Is nana gay

How does an anime about two girls who drift apart over a gentleman garner such a loyal sapphic fanbase? As a female homosexual who loves shoujo anime, I’m very familiar with the iconic sapphic romances in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Sailor Moon, so I was curious where Nana fit in.

Before I finally watched it, I was hesitant to get invested in a relationship between two straight girls. And I was especially hesitant if the show itself was only interested in baiting the audience or pushing tiring love triangles. But Nana centers itself on one incredibly painful and typical lesbian experience: an obsessive, loyal female friendship that ends in heartbreak.

Nana is a 2006 anime based on the popular shoujo manga by Ai Yazawa, the manga-ka of Paradise Kiss. Though the manga is on indefinite hiatus, the anime had its first HD release decrease in February 2022. The story follows the converging lives of Nana “Hachi” Komatsu, a co-dependent hopeless romantic, and Nana Osaki, the lead vocalist of punk rock band Black Stones. The girls meet on a train heading to Tokyo. Immediately hitting it off, the pair develop inseparable and step into an apartment together.

Nana and Nana: A Queer Critical Critique

Sydney N. Sweeney

In the overdue 2000s, “NANA,” an anime adaptation of Japanese artist Ai Yazawa’s manga series of the matching name (published from 2000 to 2009) was licensed for distribution in North America by Viz Media. Today, “NANA” is available for streaming in numerous places, including Netflix and Hulu, but full episodes can be found on bootleg anime websites and YouTube. In this way, the program is incredibly accessible, which makes it one of the more well-liked drama anime aimed to a mature audience. More importantly, “NANA” is a heterosexist program in which queerness is a subversive, but as a subtext rather than straightforward theme – in the series, all romantic/sexual relationships (and there many) are between a dude and a chick, making for an absence of LGBT representation/relationships between any gender at all, although the connection between the two best-friend roommates frequently borderlines romantic, notably in times of heterosexual hardship. This connection is what makes the series significant, despite its flaws that underrepresent the realit

thekeenbouquetcrown asked:

Why do you think the author of Nana never made Nana and Hachi fuck at least once? I always state that there was a significant scene or interrupted them, they never talked about their feelings again or simply each one returned with their man is something curious ... I assume if they crossed that line they could not stop ... although I really want to know your opinion

Yikes, sorry my response took so long! Laptop charger broke. x_x

ANYWAY........ There’s a lot of different answers I can come up for this and I don’t know how facetious you are being, lol, but let’s see........

First and top. I mean? homophobia??? Not necessarily on Yazawa’s part but just... pretty much every answer from a Watsonian, Doylist, or Meta narrative perspective. It’s touched by homophobia pretty much all the way down.

To be clear though... I don’t feel comfortable criticizing Yazawa for Nana/Hachi not existence overt or~canon~. There’s cultural differences to consider. And like… it’s not even my place to criticize Japan. I still watch western readers insist that Yaoi is just the gay guy version of Yuri............... it’s not! So much misi

SPOILERS for the Nana manga.

There is no relationship in any anime or manga series that has moved me more than the relationship between Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu in Nana. The two possess a strong bond and solidarity as women despite being opposites in many ways.

What’s more, there’s quite a bit of homoerotic subtext between the two. Though its depiction of queerness is a bit dated, it’s a powerful portrayal of a bond between women and the life of two young women trying to find their way in the world. It’s also a series that has found itself in a very unique place in discussion for its abrupt hiatus that has lasted for over a decade, with no ending in sight.

The story begins with two twenty-year-old women named Nana moving to Tokyo, who bond when they happen to sit next to each other on the train. Nana Osaki is a punk rocker looking to make it big, and Nana “Hachi” Komatsu, nicknamed for her puppyish devotion and excitability, is a sweet everygirl who just wants a happy life with her boyfriend. The two smash it off despite their differences and end up sharing an apartment.

Nana possesses a strong, fleshed-out cast of characters, from Hachi’s former classma