nana

literally AUGHHHH TAKUMI MAKES ME SO MAD LIKE JUST CUZ HIS MOTHER DIED AND HE HAS DADDY ISSUES DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN DO THIS TO HACHI REIRA SHOULD STAY LONELY IF SHE'S GONNA BE A HOMEWRECKER AND A GROOMER... THEY ARE BOTH ACTUALLY THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL BC THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF THEY KEPT TO THEMSELVES...

also idk if this is true or not but heard that yazawa based nana and hachi off her own friendship she had?? i really have no idea but ik nana has driven me insane it must have been hard if yazawa's experiences were deeply involved with the story

Idk if it's the mangaka's OWN experience but I do know the manga was based on true incidents. I dunno the exact details though.
"The story and its location's are interweaved with reality and the author has stated before that Nana is loosely based on real people and events."
That's all ik. Also, the reason y mangaka took a hiatus was cuz she was ill, she got better a long time ago but she never said she dropped it or if she was planning to continue with the manga. It's been years so unless a miracle happens I don't think this is ever gonna continue.

yeah the one i mentioned might have just been a rumour but i think the hachi-takumi situation was definitely loosely based on sakurai atsushi from buck-tick and his ex-wife. idk anything abt his real personality but the bit where hachi married takumi bc she was pregnant is the same as well as the cheating part.

maybe it's a long term illness? apparently she's publishing nana related things on a magazine some time back but i'm not sure abt now. tbh idk how i would feel if the manga continued just to pile on more angst the last chapter honestly feels like an open ending type of situation to me

She said being a mangaka was very straining n wanted to focus on her health from wat I know. I didn't know about her publishing nana related things on a magazine though. I was so emotionally wrecked from reading it I ended up reading/watching fluff n action to make myself feel better for a while n decided to move on lol.

Anyways this made me read the last few chapters again today n I realised I never rlly recovered lmfao. The moment I started reading the chapter my tears started flowing. ╥﹏╥
Ren's death was the last straw for me honestly, I couldn't stop crying back then after he died....and the present he had for Nana on that day being revealed to Nana n Hachi was like salt on the fresh wound.

ahhh this convo is making me want to read nana all over again while listening to sad songs it really hit me hard that hachi named her kids after ren and used the name he suggested too

Tbh I just made myself delulu and just pretend that the first night between Takumi and Hachi never happened, that Takumi and Reira dealt with their own fucking problems themselves without causing THE OTHERS problems, that Hachi ended up with Nobu and they got married and had kid's, that Ren didn't die and eventually got over his drug addiction by rehabilitation, that Hachi and Nana were roomies until Hachi got married, that they were able to hang out together like they did in the past forever, that Nobu, Nana and Ren became successful in their careers, that after Ren and Nana retired they would get married and maybe even have a daughter and name her Satsuki (tbh I don't clearly remember if Satsuki from the manga was Nana K and Takumi's child, or if she was Nana O and Ren's child. Now if I search for the answer though, there's different answers so I'm not sure which one is true ), that Nana and Hachi would hang out as mothers and let their kid's play together. that Shin never got groomed and found his own happiness with someone. It was how I coped lmfao.
The only thing I didn't have to be delulu about is how perfect Yasu and his majestically shining head was... It still is to this day.

the matching strawberry glasses had me fooled

i knew what was coming but i couldn't help but want to know more abt them i still really recommend it i love angst too much