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Paradise Kiss (GN 1 of 5)

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Title: Paradise Kiss
Volume: GN 1 / 5
Pages: 184
Distributor: Tokyopop

Release date: 2002-05-21
Suggested retail price: $9.99
Age rating: 13+

ISBN-10: 1931514607 1931514607
ISBN-13: 9781931514606 9781931514606

Description:
Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-proclaimed fashion mavens calling themselves 'Paradise Kiss.'

Yukari suddenly finds herself in the roller coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends' own exclusive clothing model.

Presented in traditional Right to Left Japanese style!

Story and art by Ai Yazawa.

(added on 2011-10-21, modified on 2011-10-21)

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