About “Nana” in a few words:

Nana is a popular anime series that follows the lives of two young women named Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki, who meet on a train to Tokyo and become roommates. Despite their different personalities and backgrounds, the two become close friends and support each other through their respective struggles with love, friendship, and pursuing their dreams in the music industry.

Meet the characters from Nana

Nana Komatsu

Oh man, Nana Komatsu is that sunbeam who sometimes trips over her own shoelaces but somehow everyone forgives her because she’s so incandescent. She’s endlessly romantic, loves love like it’s a hobby, and will decide to move across the country on a whim (and then cry a little when she realises she left half her stuff at home). Sweet, needy, wildly optimistic, but don’t be fooled — she can cling like a burr and also surprise you by being stubborn in tiny, weird ways (like refusing to throw away concert tickets she swears she’ll use). There’s a messy, endearing logic to her choices that makes her both infuriating and impossible not to root for.

Nana Osaki

Nana Osaki is peak punk rock persona — sharp, fierce, lipstick-as-armor, the kind of person who walks into a room and rearranges the energy without even trying. She’s stoic and proud, but under that leather jacket is this ridiculous soft spot for people she trusts (and maybe for stray cats, which she’d never admit in public). Loyal to a fault, haunted by the past, and intimidatingly talented, she can be cold one minute and devastatingly honest the next, and yes, she cries in bathrooms alone sometimes — dramatic, but also real. Her contradictions are the best part: tough as nails but secretly sentimental about old mixtapes.

Ren Honjou

Ren is charm personified — calm, magnetic, and just tragic enough to make your chest hurt when he smiles; he’s the band’s soul, the quiet center that everything else orbits. He’s unbelievably gentle with Nana Osaki in a way that feels like a private language, but he also carries this distance like a scarf he can’t take off; dramatic? maybe, but in a heartbreakingly sincere way. Professional and tender, he smokes and hums old songs and probably makes tea at midnight when no one’s watching, which feels both completely out-of-character and exactly right. He’s the kind of person you’d storyboard in your head forever because he leaves so many scenes unfinished on purpose.

Takumi Ichinose

Takumi is the cold, velvet-gloved brain of the operation — smooth, unnervingly controlled, and always two steps ahead, like he thinks in chess while everyone else is playing cards. He’s handsome in a dangerous, polished way and has this habit of making people feel important while also quietly bending them to his will (ugh, manipulative but charismatic, it’s infuriating). He drinks his coffee too strong, owns too many suits, and somehow croons lullabies if he’s had too much to drink — seriously, I’ve told you that already, haven’t I? Power-hungry but weirdly loyal to a select few, he’s the kind of antagonist who’d show up with flowers and a contract.

Shinichi Okazaki

Shin is small, sharp, and combustibly emotional — like a defiant matchstick who never quite learned the right way to ask for help. He’s flashy, insecure, reckless, and has this childlike hunger for attention that makes him both infuriating and heartbreakingly sympathetic (he’s wildly jealous but will also buy a plant for no reason). Fast talker, faster dresser, often messy with feelings — he’ll yell and then tuck a napkin into your pocket like everything is normal. He’s the kind of damaged, brilliant mess who makes terrible decisions but once you’re in his orbit it’s all gasoline and neon lights.

Layla Serizawa

Layla (aka the glittery, slightly tragic idol type) is luminous on stage and fragile off it — porcelain voice, stage fright behind the smile, the kind of performer who stores feelings in lipstick tubes. She’s dreamy and somehow so perfectly put together but also prone to dramatic flair (the cosmetic drawer could be a whole subplot). People think she’s shallow because she’s glamorous, but she’s deeply lonely and oddly wise about love, like someone who’s read a lot of love novels and eaten ice cream afterward. A little contradictory: smiles for magazines but hoards letters in a shoebox; very extra, quietly brave.

Yasushi Takagi

Yasushi is the calm, slightly weary older brother figure who keeps the chaos from collapsing into completely adorable disaster, but he also loves a good mess sometimes (he’s neat but secretly loves spontaneous karaoke nights). Practical, responsible, steady — the kind of person you trust to bail you out at 3 a.m. with a cigarette and terrible advice that somehow fixes things. He’s pragmatic and kind, bad at explaining feelings but excellent at showing up, and can be surprisingly goofy when he loosens up (and he does loosen up, once). There’s a warmth underneath the businesslike exterior that sneaks up on you like a slow-building chorus.

Nobuo Terashima

Nobu is the goofy, lovable guitarist who always believes in sunshine and second chances — optimistic to a fault, with a laugh that fills the room and a tendency to make terrible puns. He’s loyal like a golden retriever and hopelessly romantic (will serenade you with the wrong lyrics but oh, the sincerity!), and yet he can be scatterbrained about money or punctuality, which is somehow endearing. He cooks maybe once a year and sets off the smoke alarm but serves dinner with theatrical apologies and real affection. Pure heart, loud guitars, and the best friend you’d want in every drunken adventure.