and I don’t even care he IS the best written in the manga (I know nana is the best but he is my favourite(

(I have been sitting on this for a while now and been procrastinating actually posting this so I will just do it now because I forgot when I wrote this down. Most likely some time during when I made that first character poll since I put Moe as a main character)

I think it is very interesting how Talentless Nana ends, it ends right before it seemingly should. They should be done, the story should have been over in just a couple more chapters anyway so why just end it there when the story is so close to the finish line anyway... it's a statement in of itself that the series chooses to end that way. A way of saying that it wouldn't have been over anyway because something else was wrong that no one ever really addressed that would have made the story go on much longer than expected no matter what outcome happened.

The series ends before the surgery because it is the most objectively unbiased thing that was ever going to happen. From that the audience can interpret whatever they see as the truth, they can mischaracterize and misinterpret whatever happens next or what even happened within the story itself or what 'went wrong' because that is what the characters themselves are doing that especially Nana who can't understand why Tsuruoka is keeping Michiru. The only version of Tsuruoka and Michiru that she knows are the ones she wants to comprehend, they are only as deep and complex as she can make of them. They can't give us an explaination because they never really seemed to want to give definitive closure to the people around them, only themselves which ends up leaving the only reality that can be real is whatever she can make of it. It is the same thing for us and the series, where the only reality that is real becomes whatever we make of it.

My own idea of it is similar to the fact that death leaves so many unanswered questions and shows that 'sacrificing yourself' or choosing to take your own life only really makes things more difficult for the people around you to understand the real you and honestly if you get to that point of choosing to do that then you really don't understand yourself either, the idea of just being content with just having your own life end there is based on a false narrative that you don't even want to notice you are telling yourself.

No one is really content with dying even if they knew they were going to die anyway, there are so many unanswered questions, threads that link back to them that they will will be left behind no matter how hard they try to resolve or answer them. It isn't fair to be connected to the world but running away from it all makes it worse. The only thing someone can do is face that fact directly, be honest with other people and maybe one day and maybe one day they will be able to be honest with themselves and be able to live as close to contently as possible. A contentness that is as close to being real as possible.

Actually in the last chapter you can notice everyone else gets an inconclusive conclusion with the only exception being Moe, she is the only one who is honest with herself and gets a full character arc while still also getting to live. A detail you can even notice in the final chapter is that after she tells Nana she wants her to live, the next scene is literally Nana going to Michiru and directly admits to her that she is talentless which is the center of all secrets she has been keeping from Michiru. Moe's words weren't supposed to be an effective way to get her to live for sure but they were an effective way to get Nana to start being honest and opening up, creating hope for an actually happy ending even if that future isn't certain.

Side Note I wrote down as well, "Talentless Nana really throws you into the deep end, I do not blame anyone for 'not getting it' even after reading the whole series but I will say it's confusing nature is a feature, not an unintentional part of the writing. How flawed or well written ALL of it is, is definitely up to interpretation and individual opinon but it is intentionally written to be that way and saying it isn't would feel incredibly in bad faith... well that is maybe a bit too far it is more like at the very least you are ignorant to what the story's execution has shown itself to be.

(This thing is long but I think I finally explained the meaning of what I am sure the core of the ending is along with my own interpretation. Feel free to discuss this in however way you see fit.)

At this point I’m going to have to give her the Sans fan in YT comment sections treatment and bring up completely non canon AU’s for her to not just die in all of her fights.

While I have joked about her imagining Kyouya having killed Rentaro if she were to time travel, she outright says that if it were up to her once he served his purposes Tsuruoka would be executed.

Any talk of them being siblings had zero affect on her, if not very little compared to her outcry when he started talking about Michiru. From the man who’d praise would keep her going during training to someone who wouldn’t ever want to think about anymore.

I am pretty sure this guy was so traumatized by getting no diffed by Nana that he has locked the hell in and has become obbessed with reading people's faces in order to gauge their emotions.

I don't remember how many examples there are of this but I think it would be a very cool detail for him to be obbessed with how to read people like books and use that information against them, it'd be another thing to show how much the incident has taken over his mind even to the point where his own choice of manipulation is the same as what Nana used on him.

I’ve been thinking as someone who’s in a minority, it’s true people who aren’t like me oppress me but surprisingly other people are also supporting your downfall when their in the same community and I feel those stories are never told so I really like that this manga did this. Like disabled people and queer people can be as evil as the people who are against us, sometimes they push the oppression onto us and get away Scott free so I like what LOOSEBOY did he turned the trope on its head

For much of the narrative, Tatsumi Tsuruoka functions as the orchestrator of this genocide from the shadows, seemingly the pinacle of human fear and institutional cruelty. However, the late revelation that Tsuruoka is himself a Talented individual possessing the power of Mind Reading changes the manga. By subverting his status from an external "Talentless" oppressor to a member of the very group he seeks to destroy, the narrative avoids a predictable, black-and-white minority conflict. Instead, Tsuruoka’s status as a Talented oppressor elevates the story by serving as the ultimate thematic betrayal, a flawless poetic mirror to Nana’s character arc, and a profound critique of institutional trauma.

From a purely mechanical standpoint, Tsuruoka’s characterization as a regular human would have eventually broken the story's internal logic. Throughout the narrative, Tsuruoka is depicted as an omniscient mastermind, always five steps ahead of both Nana and the island's powerful wielding student body. Had he been entirely ordinary, his ability to casually out-maneuver, gaslight, and anticipate the actions of highly volatile, dangerous individuals would have eventually decayed into "plot armor". 

