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Skip Beat! #3
Skip Beat! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 3: Includes vols. 7, 8 & 9
When Kyoko’s heart is broken, she decides that revenge is a dish best served in the spotlight!
Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he’s casting her out now that he’s famous enough! Kyoko won’t suffer in silence—she’s going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!
Kyoko’s dreams are finally coming true! She’s landed a spot in Sho’s new video, and revenge is in sight! But vengeance isn’t as easy as she thought, and her rage starts to get in the way of her acting. When her performance catches the attention of some important people, Kyoko finds herself working with the terrifying Ren Tsuruga! Can she make it work, or will her growing fame be her downfall?!
Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he’s casting her out now that he’s famous enough! Kyoko won’t suffer in silence—she’s going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!
Kyoko’s dreams are finally coming true! She’s landed a spot in Sho’s new video, and revenge is in sight! But vengeance isn’t as easy as she thought, and her rage starts to get in the way of her acting. When her performance catches the attention of some important people, Kyoko finds herself working with the terrifying Ren Tsuruga! Can she make it work, or will her growing fame be her downfall?!
592 pages, Paperback
First published July 3, 2012
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Yoshiki Nakamura
131 books1,063 followersYoshiki Nakamura (仲村佳樹) is a Japanese mangaka. She was born June 17. Nakamura made her manga debut with "Yume de Auyori Suteki" in the manga magazine Hana to Yume in 1993.
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April 5, 2021
Some short points:
- Sho can suck it.
- Ren needs to go to therapy.
- saying that a 11 year old likes a 17 year old feels vaguely creepy to me.
- encouraging a 20 year old to date a 16 year old with the argument: "girls mature faster." also feels creepy, even though I do think if they both work in that same industry, experience in life matters more than your age.
- I love precocious kids so so so much even if it's hella unrealistic.
- Kyo and Moko's friendship would be uncomfortable in real life but I adore it in his manga!
- Sho can suck it.
- Ren needs to go to therapy.
- saying that a 11 year old likes a 17 year old feels vaguely creepy to me.
- encouraging a 20 year old to date a 16 year old with the argument: "girls mature faster." also feels creepy, even though I do think if they both work in that same industry, experience in life matters more than your age.
- I love precocious kids so so so much even if it's hella unrealistic.
- Kyo and Moko's friendship would be uncomfortable in real life but I adore it in his manga!
January 11, 2022
I love how well rounded this series is. Sure, it's not a thrilling DUN DUN DUN page turner, but I love the main character SO much, I don't care. Even following her around to do the mundane is still entertaining.
August 9, 2023
4.5 muy lindo
April 5, 2019
I just love this series! If you guys think this sounds interesting I would say just try it out!
January 4, 2022
•One of the reasons why I like re-reading this series is there are plenty of foreshadowing to future events, many I never noticed before. Nakamura really did plan this manga well 😊
•I put three stars on this volume because it just had a lot of questionable things (So did the first two volumes but nostalgia glasses kept it from being a low score)
Like, Yashiro's comment on "girl's being mature faster and this is show business" just does not sit well with me!
•Kyoko please don't murder Sho, even if it is tempting
•I put three stars on this volume because it just had a lot of questionable things (So did the first two volumes but nostalgia glasses kept it from being a low score)
Like, Yashiro's comment on "girl's being mature faster and this is show business" just does not sit well with me!
•Kyoko please don't murder Sho, even if it is tempting
November 28, 2018
Sorry, Kyoko, they just really like your evil-ness!
This series cracks me up!
This series cracks me up!
January 20, 2019
La carrera como actriz de Kyoko va avanzando rápidamente... Tanto, que la productora de Sho la pide para aparecer en su nuevo videoclip... Qué sucederá?
July 5, 2023
So good
December 29, 2024
Note: This review contains spoilers for previous volumes. If you are unfamiliar with the series, you may want to read earlier reviews instead.
In the previous volume, Kyoko had been acting as a manager for prickly rising actor Ren Tsuruga while his regular manager is down with an illness. (He is secretly her childhood friend “Corn” but hasn’t filled her in on that.) He notes that her acting is getting better, and Kyoko admits that she’s been learning to act not so much for revenge, but because she actually enjoys it for herself. It’s really the first thing she’s done not because it would please someone else or she has to as part of supporting someone else.
