“Two 20-year-old women named Nana—one love-obsessed, one music-driven—meet on a Tokyo-bound train and become roommates, forging a deep bond.”
Nana
NANA
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Synopsis
Two 20-year-old women named Nana—one love-obsessed, one music-driven—meet on a Tokyo-bound train and become roommates, forging a deep bond.
Nana Komatsu is a naive, unmotivated girl who spends her high school days chasing one crush after the other. Despite continually facing failure in her quest for love, her spirits have never dampened. At the age of 20, she finds herself on a train to Tokyo with hopes of reuniting with her current boyfriend. Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is feisty and prideful. After joining a local band during her high school days, she falls in love with music and one of the band members. However, when faced with the choice between her relationship and her musical career, she chooses the latter and separates from her boyfriend. On her 20th birthday, she boards the same train to Tokyo, like her namesake, where she aims to become a top vocalist. The two girls with the same name but very different aspirations find themselves sitting together on their journey to the city, and, as fate would have it, eventually share the same apartment. A deep and unique bond is then forged, where they will support each other in this saga of love, music, friendship, and heartbreak.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 31 sampled reviews
What 31 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.63 · some divergence
5.3 pts
Recommenders 9.3 · others 4.0
↑ 0.74
Running avg · Jul 2007 → Apr 2026
- 9 “I think NANA is one of the best manga's around right now. You know how the characters feel and it's not predictable at all. It doesn't take a long time before you know the characters and know how...”
- 8 “Overall I think NANA’s main selling point is “realism” and that it’s a pretty realistic look at the Japanese music industry, though dramatized, of course. The characters...”
- 9 “This is one of the most beautiful mangas that I have ever read. Just the storyline amused me a lot. At first, I saw the anime until episode 47 and then I continued with the manga. The anime is...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 84 × 21 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 12m approx
- Published May 2000 – May 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0026 catalog