Anime Impressions: Talentless Nana

<p>In a world where the earth is plagued with monsters&comma; humanity&&num;8217&semi;s only hope for survival is a group of<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;everything-you-need-to-know-about-boku-no-hero-academia&sol;"> super powered students<&sol;a> known as the talented&period; These exceptional students are grouped and enrolled in special schools to help grow and refine their abilities so that they may put a stop to these &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Enemies of Humanity” once and for all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;videotapenews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;Talentless-Nana-Episode-1-1280x720-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Talentless Nana" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Plot Thickens<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The first episode introduces Nakajima Nanao&comma; a quiet&comma; reserved&comma; seemingly talentless boy among his exceptionally talented peers who’s often bullied&period; After briefly introducing Nakajima as the character who seems to be the protagonist&comma; the anime then introduces Hiragi Nana&comma; a cute&comma; friendly&comma; peppy girl who can read minds&period; She instantly takes an interest in Nakajima&comma; and as they get closer she also finds out his hidden power&comma; the ability to nullify other superheroes&&num;8217&semi; powers&period; All seems well and good as the episode shows the two getting closer&comma; but when Nana finally earns Nakajima&&num;8217&semi;s trust&comma; she uses the opportunity to get close enough to throw him off a ledge killing him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is the most shocking part of the anime thus far&comma; as It reveals that Nana is&comma; in fact&comma; the enemy hiding among them&comma; yet the rest of the students are regarded as actual enemies of humanity and are seen as a threat due to their dangerous abilities and potential body count&period; So as an assassin working for the government&comma; Nana is given the sole task of going undercover as one of the talented&comma; to take out each and every last one of these &&num;8220&semi;potential murderers&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;static1&period;cbrimages&period;com&sol;wordpress&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Talentless-Nana-creepy-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Talentless Nana" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Highly Talented Nana<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>As an undercover assassin among the talented&comma; Nana does her job excellently and meticulously calculating each possible scenarios&comma; and profiling her victims before going for the kill&period; This makes it all the more shocking to witness&comma; especially when the perpetrator is a seemingly young girl with no powers&period; The series is structured where in each episode or two&comma; she successfully takes out one of the students by outsmarting&comma; betraying&comma; or manipulating them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fun in watching the series isn&&num;8217&semi;t to see if she will be successful in taking out her victims but rather how&comma; as the series has proven&comma; she always finds a way to do it&period; Watching her clever plays and counters is always entertaining as she always takes account of her victims&&num;8217&semi; powers and personality traits to be successful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the brilliance of both Nana and the anime shines through&comma; it also somewhat feels a tad irritating how the anime forces certain scenarios where she always comes out on top despite the interesting ways she does&period; A good example of this is how she is rarely ever questioned about her power to read minds&period; And whenever she is&comma; she always gives typical predictable responses&comma; which for some reason always seems good enough for the other characters because they never ask specific questions&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s also hardly ever put on the spot on how she&&num;8217&semi;s always connected to the several deaths in the anime&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;static2&period;cbrimages&period;com&sol;wordpress&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;Talentless-Nana-suspicion&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Talentless Nana" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Careless Plot<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Luckily the anime tries to fix this around episode three by introducing Kyouyea Onodera&comma; a gruff&comma; clever suspicious fellow who serves as Nana&&num;8217&semi;s nemesis and counter&comma; sort of like the L to her Kira&period; As Kyouya&&num;8217&semi;s is blessed with immortality&comma; he seems like a perfect counter for an assassin&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just a pity that even with his presence&comma; Nana still always comes out on top by evading his suspicious comments or remarks and tampering with his investigations&period; So while we have a character that&&num;8217&semi;s fully aware of what&&num;8217&semi;s happening and is made to be the perfect rival&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s also been rendered useless thus far&comma; as he hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been able to avoid any more deaths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Any observant viewer will notice the premise of the anime is quite morbid and also leaves many questions unanswered so far&period; While Nana isn&&num;8217&semi;t your traditional antagonist&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s also far from a hero as she carelessly takes the lives of these seemingly innocent kids with their potential body count serving as her only motivation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other than that&comma; we have no idea who Nana is as a person or how she got herself in this situation in the first place&comma; and as the anime has very little world-building&comma; we also have no knowledge of what happens outside the island these kids are kept in&comma; which is a bit odd&comma; but hopefully&comma; more will be revealed as the anime continues&period; Currently&comma; the anime seems to be progressing at its own pace while disregarding these important elements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;miro&period;medium&period;com&sol;max&sol;1200&sol;0&ast;ILcggBeNHxonV80X&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Talentless Nana" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Talentless Nana- Final Thoughts<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Aside from the story&comma; Talentless Nana has fairly standard animation quality&period; However&comma; the character designs are the most eye-catching part of the anime as it includes characters with unique hairstyle&comma; colors&comma; and looks&period; All in all&comma; Talentless Nana is a good anime&period; It just has some very noticeable flaws&period; Those looking for a bit more intellect in their anime will most likely enjoy this one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you haven’t seen Talentless Nana&comma; its available to stream right now on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funimation&period;com&sol;shows&sol;talentless-nana&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><strong>Funimation<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Have you seen Talentless Nana&quest; What do you think of my impressions&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;