Nana, Vol. 4 by Ai Yazawa


Nana, Vol. 4
Title : Nana, Vol. 4
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Rating :
ISBN : 1421504804
ISBN-10 : 9781421504803
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 192
Publication : First published December 10, 2001

This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of NANA is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip, and all-night parties.


Nana, Vol. 4 Reviews


  • ovee

    HACHI IS SO GAY FOR NANA ?? GIRL HAD A WHOLE PANIC ATTACK BEC NANA WAS HANGING OUT WITH SOME GIRL ICB

  • Léonie

    dnf could not ignore the problems

  • daph pink ♡

    Is it unreasonable to desire a friendship like that of Nana and Nana. Finally, Ren is here, and I'm afraid for Nana 2. I pray that God will give her courage. I really want to label this book as queer. Nanas are very in love with one another.

  • Hiba⁷

    Ohh myy ='( ='(

  • Bookishrealm

    Review 2019: My thoughts that I gave in 2017 are definitely no different than the thoughts that I have now. Read below to see what I thought.

    Gosh it's so good to be back in this world. I definitely missed reading about Nana and Nana! This picks up with the remnants of the affair of volume 3. I won't say who's involved because it's a spoiler. But what I loved about this volume was the fact that Nana K learns more about Nana O. She definitely doesn't understand how much Nana O goes through and how much she's been through. I think that this volume is all about her appreciating her more as a person. I loved it and I can't wait to get into the other volumes.

  • елеонора (❁´◡`❁)

    "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰���𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲... 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝'𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫."

    I just wish they can notice how gay they are for each other.

  • Pilos

    Five stars is not really my thing, until it is.

    This is, hands down, probably my favorite piece of the whole series.
    In this volume Hachi displays a sparkle of maturity and kindness that makes her seem less of a brat and I appreciated that (especially during the second part. In the first half she's her usual self but becomes somehow self-concious).
    I think here the strong friendship between the two Nanas is at its finest and it's well represented.

  • liz

    just make nana² date already

  • Carla Dente

    4,5
    Pues, si sigo leyendo mangas (los termino en 2hs con toda la furia) seguro que este año llego a completar mi reto en GR jajaja Me tengo que poner las pilas y leer todos los libros que tengo empezados >-<

  • Kaitlin

    This is one of they gayest things I have ever read.

  • Charlie

    At volume four I still don't know really where this story is going but nevermind that, I care about the characters so much. Considering I'm still -almost- up to date with shows like Grey's Anatomy, I suppose I might have it in me to eventually catch up with the 17 remaining volumes.
    I hadn't gotten so emotionally involved in a manga since my early teens. It's nice, takes me out of my day to day life and yet it's very relatable. Though I'd think it may appeal even more to 16-23 years old..

  • aly ☆.。.:*

    junko is kind of a bad friend.. also the end was super cute for this one <3333 they’re so gay for eachother

  • makayla

    just confess your love already i swear to god

  • Yoda Bor

    J’ai rapidement enchainé le tome 4 après le précédent.
    Dans celui-ci, on assiste à la fin du couple entre Shôji et Hachi et ça m’a une nouvelle fois brisé le cœur. Pas pour le couple en lui-même, que je trouvais plutôt mal assorti, mais pour la façon dont ça se passe avec Hachi qui abandonne si vite, sans doute parce que dans le fond ça a été un réel soulagement parce que visiblement absolument personne ne comprenait leur relation, y compris Jun dont certaines remarques m’ont un peu choquée.
    En tout cas, on passe rapidement à autre chose et c’est pour le mieux même si Hachi devient un peu trop dépendante de Nana à mon goût et qu’avec la fin de cette relation on dit plus ou moins aurevoir à une bonne partie des personnages qu’on connaissait.

    Au niveau musique, par contre, tout roule avec ce premier concert de Blast et l’arrivée de Misato, leur fan de leur village d’origine. J’aime ce groupe, j’aime chacun de ses membres, j’ai envie de câliner Nobu, de prendre soin de Shin et de comprendre tous les mystères que cache Yasu.
    Ce sont des personnes qui peuvent sembler bizarres, pas toujours bien équilibrées, avec des défauts en pagaille, mais je les aime.
    Le trio de petits jeunes pipelettes est d’ailleurs hyper chouki et j’aime beaucoup les voir discuter du passé mais aussi tenter de deviner les sentiments de Nana et de Ren.

