Nana, Vol. 3 by Ai Yazawa

Nana, Vol. 3 Reviews

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  Hiba⁷

  I HATE YOU SHOUJI =( =(
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  Quince Winstyn

  Shōji is a bitch. Fuck that loser.
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  daph pink ♡

  Who would have imagined sachiko would actually come to life? Oh, I'm so sorry about Sachiko and Nana. Love hurts, and while I see them all suffer so greatly, I'm sad.
  
  The bond between the two Nana is quite unique. If nothing happens, they might become one of my favourite platonic friendships.
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  Tres Trece

  Hdspm 5 estrellas por todo el coraje que me hace sentir este tomo y esos dos personajes aborrecibles... Hachi no es santo de mi devoción pero alv. Nadie se merece eso.
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  lee ⚢

  hachi deserves better its so sad
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  Macarena Yannelli

  Ni me acordaba de toda esta parte de la trama. Shoji que bronca me das >:[
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  Niyura

  El manga perfecto! Ahora a esperar a que saquen los siguientes grrrr
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  DonutKnow

  Anyone else want to kill Shoji and cut something if his off? 😳😁
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  aly ☆.。.:*

  shouji is an asshole 🤗
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  елеонора (❁´◡`❁)

  "𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲. 𝐌𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐚...𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞."
  
  I love this so much.
  *also screw you Shoji*
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  Sara

  Good as always. Actually, getting better.
  
  Real life problems affect the Nanas in Tokyo - work, money, friendships, boyfriends.
  
  Must read #4.
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  Megan

  Don’t text, I’m going through a phase right now.
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  Andrew Kristensen

  I don't think I can stop reading this series... So addictive and the characters are just fantastic!
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  Carla Dente

  Mi favorito por el momento♥
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  Natascha

  Back when I was in 7th grade, my classmate gifted me volumes 1-3 of Nana. While I was happy to receive a thoughtful gift like this ( I have always loved Manga, ever since I was little), I disliked the drawing style of the Manga. And heck, the story did not appeal to me at all - why would a 13 yr old enjoy a story about two girls having difficulties with their lives? I was rather into fantasy, action, and cute Shojou Romance.
  
  Now, almost 10 years later, I am glad I picked up that story again. I am now able to resonate with the characters motives, their struggle to survive on a daily basis and I even like the artstyle now. Only today I realize this story is not about "oh I need to work", "oh we play in a band" but rather the chasing of one dreams and the resulting, real struggle of walking a steep path with plenty of obstacles to reach the top.
  The characters are more than just the stereotype one associates when you first look at the coverart. Nana, whilst being clothed in an awesome punk rock fashion with a confidence I'd kill for, has an astoundingly vulnerable and soft side. Hachi, the cutesy overly caring girl, manages to acknowledge her wrong- doings and works on herself in almost every chapter. In addition to that, the supporting cast is not drawn as a way to fill out the blank pages, rather guiding and helping nana & hachi to find their own way at their own pace, not by judging them, but by listening and supporting them. The friendship among them feels real and genuine.
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  Pilos

  Balance cracks defiantly get influent in this volume as we see Nana K's luck streak starting to run out in an imminent major twist for her character development so far.
  On a bittersweet note, as Nana K problems start to get wider, Nana O life seems to get a slow but steady improvement.
  
  This volume still holds all its charm, even nowadays. The meta references of characters speaking to the reader during the main storyline seem to have disappeared as well.
  There are some typos I guess? Well actually one when Nana K references Naoki as the bass player of the Trapnest where it should have been Takumi... but that's minor I guess.
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  Caahpinotti ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

  爻♡͙♡͚₍⸉ॢ⸍͕͈ ˕̫ ⸌͔͈⸊ॢ₎ 爻爻 ♡͚♡͙ “𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮”🧩🩰⌨️ “𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦? 𝘪 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸… 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭.” 爻
  
  the way both Nanas are a spectrum of each other ♡ along with their real-life problems, making it all the more relatable and heartbreaking to read
  
  
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  Sarah Sammis

  The summer of 2008 I got into reading the shojo manga series, Nana by Ai Yazawa. I tore through volume 1 and volume 2 and volume 3. Unfortunately for posting reviews, my reading for fun often takes a back burner for challenges and books sent for review. I am trying now to change my priorities to bring the fun back into book blogging.
  
  Nana is the tale of two young women both named Nana. Fate has brought the together to share an apartment in Tokyo. One Nana is in a rock band and the other one wants to be an art student. They both have had rocky love lives and part of their moves is a means of escape from those memories.
  
