This is the story of two girls, both named Nana. Nana Komatsu is a naive girl addicted to love who is moving to Tokyo to chase after her boyfriend going to school there. Nana Osaki is a proud punk rocker that is moving to Tokyo to become a rock star. By chance, they meet on […]
Gyaru, or “Gal,” is a label for a fashionable girl in Japanese culture. It’s a style that describes Japanese women who tan themselves, wear flashy clothes, heavy makeup, long nails, and bleached hair. While certainly having its roots in Western influences in fashion and style, the gyaru started as a rebellious style that goes against
No one likes to be bullied or even goes out into the world hoping to be bullied, but it happens. It is in human nature to deal with our own insecurities by picking on someone else we perceive as different or weaker. That doesn’t make it right, though. As with many issues, some find it
In order to make friends with some popular girls, Erika Shinohara has taken to lying about having a boyfriend. In order to prove it, she hastily takes a picture of a man, but her friends recognize him as a school mate, the popular Kyouya Sata. In order to avoid humiliation, she asks him to pretend
