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Did you miss me? ;)
As always, NANA Week is scheduled from July 1st - July 7th.
This is an annual event to celebrate Ai Yazawa’s NANA (as well as her other works) through fan created content! Fan art, fic, AMV, edits, ANYTHING. Post it with the hashtag #nanaweek or #7daysofnana and it will be reblogged here on tumblr by me (@7daysofnana) for all to see!
This year’s OPTIONAL prompts are as follows:
Day 1: dreams / Ai shiteru (愛 してる, “I love you”)
Day 2: passion / “Will you please make me miso soup every morning?”
Day 3: harmony / Arigatou gozaimasu (ありがとうございます, “Thank you”)
Day 4: resentment / What if?
Day 5: anxiety / Gomen (ごめん, “Sorry”)
Day 6: forgiveness / Sayonara (さよなら, “Farewell”)
Day 7: wishes / Tadiama (ただいま, “I’m home”)
Please reblog and show this post to all your Ai Yazawa loving friends!
Can’t wait to see you all there, peace peace <3
#nana#ai yazawa#yazawa ai#paradise kiss#gokingo monogatari#tenshi nanka ja nai#kagen no tsuki#nana week 2022
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Official NANA and Ai Yazawa Discord!!!!
Well!!!! No one told me not to (lol)
It’s my first time making a discord channel so feel free to tell if it looks alright or not or if the settings aren’t working out - I went with default or recommended for most things. Just be patient with me.
I’ll be posting invite links for a few days for the first week and after that anyone who inquires will be given a link.
I didn’t make any rules because the fandom is rather small I think I can trust all of us to know the Common Sense rules.
If you wanna be a mod or have a special title role just say the word and I’ll make it happen.
Anyway here’s the link (lasts only 24 hours): HERE
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And yanno, since every anime from the 90s/2000s is getting the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood treatment, if we can get a full adaptation of Gokingo Monogatari, that'd be cool too. I mean, it's got a huge fanbase all across the world that's still loyal 25 years later, especially in Europe.
It's a shame the series never got an English release, as Paradise Kiss and Nana are well known in the US but this is honestly my favorite of Yazawa's biggest works. All the themes from her other works are still there, albeit in a more pg-13 package, making it a great coming-of-age story that deserves a more faithful retelling and also blue skies that were noticeably absent, which is also ironic given one particular plot point that I won't spoil
Get to it, Netflix
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Where did you get your icon from?
She's a character from Ai Yazawa's manga Gokingo Monogatari
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NANA Week 2021
IT STARTS TOMORROW, from July 1st-7th, with July 7th also being NANA Day so if you don’t have anytime for the rest of week, feel free to save it all for NANA Day and make multiple posts!
As usual, all and anyone is free to join in and in as many or as few days as you like.
During NANA Week, all posts tagged with #nanaweek or #7daysofnana will be reblogged by this blog (7daysofnana) for everyone to see!
Be sure to follow this tumblr to see all the content this year!
These are this years OPTIONAL prompts, you can pick one or the other or neither:
Day 1: side characters / fate
Day 2: romance / music
Day 3: friendship / trust
Day 4: ambition / fireworks
Day 5: fashion / butterfly
Day 6: Trapnest / Black Stones
Day 7: soulmates / theories
bonus NANA Day question: What does NANA mean to you?
Please share this to get the word out so everyone can start working on their creations!
This year we also have an instagram too! Handle 7daysofnana_ if you’d rather follow over there.
You can also join my discord here.
Also, remember to take the poll if you haven’t already [HERE]
#nana#nana week#nana week 2021#ai yazawa#paradise kiss#gokingo monogatari#nana osaki#hachi komatsu#nana anime#Anime#manga#fandom#fandom week
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My Ai Yazawa Reccomendation List
This is a list that I’ve actually been thinking about for a while now (like... years lmao). Basically just a few of my personal recommendations of series (only manga and webtoons this time around but I have a couple tv shows and anime that I also might rec in a second list if people like this one...) that people like me that are missing Yazawa’s work might enjoy. The bulk of this list is for NANA, because that is her unfinished work, but I’ve got quite a few recs for her other series.
