

Although she started in AV work for the money to pay debts, she says she stayed because "I realized that my work turned into something of substance". She continued making movies with Moodyz for the rest of her career at the rate of one or often two videos per month.

Her contract with Moodyz was an exclusive one and she is credited with being a driving force in that studio's success. The title of her debut video, Number.1!, released in October 2002 by Moodyz when she was 18, is a play on her name (in Japanese name order, Nanba An sounds close to English "Number One"). She had done some gravure model work for Bejean a few months before and she thought she was again doing photographs for a magazine and was shocked when she realized it was a video shoot. She had met scouts from the AV industry often but only decided to begin an AV career after she was robbed and needed the money. She says she was very outgoing as a high-school student and looked much older than her age. Life and career AV debut and Moodyz Īn Nanba was born in Tokyo on March 7, 1984.
