Skip Beat! Vol. 1 Paperback – July 5, 2006

This manga series is an all around great drama for everyone! Skip Beat is not your typical shōjo because:There are no helpless characters. The mangaka didn't throw anyone under the bus in order to make the story-telling easier, which is a common theme in shōjo manga. Since the characters are individually driven, an equal amount of attention is placed on their individual and professional growth rather than completely focusing on romantic attachments, and that makes it an all around good drama with many comedic elements.The characters are colorful and three dimensional, each with their own non-superficial flaws and closet-skeletons. Even the side characters are also carefully developed, and all experience growth during the story. The twisted bits make them very relatable even while we enjoy the far-fetched premise of the story, which makes it fun.The mangaka (author/artist) weaves several types of humor into the story at just the right places. The humor connects the dramatic elements of the story and makes seamless transitions between panels, in addition to giving us further insight into the characters' minds. I regularly laugh out loud while reading the series, even after multiple times.There's a bit of mild fan service for both preferences, but none of it is pointless. All around it's well-drawn and balanced. The mangaka has mastered drawing facial nuance of expression as the series matured and it /really/ makes the manga function in the setting she chose for it. Her use of aura illustration is funny and helps too. She doesn't waste space to avoid drawing details, and so she's also mastered effective use of focus in panels.As someone who's rarely drawn to the shōjo genre, I can say that this is becoming one of the best series I've read so far. It is certainly my favorite in the genre.

Skip Beat is a great manga and I would recommend it to anyone who likes an awesome story! I'm ADDICTED to it! It makes me laugh and it's so well written that you get a really good grasp of the characters. I can't wait until the next one comes out!!! Another manga that is kind of similar to Skip Beat! is The One, which is another addictive manga. Tokyo Crazy Paradise is another work by Yoshiki Nakamura that is completed and it is EXCELLENT!!! If you can find it translated, read it-you won't regret it!

when a great art join a funny characters the story always be good.Sho Fuwa decided to go to Tokyo to be a "Celebrity" and he asked his childhood friend whom often stays at his family house Kyoko Mogami to come with him, and she accepted since he chosed her among all people, after moving to Tokyo Sho is getting "famous" slowly and he is getting more sullen everyday, Kyoko trying to support him and to understand him since the road to be a star is hard, but once she heard sho talking to other celeb girl and she heard him says that he just sees her as maid and thinks she is ugly and booring and of course she will move her butt to support him since he is the famous Sho Fuwa, she decided to stop beeing with him and otherwise she wanted to beat sho and be a greater star than him, so he beg for mercy someday, she changed her look (its amazing how do girls change their look!) and she started her way to get revange from sho.its very good story but the guys has very long faces which I hate, otherwise everything is cool, Kyokos revange will need too much work and its seems very hopless, and another character appears Ren is a famous actress that is even sho cant be more cool than him, that Ren works at the same place where Kyoko went to so she got another long face guy to beat

He seguido la historia de este manga por años y recientemente me decidí a comprarla en inglés, ante la falta de esperanzas de conseguirla oficialmente en español :( Es bueno que aún se encuentren disponibles tomos antiguos y que me sea posible conseguirla poco a poco. Esta historia te atrapa desde el primer momento y siempre quieres leer y leer al finalizar cada capítulo! En cuanto a la calidad de los tomos, dudé entre estos individuales o la versión 3 en 1; finalmente me decidí por los tomos individuales, así salga más costoso porque leí algunas reseñas sobre la calidad del papel de la versión 3 en 1 que no me convencieron. No me arrepiento de decidirme por estos tomos, ya que el papel, aunque no es de excelente calidad, es muy bueno. Tiene un buen grosor de forma que puedes leer con bastante luz y no ves el contenido de atrás (este detalle fue lo que no me gustó de las reseñas del 3 en 1). Me hubiera gustado más que fuera papel blanco, ya que este papel es amarillo y eso le quita un poco de "elegancia" al tomo, pero en general es muy bueno.

I keep going back to this manga series over and over again. So, when I found the Kindle version, I bought it so I could read it on my smart phone. As I scroll through the pages, many of them are blank with only a "waiting for download" message. It still gives these messages the day after I purchased this and started the download! Question is, will I ever get those pages downloaded?

I love the managa I loved the show (dub). Best thing about it the price is pretty fair after all!

This is the first book in the best manga series I've ever read. The storyline is very in-depth and page turning while still holding on to that fun and humorous quality often seen in manga. The art is amazing and only gets better with each book. Would recommend this series to anyone, young or old, who is looking for a good read. Can't wait for book 34!

I have been reading this Manga for many years. The characters, though sometimes exaggerated have a true to life feeling to them. Also as someone how as study acting the techniques used the different than they are in the United States are still very similar. Feel like I'm going to a Japanese acting class as I read the Manga.