Forum - View topic

NANA -- general discussion.

While initially I loved Nana and thought Hachi was obnoxious, slowly I'm beginning to feel Hachi is the much more realistic character.

I really love NANA for how real it seems, even when it is very soap opera-ish.

I hope it's not going to be a boring new season. I mean, for some reason I think that the characters getting married might make things less interesting. During the first season, the hook ups (especially Hachi's relationship with her boyfriends) made up most of the plot.

Really? I thought they were sort of a background for the growing friendship between Hachi and Nana. It seemed like things were happening to one of the two just so the other could react to it via a soliloquy.

I've almost finished watching the anime, but am finding it harder and harder to continue with it because it gets more painful with each episode. spoiler[After Hachiko get pregnant, the show kinda went down hill. I stopped liking her after she decided not to abort it, it revealed a whole new unforgivable side of her character which is a shame because until then her story was the one I could relate to the most.]

oBasically the show was most enjoyable while the girls lived together. I've been reading summaries of the rest of the manga that's out in Japan to see if it gets better, and it just seems to keep getting worse. What i loved about the show was how realistic it was, and the character interactions and how you could relate to it. But it keeps getting further and further away from reality and coming up with more and more stupid circumstances. I don't think i'll bother watching a secnd series.

retty wrote:

I've almost finished watching the anime, but am finding it harder and harder to continue with it because it gets more painful with each episode. spoiler[After Hachiko get pregnant, the show kinda went down hill. I stopped liking her after she decided not to abort it, it revealed a whole new unforgivable side of her character which is a shame because until then her story was the one I could relate to the most.] oBasically the show was most enjoyable while the girls lived together. I've been reading summaries of the rest of the manga that's out in Japan to see if it gets better, and it just seems to keep getting worse. What i loved about the show was how realistic it was, and the character interactions and how you could relate to it. But it keeps getting further and further away from reality and coming up with more and more stupid circumstances. I don't think i'll bother watching a secnd series.

I have to disagree with you on that point. I love how Nana mirrors the lives of everyday women, although most of us don't get quite that much excitement. I'd say it's actually pretty darn realistic spoiler[for women who are sleeping around without protection to get pregnant. It happenes every single day to millions of women around the world. If anything, I like that they showed some consequences for Hachiko, rather than ignoring that very obvious possibility. It actually seems less realistic to see shows where beautiful people do it like bunnies and DON'T ever get pregnant. Now all they need is a rash of STDs to sweep through the characters. Then it would really be realistic, but I suppose that cartoons don't usually get gonorrhea. Also, some fans would have been totally turned off if she DID get an abortion, so I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. I thought they did a pretty good job of showing how conflicted she was about the decision.]

Also, this is a manga spoiler, but spoiler[one of the latest chapters suggested that something is up with Hachi and Takumi's marriage, but that they are still indeed married. IIRC, someone was talking to her about whether she would get a divorce. So it looks like they aren't together in the future, but are still legally married, which means Takumi can't be dead. Of course, it's not clear where he is, since no one outside of Blast, Hachi, and Satsuki have appeared yet.]

In the latest chapters (74), it's revealed that spoiler[Takumi is in England with his and Hachi's son Ren (their first child).]

What's about Satsuki spoiler[This name was suggested by Ren. He wanted to name the child after a flower.]

Eventually, Nana spoiler[she is alive, Ren is the one who is missing or dead]

So then spoiler[Satsuki is Nana and Ren's daughter after all?]

marie-antoinette wrote:

So then spoiler[Satsuki is Nana and Ren's daughter after all?]

spoiler[Satsuki is Takumi's and Hachi's daughter, they have two children, Satsuki and Ren.]

Okay, I was a little confused as to why spoiler[Ren would be picking out the name for a child that isn't his...unless you meant that it was the son Ren and not the band member (good grief, do we really need another pair of characters with the same name? :p) Also, don't the characters for Satsuki's name mean May 5th or some other date? I read that somewhere, though I can't remember where exactly.]