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SPOILERS for the Nana manga.

There is no relationship in any anime or manga series that has moved me more than the relationship between Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu in Nana. The two possess a strong bond and solidarity as women despite being opposites in many ways.

What’s more, there’s  quite a bit of homoerotic subtext between the two. Though its depiction of queerness is a bit dated, it’s a powerful portrayal of a bond between women and the life of two young women trying to uncover their way in the planet. It’s also a series that has found itself in a very unique place in discussion for its abrupt hiatus that has lasted for over a decade, with no ending in sight.

The story begins with two twenty-year-old women named Nana moving to Tokyo, who bond when they happen to sit next to each other on the train. Nana Osaki is a punk rocker looking to construct it big, and Nana “Hachi” Komatsu, nicknamed for her puppyish devotion and excitability, is a sweet everygirl who just wants a happy life with her boyfriend. The two hit it off despite their differences and end up sharing a

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thekeenbouquetcrown asked:

Why do you consider the author of Nana never made Nana and Hachi fuck at least once? I always speak that there was a significant scene or interrupted them, they never talked about their feelings again or simply each one returned with their dude is something curious I suppose if they crossed that line they could not stop although I really want to understand your opinion

Yikes, sorry my response took so long! Laptop charger broke. x_x

ANYWAY There’s a lot of different answers I can come up for this and I don’t understand how facetious you are being, lol, but let’s see

First and foremost I mean? homophobia??? Not necessarily on Yazawa’s part but just pretty much every answer from a Watsonian, Doylist, or Meta narrative perspective.  It’s touched by homophobia pretty much all the way down.

To be clear though I don’t feel comfortable criticizing Yazawa for Nana/Hachi not existence overt or~canon~.  There’s cultural differences to consider.  And like… it’s not even my place to criticize Japan.  I still notice western readers insist that Yaoi is just t

How does an anime about two girls who drift apart over a dude garner such a loyal sapphic fanbase? As a female homosexual who loves shoujo anime, I’m very familiar with the iconic sapphic romances in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Sailor Moon, so I was curious where Nana fit in.

Before I finally watched it, I was hesitant to get invested in a relationship between two straight girls. And I was especially hesitant if the show itself was only interested in baiting the audience or pushing tiring love triangles. But Nana centers itself on one incredibly painful and typical lesbian experience: an obsessive, dedicated female friendship that ends in heartbreak.

Nana is a anime based on the popular shoujo manga by Ai Yazawa, the manga-ka of Paradise Kiss. Though the manga is on indefinite hiatus, the anime had its first HD release drop in February The story follows the converging lives of Nana “Hachi” Komatsu, a co-dependent hopeless intimate, and Nana Osaki, the lead vocalist of punk rock band Black Stones. The girls encounter on a prepare heading to Tokyo. Immedia

Nana and Nana: A Homosexual Critical Critique

Sydney N. Sweeney

          In the late s, “NANA,” an anime adaptation of Japanese artist Ai Yazawa’s manga series of the same name (published from to ) was licensed for distribution in North America by Viz Media. Today, “NANA” is available for streaming in numerous places, including Netflix and Hulu, but entire episodes can be start on bootleg anime websites and YouTube. In this way, the program is incredibly accessible, which makes it one of the more popular drama anime aimed to a mature audience. More importantly, “NANA” is a heterosexist program in which queerness is a subversive, but as a subtext rather than straightforward theme – in the series, all romantic/sexual relationships (and there many) are between a dude and a woman, making for an absence of LGBT representation/relationships between any gender at all, although the connection between the two best-friend roommates frequently borderlines romantic, notably in times of heterosexual hardship. This connection