Paradise Kiss

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Paradise Kiss ( Japaneseパ ラ ダ イ ス ・ キ スparadaisu kisu ) is a manga series by Ai Yazawa . The manga, which has around 850 pages and was drawn primarily for a female readership, appeared in the Japanese fashion magazine Zipper from 1999 to 2003 . In 2005 it was implemented as an anime television series.

Characters from Yazawa's series Gokinjo Monogatari such as Mikako and Tsutomu also appear again in supporting roles, which means that Paradise Kiss can be seen as the successor to this.

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Hayasaka Yukari, a typical Japanese student in her senior year of high school, is approached by students at a fashion school on the street because of her model-like appearance and kidnapped into their studio. They ask Yukari to become their model in order to present the dress sewn by the four students George, Isabella, Arashi and Miwako under their brand "Paradise Kiss" at the fashion school's final competition on the catwalk. At first the not very self-confident Yukari thinks she is not suitable for it and continues to study for her exams and the university entrance test. Above all, the influence of the extravagant and attractive George, who designs the creative Paradise Kiss dresses, makes Yukari rethink her monotonous life and goals and makes Paradise Kiss available as a model.

Soon a friendship develops between the fashion students and Yukari, who give her the nickname "Caroline". She learns that the couple Miwako and Arashi were friends with Hiroyuki, Yukari's classmate and secret crush, in their childhood. She tries to bring the childhood friends back together without knowing that they had split up in an argument because Hiroyuki was also in love with Miwako and Miwako had therefore broken off contact. Despite Arashi's initial jealousy, the three gradually begin to grow closer and renew their friendship.

Yukari falls more and more in love with George, who also has feelings for her. However, their relationship is complicated, as the bisexual playboy George leads a dissolute life and always had many acquaintances. With him, Yukari is more and more immersed in the world of fashion and no longer sees any point in her school career. After an argument with her ambitious mother, who always wanted Yukari to go to good schools and be accepted at a university, Yukari runs away from home and wants to drop out of school to concentrate only on modeling. Miwako's sister, who owns the successful fashion label "Happy Berry", gives her her first modeling job, which Yukari masters with flying colors and is recommended to a modeling agency. However, the agency requires parental consent to accept the Yukari minors. So Yukari moves out of George's home and back to her strict mother, who only allows her to model when Yukari graduates from school. Hiroyuki is also relieved when Yukari goes back to school, as he has fallen in love with her despite her relationship with George and was very worried about her dropping out of school.

Hiroyuki also watches Yukari present the elaborate Paradise Kiss dress at the fashion school's final competition. Despite her good performance, George only gets second place for the dress. After finishing school, Miwako works for her sister's fashion label, Arashi would like to be able to live off his music, Hiroyuki is studying to become a psychiatrist and Yukari becomes a successful model. George goes to Paris to realize his dream as a designer there, which also means the end of his relationship with Yukari. Isabella, who was born a boy but identifies as a woman and found in George the first person to understand her feminine side, accompanies George to Paris out of love.

Ten years after the actual action, Yukari marries Hiroyuki and spends their honeymoon with him in America, where they are invited to a Broadway show for which George designed the clothes.

Publications

Manga

The manga was published in Japan from the May 1999 issue to the May 2003 issue every month in individual chapters in the Zipper fashion magazine . The Shōdensha publishing house then brought out these individual chapters in five anthologies, which sold over five million times in Japan.

Paradise Kiss has been translated into nine languages; the manga appeared in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, France, Italy, Poland, Thailand, Germany, Spain and North America. The German translation of the anthologies was published by Panini Comics from November 2003 to July 2004 . From March to July 2007 Panini published the anthologies again, in a different format.

Anime

In the animation studio Madhouse , twelve episodes of an anime television series of the same name were created based on the manga. Osamu Kobayashi was responsible for the direction and scripts for the animated series, Nobuteru Yūki for the character design .

The twelve episodes premiered on Fuji TV from October 13 through December 29, 2005 . The series ran as part of the anime program line Awareness , which is aimed primarily at adult women. The anime was released on three DVDs in Japan after it first aired on television.

The DVDs also appeared in North America, Italy, and Germany.

Animax will broadcast the series on television for the first time in Germany in March 2010.

Actual filming

On August 22, 2010, it was announced in the October issue of Zipper magazine that Paradise Kiss would be implemented as a real-life film. The main roles are played by Keiko Kitagawa as Caroline and Osamu Mukai as George . Other roles are occupied by Natsuki Katō , Aya Ōmasa , Kento Kaku , Shunji Igarashi and Yūsuke Yamamoto .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official website for Paradise Kiss by Fuji TV ( memento of the original from July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fujitv.co.jp
  2. ↑ German website for Paradise Kiss by Animax ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.animaxtv.de
  3. ↑ Paradise Kiss Manga Gets Live-Action Film Green-Lit (August 22, 2010)

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