What is supposed to be taken from Nana?

Yesterday, 10:31 AM

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Mar 2020

So I just finished Nana, and tbh im using this forum post as an excuse to gush over this anime because I want to hear what other people think. Im a big fan of romance anime, but I have never seen a romance done in the way Nana was done. I know im late to the party, but I genuinely think Nana perfectly represented the messy side of love as a young adult. This is not a happy fairy tale story like so many of the other high school romances (not that they're bad). It was so refreshing to see a completely different take on romance, a story where not everything, honestly dam near nothing, goes the way you may want it to. And not only that, but the emotions represented felt insanely real. As a 20 year old male, I have both witnessed and experienced so much of what the characters in Nana go through. Everyone in the whole story is pretty flawed (Besides the goat Yasu), so it almost feels like we're just a fly on a wall watching these characters go through they're however they see fit. I absoultley love this anime, and I am so sad that we will most likely never get a proper ending. This leads me to the topic question though: what is the main takeaway of this story? Don't get me wrong, I understand that every story is not supposed to have some type of ultimate lesson or theme, and I see Nana as being one of those stories. This is more to see what you all got from this story. What do you think was trying to be said or warned about? Why do you think the anime was formatted the way it was, giving us two different perspectives? What did you all think was the overarching theme, if any? Thanks for reading yall, and I hope to hear some good responses. Also if yall know anything similar to Nana, please let me know. Its gonna b hard to go back to that generic high school romance formula after watching something like this lol

Yesterday, 11:13 AM

johneaston

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Jan 2021

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What stuck out to me most about Nana was loneliness: it underpins all of the romance, and I got the feeling that Nana O and Nana K were both using each other to stage it off, which is why some of their interactions sometimes felt romantically charged.

12 hours ago

Risscat

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Nov 2024

What is to not be taken from Nana? It is a beautiful masterpiece and tragedy in many ways. It showcases the dangers of codependency, people pleasing, choosing the desire to be loved over desires for other things like ambitions or friends. Particularly in regard to Hachi. And each character has their own path, their own flaws. They can all be disliked, but some more than others. Most importantly though, there’s at least one character that people watching can relate to. It isn’t a stereotypical high school romance anime where their biggest problems are their inability to communicate, it transcends that simplicity. It tackles adult issues, adult feelings, real people you can encounter, and captures the sheer melancholy that can lie in life. The loneliness that is felt throughout the series, each conveyed in a different manner by the various characters, hits you hard and I certainly could resonate with that palpable sentiment. Hachi-codependency, Nana-overprotectiveness, Nobu-over-romanticizing his partner and has somewhat of a need to save/help them, Takumi-in need of power/control, the list goes on and on. It’s interesting to see how much weight this whole show holds and how it differs from person to person as well. This is just my personal view of it but some people could absolutely see it in a more black and white, straightforward way. Depends. And that’s why this anime is so lovely.

3 hours ago

tsubagakure

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Mar 2012

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Nana is a beautiful rain shower of love and passion, solitude and melancholy, pitch black, painted by heavy, grievous music and elegiac poetry..

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