A 47-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Madhouse and directed by Morio Asaka, aired on Nippon TV between April 2006 and March 2007.
's relationship with Ren eventually leads Nana K. into starting an on-and-off relationship with Trapnest's bassist, Takumi, causing her friendship with Nana O. to become awkward, while falling in love with Black Stones' guitarist, Nobu, at the same time.
When a tabloid magazine exposes Nana O. and Ren's relationship, this causes Black Stones to skyrocket in popularity and formally debut.
Shortly before Black Stones begin their first tour, their bassist, Shin, is arrested, causing Nana O. to embark on a solo career in the meantime.
[6] Initially, Yazawa was asked to create two one-shots to accompany the launch of Cookie, and she decided to make both stories related to each other so that they would be easier to read in case they were picked up for serialization.
[7] Yazawa stated that while creating Tenshi Nanka ja Nai in the early 1990s, she had wanted to draw a story centered on a rockabilly band.
[7] For Nana, she decided to focus on a punk band instead because she had already drawn one of the main characters for Tenshi Nanka ja Nai with a pompadour.
[14] The individual chapters of Nana have been collected by Shueisha into 21 tankōbon volumes, published under the Ribon Mascot Comics Cookie imprint, between May 15, 2000,[15] and March 13, 2009.
The film stars Mika Nakashima as the punk star Nana Oosaki, Aoi Miyazaki as Hachi (Nana Komatsu), Ryuhei Matsuda as Ren Honjou, Tetsuji Tamayama as Takumi Ichinose, Hiroki Narimiya as Nobuo Terashima, and Kenichi Matsuyama as Shinichi Okazaki.
The film did quite well at the Japanese box office, grossing more than 4 billion yen, and staying in the top 10 for several weeks.
[26] An anime television series adaptation of Nana was produced by Nippon Television, VAP, Shueisha and Madhouse and directed by Morio Asaka, with Tomoko Konparu handling series composition, Kunihiko Hamada designing the characters and Tomoki Hasegawa composing the music.
[35] After Viz Media lost the rights, Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the series in 2021 and premiered on its Hidive service on April 22 that same year.
In April 2007, when asked about a continuation of the anime, Junko Koseki (editor of Nana in Shueisha) and Masao Maruyama (the then managing director of Madhouse) stated that they had decided to wait until the manga's conclusion before producing more material.
[43] A tribute album, Love for Nana: Only 1 Tribute, was released by EMI Music Japan on March 16, 2005; several famous artists contributed to it, including English musician Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Canadian singer-songwriter Skye Sweetnam, and various Japanese artists.
[44] A Nana video game for the PlayStation 2 platform was produced by Konami and released on March 17, 2005.
[47] Along with Kaze Hikaru, Nana won the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo category in 2003.
[50] The Young Adult Library Services Association in the United States listed the series in its "Great Graphic Novels for Teens" in 2007.
"[53] In a survey conducted by Goo in 2012 among 1,939 people, Nana was among the top favorite manga for women.
[62] In the United States, the 21st volume debuted ninth on the New York Times Graphic Books list for the week of July 10.