Yasushi Takagi
Yasu, the drummer and steady leader of Black Stones.
His work appears in the manga Nana, where some outfits are clothing from the author's personal collection.[1]
How it changed
Ai Yazawa put the series on hold due to a sudden illness, announced in the August 2009 issue of Cookie.[2] In April 2007, the editor and managing director stated they would wait until the manga's conclusion before producing more anime material.[3] Ai Yazawa's manga Nana debuted as a two-chapter prologue in 1999 within Shueisha's Cookie magazine, which was a sister publication to Ribon.[4] The series began its regular monthly installments in Cookie on May 26, 2000, coinciding with the magazine's relaunch as a monthly periodical.[4]
Following the release of the 84th chapter on May 26, 2009, the manga entered an indefinite pause.[4] At a 2022 art exhibition, Yazawa mentioned she wanted to resume the series as soon as she was able.[5] To prevent adding content not found in the original story, the anime covered material only up through the first chapter of volume 12, matching the manga closely.[3]
What the maker and period sources say
A 2007 Comic Book Bin article describes the films Nana and Nana 2 as following two girls both named Nana.[6] The same source notes that Nana performed well at the Japanese box office, grossing more than 4 billion yen.[6] An Anime News Network article from June 2009 reports that Cookie magazine announced the hiatus due to Yazawa's sudden illness.[2] That article adds that Nana had previously been on hiatus from June to November 2007 due to another illness.[2]
A 2007 Anime News Network article states that Nana had been part of Shojo Beat since the magazine's premiere issue.[7] The same article notes that Nana would continue in graphic novels after leaving the magazine.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Nana (manga)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Index Corporation, October 9, 2003, p. 36–37 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Loo, "Nana's Ai Yazawa Puts Manga on Hold Due to Illness", Anime News Network, June 26, 2009. facts only, no text reused. animenewsnetwork.com
- Wikipedia, "Nana (manga)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Termina el anime de Nana", Mision Tokyo, April 2, 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Nana (manga)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mangapedia; Shueisha; Shueisha; "Topics", Shueisha; Mangapedia; Shueisha; Loo, "Nana's Ai Yazawa Puts Manga on Hold Due to Illness", Anime News Network, June 26, 2009; Shueisha; Shueisha; Mangapedia; Comic Natalie, January 26, 2013 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Nana (manga)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Shueisha; Loo, "Nana's Ai Yazawa Puts Manga on Hold Due to Illness", Anime News Network, June 26, 2009; Loo, "Nana Manga Creator Ai Yazawa Returns from Hospital", Anime News Network, May 30, 2010; Nippon Television, July 21, 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "VIZ Pictures Brings Shojo to the Movies", Comic Book Bin, November 2, 2007. facts only, no text reused. comicbookbin.com
- Loo, "Vz's Shonen Jump Shojo Beat Shake-up", Anime News Network, June 1, 2007. facts only, no text reused. animenewsnetwork.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Nana (manga) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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