Munou na Nana

Munou na Nana tells the story of Nana Hiiragi, a murderer disguised as a student at a school where students have peculiar skills, and where she has a mission to kill one by one of the students.

I find it very interesting how some information from the first episode does not seem to have a very important or important value in a way, the anime just started, and it subverts the meaning of this information during the anime. In the first episode, the anime appears to be the same generic school work as always. The character design, the initial “protagonist”, the way they express themselves, the ... scenarios etc. We are guided in this logic of a more common and less innovative anime until the end of the episode when the anime reverses this logic. The character of Nana Hiiragi kills the first of her victims (Nanao Nakajima), who until then was the protagonist who would guide the story, and from that moment on, the character takes on this role.

It's a twist that may sound a little forced in a way, there are few animes that manage to do this type of thing and sound natural, but the anime (in its form) makes it clear that something is not correct during the course of the first episode itself, and this will be the Artistic System that will define the way everything will be staged in a large part of the work.

The anime makes use of general plans where normally, there is some element closer to the viewer and another element further away. Usually, what stays away from the viewer on the plane has some very strong value to the plot, whether that is some contained personality, feeling, information etc. This works very well for me, it seems that we are never close to information, anime always seems to keep some details away from the viewer, or, what is far is more important than what we see close by.

The anime also makes good use of some Dutch Angle that feel unsteady, as if something is not right. The more distorted this angle is, the more instability it goes through the scene. There are some moments when he moves from an unstable angle to this Dutch Angle, which reinforces the moments even more.

I think that in most of the anime, director Shinji Ishihira managed to balance the sense of the plot very well in the way he stages everything. At least, most of the time I was able to feel inside this idea of ​​never being able to know what is really going on.

One thing that bothered me a little during my experience, was how at times the anime exaggerates with a voice-over in the nude to keep connected with the more sadistic side of Nana's character. When the character enters the “Mind Game” mode and goes on formulating strategies and providing information there is no problem, but the anime exaggerates in wanting to expose this side of the character too much, which in my view could have been more contained. If we didn't remember so much that the character is actually a murderer, we would be more connected to that idea, because everything would seem more natural if they didn't have these constant breaks.

I also didn't enjoy the more melodramatic side of the ending so much. I don't think it came so forcefully, even because the anime tries to develop this more human side of the main character a few episodes before finishing the work, but still it is not developed in such a surgical way. The anime even manages to create a great relationship between the characters of Nana and Michiru Inukai, and unlike the director's more enigmatic look at hiding information and feelings, here he is more sober, he balances very well what is on the scene. As if in those moments he had nothing to really hide from the public.

The objective was to try to confront this idea of ​​the character in relation to those individuals who have powers with a more human side. Perhaps the Inukai character was really created for this purpose. But, the big reason why I feel that this dramatization was not so perfect, is that our eyes are never interested in wanting to dramatize anything. As I said during a good part of this review, the director's choices guide our senses to other feelings, feelings that are more ardent, ambiguous and even tense. I don't think it was a horrible ending, but he was unable to perfectly assimilate these two systems.

Concluding. I loved Munou na Nana. I have to admit that, like in other anime, I already stepped foot behind the design, the story and everything, but the well-articulated twists both in the story and even more because of the way it was very well directed and staged by Shinji Ishihira helped to make sense of all those choices.

Mega spoilers

Story - 6

This is like the To Aru series, a good concept but terrible execution. The story follows Nana who is talentless in a world where they are a bunch of talented people who are regarded as the enemy of humanity or sum. They were all sent to an island to "train" their abilities but in reality, they were being separated from the world because they are dangerous IIRC; as an "ordinary" human, Nana's mission is to kill all the talented on the island.

As I said in the beginning, the concept of this series is something that would rival the concept of Death Note, ... but the execution is terrible; this is Death Note but if L, Near, and Mello were portrayed to be intelligent but lacked common sense. The main problem with this series is the contrast to what, IMO, made Death Note so good, the lies Light was capable of making up alongside his brilliant acting made it extremely hard for L to say he was 100% Kira, in this series Nana is similar to Light in terms of acting but when comparing their deception, she is sub-par and her arguments as to why she can't be the killer are portrayed to be far more solid than they actually are.

I'll give the story a score of 6 due to being above average with a good concept but the characters are what really sells it short, what makes it worse is that I recently came around to watching Death Note and I can't help but compare them, but even without doing so if you are someone of average problem-solving skills you will likely find yourself pausing the anime and thinking about what just happened and asking yourself "Huh? Why aren't they asking x?"

Art - 6

The art isn't anything special but it is pretty appealing when compared to the average anime, it is something that doesn't really stand out but you can look at it and go "This is nice." Besides that, there isn't really anything else I really wanna say about it.

Sound - 4

Similarly to the art, there isn't really anything I can say about the sound other than it is ok, nothing revolutionary that hypes you up, but also not bad that it makes you focus on it. I can't really remember anything about the sound which is both good and bad since it implies it isn't memorable in being bad or annoying nor is it memorable for being good. The reason I am giving it a 4 instead of a 6 is that I like the opening and the ending, it is not something I would normally consider part of the "sound" but eh.

