Skip Beat 7
Posted: January 29, 2008 Filed under: Skip Beat 1 Comment »Moving on in the Skip Beat marathon, we get a volume that tests Kyoko’s conviction that she mostly acts for herself to try and reinvent a personality that’s just for her. That is, that she’s not acting in order to crush Shotaro into the ground. Because in this volume, she has to co-star with him in his newest music video. You can imagine this bugs her a bit.
Actually, this is mostly just the end of things with the Ren volume from last time and sort of the beginning of the next volume, which mostly covers just the Shotaro music video. Kyoko and Moko are requested to play the angels to Shotaro’s devil, and when Moko can’t do the video, a bratty antagonist from one of Kyoko’s classes shows up to fill the role. The girl is a total Shotaro fan, and Kyoko sees in her a shadow of her old self. On set, in between fights with Shotaro, Kyoko periodically has to reassure the girl that she means nothing to Shotaro, and Shotaro definitely goes more for girls like her. Or any girl, for that matter.
It’s mostly a transition between two major plot points, but I liked the way things from last volume gradually wound down and the sudden fever pitch the next story arc took. Kyoko seems to be ascending slowly but surely in the entertainment world, and I love every single page of it. The character personalities are all really funny and easy to sympathize with, even the ones that would normally annoy me, like I said.
But yes. This volume just means more great things will come next volume.
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