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NANA (TV)

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© Yazawa Manga Seisakusho / Shueisha © NTV / VAP / Shueisha / Madhouse


[ adapted from NANA (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Нана (Russian)
نانا (Arabic)
ナナ (Japanese)
나나 (Korean)
Themes: music
Plot Summary:
On board the train to Tokyo to meet her boyfriend Shoji, Nana Komatsu ("Hachi") happened to sit beside Nana Osaki who was traveling to Tokyo to fulfill her dreams of becoming a musician. The vocalist for her punk band "Blast", Nana aims for a major debut for "Blast" in Tokyo where her boyfriend, Ren, is the guitarist for a popular band "Trapnest". Sharing the same name "Nana", both girls quickly form a bond of friendship. Their paths cross again when they encounter each other while searching for accomodation in Tokyo. Eventually they decide to live together in the same unit and this further strengthens their bond as the two "Nana(s)" go through their love lives and career.
The two completely different girls who share the same name; Oosaki Nana and Komatsu Nana (Hachi) meet on a train to Tokyo. Oosaki Nana leaves her band 'BLAST (Black Stones)' to become a pro musician and Hachi moves to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, Shouji. Girls encounter each other while looking for the same apartment, and they decide to live together. From that moment on, they face the hardships and good things of the life together...
Video:
User Ratings: 1172 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 359 votes (sub:321, dub:19, Spa.sub:10, Rus.sub:2, Fre.dub:1, English:1, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1, Ita.dub:1, ?:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 409 votes (sub:371, dub:15, Spa.sub:11, ?:3, Por.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, raw:2, Rus.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Very good: 207 votes (sub:187, dub:9, Spa.sub:4, raw:2, Kor.sub:1, Por.sub:1, ?:1, Fre.sub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Good: 89 votes (sub:83, Spa.sub:3, raw:1, Rus.sub:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 39 votes (sub:31, dub:3, Spa.sub:2, Ita.sub:1, raw:1, Rus.sub:1)
 So-so: 32 votes (sub:29, Spa.sub:2, Ita.dub:1)
 Not really good: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 Weak: 12 votes (sub:9, Ita.dub:2, ?:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (Ita.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2393 users, rank: #227
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.575 (Excellent-.42), std. dev.: 1.6053, rank: #108
Weighted mean: 8.468 (Very good+.46), rank: #120 (seen all: 8.81 / seen some: 7.84 / won't finish: 5.55)
Bayesian estimate: 8.460 (Very good+.45), rank: #59
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 47
Episode titles: We have 47
Vintage:
2006-04-05 to 2007-03-28 (Original Japanese broadcast)
2007-01-20 (Ep. 1-4, Italy - Future Film Festival)
2007-01-23 (Italian Broadcast)
2008-04-14 (Portugal - Animax)
2008-04-14 (Spain - Animax)
2009-05-01 (Animax Hungary)
Releases: We have 20
Opening Theme:
#1: "rose" by ANNA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (eps 1-22)
#2: "Wish" by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA ~Trapnest~ (eps 23-36)
#3: "Lucy" by ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (eps 37-) 
#3: "Lucy" by ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (eps 37-47)
Ending Theme:
#1: "a little pain" by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA ~Trapnest~ (eps 01-08,10-18,41)
#2: "rose" by ANNA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (ep 9)
#3: "Starless Night" by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA ~Trapnest~ (eps 19-29,42)
#4: "Kuroi Namida" by ANNA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (eps 30-40,47)
#5: "Winter Sleep" by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA ~Trapnest~ (eps 43-44)
#6: "Stand By Me" by ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA ~Black Stones~ (eps 45-46)
#7: "Kuroi Namida" by ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' Nana ~Black Stones~ (ep 47)
Official website:
NANA Online (Japanese)
NANA中文網站 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
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Related reviews:
    Nana DVD Box Set 1

Related releases:
    Nana - Box Set 1 (DVD) 2009-09-08 (from $34.99)
    Nana - Box Set 2 (DVD) 2009-11-24 (from $38.10)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Morio Asaka

