Start Date: 2025-07-18T15:00:00Z
NANA―ナナ― Reading Club Home Thread
| Week | Start Date | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | July 19 | 第13話 |
| Week 2 | July 26 | 第14話 |
| Week 3 | August 2 | 第15話 |
| Week 4 | August 9 | 第16話 |
Start Date: 2025-07-18T15:00:00Z
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Well I did not mean to plow on through that in an hour but here we are 
This chapter was absolute perfection. Ren freaking out in the bathroom before the encore, Yasu giving him Hachi’s number and then while he was fretting whether or not to call Nana calls him chef’s. kiss.
I can’t wait to see when Hachi finds out in the next chapter 
I am still in the middle of 第13話 but feeling all the feels!
I just finished the panels where Nana and Ren fall to the floor embracing and crying. The intensity is so overwhelming and beautiful and sad. I think that sets their relationship apart from other similar characters in their archetypes. They try to play stoic but then they are actually really emotional and vulnerable and can express that to each other.
Don’t get me wrong Ren can still suck it for choosing to go to Tokyo without discussing with Nana!!
Also I can’t believe we’re already on Volume 5! We’re really cruising. I just want to say how happy I am that we are reading this and that it’s been such a joy for me these last few months! 
Chapter 13
Yes! And in addition to what you mentioned, I loved that Hachi went to Nana right away when she saw the text (which led to the funny interaction with Nana in the bathtub haha). Not trying to calculate anything or should she hide it from Nana or anything, thought that was really nice.
Also liked how it’s implied (I think) that Nana has been slowly drifting towards Yasu with Ren being gone so long, in the end even choosing to smoke his cigarettes, and Yasu waking up Ren by telling him that he better go get his woman now else Yasu would take her himself!
Yeees I’m loving it! Super nice that many have caught up and that even others are still reading too 
and the plot is pretty fast in Nana so we are pretty far already I feel like. (chapter 13 spoilers) and now meeting Trapnest’s members for the first time! I love how Leila is not at all how you would expect haha
Just did a reread. Forgot to mention that I liked how Nana, even in the middle of being on the verge of reuniting with Ren after so many years, can’t help but think about how nice it must be to be playing music on big stages. Can really feel how important her dream is to her.
Also it seems like maybe we need to start learning Mahjong, since BLAST are playing and Ren was a player too during his time with the band. However apparently TRAPNEST is playing トランプ and 7並べ? Wonder if those are just variants of Mahjong.
New vocab:
日本人離れ
群を抜く
追っかけ
口実
うしろめたい
後学のために
Isn’tトランプ just any game played with playing cards? I’m pretty sure that’s the case. 7並べ (or “Sevens”) is just a specific card game.
Although I definitely want to learn mahjong! 
I remember trying to Intuit the rules on Yahoo games as a kid and being entirely lost. I think that’s my only experience with it
Haha I did the same with the Windows games (on Windows 95 or Windows XP) and I actually could win sometimes! But only the version where you had like a pyramid with the tiles and could remove them if they matched or something like that, looked like this:
I don’t know at all the version that they are playing, where they are taking turns and having only a few tiles in the middle.
We should all practice and then have an online tournament next week!
It’s completely different, it’s like Solitaire and Belote, same cards but completely different rules.
Oh fun. I’ve played so much Belote and Tarot those past two weeks, I could easily win then.
Oh you don’t mean that it’s the same as Belote. Sorry I reply faster than I read.
Chekhov’s “声が枯れてる”? Or just a way to show that レン cares for Leila too? The interaction wasn’t really romantic though, when she barged into his room I expected that it was where it was going but all she was lusting after was a worthy opponent at cards apparently.
I wish we had a more shenanigans of ナナ “breaking” into the hotel, with the groupies thinking she’s competition (technically she is, I guess?)
I don’t know what to think of the ナナｘ蓮 reunion. Unavoidable but also probably bound for disaster.
I thought you were making a joke! But actually the underlying strategy of Mahjong is not completely unlike that of Belote, except that instead of playing one “pli” at a time you’re trying to build a winning set of tiles in your hand.
In a sense it’s halfway between Belote and Poker.
Nice, now I really want to play!
Oh and I was hoping that Ren would cold-call 奈々 before Yasu could warn her and we would have had a scene of her completely freaking out as a result.
Haha yes that would have been funny too. Especially considering her previous dream with him being at the door and her nose bleed reaction at imagining them together. Looking forward to see more of her reactions in next chapter!
I wanted to write down my final thoughts for volume 4 in the other thread, but by then I forgot what I wanted to say and didn’t want to re-read, so I’ll move on to volume 5 thoughts ahah.
100% same. This is my fav book club so far and I’m having a blast reading with ya’ll. Love love love it! 
Loved this chapter! I’m feeling the character growth from Hachi and Nana here, especially after they had that heartfelt moment of sharing about Nana’s background. That was probably their first girl talk? Love it!
Nana and Ren meeting and that hug scratched my heart in the right place. I mean, there’s no way I’m hoping for them to get together again, which would be an irreversible mess, but Nana breaking down and finally being vulnerable in that moment just has me feeling so much for her.
And on the other side, Hachi wondering about their meet and panicking was also my favourite (how many times have I already picked fav panels?)
Excited to meet Trapnest members and see how all the interactions are gonna unfold in the following chapters!!
How is it possible to draw this glance so accurately? HOW?!?
Yes I loved this panel too! And also the confidence Hachi has in Nana and roots for her all the time (not just out loud but also when she’s alone and thinking) is adorable. She’s really brimming with hope and wants the best for Nana. Makes me feel like all her enthusiasm is going to make it extremely hard to deal with the angst later on.
This felt a bit strange because of the slight pause in the panel and the way it was written. Didn’t feel romantic right away, but kinda felt like foreshadowing for some complex relationship dynamics that mayyyy probably occur between Ren, Nana, and Leila. Or maybe I’m just overthinking, I don’t know.
Okay I might need to ban you from the club 
maybe if you buy an Ai Yazawa tee-shirt I can forgive you!
Was that on purpose
I agree this is sorcery
I’M SORRY reading along with the club took priority over re-reading 
but no one’s going to stop me if I go back to it this week!
I wish gahhh. I’m not really a merch person, but I’ve been trying to look for a good Nana shirt for so long now (read: 2 months), but it’s just not available in my country
No, but it sounds better that way hehee
Aw me too!! I’m in infinity book clubs right now (
), but this is the one I always speed read through in order to be part of the conversation.
Start Date: 2025-07-25T15:00:00Z
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And done again. I guess this is now my Friday afternoon ritual
As we get farther and farther away from what I remember clearly, I’m struggling with stopping at the end of the chapter. Which is nuts because when we started Nana I was reading the chapters in 3-4 sittings and just about crying with wall of text pages came up.
omygosh I love how Nana and Ren’s story continued. Ren freaking tf out when he thought that Nana had left, their conversation in the bathtub about their old shared place, and then Nana saying that she doesn’t want to go back, but she does want to see him. I really like that she’s both making her boundaries known but also being vulnerable.. 
And then Hachi…
20 something yo me was so so very similar to Hachi. Her like immediate crush on Yasu as soon as she realized that he’s a good guy, and then getting flustered when they were alone in the practice space is just so incredibly relatable 
I absolutely loved the ending, including the foreshadowing foot right before Takumi answers the door.
I’m pretty much wanted to cry along with Hachi
