Comments | umadoshi: TV watching: NANA and Supernatural

umadoshi

TV watching: NANA and Supernatural

Aug 18, 2007 11:42

There's clearly something wrong on my ISP's end--email's down, I can't connect to Facebook, it just failed to give me a Gmail connection...but LJ seems to still be up and running (although things are loading slowly). (*knocks wood*) Combined with the ongoing failure to receive some snailmail I've waiting for, I'm feeling kinda cut off from the ( Read more... )

anime/manga/j-drama: nana, tv: supernatural, domestic television

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milkfed August 18 2007, 21:44:42 UTC

your summary of NANA was so perfect that it made me want to cry. you have such a lovely way with words~ i wish the chapters weren't released so slowly. i'm anxious to know what's going to happen next...

umadoshi August 18 2007, 22:53:09 UTC

NANA is just beautiful. I'm really looking forward to getting new chapters too. ^_^

coastal_spirit August 20 2007, 13:02:37 UTC

Your summary of NANA makes me want to start reading/watching. I'm really looking for something that will pull me in. It's hard. I was bouncing over the fact that I got Furuba 17 (which is one of my favorite volumes; I can't say how many times I've read over these chapters) and Peacemaker 1. They're both very satisfying in the way that reading the Kenshin manga was, but the thing is, I know the story. It's like revisiting old friends instead of having the excitement of meeting new ones; both are very good, but I'm looking forward right now to the latter.

umadoshi August 20 2007, 22:07:50 UTC

I'd suggest trying the NANA anime to see if you like it, since it's a good, faithful adaptation (and since the Viz version of the manga makes me grit my teeth, so I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point). The ideal viewing order on the anime is a little wonky, though--ep. 1 didn't include enough material to make Yazawa-sensei happy (or so I hear), so they redid it around ep. 6-7. I forget exactly how it works, but you can start with whichever one of those it is (and I think the story relaunch continues into the next episode), and then backtrack to episode 2...?

cryptoxin August 31 2007, 06:04:15 UTC

This is a great write-up of Nana -- it captures exactly the heart of what I loved about the anime (I've only read recent chapters of the manga).

(here via a link from rilina

umadoshi August 31 2007, 10:48:33 UTC

Thanks very much! NANA is such a tragedy, and it's so lovely. (Bittersweet stories get me every time.)