Designing Life in Paradise Kiss

Paradise Kiss is the story of Yukari, a high school student going with the flow — she goes to cram school to do well on her exams, so she can get into her reach university if she aces, her target university if she studies hard, or if she totally bombs out at least she makes her fall back university. The only problem with Yukari, cram school, and university, is she never actually decided that is what she wanted to do with her life. Yukari was just doing it because that’s what students do.

Then one day she meets a group of fashion design students who want her to be their model for an upcoming fashion show. These designs students are foreign to her, bizarre, and somewhat frightening, in part because they have done something Yukari has never done. Paradise Kiss is a story about people making the choices and working toward be who they want to become, rather than letting the choices be made for them by someone else.