Nana, Vol. 7 by Ai Yazawa

Nana, Vol. 7 Reviews

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  daph pink ♡

  It's so realistic that it makes me depressed. With Takumi, I have a love-hate connection. Nana O has a very nuanced personality. I guess I understand her acts since I love her so much. But I'm so sorry that she's not there right now for Hachi. The backstory was definitely necessary. The relationship between Shin and Nobu appeals to me. Yasu is unquestionably the group's father and continues to be the best boy.
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  Bookishrealm

  Update: This definitely still has a lot of drama and since this is a re-read I know exactly how it's going to turn out. I feel so bad for the changes that happen between the two Nana's but it's definitely necessary to keep the story going. I definitely have my characters that I ship in this book, but I know that they don't make it when it's all said and done.
  
  Oh my goodness oh my goodness! This volume had so much drama! But it definitely was good drama and I'm stupid excited to see what exactly is going to happen to with both ladies. I don't want to say too much because of spoilers. But if you haven't started this series yet you definitely need to read it.
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  Caahpinotti ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

  “if, for example, we had been a love couple, would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness? or then, does every single being carry this loneliness like a burden?”
  
  ૮₍ ´𖦹 ˕ ×` ₎ა☘🏥this quote has been permanently tattooed on my brain
  
  🍧🌧⌨️ 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. . .
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  Tres Trece

  Pasan muchísimas cosas importantes en este volumen. Hachi termina y empieza relaciones abruptamente y se ven las intenciones y miedos reales de Osaki Nana...
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  Emma

  These bitches gay. Good for them. Good for them.
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  Trane

  I'm completely addicted to Ai Yazawa's shojo manga Nana. Nana is the story of two young women, both from small towns, who meet on the bullet train and end up moving in together in Tokyo. Nana Komatsu (a.k.a. "Hachi") is a small-town girl who has big city dreams of romance and leaving her old life (and self) behind, while Nana Osaki has come to Tokyo to try to find success as the singer of her (psuedo) punk rock band, Blast. This all sounds like pretty standard fare so far, but once you throw in copious piercings, an underage bass-playing rent boy, art school friends, non-stop smoking, all-night parties, a cute sweety gothy fangirl, a deep romance between Nana O. and Ren (guitar player for rival band Trapnest), secret hotel trysts, crazy fashion, levels of girl bonding that are off the charts, and melodramatics like you haven't seen since you stopped watching Days of Our Lives, then you'll have a better idea of what you're in for in this series.
  
  Yazawa does a few things really well in Nana. First, she creates characters that you can get attached to really easily so that you want to follow their stories. Once you're invested in the characters, the melodrama and gossip that mounts are unrelenting. Reading this manga kind of feels just like when one of your friends hands you some delicious, and perhaps slightly malicious, secret tidbit about a friend or acquaintance, usually prefaced with the phrase "Don't tell anyone." Yazawa is also frightfully adept at deploying a battery of shojo manga techniques used for the illustration of intense emotional states (startle lines, blushing cheeks, disembodied flowers floating in the air, smile octagons, etc.). This use of a secondary emotional language in illustration works in conjunction with the melodrama in a way that's far more affective than anything I can imagine in cinema. What Yazawa does best of all, however, is to deeply imagine the wide variety of affections, desires, and types of love that can run through groups of people without trying to simplify the complex emotional relationships that result. The (non-sexual, but definitely erotic) love between Nana and Nana is given more space in this manga than even the more traditional romantic encounters between the Nanas and their heterosexual partners. The idea of "love" that has managed to drop itself into the English language is severely inadequate to describe the types of emotional attachments that Yazawa instigates and investigates in Nana — perhaps a more appropriate way to approach the relationships presented in Nana would be to invoke the numerous Greek words for love and use those varietals as a jumping off point.
  
  For all its melodramatics and emphasis on young love and rock-and-roll, this series is hauntingly elegiac. The events told in the story itself take place in a past that's registered in the key of loss by the voice of a disembodied narrator that appears throughout the course of the narrative: "I'll still call out for you, Nana . . . no matter how much it hurts . . . until you answer me." I'm not sure what future traumatics are in store in this series, but my guess is that the series ends with the loss of something unrecoverable. Whether or not anything is gained in the tradeoff will be the point of interest to look out for.
  
  The reason I give four stars to the series instead of five is that, as entertaining as it is, it's mostly a kind of pop entertainment. Sharply felt, deeply delightful, but finally not one for the ages.
  
  
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  Soobie's heartbroken

  Che tenero è Nobu!! Mi chiedo come quella senza-cervello di Nana riesca a finire prigioniera di Takumi nei volumi successivi? Cosa cavolo succedeva tra lei e Nobu?
  
  Rileggendolo da adulta ha forse un sapore diverso, anche se Hachi continua a farmi venire voglia di sdrondonarla per bene per metterle un po' di sale in zucca.
  
  Adesso tocca a Shin, un altro dei miei personaggi preferiti. Ma, forse, tutti i Blast sono dei personaggi talmente ben riusciti che è impossibile non fare il tifo per loro. Certo che non mi ricordo più la storia di Shin.
  
  Va beh, Soobie, datti una mossa e vai in fumetteria a prendere in numero otto...
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  makayla

  misato thinking hachi was in love with nana
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  Pilos

  We are at yet another turning point where even Nana O starts to reveal that she's not that perfect (in her way) character we were used to see.
  Meanwhile Hackiko does try to get herlife together eventually trying to adult. Even though her ways are still too immature.
  An apparent peace soaks the characters as we can clearly feel the shakes that slowly and steadily are going to deteriorate these characters lives.
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  Jenny Clark

  Shin is funny in this one, how he mooches off all the girls and seams so mature... and then... SUSHI!!!!! Ahhahaha
  Kinda torn about Takumi. He can seem sweet, but in the other volumes.. grrr I dont know.
  I'm confused... Who is Misato? Does Nana know the truth? And Shin is????
  I love how Misato and Hachi are both girlie girl style but yet love hard rock/punk
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  Katt Hansen

  Oh Nana! What have you done!
  
