Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa ------ DOWNLOADED FROM Disclaimer: This translations are made for fan by fan. We recommend you buy the manga because, and we mean it, it worth the money you spend! XD This translations was made by Hikaru and Kristina based on the italian version of the manga - so some parts could not be that accurate. ^_^ Also, for the same reasons, the page numbers could be shifted or something. If you want to comment or provide something feel free to email us or sign the guestbook Please, if you are thinking to post this on your own site, don't erase this credit and ask for permission first. ^_^ ------ [legend] []: thoughts * *: actions - -: text, brackets, or other written parts (): Authors note, or words explaining ----- In the middle of a maze of streets that unravelled from one of a back streets there was a basement. It was always envelopped by a mysterious and sweet scent. It was like the parfume of chinese fours when cakes are prepared. Hysterical sounds resounded through the rose painted walls. There were inside an old bar, a billiard table?and three big sewing machines. That place that resembled an hideout? was called the "atelier" by them. STAGE 1 Pag. 6 Yukari: What a nuisance! It's really bothering. Today is not Sunday. So what the hell are all those people doing around? Why are all of them in this stupid town? Pag. 7 Yukari: Go away! Leave my way! Let me pass all you pack of fools! Arashi: Oh! Hey! Hey! Wait a minute You there, with long hairs! Come here for a moment, please Yukari: What do you want? Leave me alone! Can't you see I'm in a hurry? Pag. 8 Arashi: Oh! You are a very gorgeous girl. Yukari: [Who the hell is this guy?] [He has some safety pins on his face] Arashi: How tall you are! You are around 5.5 feet , arent't you? (--> note 1) Yukari: So sorry, but I'm really in a hurry. C. U., ok? Arashi: No. Hey you! Wait a minute Yukari: This kind of guy will surely rob me, rape me or even kill me. Pag. 9 Yukari: Sorry! [Gee! This person!] [What a strange make up! Actually, she's completely strange] [she's so tall] [Is she a man or a woman, a trans perhaps?] Arashi: Isabella! Catch that girl, please! Yukari: [I can't believe! They are accomplices!] [Then Isabella? I can't understand.] [Even her name is strange.] [No. Wouldn't she be perhaps?] pag. 10 Yukari: [.. the Death God?] Isabella: -I've caught you! *heart* Arashi: [Good work Isabella!] *Yukari faints* Yukari: [Heaven's Gods, answer me?what have I done to deserve all this? I'm only 18 and I've never disturbed nobody, and I've always tried to do my best?] [A scent? Life is really disappointed. If I had known it would end up in this way, I would have concentrated my interests on things I really like, instead of studying?although! I must admit there aren't many things I really like.] Pag. 11 Yukari: [What a miserable life .. oh! An angel?I can see an angel So angels have got pink hairs? I didn't know..] Miwako: -Are you well? Yukari: [Oh my God! I'm in Hell] Pag. 12 Yukari: What? You need a model for a fashion show? And you'd choose me? Miwako: Do you know Yazawa Art School? It's our school. We are attending the third year of stylistic design course. Yukari: I see, that's school called "Yaza" [That's why they are all out of mind] Miwako: Wow! So you know the "Yaza" too. What a wonder! Arashi: That's because our school is famous. Yukari: [Of course 'cause it's attended only by fools] Arashi: Our school organises a festival every year in November. We're looking for a girl who could be our model for the fashion parade that will take place on that occasion. You've got an elegant style and you 're perfect for the kind of image we want to recreate. Pag. 13 Yukari: So that's all. You could have told me immediately. I was very scared. Arashi: So you mean you'll accept? That's wonderful. Yukari: Really, you must be joking! I'm sorry but I have to study for my exams to enter a College. So I can't waste my time with fashion parades. Now I must go or I'll be late for my afterschool activities. Miwako: So you are attending the third year too. Is that the Seiei uniform? Arashi: You must be a swot! What College would you try to enter ? The Tokyo one? Yukari: That's none of your business! Leave me alone. Anyway... Pag. 14 Yukari: I'm sorry but I'm really busy. I can't waste my time with your games. Arashi: Hey! Wait a minute! Miwako: Arashi Pag. 15 Arashi: You know you are really unkind? We've gently asked you a favour, so you could try at least to be a little more pretty. Miwako: Arashi stop! Arashi: Do you think that our making clothes is only a game for us? You feel superior to us only because you'll go to College? Yukari: No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. Arashi: No, you can't understand how your behaviour is arrogant. You are a very hateful girl. Go to hell! Miwako: Arashi! Stop, please! Yukari: [But What the hell!] Miwako: Forgive him. I'm really sorry. Pay no attention to him. We're sorry if we make you wasted your time! Pag. 16 Yukari: [How can such a vulgar guy tell me that I've been hateful?] Miwako: Listen. What's your name? We haven't even asked you. Yukari: [Those people have some screw looses.] Miwako: Hey! Wait! Listen! I'm really sorry Caroline. Yukari: Caroline? Pag. 17 Miwako: My name's Miwako. You can find me here everyday after school. If you change your mind