Series Composition: Tomoko Konparu

Storyboard:
Jun'ichi Sakata
Morio Asaka

Episode Director:
Morio Asaka
Ryosuke Nakamura
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Music: Tomoki Hasegawa

Original creator: Ai Yazawa

Character Design: Kunihiko Hamada

Art director:
Hideyuki Ueno
Tomoyuki Shimizu

Art: Tomoyuki Shimizu

Chief Animation Director:
Kunihiko Hamada
Michiyo Suzuki

Animation director:
Kinomi Sakurai
Kunihiko Hamada (OP; ep 1)
Minoru Yamazawa
Toshiyuki Fujisawa

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Yukihiro Masumoto

Producer: Toshio Nakatani

Apparel Design:
Akiko Imano
Masaru Kitao

Art Director Assistance: Hideyuki Ueno

Assistant producer: Mikiko Kobayashi

Background Art:
Chihoko Nakashima
Hideaki Kita
Hideaki Kudo
Hideyuki Ueno
Hyo Soon Ko
Hyun Soo Kim
Kuek Sun Jeon
Kum Young Na
Kyeong Sook Park
Michiko Taniguchi
Momoko Takazu
Norihiko Yokomatsu
Rieko Ohiwa
Soon Nyu Heo
Taro Goto
Tomoyuki Shimizu
Yong Il Park
Yuki Kasahara
Yuko Kobayashi

Background Production: Minoru Nakamura

CGI Producer: Masayuki Narai

Color design: Yuriko Kadomoto

Color Inspection: Naoki Fukutani

Color setting:
Naoki Fukutani
Yukiko Yamaguchi
Yuriko Kadomoto

Digital Effects:
Ayumi Arabata
Koji Ueno
Kumiko Taniguchi
Tomomi Ishihara
Yukiko Yamaguchi

In-Between Animation:
Akihiko Kudo
Masaaki Matsumura
Min Jung Chun
Shin Tanoue
Sun Yeoun Yang
Won Suk Choi
Yoshito Narimatsu
Young Jae Kim

In-Between Check:
Akiko Ohshima
Hiroyuki Saitou
Miho Hanada
Tomoko Oshima

Key Animation:
Akiko Imano
Atsuko Ishizuka
Chieko Miyakawa
Daisuke Ito
Emiko Kataoka
Etsushi Mori
Haruhito Takada
Hideo Maru
Hiroko Makino
Hiroko Saito
Junko Ikeda
Junku Yoshida
Kahoru Hirata
Kaori Saito
Ken Baba
Kinomi Sakurai
Koichi Nakatani
Kumiko Tsubaki
Mamiko Nakanishi
Mariko Aikawa
Masaki Miyauchi
Masanori Shibata
Mitsuharu Kazuki
Naoki Mishiba
Noriaki Kobayashi
Rie Saitou
Ryotarou Akao
Seiko Higuchi
Shin Tanoue
Shinichi Miyamae
Shinya Suzuki
Shinya Uchida
Takaaki Wada
Tomonori Katayama
Yasuko Suzuki
Yoko Sano
Yoshito Narimatsu
Yuichiro Yamada
Yuto Teshima
Yuuko Kamiyama
Yuuko Yoshimi

Opening Key Animation:
Chiharu Sato
Daiki Harada
Kazutaka Ozaki
Masaru Kitao
Morio Asaka
Sachiko Sugino
Shigeru Fujita
Yu Kato

Paint:
Aiko Mizuno
Hae Lim Kim
Leong Ah Park
Soo Min Kim
Tomomi Ishihara
Yuka Nakazaka
Yuuko Satou

Paint Inspection: Yukiko Yamaguchi

Prop Design: Akiko Imano

Publicity:
Natsumi Tanimoto
Yoji Yamada
Yuko Kishikawa

Recording: Fujio Yamada

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Sound Production: Tomoko Nakashima

Theme Song Performance:
Anna Tsuchiya (OP1, ED2)
OLIVIA (ED1, ED2, OP2)

 

KAORI as Nana "Hachi" Komatsu

Romi Paku as Nana Osaki

Akira Ishida as Shinichi "Shin" Okazaki

Anna Tsuchiya as Nana Osaki (singing voice)