Character - 2

These characters are abysmal which for some reason that word sounds like a good thing. The characters are the main problem with this show, they are extremely dumb, and even when they catch Nana red-handed with their ability, she escapes by killing them since the character's character/personality allows her to find a way to exploit it and kill them without anyone finding out, I am posting this as of episode 6 and I can guarantee she is going to strangle that yellow hair girl that is a necromancer, how do I know that? Well, it is implied with the emphasis on an iron chain under her bed and we are 6 episodes in unless there is some kind of war where the talented rebel against the one holding them on that island with Nana leading the charge and somehow redeems herself to the point everyone accepts her, it is unlikely that girl is going to survive. While that explanation of how she kills sounds good on paper, it is awful in practice as she has always somehow lied her way out of the situation while logic dictates otherwise.

let me show you an example as to why these characters don't have common sense. In episode one, Nana kills one of the characters, it is later deduced by the antagonist (If you consider Nana the protagonist) and the time traveler that Nana was the last one with the dude that was killed in the location he was killed around the same time yet she is still alive, according to Occam's razor, if there are two explanations to an assertion, the one that makes more sense and has the least amount of assumptions is more likely to be correct, therefore should be considered correct until there is something proving otherwise. The assertion/question is who killed the dude/how did he die, was he killed by Nana, or was he killed by an enemy of humanity and Nana somehow survived, logic would dictate that it is more likely that Nana is the killer rather than the former, but let's move on.

As a side note, the antagonist may not have known if not just the time traveler but I don't remember what happened exactly and I am not about to rewatch and find out.

The second instance of someone dying was the time traveler, the time traveler was mostly with Nana in attempts to find out who killed/what happened to the other dude. The time traveler later dies, it is quite suspicious that the two people who were with Nana the most were killed, but let's continue. The third instance of someone almost dying was the antagonist or the yellow hair girl, I don't remember which came first but I think it was the antagonist so imma go with him. After becoming friends with Nana, an entire shed exploded and she was the first one to appear on the scene at a moments notice which would imply she was extremely close to the explosion while also holding the cat which was supposed to be in the shed where the antagonist was inside when it exploded and the only reason he was in there was because of the cat. The antagonist survived because he is immortal seemingly having some kind of regeneration. This would make anyone believe Nana was trying to kill you, seeing as she was the last person who was around you and the only person who could've known that you have no sense of smell, this is even more evident with all the previous suspicion.

I was going to continue over every instance but this review is too long so I'll just attack the recent killing. After the dude who can take photographs of the future died, they held a funeral where the antagonist was going to do an autopsy but was stopped by the Necromancer who said they can find out how the dude died and who killed him. After hearing this, Nana was gung ho on not doing it because they should let him rest in peace and later putting on an extremely weak act in an attempt to argue that this dude's soul was in pain and only stated this after finding out the necromancer doesn't know anything about his soul. She could've made a variety of arguments as to why not to do the autopsy such as it being morally wrong and he isn't a doctor or something of that nature in attempts to discredit his verdict or discourage anyone from agreeing to go through with the autopsy.

The antagonist could have easily exposed her as to why she is so against it and refuted each of her arguments while his verdict would've been supported by the necromancer, but he doesn't even challenge her arguments and just lets it slide and there wasn't even a reason for them not to do the autopsy, the weak argument given as to why they should not use necromancy is because the dude's soul was hurting. All the antagonist had to ask is "What is more important? Finding out how the enemies of humanity are killing our friends which would, in turn, save our lives at the cost of a dead person's soul hurting or leaving it be without any knowledge on how our friend died which leaves all of us at risk of dying since we have no way on countering it."

I would like to continue explaining other things like how her ability is easily refutable by asking bizarre questions or just asking "What am I thinking" then thinking about something that no one could guess unless they had the ability to read minds, such as "The souls of water is black" that makes no sense but if you could read minds you would be capable of guessing it. But I digress.

Enjoyment - 4

I am tempted to drop this anime because it annoys me at times and the characters make no sense, I believe in those paragraphs I made it very apparent why I dislike the series.

Overall - 5

Because 6+6+4+4+4 = 24/5 = 4.8
This series can be summarized as Death Note but the Death Note is replaced by abilities, L lacks common sense, and Light is terrible at lying while everyone else is mentally challenged and also slightly f'ed up or just lack skepticism.

short review:- WHY DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAIN POINT OF WATCHING ANIME IS TO BE ENTERTAINED AND NOT BE A NITPICKY KEYBOARD WARRIOR.


since this is a show which i have conflicting feelings about i will just ditch the review format and write my thought on it . the point of all anime is to leave you wanting for more after each episode reimburse its production cost by making as many as possible watch it till the end (secondary objective) and promote the manga (main objective). munou no nana does it perfectly the cases are intriguing and the back and forth between ... the wannabe light yagami and wannabe L is intelligent and through without any faults. i get why most people think this is dumb since the killer is obviously you know who since the killings started right after this person showed up and she always happens to be on the scene . yes this could have been handled better by having multiple killers ,but i digress , it had me entertained for all of its 13 episodes and it will for you too .

to sum up :- want to be entertained? can allow small plot holes or plot armour (not significant amount like goku) this is your show

NO?

well bye then there is enough anime this season to watch anyway drop it without a thought.