Ren mentions that Kyoko doesn’t have to overdo studying for her high school entrance exam since she doesn’t actually need 100% in all subjects to get in. She realizes that she was hung up on that because she’d been trying to please her absentee mother, and relaxes a bit. She’s still giving her all to the manager role, though.
With a more relaxed attitude, Kyoko actually gets 100% on her entrance exam (it helps that the high school for entertainment majors she’s applying for isn’t academically rigorous.) She shows her uniform to the owners of the restaurant she lives over and works in when she’s not in other jobs. We then skip ahead a couple of months.
While Kyoko’s generally been enjoying her classes and learning a lot, she’s one of the few students who attends regularly, most of her classmates often being off on gigs. She’s not even sure they know her name. The big exception is an aspiring actress named Mimori Nanokura, nicknamed “Pochi.” (It roughly means “Spot” and is a dog name.) Mimori is a bit of a bully, and wants to enjoy teasing Kyoko over her lack of show biz work. Kyoko is used to way worse from elementary school with Sho when the other girls were jealous of her closeness to him, so this just rolls off her back. (And also she still has her weekly evening job wearing a chicken suit.)
The soft drink commercial Kyoko did with Moko is finally out, and people on the street are taking note of the more conventionally attractive Moko in it. Kyoko is dismissed as plainer and less “celebrity”. After that she meets up with Ren and his regular manager Mr. Yashiro. Ren has generally good things to say, but has stamped Kyoko’s workbook with a “100 points” stamp with a “-10 points” stamp because he couldn’t be assed to work out how to do a “90 points” stamp. He doesn’t quite understand why Kyoko takes this so hard.
But there’s a new job on the horizon. The “Love Me” girls are requested for a music promo video starring…Sho Fuwa! Moko’s already busy in a J-drama, so instead of her, Kyoko will be working with Pochi.
Sho is pretty sure this “Kyoko” is his Kyoko, despite her relative glow-up, and is prepared to crush her so that she won’t be able to get her promised revenge. But it’s possible that it’s a chance resemblance and Kyoko is a pretty common name. And initially Kyoko’s wearing her gaudy pink “Love Me” uniform and deliberately acts like an airheaded fangirl so he’s not sure.
Kyoko meets Sho’s producer Haruki Asami, who she’s surprised to learn is a woman (the name is usually male) and Sho is flirting with her as much as he does his female manager. When Pochi enters, Kyoko goes into fangirl mode again in an attempt to hide that they’ve already met and prevent Mimori from saying her family name.
The music video is about a devil (Sho) who sees two angels (Pochi and Kyoko), and falls in love with one of them. She reciprocates and is on the verge of falling from grace. The other angel kills the devil to protect her sister. There’s no dialogue of course, as Sho’s new single will be playing over this. When she learns the plot, Kyoko gladly volunteers to be the killer angel.
Mimori has a big crush on Sho, who is willing to be polite about it (especially as she has a nice rack) even though he prefers slightly older women. Unfortunately, the lunch box she’s prepared for Sho has one of his least favorite foods, one he can only tolerate with lots of salt, and Kyoko flicks him some salt, confirming her identity as naturally she’s the only one who knows this.
This causes a lot of stress on set, as it’s obvious that Sho and Kyoko have bad blood but neither is willing to explain the situation. Pochi is only slightly comforted by Kyoko insisting that she was never Sho’s girlfriend (she only thought she was) and Sho truthfully agreeing.
We also get a little clarification of Sho’s feelings. He did, in fact, think of her as a friend, and didn’t mean to hurt her, but in his self-centeredness didn’t think it was a problem to exploit her as a servant. (He didn’t realize that she was hiding her tears from him, and as long as she was smiling he thought all was good.) He’s got twinges of guilt but can’t acknowledge them or apologize, as that would mean he did something wrong.
Despite all this, and after a couple of bad takes, Kyoko makes a breakthrough in her acting and the music video is completed.
