#ichatalks about nana

[icharchivist]

Wack, Spotify has the songs from Nana’s Black Stones, but they don’t have the songs for Trapnest, please i want them too,,,,

[icharchivist]

I remember trash talking Takumi a lot as a teen lol Now you make me wanna re-read/ rewatch Nana!!

*HIGH FIVE* TAKUMI IS THE WORST. TOP ONE WORST PERSON EVER. 

At least even our teenselves would have agreed on that!! I had a friend who had a huge huge huge crush on Takumi and i’ve nEVER got it, i’ve always wanted to strangle him with my own bare hands. (I mean like i don’t judge either, anyone likes whoever even if they’re Problematic™, I just REALLY hate Takumi that much.)

and oh boy oh boy trust be told rn i’m just trying to dig some tags (im learning there is a model/singer/actress called Nana Komatsu so that’s not helping, and the Nana tag is impossible to dig through since it’s too generic of a name, so i’m digging around) so it brings back memories that i’ve had repressed for the longest time bc Nana made me cry so hard as a story-

im so sorry to make you want to go back to such a sad feast, i mean, the whole thing goes awfully downhill after what, volume 10??? and do i even need to bring up what happens in volume 20???  why would anyone want to go back to this story after that??? they have Takumi for fucksake why would anyone want to reread that

*takes a deep breath* perhaps it’s good just remembering Nana and not make ourselves cry over it. or no?

[icharchivist]

I’m in the Nana tags for two minutes and it was enough to awake back with a fiery passion my profound hatred for Takumi god i hate the dude i hate him i hate him so much!!!!

[icharchivist]

The idea of things having a lot of drama definitely does intrigue me :3c I had at first thought Nana didn't deal with anything too serious outside of relationship woes types of things. I definitely wanna give it a try... maybe I will try doing both anime and manga to see which holds my attention. I've always liked the art! It's too bad nothing in it is *actually* gay cause I always see such sweet Nana/Hachi art

alright then, then i hope you like it :3c as long as you're aware you're going in for drama and all, i think it is fluffy in the early volumes but boy. boy yeah.

as it is it is an interesting dramatic series so there's that :3c but i have done my warnings!

but omg yeah the nana x hachi things will be frustrating alas. i cannot believe either of them are straight and i guess you will see as you go in bc it is just... girls com'on.....

i will say though that their relationship whenever interpreted as platonic as the manga intends or romantic as we would love to, is one of the most touching relationship i've seen. and it is the heart of the story, despite romance playing a huge part, the manga is specifically about the bound between the two nana so that's the focus.

alas it really pulls the no homo card a LOT despite also joking a lot around the homoerotic subtext. *shrugs* i guess it was some things more usual to do when it was published in 2000?? i dont think this sort of writing would be considered acceptable now... 20 years later. still is... a shame.

so yeah i think i've issued my warnings :3c good luck getting through it at least!! hope you enjoy it still :3c

take care!!

[icharchivist]

Heya! I know you tend to prefer manga but do you think with Nana you'd be able to get a good understanding of the story just watching the anime? I've always wanted to finish it but I always seem to get distracted so I've only read the first few chapters. I might try to see if the anime will hold my attention more, but do you think it's worth it?

heyy :3c

Honestly i don’t know, I’ve never really watched the anime bc i had beef with the coloration style for some reasons?? But i always LOVED the OST and I know i downloaded it to listen along with my reading bc of that.

 i don’t know where the anime stopped?? i know it didn’t cover the whole story (the manga had been in hiatus since volume 21 came out... I think it was ten years ago....) 

I think the begining follows the manga pretty closely at least, i’ve seen up to volume.... 10 being animated i think?

Also i know there was two movies, that i hadn’t watched though, covering at least the begining of the manga rather faithfully?

 but ano.......

1) there are a few sex scenes spread toward the manga that are more or less explicit and i think about one in particular in vol 13 that is a scene that is important for the development of one of the main couple and that is super explicit and i don’t know how the hell the anime may have found its way around it

2) The themes of the story are seriously super, super heavy. Maybe i just remember the drama and all but some of the things will get very heavy. Also there’s a lot of backhanded “but you’re not gay are you??” that are super tactless. (that can get very annoying now, if i didn’t have nostalgia for this manga..).

3) This is kinda a spoiler but it can count as a trigger so depending on your sensibility about that carry on on that, I cannot in good conscience letting you go into it without addressing that the 15yo of the story is a prostitute and that it all goes downhill from then and his plotlines gets VERY HEAVY in some of those terms. Carry on with your own risk on that but i really think i should warn about that.

Nana holds a dear place in my heart because it was my first manga, i have very specific lifemoments associated to it, and honestly i could ramble on some of its impact on me, but i was also 12yo and not very critical of anything that wasn’t the raw emotions it made me feel. A lot of its elements can be heavily handed and very problematic and I am seriously not kidding when I say the story gets very heavy as it goes. 

So it’s really up to you, i think the anime could ease some moments if only bc of the music

and i think the anime is fine in term of adaptation, what worries me is the fact that i don’t know if you are really ready to get into the mess the story is? 

dkhfdjk sorry for the babble this is the worst sell for a manga ever rip but yeah,,,

[icharchivist]

Also remember Shinichi? Shinichi the sweet baby? 

His plotline was so freaking horrifying

everything about nana was horrifying how did i read all of that at 12yo without even baiting an eye at most of those stuff and just crying for the angst everything was fucked up

who let me read this stuff

i mean i know who, my sister was offered the 5 first manga for her birthday but didn’t care for manga so she put them in my library so it wouldn’t crowd hers and i was starting to be curious about manga so ofc i read the only series i had, but i mean i’m the one who insisted to buy the series after that

.......... I brought it upon myself didn’t i.