Have been catching up on Nana in the past few days

Due to one Renaud-Bray stocking the tankoubon I was missing (the French edition is up to vol.18). Actually, there's no gear shift in going from Libs fandom back to this: starts off as a story about sharing a flat with one's best friend, winds up in deepest frozen circle of Tabloid Hell. XD;; Whether that's an indictment of Yazawa Ai or reality... I used to complain about Nana's pacing in the latter stretch but it comes off much better in comparison, if only because fiction has the luxury of FAST FORWARDING until something interesting happens. For years, if necessary.

( Notes on timeline and characters; spoilers. )