{"id":347,"date":"2006-01-30T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-01-30T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:48:33","slug":"paradise-kiss-episode-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Kiss – episode 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Future”<\/p>\n

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Thanks to an epilogue, a barely okay series receives a just more than barely okay conclusion.<\/p>\n

Spoilers<\/b>
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\nGeorge considers throwing in all of his design dreams. Problem is, he hasn’t told Yukari about any of this – only Kaori and some other people from the design school know. This shows the lack of communication in the relationship of these characters, particularly as George has been angry at Yukari for not telling him things in the past.
\nOn the Arashi and Miwako front, Arashi gets irrationally jealous again but decides to patch things up with Tokumori. Ultimately George decides to move to Paris, leaving Yukari behind … as well as bequeathing his entire wardrobe to her.
\nAfter the credits, one can peer ten years into the future – which provides a far more conclusive ending than one might expect.<\/p>\n

George and Yukari were not meant to be, as their only real method of communication was sex. Everything else was, for them, too much of a frustration. Arashi and Miwako, on the other hand, are too far into their own relationship to cut it off without massive pain. At least, from all of this, Arashi has become somewhat nicer.
\nIsabella is, as always, a background character of worthless proportions.<\/p>\n

The end credit sequence, which segued from black and white to colour, was a nice metaphor. The ten years later “epilogue to an epilogue” was also fairly nicely done, as it closes the door on these characters entirely. While it was good to see tears in George’s eyes, these people had been searching for happiness in entirely the wrong places. Now is their chance to shine away.<\/p>\n

When you read this site from episode to episode, despite the fact that I’ve mentioned that I’ve enjoyed earlier episodes, an overall feeling for a series emerges at the end. I would not like to think that I’ve been inconsistent in my approach to Paradise Kiss<\/I>, but rather my expectations changed as the series progressed. Bastardry can be forgiven in early episodes in the hopes that it will be ironed out.
\nLooking through my archives, I gave generally positive comments about almost all of the episodes; ultimately, my distaste for some of the characters and their decisions overwhelmed anything that I had liked about Paradise Kiss<\/i>. I read that the manga was supposed to be fairly funny; it’s a shame that it did not end up that way here.<\/p>\n

Paradise Kiss<\/I>, as anime, is a bleak, drab husk of a very important time in any student’s life. The levity was sorely lacking, and the desperate hope for Yukari to keep her relationship together wore on me. There are much better ways of coming of age.<\/p>\n

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