Alternative TitlesEnglish: Nana Japanese: ナナ
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: May 15, 2000 to ?
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Ranked: #432
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Made by the same creator, both full of drama and concentrate on human relations.
Both series are about the lives and relationships of young women. Both are created by Ai Yazawa.
In both NANA and Paradise Kiss, author Yazawa Ai again explores young women's paths toward independence, love, and self-identity in these edgy, dramatic series.
This is Yazawa Ai's manga, author of ParaKiss, too. Both are romances with tragedy and funny elements. Drawing is oryginal and, in my opinion, wonderful.
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Similar character interaction, and both very well written. Both deal with real life issues and relationships.
Both of them deal with romance and friendship. They have similar characters and give the same feeling!
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Both are shoujo series that deal with romance and tragedy equally and have a more serious, adult tone. It's hard to be particular about it, but they both definitely have the same feel to them.
Both are more mature romance manga and deal with tragedy. It's hard to describe, but I just got the same sort of vibe from both, with how well they handled the tragic storyline and how great the characters are. I think if you enjoy Nana you'll definitely enjoy Mars.
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I can't believe no one has said anything about the similarities of Bokura ga Ita and NANA!!
Like... in the later chapters, when they separate, it is very much like Hachi & her search for Nana.
&& Let's not forget how in each story, 2 girls are named Nana!
The style in the later chapters is so similar...
The inner monologues... "What are you doing now, Yano?" That screams Nana to me! I was thinking, "Hey... was this written by the same mangaka??"
At first, I thought this was going to be a cute love story... but it has the deeper, darker aspects much like in Nana (though not as dark as Nana).
Both manga(and anime) are about deep and realistic romance life. in Bokura Ga Ita it's about teengares love life, and in Nana it's about young adults (in their 20-30 years). They share a lot of similarities, the dialogue both main character have inside themselves are similar. NANA:"Hey, Nana... Do you remember the first time we met?" Bokura Ga Ita:"At the time he was just 15. Now he's barely 16. But the truth burdening him, is always larger than his capacity". Both stories are about love life's ups and downs, and how different individuals handle it. if you like Nana or Bokura Ga Ita you'll surely like the other one too :) OH! and both story's have 2 Nana's xD
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maybe the storyline isn't so similar..although it's about showbiz (music-nana, fashion-the one)..BUT! the art is so similar!!! lele in the first volumes looks like nana o. but her personality is very similar to nana k.( the hachiko style)!! and eros looks like takumi!! i would have to appreciate more the one for the sexiness of the male protagonists...hehe:)))
they're both funny & have a great story and at the beginning i found some characters very similar too
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Both center around a group of friends that are all part of a band. They both mainly focus on the relationships between all the characters and how they deal with the struggles of life. There's a bit of humor in each but the main focus is on the drama.
If you liked one you'll most likely enjoy the other as well.
Both Nana and Solanin has main characters who are unsure of their future (Komatsu Nana in NANA and Inoue Meiko in SOLANIN). They both moved to Tokyo to chase their future and feel in love and faced heartbreaks and devastation. They both know people who are in bands. They learn through the help of their friends what life is and how they should live life.
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The atmosphere of both manga have a melancholy feel of times past, the dreamy art is also similar. Both manga are written in a reflective way that center around themes of love and relationships we hold and value with people. Both manga are also excellent and my favorite manga in the Shojo genre.
The back and forth between the past and the future scenes really remind me of Nana. It feels really similar except that Orange is in a school setting.
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Though Lovenista only consists of 2 volumes, both are similar in the fact that they have a (sometimes scatter brained) female lead who has a past full of bad relationship choices. Instead of pursuing their cute supporting male friend who is deeply in love with them, both Nana (Hatchi) and Yun choose to accept the harder road of love.
Lovenista was a lot shorter than NANA but it reminded me of it greatly. The deliquent in Lovenista, Hirumichi, reminded me of Takumi in NANA. They both loved the girl (Yun in Lovenista and Hachi in NANA), but they were portrayed as a playboy/ was a playboy. Nana (Hachi) was just like Yun; she fell in love quickly and often. Even though that Kyougo didn't appear a lot, he was just like Nobu- he even played the guitar in a band! The characters seem have a punk like fashion for both series too.
