Tuesday, May 16, 2006

NANA

As I mentioned before in the previous post about the Suzumiya Haruhi and Higurashi, in fact, there are more animes that start following the prior of this trend.


Guess what? if you say one of them is NANA, you are absolutely rockin!! Yes, this is a drama anime about two girls who accidentally met in the same train on the way to Tokyo, both of them are in their 20, and coincidentally also named Nana, Oosaki Nana and Komachi Nana (later on Komachi Nana is called Hachi a.k.a. eight "8"; nana is 7 in Japanese besides the other name "shichi"). After parting in the train station, two days later they met again in the same no-owner apartment, each Nana was with their own housing agent. At last, both Nana lived together in the apartment with room number 707 (again double 7 or double Nana).
This is how the first episode reaches its end.





I was expecting to watch what happened next with two Nana, but episode 2 views the past of Komachi Nana and her love story before meeting the present boyfriend, Shouji. Fortunately, unlike Suzumiya Haruhi anime that always goes on with whatever episode up to the producer's preference, this story of Komachi Nana keeps continuing until episode 4 and then story shifts to the previous life of Oosaki Nana.
Now the anime has reached the sixth episode, back to the present time but before Nana and Nana live in room 707. Hummm...can I say this is one of Haruhiism?? LOL

Anyway, before the anime is launched, I watched NANA the movie first. Therefore, I can say it's not that complicated to follow...only now I'm wishing Shouji would not cheat on Hachi..(oups spoiler!!) hahaha...