. These last few episodes just rocked me. For me, the first Honey & Clover and Byousoku 5cm are the only other anime of the past three years I can rate in the same league as these.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

As I never tire of saying, I think Layla is her best performance so far.

Isn't the official spelling 'Reira'?

& yeah, i found Aya's Reira to be very refreshing. She played the role perfectly --- comedy scenes, and those heavy drama ones. It also helps that Reira's story is one of my fav's about NANA.

[MrProphet]

She is Layla (since her name comes from Eric Clapton's song "Layla"), but they are masking it for nipponized Reira, since they don't want the image of "special gaijin" to stick to her and demean her natural talent.

[Shiroth]

Yeah, thats what i thought. I was just confusing with someone saying it here.

[AVPlaya]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

With Hirano Aya beginning to become known to the general public, I noticed in at least one news item that her role as Layla in NANA was the role mentioned, not Haruhi in Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, which is better known among male anime fans. As I never tire of saying, I think Layla is her best performance so far.

Funny you should mention that. I got my wife to watch Haruhi with me, and the first thing she said was "hey, she sounded like REIRA". I also think that her REIRA role is her than her Haruhi better performance, given the nature of the role. (Although when REIRA was doing certain thing to a certain underage boy, I was thinking "Man, why would Haruhi do that?" ) Sorry, she will always be REIRA to me.

[mdauben]

I just finished watching the last episode of Nana, and unlike a lot of people I'm afraid I have to say I was dissappointed. The ending was, to me, just so... unfulfilling that I was almost sorry I watched the whole series.

Spoiler for Disappointments:

First and foremost, I thought the relation between the two Nana's was the centerpiece of the series, but after a while they just seemed to lose that focus. The two of them didn't even see each other for what seemed like half the series, and their relationship seemed to in the end have had little effect on teh "fate" of either of them. That brief reuinion at the end just didn't make up for it, either. The fact that Nana O. was missing from the "flash forward" scenes just made it that much worse.

I was so disappointed when Hachiko chose to marry that jerk Takumi, and kept hoping Nobou would win her back. I spent the rest of the anime alternating between feeling sorry for her, being stuck with a husband that didn't seem to really care for her, and being annoyed with her at how happy the material possesions seemed to make her.

Again, the flash forward scene seemed to imply that even 10 years later, both Hachiko and Nobou had regrets, which I just found depressing. I realize that the manga is far from over, but it seems that even if the story continues there is nothing to look forward to...

It was as if the moral of the story was, in the end everyone's life sucks.

In the end, I would not say it was a bad series, but perhaps the story just wasn't to my taste. I guess because they did such a good job of making me care about so many of the characters that I was so depressed at how they all wound up.

[kala83]

Wow I had no idea Nana had been turned into an anime. I first read Nana in Shojo Beat at first I thought I wouldn't like it but as I kept reading I related to both girls on different levels. And since I have plans of moving to Japan in the future to become an English Teacher so when the first Nana moved to Tokyo I really liked it since I would love to live in Tokyo myself...and she is following her dream...just like I am right now.
I have sadly fallen behind in the series and am not quit current on it anymore.
But I would love to check out this series does anyone here know how I might be able to get a hold of a DVD or something like that? I have a region frree DVD player so being able to watch the DVD would be no problem for me.

[AVPlaya]

Originally Posted by mdauben

It was as if the moral of the story was, in the end everyone's life sucks. [/SPOILER]In the end, I would not say it was a bad series, but perhaps the story just wasn't to my taste. I guess because they did such a good job of making me care about so many of the characters that I was so depressed at how they all wound up.

Well don't be so sad. There's a lot more to the story... NANA 2 will be made and if you can't wait, just read the manga to find out what happened next.

[mdauben]

Originally Posted by AVPlaya

Well don't be so sad. There's a lot more to the story... NANA 2 will be made and if you can't wait, just read the manga to find out what happened next.

The thing is, that the "ten years later" scenes already showed that there is no immediate relieve in sight for the pain of at least two of the characters.

Spoiler for After the Anime?:

I admit to being modestly interested in what happens to Nana/Ren and Reira/Shin, but it seems that getting knocked up ruined both Hachiko and Nobou lives, and even if things turn around somewhere down the road they lost those ten (or whatever) years when they might have been happy.

I'm afraid that the ending, however, rather than making me anxious to find out what happened next, makes me unintersted in being depressed any further...

[Kamiko]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I didn't get to see the last episode of Nana before it was evilly licensed!
curse the evil anime gods!!!!

*sob*

are there any other unfortunate Nana lovers out there like me?

[Xiaolang]

Are you guys gluttons for pain or what? I'm sure a majority of you have already read the manga and are way ahead of the story, and by watching the same scenes in animated form, it might not have been difficult to go through the second time. However, since this is my first exposure to anything Nana, this series is so difficult to watch; I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship: it's an emotional trainwreck, and yet I can't look away.

I stopped at episode 29 a couple of weeks ago, and since then, I only managed to watch up to 35. And even though this is only entertainment, it really did affect me in a way that no other series, animated or live-action, has done before.

In a nutshell, all I can say is, "Damn you, Ai Yazawa!!!"

[gurlyx]

hehe i just finished NANA season 1 (the anime) and i must sey, its very touching >.< ive always wanted nobu&hachi together...coz takumi just seem like a guy that....oni wants 1 thing lol...

Spoiler for takumi:

i still dont get hu this "stella" is..they mentioned her once den shes like gone O.O i dont think there was a need for stella to be in dis show unless something else wud haf happened..or she is connected to season 2

im ready to watch the live action movie, and read the manga!! cant wait XDD till den..i gotta find more anime of this type XDD ive been hooked on shoujo anime since i watched "bokura ga ita" which led me to watch this

[Salim]

Hi,
does anybody know whether there will be a second season of the NANA Anime? I just finished watching the final episode and it is great.
Suzue Nana, the Guide of the anime, said (at the end of final episode) that this is the "end of the first season", so there must be a second one, right?

[crimmy88]

Not yet confirmed but theres a really high possibility =0

Question about Hachi's feelings for Nobu:

Spoiler:

Doesnt Hachi still hold feelings for Nobu? Because i remember in one of her monologues (during ep 27 kissing scene) she was saying something like "The feelings I swore that night are still the same locked in my heart" or was I just thinking too much about it because I dont like Takumi?

[dogme]

I just watched the final episode of NANA, and i must say it affected me greatly (the series as a whole and episode 47) , more so than it should for a guy of my age I would have liked more interaction between the two Nana's in the latter part of the series and Nana K marrying Takumi didn't feel right, but can't have everything i suppose. I am definately looking forward to season 2

[Kyomi]

Originally Posted by crimmy88

Not yet confirmed but theres a really high possibility =0

Question about Hachi's feelings for Nobu:

Spoiler:

Doesnt Hachi still hold feelings for Nobu? Because i remember in one of her monologues (during ep 27 kissing scene) she was saying something like "The feelings I swore that night are still the same locked in my heart" or was I just thinking too much about it because I dont like Takumi?

Dunno about that, I only watched the anime, and if nothing happens with Nobu from there on I don't think I'll bother watching a second season or reading the manga.
*Sob* Nobu.. *Sob*

[himefansub]

anyone know when nana season 2 be out?