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So I am someone that loves to watch Figure skating and for example Gymnastics. But I am always afraid to see some person get wounded so I barely dare to watch it. That's the first joy that Yuri!!! on Ice brought me. Being able to watch and I have to say that the art was detailed and they really paid attention to what figure skating was about. Hand movement, legs, everything that I as a not-obsessed-fan-person know about figure skating.

Second were the people in the anime. At first you have the annoying person Yuri Plisetsky but you learn to deal with all of them ... and there are far more annoying people in the world. As for Yuri Katsuki and Victor, I can't imagine two better people to be the main characters of this show. The student and the teacher and the story around them is funny, yet emotional to watch.

Together with the music, the tension of the matches this show was very enjoyable and thus highly recommendable. It doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl, it's a sports anime. Maybe girls like it better but I would still suggest it to my male friends who are open minded enough to start new things, so why not.

I was very glad to see that the ending of episode twelve said: See you Next Level. Because this anime deserves a second season and I'm very interested to see what will happen next and if there will be more development in the characters. For they already showed so much. I am interested in their past, their history, how did both Victor, Yuri and Yuri came to the point of Figure Skating. That's the only thing I missed at the anime right now, a little bit of extra debt.

It is obviously not the idea to compare animes with each other but ParaKiss was a little bit of a disappointment. Don't get me wrong I still loved it and thought about it a lot when I was not watching. It even kept me from other work that I needed to do.

However with a series like Nana I expected a little more. They could have done so much if they only changed the amount of episodes there were available. Twelve is not enough for a series like Paradise Kiss. They needed at least 24 and even if they covered the same amount of this ... story it would have still be enough. A little more flashbacks was something that would make me love the characters a little more and understand them a little bit better. For example I loved Isabella/Izabella, and it was a bit weird to get the flashback or the background of her story so late and at one point that it didn't make sense. Why was it necessary there and couldn't you get a glimpse of a flashback earlier on when Miwako said that you couldn't change in front of the boys, which should have brought a big question mark. Anything else but the end.

I loved the theme and that also reminded me a little of NaNa, which is also the reason why I started to watch Paradise Kiss. Because I love the art from the Nana series and obviously love the art from ParaKiss. The details for music, clothing in both series is absolutely terrific! Which brings me to the next subject: in Nana it is clear why they put so much attention to both clothing and music. Which they don't do with Paradise Kiss, yes the clothing is explained but the idea of Arashi in a band, that could use some extra background again. Same between about the fights between Hiro, Arashi and Miwako. Arashi said he stole Miwako, flashblack please.

It had so much potential to only miss out because of the fact that it could only have twelve options. So I would say that skipping the anime is a way better job to do and read the manga, than the other way around. What I have done at this point.
I will read the manga, might be in a year because I don't want to keep repeating for myself. But I'm almost 100% assured that the manga will be so much better.