Discover this anime – Paradise Kiss


Ah, really like this one.

Categories: College, Daily Life, Josei, Manga, Romance, School Life

Plot Summary:
Yukari is a typical high-school student who listens to her parents and attends school everyday. As she starts to question her way of life, she encounters a group of fashion design students who has a clothing label known as “Paradise Kiss”. The group needs to find a model to showcase their designs in an up-coming fashion show and decides to pick Yukari instead. Initially, Yukari was reluctant to be associated with this seemingly eccentric group, but eventually, she realises that they are really nice people. Furthermore, their passion and enthusiasm to follow their ideals and dreams make Yukari realize that she has not been enjoying her life and this motivated her to pursue her own dreams.

User Ratings: 1292 ratings have been given :
 Masterpiece: 171 votes
 Excellent: 353 votes
 Very good: 379 votes
 Good: 229 votes
 Decent: 70 votes
 So-so: 51 votes
 Not really good: 12 votes
 Weak: 12 votes
 Bad: 6 votes
 Awful: 6 votes
 Worst ever: 3 votes

Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.971 (Very good), rank: #576
Weighted mean: 7.901 (Very good), rank: #522
Bayesian estimate: 7.898 (Very good), rank: #316

Source: Anime News Network

Recommended Fansubs: niizk [niizk], THORAnime [THORA].

My opinion: At first sight, the plot may make you think “bleh, wazzat?” but before you know it, you’re already addicted to the story. Just like the plot says, characters are all “eccentric”; each one has his/her problems in life, and you get to know a bit more about them as the story progresses. Needless to say, their personalities are totally different from one to another, which creates quite an unusual/unique atmosphere in the group. Romance speaking, this is more like “adult romance” rather than your usual “school-like” love story. Be advised that from time to time, there may be some nudity in the show.
What else to say.. This anime left a really good impression on me. The atmosphere is a bit unusual so it may not please everyone, but honestly : you’d miss something by not watching it ;)

    • Raitsui
    • January 25th, 2011 - 07:09:19 PST

    Well, I will give it a try, when I have some time.. which will not be in the near future because of upcoming exams.. mainly my lack of knowledge though, hehe.

      • Zana
      • January 25th, 2011 - 07:21:38 PST

      Everyone is having exams I see.
      Well, good luck !

    • Ingu
    • January 25th, 2011 - 08:28:17 PST

    yeah, it's quite unsual (not school) romance and it's worth watching so i also definitely recommend it

    • Raitsui
    • January 25th, 2011 - 08:53:18 PST

    Thank you. Do you have upcoming exams too?

      • Zana
      • January 25th, 2011 - 09:19:58 PST

      I have several web and research projects for now ;)

    • Raitsui
    • January 25th, 2011 - 09:35:05 PST

    So you are already beyond college-degree?

    Or just went straight for work after school?

      • Zana
      • January 25th, 2011 - 09:40:47 PST

      Huh, for now that's a secret ;) I usually don't talk about myself.
      But I'll make a post about me one day, yakusoku desu !

        • Raitsui
        • January 25th, 2011 - 09:51:43 PST

        That's definitely because you aren't a real human. Just some programmed AI for the sole purpose of fooling fragile, mindless, wanna-be japanese with the ultimate goal of e-world supremacy.

        But you wont get through with that, tada yakusoku dewa arimasen, o-tsutome desu!

        Nah, if you are fine with that, I am fine too, just a bit curious :P .

          • Zana
          • January 25th, 2011 - 10:11:04 PST

          You're not the first person to ask ;) That's why I'll definitely write everything down (probably for the blog's first anniversary or something).

    • rhizzu
    • January 25th, 2011 - 10:12:51 PST

    story are modeling, fashion design??

    • rhizzu
    • January 27th, 2011 - 02:38:08 PST

    well then, i'll try to get this one.

    ^_^

    additional for my anime collection.

    • Raitsui
    • January 30th, 2011 - 02:29:55 PST

    Watched it now. It was a good anime, I enjoyed it.

      • Zana
      • January 30th, 2011 - 02:56:50 PST

      Glad you did ;)
      I know there's a PK film (with real actors) coming out in Japanese theaters soon. Dunno what it's worth.

        • Ingu
        • January 30th, 2011 - 03:30:19 PST

        trying to get this quite long story into 90min? huh nothing good will come out of this, just like with most real action adaptations

          • Zana
          • January 30th, 2011 - 04:10:17 PST

          I didn't see all the Death Note movie, but it was quite good :p
          Sometimes the adaptation is nicely done (although Japanese actors are a bit bad at acting :/).

            • Ingu
            • January 30th, 2011 - 05:29:02 PST

            i saw all death note movies out of boredoom (i watched it when i was going by train to my university) and they were even good, but come on, anime is so much better that watching normal movie is just a waste of time

            • Zana
            • January 30th, 2011 - 05:32:14 PST

            Don't get me wrong, I didn't say that I didn't prefer the anime to the movie :p

    • Silent4Lyfe
    • January 30th, 2011 - 05:45:44 PST

    One great perk about the movie was that misa-misa was a hottie. lol

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