![]() ![]() What The Underappreciated Osamu Kobayashi Brings To The Table. ![]() Noitamina and Yazawa took chances gambling on each other, but their efforts were well worth the risk. it was rare at the time for an ‘older’ title to get adapted, especially something as risque as this. What was unique about Paradise Kiss even getting adapted was that the series had wrapped up a whole two years earlier and, while in the grand scheme that’s not a huge amount of time. Launching 15 years ago with the purposeful aim of only putting out unique content, the Madhouse animated Paradise Kiss anime adaptation was the only the second show to ever premiere on its block! The first was fellow not quite shojo not quite josei Honey & Clover, which made Parakiss a perfect fit for the block’s newly established tone. The Fuji TV Niotamina animation block very thankfully continues to this day being, perhaps, the most reliable purveyor of actually interesting anime that buck the mold like Psycho-Pass and Erased, just to name a few. Bordering on a Shojo and Josei cusp, Yazawa successfully portrayed the experience of the former with the perspective of the latter with beautiful inksmanship to boot. Would be a generic premise, but what separated Ai Yazawa’s Paradise Kiss from the thousands of other girls comics was its willingness to portray being young and in love as an often painful and idiotic thing to do. Of course, the actual risk comes in the form of her getting romantically involved with the handsome and enigmatic group leader George who’ll quickly become an unforgettable character in her life, for better or worse. Unfortunately for Momma Hayasaka, Yukari meets a group of miscreant young clothing designers who wish for her to sin in the form of her being their model. Yukari Hayasaka is your perfect scholarly high school student who would never do anything to disappoint her overbearing mother and is beginning to prepare for the hellish Japanese college entrance exams. The Legacies Of Paradise Kiss and Noitamina Only on very rare occasion does an Anime surpass its original manga, but 15 years later we still hold this possibly controversial opinion. That’s one reason why the Paradise Kiss anime is such a treasure It was able to present Ai Yazawa’s story exactly as she ever wrote it, but with some additional nuance and depth that elevated the already great source material into something even more profound. However! Yazawa was working on it and the best selling Nana at the same time though and while Paradise Kiss got the visual mastery, it’s our honest belief Nana got the better writing, and sales numbers reflect on it being the stronger work overall. Huge in Japan of course and an early Tokyopop release stateside, if you read girls comics in the early 2000s there’s no way you weren’t at least aware of it. That’s totally understandable! Manga artist Ai Yazawa is a genuine master of her is craft and few comics are as gorgeous as Parakiss is to this day. ![]() But the fujoshi cast's fear of "STYLISH!" and the cross-dressing male lead's varied attire does get touched upon a lot.When it comes to Paradise Kiss, the manga is certainly the most remembered iteration of the series. In Jellyfish fashion comes into play more towards the end when dresses based on jellyfish are made. Jellyfish involves a cross-dressing ladyboy invading an all-female boarding house and is naturally more comedic (no romance advances in Jellyfish, in stark contrast to Paradise Kiss, which has a clear start and end). Paradise deals FAR MORE HEAVILY with fashion and romance since the entirety of the heroine's connection with the rest of the series is modeling. The basic premises of the two are really quite similar: normal/average young women find themselves SUDDENLY thrust into the world of fashion/modeling/dresses after encountering eccentric-handsome males that sweep them off their feet via charisma. And the fashion aspects are presented from the respective heroine's clueless perspectives so as not to overwhelm viewers/males. Princess Jellyfish's fujoshi-in-a-boarding house freakout gag humour makes it more of a comedy than a drama and even more male-accessible as a consequence. Seeing adult(ish) characters mentally dealing with the highs and lows of AN ACTUAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP IN ANIME!!111! is appealing in Paradise Kiss. One would assume this means most males should run far away with their anuses clenched and never look back, but no: they are strangely accessible and appealing even to the more manly males that frequent this site, such as myself. ![]() Anime adaptations of josei manga with an emphasis on fashion. ![]()
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