Audience reviews
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CaptainVanisher
I have not read the manga, but I might have to. This adaptation seems to have a good character design and I like the art style. However, it lacks depth of any kind even for an ecchi show.
One thing that also detracts a lot, is that it seems to have been canceled since the episode claimed "to be continued" yet none has come out. The art itself is not top-notch probably due to budget constraints. The music is below average. The voice acting is decent. The ecchi scenes are plenty for a 1 episode OVA, but due to the fact that this ought to have more episodes, I'd argue they're not enough.
The reason this is not lower than a 4/10 is because the character designs are good, it contains a decent amount of ecchi action and the voice acting is also decent.
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Enjoyable manga series, please you must read the manga it s fucking awesome. Nana is a very good character and kaoru our lovely dumby protagonist.
Their manga are more especific about erotism and bondage and it can show as a fetichist relationship with romance and comedia at the same time.
Maybe this adaptation is not the best, but at leats it can puts the fetichist as a reason to star the reading. If I should say sometime to convice you I will say that this particular manga has a special feeling and it illustrate a firts bondage or BDSM relationship very well.
It 's starts describing kaoru and his parther as a shy couple introducing themselves at the fetichist.
P.D: I can't write inglish well, so sorry if you don't understand me....
Read at the sourcedaddyknives
Story [2]
There really wasn't much of a story, from what I can make of it, a guy gets the popular girl enthralled in his BDSM fantasies and takes pictures of her for half of the episode.
Art [7]
It was pretty good, Nana looked cute, the close-up lip-licking made me a bit uncomfortable but it was ignorable.
Sound [4]
The guy's voice didn't really match for some reason, it was a good voice for a pervert but not the right one. Not much to say here.
Character [2]
Not much to say in this department, you can't expect many feelings for a character to develop over the course of a 24-minute ecchi OVA. Although, Horny Bulbasaur or whatever his name was... pretty relatable.
Enjoyment [3]
Maybe this would have been a point higher if our male protagonist over here didn't look like a human cockroach…
Read at the sourceSunseeker
At lot of people seem to see this as complete representation of the mange or even the story of Nana and Kaoru.
And although this might have been the starting point it is not the end result.
What we have here are 2.5 moments out of the mange as anime instead of an adaptation.
If you - have not read - the mange this will make no sense as, like other people pointed out, there is no story and you don't see their relationship develop.
If you - have read - than this will be a nicely done representation of 2.5 moments out of the first part of the manga.
And if you see it as that it really shines.
(If you, you will not enjoy this)
Read at the sourceGriffinnnnnnn
Point Scale Rating: 4
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I went into Nana to Kaoru looking for a Ecchi with S&M, and if that is what it is to be graded on, then it could get an easy 6 or 7. However, let me explain.
There is much more to an anime than simply following genre. If that is all there was too it, the complexity and very art of production could be lost. Rather, Animes need to have multiple traits to be considered good. These include-but are not limited to-character development, plot, art, effect/music, and presentation.
The area which Nana to Kaoru was able to complete the best is character development. Considering that there was only one twenty-four minute episode produced, the backstory given to Nana Chigusa genuinely serves to show her emotions and how she got to her current stat…
Read at the sourceHanselhoff27
This was honestly really disappointing. Please do not let this deter you from reading the Manga. The Manga truly is great.
With that out of they way, this anime completely misses the mark on the characters relationship, motovation and even over sexualizes the scenario. You may say, well duh its sexualized, it's about S&M. But truly the Manga does not posses extreme sexual overtones. It's much more about her enduring stress, discovering things about herself, the relief after their "breathers" and the strange yet loving relationship developing between the two childhood friends. I felt that it was very misleading in almost every aspect of the source material.
Read at the sourcejman650
Review in Haiku: Nana to Kaoru
Nana's a cute girl
Kaoru likes S&M
This OVA sucks
STORY:
In the source manga
It tells quite the gripping tale Of BDSM.
This OVA don't!
It rips out the damn story
For ecchi bullshit.
Doesn't explain plot
Makes Kaoru look like dick
Two points out of ten.
ART:
It's mediocre
Could be better, could be worse
Nothing that special
There is nothing here
For me to Haiku about
So goddamn boring
They cut out some scenes
Necessary for context
Four points out of ten.
SOUND:
I guess they both speak
They appear to have a voice
Four points out of ten.
CHARACTER:
I am so upset
At what they have done to my
Favorite romance
Kaoru is not
An asshole in the slightest
In the damn manga
Nana's inner thoughts
Are important, yet cut out
Two points out of ten.
ENJOYMENT:…
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As a lover of the manga - my first and foremost thing to say with this review is that the manga is tons of times better than this OVA, and I can explain exactly why.
The OVA is Ecchi-focused, and also - it isn't about the daily struggle of life. I believe that in the manga many can sympathize with the characters for the reason that they never understand each other, although connecting through a thing both seem to enjoy a ton, and the OVA has none of that. You can really come to terms to begin calling Kaoru "Creepymura" in the OVA because there is nothing else to show that he isn't just a perverted stereotypical guy.
