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This is a list of characters who appear in the anime/manga series ''Paradise Kiss'' by ''Ai Yazawa''. This needs a lot of work.


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[[folder:Main Characters]]

!!'''Yukari 'Caroline' Hayasaka'''
->Voiced by: Yu Yamada (Japanese), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (English)

The main protagonist of the story, Yukari Hayasaka is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent trying to get into the best college to impress her mother. She's always studying hard and is crushing on her classmate, Hiroyuki Tokumori. All of a sudden, she gets rope into the world of fashion...

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* BeautifulAllAlong: Yukari was always a natural beauty but was always too busy hitting the books to be noticed.
* DefrostingIceQueen: A nice girl, but it should be noted that she's still a young woman that doesn't quite grasp all her noble features, and let's be honest, the [=ParaKiss=] troupé are wacky fellows.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She's indeed beautiful to work as a model. But it should be noted it takes time for her to get used to realize how gorgeous she is.
* ImportantHaircut: At first a decision she regretted, over time shows how much it benefitted on the long run, and is symbolic for her to go from average girl to gorgeous supermodel.
%% * LoveMartyr: Though it's mainly out of severe inexperience with love itself. She gets over it.
%% * TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with George.
%% * MsFanservice: George of all people even lampshades it.
%% * {{Nosebleed}}: Suffers from this when she introduced to the hairstylist Seiji.
* SeniorYearStruggles: Yukari is a senior who is focusing solely on her studies and getting into a good university. This monotony changes when she falls in with a group of design students who introduce her to the world of fashion, and she begins to consider it as a serious career path after high school instead of her original plan
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Played straight with Hiro, [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys subverted]] when George enters her life, [[spoiler:but played straight again when she chooses Hiro in the end.]]
%% * WhenSheSmiles: She's introduced with a scowl and a bad temperament. Skip about three or four volumes and be struck with awe at the difference.

!!'''Jōji "George" Koizumi'''
->Voiced by: Creator/KenjiHamada (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)

An arrogant, handsome, VERY talented student in an art college. He starts dating Yukari few after she starts frequenting his college.

%% * AllGirlsWantBadBoys
%% * AlternateCharacterReading: It's ''George,'' not Jōji, thank you very much.
%% * BerserkButton: Call him by his birth name. Better yet, call Isabella by her birth name.
* ChivalrousPervert: He can be seen as a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this trope.
%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
%% * TheDandy
* EmbarrassingFirstName: George hates being called by his first name.
%% * EvenTheGuysWantHim
* {{Expy}}: He is based on [[Film/VelvetGoldmine Brian Slade]], which is [[LampshadeHanging alluded to]] in the series as Brian is George's idol.
* HeroicBastard: His mother was a famous top model who gave up her career to raise him after being knocked up by a rich man. This really, ''really'' poisons her and George's relationship when he grows up.
%% * InsufferableGenius
* IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: He dresses up Yukari in the clothes he's designed (and has done the same for Isabella, a beloved platonic friend).
%% * JerkAss: At his worst.
%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At his best.
%% * LadykillerInLove: With the twist that [[spoiler:it's not towards Yukari, but Kaori]].
%% * SomethingAboutARose
%% * TallDarkAndSnarky

!!'''Miwako Sakurada'''
->Voiced by: Creator/MarikaMatsumoto (Japanese), Creator/MelissaFahn (English)

Another art student and George's friend and co-worker. Very cute and cheerful, she soon becomes Yukari's best friend.

%% * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Had the choice between punk kid Arashi and [[spoiler:clean-cut Hiro]]. Guess who she picked.
%% * CoolBike
%% * TheCutie
%% * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: So cute and huggable to both genders.
%% * GirlishPigtails
%% * {{Kawaiiko}}
* NiceGirl: So nice that [[spoiler:she even lets the fact that her boyfriend once raped her slide and has a happy relationship with him. Arashi doesn't take this well at all.]]
%% * TheNicknamer: Starts calling Yukari "Caroline" totally out of the blue. It sticks, actually.
%% * {{Odango}}
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She is an almost exact copy of her sister Mikako.

