#28.12.20

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Priya Sharma - 28th December 2020

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Talentless Nana episode 13? More like epic poggers Nana episode 13

You know in case anyone’s not sure what dramatic irony is since it contextualises what I say in this post a lot, dramatic irony is basically just us the audience knowing things the characters don’t. Not to fuckin assume anyone reading this is stupid but like, well if you didn’t know, now you know.

So fuckin, like the first some amount of time this episode is actually spent on resident gigachad Michiru like, destroying Nana’s guilt over thinking she murdered her parents with facts and logic. She calls into question much of what Nana remembers about the situation and shit about general childhood guilt and just her own fuckin trust in Nana and is basically like “you didn’t kill your parents shithead, I fuckin love you, we’re tomodachi”. And dude, this got me. I cried. It’s just fucking, Michiru is the nicest girl in the entire world, and like we spend the entire show in Nana’s mind so when she’s been sus of Michiru for a while, we kinda have to side with Nana here. But nah, Michiru’s been racking her brain trying to prove to Nana that she did nothing wrong and that she’s loved no matter what and just, I can’t get over how fucking nice this girl is. And once again that dramatic irony at play! Michiru loves Nana no matter what, but does she? Michiru if you knew Nana was a murderer and she’s out to get you too, would you love her? It’s fucking, god it’s compelling as fuck.

But then fuckin! Tsuruoka calls Nana, and fuckin talks some shit, reveals that Nana’s gonna be using the pay she gets from her job to fund like teaching for orphans or something, and gets Nana to like, dismiss her feelings for Michiru. And it’s like, wow that dude has some fuckin grip on her. Dude Nana’s doing a casual walk home and the second she hears his voice, bearing in mind he can’t see her at all, she fuckin stands legs straight and together like a soldier. And fuckin, god damn I can’t imagine the abuse he put her through to where she reacts like this, to where she’s immediately convinced to throw away her feelings for Michiru. Just, poor fucking girl.

But of course Nana’s based as fuck and when she realises (read: gets told by cat fucker dude) that Michiru’s in danger, she runs off to help her anyway, because she’s fucking, she’s got a friend. Her first friend. And then there’s like, an action-y scene with some invisible knife dude, it’s fun, the real highlight is once again a big dramatic irony moment. Dude talks shit about Nana to which Michiru’s all “don’t tarnish her name” - the dramatic irony here is obvious. And then Nana shows up...

Gets fuckin stabbed like a dumbass again, and then starts yelling shit at Michiru to get her to run away, saying that she’s a dumb dog and Nana hates whiny little victims like her and she’s been being manipulated the entire time. All of which is, technically true? But also false because we’ve got a pretty good idea of how Nana really feels about Michiru here, and that’s fuckin, shit it hurts. Like telling Michiru she was being manipulated is in and of itself manipulation - Nana’s literally manipulating Michiru so Michiru bails on Nana without feeling guilty, calling Michiru a whiny victim while preventing her from dying, telling Michiru they’re not friends while working to save her life. It’s fuckin awesome and super emotional. And then fuckin! It wraps back around in a super dramatically ironic way, cause Michiru ends up coming back to save Nana, and like she doesn’t give us some monologue about how she trusts Nana or whatever, she just saves Nana and we already know it’s because she trusts Nana, she realises Nana’s speech was fake bullshit and that they are friends! But then we the audience know that much of their relationship has been fake! Everything they’re both saying and feeling is simultaneously true and false! This is just operating on such a beautiful and well-crafted layer of dramatic irony and I love it so fucking much, this is absolutely the best character dynamic I’ve seen in, probably anything this year.

And no! Fucking, I should have seen this coming! Chekhov’s gun - we introduced the idea that Michiru may be able to revive people, we obviously have to do that at some point. Similarly, Chekhov’s gun - we’ve established that using her powers drains her life, obviously the ultimate form of her power is what kills her. And of course, it makes no sense to have this happen to anyone other than Nana herself, Michiru’s best friend. And for Nana, Michiru is her first ever friend. And like, fuck, fuck! Man this got me to cry as well, the show brought me to tears twice in one episode. It’s just cause fuckin, everything about their relationship is so fucking compellingly crafted, again the sheer layers of dramatic irony just blow me away and it’s really fun to think about, but they’re also just so endearing as a pair of friends, and an ending like this just fuckin, hits you right where it hurts. Michiru died without ever knowing that Nana was and is a murderer. In a sense, that makes me happy. Michiru got to die without ever losing trust in her friend. But in another sense, it makes me sad. Michiru had so much confidence and trust in someone who only recently stopped wanting to kill her. And even then she still wants to kill several of the other people you know. Like, Nana is a murderer. And it hurts that Michiru never got to know that. But then once again, there’s a degree to which Nana is actually a good person, even fuckin Tsuruoka’s aforementioned charity endeavours of Nana’s, and the fact that she’s spent a lot of the show being like “yo these government dudes are fucked if they think these rando kids are gonna kill millions”. She’s an afraid little girl who had everything taken from her and then the fucking government warped her into being a cold-blooded killer but she still learned love and empathy from Michiru so is she more of a victim than a killer? It’s just, fucking. I just love it. Michiru is not an amazing character, but she is a perfect accessory for Nana. And Nana, Nana is an amazing character. God, what a fuckin show.

Maybe a bit incoherent, but whatever. Season in Review soon. I would love very much for this to get a season 2, preferably from a better studio, but tbh I’m pretty fucking tempted to read this manga because like, shit that was pretty fucking gripping. Cool time.

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28.12.20: recap

harry is MIA

louis is MIA

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