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Paradise Kiss

Also known as Paradise Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

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-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into 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 22 own exclusive clothing model.



Tags: Josei , Coming of Age , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Meta , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Modeling , Time Skip , Transgender , Unrequited Love , Nudity , Found Family , Boys' Love

Jelly Beans

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Mameko Endou is 14 years old, loves fashion and lives in a village dreaming of becoming a model in Tokyo. A classmate from her school who's in love with her, calls to leave together but Mameko, uncertain of her feelings and embarrassed, ends up ruining their first appointment. Mameko's beauty is not good enough for a model, which gives her little hope. However, after being in Tokyo and claiming to know the two beautiful models Miri and Hikaru, she decided to become a stylist! Her passion for fashion grows even more, and all her "inspiration" becomes hostile visions and are often bizarre...

Tags: Shoujo , Fashion , Female Protagonist

Suna no Shiro

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In 1944 France, a family had a daughter, Natalie, and adopted a son, Francis, on the very same day. The two grew up happily together, and fell deeply in love by the time they were teen. But Natalie's parents died before they could decide whether to give their blessings, and Natalie's new guardian, her aunt, would never approve. The lovers were driven first to elopement, then to suicide, though they somehow both survived, neither knowing what happened to the other.

Years later, Natalie learns the truth about her dead love... and his wife and son. After a series of tragedies, she decides to take in the boy, even as she is haunted by his resemblance to her lost love.

Tags: Shoujo , Historical , Tragedy , Foreign , Age Gap , Inseki , Heterosexual , Disability , Love Triangle , Delinquents , Boarding School , Parenthood , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Amnesia , Pregnancy

Tamara

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Tome dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer. She's on the right track, working for some big-shots, and then Tamara gets dumped on her. While Tamara may be a famous beauty on the run-way, in her normal, daily life, the supermodel is self-centered, obnoxious, bossy, and an utter leech. However, when the bearer of a "cursed" necklace dies at a fashion show, is Tamara the only help Tome will get to solve the mystery?



Tags: Shoujo , Crime , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Fashion , Ghost