"Death Note + My Hero Academia = Anything except Munou na Nana"

When we see an anime, we expect it to fulfill the main role: that of being functional and fulfilling its initial proposal. And for this to be done, the anime must be competent, both in offering something that brings interest to the public, and in not deceiving it in the future, creating a story that totally breaks with what the show created from the beginning. Munou na Nana is another one of the countless examples of anime that gets lost in the middle of the road, because it stumbled on so many flaws, that ... currently I can't even define what this season really was.

First of all, it is extremely important to say that Munou na Nana MUST NOT be defined as "A combo of Death Note and My Hero Academia", as that would be an extreme offense to two of the most famous anime franchises.

Munou na Nana brought elements that really resemble the two aforementioned shows, but it should not be confused that his role as an anime is neither to focus on a school of heroes, nor to be totally intellectual. The anime has more predominant and own elements, which worked in a different way from what is expected in anime and manga in general, however Munou na Nana already faces a problem in this topic. The show tries to be different, working much more on the situations that Nana faces, than really developing a good group of characters. With the exception of Michiru, Kyouya and Tachibana, the rest of the group is either irrelevant or not well presented. This also points to another problem with anime. But before talking about them, it is necessary to introduce each one of them, to introduce the show better.

The first is Kyouya, the smart guy. He is responsible for unraveling Nana's strategies, although Nana is not fully punished or accused for actions, as she always does something that deceives Kyouya's brilliant mind. Michiru is probably the most wronged character in the anime, as she has a need for friendship with a Naná. Let's say she is a dog embedded in a human being. I don't see it as a problem, it just bothers me to see how such a sweet and friendly character has a sad future waiting for her. The third is Tachibana. It may seem strange, but Tachibana can become a key piece to show in a likely sequence. This is due to the ability to copy powers of other "Talented", in addition to having relationships with the island's past, which can change Nana's thoughts about her future actions. All of them, together, create a unique relationship with Nana and the show clearly shows this, almost assuming that they will be the most important for the whole show. The age of nana with them always being cautious and never acting unconsciously. As much as she has some difficulties, she knows that the 3 characters will also be the most important to her.

Nana managed to kill 7 (or something similar) characters, which already shows that, although she is a "Talentless", she has an incredible ability to persuade students in order to always save themselves from situations. However, when we see an immense number of deaths being presented, it is expected that some emotion will be returned to the public, which does not happen. The show tries to add drama or forced scenes to convince us that Nana is a badass and that the rest of the class is totally inferior (except for the 3 characters developed), but the anime was not even able to convey the dangers and situations wisely. where Nana was spotted. From the moment Tsunekichi dies, I have given up on believing that Nana would be caught in any way, as the show had numerous loopholes and makes all characters limited in convincing when it comes to accusing the your own leader.

And it's not just that ... Munou na Nana also fails in the construction of the scenes, so that it is embarrassing to see them. The fit of scenes in which Nana presents a duality between mind and natural state is misplaced, strange and increasingly winding up the anime. This does not mean that this type of technique does not work in anime. Death Note, for example, knows how to hold the audience for longer than this show, which pretends to be something, but does not mean anything.

Furthermore, Munou na Nana's own world has a ridiculous, or poorly explained, construction. It is understood that the threat to humanity is "Talented" themselves, but what about parents? How do powers work? Is it just these kids who have these powers or is it something that has spread wildly around the world? And perhaps most importantly: do you need to kill these children? Honestly, none of these questions convinced me that the show would be productive. It is not really functional when it comes to exploring the outside and focuses entirely on an island, where what happens there seems to define the destiny of humanity. I understand the anime's ability to put that aside and focus on that in the future (the end of the anime shows that this could be the future of the show), but seeing a season full of death and uninteresting attacks is much more tiring than knowing a little most of all. You don't need to use the protagonist to convey this, just showing the government organization explaining the actions would be enough.

I don't say that the show is a complete waste of time, he has really cool moments and I like Nana as a character. Mind games take on the role that the rest of the anime has sinned, making the show remembered for that. Nobody will say that he liked Munou na Nana because of the powers or the strategy of the government, but he will certainly have the conflict of Kyouya x Nana as the main factor that makes the work special. Still, the show is not completely saved. Again, the single deaths and the cringing scenes destroyed much of what the anime could be. It was nothing less than an anime with an incredible proposal, but it fell into a limbo of errors and became another famous show that will be forgotten in the following seasons. I'm not surprised, since after seeing Gleipnir, any other edgylord anime or being an adult doesn't give me any hope. Really, the second half of 2010 was a golden age for anime ... I wanted more anime at the level of Code Geass and Death Note today. For now, we have to appreciate this "masterpiece" of modernity.

Finally, Munou na Nana was one of the most difficult shows to end that I found recently. I confess that I liked the work of Bridge studio and I think the show can improve. After the situation that the show ended, it looks like it will now have a promising sequence (if we have that sequence). It's not a totally horrible anime, but I can't seem to point out so many good aspects, which keep the show as a whole. The characters definitely need to improve, in addition to the show's need to better explain everything that is going on, so that we don't just follow an intriguing emotional battle without emotion. I really wanted to look at this show and give it a better evaluation, but the disappointment was great, the construction of almost everything was ridiculous and even the songs hindered the fluidity of the show. When I reviewed Gleipnir, I assumed that this show would be the one that has an inexplicably high fame for what the anime is. Munou na Nana went further, gained a surreal popularity and managed to be worse, displeasing the majority. I'm sorry to those who liked this, but I see no reason not to think the show was bad. Furthermore, anime needs to be more expressive and less indifferent, as this becomes a huge problem in shows known for not having enough time to sympathize with the characters and the story itself.