Yeah, they are a lot alike, except NANA revolves around music and Lovenista revolves around makeup.
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Its about a making a music band and becoming famous
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they both deal with humans relationships while in rivers edge they are more like mature
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These two stoies have an amazing central element of friendship to the plot, revolving aroung two girl bestfriends that are polar opposites. Despite being so different the girls are closer than ever. While love is also a good portion of the story, it is mainly focuses on the beauty of friendship and how strong the two girls bond is with one another. Both also provoke warm feelings in the hearts and have extremely unique characters despite it is shoujo. Many say they can relate to both of the mangas too.
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In both Suppli and Nana main characters are young women that try to be independent and strong, have complicated relationships with both their lovers and friends
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NANA doesn't really have split personalities like Othello...but regardless, they're alike. I read Othello whenever I was 8, it was one of the first series I read. They're both about music...and let's see...the art is similar, and Yaya's split personality's name is Nana? I thought Yaya was like Nana Komatsu and Nana was like Nana Osaki.
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Well,for starters it's about music.Everything is about music.Although the songs,figuring in Grav. are not as pleasing as the ones in NaNa,the story is similar - a band trying to hit the top,trying to achieve their goals.And relationship budges in too.It's about strong main characters and their will to succeed.
My personal + for both and a reccomendation for everyone that haven't seen Gravitation yet.
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Similar relationships that have to do with breaking up, falling in love again, and overcoming hardships. 17 isn't a josei like Nana but it still covers some of the same themes.
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Both are slice-of-life depictions of a group of disparate individuals with problematic pasts who come together through the dream of creating a band. Song of the Cloud is a webtoon in full colour. Equally introspective but less tragic than Nana
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In both mangas, I can't help but think of the other manga, both Nana & Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru are about music, romance with older men, naivety. In spite of Nana being josei & Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru being shoujo, both are enjoyable & makes you just want to imagine exactly what kind of music/vocals/lyrics are being used in the stories! If one is liked then the other will being enjoyable! {Sidenote, Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru is more light-hearted & easygoing while Nana is more dramatic & emotional}
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Both has josei themes that includes love, trust, betrayal where both female protagonists experience tearful break-ups and moving on.
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H20 is so unique its hard to compare it to anything else. There was one manga it kind of reminded me of however, and that was Nana. The settings are completely different...H20 is high school where Nana is more of a after college story. The concept is what connects them and what i loved the most about both. The story isn't told from one side, it rotates between characters. You see how there life develops and how there relationship with one another evolve as time progresses.
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Both Koizora and Nana are dramatic stories. The characters in Nana are older-but they go through similar things. The main character in Nana, Nana Komatsu, acts similarly to Mika, the main character of Koizora. They both involve tragedies such as unplanned pregnancy and saying goodbye to the one you love.
They're also both two of my favourites. ;)
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Both series are about two girls who are the opposites of each other, but somehow they become best friends. We then follow them in their ups and downs in love and friendship. While the characters in Nana are in their 20s and Ano Ko to Issho takes place in high school, both manga are coming of age stories with a serious and somewhat tragic feel.
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Both manga's depict close friendship between two very different girls who end up living in the same appartment: one who is following her dream and is self-sufficient, and the other who has no dream but is constantly falling in love and moving from relationship to relationship.
Nana is more full of drama and is (in my opinion) better, but kanoko iro no kanojo has at least an end (Nana has currently been on hiatus for two years) and is quite a nice, well thought out story.
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Also a romance and shojo!
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While there are no life-affirming friendships made in Sakuran, the to-your-face realism found there is similar to many of Ai Yazawa's works. Kyoha's contemplation of love (and its weakness) brings Nana K. and her disastrous love affairs to mind.