I don’t love all the series on this list (or even like tbh), but I can see where someone who likes a certain aspect of Yazawa’s work might enjoy the series more than me. I didn’t include trigger warnings because it’s been a number of years since I read some of these series (and some I never finished) but feel free to ask me and I’ll do my best.
Obligatory recommendation that if you enjoy any of Yazawa’s series, you should give any of her series a try. I think all of the series that I’ve read by her are masterpieces in their own right and if you’re missing NANA (or any of her other works) you should definitely read the rest of her work because many of my own favorite aspects of Yazawa’s works are present in all of her work - like female friendship and continuous story lines (rather than episodic).
Feel free to add on with your owns recs... And tell me if you read any of these series!
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If you like the past/future mechanic of NANA with young adult characters and enjoy unveiling the mystery in Kagen no Tsuki then give Piece by Ashihara Hinako a try. The MC and her best friend have a good passing resemblance to Nana and Hachi, if Hachi were chubby but they have more than appearance in common with NANA’s leading ladies... To say any more would be spoilers! This series also marries some of the messy melodrama of RL with realism like NANA.
Summary: One day, Mizuho, a university student, receives news that her classmate in high school, Origuchi Haruka, passed away. Mizuho doesn't remember being best friends with Origuchi, but apparently, Origuchi told her mother that Mizuho was her best friend. And now, her mother wants Mizuho to help her find the boy Origuchi dated during high school. Mizuho told Origuchi's mother that Origuchi was a very plain girl, and she was never seen with a guy, but her mother told Mizuho that Origuchi got pregnant and had an abortion when she was in high school. Mizuho was shocked, but she still starts asking her other classmates in high school and following the traces Origuchi left behind.
Status: Complete
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If you liked Paradise Kiss for the portrayal of a bunch of odd-balls coming together to do something creative together and inspiring Yukari with their passion OR for Yukari’s struggle with her mother academic expectations then you might enjoy the webtoon Spirit Fingers by Han Kyoung Chal!
Summary: What do you do if you're going on 18, totally awkward and lacking in self- confidence? You could just sit in your room all day and all night and study and wonder why you never get asked out…OR, if you’re Amy Song you could join up with the Spirit Fingers – the strangest, hippest, coolest (yet most welcoming) art club ever. But as Amy is about to learn, discovering your TRUE colors is about more than just painting.
Status: Complete, still being translated. Best part is you can start reading the series completely LEGALLY here. They changed the character’s first names to more western ones and it’s a bit behind the unofficial translations but I still recommend reading it legally.
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If you liked NANA because you liked how the Nanas had the same name and had all these other similarities, meeting under fateful circumstances but also wish they’d date then give Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep a try by Fuka Mizutani!
Summary: Two women with the same name happens to meet each other when they're at the same hospital for the same injury. They want to become closer, but both must overcome their insecurities and self-loathing first.
Status: Complete
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If you like the past/future telling aspect of NANA with a large, fully-fleshed cast of characters who are all living their life check out Cheese in the Trap by Soonkki. Sul is a very strong, no- nonsense MC but with plenty of charm with great friends. Like NANA it’s easy to hate some of the more flawed characters but at the end of the day even the antagonists have complex reasons for being the way they are and aren’t just living to be an opposing force.
Summary: Seol Hong is a hard-working student, who has returned to college after a long break. Jung Yu is a senior at the college known as Mr. Perfect. Seol feels like her life took a turn for the worse since she got involved with Jung. Is Jung intentionally turning Seol's life?
Status: Ongoing... I think? You can read the webtoon legally [here] and the translations are being posted weekly still at least.
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Do you like younger looking characters like Mikako and Miwako? Do you like playboys like George as a male lead but wish he were a bit more earnest? Did you like how Akira and Midori took their time getting to know and understand each other by the end of the series? Do you just like how Yazawa emphasizes friendship in her work? Here’s Lovely Everywhere by Ke Li for you.
Summary: Tong Danwei is a high school freshman with romantic dreams about the boy she is fated to meet. While on the way home from picking up groceries, she runs into a pretty boy, and that’s where our story begins. Will she find love in high school? And more importantly, will any boy be able to overlook the fact that although she is in high school, she still looks like an elementary student?? Follow along on Tong Danwei’s adventure of love and high school angst, with plenty of comedy thrown in to the mix.
