Nana 01 - Prologue: Nana and Nana
It’s been a while since I used this blog, since I’ve been watching most of my anime lately at anime club, and blogging all those new episodes at once is kind of a chore. Since the new season of anime just started with some things I want to watch, I decided to pick this back up again.
I’ve been reading Nana in Shojo Beat, and I really enjoy the manga version, so I probably watched the first episode of the anime with too many expectations. I was surprised that they decided to jump right into the story of the two Nanas meeting, since I felt that going into their backstories right from the start really gave me a better feel for the characters. It’s pretty clear how centered the anime is going to be on Hachiko (that is, Komatsu Nana), and I suppose to an extent the manga version is as well. In the anime, for people who haven’t read the manga, Oosaki Nana is such a vague and mysterious figure, just as she is to Hachi at the beginning. I think the anime did a good job of portraying Oosaki Nana’s mystique, but I really feel like we’ve missed something by completely skipping both of their backstories. It seems as though episode 2 will be about Hachi’s backstory, but there wasn’t much of a preview at the end of the episode, so it’s hard to tell.
The animation was pretty decent, but I thought that Paradise Kiss (a series I still have to finish watching) was a bit higher quality in comparison. It’s pretty rare for me to complain about Madhouse’s animation quality, but there you have it. The director is the same one who did Chobits, which I’m a bit skeptical about, but it doesn’t seem too bad so far. I’m pretty interested to see how the anime version is going to handle the story as a whole, but as of the first episode I have to admit I have mixed feelings.
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