come and see us, ok? Yukari: Forget about it! Pag. 18 George: A very clever girl! (--> Note 3) Miwako: Gee! George! You've scared me. I couldn't believe that it was you. Arashi: Welcome George. So? How the cloth searching was? George: So and so. We'll look for other materials next Sunday, ok? Who is that Yukari, instead? Have you asked her if she could be our model? Her arrogant stare is exactly what we are looking for. Miwako: So this kanji means Yukari? I thought Murasaki Pag. 19 George: I see So Arashi started shouting at her and she ran away. Now that the fish started to bite the bait. You are really stupid, Arashi. Arashi: Joji.. I remind you that I'm going to have the rehearsals with my band. Don't abuse my back, you kind of queer. George: You mustn't mispronounce my name. Arashi: What do you mean? Only because I've used the Kanji? (--> Note 3) George: You can't understand. It's a matter of image! A person's life is based on her image. Brian Slade says it too! Arashi: And who the hell is he? Isabella: George is too influenced by that film Miwako: Yes, I really like it too. Velvet Goldmine. (--> Note 4) I've seen it three times. Pag. 20 Miwako: Hey guys, how can we find another model? We have to hurry up. We've no more time. George: Miwako, why don't you show? Miwako: 'Cause I'm to small George: What a strawberry scent. But you are so cute.. I'd like to take you around in my pocket. Arashi: Let your hands off of Miwako. You perverted! *rocket punch* Arashi: So, I must go Isabella: George, you can't die in the first volume! Miwako: Arashi! Wait! What we've to do with this? Caroline's school record book? Arashi: Where's the problem? If she wants it, she has to come and catch it. Miwako: I wonder if there is her telephone number. I'm sorry but I must open it. Pag. 21 Yukari: [And now, what can I do? Damn! I've lost my school record book! Where could I have lost it? Anyway, the book is not a problem. I can ask for a copy. That photo is the real problem.] Pag. 22 Yukari: [I risked my neck to take it secretly during the last school trip.] Ribon - Death risk Yukari: [Stop! I don't want to go on living!] *sobs* Hiroyuki: Hayasaka? What's the matter? Aren't you well? Yukari: Tokumori. Of course I'm well. I'm very well. I'm in perfect health. Can't you see? Yeah! Hiroyuki: The class tutor wants to see you in the teachers' room.. Yukari: Does he? Thank you a lot! Bye. Hiroyuki: Is she really well? She may have a nervous breakdown 'cause of the exams. Poor girl. And to think she is so beautiful. Boy: Hiroyuki, let's go home! Pag. 23 Teachier: Hayasaka, lately your marks in your pre-exams text have gotten worse. If you go on like this you won't be admitted in the College you've chosen. Cheer up! Try to concentrate more. Do your very best. Yukari: [I could make it out by myself. I don't want to go to a particular College. Every College will be good at that moment. What I really want now is to get out from this miserable life! By all means, if I enter a low rank College my schoolmates will pull my legs and this will annoy me. People attending this school used to judging other people on the base of school they belong to (And I'm not very different from them) ] Arashi: You feel superior only 'cause you'll go to College? Yukari: But, in the world there are people that have a different way of considering things. Joij: Yukari Hayasaka? Pag. 24 Yukari: [And who is that guy?] Yes I am. What can I do for you? [Why has he got blue eyes and blue hairs?] [Could he be an alien?] [I've recently bumped into a lot of strange people] George: I could have bet it. Your style is faultless as I was told. I'm sorry for yesterday. My friends were too impolite to you. A present to apologize. *gives a rose* You forgave us, then? To get angry don't suit your beautiful face. Yukari: [I can't believe! He's one of those crazy people. He has the same look, in fact. You may bet he is their boss.] Of course I forgive you. Pag. 25 George: By the way, have you perhaps lost your school record book? Yukari: Oh! George: You dropped it yesterday! Yukari: You come here to give it back to me? I thank you. Hey you! I want my book back! George: Do you? Yukari: Of course! Give it to me immediately! George: If you really want it, you have to go and catch it. Pag. 26 Yukari: [Wait a second, you third-rate boss] George: Oh! Do you want to get into my car? [Until that day I've lived only running as a madwoman into a dark tunnel, trying to reach the exit. But this exit wasn't a simple one. It was a big white hole. And I was terrified by it.] === Volume 1 - Stage 1 END - mainly translated by Kris & revisioned by Hikaru Translators Notes: ~ Kris * Note 1: In original Arashi said 170cm, but I converted it into the feet note. * Note 2: About Isabella's gender ~ Isabella is obviusly a male but I decided to use she to keep the impression you'd have reading them manga, since she wears like a woman. ~ Hikaru * Note 3: Joji is George's real name, while George is only his "stage-name" and so the name the everyone of his friends would use. (This thing doesn't appear in the italian version, since the editor decided to keep only Joji. Thanks to Misato for this information). * Note 4: Velvet Goldmine is a film who tells the story of the life of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. This is one of the Yazawa-sensei most favourite films, by the way. ^_-