Для меня манга «Нана» стала особенной. Открыла новые взгляды на природу человеческих отношений, преданность своему делу и уникальность наших душ. Надеюсь, Ай еще даст нам хотя бы несколько подсказок о судьбе Наны и Хачи.
This anime and manga changed me tremendously. I am only 16, and I started watching Nana June of 2023, after the hardest breakup of my life. (I’ll spare you the details). Watching Nana has taught me that it’s okay to grieve and move on. It showed me the things you SHOULD and SHOULD NOT do. It also taught me what it meant to have a true friend. And it also taught me that friends can grow apart at times. Me being in high school, this anime hit so close to home. ... Then, in October of 2023, my great grandma died, whom I was very close with. Ironically, not even a week after she died, I read the chapter where Ren dies. This was extremely comforting to me. Knowing someone else shares that pain of grieving helped me emensly.
The first time I watched Nana was when I was 15 years old. It was also the only time I've read the manga. Then at 19 years old and recently at 23 years old. Regardless of age, it's an enjoyable anime but as you get older, perspectives or opinions on certain characters change drastically. One of the ones that surprised myself the most was about Junko. The first time I thought that Junko was a good friend by protecting the feelings of Nana Hachi but now that I'm seeing her again, i realized that it wasn't the best friendship for Nana.
Moi je suis Lola, mais toutes mes amis m'ont surnommé Hachi.. (Coeur d'artichaut il parait...). Enfin j'ai 18 ans, et je regarde Nana depuis que je suis en 5ème. C'est mon tout premier manga anime ou écrit. C'est beaucoup d'émotions quand j'y pense... Nana m'a beaucoup aidé quand j'avais besoin. C'est aussi ce que j'aime regarder et lire le plus.
I was 19 in 2006 when the anime first came out - I also had several volumes of the Tokyopop manga. I loved the series more for the aesthetic and Ai Yazawa-ness of it. 19 year old me didn’t really “get” the characters at the time - their relationship dynamics perplexed me. I was a sheltered anime nerd. I had no frame of reference. I rewatched it again at 28 - really enjoyed it. The characters were a lot more relatable and I really felt for Hachi where I found her almost annoying before. And now at 36, this series hits different. it’s like I’m rewatching my own twenties with the benefit of hindsight. I swear I had multiple friends who was in some way like a Nana cast member. I also swear I’ve seen all these toxic relationship dynamics play out IRL with real people. The cheating; the toxic on again off again stuff; the victim-blaming from “friends;” the predatory shit that gets enabled and hand waved until someone finally grows up enough to have their “oh shit” moment. I GET Hachi’s pragmatic choices now without judgement - sure Takumi is a malignant Narcissist but as long as she manages him he’s predictable and stable. Nana wanted a “strong” masculine presence to basically take care of her. Takumi WILL do that. There was a not-small part of me that WAS Hachi and the mirror was uncomfortable. A mark of a good piece of fiction is that you can revisit it at different life stages and get something new. Nana is like that.
2023leoamaanime
I first watched the anime when I was a freshman in high school and in a relationship with another girl. I saw my relationship in nana and hachis dynamic. I Related so much to Hachi. I even tried to write a fanfiction about them to try and finish their story. When I broke up with that girl, I even rewatched the show to cope. The stuff the Nanas said at that beginning of each episode were what i felt in my heart but couldn’t put into words. Now im in college, and although i haven’t thought much about nana in a few years, my brother recently bought me the manga for Christmas and i got into it again. Now Im rewatching it for 3rd time with a slightly more mature perspective.
2023moochan.branime
NANA é uma obra muito importante pra mim. Os personagens que a Ai Yazawa cria são muito humanos em suas alegrias e dores e me reconheci na Nana mais do que eu gostaria até. Hoje, mais adulta, compreendo melhor o por que disso e consigo me dedicar a curar minhas dores e aproveitar melhor minhas alegrias.
