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| Well, an inevitable backstory episode. No black Nana screentime :/ |
AizixMar 4, 2015 3:45 PM
| Hum... Is she... retarded? No, retarded may be too harsh, but holy fuck is she guillible. What was she expecting from a relationship with a older married man whom she didn't even knew his name? Instead, she ended up looking like a slut and wasted adolescence for a man who just wanted a sex date. If that's not the definition of a fool... I feel bad for her though, she's a naive girl and got manipulated easily. I know it's a touchy subject, but I don't understand why Jun didn't try to put some senses into her. I feel bad for Souji. Nana took Jun advice a bit too literally xD At the same time, she's totally crazy, I'm not sure whether he would have dodged a bullet. We'll see in the future. I guess she'll get interested in music in that club. The transition at the end made me think so. |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| aw, nana has had to deal with a lot ;_; no punk nana this ep, feels bad yo. |
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| Yeah sleeping with a married man without any qualms and then acting all innocent...ayay my favourite type of idiot.Hope it will pay back later. No black Nana :/ |
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| Should I say that the normal Nana is a 『stupid annoying bitch』? Seriously, she kept screwing for a year with a guy she doesn't know and consider that love... But I'm curious how she ended up with Shouji. I can't wait for the punk Nana's backstory :D |
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| Wow so Nana was pretty naive and fell in love very easily.It's no surprise she fell prey to that predator who used her as a booty call.Anyways it would figure that the moment when she stops searching for love she becomes blind to Shouji being attracted her lol. |
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| Well, I found this past version of NanaKuro to be rather annoying. I don't think she's a slut, that doesn't really fit her. Besides, she only had 1 sexual relationship through all of high school. (Or relationship period, the rest were crushes.) She is horribly idiotic though, in several ways. I get that this is backstory to explain how NanaKuro became who she is, but you simply don't recover from being so stupid. If anything, you double down and fix yourself into the same cycle of behavior. She's either severely lacking in some areas of intelligence, or she's not dumb but has debilitating psychological disorders. Not to say she's bad, but the two characters just don't seem to connect for me, this younger version becoming the older version. So we can either look forward to her continuing to be annoyingly idiotic, or this is just a BS backstory that might as well be ignored. |
| Heh so there is much more back story in anime than in live movie Nana! :D Good that I haven't finished movie and saw only first 20 minutes. I didn't spoil so much. Now about anime, this episode was very funny I found few similar things I got with white NaNa :D I also curse demon lord for my bad luck (but not about love issues) and also that she cannot live alone. However white Nana is too easy for giving her body to men :D Where is the story abut black Nana? Don't tell me it will be after she graduate from this art school?! I want black Nana! oh yeah episode 5/5 |
| (づ￣ ³￣)づ ちゅっ ちゅっ キス (´｡✪ω✪｡｀) I hate it when anime/manga that I enjoyed ends, especially when there could be much longer plot and when I love main heroine :P I wish I had magic glasses that let me see real world in anime colors ;) |
| I'm a teenager (16 years old) and nor I know or am as naive as Happy Nana, that's more like the attitude of a 12 year old |
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Cencra said: I'm a teenager (16 years old) and nor I know or am as naive as Happy Nana, that's more like the attitude of a 12 year old You know what, that would be the attitude of a teenager not born in the same time as you did. And I'd say there still are a lot of teens as naive as Nana is, I don't believe the other way around. Is she feeling guilty? Or is she feeling used? Both maybe. she's feeling guilty because she was so taken from this love story that never got the istinct to actually care about the other person background, she felt the love he gave her was all she needed, and as long as she got it that was all that mattered. It almost like they used each other. It was two people in need of some love. Maybe. |