What an unmitigated flop, set up had the potential to be magnificent but the execution left me bewildered that a story so contrived could actually make it past quality control. God spare me from another so called "Diamond in the rough".

The story is supposed to be a suspense murder mystery seen from the eyes of the killer. Where one false step would lead to their demise at the hands of the "Talented" heroes. Instead we have a farce of a main character that resorts to crying wolf whenever her paper thin façade is tested by the singular individual that has more than a distant acquaintance ... with his mental faculties. Doubtlessly the only reason she's so smart is that in comparison everyone else is as witty as a box of wax fruit. It wouldn't have taken much to catch this "Zodiac Killer".

Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, thrice is enemy movement... if someone is at the scene of every crime they're either the killer or the cop. It really doesn't take much deductive reasoning to come to that conclusion. But then again that might be expecting too much from characters that don't seem to have developed object permanence. Maybe they're "Talented" because they were dropped on their collective heads one too many times as children and now Nana is there to administer euthanasia.

After all it doesn't take a genius to kill a vegetable. I vote they change the name of this story to "Cull-inary Lessons With Nana".

Initially I fell prey to the claims of plot holes and inconsistencies I'd heard echoed about this show. However, by the time the season wraps up, you start to understand that the "plot holes" are created by the subjective/limited viewpoint of the characters, and what we are really seeing is just their understanding/perspective, and not legitimate plot holes at all. It all starts to add up and give little bites and pieces of something deeper going on behind the scenes.

In the end, I actually binged all 13 EPs in a single night. There were twists I suspected and others I genuinely didn't see coming, ... only recognizing the subtle set up in retrospect. It's not a next level genius story, but it is very enjoyable, and I highly look forward to a SE2.

Bonus point: cats continually saved from tragedy

Wow.. this show. I was so hooked up just after watching the first episode.

//Please note that you really should watch at least the first episode before asking someone about this show. Everything is spoiler before you watch it.//

In my opinion, I really like this anime heck maybe this is the best anime of this season. Everything from the first episode was so interesting. Ahhh it's a shame that I can't write anything more specific.

But let's do the digging //BEAWARE MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD

Story:
You will be hooked up from the first moments of this show. The main character that seems gloomy about his ... ability. The mysterious girl with a mind-reading ability and the enemy of humanity.
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Art:
I really like this style of animation and character design. The fight scenes and all are just awesome.
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Sound:
Hmm, dunno. But Op and Ed weren't so bad.
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Character:
I like the mindset of the characters. "I want to save the world!" like some hero. So cool, until the second episode hits you in the face. Ah right spoilers duh. My favourite character from this story is Nana because I like her style and appearance.

That's all, I hope you enjoyed or will enjoy this anime as same as me.

PLS READ IF WILLING TO WATCH THIS OR JUST TO CONSIDER MY RREVIEW!✓✓✓

This anime truly is jarring. It not only exceeded my expectations,
but made me thoroughly impressed. Starting with EP 1, I surmised from entering and finishing EP 1, that it would be some sort of story, where the strong wited kills the weak minded. However, this evaluation was proven erroneous slightly. After EP 1 and 2, the atmosphere changed rapidly, where emotions such as doubt roamed the area and I experienced some death note vibes. This is due to two highly intellectual minds clashing against each other and this is the foundation of ... satisfaction I gained from this anime. I simply loved the deduction process where Kyouya would try to piece together evidence and information he gained to disclose the guilty killers. Each step he took, just results in a tense environment, which is maintained throughout the anime. This kept me engaged in his thought process, making it seem as if I were apart of his contemplation.

The characters introduced where interesting but many aren't really unraveled and given much time on screen, but some characters involved in the climax are present throughout and gives time for me to digest them, resulting in me understanding them bit by bit. For example, a character named Michiru, is what startled me the most at the end of the series. When firstly introduced, I didn't anticipate much from her except her undying kindness to everyone she meets, however by having her appear more and more, I realized as the audience that she isn't some sort of friend where she would just run away from a dire situation and stay innocent as a flower. The determination, ambition and resolve she mustered up is truly stunning and the decition she made at the ending is heart wrenching, but understandable. Thus making me realize that Michiru is someone I underestimated and that she had a much bigger role to play in the story than I imagined. Aside from her, only a few more characters were pleasurable.

The art design and animation were definetly on the better side and the voice actors are sufficiently good enough. The whole plot is average I guess, but what made the anime stand out is how it was put together and displayed to us really well. Each EP , questions that needed answering were flouting around, which peeked my interest and kept me occupied and not die of boredom.

Hopefully you've reached the ending of this subjective review, and thought carefully. As the reviewer I think I should added more details regarding this show, but then you'll be here reading forever. Pls, give this a go and remove any negative thoughts from your head. Have a great day.

