Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's 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 Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll 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. (Source: Viz Media) Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.
Japanese study overview
NANA is a Japanese manga of 447,202 characters, with 14,698 unique words and 1,891 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 14,698 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×1,410
- 言うto say×864
- 思うto think×729
- 奈々Nana×422
- 女woman×359
- 今now×350
- 自分myself×324
- 人person×307
- 出来るto be able to do×297
- 会うto meet×292
- 知るto know×292
- 帰るto return×281
- 章司Akiji×252
- 美里Misato×252
- 淳子Akiko×127
- 淳Aki×110
- ハチ公Hachikō×52
- 四海the whole world×27
- 入籍registering (a marriage, etc.) in the family register×24
- 聞くto hear×270