Nobody ever thought that an anime about fashion would become so popular and appealing to a world wide public. Tagged at a first sight as a girl anime , Paradise Kiss is more than this, it is offering something different than all the violence stuffed anime that everybody was used to .
First of all, what deeply impressed me was the possible plot, the feeling that it could happen to me, to you, to your neighbour, your friend. It looks so real, it is not far-fetched, neither treacly ..it is just how things really happen in life. We all know that the path of succes, especially in the fashion domain, is not that easy. And that is what this series want to show, that high fashion is not a mass-production industry, instead it is art and above all a lifestyle. Once you enter into this world, you are captured and you will always be its prisoner no matter how much you try to escape. It becomes part of you .
Paradise Kiss is based on a 5 volume manga series by internationally acclaimed artist Ai Yazawa. It actually features some excellent fashion designs by 'A/T' (Atsuro Tayama). It's a rather interesting concept to have a real fashion designer creating for an anime.
The story starts how a group of four students from the Yazawa School of Design, who have their own company named Paradise Kiss, are looking for a model to wear their dress at a contest . Yukari seems to be the perfect one ,although at first she just looks as a simple school girl who doesn't expect important trepidations in her life . However their determination convinces her and they all start an adventure of love, passion, artistic challenges and characters` evolution .
And, in addition, a song from Franz Ferdinand features at the end of every one of its 12 episodes, which makes it even better .
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