I would have loved to watch a few more episodes before calling this absolutely garbage, but I really couldn't watch past episode 2. I was watching it in 4x speed and I still couldn't bear to keep on watching.
This is exactly the type of show I would think would be constructed when a 14 year old that just watched Death Note was the head director. It's the most edgy show I've watched in a while. The entire premise of the show is pretty generic: talented kids in a school facility. To make up for the absolutely generic and archetypal characters that are littered throughout the ... show, they add shock factor.
Shock factor doesn't any something good. Just because something is unexpected does not make something good. In an attempt to try to make this show special, an edgy plot twist was introduced by episode one where Nana is supposed to be hunting and killing every person that has a talent. That doesn't magically make characters interesting again.
It's not exactly an interesting murder-mystery type show like Death Note, because there is basically no mind games involved. While you might think that Nana is "outsmarting" and "super intelligent." she's just taking advantage of how stupid other people are. Sure, she makes a bunch of extreme observation through body languages, but her personality and intelligence don't match at all. It's as if: wait for it, her super intelligent observations are a mere plot device so that she can murder others. It's a story where Nana has super plot armor in the form of "intelligent observations" made from little to no evidence and guesswork and being correct 100% of the time, and her exploiting everybody's stupidity.
It's clear that if there was any semblance of urgency, Nana would have been caught by her second murder. The problem is that characters just move like marionettes, even the "detective" character. What a joke. How about setting up "partner system?" Event logs? Making sure everyone is in groups? Using talent synergy together to find out the murder? Clearly, no response is done so that Nana can get away with her extremely amateur plans.
Nana's motivations and the organization behind her are completely illogical and don't match her "intelligence." It's more of a cocky kid that is trying to justify murder pretty badly. Any form of intelligent discourse is thrown out the window.
Overall, this show is the result of someone trying to make an "edgy murder mystery" show with no talent to back it up. Any form of intelligent response, dialogue, and actions are never shown, and everyone's brains are at the level of a toddler's, with no sense of urgency.

Among us, the anime, Munou na Nana talks about a heartless killer Nana. In a school full of talented people, with their abilities being able to kill thousands and even millions of people, Nana is tasked to stop these people by killing them. Yet, the story twist as Nana's unable to understand why someone like Michiru is trying their earnest to help and save Nana. Nana thought that the Talented are all murderers, or have the potential to kill. Only in the last episode, that Nana felt that that wasn't true and her entire world view was changed by what happened with Michiru. I think ... this anime truly is a very imaginative drama that makes you feel that Nana will get caught and the Talented will kill her. Yet, there are still so many layers of story building going on as she tries to kill the Talented. Nana is caught in a quagmire, as she tries to figure out her own feelings. Even though she is once suspected as a killer in the class, there is another imposter among us. Munou na Nana is indeed an interesting watch and it certainly piques my interest as I read the synopsis. I recommend it to those who the thrill of Nana getting caught yet not get it. Masochistic I guess? This is an 8/10 for me. Quite an interesting watch this season. It does truly get your heart racing and blood pumping.

Small review for a kinda small show but still enjoyable. Writing this mainly because it deserves to be defended, as I think there are really good aspects about this show that entirely redeem its weaker spots. I've finished it a couple hours ago. I should probably watch it a second time as it has replay value, given the multiple clues you can find in every episode.

Okay I think there's no debate as to what is wrong with Munou na Nana : the goddamn low IQ canon fodder of a character ensemble. They flat out suck, their development is terrible, we are not given time to ... really know them (they have very simplistic personalities anyway). There are a few lovers who can even die without us giving a sorry shit about it. It's near being unforgivable how weak character building is.

The crime mystery aspect of it, though being quite comprehensible and overall pretty solid technically, really suffers from the stupidity of the victims. They kinda ruin the smart stuff in this show and the author really tries hard to entertain us with some great chess-like mindgames (these get really A-grade in the manga btw). It would have been so great to have more insight in regard of all these characters who fall victim before the MC. Maybe the first episode format needed to be repeated more that once, meaning we would have been closer to every characters and their wits, before they finally checkmated by Nana-chan's. Anyway there is a major issue with the story-telling. We are emotionally tethered to people only but too late in the show. Even the first episode not being subtle enough and seeming really off from the get-go, because of the gimmicky false MC and Nana's really pushy behavior, fails to make us care about anybody. Nana's tragic past should have been introduced much sooner, maybe from the second episode, maybe only partially, bit by bit. She is the greater part of this show.

After the 13th episode, I think Nana has been successfully fleshed out, thanks to the insights we get on her flaws and her relationship with Michiru. Even with all the weak spots aforementioned Nana grows out to be a really likeable character. Following her thinking has been really interesting and the VA is doing an awesome job. Her schizogirl personality and her facial expressions helps a lot with us giving her attention and investing our emotions. Yes she starts off as being kinda deranged, but that being said, we understand quite quickly that she is maybe the sanest person on-board ; the main flaw of the story is once again the fact that the author fails quite miserably to depict the Talented as being essentially monstrous rather than retarded, Mirichu-chan being herself the exception who makes Nana's iron-will and certitudes crumble violently.

Technically you know there's not much money nor time invested in the show. It's by no mean ugly, it's simple and efficient, with details on critical scenes. Clearly the supporting characters lack a little bit of something, they have no charisma whatsoever. I think the visuals needed to be maybe darker, more mature. Concerning the sound, I feel like the music has been very discreet. Scenes with strong emotional value are accompanied with rather generic violin, so pretty forgettable. Now the ED, I've found it to be really cool and efficient, always coming in after a systematic cliffhanger. The strong aspect of the show is the voice acting, I've never felt anything was uncanny about it ; the actors did a great job in a show that is kind of an emotional roller-coaster at times, especially the MC's VA.

