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Nana (stylized as NANA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. First published as a two-part prologue in Shueisha 's monthly shōjo manga magazine Cookie in 1999, Nana was later serialized in the same magazine from May 2000 to May 2009, before going on indefinite hiatus.
This is the first manga she has published since her 2009 illness. [3] The chapters have been collected and published in 21 tankōbon volumes in Japan by Shueisha. Nana is licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media. It was serialized in Viz's manga anthology Shojo Beat, from July 2005 to August 2007. [4]
Nana & Kaoru (Japanese: ナナとカオル, Hepburn: Nana to Kaoru) is a Japanese erotic romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Ryuta Amazume . It was serialized on Hakusensha 's seinen manga magazine Young Animal Arashi (2008–2009) and Young Animal (2009–2016), with its chapters collected in eighteen tankōbon volumes.
Nana is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa that was adapted into an anime television series in 2006, with 47 episodes total.. All vocal songs featured in the show were performed by Anna Tsuchiya, who provided Nana Osaki's singing voice, and Olivia Lufkin, who provided Reira Serizawa's singing voice.
Ai Yazawa (矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born March 7, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Yazawa debuted as a manga artist with her short story Ano Natsu (1985). She gained mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with her series Tenshi Nanka ja Nai (1991), Neighborhood Story (1995), Paradise Kiss (1999), and Nana (2000), [1] the latter being one of the best-selling manga series.
The most commercially successful manga published in Cookie is Ai Yazawa's Nana. It was one of the first manga to run in Cookie. Its book publications sold more than 50 million times and it has been adapted into an anime as well as two live-action films. A digital edition of Cookie was launched on April 1, 2015, beginning with the May 2015 issue.
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (video game); Romi Park (anime), Anna Tsuchiya (anime singing voice) (Japanese); Rebecca Shoichet (anime) (English) Ep. 1 Portrayed by: Mika Nakashima Nana Osaki is a 20-year-old girl who moves to Tokyo to pursue a professional music career with her band, Black Stones, of which she is the main vocalist.
Nana is about the relationship between two young women who are both named Nana. Although their names are the same, their lives are completely different. One of them, Nana Osaki (Mika Nakashima), is an ambitious punk who is looking to break into the world of rock and roll, while the other, Nana "Hachi" Komatsu (Aoi Miyazaki), simply wants a new life with her boyfriend, Shoji Endo (Yūta Hiraoka).