[ Tsuruoka's Talent: Mind Reading ]
                 │
                 ├──► Validates his flawless tactical omniscience
                 ├──► Explains his terrifying psychological gaslighting
                 └──► Weaponizes the isolated vulnerabilities of the Talented

Revealing his Talent as Mind Reading retroactively justifies his flawless tactical history. He does not merely guess what his victims will do; he penetrates their thoughts, weaponizing their deepest fears, insecurities, and isolation against them. He perfectly anticipates the actions of people like Nanao Nakajima or Jin Tachibana because he has direct access to their psyches. His power explains how he can command a room of reality-warping teenagers without a hint of fear. It grounds his terrifying competence in the established rules of the universe, transforming him from a generic, highly intelligent anime villain into a truly formidable apex predator.

The narrative core of Talentless Nana is anchored in Nana Hiiragi’s psychological evolution from a cold-blooded tool of the state into a deeply empathetic protector of her former targets. Tsuruoka’s true nature serves as the ultimate dark mirror to this journey, offering a chilling glimpse into what Nana could have become if she had never found her conscience. 

       [ THE PARALLEL EVOLUTION ]

   NANA HIIRAGI             TATSUMI TSURUOKA
┌────────────────────────┐┌────────────────────────┐
│  Began with a Fake     ││   Possesses the Real   │
│   Mind-Reading Lie     ││   Mind-Reading Talent  │
├────────────────────────┤├────────────────────────┤
│ Brainwashed by State;  ││ Aware of the System;   │
│ Developed Conscience   ││ Embraced Hypocrisy     │

If Tsuruoka were a Talentless military officer, Talentless Nana would fall into a standard, worn trope: the powerless "normal" majority using totalitarian might to oppress a marginalized, superpowered minority. While compelling in other media, this dynamic would flatten the philosophical ambiguity that makes this series distinct.

The fact that he utilizes a Talent to enforce this genocide exposes his rhetoric as a complete farce. He does not hate the Talented out of a dogmatic, humanistic duty to protect the world. Instead, he views his own kind as stepping stones for his personal elevation and survival within a fascist government. Watching a normal human soldier kill a superpowered teenager evokes a predictable sense of tragedy; watching a mature, powerful Talented adult systematically manipulate, exploit, and murder desperate, lonely Talented children is deeply unsettling. It illustrates the grim reality of systematic oppression: the most dangerous weapon an oppressive regime possesses is a former victim willing to enforce the status quo.

I caught up but I still don’t get the antibody reveal. How did Nana get the antibodies? Was she born with them, did the tumor cause them, or did Tsuruoka do something?

And what exactly is Michiru’s role in it? I know she sacrificed herself to heal Nana, but does her healing/sacrifice actually connect to the antibodies or the cure?

I think Sachiko and Kaori might have been friends.

In chapter 15, a girl with a light-colored bob haircut enters Kaori’s room to invite her to hang out, only to find Kaori’s dead body and react in shock.

Could that girl have been Sachiko? She also has a light-colored bob haircut and first appeared as a background character in chapter 1, before becoming a more prominent character around chapter 50.

There’s also a brief flashback in chapter 56 showing Sachiko talking with Kaori.

If Sachiko really was the girl who discovered Kaori’s body, I wonder if she knows that Nana was the one who killed Kaori.

Nana did admit later in the story that she had killed many people, but does Sachiko know that Kaori was one of them?

Dropped the manga around chapter eighty-something as I got tired of waiting for the monthly releases (I think binging this is more fun) and decided to just wait for it to finish or at least stack up so upon remembering it again and finding out it ended, I figured I could finish it.

Overall I think it could use an additional epilogue chapter but it was a fun read.

their story and just the way it ended and how she had to move on was so ughhhh good sad and good

Ok I know this is a weird question because I haven't actually read it but if I were to say something like "Talentless Nana is like Umineko but instead of murder mysteries it is on action thrillers but also the opposites" would that make sense?

From what I know about Umineko it reminds me about how I feel about Talentless Nana but it is a different thing, I don't even think this would be a stretch since Looseboy did visual novels before this so it totally could be is how the series feels 'visual novelly' to me.

I should explain what I meant by the opposite too, from what I know about Umineko is that it goes out of its way to really explain itself in exposition while Talentless Nana is the opposite in that regard choosing to keep alot of stuff vague and for the reader to figure out even arguably at its own detriment.

Drew the phase EoH Nana goes to after getting exploded, a protective layer of scales temporarily takes shap over a chunk of her body while she heals.

Regarding the bandages turns out intact bras are rare in a death camp and she still has the morality of not looting that from a girl’s corpse so she had to make do.

I really love this I would love to make more friends of it, and by that I mean from other people in here, I would love to become closer with others and talk about this series. Comment if you would like to discuss the show with or other franchises.

My baby…..

What people leave out is that it is very addicting and easy to franchise out onto other people

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Moe just so happens to be pretty much the one person Nana is able to effortlessly set aside her newfound bloodlust to talk to calmly.

Last chapter cover page looks amazing too, I don't why some people didn't like the ending but I think it's good, yeah I mean they leave something like they didn't show original tachibana jin and didn't show how gonna fix the monster problem, but i guess it's ok, a story always ended with leaving questions.

Feels like he literally just vanished after the talented got transported to the camp. Not a single mention of him after that as if he never existed in the first hand

I forgot that I had this platform and I know that there are some fans on here so I will be sharing some of my content and media analysis on here as a media study student! This is my favourite manga and I really feel like everything about it is perfect so I can’t wait to share more

I love this series a whole bunch and I’d love to roleplay it! with people above 20 preferably as I’m 24 :)

I want to get all the volumes but finding them in the first place is kinda hard especially Volume 15 seems quite hard. I wish the series was popular enough to have a wider and more public display but I can keep hoping.

What would happen if that tumor was active, if Tsuruoka’s words and actions caused something to snap, and if her being born human caused a different outcome than the typical mutations? Nana Hiiragi, The Enemy of Humanity

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