Status: Complete
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If you like the supernatural mystery aspect of Kagen no Tsuki starring younger characters with mysteriously dead-but-not-dead characters, then Route 225 might by a good series to try. It’s by Shimura Takako & Fujino Chiya (Original Story). You might know Shimura Takako from her other series like Wandering Son and Sweet Blue Flower, so you know she is great portraying emotional realism like Yazawa.
Summary: 14-year-old Eriko finds herself left in charge of her younger brother Daigo when their parents suddenly disappear one warm summer evening.
Trapped in a world that is very much like their own save for the lack of their parents, Eriko and Daigo find themselves desperate for the return of the worrywart mother and apathetic father they never thought they'd miss so badly...
Status: Complete
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If you liked NANA because you liked reading about a pair of women who are very different and yet are very good friends to the point where their friendship is more important to them than romantic relationships (even if they struggle to properly communicate this to each other) then try the short series Tomodachi no Hanashi by Kawahara Kazune (Story) and Yamakawa Aiji (Art).
Summary: Eiko is something like a plain Jane and a doormat, while her best friend Moe is a head-turning beauty. Despite their differences, their friendship is as strong as ever.
Guys are always asking Moe out, but her answer is inevitable, "only if you promise to put Eiko before me."
Status: Complete
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Did you like how Hachi from NANA kept losing her jobs? And had no luck in love? Do you prefer to read about young adult characters? Even though we never talk about how funny Yazawa’s work is... was that something you really liked about her work? Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai by Nakahara Aya! Hachi and Shibata aren’t exactly alike but they are both fun to read and get into the mindset of in a similar way.
Summary: The unemployed Shibata Michiko is betting everything she has on her romance with a younger man—literally. In order to keep him happy, she deprives herself of the things she wants and buys him expensive clothing and accessories. Since she's flat out broke, she needs to find a job before she starves to death and loses her young love interest. However, Michiko discovers that the boy was never interested in her romantically. Depressed at being dumped and after a series of unsuccessful interviews, she bumps into Kurosawa—an intimidating former boss she used to dislike.
Status: Complete, with a spin-off
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If you’re interested in exploring Mikako’s feelings from Gokingo Monogatari when she dropped out of school then Cat Street might interest you. Both MCs find themselves a group of friends and attend alternative high schools - though while Mikako’s is an art’s school, in Cat Street is more of a free school that seems to specialize in drop-outs and the like.
Summary: The story centers around Keito Aoyama, a former famous child actress. Due to a childhood incident, she retired from her career early and withdrew from normal society. Now 16, she passes her days in boredom and without purpose. But one day she runs into a stranger who takes her to El Liston--a free school for high school students like herself, who don't have a place where they belong. Though hesitant at first, Keito decides to enter El Liston and subsequently, she begins a new stage in her life. With the help of her only remaining childhood friend, Taiyou, and her new classmates Rei, Momiji, and Kouichi, Keito slowly finds the courage to open up to others and to accept their support. Will Keito return to acting? Will she find true friends? Love?
Status: Complete
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If you want a series like NANA that is about adult women who are good friends and roommates as they balance their life with their career, love-lives, and friendship with each other try Tokyo Alice by Toriko Chiya. Alternatively, if you were wondering what Hachi might look like if you reversed her obsession with love with her love of shopping... you’ve got Tokyo Alice’s MC (lol)
Summary: Fu Arisugawa is a little worried there might be something wrong with her. She loves shopping above all else, using her money to buy designer and brand-name items to the exclusion of all else. But while her friends also enjoy shopping, they're all also on the hunt for love in one way or another – something that Fu finds she just isn't all that interested in. When her boss starts showing interest in her, will Fu figure it out? Or is she going to keep going in her shopping wonderland?
Status: Complete, also has a recent drama that you can watch with Prime TV!
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If what interested you most about NANA was it’s portrayal of the music industry of a new band and wanted more of that then try Beck by Sakuishi Harold. Beck, like NANA, has an anime that while it doesn’t cover the entire series is worth watching or even having the soundtrack on as you read the series.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a popular rock band.
