Uknighted Manganime Life is too short to watch bad anime

My first look at NANA episode 1 was pretty harsh, and ever since episode 2, i’ve been waiting for a chance to write up another post taking back anything i said that was negative about this series.

It’s important to realise that the first 6 episodes of NANA are the introduction to the series. The first episode starts in present time. The next 4 episode are flashbacks which follow both Nana and Hachi, from their high school days, to the ‘present’, where they’ve just moved to Tokyo. The 6th episode is a mixture of new footage, and reused footage, and is set at the same time as the 1st episode. It’s not just a reprise though. The 6th episode follows the same events of the first, yet focuses on and brings to life different events.

Nana moves to Tokyo, to follow after her boyfriend Shouji, that moved there previously. On the train ride there, she meets another girl called Nana, who is also going to Tokyo and is the same age. Once Nana arrives in Tokyo, she is quickly reunited with her boyfriend and friends, and goes to stay with Shouji. In the morning Shouji goes off the collage, and Nana is supposed to go out looking for a place to stay, and a job. Instead she spends all day cleaning Shouji’s apartment and making a meal for him. Shouji tells her that this is not what she was supposed to come to Tokyo for, and tells her that she needs to find her own accomodation.

When Nana goes to look for a flat, she meets the other Nana from the train, also house browsing. Both of them want the flat that they are looking at, and it is finally the realtor that proposes the solution - they both rent the flat and become room mates.

end ep.

Well, i was finally able to watch the movie, and after finishing, imediately hopped over here to write up an 1100 word reivew :D. So go on, read the rest, you know you want to, there are thumbnail’d screenshots as well (with full size caps)!