Cloudman said:
pokoko said:
You're not kidding. That manga was incredible. So many amazing moments.
The one that always gets me, that I still think about sometimes, is when he realized that she wasn't coming to school early to wipe nasty message off her desk, she was doing it to wipe nasty messages off his desk. That tiny little revelation honestly made me tear up at the time and still makes my throat a little tight now.
Other than that ... this is hard.
One I can remember is from Skip Beat! It was when Kyouko was a new actress and she got the part to play the bad girl in a remake of a super popular drama named Dark Moon. The problem was, the original actress for the first version was constantly saying he was doing the part wrong and that she wasn't good enough. It was really in Kyouko's head. However, she disappeared for awhile and everyone was thinking she ran away but when she came back, she had found her own version of that character and had completely slipped into that persona. It blew everyone away and it was so awesome. I loved that that part.
The manga/anime had a ton of great moments.
Beyond that, I'll have to think about it and see what I can remember.
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Yeah, I've gotten a few volumes on the manga, and re-reading it has been such a joy. It's a nice reminder of why I love it so much, haha.
As for Skip Beat, I haven't read that one before, though I've heard it's quite good. I remember seeing it a lot in stores back in the day, but I never picked it up. I'll need to change that some time.
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Skip Beat is really amazing. It's one where the writer does a fantastic job of making you want to support the main character because she tries so hard despite running into so many set-backs. It can also be flat-out hilarious. Both the manga and the anime are excellent. However, the art in the manga is never very good--or, rather, it's very old-style shoujo. Especially at the beginning, it starts out rather amateurish (which is actually kind of common with older works).
I also stopped reading it around chapter 150 or so. That's when it started to really center on the romantic interest. Now, that's not that bad on the surface but the guy is just ... he's like you took the ideal image of a hunk from 1,000 fan-girls and made him into a single character. He's super-talented, rich, successful, tall, handsome, thoughtful, aaand he's like one of the best fighters in the world with a troubled past that still haunts him to this day. Blah. He's fine as a supporting character and even an adversary in the first part of the manga but then he's just too perfect as a focus character for me to have any caring or empathy about.
