Here's a quick evening link to the newest installment of The NANA Project, a bi-monthly roundtable on the series with Danielle Leigh, Michelle Smith, and me. This month, we discuss volumes 11 and 12, particularly focusing on the ways Nana and Hachi's roles in the story have changed. Here's a quote from me early on: "... I feel like we're being taught a lesson about the nature of love, though I'm not entirely sure I like it. Hachi's relationship is really a sham on so many levels, yet it offers her a kind of security she's never quite had (even at home with her parents) ... Meanwhile, Nana's urgent love for/with Ren should make them both feel more secure (certainly that's what everyone's banking on), but instead it just feels dangerous, suffocating, and a little bit unreal."