  I find the emotional levels of this series to be so surprising. The panels are drawn in such a way as to tug at your heart and sometimes bring tears to your eyes. Deep...complex...sigh...I want to own this series!
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  Martina

  Le prime lacrimucce sono arrivate💙
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  DonutKnow

  Nuh-uh Takumi, you need a lesson in humility and heartbreak; get a taste of your own medicine for a while (but I bet that’s gonna be a hard pill to swallow 😅)
  
  On that note though, I’m really happy for Hachi and Nobu!!
  
  I don’t want to think too much of Nana’s darkness, but I don’t doubt it’s gonna rear it’s head in the next volume.
  
  Ah and Shin, he’s so cute but so dangerous!
  
  Maybe Yasu is the only remotely normal guy in this picture *ah knock on wood 😭
  
  In an emotional tailspin once again.
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  Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight

  *4.25
  
  This was SUCH a good volume.
  
  The last book did a great job going more in-depth on the members of Blast and Trapnest, and I loved that that continued in here. Following these characters is such fun, as is watching the further development of the two Nanas' dynamic. I can't wait to read more.
  
  4.25/5 stars.
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  martina

  amigas LO QUE SUFRIIIII solo quiero q sean todos felices
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  Alexa

  I have so many feelings, you guys, and they're all so intense! So many things happen in this volume, and I'm still kind of dying of feelings - in the best way.
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  Carla Dente

  Este tomo fue la calma antes de la tormenta y disfruté cada página como si no conociera la historia de memoria. AMO.
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  Chezsa

  Why does Nana O always seem to have no flaws. Show us her flaws!!!
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  Giuls

  IO ODIO LA KOMATSU! Dio non riesco più a sopportarla 😩. Calcolatrice al massimo, tutti devono ronzarle intorno quando e come dice lei, e non dimentichiamoci il fatto che deve sempre e dico SEMPRE avere un fidanzato. Ripeto, questa ragazza ha dei gravi problemi.
  
  Com'è che queste cose non mi davano fastidio a 15 anni? XD
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  The Inked Reader

  4.5 stars
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  Cecilia H.

  My favorite volume so far, 'cause a certain relationship... <3 And I had totally forgotten about Shin's background story??? I can't wait to know more!
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  Mina

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
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  Marigiusy Digregorio

  Quanto mi era mancato! ❤️
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  Amandine_crt

  Nobu je t’aime
  
  ❤️❤️❤️
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  Judy

  Hachi et nobu sont ensemble et c’est le principal <3
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  ruthlovesbooks

  i love nana so much im forever grateful to ai yazawa for creating it
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  paige a

  i’m really starting to like reira she’s kinda weird lol
  
  edit:
  why tf is nobody else talking about reira !!?!
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  India♡

  “I always thought Hachiko was only in love with you, Nana.” MISATO IS SO REAL FOR THIS. I loved the scene where Hachiko jumps in the tub with Nana and she's about to get out until Hachiko starts spilling the tea about Nobu. I still do ship Nana and Hachiko, but I don't mind her being with Ren because I like the way he treats her. I thought he would be some stereotypical stuck up rockstar who forgot about her, but that man wants a family and I'm so here for it. Also loved that scene where Trapnest was talking about the paps and Takumi told Ren he should be careful letting Nana be around the apartment and he says "I'll tell her to look hot when she goes out," Like UGH!! I love that guy. I hadn't made my mind up about him until that line. The little flashback of Nana and Nobu in high school was nice. I hope Hachi and Nobu stay together. Her life is such a rollercoaster and constantly changing so I'd just like for at least one thing in her life to be consistent. However, her and Takumi's fling was hot and I find it interesting that he thinks she's only temporarily mad at him. I know I've probably said this, but I really admire Kyosuke and Junko's relationship. They just mesh together so well. Shin's a great matchmaker. The thing with his guardian was hella sad though.
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  Megan

  True escapism is reading this series twice in a year. Can you tell I'm losing it? :)
  Ai Yazawa is not only a gifted artist, but a great storyteller: the drama, the romance, the fashion, the humour ---Gossip Girl wishes she had what NANA does.
  
  disclaimer: some elements that I'm seeing now with the eyes of a 25 year old, and not as the 14 year old I was when I first read this series, are damaging (ex. Rape is brushed off something like twice in this series? It's never a joke, but also...we just move past it and the aggressor never faces any repercussions).
  But then other difficult topics are addressed both thoughtfully and respectfully, like how Shin's relationships with older women, substance abuse and sex work are an analyses of how susceptible kids like him who come from abusive homes, are to seeking love from the most dangerous spaces as that is where they know how to gain the easiest acceptance (and even just a place to sleep). Him finally finding a mother in Hachi is something that will always get me right in those soft feelings.
  
  And to this day I am still desperate with the need to know what will happen to Hachi and Nobu....the angst, the star-crossed lovers of it all....
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  Sophia

  I keep being amazed at how new characters and storylines are introduced, and yet the current ones still hum along, with older ones occasionally raising their heads. Nana is finding new love (maybe), two characters are not what they seem, and there's some Nana - Nana weirdness afoot, and yet Junko and Kyosuke are still important, and even Shoji and Sachiko make a brief appearance. Each volume of this series continues to delight me.