 If you liked
Nana
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 ...then you might like
Kaikan Phrase
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Music, struggle, losing a parent, wanting to protect something
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Recommended by Caroline___
Both show the struggle in making a band/making it big. Also both have romace. One of the difference would be that nana focuses a lot more on the relationship aspects.
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Recommended by Scarletkiss
Both have elements of music and romance.
Kaikan Phrase, it centers around Bishounen (Beautiful males) while Nana centers aruond women and their relationships. Kaikan Phrase show more of the Japanese Pop-Rock or J-rock scene then punk. Kaikan phrase outlines the difficulties met by a band called Lucifer, a chronicle of their journey to becoming succesful and the hardships that come afterward. You have romance, deceit, betrayal, lust, love. All wrapped up in a convenient show. Animation is older, but well worth watching.
The top is always hardest to get to because once you're up, you have to process how to get down as well. However, with these two there is no coming back down because the top is where they feel they belong most and the one driving them to these extents is the power of their love for music. The music presented is great and the characters all have their individual special traits that you can both pick apart and love.
We have a music anime that is very focused in showing the hardship of getting popular within music in Kaikan Phrase while still having time to show hardships in relationships and everything that go along with it.
In Nana it focuses more on relationships at first, and then the music world - and the hardships that go along with that.
Chances are you watched Nana, and if you do I recommend you to look up Kaikan Phrase. They feel very similar even though it has a male main cast.
Kaikan Phrase does not have the most modern animation quality as it is from the early 2000's,
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