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Back cover of Nana vol 1

A mess named Nana meets a less messy mess named Nana

Nana 25th Anniversary Edition vol 1 by Ai Yazawa

December 27, 2025 by vega-table 2 Comments

One night, a 20 year old girl named Nana gets on a train to move to Tokyo. She sits next to another 20 year old girl named Nana who is also moving to Tokyo. Despite the coincidences, they’re very different; one is a comphet flake (and I think a satanist) while the other is an ambitious musician who is absolutely going to get big because she’s that good. They talk the entire train ride and get along great and don’t plan on meeting again. But […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Ai Yazawa

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Ai Yazawa ·
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    on “Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”
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    Ooh, that's so fun that they mapped out the series as Maggie would have read it. I would be very...
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