  In Volume 3, things are starting to gel for the girls. Nana Osaki has teamed up again with the guitarist and drummer from her old band. They've found a new bass player and are ready to play some gigs again.
  
  Nana Komsatsu isn't faring quite as well. She's still troubled by the "Demon Lord" whom she blames for her own bad luck and poor decisions. She's found a job but it's not what she expected. Instead of being an up and coming editor, she's basically now Ugly Betty.
  
  In fact, it's the similarity in many ways to Ugly Betty that keeps me coming back to this series. I am reading volume 4 now and have volume 5 waiting in my to be read soon pile.
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  Bookishrealm

  I couldn't sleep so I finished this volume in about an hour and it absolutely broke my heart. I think what I love about this series is that it's so realistic and that the characters experience things that really could happen in real life. I know that Nana K. can be a pain but she still didn't deserve what happened in this volume. I definitely hope it gets better and she finds somebody that truly values and appreciates her.
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  Scott Roberts

  I like the story plot and book cover. I give this book 5 stars.
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  Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight

  *4.25
  
  Ooh, this was a really good one.
  
  I'm having fun with this series, and I quite enjoyed this volume. I like seeing the developing relationship between the two Nanas, and the other characters really add so much to the story. Onto volume 4!
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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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  Severind Alexander

  I knew there was something about Shoji I didn't like. The bastard.
  
  Anyway, volume 3 takes a turn back towards Nana K's tumultuous love life. Does this girl even think? I don't think she has a clue what she wants out of life, and just keeps going along with whatever sounds good in theory. Probably whatever dreams were implanted in her head from a young age that she thinks she wants but really doesn't. But since she's so codependent on others, it's easy for her to believe in the lie. Yeah, I don't think this girl can think for herself... Nana K bugged me in this one, but it was tolerable, I think because I expected nothing less.
  
  I would have liked to see more of Nana O in this one. Now that her band is finally starting to pick up, I'd love to see more of her antics with the guys, vs seeing more of Nana K's whiney work complaints, you know? Nana O has a dark side to her, and it comes out in her sometimes joking-but-still-rude comments towards her friends. And honestly, I just want to know more about her and where all this stems from.
  
  So I'll be reading volume 4 eventually. Mainly for Nana O, but that's fine.
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  mir ♡

  FUCK SHOJI!!!!!!!! first red flag was when he was like my type r girls who r pale and short and tiny....... fuck sachiko too tbh idc if she's attracted to shoji once u find out someone has a gf u leave them alone!!!! dumb whore stop acting innocent
  
  anyways at least this book made the girls have problems that brought nana & hachi closer.... all the parts of nana & hachi alone together & when they kissed & how hachi expressed how much beinf w nana feels like a sweet dream & an escape from reality WAAAAA exactly hachi fuck shoji be w nana instead 🥹🥹🥹
  
  need a nana to my hachi
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  Mehsi

  Another great read though I absolutely DETEST Shoji in this one. Either talk it out with Nana or break it up, what he did to her in here? The worst. Bah.
  Nana (oblivious one) needs some serious financial help and a lesson in how to manage it. I am at least glad that she keeps trying and doesn't give up.
  Loved seeing the other Nana work hard on her band and get things together.
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  Helena

  AHH THIS IS AWESOME!!! ITS NOW THE SECOND BEST MANGA IVE READ!!! BETTER THAN HIKARU NO GO!
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  Conejo Literario

  El principio del fin...o no :)
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  Martina

  Shoji è davvero insopportabile. Sa benissimo che Nana è andata a Tokyo per trovarsi un lavoro diventare indipendente, ma ha il coraggio di farla sentire in colpa perché non passano tutta la giornata insieme! Il suo affetto è solo una facciata, in realtà vuole solo che Nana sia la sua mogliettina docile e pronta a soddisfare i suoi bisogni ogni volta che vuole. La tradisce pure🤬
  Non vedo l'ora che sparisca dal manga.
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  ♡ ainhoa ♡

  La actitud de Shouji me ha decepcionado mucho, aunque es un buen paralelismo con Hachi y el hombre mayor casado con el que se veía al principio de la historia. Tampoco me ha gustado la actitud de Jun y de Kyousuke, se supone que son amigos de Hachi, pero hacen todo lo posible para cubrir su mal comportamiento.
  
  Una vez más, un muy buen volumen. Tengo muchas ganas de seguir viendo cómo avanza la historia.