Nana · Season 1 · Episode 1 · 5 April 2006
S1E1 Two Nanas
THE MOMENT The moment both women reach for the same seat - the collision that starts everything.
The premiere cross-cuts between the two Nanas on the same train to Tokyo, establishing their contrasting personalities with precise visual and tonal economy. The show's central question - how two completely different people become each other's most important person - arrives immediately.
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Nana Season 1 Episode 1 'Two Nanas' aired April 5, 2006 on Nippon TV as the premiere of a 47-episode Madhouse adaptation that earned an 8.5 from IMDb audiences and an arithmetic mean of 8.52 from ANN users, placing it in the top 203 of over 10,000 titles. Star Crossed Anime rated the series 92.5/100, calling it one that 'blows away just about every other romance.' The premiere cross-cuts between the two Nanas on the same train to Tokyo, establishing contrasting personalities with visual and tonal economy before engineering their collision. Nana Osaki's punk aesthetic against Nana Komatsu's soft romanticism are established without caricature. The show's central question - how two completely different people become each other's most important person - is set up in a single episode.