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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