Yazawa's art is just as stylish and edgy as in 'Nana', but with a higher concentration on fashion and 'style'. You're left wondering just what will happen when such-and-such meet at such-and-such musical, or just what everyone will look like at such-and-such time. By the end of the five volumes you are left with a bittersweet, melancholy mood, haunting you long after you close the cover. She focuses on the core group of characters, and builds up each of their stories. It works so much better because the author doesn't go off into tangents all the time. 'Paradise Kiss', an amalgamation of a love for fashion and love in general, is, as a whole, a One doesn't realize the skill of an author so much when just given one example of their work, and, since I had only read the 'Nana' manga (and absolutely love it, despite its flaws) I wasn't able to see just how good Ai Yazawa's pacing and storytelling can be.
She has a knack for producing characters that are flawed, human. Whenever I read 'Nana' from manga-ka Ai Yazawa, I feel suckered into a world that, not only is fantastic, but is completely relatable. However, the more time she spends with George and the rest of the team, the harder it becomes for her to avoid getting swept up in the glitz and glamor of the fashion world. Now as Paradise Kiss' model, Yukari must learn to balance her new responsibilities with her hectic personal life. After hearing about the other members' unbridled ambition, Yukari is inspired to reevaluate her own circumstances and eventually agrees to help them out. But when she drops her student passbook in her haste to leave, the ringleader of the group, George Koizumi, picks it up and uses it as a means to coerce Yukari into considering their request.
Although it seems like Yukari has been kidnapped, the older students explain that they only approached her to see if she would model their collection for an upcoming fashion show.īeing a senior with a busy schedule, Yukari furiously rejects the group's offer. She soon awakens to find herself surrounded by even more strangely dressed people in the basement studio of Paradise Kiss-a fashion design club composed of four students from Yazawa School for the Arts. EditSynopsis After two eccentrically dressed individuals ambush her, high school student Yukari Hayasaka promptly passes out due to shock.
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