Anri Katsu as Naoki Fujieda

Aya Hirano as Reira Serizawa

Fumihiko Tachiki as Ginpei

Hidenobu Kiuchi as Ren Honjo

Hiroki Takahashi as Shoji Endo

Junichi Suwabe as Kyosuke Takakura

Megumi Kojima as Sachiko Kawamura

Mika Kanai as Misato Uehara

OLIVIA as Reira Serizawa (singing voice)

Takako Honda as Junko Saotome

Tomokazu Seki as Nobuo "Nobu" Terashima

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Takumi Ichinose

Yoshihisa Kawahara as Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi

Akiko as Akiko (ep 4)

Akiko Kimura as Virtual Sachiko (ep 7)

Atsushi Kakehashi as
Customer (ep 1)
Salaryman (ep 3)

Eiji Miyashita as Nakamura

Hideyuki Tanaka as Takashi Asano

Jin Horikawa as Yokoi (eps 1, 6-7)

Kazuki Yao as Matsuo

Keisuke Fujii as Kouichi Satou

Kenichi Ogata as Andou

Kenji Hamada as Mizukoshi

Masaya Onosaka as Matsuda

Mayumi Yamaguchi as Woman (ep 10)

Megumi Toyoguchi as Mari

Natsuki Mori as Nobu's mother (ep 5)

Norio Wakamoto as President Kanemoto (ep 42)

Reiko Suhou as Yuri Kousaka (eps 42-)

Saeko Chiba as Miu Shinoda

Sho Hayami as Mitsuru Narita (ep 46)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Madhouse Studios

Background Art:
Dr. Movie
Studio Wyeth

Broadcaster:
Animax
NTV

Collaboration: Bandai Entertainment

Color Setting: Studio Lagoon

In-Between Animation:
Anime Roman
Dr. Movie
Madhouse Studios

Key Animation:
Anime Roman
Dr. Movie
Echo
Hayashi
Nakamura Production
PTC Magic
Studio Gimlet
Studio Mark
Studio Ron
Studio Wonbat
Tokyo Animation Centre

Music Collaboration:
avex entertainment
Nippon TV Music
Pub

Paint:
DR TOKYO
Dr. Movie
Hayashi
PTC Magic
Studio Fantasia

Production:
Madhouse Studios
NANA Production Team
NTV
Shueisha
VAP

Production Collaboration: Bandai Entertainment

Recording Studio: Studio Aoi

Sound Production: Techno Sound

English staff 
English cast 

Executive producer:
Akira Fujita
Hidemi Fukuhara

Producer: Diana Gage

Approvals Coordinator: Mari Robson

Associate producer:
Kyle Johnson
Sheila Gunn

Co-Producer:
Miki Macaluso
Mitsuko Kitajima

Creative Consultant: Pancha Diaz

Dialogue Editing:
Gabriella Cheung
Masako Uchiura

DVD Production Associate: Natalie Kim-Pettry

DVD Production Coordinator: Megumi Harata

DVD Production Manager:
Coffy David-Shea
Kevy Vona

Packaging Design: Carolina Ugalde

Production Supervision:
Akane Matsuo
Alvin Lu
William Germain

Re-Recording Mixing: Keith A. Goddard

Recording engineer:
Derek Seaborn
Matt Gauthier

Script Adaptation: Ian Farthing

Video Post-Production:
Elisa Chee
Sean McConkey
Shannon Lum

Voice Direction: James Corrigall

 

Kelly Sheridan as Nana K.

Rebecca Shoichet as Nana O.

Brian Drummond as Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi

David A. Kaye as Shinichi "Shin" Okazaki

Jeremy From as Shoji Endo

Matthew Erickson as Nobuo "Nobu" Terashima

Michael Adamthwaite as Kyosuke Takakura

Saffron Henderson as Junko Saotome

Samuel Vincent as Ren Honjo

Michael Daingerfield as Koichi Satou

English companies 

ADR Production: The Ocean Group

Broadcaster: FUNimation Channel

Licensed by: Viz Media

Recording Studio: Ocean Studios

French cast 
French staff 

Dubbing Director: Colette Noel

Antoine Tome as Yasu

Claudine Grémy as Nana Osaki

Colette Noel as la mère d'Hachi

Emmanuel Gradi as Mizukoshi

Fabrice Lelyon as Nobu

François Creton as Shin

Isabelle Volpe as Sachiko

Jean-Marc Montalto as Asano-Koichi Sato

Nicolas Beaucaire as Shoji

Pascale Chemin as Nana Komatsu (Hachi)