Although I first watched Nana in college when I was 19 or 20 and while it did impact me, revisiting the series in my late 20s did so much more. Ai Yazawa just has a way of beautifully writing such human characters that I’ve yet to find in other anime or manga. Nana’s characters are so special to me and I love how so many characters struggle to deal with the loneliness in their lives. Hachi, Nana and Reira are some of the biggest examples of this for me. They all have their flaws and make mistakes as they try to live their lives. “It’s hard to be human” is something the series exemplifies so well.
2023[deleted]anime
I watched it during my freshman year of high school and thought the characters were cool and it was way more mature than the high school romance anime I had seen up to that point. Now that I’m older it’s surprising to reflect on how many times I’ve been in these different character’s positions. It made me love the anime so much more, and I’m excited for you to get to that point as well :)
2023XDmatias_deidadXDanime
This story left a mark on me. It made me realize that need isn't always love, and I was also deeply affected by several characters and their struggles. Emotional loneliness, questionable desires, wrong decisions, regret; all of that and more is portrayed in this story.
2023existentialellanime
Now I'm 21, the same age as most of the characters in this story. I rewatched the show this year and read the whole manga, and wow. This story means even more to me now than it already did 10 years ago. As an adult, I can relate so much more to the characters and feel for each of their stories so much deeper. I was especially surprised at how much I relate to Hachi at this point in my life... As I've gotten older, I've dated around, made mistakes, fell in and out of love, dealt with SA, and been in shitty relationships/situationships. Like Hachi, I have such a deep desire for real love... that sometimes that desire is truly blinding.
This is a confession that I have never thought that I would make: Thing about NANA is about pure experience in life. I watched this anime two times. First time I watched NANA, I was just a high school girl with no emotional experience, but I loved the story and characters. And few years have passed, I watched NANA again and I stopped judging those characters. I don’t hate anyone, I don’t blame Shouji, Sachiko, Nobu, Junko, Takumi, Hachi or anyone for anything. I connected to those characters, because I personally have experienced similar things in those few years that have passed from watching NANA for the first time. And I, myself, am similar to both Junko and Nana, have cried that second time I’ve watched this anime.
I watched Nana about 16 years ago, when the manga was still on going. I was only about 13/14 and it did absolutely break me. The characters hurt me so deeply, like they were my best friends making mistakes that were hurting them and it was so hard to watch. This is also why it is the anime/manga that has stayed with me the most. When I see pictures of the characters, or listen to someone speak about it, I get this chill down my spine that has never happened with any other media I have consumed.
I had become so engrossed in the world that writer and artist Ai Yazawa created, it became something more to me than ‘just a manga’ or ‘just a show’. I didn’t think I would share those feelings with anyone else... I wanted him to validate my feelings about things I loved. I’d never gotten his approval about anything and I craved so much attention from him... So, I lent him my collection like he had with his Daredevil issues years ago. I was nervous. Would he like it? Would it just be some ‘dumb’ thing that his daughter was into that he’d never understand? I had such a connection with Nana that if he didn’t like it, it would probably have felt like a personal attack... We spent hours talking about Nana and Hachi’s friendship, how much we hated Takumi and the genius of Ai Yazawa... What Nana did that Frank Miller’s Daredevil run and other comics couldn’t was what I really wanted – to have a relationship with my father, for him to be more of a dad than a friend. Conversations we had after that first one didn’t just revolve around things that he enjoyed. He wanted to learn more about me and what I was interested in. Off the back of the emotional ride of Nana, it urged him to be more open with his feelings, to understand how growing up without his love or attention felt... The most important thing I got out of it? I found not just a friend, but a dad — my dad.
The thing to understand was I was raised in the era of “not like other girls.”... Nana was who we wanted to be, us young not-like-other-girls who first read NANA. Fast forward many years... And you read it enough times to realize… Nana Osaki the girl 13 year old you wanted to be? You were her, you were always her. You may not have dressed in vintage Vivienne Westwood, sing, or have a tattoo and piercings but you were her in all the ways that mattered. Because just like you, Nana was just a scared little girl who wanted to be loved and was scared of rejection.