![]() ![]() He returns her to the atelier, garbs her in one of ParaKiss’s frothy creations, and suddenly Yukari barely recognizes her glamorous new self.Įnthralled with her makeover, Yukari reluctantly, uncertainly agrees to be the group’s model, knowing that her exam preparations can only suffer. Showing up in his flashy convertible, he delivers Yukari to an “international-level hair and make-up artist” who transforms her. After safety-pinned punker Arashi, anachronistically cross-dressing Isabella, and little-girl-who-never-grew-up Miwako fail to entice Yukari (rechristened Caroline) to join their ParaKiss (short for the titular Paradise Kiss) atelier, smooth-talking, beautiful boy George manages to track her down at school the next day. ![]() When Yukari wakes up to three concerned looming faces – fashion design students in search of a model for their upcoming runway show who have brought her to their atelier workshop to recuperate after passing out on the street – she panics and bolts, but not before she drops her student ID. As a diligent 18-year-old preparing for high school final exams, her academic goals have thus far masked all thoughts of anything else: “I guess there wasn’t all that much I really wanted to do.” ![]() “If I’d known, I wouldn’t have spent all my time studying and done all the things I really wanted to do,” thinks Yukari Hayasaka, dramatically believing she’s about to die. ![]()
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