Next up is a short silly bit with Maria, Lory’s granddaughter. She convinces Kyoko that they should get Moko some kind of present as congratulations for landing a drama job. But then Kyoko realizes that she knows nothing about Moko’s preferences or what she might need. What kind of best friend is she?
This goes off the rails when Moko shows up looking extremely depressed and not even noticing the other two girls are there. She refuses to explain. Maria and Kyoko dress up as spies to follow Moko around, and are surprised to see her don two very different looks for two dates, one of which is with a man old enough to be her father. Surely not compensated dating?
That evening, when Kyoko is being a waitress at the restaurant, who should come in but Moko, sporting a third look, and with a third man who she calls “Father.” And she’s acting rather contemptuous towards him. Moko’s not happy when she realizes she’s in a restaurant where someone she knows works.
But the next day, she’s still not explaining what’s up. In a bad mood, Kyoko goes to walk it off. She’s suddenly yelled at by a small child who recognizes the Love Me uniform and therefore reasons that she must be Kanae Kotonami’s (Moko’s real name) partner. He’s unreasonably hostile.
This child is Hio Uesugi, a third-generation actor, one of the most famous grade-schoolers in the country, and a total nepo baby. He claims that Kanae injured him on the drama, and has threatened to use his family connections to destroy her, and anyone who dares side with her, that is, Kyoko.
As part of unraveling the problem, Moko is forced to reveal to Kyoko and Hio that she’s part of a large and poverty-stricken family that basically sponges off her because she’s the only one with both a steady income and good financial judgement. Those “dates” were emergency acting jobs for people who needed to be seen in public with a girlfriend or daughter, which Kanae took because she’d been suspended from the drama.
Hio realizes that he’s been a brat and welcomes Moko back to the job, though he still has a ways to go before he’s mature.
Time for a new plotline. Ren meets with Lory, who is concerned with the actor’s future. Ren’s a very good actor, yes, but he’s not good at conveying “love.” Part of this is because he’s never been “in love.” He’s dated plenty, but never felt an attachment to his partners. Up until now, Ren’s roles have not emphasized romance, so his other talents have sufficed. But because Ren’s now old enough and handsome enough to be a romantic lead, people are going to cast him as such, and Lory thinks he’s going to muff it.
Kyoko finally fills Moko in on the Sho situation. She also clears the air with Ren about what was going on with the music video.
Kyoko has been called up to be in a drama herself, a remake of a classic, “Tsukigomori”, that Ren will also be in. Lucky! But she hasn’t seen the original or read the novel it’s based on, so she’s just got that volume in her hand when she accidentally runs into the director, Mr. Ogata, a pale man who looks frail and weeps easily.
Our heroine is less thrilled when she learns that she’s been cast because Mr. Ogata saw the music video and felt that her “dark angel” was the perfect match for the role of Mio Hongo, the disfigured villainess of the romantic drama. (She’d only heard “rich young lady” and thought she’d be playing a much more ritzy role.) Ren’s been cast as the romantic lead, over Lory’s objections but since he knows that Kyoko’s also in the cast, Ren insisted.
Will Kyoko be able to endure a villain role? Can Ren express the emotion of love convincingly? What new characters will appear? Tune in next volume!
One thing that might not come across in my description is that this is a comedic shoujo romance manga. Yes, there’s all the melodrama you’d expect from the romance genre, but Kyoko’s overreactions and some of the other characters’ behavior when not in melodrama mode reveal that it’s supposed to be funny. Kyoko’s literal “inner demons” which sometimes become outer demons make a strong combat in these volumes after having been relatively quiet in 4-5-6.
The character art continues to be good, and there are some interesting costuming choices. Backgrounds tend to be vague or entirely missing, though.
There’s a lot of story left, as the manga is up to 49 volumes in the American edition and still running in Japan, so while there’s a bit of overall story progression in these volumes don’t expect any firm resolution of major plot points any time soon.
If you like your romantic heroines flawed in ways that are actual negative traits, this continues to be a fun series recommended to shoujo fans.
