Skip Beat 6
Posted: January 28, 2008 Filed under: Skip Beat 2 Comments »I read five volumes of this at once, and it was really, really amazing. I love this series to bits, and I’m sad I’ll never be able to hold out long enough for another marathon like that. This is definitely a series which reads well with many volumes one after another, because it always feels like not enough ground is covered in each volume and it leaves you wanting more.
This was my favorite volume out of the nine I’ve read so far, though. I love it when the focus is on the dysfunctional, budding relationship between Ren and Kyoko. Ren’s manager is out sick, so as part of her Love Me duties, Kyoko acts as a substitute manager. This sounds unreasonable until you find out that Ren is basically able to take care of himself, and the only reason Kyoko was subbed in as a manager was to make sure Ren ate well, which is apparently the one thing he can’t handle. Well, after boasting about never having a cold, he comes down with one, so most of the volume is about Kyoko taking care of Ren and helping him mask the fact he has a high fever from everybody else. They bond a lot too, and it is SO CUTE. Because Ren has a really fake way of dealing with people and Kyoko is sort of damaged romantically, the sincerity of their relationship is emphasized… and really, the two just make a really good pair. Ren is a really quirky character too, just like Kyoko, so there’s a lot of weird things like… bringing him out of a stupor by making him recite his lines and things like that that happen while the two are together too, so there’s a lot of really funny stuff mixed in, too. The characters and writing are just really fantastic, and it’s hard not to enjoy this series if you’re any sort of red-blooded girl. Or at least a red-blooded girl who likes really girly comics.
Because I was overloaded with Ren/Kyoko moments in this volume, the relationship isn’t really nurtured again until the very end of volume 9, so I kind of enjoyed it here while I could get it.
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Hee, I just finished this and deemed it my favorite thus far, as well. All of the Ren/Kyoko bonding was great, and there was also the bit in the beginning where Moko wrote a really nice thing in Kyoko’s stamp book.