Munou na Nana (Talentless 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

Sorano, Fuuko

Supporting

Kamakura, Yuna
Japanese

Hatadaira, Tsunekichi

Supporting

Tamaru, Atsushi
Japanese

Kazama, Shinji

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Ninomiya, Aiko
Japanese

Sasaki, Yuuka

Supporting

Tomita, Miyu
Japanese

Tsurumigawa, Rentarou

Supporting

Yamaya, Yoshitaka
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Ishihira, Shinji

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Morishita, Hiroto

Sound Director

Suzuki, Yuuji

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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"Broken Sky" by Miyu Tomita

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"Bakemono to Yobarete (バケモノと呼ばれて)" by Chiai Fujikawa

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Apr 10, 2024

Legolaspt

Recommended

It's an... interesting show. I enjoy the genre quite a bit and Munou na Nana does a lot of things differently.

The world is too simple, but still interesting sometimes, the characters and the setting are too cliche honestly, but still enjoyable. The plot twists are very good though, so is character development.

But it has some flaws. Character behavior is pretty flawed from time to time, with some characters having quite insane ideals they will cling to even in the face of life and death situations.

One of the arcs also feels very out of place, accomplishing almost nothing in the grand scheme of things. While the ...

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Jul 5, 2023

QueenDilettante

Mixed Feelings

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.

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Sep 15, 2023

tmunee

Not Recommended

Funny

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 ...

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