Skip Beat Vol. 10

Synopsis:

The day has finally arrived! It is the press conference for the Dark Moon announcement & Director Ogata looks as if he’s going to have fits out of nervousness. Kyouko also noticed that Ren doesn’t look like his usual self either. A little info on the drama: Tsukigomori was actually a top rated drama aired 20 years ago. It was directed by Hirotaka Date (whom was revealed at the announcement to be Director Ogata’s father) and starring famous actor Shuuhei Hozu. Ren will be playing the main character Katsuki (a teacher) who was in love with his student Mizuki, eventhough he was engaged to her sister at that time. Kyouko plays Mizuki’s other sister, Mio, a dark person who has a prominent scar on her forehead from a previous accident (technically speaking – Kyouko plays the bad guy! hahahahahaha).
Plenty of people are apprehensive of the new drama, wondering if it is able to surpass the old drama. At the announcement, when a reporter questioned Ogata regarding his relationship with Hirotaka Date, the previous director, Ogata was so shocked & nervous (?) that he fainted! It is indeed a bad start for the entire of DM group.

The shooting of DM finally started. Everything seems to be going good (although Ogata seems to be on the verge of fainting all the time), until the shooting of Mio. Kyouko was deemed by Izuki-san (the actress who played Mio in Tsukigomori, now in DM instead as the mother) to be not good enough. Ren steps in and requested that Kyouko be given some time reprieve to think over her character, in which after, Izuki-san may test her again. Ren practically “guarantees” that Kyouko will find the Mio that will satisfy everyone.

While pondering over Mio (with Yashiro by her side), Kyouko finally manage to realize “her Mio”. She promptly ran off without explaining. When the rest of the cast was told of this, Ren AGAIN backs Kyouko, and request the Director to trust her and continue with the rest of the shooting first, while waiting for Kyouko to return. Ogata agreed.

When Kyouko finally return on set (after 3 hours!), she shocked everyone – her wig was gone, and she dyed her original short hair completely black, showing the scar prominently to everyone (the scar was previously covered by the wig). During the test given by Izuki-san, she performed incredibly (she was SOOOO EVILLL), which pleased Ren very much (hehehehehehe), and gave Ogata such inspiration that he was again fired up to work on DM (no more fainting fits!).

After “waking” up from her Mio character, Kyouko promptly went into one of her dramatic “apologies” to everyone. Ogata forgave her, and informed that Kyouko’s Mio gave him such inspiration and confidence to do the DM he imagined to be that he wants Kyouko to use her “Mio”. At this time, Ren also ponders on his Katsuki and how he will surpass the old one. Flashback shows President Lory asking Ren whether he can act a man who’s in love with a girl but must suppress his feelings for her.
Kyouko suddenly appeared in front of Ren to do another of her “apologies” (This scene cannot be missed!!!). Ren replies that if she had came back with a mediocre Mio, he would not have forgiven her, but her current Mio surpassed his expectations, and that is enough for him. Somewhere else, Sho saw the poster of DM and realized that Kyouko is starring in it (with Ren, no less!).

Reviews:

An entire volume on DM (which is what I’m gonna use for Dark Moon, to make things easier for my fingers, LOL) and a paltry 6 pages for Sho... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Everything looks good, and the storyline is incredibly interesting, especially about how Kyouko found her Mio. I love how the development between her & Ren went. They have upgraded to calling each other on the phone privately (kekekeke, this shocked Yashiro when he found out), and speaking to each other privately when in between shootings (this made all the other supporting cast jealous). And Ren even supported Kyouko TWICE (read my synopsis). And it is incredible to watch Kyouko grow from a fledging actress who have no previous experience in acting (PVs & commercial don’t count. I’m talking bout full-length dramas). Phew... I can’t wait to summarize the next volume.

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Posted at 9:02 PM

Skip Beat Vol. 9

Synopsis:

As hinted in the previous volume, a bratty kid actor -Uesugi Hiou – appeared on the same show where Kyouko works as Bo, the chicken (I could never in my life remember the name of that show!!!). Turns out that Hiou-kun is part of a family of famous actors and he was influential enough to get Moko-san fired from her drama-series job. There had been a misunderstanding between the two of them when Moko threw Hiou-kun while “playing” and injured him.

However, when the three of them (Kyouko, Moko & Hiou) met up, Moko finally revealed why she acted that way when she was suppose to “play” with Hiou-kun in of of the drama scenes. She brought the other two to her home – and it is a huge family!!! With loads of kids who just throw and stick themselves to Moko like leeches whenever she comes back!!! The only way to get them off is to throw them away. That was the only way Moko knows how to play with kids. Both Kyouko & Hiou-kun stayed over for a night at her place and it was a really interesting experience for them.

The next day, Ren appeared at President Lory’s office for a discussion, where the latter told Ren about his love life being too boring and cold, and that he also cannot act in romantic scenes. The president also warn him that this could be detrimental because Ren is now at a age where he will be required to act in romantic dramas more frequently especially for Ren’s next work – a remake of a famous, old drama. (KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure you fans know what drama that’s is!!!). At the same time, Hiou-kun seems to have forgiven Moko and told her to go back to work.

Later on, Moko forced Kyouko to reveal her secret as well (the thing about Fuwa Shou). After much hilarious scenes, Kyouko finally told Moko everything, including the fact that Ren is currently angry with her for reasons that she can’t understand. Moko then asked her whether there might be a chance in which Ren likes Kyouko & is jealous of Shou, which is why he is so mad about the angel PV work (great work, Moko!!!!). Of course, Kyouko cannot accept this as a reason, and in the end decided that it’s because Ren noticed that Kyouko lied about not doing this work for revenge and think that she is still not serious in becoming a real actress.
The scene shifts to the part where Kyouko’s manager told her that she was asked to work in a new drama which also starrs Tsuruga Ren. Wanting to accept the work, she decided to apologize to Ren the next time they meet. However, that happens right away in front of the lift. Kyouko was so shocked, she screamed and closed the lift in front of Ren! After much drama, Kyouko finally apologized properly, and felt happy that she can work with Ren without feeling guilty. However, Ren (privately) still showed an angry face.

Kyouko finally met Director Ogata (the guy who’s going to direct the drama) for the first time (really funny scenes here!) And Ren had another talk with President Lory, requesting for the president to allow him to join the cast of the new drama, Tsukigomori. Lory was reluctant, and warned Ren again about the fact that he will be unable to act as a man in love because of his current situation. The scene shifts back to Kyouko as she cried after realizing her character in the drama is an evil girl, instead of the rich young lady (the kind of character Kyouko likes – princesses & such). Ren appeared and persuaded Kyouko to join him – turns out that the president allowed him to act in the drama after all. Unable to refuse his charms, Kyouko agreed.

Reviews:

Wow. After such a long break, here I am again, with a super long summary.
I do not really like the earlier chapters (No Ren... sigh...) but the later chapters of this volume is wonderful!!!!!!!!! I just can’t praise it enough.

Finally – the Dark Moon arc is starting!!!!!!!!!!! Spanning quite a number of volumes, Dark Moon (the new name for the drama Tsukigomori) will be Kyouko’s first official serious acting work. And she gets to work with Ren!!!! More about the drama will be explain in the next volume. Keep a lookout!

PS: I’ve been really slow at updating, but I will be concentrating mainly on Skip Beat’s volume synopsis and hopefully update on Ouran as well. I will be reviewing a new series soon, but that's for later..hehehe...Bear with me please ^_^

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Posted at 1:09 PM