Book : Nana, Volume 1 - Yazawa, Ai

-Titulo Original : Nana, Volume 1

-Fabricante :

VIZ Media LLC

-Descripcion Original:

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana Hachi Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rocknroll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Nana Komatsu is a young woman whos endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, shes hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. Shes looking for love and shes hoping to find it in the big city. Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyos underground punk scene. Shes got a dream and wont give up until she becomes Japans No. 1 rocknroll superstar. This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties. From Publishers Weekly Nana, Japans most popular shojo (girls) manga, is appearing in English for the first time. Nana Komatsu is a flaky young woman whos just emerged from an emotionally devastating affair with an older, married man. She dreams of a perfect romantic love, like in the movies, but her best friend, Junko, counsels her that it might be time to try being friends with a guy instead of just falling in love with him. So when she meets Shoji, Nana is determined to be completely platonic, despite Shojis interest. Meanwhile, Nana Osaki, a high school dropout, is rocking onstage as lead singer of a punk band and offstage with the bands guitarist, Ren. When Ren alone is offered a recording contract, Nana decides not to go to Tokyo with him. She wants to prove to herself that she can be a star without Ren. Both Nanas find their way to Tokyo, where this first issue sets them up, leaving later volumes to unfold the complexities of their entwined destinies. Despite the soap opera surface, Yazawas art is graceful and naturalistic, portraying all of the characters, both main and supporting, with such depth and care that you cannot help being drawn in. (Dec.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the Author Ai Yazawa is the creator of many popular manga titles, including Tenshi Nanka Janai (Im No Angel) and Gokinjo Monogatari (Neighborhood Story). Another series, Kagen no Tsuki (Last Quarter), was made into a live-action movie and released in late 2004. American readers were introduced to Yazawas stylish and sexy storytelling in 2002 when her title Paradise Kiss was translated into English. Nana has become the all-time best selling shojo title from Japanese publishing giant Shueisha, and the series even garnered a Shogakukan Manga Award in the girls category in 2003. A live-action Nana movie was released in Japan in 2006.