Nana's celebrating a big anniversary alongside its home magazine, with a key contribution from the manga's creator.

A big talking point to this day is the influence of punk fashion and Vivienne Westwood in Nana, a shojo manga which centres around Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu, two women who move to Tokyo at the age ...

In Japan, the term “anime” signifies – generally – all forms of animated works, both Japanese (although these are sometimes called manga, like the comics they are based on) and foreign. In the West, ...

The power system of the anime makes it so that it is not just your own belief that helps you feel like a hero, but someone else’s, too, because that is just how it works. You can tell someone time and ...

Ai Yazawa's NANA features some of the most touching relationships in the history of anime. Ren and Nana's romance, however, left fans frustrated. Nana follows two young women with little in common ...