meneope said: LovingHate said: You all don't like this Nana? HOW IS SHE A SLUT. She a crush on a lot of guys like I'm sure you all have. She had like 4 or 5 boyfriends during highschool. I don't think that makes her a slut. Maybe she just falls for men easily. veronicarose said: ugh how can any of you say nana is a slut, or she's had a lot of boyfriends? she only crushed on all of those guys, and only dated one. she was a normal high school girl, i don't see her that way at all! Hello where've u guys been? She's been sleeping around with them too! Not only she f***ed her teacher but even beded a married man too! - She sought sex explicitely duh! I don't know what high school u people go or went to or in what country u are but when I went to high school girls weren't that loose! From my perspective if a girl is like that in high school I don't know how she's gonna turn up in her 20s (hopefully at this rate by 25 she'd probably have bedded like 30+ men and you people are going to say that's normal!)? If that doesn't make someone a slut I don't know what does. This just goes to show how in modern society the distinction between girlfriend/mistress/escort/model/prostitute is getting more and more blury. This is one of the most idiotic misogynistic posts on MAL. Although this poster ha said way worse on MAL about women during the course of this series, this post is just plain stupid since it's clear as day that Nana only had Asano as a boyfriend during high school if you can even call him that. |
| I betcha she's gonna meet Asano at the club or Shoji who's gonna end up confessing or etc. But if that happened, love would be too simple. |
| Quite the past that Nana has! |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
HiImAnAlien said: Pretty disturbed by all the slut shaming in this post. Anyway, I don't like that Nana was in a relationship with a married man and had no qualms about it. That's really unethical of her, but it's pretty much her only sin from the past. These were exactly the two things I felt like saying. Thank you for saying them. ~~~ Aha, Nana is a hopeless romantic of sorts. I feel like she's somewhat broken inside, and so she clings to any guy that she finds attractive. I felt my eyes rolling at a lot of parts of this, but I understand the behavior. The one thing I didn't like was how they put her prelude in Episode 2. Usually you'd wait until mid-series or until it's relevant... but they somewhat recovered from that by making it have relevance to the story, instead of it just being a meaningless flashback. |
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| Poor Nana was desperately looking for love without to realize what really counts. I like it that after the introduction episode, they already start to illuminate her character with a flashback. |
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| Nana Komatsu is weird. I should have dropped this anime if she was the only central character. But there is Nana Osaki as the other MC , I hope she is a good character. |
| This Nana is so naïve :/ she doesn't even care if the man is single or married, she only wants to find her soulmate. What a hopeless romantic idiot -w- |
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| Damn Asano's seiyuu is cold hearted but it fits him perfectly. Nana.K sure had so many bf that was really crazy. |
| Wait a second. She f*cked a married man while she was still in high school. Isn't that illegal???? WOW!!!! She seriously needs get more guy FRIENDS. Then she'll stop seeing them as these love goddesses. I still sorta have that problem myself with girls. Good episode. Also man oh man she talks a lot and sorta complains as well. |
| Blond Nana is really a stupid girl, she'll do anything for love :P This probably will not bode well in the future, I can see she'll get hurt already Haha alcohol drink, I called them teleporting tea Because you don't remember where you are after you wake up xD Tbh club is probably the worst place to get a bf/gf I mean you can get easily but a lot of bad things will happen later :P |
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| Well this episode was a flashback. Didn't expect that, but it was good to see Nana-chan's history. She sure had a lot of boyfriends, and it did change my image of her. Desperate to be loved by the wrong men... poor girl. I am wondering about the other Nana now... Can't wait for the next episode! |
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| "man kann sagen, dass Nana eine Schlampe ist" I don't know tbh. When is one considered a "schlampe" ? Imo a slut is when you sleep with your friends boyfriend. fr this is a hard case. |
| I have to say Nana grows attached to people quite quickly...bit too quickly... no wonder Shoji wants her to be a bit more independent with that promise instead of letting her depend on him.... I have this weird feeling 'Takano' will appear again in a future episode |
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| Nana probably regrets things she did in the past now, I kinda can understand her. |
| “Life is a constant process of dying.” |
| NANA certainly gets melodramatic. This isn't necessarily bad, but it's just a bit more than what I expected this early on. Also, going all the way back in time before Nana and Shouji met was somewhat jarring, but I understand the intent of introducing both Nanas in the first episode to establish the show's main dynamic. |