After Koyuki meets Ray again in a diner, the older boy leads him to his former band's meeting place and dazzles Koyuki with his amazing guitar skills. Slowly becoming interested in the glamour of western rock culture, Koyuki decides to start playing the guitar while helping Ray achieve his dream of leading the ultimate rock band. Together with Ray's younger sister Maho and a few other members, the two boys launch their career into the world of rock by forming a band called BECK. Beck follows the group's struggles and successes as they spread their fame across Japan.
Status: Complete
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If you like how Yazawa writes her female “rival” characters as sympathetic and likable (even if not everything they do is likable) then you might enjoy Koda Momoko’s Heroine Shikkaku. It’s about a girl who is shocked when she discovers she’s more like the bitchy villainess who bullies the sweet and pure heroine in shojo manga.
Summary: This could be any girl. Imagine being a heroine of a love story. Hatori also believed that one day she would get married to her childhood friend, Rita. But that's not how the world works! This is a hilarious comedy that honestly paints a painful unrequited love story of this young girl!
Status: Complete
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If you want a short read like NANA, with two very different girls with the same name who tie their futures together then read the one-shot Watashi to Watashi by Sahara Mizu. Note that I’m only suggesting you read this specific one-shot, not any of the other one-shots contained in the collection this one is in... Actually I very much insist you don’t read the first one. I highly recommend reading others’ of Sahara Mizu’s work if you enjoy this one because even if none of them are directly similar to any of Yazawa’s... the emotional complexity is.
Summary: Two girls with the same name; one beautiful and athletic, the other awkward and shunned. But who’s the lucky one?
Status: Complete
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If you like a series having 2 characters named Nana in NANA (even if their relationship with each other is... entirely different) and enjoy the format of Nana and Hachi continuing to address each other in inner monologues in the future where they haven’t seen each other for years or you just like messy, realistic relationships try We Were There by Obata Yuuki.
Summary: The start of high school life. To the girls, that also meant the start of their love lives. For brand new first year student, Takahashi Nanami (Nana for short), it was no different... She happens to end up in the same class as the incredibly popular Yano Motoharu, who rumors say that two thirds of all the girls are guaranteed to fall in love with. But will that hold true for Nana, who says that if she had to choose between like or dislike, she'd say she dislikes him!?
Status: Complete
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What was your favorite thing about Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai? Was it Akira struggling with his feelings for someone that married into his family? Was it Midori and Mamirin’s friendship? Try Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare by Sakisaka Io. (Strobe Edge also by Sakisaka might also work for you).
Summary: The story centers around Yuna and Akari who have two very different views of love: Yuna is someone who sees love as a dream and Akari is someone who is very realistic about her romance choices. Meanwhile, there are two boys, Kazuomi and Rio, who also have different views of love: Kazuomi's an airhead and doesn't understand the concept of love, while Rio grabs the opportunity when confessed to as long as the girl looks cute.
Status: Complete, being translated
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If you just like Yazawa’s work and want to read works by a close friend of hers... Yoshizumi Wataru! You might know her best from Marmalade Boy, but she also worked on quite a few josei works about young adults... Like Cappuccino (if you like moving on from a first serious relationship as we saw with Hachi and Shouji), but also Cherish and Spicy Pink.
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That’s all I got for now... But again... Let me know if you read any of these! Whether or not at my suggestion lol. And add on too! I’ve read or at least tried all of these myself so now I’m the one in need of recs lol.
#ai yazawa#nana#paradise kiss#gokingo monogatari#tenshi nanka ja nai#kagen no tsuki#peice#spirit fingers#lonely wolf lonely sheep#cheese in the trap#lovely everywhere#Route 225#dame na watashi ni koishite kudasai#Tomodachi no Hanashi#cat street#tokyo alice#beck#Heroine Shikkaku#watashi to watashi#we were there#Omoi Omoware Furi Furare#Yoshizumi Wataru#i scream
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NANA Day 2021, What does NANA mean to me?
For the first NANA Week, back in 2017, I wrote an incredibly cheesy and saccharine post answering that question about Ai Yazawa’s body of work. About what her stories did for me, when I was there reading them. And I’m... a bit embarrassed about how dramatic it’s worded but I stand by those words.
This time, I’ll talk about what NANA means for me outside the confines of the pages of her manga.
I’ll talk about the community I’ve meet because of our shared love for NANA (and Paradise Kiss, and Gokingo Monogatari, and Tenshi Nanka Jai Nai).