In the previous volume, Kyoko had been acting as a manager for prickly rising actor Ren Tsuruga while his regular manager is down with an illness. (He is secretly her childhood friend “Corn” but hasn’t filled her in on that.) He notes that her acting is getting better, and Kyoko admits that she’s been learning to act not so much for revenge, but because she actually enjoys it for herself. It’s really the first thing she’s done not because it would please someone else or she has to as part of supporting someone else.
Ren mentions that Kyoko doesn’t have to overdo studying for her high school entrance exam since she doesn’t actually need 100% in all subjects to get in. She realizes that she was hung up on that because she’d been trying to please her absentee mother, and relaxes a bit. She’s still giving her all to the manager role, though.
With a more relaxed attitude, Kyoko actually gets 100% on her entrance exam (it helps that the high school for entertainment majors she’s applying for isn’t academically rigorous.) She shows her uniform to the owners of the restaurant she lives over and works in when she’s not in other jobs. We then skip ahead a couple of months.
While Kyoko’s generally been enjoying her classes and learning a lot, she’s one of the few students who attends regularly, most of her classmates often being off on gigs. She’s not even sure they know her name. The big exception is an aspiring actress named Mimori Nanokura, nicknamed “Pochi.” (It roughly means “Spot” and is a dog name.) Mimori is a bit of a bully, and wants to enjoy teasing Kyoko over her lack of show biz work. Kyoko is used to way worse from elementary school with Sho when the other girls were jealous of her closeness to him, so this just rolls off her back. (And also she still has her weekly evening job wearing a chicken suit.)
The soft drink commercial Kyoko did with Moko is finally out, and people on the street are taking note of the more conventionally attractive Moko in it. Kyoko is dismissed as plainer and less “celebrity”. After that she meets up with Ren and his regular manager Mr. Yashiro. Ren has generally good things to say, but has stamped Kyoko’s workbook with a “100 points” stamp with a “-10 points” stamp because he couldn’t be assed to work out how to do a “90 points” stamp. He doesn’t quite understand why Kyoko takes this so hard.
But there’s a new job on the horizon. The “Love Me” girls are requested for a music promo video starring…Sho Fuwa! Moko’s already busy in a J-drama, so instead of her, Kyoko will be working with Pochi.
Sho is pretty sure this “Kyoko” is his Kyoko, despite her relative glow-up, and is prepared to crush her so that she won’t be able to get her promised revenge. But it’s possible that it’s a chance resemblance and Kyoko is a pretty common name. And initially Kyoko’s wearing her gaudy pink “Love Me” uniform and deliberately acts like an airheaded fangirl so he’s not sure.
Kyoko meets Sho’s producer Haruki Asami, who she’s surprised to learn is a woman (the name is usually male) and Sho is flirting with her as much as he does his female manager. When Pochi enters, Kyoko goes into fangirl mode again in an attempt to hide that they’ve already met and prevent Mimori from saying her family name.
The music video is about a devil (Sho) who sees two angels (Pochi and Kyoko), and falls in love with one of them. She reciprocates and is on the verge of falling from grace. The other angel kills the devil to protect her sister. There’s no dialogue of course, as Sho’s new single will be playing over this. When she learns the plot, Kyoko gladly volunteers to be the killer angel.
Mimori has a big crush on Sho, who is willing to be polite about it (especially as she has a nice rack) even though he prefers slightly older women. Unfortunately, the lunch box she’s prepared for Sho has one of his least favorite foods, one he can only tolerate with lots of salt, and Kyoko flicks him some salt, confirming her identity as naturally she’s the only one who knows this.
This causes a lot of stress on set, as it’s obvious that Sho and Kyoko have bad blood but neither is willing to explain the situation. Pochi is only slightly comforted by Kyoko insisting that she was never Sho’s girlfriend (she only thought she was) and Sho truthfully agreeing.
We also get a little clarification of Sho’s feelings. He did, in fact, think of her as a friend, and didn’t mean to hurt her, but in his self-centeredness didn’t think it was a problem to exploit her as a servant. (He didn’t realize that she was hiding her tears from him, and as long as she was smiling he thought all was good.) He’s got twinges of guilt but can’t acknowledge them or apologize, as that would mean he did something wrong.
