Munou na Nana
Talentless Nana

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I don't care what people say, this manga is peak. It's fucking amazing, with really well written twists and characters I adore dearly. I wish it were more well known and more respected, because it's easily one of my favorite stories of all time.
Every chapter has a cliffhanger to leave you on, with every twist genuinely being well laid out in advance without also being obvious. If you like thriller, this is PEAK thriller. I'm a thriller junkie, so I may be a tad biased, but still. The mind games, the mysteries, the twists and turns. This manga has it all and never lets up.

And ... that's the best part for me, is this manga never feels to me like it loses its way. Other thriller mangas and stories like this I feel often write themselves into a corner, where they don't know exactly where to go from here or how to up the stakes. But Talentless Nana from the very beginning you can tell they *knew* where they wanted their story to go and it works. The first arc of the story, that being covered by the anime, starts off being pretty standard, but slowly shows it's deeper complexity as it comes to a close, and suddenly this whole narrative that had just been constructed is taken apart, but in a way that makes sense *and* continuously raises the stakes. The story doesn't get stale because it allows itself to change, but unlike something like The Promised Neverland, it doesn't stray so far from what made it's first chunk so special in the process. I'd argue that as it goes on, this story just gets more and more interesting.

Really the only downside is that it's monthly releases which can suck to wait for, but it's honestly worth it if it means getting the level of quality writing that we have.

Tl;dr This is pulpy, edgy fun. It's no masterpiece by any stretch, but it's entertaining and therefor fine.

Story:

This section is pretty hard to do without spoilers. For starters, this story involves superpowered high school students in a unique take on a monster of the week formula. It gets edgy real quick as students go missing. The story has many plot twists and big reveals as we uncover what's really happening at this school...

Light spoilers: The story is like a game of among us and the protagonist is the killer.

The plot is pretty formulaic, but every new opponent is interesting in their own right and ... it's fun to watch our under dog protagonist go up against tougher and tougher odds. (I'm trying to be as vague as possible) There's a problem with it being a mystery in that all the characters are stupid enough to prolong the story, even characters that we're told are smart don't really do much to effect the plot. It's more of a feeling of tension that this manga brings rather than anything super substantial actually happening and that's fine if you enjoy the formula.

It attempts to mix this up at a certain point with a big twist, but ultimately with the recent chapters, it's clear that it'll always go back to a familiar formula. Nana will always 1v1 a talented.

Characters:

Like I said before, a perceived problem with this manga is that all the characters are aggressively ignorant to what's going on. it's kind of necessary to make the series work like it does but I understand the frustration. Ok, got the obvious out of the way.

I like Nana as a character. I like how she progresses from the facade of a bubbly high school girl to a genuinely good person who just wants to save people. I like her resourcefulness, her guilt, and how her backstory plays into her character. That being said, she has godtier, grade S plot armor. Like you can kind of buy certain plots because she's clearly been trained very well. But damn this girl should not be alive, well, and sane after what she goes through.

Kyouya is cool but very underutilized. He's just used to peak up the tension and stand in as a sort of rival/potential love interest character.
I feel similarly about Jin, he's very cool but is primarily used as a mysterious exposition dump character.

The antagonists are alright. Generally serviceable for the amount of time that they're given and memorable for their different powers and deranged backstories.

Side characters are weak. Very mediocre in design and personality. Most are just there as noise or plot convenience.

Art:
It's got a distinct enough style. Its thick lines and simple designs give it this poppy cutesy look which contrasts with the darker material. It doesn't always look the best for the action scenes but it's serviceable.

Overall: I like it but it's just ok. This story won't change your life, but it's a fun little edgy read that's propelled by cliffhangers. It's entertaining if nothing else

The story could had been good if only at least we as the reader would had a reason to care about the MC (Nana) but we got not such thing

She in fact had a walking plot armor for most of the story, the other characters are mostly morons and one in particular (Kyoya) becomes one when he goes againts Nana

Many of the character seem to fall head over heels for her and the most annoying one was only alive for a little minor character development

The other thing I noticed is the fact how some characters are deemed as evil and dealt with but others ... for no reason can be redeemed only because Nana says so and at least for me this was pretty bad

My enjoyment was pretty bad because I was cringing so hard at some parts and others were plain funny because of how bad they were

This can be good for many if you don't analyze many of the parts because if you do, you will see how they make no sense