She had done some gravure model work for Bejean a few months before[5] and she thought she was again doing photographs for a magazine and was shocked when she realized it was a video shoot.
[4] The title of her debut video, Number.1!, released in October 2002 by Moodyz when she was 18, is a play on her name (in Japanese name order, Nanba An sounds close to English "Number One").
[4] She also occasionally made non-AV videos - her non-sex gravure title for Shuffle, Naked / An Nanba, released in July 2003, was filmed in Okinawa.
At the 2005 Adult Broadcasting Awards ceremony for adult TV programming in 2004, Nanba took one of the Channel Actress Performance Awards for her work on the Queen Bee channel,[9] Starting in October 2005, after more than 50 straight original videos for one company, Nanba began to appear for the first time in videos for other AV studios beginning with start-up companies Opera and Cross.
[17] Nanba was also popular in China, in part due to commercials she made for a Taiwan lemon vodka drink.
The retirement project also included a memorial book and DVD which additionally served to introduce the new generation of actresses at Moodyz.
Her favorite games have included Ninety-Nine Nights, Final Fantasy XII, Dragon Quest IV and Wii Fit.
[24] This format was repeated in a December 13, 2006 entry from Gebet, All Star Yakyuken Battle which teamed up Nanba with AV Idols Akiho Yoshizawa, Kaho Kasumi, Kaede Matsushima, Mihiro Taniguchi, Ran Asakawa, Rei Amami, Sora Aoi and Yua Aida.