In the end the path from manga to anime should have been a stronger, more free adaptation, with more depth and a different storytelling. In a nutshell, more work, more characterization and whatnot's, but then I guess this would have needed a lot more episodes. I went in by curiosity, I stayed for the MC. Being a reader of the source material, I do believe there's some potential in it, things become really interesting at around chapter 50, but it's a really long way to go, as the story from the end on this first season up to there, gets kinda weird and awkward ; stuff that has low probabilities of making the cut in anime format, without an overhaul of the story-line. So I'll watch a second season sure, but I won't bet my savings on it!

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Review translated by Google translator, I am not responsible for grammatical errors.
The anime of the beginning already implies that they would mix something comical, with something serious, several and several animes already tried to do that and failed miserably. Munou Na Nana is an exception.
I will start by saying about the conscience of history, first I must say that this anime simply has its weaknesses, for example few talented people have a cognitive ability to understand what is in front of them, just some characters who manage to do the basics.
The story itself develops over Hiragi Nana, the anime develops its story, and her ... emotional changes.
Over the course of the anime we see that, the anime is correct in passing the viewer the emotion that the anime develops over the main characters, the anime fails in some unnecessary arcs.
The sound work of the anime leaves nothing to be desired, but it could be better. I see many scenes where the sound work could be perfect in relation to the scene, the trace of the anime is completely unique, it has a personality that at times can make you disturbed and at others comfortable.
What is essential to me in an anime is how much the anime keeps the viewer entertained with what is going on.
Simply amazing, the anime in no time becomes massive, that was above my expectations, every end of episode you get instigated to see what will happen later on.
Overall, it's worth seeing, trust me.
Interesting fact: Kyouya Onodera has the same last name as me lol
10/10

It really gave me hope in the first 2 episodes, but then you start to realize every other character except for mc is stupid af, they try to throw you off by doing "plot twists" but they only end up making you feel stupid for watching this, the mc is always one step ahead of everyone if not by two.

Maybe sometime in the future i'll spoil myself to see if the other characters finally got intelligent or you could let me now by pming me because most likely i will want to forget i ever watched this.

tl;dr: You are better off watching Death Note, ... i don't recommend this anime.

I don’t like to make long reviews so am gonna make it pretty short. This review will contain spoilers!

first we have the story. I watched about 2 minutes in, completely bored with the generic setting and the moment the transfer student, Nana enters the classroom I just stop watching.

Then my friend told me that the show was actually pretty good, so I continued watching. And let me tell you, the first episode was really good so I had really high hopes. Basically the anime portrayed an ordinary guy with seemingly no powers as the main character and then made a plot twist at the end ... to continue the perspective from the murderer Nana or Hiragi as her classmates call her.

But then whenever someone died she got away with it for the stupidest of reasons. An example of this is in ep 7 where the crazy girl could have killed Hiragi and lived her life in peace with her dead boyfriend, instead of being threatened by Hiragi. Then Hiragi is close to every person that go missing or die and they can’t even make a weak connection.

And guess what, the dude who is supposed to be the detective gets information out of nowhere (reminds me of death note) but still can’t figure out whether she killed them or not

In conclusion the story has yet to be finished but so far it’s just decent since they might give some explanation later in the anime.

The talk about story got a bit long so I will wrap up real quick now.

Art 5/10
Nothing memorable

Characters 2/10
No good characters and none of their brains are larger than peas

Enjoyment 3/10
I enjoyed the first episode but it all went downhill from there

Overall 3/10
It’s basically shit with some budget and very poor logic, you could say it’s the child of classroom of the elite, among us and death note!

Munou na Nana (2020)

Very difficult this show is for me. The first few episodes with Nanao Nakajima were strong for the show. After that point the show got so lazy it became my most unenjoyable show of the year. How can everyone be so stupid, so mindless and so up themselves that they just don't see what is plain to see.

The story itself should have been excellent, but the way with Nana being so ridiculously on a higher level to everyone else makes it pointless. People with egos essentially is the biggest killer of the show. Episode 4 is the biggest one to this, ... someone has proof but gets so big-headed about this they just waste it, I guess it would have literally ended the show as such and take it to a full-blown war. That would have been better.

The art itself looks nice and is the best thing about the show. It is mostly pretty crisp and much like the style of My Hero Academia just much newer and grown-up.

The OP is fine and the ED is very standard.

The characters start off with interest but in the end, everyone is so dumb and full of themselves that they ruin the show. Also what would have been the biggest thing to happen, Nakajima, is disappointing. Even Nana, she starts off with this interesting situation and gets duller and duller and away from what her character is.

I think the person who wrote the series tries to drag it out too much and if this is what they wanted it to be like adapted then great for them. The story is so dragged out and becomes about people just talking about things but in the dullest way possible that I struggled to watch the show. For me, I'd be shocked if this came back for a second season but well the industry often surprises me.

It is a 1 for me despite good art and okay sound because the show just failed to make it worth watching so it pushes the good points too far away.

1/10.