| Okay I better get drunk fast so I can loosen up a little. |
 To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
| I can see posts are from years ago, but you all need to stop being a'holes. Just because Nana is Nana does not give you some power over her and the right to feel superior and criticise her character. Get back in your boxes little boys else Nana gonna turn up and eat you alive. |
To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
| Definitely a better second episode, good characters with lots of potential to be explored into. |
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| I can relate a lot to her in some ways. It hurts to see a young girl consumed by love. It's easy when you're younger to be consumed by the fantasy of romance if you don't have other outlets/interests. I'm not sure of her home life yet but it definitely doesn't feel like she has strong and healthy relationships to look up to. I'm glad I waited till I was in my 20s to watch this show. I hope to watch her growth and hopefully healing (fingers crossed) |
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| From the art to the music to the attitudes towards sex and smoking...Nana screams, "I'm Gen X, and I don't care what you think!" |
Yatsura said: Finally a sensible comment in this thread! I was starting to lose hope in humanity scrolling through here... granted a lot of these comments are years old, but still.Sorry but Nana is realistic for a lot of people I know. Is sleeping with a married man a good idea? No, but Nana is naive, just like many people are at that age. Great episode, by the way. :) To those people in this thread, Nana isn't a "slut" for sleeping with one guy throughout high school. She was young, dumb and naïve. Of course it's wrong since he's married, but she was a gullible child with no real love experience. Asano was older, and should have known better. She was underage, she's a helpless romantic who just had random guy crushes up until meeting Asano. And she was taken advantage of. The sexist and double standard vibes I'm getting from some of the other guys in this thread is crazy. I musta read the words "slut" and "bitch" in here like 20 times.. I guarantee if the roles were reversed and Nana was a teenaged boy in high school who got in a relationship and slept with an older married woman, he wouldn't be called a slut. In fact he'd probably be praised and celebrated for scoring with a "MILF" |
AgravityBoyApr 15, 2023 1:44 AM
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| Now. I really like this extended-flashback-episode structure, actually. We start by getting a basic feel for the main characters and who they're intended to be, then we go back and spend a little time seeing how they got to be the ways they are. A nice luxury to have from your show being 47 episodes long! If we'd gone purely in chronological order, I bet a lot more people would be put off by the character flaws we're shown. (Not that I would have been. I have a pretty easy time sympathizing with earnest people, even if they do it wrong.) And speaking of. Poor Nana K is a lovestruck fool, but it's endearing to see her so cockeyedly optimistic about it even after so many failures. Those of us who "wisely" sat out romance for far too long in our young lives might even look up to her plucky, unhesitating, never-say-die spirit about the whole thing. You just want her to succeed, y'know? You can't help cheering her on. C'mon, Nana, you can do this! At the same time, as others have pointed out, you should probably figure out who you are alone before you start attaching yourself to another. But that's not exactly written in the instruction manual, so I can't fault anyone too much for screwing this up. Jun, on the other hand, seems to be nearly the polar opposite. She has everything almost disturbingly together for someone fresh out of high school (she comes off almost like a 30-year-old), yet still manages to snag a boyfriend within like five seconds without even trying. It would be easy for Nana K to resent and envy her for all that. But no, Nana's way too good a person to fall prey that kind of thinking. I'm a little intrigued by the prevalence of "no-no" activities going on so far. So many smokers. So much drinking (even underage!). Two episodes in, two nude-in-bed-and/or-lovemaking scenes. This ain't your standard sanitized fare! It turns out Shoji is almost a Rule 63 version of Nana K. That's kinda funny, but also a bit of a surprise given the previous episode's characterization. I don't know why, but the shot of Nana K descending into the hole-in-the-ground dance club at the end seems pretty ominous. Could just be my own revulsion against such clubs, though. In conclusion, so far this is looking as great as its reputation seems to be! |
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| Started watching it today. Nana falls in love so easily. Silly baby! I'm excited to see what the other episodes bring |
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