Despite all this, and after a couple of bad takes, Kyoko makes a breakthrough in her acting and the music video is completed.
Next up is a short silly bit with Maria, Lory’s granddaughter. She convinces Kyoko that they should get Moko some kind of present as congratulations for landing a drama job. But then Kyoko realizes that she knows nothing about Moko’s preferences or what she might need. What kind of best friend is she?
This goes off the rails when Moko shows up looking extremely depressed and not even noticing the other two girls are there. She refuses to explain. Maria and Kyoko dress up as spies to follow Moko around, and are surprised to see her don two very different looks for two dates, one of which is with a man old enough to be her father. Surely not compensated dating?
That evening, when Kyoko is being a waitress at the restaurant, who should come in but Moko, sporting a third look, and with a third man who she calls “Father.” And she’s acting rather contemptuous towards him. Moko’s not happy when she realizes she’s in a restaurant where someone she knows works.
But the next day, she’s still not explaining what’s up. In a bad mood, Kyoko goes to walk it off. She’s suddenly yelled at by a small child who recognizes the Love Me uniform and therefore reasons that she must be Kanae Kotonami’s (Moko’s real name) partner. He’s unreasonably hostile.
This child is Hio Uesugi, a third-generation actor, one of the most famous grade-schoolers in the country, and a total nepo baby. He claims that Kanae injured him on the drama, and has threatened to use his family connections to destroy her, and anyone who dares side with her, that is, Kyoko.
As part of unraveling the problem, Moko is forced to reveal to Kyoko and Hio that she’s part of a large and poverty-stricken family that basically sponges off her because she’s the only one with both a steady income and good financial judgement. Those “dates” were emergency acting jobs for people who needed to be seen in public with a girlfriend or daughter, which Kanae took because she’d been suspended from the drama.
Hio realizes that he’s been a brat and welcomes Moko back to the job, though he still has a ways to go before he’s mature.
Time for a new plotline. Ren meets with Lory, who is concerned with the actor’s future. Ren’s a very good actor, yes, but he’s not good at conveying “love.” Part of this is because he’s never been “in love.” He’s dated plenty, but never felt an attachment to his partners. Up until now, Ren’s roles have not emphasized romance, so his other talents have sufficed. But because Ren’s now old enough and handsome enough to be a romantic lead, people are going to cast him as such, and Lory thinks he’s going to muff it.
Kyoko finally fills Moko in on the Sho situation. She also clears the air with Ren about what was going on with the music video.
Kyoko has been called up to be in a drama herself, a remake of a classic, “Tsukigomori”, that Ren will also be in. Lucky! But she hasn’t seen the original or read the novel it’s based on, so she’s just got that volume in her hand when she accidentally runs into the director, Mr. Ogata, a pale man who looks frail and weeps easily.
Our heroine is less thrilled when she learns that she’s been cast because Mr. Ogata saw the music video and felt that her “dark angel” was the perfect match for the role of Mio Hongo, the disfigured villainess of the romantic drama. (She’d only heard “rich young lady” and thought she’d be playing a much more ritzy role.) Ren’s been cast as the romantic lead, over Lory’s objections but since he knows that Kyoko’s also in the cast, Ren insisted.
Will Kyoko be able to endure a villain role? Can Ren express the emotion of love convincingly? What new characters will appear? Tune in next volume!
One thing that might not come across in my description is that this is a comedic shoujo romance manga. Yes, there’s all the melodrama you’d expect from the romance genre, but Kyoko’s overreactions and some of the other characters’ behavior when not in melodrama mode reveal that it’s supposed to be funny. Kyoko’s literal “inner demons” which sometimes become outer demons make a strong combat in these volumes after having been relatively quiet in 4-5-6.
The character art continues to be good, and there are some interesting costuming choices. Backgrounds tend to be vague or entirely missing, though.
There’s a lot of story left, as the manga is up to 49 volumes in the American edition and still running in Japan, so while there’s a bit of overall story progression in these volumes don’t expect any firm resolution of major plot points any time soon.
