Munou na Nana

Fifty years ago, horrific creatures dubbed as the "enemies of humanity" suddenly appeared around the world. To combat these threats, teenagers gifted with supernatural abilities called "Talents"—such as pyrokinesis and time travel—hone their powers at an academy on a secluded island.

Nanao Nakajima, however, is quite different from the others on the island: he has no Talent. With many "Talented" teenagers around him, Nanao is often a target for bullying, but even so, he still strives to complete his training. Soon after, two transfer students, the mysterious Kyouya Onodera and the mind-reading Nana Hiiragi, join the class. But just as everyone starts blending as comrades-in-arms, mysterious disappearances begin to threaten the class's entire foundation.

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Hiiragi, Nana Main

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Onodera, Kyouya Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Inukai, Michiru Supporting

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Tachibana, Jin Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Nakajima, Nanao Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Hatadaira, Tsunekichi Supporting

Tamaru, Atsushi Japanese

Sorano, Fuuko Supporting

Kamakura, Yuna Japanese

Kazama, Shinji Supporting

Ninomiya, Aiko Japanese

Sasaki, Yuuka Supporting

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Tsurumigawa, Rentarou Supporting

Yamaya, Yoshitaka Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Ishihira, Shinji Director

Morishita, Hiroto Sound Director

Suzuki, Yuuji Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Jun 1, 2024

HughieCampbell

Recommended

I recommended this anime, because is almost similiar to Boku no Hero Academia with mix elements from famous series The Boys. Btw this mc with her name is Hiiragi Nana is similiar to Billy Butcher, who equally hates the superhuman or talented people and both have past trauma and revenge.

Even though they both hate superhumans, they both have different ways of killing superhumans/talented people such as Hiiragi Nana who kills secretly using different methods or Billy Butcher who kills superhumans/talented people frontally.

According to my review, the anime is good, suspenseful, not too sadistic, interesting visuals, unpredictable storyline, etc.

If you are a fan of the ... The Boys series, i recommend to watching this anime!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 5, 2023

QueenDilettante

Mixed Feelings

Informative

Well-written

Talentless Nana is a really enjoyable show from start to finish that's unfortunately kneecapped by overly repetitive episode structures and the story being left on an indefinite cliffhanger.

(This review is spoiler free with only minor allusions to events of the first episode throughout)

Let's start with the good first!

Talentless Nana has an incredibly compelling premise, as revealed in episode 1. I can't speak to the details without spoiling things, but rest assured that the gears get turning very quickly and keep you hooked. The plot is rather breakneck in speed by most single season anime standards, and it's honestly a nice refresher from the all-too-common ... slogs.

The show also quite easily delivers on its promise of suspense. The stakes continually seem to rise and only sometimes read as contrived. Momentum too from episode to episode is preserved really well and it made binging the show in a couple of days a really enjoyable way to consume it.

There is a lot more to praise Talentless Nana for, but I fear I'd be overselling what is ultimately an unfinished and unsatisfying experience.

As I alluded to above, the show only sometimes reads as contrived; the problem is when that begins and how it persists. After a few mini arcs, the audience learns very quickly the kind of formula that's being utilized to make this show tick. It's not that it gets worse at executing that formula; I actually think the show hits its themes and goals better as it goes on. It's just that by the time it hits its stride, the magic is already gone. The structure of an episode will already have become formulaic enough to be predicted by a viewer early - sometimes even as early as during the cold open. By the time the climax of the show is coming to a head, every plot point seems to just happen because the story needs it to, not because the characters are behaving like rational, reacting beings.

Everything just feels too convenient after a while.

The characters themselves are mostly whatever. The two leads are easily the most compelling, with the majority of the others being mostly flat, static background noise with varying amounts of screen time.

Talentless Nana's biggest weakness, and why these problems are ultimately unforgivable, though, is the way it ends:

It doesn't.

Like far too many shows that come each season, Talentless Nana is an incomplete adaptation of a manga that has long since moved on and has no indication of a season 2. Any promise the show made has been left undelivered and the show suffers in posterity for it. I'm so tired of anime that serve as little more than extended previews of a manga or light novel series that will never be adapted in its entirety.

The show is fun and it's really easy to binge, but it amounts to nothing. If I ever want to see the conclusion to this story, I'm going to have to read the manga, and that's just exhausting. This is a series that had the potential to go out with a triumphant bang and is instead an unfinished, sputtering whimper.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 15, 2023

tmunee

Not Recommended

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I have years of anime and hundreds of series under my belt. I speak Japanese, have lived in Japan, and have watched anime from 12 until my current age (almost 40). So, let me say with as much experience as a person can have, approaching anime from the multiple different angles it can be approached from, and having tons of experience - socially as well as linguistically- this is the single worste anime I have EVER seen. I got trapped into watching it because I thought there might be some clever way all the stupidity might tie into some big reveal. Spoiler* it doesn't. I ... can't even express how much I hate this anime. It might be the worst piece of trash ever made. Do not waste your time!

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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