There are friends I would have never met without NANA. Friends who I cherish and talk with every day. Friends who have been there for me, friends who have given me to honor of being there for them. And the people who are not quite friends but have sent in NANA asks and just stoked my inspiration to write about NANA more and more. Friends to make in the future, too, because I know this isn’t over yet.
Friends made on my NANA And Yazawa Discord, thank you. I’m glad I met you and I am glad to say that.
I could write everyone’s names but honestly this would just be a wall of texts and anyway, I know some of you are shy. I’m shy too and I am so glad you took the time to write me because now we’re here.
And a part of me hurts, because I know. I know that without the NANA hiatus, I wouldn’t have met so many of you. Wouldn’t be as close as we are now. The wait for an unknown and unpromised chapter 85 is what keeps us here, waiting like Hachi waits for Nana.
Thank you, to Yazawa-sensei for letting us all meet, I hope you’re well and happy.
I’m sure this will just be another over-sentimental post that I feel embarrassed about later, but right now I don’t care. I mean these words. Thank you. I will wait for word on what happens next in this story that captured our hearts, even if it takes 10, 20, or even 50 years. I am happy to have company in the wait because now it’s not even a wait.
Cheers to us, a bunch of people who may one have one thing in common: Love for NANA.
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NANA Week Popularity Poll
This is a Fandom Popularity Poll, which I am running for NANA Week 2021, which is scheduled for July 1st-7th. For more information on NANA Week check us out at @7daysofnana on tumblr and @7daysofnana_ on Instagram.
Take the poll [HERE]
There are 4 parts. One for female characters, male characters, romantic ships, and friendships. Each part contains many popular characters and ships from NANA, Paradise Kiss, Gokingo Monogatari, Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, and Kagen no Tsuki, which are all Ai Yazawa works.
Feel free to check off as many as you like for each part - each choice will be weighted equally but this will give a shot to Yazawa's works other than NANA to get answers.
Also, feel free to add your own, as long as they are characters by Ai Yazawa even if they are not from one of the series mentioned here.
Please take your time answering, though it should only take 10 minutes at max.
Results are due on July 4th, so I can post the results on July 7th. Thank you! :)
Poll link: https://forms.gle/9p99Fan56NEYMbd17
You can also join my discord here.
#nana#nana week#nana week 2021#ai yazawa#paradise kiss#Gokinjo Monogatari#tenshi nanka ja nai#kagen no tsuki
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NANA Popularity Poll
This is a Fandom Popularity Poll, which I am running for NANA Week 2021, which is scheduled for July 1st-7th. For more information on NANA Week check us out at @7daysofnana on tumblr and @7daysofnana_ on Instagram.
Take the poll [HERE]
There are 4 parts. One for female characters, male characters, romantic ships, and friendships. Each part contains many popular characters and ships from NANA, Paradise Kiss, Gokingo Monogatari, Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, and Kagen no Tsuki, which are all Ai Yazawa works.
Also, feel free to add your own, as long as they are characters by Ai Yazawa even if they are not from one of the series mentioned here.
Please take your time answering, though it should only take 10 minutes at max.
Results are due on July 4th, so I can post the results on July 7th. Thank you! :)
Poll link: https://forms.gle/9p99Fan56NEYMbd17
You can also join my discord here
Poster made by @placebogirl7
#nana osaki#nana week#nana komatsu#paradise kiss#ai yazawa#Anime#Manga#popularity poll#gokinjo monogatari#kagen no tsuki
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NANA Day final thoughts
As NANA Day winds down today, I just want to say thank you to all of you. Whether you were assisting me with behind-the-scenes stuff, you posted for NANA Week once or twenty times or even never, or you reblogged everyone’s work. Thank you to all those of you who took the survey I put out and told me what you’d like, this week being what all of you want made it better.
Truly, thank you for making this the best NANA Week yet.
A particular thank you goes to @mydrawndream for being my co-host this year and handing all the Instagram bits. Thank you - NANA Week this year would absolutely not be what it is without you.
If you haven’t already, check out the NANA Week Instagram! There is so many great NANA art and posts there that you can’t see here. You can find them in the stories, or under the #nanaweek or #7daysofnana tag. You won’t regret it, even if you don’t have an Instagram account.
