Nana Wallpapers June 4th, 2007

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Nana (TV 47-episodes anime) is touching, sometimes funny but often bitter-sweet story. Based on the famous manga created by Yazawa Ai, this one will surely attract you. Every episode of this anime leaves you wanting more.

Nana is the title of the latest hit manga. It is about two girls who are the same age, have the same first name Nana, and share an apartment together, yet they are both totally different, or so they think. Together they experience the trials and tribulations of living and working in Tokyo. The first edition of the latest Nana book has sold 1.7 million copies, bringing the total sales of the twelve books published so far to a staggering 22 million copies. Everyone who read Nana appreciate the realism of the stories and find that they can relate to the two lead characters.

There is 20-year-old Nana “Hachi” Komatsu is a ditsy girl who, in her head, thinks she’s easy and can never find a job because of her lazyness. She went to Tokyo to live with her high school sweetheart, Shoji. Then there is Osaki Nana, a singer in the rock band Black Stones, or BLAST for short. She travels to Tokyo to make her big break and maybe reunite with her old love, Ren, who moved to Tokyo a year before her to join the band TRAPNEST, while she is also coming to terms with the emotional scars from being abandoned by her mother. The series gives a realistic portrayal of the two friends’ travails, romances, and dreams as they go about their lives in Japan’s capital.

The stories in Nana are about the realities of life. This is a big contrast to most other manga aimed at girls and young women, whose dream-like themes tend to revolve around fantasy and love. Nana’s heroines are independent by nature and their lives are an emotional roller coaster of worry and sadness mixed with interludes of joy. They display both strengths and weaknesses. As for the men in the stories, they fall well short of the prince charming stereotype, riddled as they are with their own flaws and shortcomings.

This realism allows the readers to relate the gritty experiences of the two Nanas to their own lives. One of the secrets of the comic’s success is that it assures readers that their own problems are not unique.