Munou na Nana is a very unique anime. It's immediately obvious as to why people will choose to like or dislike it, because it's very direct in telling its audience what kind of anime it wants to be. Please keep in mind that one of the biggest "downsides" of this anime is that it ends a bit abruptly and without a second season you're gonna be left hanging, so if that's a pet peeve of yours, wait for a second season or read the source material.

Let's get one thing out of the way. I'm biased toward stories that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. I think there's ... a real lack of this kind of thing in anime, and the fact that Munou na Nana aims to fill that kind of role is both extremely refreshing and also commendable. There's a reason why people tend to write "good guy" stories. They're easy to sell, people like good people. It takes a more refined palate to enjoy stories about cold-blooded murder.

And that's exactly what Munou na Nana is. It's a story about a serial-killer that outwits their opponents. Now, granted, the opponents in question are all fairly dim-witted and quite likable characters, but nevertheless it's always a pleasure to see the inner workings of someone intelligent. If there's any other popular anime I would list to compare this to, it'd be Death Note. The two share a lot of similarities, and, while Death Note is no doubt more fleshed out in a lot of its aspects, the core identity is very similar. They feature protagonists that have a goal in mind and do not care to do what's needed in order to achieve it.

Before you continue reading, be advised that I'm going to spoil the first episode of the anime, something that's maybe not a big deal but nevertheless is a big selling point in my opinion.

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The anime starts off strong by lulling the viewer into a false sense of security. It introduces Nanao as the show's protagonist by loudly proclaiming him to be talentless and even having characters refer to him as "Munou-kun". They then introduce another character into the fold called Nana, clearly referring to her as talented. Now, this is a short-lived gambit, as they quickly reveal Nana's true nature and her actual lack of talent, but nevertheless it sets the benchmark for what you can expect in the anime.

The series features a reoccurring theme of setting up situations that are then afterwards revealed to have been a red herring all along. Are all of these plot twists good? No, some are a bit weak, but nevertheless I appreciate a story's desire to mess with the reader. There's nothing more boring than watching something when you already know the outcome. And the show is quite good at that for the most part, there's a scene at the ending which, unfortunately, is something that most people will see coming from a mile away, but it's necessary for character growth and I won't spoil it.

Kyouya is also an incredibly well-written character. He serves as the series main antagonist and to stress the relevance to Death Note, if Nana is Raito, then Kyouya is L. He's just as intelligent as her, if not far more apt in the way he can put together a string of events to form an educated guess on what actually happened. And much like Raito and L, Kyouya and Nana have a public "friendship" while deep down they both distrust each other, but neither has the proper means to take the other one down. The series does take a turn though in the latter half and humanizes a lot of aspects about Nana (unfortunately with a fairly mundane backstory), and whether or not Kyoya and Nana remain enemies remains to be seen in a second season.

All in all, I can highly recommend Munou na Nana. Its strength do not lie in its story, aesthetics or sound design, but rather in its attempts to tell an unorthodox story with some fairly well-written characters. It goes without saying that the show is not for the faint of heart, and if you have an issue with a character dying right after they've been established as likable, you'll probably not enjoy it. But for those people that are looking to watch an anime that emulates the feeling you first felt when watching animes such as Death Note or Code Geass, I think you'll feel right at home.

A surprisingly good anime that's a must-watch if you like Battle Royale-inspired stories. In Talentless Nana, there's a twist: the main character is actually the murderer, and has to perform the kills tricking everyone into not suspecting her. Also, everyone has powers, except her.

The plot revolves around the fact that, in this world, there are people that have "Talents" (My Hero Academia-like powers), but the world is ruled by the Talentless, which want to implicitly get rid of them. That's why they "trick" a bunch of Talented students to study on an isolated island, where Talentless Nana mixes-in with the mission to sneakily murder them ... all, faking being a Talented student as well.

It has interesting characters, specially Nana herself. Since she has no Talent, she must use her intellect and manipulate people to reach her objectives. She's really cunning, in an obviously unrealistic way, but never to the point of breaking the suspension of disbelief. In shows that have overly-intelligent characters, it's easy to lose control of them, making them reach Deus Ex-Machina levels and ruining all the enjoyment. Two examples of what I'm talking about are Death Note and Great Pretender. Talentless Nana, on the other hand, manages well this type of character, keeping you the tension of not knowing if things will work out correctly or not.

Two other surprisingly great aspects of this anime include its great pace, with engaging events in every episode and, specially, good and consistent plot-twists; and a great character development on its latter half. The anime ending is not closed, as it adapts only the 28 first manga chapters (as of 2021, there's already 60+ chapters and no anime sequel announced).

Overall, Talentless Nana was really enjoyable to watch. It's the type of anime that you could easily overlook, since it appears to be another uninspired run-of-the-mill anime, but it, surprisingly, holds itself really well.

Wow!

A plot twist a from the beginning?!?!?!
I thought this would definitely be something like Boku no Hero Academia when Nanao said that he had no abilities just like Midoriya but I was SO wrong.

Also, I thought that Kyouya would be like Bakugou and Nana like Uraraka.

To compare, Boku no Hero Academia was more Comedy-School but this was definitely more like Mystery-Psychology-School anime. In the beginning, I didn’t get why the genres were so dark but after watching the anime, it was pretty self-explanatory. Also, this has NOTHING to do with Boku no Hero Academia!

