"Hey Nana, do you remember...?"
Nana "Hachi" Komatsu is a 20-year-old
Genki Girl from the countryside with a bad habit of falling in love at first sight with any man who glances in her direction. Nana Ohsaki is a 20-year-old punk rocker from a different small city, who's coming off a bad breakup with her boyfriend (and bass player of her band). When "Hachi" follows her boyfriend to Tokyo, and the other Nana heads there to start her music career, the two young women meet by chance on a snowbound train. They rent an apartment together several days later.
Nana is based on the #1
josei manga in Japan. The first live action movie was the #2 film in Japan in 2005, behind only the latest film from
Studio Ghibli. The anime ran for 47 episodes, and is licensed for distribution in North America.
Provides examples of:
- Babies Ever After (In typical "Nana" style is made clear, that does not guarantee nor happiness, nor stable relationship)
- Beta Couple (Junko and Kyosuke)
- Bittersweet Ending (most everybody is doing fine aside from a certain dead guitarist, but the two Nanas haven't seen each other in years)
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma (Shin, particularly in early chapters)
- Clingy Jealous Girl (Yuri isn't exactly amused by Mrs. Takumi Ichinose staying at the same dorm as Nobu)
- Country Mouse (Hachi comes from a small town. So does the other Nana, but she is not as "mousy" about it.)
- Death By Irony ( Ren. You'd think death by overdose, but it is in fact a car crash that does him in.)
- Distant Finale (six years later... Or so it seems.)
- Even The Girls Want Her (Nana O's fans are mostly girls, and they go all lovestruck all over her.
Poor Misato.)
- Face Fault
- Fake Band (two of them)
- Genki Girl (Hachi)
- Hooker With A Heart Of Gold (Yuri)
- Huge Guy Tiny Girl (considering most of the male cast is near six feet or above... But mostly present in Shouji/Sachiko.
- I'm A Man! I Can't Help It! (Takumi)
- Instant Bandages
- I Want My Beloved To Be Happy (a tragic double case of this)
- Idiot Plot (a lot of the drama stems from the two Nanas making one questionable decision after the other)
- Les Yay (The Nanas, of course)
- Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places (The big source of drama for BOTH Nanas, as well as for others (Hello, Reira and Sachiko).)
- Sachiko is more of a case of ( right place, wrong time though.
- Love Hurts (The result)
- The Messiah (Hachi can melt the hearts of even the toughest people)
- Name That Tune
- Never Got To Say Goodbye (Nana pretty much never bid farewell to Ren in any case, but...)
- No Fourth Wall: An entire scene in episode 15 makes heavy references to the production of the show, and has minor cast members discussing when they get time off (during sweeps)... and worrying about the show being canceled if "Hachi" were to kill herself.
- The manga is possibly even worse (or better, depending on your point of view) in this respect. The Nana's regularly ask the author to hurry up boring scenes, and at one point castigate her for overusing number seven-related symbolism.
- Odd Couple
- Opposites Attract
- Perky Goth
- Red String Of Fate
- Romantic Two Girl Friendship
- Smoking Is Cool (Everybody except Hachiko, pretty much)
- Smug Snake (Takumi)
- Secret Relationship (Initially Takumi/Hachi, but also Shin/Reira)
- Seven Is Nana (The whole premise.)
- Sex Changes Everything
- Snow Means Death
- Special Edition Title
- Stockholm Syndrome (All but outright stated, once by Hachi in relation to her present situation, being Takumi's wife and once by Takumi while referring to his relationship with Reira.)
- Tomboy And Girly Girl (Nana Osaki is the tomboy, Nana Komatsu is the girly girl)
- Unlucky Childhood Friend (Reira, anybody?)
- Wangst
- Who's Your Daddy? (Hachi's pregnancy in the current storyline)
