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Nana, Volume 2 | Ai Yazawa

In this second volume of this highly popular manga, serialized in the magazine Shojo Beat, enthusiastic and naive Nana Komatsu moves to Tokyo to live with her boyfriend, Shoji. It is on the train there that she meets tough-girl Nana Osaki. When the two get to the city, they part ways. Nana K. decides to stay with Shoji until she can get her own place, though after a bit, their living situation makes her apprehensive.

Emboldened by her move, Nana K. seeks out her own place and finds the perfect apartment. When she goes to see it, another person–Nana O.–is also there to see the same apartment. Struck by the serendipity of the moment, the girls decide to share the place.

A story about two girls who are total opposites, trying to make it in a city by themselves for the first time Nana is an excellent shojo (girls’) series, that unlike many of the other sugary shojo stories, offers real substance to its reader.

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