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They might not seem similar, but they really are... You see a character having to chose between two people, and it hurts to watch it because you like them both and do not want them to chose one, but yet its so addicting that you have to continue on... >.>
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Both deal with hardships in the music industry and the never ending struggle to be heard through one's originality. Beck is more about the guys' take on making a successfull rockband while Nana is about making a rock band with a female lead singer. Both show how imperfection is more beautiful than the mundane.
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In both manga the main charachters are a pair of girls, who become very close to each other, and there's also a cheating guy who s name is Shouji. Nana may be not so yuri as the Love Vibes, though both works show how gentle are relationship between women.
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Audition has all the great musical aspects of NANA, the styles, The drama and even more comedy. If you're a lover of music and a good detective story pick up the first manga. The story involves 4 gorgeous(of course) variously tatooed-pierced-barely clothed-sexually ambiguous Musical geniuses who are being scouted by the daughter of a old man each boy met as a child. Using only the old man's diary and a little detective work you soon become lost in the genius of this manga. I love NANA and I love AUDITION even more it's a KOREAN MANGWA and it deserves to be right up there with all the other greats like it.. so check it out!
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Even though the story is really different , both manga's are about chasing after a dream .
Also , the characters and their relations are very much alike .
both manga's are from the same mangaka as well .
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Also one of Ai Yazawa's work, Nana holds one or two references to Kagen no Tsuki. Both stories have love and music in them, though Kagen no Tsuki is also paranormal and holds a secret you find out at the end. Nana is more realistic and focuses it's story more on the feelings of the characters. Kagen is much shorter than Nana, but both are very enjoyable.
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Plenty of drama, an interesting cast of characters, and a great art style.
The relationship between Ayumu and Miki reminds a lot of Hachi and Nana, and their encounters are both full of emotion: a kind-hearted but troubled girl (Hachi, depressed due to her numerous but unlucky love interests, & Ayumu, hopeless because of her being bullied) suddenly meets a cool, indipendent, strong and beautiful girl, and the two, who are the opposite of each other, become friends in a new school/city.
Even if in different ways, both are mature series which are about lasting out in life.
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Splendid and passionate josei manga which are the flagship of their respective authors.
Both Nana Osaki & Michiru Kuroki are young but determined women who deal with both a launched career, made of competition, rivalry, and sacrifice, & a private life, with its romance, sex, friendship, drama, and everyday problems.
Even though Nana is about music & Kiss & Never Cry is about figure skating, the similarities are countless, and both manga are equally intriguing, moving, and compelling.
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Both manga examine the romances and nights out drinking of 20-somethings in a realistic, funny manner. Ohikkoshi focuses more on the plot narrative and its central theme of unrequited love, while NANA concentrates on the emotions of love and the head space of its main characters.
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they are both about a group
of friends that just want have
some fun.
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Rules is extremely similar and as good as Nana is. Set in Tokyo, the story revolves arond four boys and their relationships with each other and the world in general. Both are slice of life- realistic mangas with a lot of drama, angst and complex characters. Consider Rules a gay version of Nana, with even more angst!
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Both demonstrate the difficulty of balancing friendship, love, heartache, work, dreams, motivation, admiration, and obligations for young women and the vague and sometimes overlapping divisions between them. They also demonstrate how, when life gets rough, it's good to have a dear friend to come back to cry to.
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Great series about music, life, and love. Both involve themes such as: being part of the music business, growing up, falling in love, having difficult and complex relationship with the parents, etc.
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When I was reading Kimi ni Todoke, I got the same feeling I got while reading NANA. The plot lines revolve around different things, but it's about a girl making a new set of friends. In both stories the main character just wants to be be closer to the people around them. They both progress kind of slowly in the romance department though. NANA has a little bit more of a dark tone to it (adults in the real world), while Kimi ni Todoke is a bit more innocent (teens in school).
You should definitely read both.
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Music, fame, sex, romance, and a strong love between two women.
Both are wonderful romantic dramas and coming of age stories.
The major difference is that Octave is a lesbian romance while Nana focuses upon the love of friendship.
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