NANA―ナナ― Volume 16 👩‍🎤

Volume 16 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 2026-07-31T15:00:00Z

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Week Start Date Chapter
Week 1 August 1 第58話
Week 2 August 8 第59話
Week 3 August 15 第60話
Week 4 August 22 第61話
Week 5 August 29 NOBU

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Chapter 58

Start Date: 2026-07-31T15:00:00Z

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Who’s that on the cover? :thinking:

I had that exact thought! Reira with straight hair???

Also my best guess!

Chapter 58

Well now we know. She did look more like Nana than Reira so makes sense…
I guess the good news is that, future-Nana is still alive and still singing, even though she is hiding in another country. And the other good news is that it looks like 倉田 is not going to tell on her just yet.

Back to the present, seems tough that TRAPNEST is leaving for a whole two months. But also wondering why it wouldn’t a perfect occasion for Nana and Hachi to become roommates again during this period? :x
In any case, this whole chapter really shows how important it is for Nana to be singing I think.

Chapter 58

I def had the “could that be Nana, no way”, thought at first, but total fakeout :sweat_smile:

I wasn’t sure there if be knew and didn’t tell or if he didn’t know. We were supposed to see the tattoo, but I couldn’t tell if he just couldn’t recognize her or not.

I loved this drop that Trapnest fans are calling Hachi タク妻

Chapter 58

Hm interesting… I hadn’t considered that, but with the look he gave her and with the amount of pictures he took of her, then I’m more inclined to say that he knows.. And that would also be a good reason for him to suggest to his boss to drop it, he knows he’s not going to find her if he already knows where she is but won’t tell

I assumed he knew and had (amazingly) grown a conscience

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That’s the part why I was wondering why he would pretend :sweat_smile: maybe we’ll get more backstory (forward story? :thinking:) in the rest of the volume to explain.

More chapter 58

I thought that in the beginning of the chapter (when we see Nana singing in the future), the foreign country might be Ireland for some reason (maybe the Guinness? :sweat_smile:), but according to this description and my research, this would be England’s Guy Fawkes Night celebration.


It takes place on November 5th. Seeing as present time is end of November 2001, then this has to be at the earliest one year later, November 2002. Could also be later, we don’t know yet what happened in between.

Kurata even says that it was something that happened more than 400 years ago, and it was in 1605, so if we take his words literally, maybe we are in 2005/2006 already (that would actually match with Hachi’s future where we saw her daughter being around 5 years old) (also, funny that at the time that was indeed the future, but now it’s way in the past)


Probably the song that Nana is about to sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGI0QZ4Gk34


Rereading the parting scene between Nana and Ren hurts a bit.. She doesn’t seem to see any hope for their relationship. But then (if I’m not mistaken), he just leaves saying “okay I’m going now, will you make sure to buy me Jump (the manga magazine) every week?” “sure” :sweat_smile: :joy:

I think those worries are only on Nana’s side and Ren is fine with the relationship, as he said once to Reira “sometimes I want to kill her so she’s mine forever” and to Yasu in this chapter “even if I die, I won’t give her to you”


Reira nows about Guy Fawkes Night too! I didn’t :joy:

Chapter 59

Start Date: 2026-08-07T15:00:00Z

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Chapter 59

It took me a second to figure out what timeline we were in at the start of the chapter. I wonder if in this volume we’ll find out more about what’s going on in “the future”.


Yuri already knowing where everyone was but still having Nobu tell her :face_with_peeking_eye:

Yeah, I’d make this same face :sweat_smile:

Ugh such good sorry telling here:


So I guess this explains…some stuff..

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:


I hate that it was because Nana saw what Hachi and he have together that she’s seemed to reflect on her actions, but I’m glad at least (for now…) things are moving in the right direction.

Chapter 59

Totally :scream:
I think I was going to post all the same things as you haha.

Also I have a feeling that we’ve heard of 源 before, unless I confuse with another manga, I’ll have to go into detective mode again and report!

By the way one thing I didn’t manage to find, was in a previous volume, when they were about to make the article about Takumi and タク妻, 倉田 gets a shock because he’s sure he’s seen Hachi before. I was hoping to find a scene where he saw Hachi before (maybe with Nana), but didn’t :frowning:

Re: 59

I totally forgot about that already :sweat_smile:

I feel like 倉田 didn’t start to tail her until after Hachi left 707, so there hasn’t been a lot of opportunities for that to happen? But I also forget the details so quickly…

I’m looking forward to your 源 sleuthing though :smiling_face: