NaNaNaNa

(Infinity, 2005)
™ and © 2003 Tarou Harada

Police Academy meets Blade Runner, when young Nanami is saved from a fire by a Legion. (That’s an ominous brand name for a cute, all-female line of androids.) To repay her, he pledges to become a police officer/Legion paramedic—in spite of being terrified of women, artificial ones included. On his first assignment, he’s inexplicably made chief of the crumbling 7th “Prescient” (the word I think they’re looking for is “Precinct”), where he finally finds her. But, for reasons too ridiculous to repeat, Nana can’t reveal that they’ve met before or that she’s desperately in love with him.

Nana has to fight for his attention with his childhood “friend,” Officer Amy Chambers (who still expresses her conflicted affection for Nanami via repeated cuffs to the head). This is a silly, shallow sitcom with unremarkable characters and situations. Its only distinguishing characteristic is the title, a strong contender for year’s silliest. Might I suggest that, now that the artist can clearly draw beautiful women, he might want to devote his time practicing drawing everything else?

— S. A. Bennett

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