![]() ![]() While her tales focused on young love, but what captivated readers was her stunning sense of design. In 1985, Yazawa made her manga debut in the pages of the monthly girl's anthology RIBON with the title 15th Year. Raised in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture, Yazawa grew up with ambitions to become a fashion designer, and as a youth enrolled in the Osaka Mode Academy, one of Japan's most competitive fashion schools. ![]() At first she resists, scornful of the odd-looking design students, until George, the lead designer, uses his wiles to join them while forcing Yukari to take a good, hard look at her life.Īi Yazawa's entrancing artwork and spirited dialogue create a colorful of range of endearing, comical, and above all human characters who are struggling to define themselves and their life choices as they face the looming prospect of adulthood.įrom 1999 to 2009 no shojo manga (girls comics) author in Japan sold more books than Ai Yazawa. There they ask her to be their model for their school fashion show. One day she's kidnapped by a troupe of fashion design students and whisked away to their lounge-like atelier. Yukari Hayasaka is a studious, straight-laced high school senior, racing towards college exams yet with no real sense of purpose in her life. ![]()
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