(04-27-2015, 01:49 AM)Elysia Wrote:(04-27-2015, 12:37 AM)Datenshi Wrote: Paradise Kiss
I cannot stress this series enough. The artist originally wanted to be in fashion herself, but ended up a manga-ka and it really shows. Her passion literally drips off the pages. The anime itself uses so many different kinds of one-of-a-kind animation techniques; hand-drawn, rotoscoped, layered filters, textures—and they're all sytlisitcally consistent. Nothing quite seems 'out of place'.
As a refreshing turn, the relationship between the leads is possibly one of the most realistically depicted of-age romances I know of in fiction and will elicit tears of all varieties. Paradise Kiss is, in my opinion, the logical conclusion of a 'slice of life'.Â
Yes. I haven't seen the anime but I was mad about the manga for quite a while. I think Ai Yazawa does tend to excuse her male characters a little too much for the things they do, but her characters are never one-dimensional and I appreciate that. This series has the most beautiful art, and I'm also still hoping for NANA to be revived someday.Â
You'd probably get a little miffed at the anime, though since you read the manga first, I don't think you would as much as someone just watching the anime first. The anime is much, much more condensed on the Yukari/George relationship and the uh, past issues between some guy and some girl are sort of glossed over. At least in the manga, mentioned guy realized long ago that what he did was pretty fucked up and how the girl still was still so in love with him after really screwed with him inside.
The anime was more or less just coughcouchtheyhavearockyrelationshipcough.
