is a Japanese anime television series created by Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo, G Gundam) and produced by A.C.G.T.
The TV series premiered January 10, 2002 on TV Tokyo and finished in run on June 27, 2002, totaling 25 episodes. A New Year's special episode was included in the seventh DVD volume (KIBA-745) released on October 2 of the same year. Due to production schedules, the manga adaptation, illustrated by Azusa Kunihiro, started serialization in Akita Shoten's Shōnen Champion on November 8, 2001, two months before the anime premiere. The manga ended on May 25, 2002, and collected in three volumes.
Title The title Seven of Seven or Shichinin no Nana is a pun, as the main character's name, Nana, also means 'seven' in Japanese. It relates the premise of the series, where Nana has split into seven different sides of the personality due to an accident with a crystal. In addition, Nana Suzuki's name is a reference to namesake Nana Mizuki, who voices the character of Nana in the anime.
Plot The plots of the anime and the manga differ.
Anime synopsis After seeing a rainbow as a child and being mesmerized by its beauty, Nana's grandfather has been trying all his life to capture the beauty of a rainbow within a crystallized form. After years of failed attempts and crazy inventions, such as a VCR toaster and vacuum cleaning mouse catcher, he finally discovers a way to make such a crystallized rainbow. His plan would work by separating the light from a rainbow into its seven basic colors and then reforming it into seven colorized crystals. His experiment was working too and only needed a few seconds in the microwave to be complete and finally fulfill his dream. That is when Nana, who was searching for the microwave in an attempt to bake a chocolate cake for Yuichi Kamichika (her crush), opened the door before the crystal had fully hardened and caused an accident.
The crystal glowed and split into the seven different colors of the rainbow, hitting Nana as one color and then coming out of her in the seven colors of the rainbow, creating seven different Nanas. Six different aspects of Nana's personality suddenly exist (acting to a more extreme extent) alongside the original in their own separate physical forms: there's a giggly Nana, a sleepy Nana, a crybaby Nana, a grumpy Nana, a flirtatious Nana, and an intellectual Nana. However, they're all still technically the same person, which includes Nana's crush on Yuichi. This is clearly seen when all the Nanas work together in perfect sync with each other (as if they're still just one person) to make him a chocolate cake for Valentine's Day. But once the cake is done, they immediately start fighting over who will give it to Yuichi.
Each Nana grabs one of the crystals that formed from the one crystal her grandfather was trying to harden in the microwave and realizes it gives her superpowers, she can fly, has super strength and super speed. This leads to a chase between the original Nana, and the new six sides of her personality who are all fighting as they fly and destroy parts of town over who will give the cake to Yuichi. But once they're finally done fighting, they once again prove that all seven Nanas are still the same person as they all find themselves too nervous to approach Yuichi and actually give him the cake.
The crystals also hold another power seen later on as Nana wears a costume from an anime series that she (and the other Nanas) loved as a child called the "Nana Rangers". While they are wearing the costume and at the same time carrying their crystals the prop costumes turn into the real "Nana Rangers" costumes allowing them at times to be Superheroes, and also all show themselves in public at once, since Nana and the others realize the danger of all being seen at the same time without some way of hiding that they're all the same person.
After they had settled on their roles, the 7 Nanas also face the fact that if the crystals aren't reintegrated within a year after the split, all 7 of them will disappear. Later, the 8th one appears causing chaos.
Manga synopsis This story has no super power elements.
Nana Suzuki's father returns from a trip abroad, and he gives Nana a crystal that he had bought from a gypsy woman. He tells her the gypsy woman's warning, to never let the light of the moon pass through the crystal. That night Nana hangs the crystal in front of her window; there is a moon visible through the window. In the morning Nana wakes to find six other Nanas in bed with her.
Initially, Nana Suzuki goes to school and the other six Nanas stay home. The six quickly rebel against that plan. They take advantage of an opportunity to blackmail the principal of the school into letting all of them attend school, in the same class. The Nanas also quickly realize that it is confusing for all of them to be called "Nana", so they agree on nicknames for each of them.
Yuichi isn't the least bit bothered that there are now seven Nanas in his class. He doesn't show any favoritism towards any one of the Nanas over the others.