There are SO many different plot-twists in this anime I couldn’t stop ... watching the whole thing in one-go at the spot!!!

This is my second review and I HAD to write it because this anime was THAT interesting.

ALSO the OP and ED is good as well!

Will there be a season 2? There MUST BE!!!!! The story finished with so many questions unanswered so there must be!

Okay, before I start with the actual review, let me say that I created an account because I have seen the same "criticism" over and over again and I can't understand that people believe what they write there. Now, what you often see in these mostly negative reviews is that there are dumb characters and coincidences. I won't deny that, but I ask you this: Is that bad? Let me all remind you that Death Note, one of the most beloved anime, opens its main story by a super dumb decision from Light where he kills Lind L. Taylor without any reason other than he ... made him angry. Not to mention that a lot of coincidences drive the plot like Lights family not finding his small TV in the chips or the rain starting to cover Lights face by an umbrella or Ryuk developing an apple addiction which makes him tell Light where all the cameras are even though he doesn't want to interact (as he said before). Not to mention that the series introduces one of the dumbest characters with Misa, but she is kept around because she has a special ability. I could sit here all day picking out coincidences or even dumb decisions by these geniuses (like Light revealing himself to the FBI agent before he dies), but I think you get the point that this already not reduce the quality of the story. But now, imagine that you don't have geniuses but average teens who are too confident in themselvea because they are seen as special due to their powers? Please tell me again how this is a flaw in the narrative?

Now, I won't go into too much spoilers in the actual review (a bit more of that below). The anime is not perfect, but it is definitely worth a watch. The story revolves around a school with students that have supernatural abilities. But fear not, this is not a budget MHA. Because the enemies are not villains but monsters called "Enemies of humanity" that are said to have various powers like being invisible or even able to transform into humans. A lot of students therefore suspect that these monsters might be among them (pun intended) which leads people to distrust others and also hide their abilities (which in return makes them even more suspicious). As you already guessed this leads to a mystery where no student knows who to really trust but again, these are just average students otherwise so dumb decisions are not out of the realm of possibility. Before I go into the spoiler part, let me say that the voice acting is on point, the same with the music. The animation is as you would suspect from a mystery nothing to write home about, but that is not a problem since the anime knows how to frame the scenes to still make it interesting. Now, I can't really go into more without spoiling, so either go watch the anime or read further if you are not convinced yet.







As you might have guessed, the whole plot around monsters seems to be a bit artificial which is because it is the case. There are no monsters. In fact, there was a war between "normal" humans and those with abilities. After the humans won, over time they changed their strategy and made up a system that openly accepts talented but sends them to an island where they are trained, but actually are killed by a murderer. This murderer is Nana, who has no talent, but in order to not be suspicious, she claims to be able to read minds. Nana now has to not only make sure that no one figures this secret out by being observant and using clues to appear as to read minds but she also has to kill the students while not knowing their abilities at first.

The comparison to Death Note comes in here, because we follow Nana, hear her thoughts, see her plans, but we also see her "opponent", a guy who is suspect of her, but has not enough clues to be sure or openly accuse her. The dynamic is close to the beginnings between Light and L where Nana often tries to create evidence that she is nothing but an innocent girl. But there is where the similarities end. Because where Death Note is about Lights descend into developing a God complex, Nanas character development is the opposite. At first, she is not hesistant to kill these people, not just because it is her job, but because of her backstory as well. However, she still is a girl, so even unconsciously she is starting to warm up to the people she is supposed to kill just by being around them. This brings inner conflict where she has to ask herself if she might have been killed innocent people. And it leads to an actual emotional ending of the season even though I thought I would hate the character at the core of this part.

Besides that, there is always some mystery that keeps you interested and makes you thinking. With all the hints spread throughout the episodes this will always lead to twists that come never out of nowhere and it keeps you thinking what the next development will look like.

I dont understand how can this be considered a good anime by some, like dont get me wrong if this was a comedy then fine the stupidity of the characters would make sense and would maybe be funny but it is supposed to be something serious, the only anime this year with as much plot convenience as this is Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen but that one is considered as what it is trash while Munou Nana gets a pass for some reason.

The 1st 2 episodes were fine the ending of the 1st one even gave me ... some high expectations (it is clear that the dude is not dead and he is going to comeback) but then it just goes downhill.

Everyone that spends time with her dies and no one bats an eye except the immortal dude who also gets infected with stupidity as time goes by.

Nana was hiding important information from the time travel guy he does not give a fuck about that and trusts her right away after she tells him what she was "hiding" (of course it was all lies).

Theres a dude that takes pictures of the future and appparently that future cant be changed ok fine but you know what could have changed? If said dude had told everyone what she did and showed them the pictures of her killing her other victims that way the picture of him dying would never have been a thing because she would have been caught but no the guy just sits on his ass waiting for his turn to die amazing.

The heal girl is one of the dumbest characters in existence she knew that the dead guy had the power to take a picture of the future she sees Nana right beside the body she sees the picture that shows Nana killing the dude and she just believes whatever bullshit Nana says why? Because the plot does not want Nana to be caught.

I am certain theres more absurd cases like this but I have dropped this already and honestly this is more than enough for anyone to see it is trash.