The main story begins in 1999, and as of volume 21, reaches March 2002. The story of Nana revolves heavily around the romance and relationships of the two characters as one seeks fame and recognition while the other seeks love and happiness. While BLAST begins to gain popularity at live gigs, the two Nanas face many other issues together, especially in the areas of friendship and romance. Despite having contrasting personalities and ideals, the Nanas respect each other and become close friends. After a string of coincidences, they come to share an apartment. The two Nanas meet on a train by chance, both on their way to Tokyo. She eventually leaves for Tokyo at the age of twenty to start her musical career. She had lived with her boyfriend, bassist Ren Honjou since she was 16, but when Ren is offered a chance to debut in Tokyo as a replacement member of a popular band called Trapnest, Nana chooses to continue on with BLAST and to cultivate her own career instead of following Ren, as she has too much ambition to be relegated to a rockstar's girlfriend. Nana Oosaki, the other Nana, is the punk-styled lead vocalist of a band called Black Stones (BLAST for short). When her friends, and her then boyfriend, leave for Tokyo, she decides to join them a year later after having saved enough money at the age of twenty. Nana Komatsu has a habit of falling in love at first sight all the time, and depending on other people to help her. As of 2019 the manga had over 50 million copies in circulation. In 2002, Nana won the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shōjo manga. They released both films in 2008, and their English dub of the anime was broadcast on the Funimation Channel beginning in September 2009. All Nana media has been licensed for English language release in North America by Viz Media, which serialized the manga in their Shojo Beat magazine until the August 2007 issue, while also publishing it in the tankōbon format.
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An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse directed by Morio Asaka aired on Nippon TV between April 2006 and March 2007. The manga was adapted into a live-action film in 2005, with a sequel released in 2006. The series chronicles their friendship and their lives as each chases her dreams. Later, they run into each other again when they happen to check out the same apartment, and the girls decide to become roommates. The two Nanas meet on the train ride to the city. She goes to Tokyo with the goal of making it big as a singer.
Nana Osaki was in a popular punk rock band in her hometown. Nana Komatsu is a small town girl who goes to Tokyo to follow her boyfriend and college friends, with the hope of having her dream life. The series derives its title from the name of the two main characters, both of whom are called Nana. It was serialized in Shueisha's Cookie magazine from May 2000 to May 2009, and then entered on indefinite hiatus, with almost all its chapters collected into twenty-one tankōbon volumes. Shigurui chronicles the decisions that led Gennosuke and Seigen to this desperate point, as well as the many lives ruined by the brutality of samurai culture.Nana (stylized as NANA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. Their once-cordial rivalry for Kogan-ryuu and the hand of Kogan's daughter Mie quickly turns violent when one of the young warriors angers the master, causing a chain of events that eventually leads to their severe injuries.
Most of the attendees are unaware of the deep-seated hatred Gennosuke and Seigen hold for each other, which stems from their struggle to become the heir to the insane samurai Kogan Iwamoto, leader of the notorious Kogan-ryuu dojo. However, when the spectators realize that the first match pits the one-armed Gennosuke Fujiki against the blind and lame Seigen Irako, even those with the most forceful objections declare the match to be a farce and the combatants' deformities an affront to their station. The sadistic daimyo Tadanaga Tokugawa has decreed Japan's first martial arts competition with real swords, appalling even the most loyal of his retainers.