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    The story of Skip Beat! is about Kyoko Mogami, a wistful yet cheery sixteen year-old girl who loves her childhood friend, Shotaro, but is cruelly betrayed and thus seeks revenge against him. She used to spend a lot of time at Shotaro’s parents’ inn and learned a lot about housekeeping, hostelry, and other stereotypically correct feminine jobs (sewing, cooking, serving tea traditionally, etc.). Shotaro, not wishing to take over his parents’ inn, becomes bored of living in Kyoto and decides to move to Tokyo to pursue a career in music. Sho, as he is called by his fans, asks Kyoko to leave high school in Kyoto Prefecture and her life behind to help him. Upon arrival in Tokyo, Kyoko lives an unreasonably frugal life, spending nothing on herself and doing whatever she can for Sho, who is ranked seventh in the top twenty most popular entertainers of Japan. It appears that Shotaro never helps with the cost of food, apartment, or necessary products. However, one day as she brings him his lunch at a company building, she overhears Sho complaining about her to his manager, saying that she is a boring and plain girl that he’d like to be rid of, proceeding to sweet-talk and flirt with his manager, whereas he hadn’t even put his arm around Kyoko in her life. Unlike other heroines in the same situation, Kyoko doesn’t shed many tears when she learns that Sho thinks she’s only good for housekeeping. Instead, her "Pandora’s box" opens and she vows vengeance on Shotaro. Enraged, Kyoko attempts to attack Sho, but is instantly carried off by security. Sho mockingly tells her that if she wants revenge, she had better become a bigger star than him. And so Kyoko, vowing revenge, changed her appearance and started to enter the entertainment business. Little did she know that her journey will not go as smooth as she thought. Skip Beat follows Kyoko’s journey to climb the showbiz ladder as she meets interesting people along the way, all in the hopes of revenge and finding herself in the end.

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   I was, once again, browsing over crunchyroll’s page and looked at the “Recently Popular Anime” section of the page and saw “Skip Beat” as one of the list there. By looking at the thumbnail, I already figured out that it’s a comedy romance. But since boredom was killing me, I wasn’t hesitant to try and watch it. Starting off with the OP song, I kind of like it and the video is okay too. About the artwork, I preferred the manga more attractive and better than the anime. Plus, the characters from the manga looked a lot better looking than of the anime series.

   Watching from the very first episode, I already had fun and enjoyed watching it since Kyoko, the lead character, have such a hilarious personality. Thought that Kyoko was very lucky to have the famous artist “Shou” living with her on an expensive apartment and for the record, he was her childhood friend and her long unrequited love. She was so desperate to serve her Shou-chan and does not think of herself at all as long as she can do everything for her beloved childhood friend.

   Kyoko gives her all efforts for Shou even though she doesn’t receive any in return. She never realized how stupid she was until she overheard Shou talking to his manager that he doesn’t care if he’s Kyoko’s number one and he only invited Kyoko to come along with him to Tokyo to serve him as his housekeeper and said that it’s natural that she’d work like a dog for him and planned to send Kyoko back to Kyoto. After hearing the harsh words of Shou, I never expected that the type of her would’ve act like that and it was really hilarious. I thought she would actually cry in front of Shou but instead she laugh out loud like an evil witch and that was extremely funny. From that scene, it is where the story all begins. Kyoko made a haircut and make over to look different and more modern. Her goal is not to have revenge against Shou and defeat him in his career. Quite an interesting anime, I never thought I would actually watch it. Still waiting for the 5th episode by the way, hoping that it’ll be extremely funny again.