Characters is Nana in her original form, and the one form that remains even when the other parts of her personality split from her. Shy and very timid, she has had a crush on a boy in her class named Yuichi for as long as she can remember, and yet has been too nervous to approach him and tell him how she feels. This has led to Hayashiba, Kogarashi and Morinuma, three girls who eventually end up being her friends as the story progresses, to tease and torment her as they try to vie for Yuichi's attention. She is also the only Nana to simply be called "Nana". Her color is blue. is the "Hot-Tempered Nana". She is a tomboy with a short temper and a hotheaded personality. She likes to fight and work out. She has narrow pupils and her color is red. is the "Easygoing Nana". She is laid-back and has an affinity for merchandise regarding Billy the fish mascot. She takes a relaxed approach to life, even with an approaching deadline, and speaks with a childish and congested voice. Due to her easygoing personality, she is often seen as slow and unintelligent by the other Nanas, with Nanapon even attempting to trick her on multiple occasions. She has lighter colored pupils, and her color is orange. is the "Smiling Nana". She is happy-go-lucky, always has a smile on her face and has a positive outlook on everything. She likes movies, especially funny ones, and she is very friendly and easy to get along with. Her color is yellow. is the "Crybaby Nana". She is very sensitive, up to the point that almost anything can make her cry. Her power allows her to emit sonic waves from her voice when she cries loudly, and the only way to make her stop is to calm her down by stroking the back of her head. Her color is chartreuse ("yellow green" in the English dub). is the "Brainy Nana". She is intelligent yet stubborn. She likes books and manga. The title of the book she always reads is Les Misérables. She always speaks with immaculate enunciation, and she is the only Nana who wears glasses. Her color is green. is the "Ghostly Nana". She is flirty and mysterious, and she likes spiritual things. She has been shown to be capable of fortune telling, and she possesses weak telekinetic powers. She also has the essence of feminine physique, obtaining impressive measurements in the school physical, and being able to use her breasts to hide small objects. At one time, she used her prism to hypnotize the other Nanas into cleaning the house, and eventually accidentally hypnotizes herself while trying to teach the original Nana hypnosis. This results in her putting the entire town in a trance in an attempt to see Yuichi's high school survey. Her color is purple. is the dark side of Nana or the "Eighth Nana". She first appears on New Year's, planning on interfering with Nana's plans. Disturbingly, Hitomi cannot tell her apart from the others. While she, like the other Nanas, ultimately wants Nana to succeed, she is not beyond using less-than-moral methods such as sabotage to ensure Nana's success, which at one point ends up backfiring. She has proven to be more powerful than the other six combined. She can hypnotize people, even without carrying her crystal. As a Nana Ranger, she has white hair and wears a jagged red scarf, sharp ears, and inward curving horns on the helmet, and does not need a costume to transform. Her color is black. is Nana's closest and oldest friend. She tries to support Nana in her quest to tell Yuichi how she really feels. Her parents also own a restaurant which she and Nana go to each year and have a yearly party. Hitomi is also the one that seems to know Nana better than Nana knows herself and can easily tell who is who after they split into seven individual parts of the same personality. She has completely different looking eyes without glasses, a feature she used to disguise herself. is Nana's crush. He is into photography and is continually taking pictures around town. He is also very smart, which is part of why Nana lacks the confidence to confess to him, as she often struggles to keep up with him academically. She longs to go to the same high school as him, however his school of choice has very high entry requirements. Unfortunately, it is later discovered that he has feelings for another girl, even taking up photography and trying to get into her high school to impress her. Usually kind and open, he comes to see Nana as a good friend. However, he is completely oblivious to all the girls around him who have a crush on him. At the end, he finds out that Nana has a crush on him. is the assistant principal of the junior high school. He is often very harsh with the students and tends to push Nana and the other students very hard. However, it is revealed that he actually has a lot of respect for his students, and ultimately pushes them because he wants them to succeed. He defends Nana when she is refused a chance to enter her chosen high school after Jamanana hurts Tsuki, noting that while Nana was looked down upon by members of the honors class, she has since worked hard to become one of its top students and would not be so foolish as to throw it all away. As a prank, the trio once referred to him as "melonhead", and when the term catches on, he is initially angered by it, but he eventually sees the humor in it, and even willingly refers to himself as such. is the school guidance counselor. He can also come across as harsh at times, but also ultimately wants to help the students, and is a caring person on the inside. Hitomi develops somewhat of a crush on him after he caringly gave her his jacket when she was in the cold during Christmas, not realizing it was her when she was not wearing her glasses. , and are three girls in Nana's grade who initially tease and torment her, but soon see how hard Nana is working and will stand up for her when they think she deserves some credit and support her endeavors to get into high school. The three girls have the worst marks in school but want to enter the same high school and are impressed that Nana managed to move from their level to the honors class with Yuichi and Hitomi. Hayashiba, the leader of the group, is a childhood friend of Nana's and a very talented Japanese dancer, Kogarashi is a sneaky girl who brags about people, and Morinuma is the girl with fish lips who wears baggy pants all the time and turns out to be kind and empathetic. Hayashiba eventually chose a Japanese dancing school, a different choice from Kogarashi and Morinuma, as a promise to her grandfather to become a maiko dancer. After the graduation, Morinuma went to a nursing school, Kogarashi entered a special school to become a cartoon voice actress.