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What s the story behind those? It s probably just crazy obssessive fans wanting to get their hands on any <b>NANA</b> memorabilia there is, right? I ve got to disagree with those thinking that for this one. It was brilliant on <b>Ai Yazawa s</b> part to make a whole metaphor out of two strawberry patterned glasses.</p> <p class="arial">Well, the strawberry glasses first make their debut in <b>Chapter 3</b> of <b>Volume 2</b>. <b>Hachi</b> (then known as <b>Komatsu Nana</b>), follows (<b>Losaki</b>) <b>Nana</b> into the <b>100-Yen Store</b> (<b>Hachi</b> initially wanted to go into a nicer store but <b>Nana</b> insisted in entering or else they split up to do the shopping) where <b>Hachi</b> lays her eyes on these adorable strawberry patterned glasses. <b>Hachi</b> then asks <b>Nana</b> for approval and at first, <b>Nana</b> ridicules the idea of buying strawberry patterned glasses. <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="right"><tr><td><img src="images/news/strawberry3.jpg" align="center" alt="Hachi and Strawberry Glasses in 'NANA' Anime" /></td></tr><tr><td><center><b>Hachi and Strawberry Glasses in "NANA" Anime.</b></td></tr></table>She tells <b>Hachi</b> to buy them if she wanted to but <b>Hachi</b> only wanted to buy glasses that both of them would like and so, <b>Nana</b> tells her that she does like *<i>edible</i>* strawberries and <b>Hachi</b> happily puts a pair into the shopping basket. It is at this point, after the strawberry glass incident, that <b>Nana</b> compares <b>Hachi</b> to a dog and gives her the nickname  <b>Hachi</b> after the famous  <b>Hachiko</b>. </p> <p class="arial">Ok& so the glasses INDIRECTLY led to <b>Hachi s</b> nickname... So what...? That s not the end of the story!!! They make a very important appearance later on in the story. Anyway, throughout the story, they make their appearances& whether it s just <b>Nana</b> and <b>Hachi</b> in <b>Room 707</b>, or all the members of <b>Blast</b> having a party there, the strawberry glasses are what <b>Nana</b> and <b>Hachi</b> usually drink out of. Then, <b>Ai Yazawa</b> drops the bombshell on us... <b>Hachi</b> is pregnant, probably with <b>Takumi s</b> child, and <b>Takumi</b> has convinced her to move out of <b>Room 707</b> to live with him since <b>Room 707</b> is  <i>not the best place for a pregnant woman to live in</i>, as <b>Takumi</b> puts it. This is just as much of a bombshell to us as it is to <b>Nana</b>. She feels so betrayed that <b>Hachi</b> would put <b>Takumi</b> over her and felt that <b>Hachi</b> lied about being deeply in love with <b>Nobu</b>. Their relationship was falling apart before <b>Nana s</b> eyes (<b>Hachi</b> didn t even tell <b>Nana</b> about the pregnancy... This was all announced by <b>Takumi</b>) and now <b>Hachi</b> was moving out and telling her to find a new roommate. <b>Nana</b> was so affected that she accidentally knocked over one of the strawberry glasses, which rolled off the table and smashed onto the floor into pieces.</p> <p class="arial"><table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tr><td><img src="images/news/strawberry2.jpg" align="center" alt="Strawberry Glasses shattered in 'NANA 2'" /></td></tr><tr><td><center><b>Strawberry Glasses shattered in "NANA 2."</b></td></tr></table>Here, <b>Ai Yazawa</b> reveals to us through <b>Nana s</b> memories that <b>Hachi</b> had refused to buy spare glasses because she wanted this pair of strawberry glasses to be special: Irreplaceable. <b>Hachi</b> had been mightily afraid of damaging the glasses but <b>Nana</b> felt that the glasses would lose their purpose left sitting on the shelf. This pair of glasses suddenly came to symbolize <b>Nana</b> and <b>Hachi</b> and their friendship. A distraught <b>Nana</b>, too heartbroken in seeing a pair separated, felt that the remaining glass would feel lonely and out of place. With this, she smashed the remaining glass so that the two glasses could be together in a pile of shattered debris. And when <b>Hachi</b> came out of her room and saw the shattered strawberry glasses, she cried& because it signified a negative change in the friendship between <b>Nana</b> and herself. This was a pretty dark moment in the manga.</p> <p class="arial">Afterwards, in <b>Volume 10</b>, <b>Nana</b> does try to rekindle their much treasured friendship by buying replacement glasses at the <b>100-Yen Store</b>, and taking the initiative to visit <b>Hachi</b> at her new apartment by getting the address from <b>Ren</b>. However, <b>Takumi</b>, being the conniving manipulative jerk that he is (that s another story) as well as other circumstances, prevents <b>Nana</b> from successfully seeing <b>Hachi</b> and delivering the new strawberry glasses to her. I m not sure where the story progresses from here as I have been unable to get my hands on complete and consecutive chapters of the manga, but I do believe that <b>Nana</b> might have finally given the new glasses to Hachi sometime after as they start talking to one another again. ^_^</p> <p class="arial">So, that s the really unique  <i>hidden</i> importance of the strawberry glasses. I feel that although they re just glasses, they represent one of the most important things in the manga... Which is <b>Nana</b> and <b>Hachi s</b> special bond. 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