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Even with the same work, every time we re-examine it in different age experiences, the insights we gain will be vastly different. Recently, a Japanese female netizen was shocked when she reread the classic manga “NANA” that many characters have such terrible personalities and moral values, which she was completely unaware of when she watched it in her early years.
Nowadays, every time I read, I can’t help but worry about whether my future daughter will be attracted to the immature men in the drama and unable to simply enjoy the plot as before. Now, let’s analyze the process of this Japanese netizen’s mindset change together.
It’s really unbelievable… When I revisit ‘NANA’ a few years later, I can’t help but think, ‘It’s too bad… As I grew up, this character and that character were both extremely unbearable people in my eyes…’ and ‘What if my daughter falls in love with such a man in the future?’ These miscellaneous thoughts make it impossible for me to simply enjoy the show anymore
This Japanese netizen, nicknamed “Hu Yu Lv Mu”, shared on social platform X his feelings about revisiting “NANA” when he grew up.
She said that as a mother with a third grade daughter and a three-year-old son, her way of viewing the characters in the drama is completely different from before. She not only discovered that the characters were filled with negative images, but also began to worry about whether her daughter would become obsessed with similar characters in the future, so she could no longer enjoy this work in peace.
She continued saying
Unconsciously, my age has surpassed those characters… Now the one who is closest in age to me is Nana’s biological mother
I really wish I had gone straight to the ending when I first watched the work, otherwise at this age, I wouldn’t be able to accept that worldview
The sharing of ‘Hu Yu Lv Mu’ has sparked a warm response from netizens, and many people have also expressed that they have similar experiences
It really resonates
Indeed… I used to enjoy it purely, but now looking back, my perspective is completely different (laughs)
The characters are all extremely wicked and unethical
During my student days, I was also obsessed with ‘NANA’. As I grew older and gained more social experience, I gradually realized that the moral values of the characters I played were all flawed. It was just a soap opera staged within a narrow worldview, and my love for the work diminished significantly as a result
This topic is really nostalgic… Although I haven’t encountered any plot like cheating in manga (Zhang Si) or disappearing from the world (Mei Ling) in my daily life, similar examples are not uncommon in reality. Although manga is full of fun, it is filled with too many negative colors of this kind
Memories are fully revealed… From the first episode onwards, the adult man who dated the female high school student Hachiko was portrayed as a mighty person, which is really unsettling. The act of reporting to the police was not taken seriously
Although I read this work in high school, I never understood its popularity. Is it as popular as the lyrics of “middle school students stealing motorcycles to go for a ride”? At that time, I really felt puzzled. Therefore, I began to turn to works with a different world theme because they were not easy to cause a stir (laughs)
I completely understand. That’s why I later chose to watch romance comics without female characters, and eventually became addicted to BL
Each work does have its suitable age group. I used to love ‘Magical Fruit Basket’, but as I grew up, I found it extremely embarrassing between the lines and the lines, and the inexplicable emotional descriptions made people feel ridiculous
NANA, Kuro Magician, and Orange Jam Boy are all works that cannot be revisited when you grow up. The reason why Kuro Magician cannot be watched again is because the plot of a primary school male teacher giving a ring to a primary school female is too absurd
This is what we call ‘growing up’.