Saturday, 29 October 2011

Skip Beat!

Skip Beat!:




    The story revolves around a young girl named Kyoko who went with her childhood friend, Shou, to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming an idol. Despite of supporting him, she overhears him dismissing her as boring wallflower. Furious, Kyoko vows to get her revenge to defeat him by entering the entertainment world.


General Info:
Episodes; 25.
Language; Japanese with English subs.

Review:
    Skip Beat is hilarious! The romance is there and prominent, but not the main thing. I haven't watched the anime in a long time, but I'm currently with the manga which develops the story quite a bit more, so I'm hesitant to say much of anything about Skip Beat.
    Because of this, I'm not going to talk about character development to much and I'll only touch on bits of the story that I know are in the anime.
    My only half-hearted complaint would probably be the animation style. At first it freaked me out a little bit, but I'm quite fond of it now. Regardless, if you do watch this anime, after a while the fact that they have weird shaped heads won't bother you anymore.
    I also find this anime extremely funny, I don't know how to describe the humour, but it will make you laugh. I remember now when Kyoko is trying to avoid Ren, and he's following her (to an elevator? Don't know the episode...) and he's sparkling away, and she looks like she thinks she's going to be murdered - bad explanation, but this was hilarious. Also, in the manga I remember on one page Kyoko was really happy about something, so they did the zoom on her face with all the flowers an sparkly bits floating around to show her happiness. Well she was sparkling at Ren and Yashiro, so in the next frame the flowers and whatnot were stuck to them. I don't know why, but this made me cry I was laughing so hard.
    Either way, my point is that I found Skip Beat funny in it's own way, and I enjoyed it very very very much! Sorry I can't write more, I just don't want to accidentally ruin anything. If you haven't watched Skip Beat, it's a classic must watch. If your interested in manga, then this is definitely a good one!


Must Watch Episodes;
    I watched this anime a long time ago, but I loved love loved it! I've read all the latest of the manga and am hungry for more! There were three episodes that I do remember liking which were; Episode  5,  6, and  7.


Rating;
I would most definitely give this 5 out of 5 stars. Skip Beat is one of my most favoured animes out there. Love it! * * * * *

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