Spoiler Time Sunday: NANA (Anime)

Oh wow… I’m not even remotely ready to talk about this one.

Anime: NANA

Genres: Romance. Josei. Drama. Music. So much drama.

Director: Morio Asaka

Originally a Manga by Ai Yazawa-sensei

You can watch it on Netflix or Crunchyroll.

I’ll try to keep it short, and to the point.

NANA description:

Nana “Hachi” Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock’n’roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Anxious to get into a Tokyo groove, both women are on the prowl for a funky and cheap place to live. But inexpensive apartments in Japan’s capital city are hard to find. Thank goodness each Nana has a clique of cool friends willing to help out. Too bad these friends are a little wiggy!

Just want to clarify that Hachi doesn’t move to Tokyo to leave that love life, she goes there chasing after a guy.

Spoilers!

Who does Hachiko end up with?

Not the guy who loved her, respected her, and would do anything for her. No, not him.

She went and stayed with the douche who told her: you’re mine let’s f***. While her friend was in the house, and he didn’t let her go talk to Nana.

Sorry, didn’t I mention that there were spoilers here? Well, that’s what happens in the end, she stayed with Ichinose Takumi. Not with Nobu. Like stayed with Takumi, chose him because of a particular reason, and so many wrong reasonings, too.

Is NANA age appropriate?

What age is this question referring to? I had to look it up.

It should go like this:

The term “age-appropriate” means suitable (in terms of topics, messages, and teaching methods) to the developmental and social maturity of the particular age or age group of children or adolescents, based on developing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity typical for the age or age group.

So, if anyone is wondering if NANA is appropriate for a younger audience? It is not.

Remember that NANA is Josei, which means that it has a lot of adult themes, not on-scene, explicit, or uncensored scenes, but there’s a lot of sex in it, and partial nudity. And age-gap relationships. Like the adult-teenage type. And these is all on the anime. The manga, goes a bit further than that.

In case you’re curious and to clarify my point, Josei is a demographic category of manga, anime, and other Japanese entertainment targeted at women between the ages of 18 and 40. However, men can watch it just as fine, as well as women can watch Seinen, which focus mostly on action, relationships, science fiction, politics, fantasy, sports, or comedy. 

Moving on.

Should I talk about the Manga?

I don’t think I can do a Manga spoiler, it’s the greatest spoiler ever if you only watched the anime and the Live Action Movies. There’s one thing that happens, that it’s more traumatic than watching the anime, and I still cannot recover from it. However, I’ll talk about it later on, in a new post, look for it because it’s going to be huge.

That concludes this post, I think I answered to big ones out there, more so, if you don’t feel like watching the anime to the end to know what happens, well, there you go. I didn’t keep it short, I know.

But putting all of that aside, this is one anime that I re-watched a couple of times 2007, 2008, wow, it’s been a long time. And I was probably too young to be watching it, but hey, I did and it certainly opened my eyes.

After reading the manga to know what happens in the end because the anime doesn’t cover the whole story, I was left in too much of a shock, and didn’t re-watch the anime as much after that. Doesn’t mean I don’t remember, it’s still fresh as day on my mind.

Okay, I’m really done now, I kind of kept on rambling there. But that’s all for today. Thank you for reading, dearies! Don’t forget to like, share, and follow if you’re not already.

Happy Watching! 🎥