If you like your romantic heroines flawed in ways that are actual negative traits, this continues to be a fun series recommended to shoujo fans.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 8, 2016
SERIES REVIEW:
(Side note - I have read more than what's official by reading translated online scans, as such my view may be a bit biased based on further plot developments.)
Skip Beat is possibly the best shoujo I have ever read! While the art style may throw newer readers off as it is very 90's/early 2000's do NOT let it keep you from giving this manga a try! The characters and plot more than make up for any lacking art. Kyoko is my favorite protagonist I have ever read - book or manga. This is not your typical shoujo by any means. It has romance but focuses more on Kyoko's growth as an individual as well as her determination to find herself. The other characters are not left behind either. They are also constantly growing and changing in different ways giving off such a vibrant and realistic vibe (well mostly realistic-if you have read it you know what I mean) If you are looking for romance, comedy, a shoujo with depth this is the one. While at times the slower romance pace is frustrating the pay offs make it worth it. Instead of a cheap fix so many shoujo manga are doing this is a slow burning master piece. I really cannot give this series enough praise and everyone - shoujo fan or not, manga fan or not - needs to give it a try!
(Side note - I have read more than what's official by reading translated online scans, as such my view may be a bit biased based on further plot developments.)
Skip Beat is possibly the best shoujo I have ever read! While the art style may throw newer readers off as it is very 90's/early 2000's do NOT let it keep you from giving this manga a try! The characters and plot more than make up for any lacking art. Kyoko is my favorite protagonist I have ever read - book or manga. This is not your typical shoujo by any means. It has romance but focuses more on Kyoko's growth as an individual as well as her determination to find herself. The other characters are not left behind either. They are also constantly growing and changing in different ways giving off such a vibrant and realistic vibe (well mostly realistic-if you have read it you know what I mean) If you are looking for romance, comedy, a shoujo with depth this is the one. While at times the slower romance pace is frustrating the pay offs make it worth it. Instead of a cheap fix so many shoujo manga are doing this is a slow burning master piece. I really cannot give this series enough praise and everyone - shoujo fan or not, manga fan or not - needs to give it a try!
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December 23, 2023i missed how dramatic this whole story was and is going to work out and i so excited to get read this again and start to love this whole manga though i dont have the whole series yet.
since this is 3 in 1 ( which is possible the only way ill read manga because most of them are so short)ill put this review in three parts. but the first part of this is so sweet and i wanted to punch ren because of how childish he was being, she didn't deserve that even though most people who love what they do will understand his reasoning on why.( she acted as his manger his normal one got sick)
the second story is great if you like revenge on anybody that deserve what is coming to them. although i HATE and DONT AGREE with how SHO STILL ACTS like he OWNS OUR GIRL i want to slap him.
and the third story is so sweet and i love how lory just loves ren like he is his son and wants the best for him (this is a lot of the story towards the end tho so sorry) and he wants to have him to have a successful career as an actor but will say no if he cant act out something
since this is 3 in 1 ( which is possible the only way ill read manga because most of them are so short)ill put this review in three parts. but the first part of this is so sweet and i wanted to punch ren because of how childish he was being, she didn't deserve that even though most people who love what they do will understand his reasoning on why.( she acted as his manger his normal one got sick)
the second story is great if you like revenge on anybody that deserve what is coming to them. although i HATE and DONT AGREE with how SHO STILL ACTS like he OWNS OUR GIRL i want to slap him.
and the third story is so sweet and i love how lory just loves ren like he is his son and wants the best for him (this is a lot of the story towards the end tho so sorry) and he wants to have him to have a successful career as an actor but will say no if he cant act out something
August 29, 2014
Can't wait to read the next volume of this! This series keeps getting better and better. The chicken suit returns, we see Moko's insane family that has me rolling on the floor laughing, and Ren somehow gets more attractive. All in all, a must read shojo series.
