It's been two years I follow this manga. Finally, after all the long hiatus of reading any manga, I started to follow this one. It was after writing my thesis, just like any other lazy students, who felt that they were to lazy to do anything to occupy their free time, I started to ask to friends about manga they were reading at that time. Some were referring to this one, giving positive comments to this manga; FUNNY, GREAT STORY, LOTS OF COOL GUYS, etc. And then in the count of minutes, I became one of the thousands of SKIP BEAT HARDCORE FANS out there.
What caught me from the beginning, it being funny. All characters are not portrayed in such a cliche way, or you know, just like a regular character you would find in most mangas. For me, the main character Kyoko Mogami is quite different. At the beginning of the story when she was dumped by her stupid boyfriend (Fuwa Shoutaro), she was angry! Also in the same time, she realized that she was used by him. And what attracted me most, that most character in manga, if there was any kind of this story, the heroine would go crying. Well, you know, the passive type of girl. And I would find it very boring and USUAL! So what's the point of writing a manga, if you have that usual type story... >> hahahh... being so nosy, am I?
Anyway, as story went, more characters appeared; interesting characters that is. All the twists love story, again not too lovey dovey, or again full of cliche (well perhaps there is a little bit of the cliche-ness >> is this even a word? :P), that make this manga very very interesting!
When the first time I read this one, I read it on Mangafox. But then, I think from the mid 2010 (if I am not mistaken) the series was bought by a manga publisher in the US. Thus the host (and Mangaone) could not published or upload the series any longer. It was rather hard to find someone who has the guts to upload the series. But thank goodness, from the forum on Mangafox which is still followed by many fans, I found one site. It is here in blogspot. And because of this site also, I started to write my blog here.
So, Skip Beat has made my top ten guilty pleasure list, along with Sandra Brown, maccha, ice cream, chocolate, NSYNC, water melon, E!, NGC, Glee+Castle+Dexter+TrueBlood (this counted as ONE!!), and ofcourse: SKIP BEAT!
Summary
Kyouko Mogami lived solely for her childhood friend Shoutaro "Shou" Fuwa. She follows Shou to Tokyo so that he may realize his dream of becoming a famous singer. When his dream is realized, Kyouko overhears the truth behind his decision to bringing her with him: he was using her as a maid.
Shocked and enraged, Kyouko swears to take revenge by outdoing him in show business. With a new look and a new attitude, she joins LME, the agency where Ren Tsuruga (Shou's rival and the #1 actor of LME) works, in the hopes of achieving her goal of destroying Shou's pride.
Along the way, she discovers her true self, makes new friends (and enemies), and finds herself at the heart of some interesting situations that will change her life, and the lives of all others involved, forever.
