Skip Beat 18
Posted: May 5, 2009 Filed under: Skip Beat 7 Comments »Man, this series just gets to be a girlier and girlier read with every new volume. I wasn’t sure I’d like this new plot as much as the previous Dark Moon storyline given the unprecedented romantic bounty we were handed there, but things really take a turn for the strange in this volume, and it’s hard not to get swept up.
Also, Lory is battling some sort of dating sim addiction through the entire volume whenever any character checks in with him, and that was just an awesome tangent.
It becomes clear fairly quickly that Koo, as horribly as he treats Kyoko at first, is only doing it in hopes that she will complain to Ren and Ren will get angry and confront him. The reason for that is just one part of a few different, very interesting story threads coming together. Corn literally and figuratively has a part to play, and there are two scenes dealing with him that made me die a little inside in the way that only really excellent shoujo can. We even very nearly get to see Corn’s face, and I was fooled for a minute, but it was just Kyoko acting. Curse her.
For my own reference, the best scene in the volume was a three-way awkward face-off between Kyoko (who was playing a character), Ren, and Koo. Koo’s actually a really awesome guy once he stops trying to be a jerk. He turns out to be a teacher and sort of a father figure for Kyoko, who doesn’t really know all that much about parental affection.
Also in this volume: we start to see Sho keep his promise to Kyoko. Awesome.
Yeah, I’m just going to gush in an embarassing way if I continue talking about this volume. Skip Beat’s one of the funniest and most addictive shoujo series I’m reading right now. Hands down. I love it more and more with every volume, and it’s not just any series that can keep me singing its praises this far into the series.
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Do you know where can I find the dark moon novel or what others name does it been call.
Becos I quit in to the drama made in skip beat , so I would like to know more about the dark moon story .
PLS tell me if you know anything .
I’m sorry, but I’m not familiar with the novel, either. I wondered if it was a real novel or if it was something created just for Skip Beat. It wasn’t included in the translation notes in the back of the volume, which is unfortunate. I’d be interested in finding out more about it, too.
volume 19 doesn’t come out till october!!! gah!!! oh and i agree,loved that the boss guy was playing a dating sim through out. that was hilarious and like the best thing about the whole volume for me.
Yeah, I was kind of bummed that the release schedule slowed down, too. This is literally the series I look forward to the most. I guess it’s catching up to Japan, but I’m just so used to reading it every other month. I’ve been very spoiled this past year and a half or so.
Dark Moon / Tsukigomori is not a real novel. Yoshiki Nakamura created it as a plot point for Skip Beat. In Japan, Kyoko and co. are still filming the drama (though the plot focuses on other acting projects and so forth), so we haven’t seen the end of the drama. Whether any more on Dark Moon will be shown is anyone’s guess. I keep hoping it will though.
Thanks for clearing that up! I always wondered, especially since the plot seemed a lot more… indepth than the regular fictitious drama in these types of series. It makes sense that it’s not real, especially with that big section that developed Ren’s character. I didn’t realize that the characters were still filming it until I recently peeked ahead, either. I was under the impression that they finished shooting during that Vie Ghoul story, or a little after, when they were talking about the ratings. I probably should have known better, since that takes away more reasons for Ren and Kyoko to be together.