Seven of Seven (七人のナナ Shichinin no Nana) is an anime series that debuted in 2002. It's what happens when you let Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, Mobile Fighter G Gundam) create a Shoujo series.
This show is also notable for having Mine Yoshizaki (Sgt. Frog, Arcade Gamer Fubuki, Kemono Friends) do the character designs as well as featuring the animated debuts of 3 of his characters.
Nana Suzuki is an ordinary schoolgirl with a crush on one Yuichi Kamichika. One day, while trying to bake a cake for Yuichi, she stumbles on her scientist grandfather's secret experiment to separate the light of a rainbow into seven crystals. Naturally, the experiment goes awry, and splits Nana into seven versions of herself, each with her own matching rainbow crystal. Now, Nana must find a way to integrate the crystals together, or else all seven of her will vanish.
The Seven Nanas are:
- Nana: The Original, or possibly the Responsible Nana. She uses the blue crystal.
- Nanappe: The Bokukko Nana. She uses the red crystal.
- Nanakko: The Slacker Nana. She uses the orange crystal.
- Nanacchi: The Cheerful Nana. She uses the yellow crystal.
- Nanarin: The cry-baby Gamer Chick Nana. She uses the yellow-green crystal.
- Nanasama: The Bookworm Nana. She uses the green crystal.
- Nanapon: The Weird Nana. She uses the purple crystal.
Not to be confused with the manga/anime Nana.
This show features these tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: Nana fails the exam, but so does Yuichi allowing them to be in the same school.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The seven Nanas.
- Crossover: Mutsumi and the Hinata's house ghost, who had already appeared in the Sgt. Frog manga, made their first animated appearance in the Seven Of Seven anime. On the other hand, Melody Honey, who debuted in this series, goes on to appear in both Sgt. Frog and Arcade Gamer Fubuki.
- The Dividual: In addition to the main character(s); her classmates Megumi Hayashiba, Erino Kogarashi, and Motoko Morinuma are often together and speak at the same time.
- Evil Twin: An eighth Nana, Jamanana. In the manga, Nanacchi, of all the Nanas, was the mean one.
- Fanservice: Interestingly, the series is not too Fanservice-ey until the very last episode 26, "Its New Years!7x7=49 Nanas?" which had Overnight Age-Up and Clothing Damage
- Flight: The Nanas can fly.
- Henshin Heroines: Their crystals turn a group of Sentai costumes in legitimate Nanaranger suits.
- Hive Mind: The six other Nanas tend to act as one person.
- Hypno Pendulum: Nanapon used her prism as one of these in an episode. She even accidentally hypnotizes herself when trying to teach the original Nana how to perform hypnosis.
- Light 'em Up: The Teardrop Spectrum power the Nanas used in Episode 5 to undo the effects of Nanapon's hypnosis on multiple people at once takes on the form of a heart-shaped blast of rainbow-colored light.
- Literal Split Personality / Me's a Crowd: Due to an accident during an experiment to crystalize a rainbow in a microwave, Nana gets split into seven different versions of herself, each with their own personalities.
- Numerical Theme Naming: Not only does Nana's name translate to "seven" in Japanese, but her family members also have names that partially include words or kanji that also mean numbers: Her mother is Mitsuko (mitsu is a counter meaning 3), her father is Goro (go means 5), and her grandfather is Rokuzo (roku is 6). Even the boy she has a crush on, Yuichi, has a number in his name (ichi is 1).
- Rainbow Motif: With indigo switched out for yellow-green.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Nanappe is hot-tempered, violent, and wields the red crystal. Regular Nana is much more calm, rational, and level-headed, and wields the blue crystal.
- Sentai: The seven Nanas can become the seven Nanarangers.
- Seven Is Nana: Naturally. Nana getting split into seven versions of herself is the series premise.
- Snow Means Love: Valentines Day was very snowy in the first episode.
- Two Girls and a Guy: Nana, Hitomi, and Yuichi in the manga, where the three are childhood friends.