    Et on termine sur une scène splendide où, après un retour à la maison de Hachi, le concert de Trapnest fait basculer le récit ailleurs.

  • Alexa

    I'm truly just loving this series, you guys. It's so fun to read about these two main characters who I just so happen to ADORE completely, and this volume was yet another one where we learned more about them both.

  • katy *ੈ✩‧₊˚

    so gay i love it here

  • Allison Simms

    You can’t tell me they aren’t in love. And pls kick Ren out the story he’s getting in the way

  • Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight

    *4.5

    Oh my gosh, the cuteness is killing me here.

    I really enjoyed how things played out in the previous volume, and this one just built on everything superbly. As I said before, I just adore seeing these two developing their relationship, and there's a surprising amount of heart in here where we learn more about rock star Nana's history for the first time. Given that ending, I'm really looking forward to getting to volume 5!

    4.5/5 stars.

  • lee ⚢

    its actually dope af reading and watching it synced both at the same time (tbh)

  • Lectrice Intemporelle

    Le meilleur tome des 4 que j’ai lu pour le moment ! J’adore la relation entre les Nana qui se développe vraiment bien. Beaucoup d’émotions et d’évolutions dans ce tome, c’est très plaisant !

  • DonutKnow

    Yo, Nana the singer is way cool, but why do I feel like Nana the brokenhearted is always hanging on Nana Singer's every word? It's kind of annoying. Also, Shoji is a total bastard.

  • 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.

  • Mehsi

    Yep, there we go. Shoji, how could you. But for that matter, why didn't Junko or her boyfriend tell Nana? I get that you want Shoji to tell her, but it was that there was a confrontation... otherwise he would just have dodged around things and hurt these two girls even more. Not that I like Sachiko. At all. You know someone has a boyfriend just stop going for them. I really wanted to punch some people, and that comes from someone who is pretty peaceful. :| Cheating is bad. :|
    I did like other parts in the manga. From Nana and Nana getting closer (though having arguments and such, though I guess that is also because of how Nana (oblivious) feels. To reading more about the people Nana (cool one) has as friends. There is a concert that had me tearing up. This is such a good manga!

  • Jenny Clark

    I'm almost afraid to read it any faster than I am, cause I know 21 is not the end, but Yazawa is sick and has not done any more... I love the characters, though it does seam like Nana O is rather static, but I guess that'll change as more is actualy revealed about her. I love how Hachi is changing. She is so sweet, and lover her style, Nana's too for that, but she is still flawed makeing her real.

  • Sara

    I love this soap opera!

    Getting to know the Nanas better - watching them grow up and learn the ways of love and friendship, careers and money.

    As always, I enjoy Junko's Place at the end of the book.

  • Laurianne Uy

    Hachi finds out about Ren and Nana!!! The Sachiko fallout!
    This manga has such great character moments everywhere. Ai Yazawa is brilliant.

  • kiana

    is it gay to literally be in love w your best friend of the same gender who knows

  • ♡ ainhoa ♡

    Enamorada de la complicidad de las dos Nanas y de cómo los sentimientos de la una por la otra se van haciendo cada vez más profundos.

    Parece que Hachi, aunque conserva su personalidad tan arrulladora (por calificarla de alguna manera), está madurando mucho a raíz de lo sucedido con Shouji. Y qué decir de Nana, que por fin se ha abierto con Hachi y le ha hablado acerca de su pasado. 🥺

  • Marina Gaillard

    Ce quatrième tome donne une place importante à Nana Osaki et met en lumière son passé qu'elle a du mal à oublier. La dernière partie est particulièrement émouvante à mon sens et annonce des changements dans l'intrigue.

  • Rasha | رشا

    نانا تشوف رين لاول مره بعد 4 سنين ، هاتشي الراوية في هذي المانجا تتحدث من المستقبل وكأن شيء سيء حصل وهي قاعده تسترجع الذكريات :'( ، سعيدة لاني قررت ارجع واقرا نانا