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,
G Gundam) create a
Shoujo series.
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:
This show features these tropes:
- Balloon Belly: Nana in the DVD episode.
- Bungling Inventor: Nana's grandfather.
- Cloning Blues
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The seven Nanas.
- Cross Over: Mutsumi and the Hinata's house ghost, who had already appeared in the Keroro Gunso manga, made their first animated appearance in the Seven Of Seven anime.
- The Danza: Nana Mizuki (the Original Nana)
- Evil Twin: An eighth Nana, Jamanana. In the manga, Nanacchi, of all the Nanas, was the mean one.
- 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.
- Hotter and Sexier: The manga.
- Literal Split Personality
- Me's a Crowd
- 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
- Snow Means Love: Valentines Day was very snowy in the first episode.
- Talking to Herself: The English dub, if one considers all seven Nanas as different people, Veronica Taylor plays all of them. The Japanese version uses a different actress for each Nana.
- Two Girls and a Guy: Nana, Hitomi, and Yuichi in the manga, where the three are childhood friends.
- Zettai Ryouki: All of the Nanas.