What the biggest problem for me was that the whole OVA showed only Nanas side of their strange partnership sort of thing, and leaving out Kaorus. Which means that the whole p…
Read at the sourceCaptainPP
This doesn't do the manga justice at all. This OVA left out so many crucial parts that keep the plot from getting creepy and sadly dull, like this was. It's very much a simplified version of the manga with only the S&M scenes and none of the cute, essential moments between the two protagonists Kaoru and Nana like; (spoilers) when Kaoru apologized for taking it too far in the bondage seen, making the flowers for Nana's cutlture festival banner when she couldn't finish it herself (and being to short to place them on the top of the banner ^_^), or when Kaoru saved Nana from two strangers who saw her bound in public (end of spoilers). In fact, it felt as though the entire plot had been forgotten about in the OVA.
As for characters, Kaoru, the male protagonist, is depicted as a very crude, cr…
Read at the sourceH3nry_D_96
The best way to describe this OVA is 'meh.'
There really is no story: it's just a few scenes of soft core bondage/S&M with bits of dialogue in between. It's about Kaoru, a boy with an S&M fetish, who dreams about an S&M relationship with his childhood friend, Nana. And that's it. The OVA has no continuing story, just tame S&M scenes.
The artwork is pretty decent (Kaoru's creeper face being a standout) and the opening song for this was pretty forgettable. The S&M scenes, despite being tame and a bit slow, are quite good.
The titular characters aren't that interesting: Nana is just a nice girl who happens to secretly enjoy S&M and Kaoru is just a boring pervert character and does not match up to the great perverts like Issei or Tomoki.
Overall, it's nothing special but the S&M scenes are…
Read at the sourceRikku-goshujin
This manga, Nana to Kaoru and its sidestory, Nana to Kaoru Arashi, are the top two favorites out of all I have ever read. The mangaka, Amazume Ryuta-sensei, is an outstanding and prolific artist and author, one of my best mangaka IMHO, though in making a 24-minute long OVA was great mistake.
On a stand alone, one-shot OVA, it was fine work, I would guess, though leaving me wanting for more to follow. But to make such a short, one-shot episode based on the works published to date of release? Cruel and unusual punishment, there was nothing we, the audience and followers of Amazume-sensei and fans of the Nana to Kaoru series, did that deserved this form of punishment-game.
I do not know the minutia that went into the adaptation and manipulation of the storyline to this short episode, nor w…
Read at the sourceBe4st
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DO NOT BOTHER WATCHING THIS!!
The anime is like the manga but minus all the good things, do not judge this brilliant manga by this weak anime adaptation.
Manga is full of lots of emotions, comedy, romance & actual S&M play and much more, and anime is ecchi, the entire anime story is.. well, scratch that, the anime has NO story at all and does not represent the manga in any way, shape or form.
Just to put things in perspective here is the scores :
Nana to Kaoru manga overall rating : 9.8/10
Nana to Kaoru anime overall rating : 2/10
Read at the source_ragdoll
A butchery of the source material, really.
The premise is badly explained, as well as the motivations of both Nana and Kaoru.
The initial breather depicted was done fairly faithfully, though Nana's warring inner dialogues left a lot to be desired, and the pinnacle of the scene with Kaoru damaging the prop to get Nana out of it was omitted.
The second S&M scene was also poorly adapted, in the manga it was supposed to detail Kaoru's one lapse in control as a benevolent dom, but since they once again omitted the end of the scene, it just portrayed him as an asshole.
If the intention was to adapt a romance story with S&M ecchi into a softcore S&M flick with no plot, I guess the studio can be commended. Personally I was hoping for something a bit more faithful.
Read at the sourceKillerCLbee
So I've been waiting for a Nana to Kaoru anime adaptation for some time now. And when it's here I couldn't help but feel, mislead.
The thing that was so great about Nana to Kaoru Manga was because of the storyline and how the charactors develop though time. And also giving a view into the world of S&M. It taught us that it's not all about the sex, but that it can and is in this original work alot about REAL LOVE and stress relief. The ecchi was a bonus to say the least.
Story:
And the story is practically none! This falls flat is basicly because they were focusing sooooooo much on the ecchi it was hard to appreciate. And frankly I feel fooled for hoping for a good anime adaptation... I think they thought that people liked the manga because of the Ecchi, WRONG!
Sound:
Nothing good nothi…
Read at the sourceNasty001
Ok, I know I'm not suppose to make a review on the 1st ep of an anime (OVA doesn't count), but after viewing this kind of horror(that's just me) i suddenly realize that this thing is not my cuppa tea.So how do I rate this OVA? Here's how:
Story - Dreadful number 2.
Frist of all the story of this OVA is very simple.................there's isn't any, it's all about the masochistic Nana who feels arouse by Kauro's sadistic and perverted psychological maneuvers.
Art - Very Good number 8.
I like the way Nana was drawn and how the people were drawn too. Sound - Fair number 6.
Nothing much to say here.
Character - Poor number 3.
Ok, thought Nana's erotic deed maybe titillating, I really hate her masochistic role, as for the diablo (Karou), I would really want to do what Sanzo does to Goku…
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