{"id":2369,"date":"2025-07-25T06:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:39:20","slug":"images-of-jean-and-nadias-wedding-in-the-novel-jean-and-nadias-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/images-of-jean-and-nadias-wedding-in-the-novel-jean-and-nadias-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Jean and Nadia’s wedding in the novel, “Jean and Nadia’s Longest Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I posted before about how the Nadia movie was a real dud, especially since it reset the characters and failed to feature Jean and Nadia’s wedding in this post here<\/a> although it was featured in a doujinshi manga I included scans of here<\/a>. Well, I recently learned of this novel published by Tokuma Shoten called “Jean and Nadia’s Longest Day,” written by Hirotoshi Kobayashi and illustrated by Kazuhiro Miyake. I bought it from Rakuten rather cheaply. There are novelizations of the TV series in three books, but this one is under the “Nadia Stories vol. 1” category. Vol. 2 in this series apparently involves an older Marie and Samson. Maybe it’s a story about how they get married? It’s the same writer and artist team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this book’s prologue, it says that Jean and Nadia were married in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. I’ve only read the first page so far. It’s pretty easy to understand so far, with only a few kanji I had to look up. I’m sure the reading level will become more difficult though as this is an adventure story after all. By the looks of it, the antagonist in this story is some weird non-human with some weird Illuminati-style horns growing out of his forehead. Anyhow, it’s neat seeing Nadia a bit older. Aside from the full color images I’ve scanned below, there are some occasional black and white illustrations interspersed through the pages of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An older Nadia, apparently sewing her wedding dress?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nadia as a happy bride. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto did not do the artwork for this book, but as I mentioned above it was done by Kazuhiko MIyake. Not bad. So now I’ll show you some of the black and white pictures from the book, namely the ones featuring Nadia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The only nice thing about the Nadia movie were the older character designs, and the art i this book remains faithful to that image of an older Nadia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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OK, so apparently Nadia makes a re-appearance at the circus she was once the star of? She’s wearing the same clothes, but they’re getting a bit small since she’s no longer 14 years old. Her top barely fits her tits now.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Looks like Nadia’s not having a good day. She got attached to yet another Y-shape, although this time it’s some sort of wall recession. The guy at the bottom is the villain of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll give the book a shot, but I’ve no idea how far I can get into it as I am not fluent enough, even for this novel aimed at adolescents. Nearly 10 years ago, I got to the point where every new kanji started looking the same, and all the pronunciations started sounding the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted before about how the Nadia movie was a real dud, especially since it reset the characters and failed to feature Jean and Nadia’s wedding in this post here although it was featured in a doujinshi manga I included scans of here. Well, I recently learned of this novel published by Tokuma Shoten called … <\/p>\n

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