History Manga / TalentlessNana

** Of the SuperpowerLottery and high school students wielding that power. Naturally, some are more good-natured and only want to do good things, but many are [[KidsAreCruel lacking proper moral empathy]], and end up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope into doing horrific things just because they have the power to do so, so who's going to stop them? The island they're supposedly learning to save the world from is also blatantly more of a containment zone to help isolate and facilitate their deaths, the government clearly fears and despises them, and the sheer MoralMyopia ends up making ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' look child-friendly by comparison. Then there's TheReveal much later in the manga [[spoiler:that these powered individuals nearly ended the world once already as a seemingly-inevitable transformation into [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], and in fact ''[[VillainHasAPoint really were]]'' the Enemies to Humanity the entire time, meaning every superpowered teen is BlessedWithSuck and expected to either die or kill everything around them.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of being HiredToHuntYourself. Nana's classmates elect her to become class leader so she can hunt down the Enemies of Humanity who've been killing their classmates. The problem is that Nana ''is'' the murderer and she's just using the position to gather intel to make her job easier. But as the bodies start piling up, Nana can only give vague, non-conclusive answers on account of her wildly inconsistent [[PhonyPsychic "telepathy"]], leading to her classmates gradually losing faith in her abilities. Things only get more complicated when murders that [[NotMeThisTime aren't her fault]] start happening.

* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:the ''real'' reason the Talented are persecuted is not because of of their superpowers (although they can be dangerous in the wrong hands)-- it's because the Talented will all mutate into terrifyingly powerful monsters as the last phase in their development. This is what their estimated kill count is for, and why Tsuruoka wants to kill the Talented.]]

* DramaticIrony: Tsuroaka says that after Michiru [[spoiler:resurrected Nana, her heart has stopped but her body temperature remains constant and there's a chance she can be saved. On the condition Nana continues to follow his orders, the Organization will do what they can to try to save Michiru. Then Tsuroaka shoots Michiru in her body bag, ensuring she's dead and Nana is none the wiser.]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The government. [[VillainHasAPoint Sure, the people they've sent to die in concentration camps are super-powered assholes who nearly destroyed the world]], but the truth is that the government ''[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist doesn't care]]''; [[spoiler:they find the most destructive, sociopathic talented/non-talented to fill their higher ranks]] [[FalseFlagOperation and orchestrate mass terrorist attacks on the non-talented to blame the general talented]], [[PresidentEvil using the fear to get themselves elected into absolute power]]. [[PuttingOnTheReich They outright dress in Imperial Japanese uniforms, as if to say, "we're back, bitches"]]. Furthermore, it's shown that [[NoSympathy they don't particularly care if anyone who works for them, be they either Talented brainwashed into servitude or regular human beings, are killed in the way of their goal.]]

* NewSuperPower: Talented, particular during adolescence, have been known to develop new abilities related to their existing talent.

* WindmillCrusader: The Talented students are led to believe that they are training to fight "Enemies of Humanity" -- monstrous life forms whose appearances and abilities are vaguely described. These monsters don't actually exist, and the training academy only serves to isolate the Talented from the rest of the world.
** MetaphoricallyTrue: In a sadistic twist, the "Enemies of Humanity" ''do'' exist - [[spoiler:as the adult forms of the Talented after mutating into psychopathic {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]]. Thus, the only way to slow their reproductive rates is to ''lower the Talented population''.

* YouCantFightFate. Tsunekichi’s predictions are 100% accurate, and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy attempting to prevent one after seeing it will likely be the cause of it coming true]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant This manga/anime's title is not meant to be an insult to anyone named Nana]] ([[Creator/NanaMizuki especially the very talented one over here]]).

* UnwittingInsetigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Who knew that Nanao would survive Nana's murder and [[FromNobodyToNightmare become a very dangerous individual]] for the entire cast in the later part of the story?]]

* MoralityPet: Michiru and later Moe for Nana. [[spoiler:The former being a truly kind Talented makes Nana question her mission, especially after Michiru commits HeroicSacrafice to heal Nana. Even after her death, Hiiragi still keeps her deceased friend in mind.

* VillainProtagonist: After the initial twist of her [[spoiler:almost]] killing Nanao, the series follows Nana in her attempts to assassinate everyone in her class without getting caught.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Nana gets away with a number of murders that she’s implicated in with a combination of a good reputation that inclines people to believe her and the general vagueness of the Enemies of Humanity allowing her to draw on information the teachers give students to explain away the more incredulous elements of her lies.

* ShoutOut: it can't be a coincidence that [[Manga/DeathNote Nana's inner monologues are tinted red and Kyouyas' are tinted blue]].

* KillTheCutie: Rentarou, the astral projector, has a fetish of hurting and killing innocent cute creatures. Not satisfied with killing just animals, he lures [[spoiler: [[TheCutie Michiru]] into the forest at night and hunts her down in his astral form. Nana and Moguo step in to thwart his hunt, but in the aftermath Michiru dies in the process of reviving severely injured Nana]].

* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:the ''real'' reason the Talented are persecuted is not because of of their superpowers (although they can be dangerous in the wrong hands)-- it's because the Talented will all mutate into terrifyingly power monsters as the last phase in their development. This is what their estimated kill count is for, and why Tsuruoka wants to kill the Talented.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: The government, and ''especially'' Tsuruoka, are more than willing to kill children or simply make them commit suicide if they're either Talented, or have simply [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stopped being useful to them.]] [[spoiler:In Chapter 68, it's revealed that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] isn't off the table either, as they manage to make Nana hate Talenteed all over again, but are also willing to harm or kill her if she steps out of line.]]

* CarFu: Noted by [[spoiler:Kyoya in Chapter 71 that the military don't stop for anyone, not even members of their own ranks, during their patrols. This nearly results in Saeki getting mowed down by them when the driver deliberately speeds up while she stands in their path a few chapters later.]]
** [[spoiler:Sachiko reveals to Nana in Capter 66 that she planned to do this to Daisuke as revenge for his {{Blackmail}}, only to have found out that she killed Takeo instead as part of his plan.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: The government, and ''especially'' Tsuruoka, are more than willing to kill children or simply make them commit suicide if they're either Talented, or have simply [[YouveOutlivedYourUsefulness stopped being useful to them.]] [[spoiler:In Chapter 68, it's revealed that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] isn't off the table either, as they manage to make Nana hate Talenteed all over again, but are also willing to harm or kill her if she steps out of line.]]

''Talentless Nana'' (originally 無能なナナ, or ''Munō na Nana'') is a PsychologicalThriller manga written by Looseboy and illustrated by Iori Furuya. The manga has been ongoing since May 2016 in ''Monthly Shonen Gangan''. It was adapted into a 13 episode anime during Fall 2020. The anime is produced by Bridge and streamed by {{Creator/Funimation}}.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The government. [[VillainHasAPoint Sure, the people they've sent to die in concentration camps are super-powered assholes who nearly destroyed the world]], but the truth is that the government ''[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist doesn't care]]''; [[spoiler:they find the most destructive, sociopathic talented/non-talented to fill their higher ranks]] [[FalseFlagOperation and orchestrate mass terrorist attacks on the non-talented to blame the general talented]], [[PresidentEvil using the fear to get themselves elected into absolute power]]. [[PuttingOnTheReich They outright dress in Imperial Japanese uniforms, as if to say, "we're back, bitches"]].

* CarFu: Noted by [[Kyoya in Chapter 71 that the military don't stop for anyone, not even members of their own ranks, during their patrols. This nearly results in Saeki getting mowed down by them when the driver deliberately speeds up while she stands in their path a few chapters later.]]