Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Skip Beat! Vol 19
Summary:Kyouko seems worried about her Kuon and questioned Kuu. She felt that she has split from the Kuon she imagined to a total new character during her impersonation. Kuu told her that there is nothing wrong with it - he merely wanted her to act as his son, not the "real son"....meaning he did not want her to become the original Kuon, but to create a whole new Kuon. The exercise was considered successful. Furthermore, Kuu said that if Kyouko can overcome her weakness of "preference in only certain princess roles", she would be an incredible actress. President Lory called, telling Kuu that a seemingly angry Ren wants to meet with him.
Later on, Kuu & Ren finally met as father and son in the presence of President Lory. Not much details or history is revealed, but it was indicated that Kuu's popularity as an actor have overshadowed his son and because of this, Ren could not stand on his own and escaped with the help President Lory to start over again as a fresh actor in Japan. He has not been in contact with his parents for years. And Julia (Ren's mother) has been yearning for her son. That is the main reason why Kuu came back to Japan - to ask Ren to be Kuon again for a while and film a video message for his mother.
The next day at DM set, Kyouko apologizes for acting in front of Ren and pretending to not know him. They chatted about her character as Kuon, and Ren complimented her, saying that she manage to portray Kuon's feelings for his dad perfectly. This is an indirect reference that Ren loves his father very much, and when Kyouko later told Kuu what Ren said, he was very touched.
However, Kuu has decided to return to US sooner than expected because his mission (the video tape of Kuon) is complete and he wishes to bring it back to Julia asap. During his goodbye party, both Ren & Kyouko attended, and Kyouko announced that she will not run away and willing to take the bully girl role (in the drama Box-R) while Ren said - inside the video he taped - that he will also not run away and take up the challenge to act as a killer in his next role.
Review:It is wonderful to finally see some revealing secrets regarding Ren's past. It is quite certain that Ren must have murdered or tried to murder someone before in US. As with my predictions in volume 17 and also the scene this time where he told Kuu that he will not run away from the role of a murderer, I wonder how this will turn out.
Another interesting part is how the scene manage to show a very nice parallelism between Ren & Kyouko in the final chapter in terms of their acting development. As it is shown from Kuu's POV, who refer to the both of them as his son Kuon - it brought the level of parallelism even higher than just a normal "I will not run away from this role" scene.
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