March 6, 2020
This series is so good. I don't know if I have ever come across a series where every book matches the last one in terms of quality and reading experience. I think this must be in part due to the three volumes in one because it feels like a lot more is happening the series if you were to read them as one volume as opposed to three separate volumes. Nevertheless, I loved this volume. It matched up to all of my expectations from the other two 3 in 1 volumes and nothing problematic has occurred. There is more interaction between Ren and Kyoto which I live for, and Kyoto's career is growing stronger. I can't wait to read the next volume but I am also sad that I have managed to get through the mangas so quickly. By the time it's payday for me I would have read all the mangas that I have urgently wanted to read which means I will be really tempted to go on another manga buying spree...
December 25, 2022
4.5 stars rounded up. I realize I never got around to writing my review for volume 6 and at this point I think I'd need to re-read it in order to do so, but I still couldn't keep away from reading this next omnibus 3-in-1. I'd say this was more lighthearted even during its "drama" moments than some of the past volumes, and I really adore the continuing focus on Kyoko developing her friendship with Kanae, as well as further insight into how Ren's feelings for Kyoko are evolving. It's also just nice to see that the friendship with Kanae isn't one-sided, and Kanae cares just as much about Kyoko's friendship as Kyoko does. (It's also nice to have seen Sho get dunked on a little; he deserves it at this point.) All in all I realized I need to not put off returning to this series for as long as I did this past year or so. It's still such a refreshing break from many of the other things I read.
July 8, 2018
This review covers the next three book in the series (7, 8, & 9). Kyoko has finally started to come into her own. Kyoko finally makes it on T.V.. Its small but it a start. It opens a few door the she reluctant to walk through because who waiting on the other side. However she is determine to rise even higher by stepping on you know who. She comes to release she really loves. Each stone brings here higher. She finally gets her chance to appear in movie. Can't wait read the next series. I watched the anime before reading the manga so I already know what is happening. However, I like seeing all the little parts that were left out of the anime.
July 6, 2018
Review by K.M. : "If you read the last three books then you know that Ren Tsuruga has a cold. As he vanished to read his script alone, Kyoko finds him and says the lines of the woman. It ends with him amazed. This is when she (Kyoko) says she is having fun acting. A good manga slowly becoming a romance."
November 18, 2019
9 volumes in and this Manga keeps getting better. Between the slow burn romance between Ren and Kyoko. And the budding friendship between her and Moko just makes me so happy. It's great seeing women who are trying to learn that women can be friends with other women without a hidden agenda. I want the next volume now!!
September 28, 2021
Pretty entertaining. Looking forward to the start of kyoko starring in the drama, as I remember it was a good arc. One thing that was ick though was when Ren's manager talks about how girls mature faster and that it shouldn't matter about their age difference and that he should snatch her up before someone else does. The way he said it was ... like ok ._.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 9, 2023
It’s getting to my favorite part where Kyoko plays Mio in the drama. I loved the bit where Kyoko appears in the Sho Fuwa clip. The part where she strangled him multiple times was funny. I wonder if Sho Fuwa likes Kyoko. I also wonder if Ren likes Kyoko. If I remember correctly, they don’t really realize they like each other even through volume 30-something…
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 11, 2017
Love! Love! Love!!!! LOVE!!!!!!!!!! This series so much that I use WAY too much exclamation points!! Hee hee. Sorry. Highly addictive manga series, getting ready to devour the next volume of this 3-in-1 manga volumes. So happy!!!!!!!!! I seriously LOVE this series!!!!!!!
October 29, 2017
I am completely hooked on this series. Kyoko’s inner thoughts and emotions are illustrated so perfectly and hilariously, and I literally laughed out loud many, many times reading this omnibus. On to the next 3 volumes!
January 25, 2020
I love seeing Kyoko grow into the actress she's found herself becoming. It makes the revenge she's sure to dish up in the future that much sweeter.
March 17, 2020
As if reading the series for the first time, but not. Knowing when things happen, but can't remember when. Is a rush and a joy!
July 25, 2020
*4 stars*
May 2, 2021
This had me screaming and laughing so much!
June 28, 2022
best one so far! i'm so excited for the tsukigomori arc ahh
July 5, 2024
I love where this one has gone, and the ending. I forgot so much hahahaha! I'm looking forward to this next stage.
July 5, 2024
Great character development. Great backstories. Overall really enjoying this!
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