!!'''Arashi Nagase'''
->Voiced by: Shunsuke Mizutani (Japanese), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (English)

Miwako's HotBlooded, blunt boyfriend. He's both a student of George and Miwako's art school and the vocalist of a punk rock band.

%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* OnlySaneMan: Contrary to his choice of wardrobe, he's actually the most normal of the Paradise Kiss group other than Yukari.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Out of insecurity over their relationship, Arashi bullied Miwako to lose her virginity to him. Later, he realizes how fucked up this is, and in the manga he becomes TheAtoner.]]

!!'''Isabella Yamamoto'''
->Voiced by: Chiharu Suzuka (Japanese), Mari Devon (English)

The eldest of the gang, Isabella is a young transgender woman who acts as the mentor of the group.

%% * EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Daisuke]], a decidedly masculine name.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: She is a feminine transgender woman who loves making apple bunnies.
%% * HopelessSuitor: For George.
%% * LonelyRichKid: Her backstory.
%% * {{Ojou}}
%% * OneeSama
* TheQuietOne: Isabella is far from chatty, but her standard reaction to mostly everything (a warm, unruffled smile) makes her come across as [[YamatoNadeshiko mature and dignified]] instead of cold or aloof.
* TeamMom: Often gives sound advice or just tries to cheer up the rest of the gang, particularly the girls. At one point, during an argument between George and Arashi, her thought panels reveals she's worried about Arashi's lack of calcium, and wonders if she ought to feed him dried fish. Her status is actually lampshaded by George, who calls her the group's mother figure.
%% * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: For George.
%% * YoungerThanSheLooks: Due to both her clothing and some physical traits (her long-fingered, extremely knobbly hands, for example).

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[[folder:Supporting Characters]]

!!'''Hiroyuki Tokumori'''
->Voiced by: Noriyuki Uchino (Japanese), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (English)

Yukari's crush, as well as an old friend to both Miwako and Arashi.

* OnlySaneMan: He's usually the one giving Yukari the soundest advice and has a mature perspective of life that resides outside her stubbornness and the main group's eccentricity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he eventually starts studying to be a psychologist.
* RomanticRunnerUp: He may be seen as this in the beginning, but since the series is partly about desconstructing romance tropes to hell and back, [[spoiler: it gets beautifully subverted in the end]]. He still gets the shaft in fanworks, though.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: One of the few male characters with dark hair, in fact, and noted to be handsome.
%% * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Miwako.
%% * WhatTheHellHero: To [[spoiler: Arashi]].


!!'''Kaori Asō'''
->Voiced by: Miho Saiki (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (English)

A former Yazagaku student who is now studying abroad on a scholarship received as the previous winner of the junior Grand Prize.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Sorta, to George. She loves him, yeah, but she also knows he won't make her happy.

!!'''Seiji Kisaragi'''
->Voiced by: Creator/ShinichiroMiki (Japanese), Creator/LiamOBrien (English)

Mikako's mother's assistant. His dream was to study abroad as a hair stylist.

* BishieSparkle: He is pretty and sparkles. It earns him the nickname "Sparkling Alien".

%% !!'''Yasuko Hayasaka'''
%% ->Voiced by: Shoko Tsuda (Japanese), Sam Carr (English)
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%% Yukari's mother.
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%% * EducationMama

!!'''Suguru Hayasaka'''
->Voiced by: Makoto Tsumura (Japanese), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese, older), Creator/MichelleRuff (English), Creator/VicMignogna (English, older)

Yukari's brother.

%% * AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* ChildProdigy: An excellent student, unlike his sister.

%% !!'''Alice Yamaguchi'''
%% ->Voiced by: Creator/RumiShishido (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (English)
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%% Miwako's niece.
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%% !!'''Tsutomu Yamaguchi'''
%% ->Voiced by: Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese), Peter Doyle (English)
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%% Mikako's husband.
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