Thank you to @placebogirl7 for making several of our posters this year - thank you.
Thank you to the NANA and AI Yazawa Discord, again, for all the delightful conversations.
And thank you to all the people on the private server who gave me opinions on posters and graphics made for NANA Week.
Please continue to use the #nanaweek and #7daysofnana tags for any NANA, Paradise Kiss, Gokingo Monogatari, and Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai posts. If it is a late NANA Week post or if it’s just a post you’d make anyway. Just see it as an extra reblog and boost. I promise, I love it and want you to welcome yourself to the tag at anytime. I might not be so prompt, but I’ll get to it.
Let me know if any NANA Week post you made wasn’t reblogged this year. This is not on purpose, this is just because tumblr is horrible. I desperately want to see each and every single one of your posts and I want you to tell me if one of your posts wasn’t reblogged.
Unfortunately my merch post I had planned is going to be late - but that’s ok, just consider it to be more NANA Week to come. Thank you for your understanding.
Click [here] to see all of the poll results. Thank you to everyone who took the poll!
Have a wonderful night, everyone. Happy NANA Day, I hope you had a wonderful NANA Week.
Please continue to keep posting.
- Devi @komatsunana
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NANA Week 2019: July 1st - July 7th
Hey everyone! It’s that time of year again, where I come rattling my cup begging for more NANA and general Ai Yazawa content for the first week of July!
As usual, while I’ve named this week NANA Week in honor of the Yazawa’s most popular and most awaited for series, other series touched by her like Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokingo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki, and Paradise Kiss are also part of the celebration!
Just be sure to tag your submissions that week with #nanaweek, #7daysofnana, @ me (7daysofnana), or get it to me somehow so I can reblog it for everyone to see!
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30 days til NANA Week! Are you ready for it??? ;)
#nana#ai yazawa#paradise kiss#Gokinjo Monogatari#tenshi nanka ja nai#kagen no tsuki#nana week#nana week 2019#mod post#oppsie meant to post this yesterday!!
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1 week until NANA Week 2019!
This is another reminder that NANA Week is coming up in just 1 week as of June 24th!!!!!! I highly suggest getting started on some submissions now - NANA Week does fall on an American holiday (and a popular Netflix show dropping…) so plan accordingly! Of course if you happen to be late, that’s fine - I’ll still reblog submissions long after! Additionally, feel free to post and tag any submissions now if you like - I’ll queue them up when NANA Week starts!
As a reminder, while I’ve named this week NANA Week in honor of the Yazawa’s most popular and most awaited for series, other series touched by her like Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokingo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki, and Paradise Kiss are also part of the celebration!
Just be sure to tag your submissions that week with #nanaweek, #7daysofnana, @ me (7daysofnana), or get it to me somehow so I can reblog it for everyone to see!
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14 Days until NANA Week 2019!
This is another reminder that NANA Week is coming up in just *2* weeks as of June 17th. I highly suggest getting started on some submissions now - NANA Week does fall on an American holiday (and a popular Netflix show dropping...) so plan accordingly! Of course if you happen to be late, that’s fine - I’ll still reblog submissions long after!
As a reminder, while I’ve named this week NANA Week in honor of the Yazawa’s most popular and most awaited for series, other series touched by her like Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokingo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki, and Paradise Kiss are also part of the celebration!
Just be sure to tag your submissions that week with #nanaweek, #7daysofnana, @ me (7daysofnana), or get it to me somehow so I can reblog it for everyone to see!
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If possible, remember to reblog this to get the word out so more people can participate (It’s my birthday, and boosting this is the best gift! lol)
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TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY OF NANA WEEK 2019!!
In less than 24 hours, it’ll be the first day of NANA Week 2019!! Are you ready for it?!?!?! Get those submissions started if you haven’t already!!
Remember you don’t have to participate /everyday./ And of course if you happen to be late, that’s fine - I’ll still reblog submissions for MONTHS after! Additionally, feel free to post and tag any submissions now if you like - I’ll queue them up when NANA Week starts!
As a reminder, while I’ve named this week NANA Week in honor of Yazawa’s most popular and most awaited for series, other series touched by her like Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokingo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki, and Paradise Kiss are also part of the celebration! So your favorite series is ParaKiss, it’s 100% ok to do 7 Paradise Kiss submissions for every day!!!
