Nana to Kaoru

Kaoru is a 17-year-old virgin who has an S&M fetish. He has always dreamt about an SM relationship with his childhood friend Nana, who is looked upon as perfect and is always the target of boys' eyes. Their relationship has somewhat deteriorated through the years, due to them hanging out with different people and because Kaoru is not taking his education too seriously.

One day though, Kaoru's mother gives some of his S&M toys to Nana for safekeeping. Nana finds the leather one-piece that Kaoru bought and tries it on but accidentally locks herself in it and doesn't have the key!

Kaoru frees her of the one-piece, but then Nana realizes she may like Kaoru's hobby more than she thought and subsequently the two of them start engaging in so-called "breathers." These breathers are intended to relieve Nana of stress, stress originating from her attempts at keeping her grades and her name perfect.

Chigusa, Nana Main

Mizuhara, Kaoru Japanese

Sugimura, Kaoru Main

Majima, Junji Japanese

Mutsuka, Yukari Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu Japanese

Yagami, Hiroshi Supporting

Amazume, Ryuta Japanese

Sugimura, Waka Supporting

Saitou, Kimiko Japanese

Ougi, Jiyuu Producer

Okamoto, Hideki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

Sakakibara, Yui Theme Song Performance

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Jan 25, 2017

Sunseeker

Recommended

At lot of people seem to see this as complete representation of the mange or even the story of Nana and Kaoru.
And although this might have been the starting point it is not the end result.

What we have here are 2.5 moments out of the mange as anime instead of an adaptation.

If you - have not read - the mange this will make no sense as, like other people pointed out, there is no story and you don't see their relationship develop.
If you - have read - than this will be a nicely done representation of 2.5 moments out of the first part of the ... manga.

And if you see it as that it really shines.
(If you, you will not enjoy this)

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Oct 28, 2016

Hanselhoff27

Mixed Feelings

This was honestly really disappointing. Please do not let this deter you from reading the Manga. The Manga truly is great.

With that out of they way, this anime completely misses the mark on the characters relationship, motovation and even over sexualizes the scenario. You may say, well duh its sexualized, it's about S&M. But truly the Manga does not posses extreme sexual overtones. It's much more about her enduring stress, discovering things about herself, the relief after their "breathers" and the strange yet loving relationship developing between the two childhood friends. I felt that it was very misleading in almost every aspect of the source ... material.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 20, 2011

_ragdoll

Not Recommended

A butchery of the source material, really.

The premise is badly explained, as well as the motivations of both Nana and Kaoru.

The initial breather depicted was done fairly faithfully, though Nana's warring inner dialogues left a lot to be desired, and the pinnacle of the scene with Kaoru damaging the prop to get Nana out of it was omitted.

The second S&M scene was also poorly adapted, in the manga it was supposed to detail Kaoru's one lapse in control as a benevolent dom, but since they once again omitted the end of the scene, it just portrayed him as an asshole.

If the ... intention was to adapt a romance story with S&M ecchi into a softcore S&M flick with no plot, I guess the studio can be commended. Personally I was hoping for something a bit more faithful.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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