Patrick Pellegrin as Kyosuke

Renaud Heine as Ren

Susan Sindberg as Junko

Vincent De Bouard as Naoki

Yann Pichon as Ando

French companies 

ADR Production: Les studios de Saint Maur

Broadcaster:
Filles TV (from December 2006)
MCM (from 5 September 2009)
MCM Belgique
Virgin 17 (from January 2008)

Distributor: Kaze

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Azucena Díaz (Spain dub)

Adaptation: Esmeralda Barreyro (Spain dub)

 

Graciela Molina as Nana Osaki (Spain dub)

Núria Trifol as Nana Komatsu (Spain dub)

Aleix Estadella as Naoki (Spain dub)

Ana Pallejà as Leila (Spain dub)

Ana María Camps as Nami (Spain dub)

Angel de Gracia as Shoji Endo (Spain dub)

Azucena Díaz as Sakagami (Spain dub)

Carmen Ambrós as Sachiko (Spain dub)

David Jenner as Shin (Spain dub)

Eduard Itchart as Kyosuke (Spain dub)

Elisa Beuter as Nao (Spain dub)

Francisco Alborch as Ando (Spain dub)

Ivan Canovas as Matsuda/Nobo (Spain dub)

Jordi Pineda as Goro (Spain dub)

Jordi Pons as Yasu (Spain dub)

Jordi Salas as Yokoi/Sato (Spain dub)

José Posada as Asano (Spain dub)

Manuel Gimeno as Nov (Spain dub)

Maria Moscardó as Junko (Spain dub)

Maria Rosa Guillén as Hatsuko (Spain dub)

Mònica Padrós as Akiko (Spain dub)

Oscar Muñoz as Nakamura (Spain dub)

Ramón Rocabayera as Jefe Editorial (Spain dub)

Roger Isasi-Isasmendi as Mizukoshi (Spain dub)

Roser Vilches as Misato (Spain dub)

Sergio Zamora as Ren Honjou (Spain dub)

Xavier Fernández as Takumi (Spain dub)

Cristal Barreyro (Spain dub)

Esmeralda Barreyro (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Animax España

Dubbing: Dubbing Films (Barcelona ; Spain dub)


Italian staff 

Dubbing Director: Stefano Brusa

Art director: Andrea Sergio

Translation: Simona Stanzani

Dialogues:
Giulia Buffa
Stefano Brusa

Encoding And Authoring: Luca Franciosi

Executive Director: Carlo Cavazzoni

Graphic Project:
Alex Corazza
Niki Ulacco

Postproduction:
Giampiero D'Angeli (ED1, ED2, ED3)
Luca Franciosi (OP1, OP2, OP3)

Production Assistant: Alex Corazza

Quality Control: Luca Franciosi

Italian cast 

Federica De Bortoli as Nana "Hachi" Komatsu

Selvaggia Quattrini as Nana Osaki

Alessandro Rigotti as Kyosuke Takakura

Daniele Raffaeli as Shinichi "Shin" Okazaki

Domitilla D'Amico as Reira Serizawa

Olivia Manescalchi as Junko Saotome

Oreste Baldini as Takumi Ichinose

Riccardo Lombardo as Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi

Simone D'Andrea as Ren Honjo

Stefano Brusa as Nobuo "Nobu" Terashima

Stefano Crescentini as Shoji Endo

Alberto Hoiss as Kouichi Satou

Daniele Barcaroli as Yokoi

Domenico Crescentini as Andou

Giuliano Bonetto as Takashi Asano

Marco De Risi as Mizukoshi

Patrizia Mottola as Sachiko Kawamura

Valentina Favazza as Misato Uehara

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: MTV Italia

Distributor: Dynit

DVD Authoring: DVD Hotminds S.r.l.

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Animax Portugal

Portuguese cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Top-Insight International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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