Just be sure to tag your submissions that week with #nanaweek, #7daysofnana, @ me (7daysofnana), or get it to me somehow so I can reblog it for everyone to see!
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If possible, remember to reblog this to get the word out so more people can participate!! The more the merrier!!
#nana#ai yazawa#paradise kiss#neighborhood story#i'm not an angel#last quarter moon#nana week#mod post
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Oppsie - meant to make a post yesterday as well... But... 2 days until NANA Week 2019 kicks off!!!
This is another reminder that NANA Week is coming up in just 2 days as of June 29th!!!!!! Get those submissions started!! Remember you don’t have to participate /everyday./ And of course if you happen to be late, that’s fine - I’ll still reblog submissions for MONTHS after! Additionally, feel free to post and tag any submissions now if you like - I’ll queue them up when NANA Week starts!
As a reminder, while I’ve named this week NANA Week in honor of Yazawa’s most popular and most awaited for series, other series touched by her like Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokingo Monogatari, Kagen no Tsuki, and Paradise Kiss are also part of the celebration!
Just be sure to tag your submissions that week with #nanaweek, #7daysofnana, @ me (7daysofnana), or get it to me somehow so I can reblog it for everyone to see!
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Heyyyyy, I also wanted to ask.... did you ever watch/read neighborhood story or paradise kiss? I read both this weekend and am surprised how many similar characters there were to Nana! Do you have thoughts on these? I’m trying to work my way through all of Ai Yazawa’s works, but so far I still like Nana best (I doubt that could change)
I’ve read Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Neighborhood Story, Kagen no Tsuki, Paradise Kiss, all at least twice and I think I’ve read both of what’s available of the two series that weren’t completely scanned/translated. So pretty much everything that is available by her to read!! lol I love her work.
I think Yazawa is such a master story teller tbh. And a lot of it is because she doesn’t do episodic story lines, I think? Like there aren’t really clean ‘arcs’ that end and finish in a chapter. It’s like life, y’know!! And yeah, you can def see her ability and range to create flawed characters that you can still love in all her works, as early as Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai (which is actually my second fav Yazawa work actually!!)
Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai is her earliest scanned one and also I think her first long running series?? idk. But even though it takes place primarily in high school, her themes in NANA are already starting to form and even though the characters act their age... there is also a maturity and insightfulness that isn’t always present in high school shojos. And Akira in Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai is probably my favorite Yazawa man. And she always places such an emphasis on friendship and the friendships in Tennai might be some of her best portrays (particularly Midori and Mamiya!!) Which I so love in all her works.
And Gokingo Monogatari is just... such a good series. It’s particularly great for those that *hate* that Rachel from Friends got off the plane like me lol... granted Mikako and Tsutomu don’t split up, but gosh I’m so glad that Mikako put her own ambitions first!! That ambition is something she shares with Nana too, I guess, and it’s really fascinating how differently their ambitions and love lifes are explored in their stories.
And I just love how characters like Shino in Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai and Body-ko from GokiMono are never vilified but are portrayed as sympathetic. She really has a way of humanizing not just the MC’s flaws but side characters and antagonists.
Kagen No Tsuki and Paradise Kiss are the two I haven’t read in the longest while... But Paradise Kiss was actually started only a year before NANA and they ran concurrently for a while, which is something I feel should be talked about more??? Because WOW, she really worked so hard on both these amazing series. It was such a shock that Yukari and George didn’t work out the first time I read the series, because it betrayed all the romance manga that I’d read before... But at the same time it shouldn’t be shocking because it’s true to life that their relationship wouldn’t work out. Life is messy like that.
So.... yes basically, Yazawa is a QUEEN at story telling lol. Her work is just... incredible. And the fact that her work only ever got better and better... Like NANA is just SO GOOD. Gosh how good is she now??? I’m sure even without publishing she’s still got stories in her head and wow I want to know them. And also.... I would do ANYTHING for the rest of her series to be translated. Like online or even officially. I would pay anything to own all her works... I love her work lmao.
#ai yazawa#srry this got long... i just have ALL the thoughts about every yazawa ai#princesswahwah#ask#i scream#my nana feels
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