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First Look at Skip-Beat V. 1

It seems I’m introducing you to a new Shojo Beat line manga every other month.
First it was Crimson Hero and Nana, which started it all off.
Then Aishiteruze Baby, followed by Full Moon O Sagashite, and now the newest check up title to possibly check out, VIZ’ Skip-Beat (their newest Shojo Beat preview which showed in Shojo Beat V. 2, Issue #6).

Let’s get into it.
Don’t you hate locked boxes? I do.
Now how about a multi pad locked box that seemingly is supposed to have been created by god?
And no, Skip-Beat isn’t the Shojo adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.

Here’s how it goes.
“The box that God created long, long ago… had many, many keys… and was made so that you could never open it yourself.”
“Every single person is given a locked box by God… and born into this world… yes… there is a girl…”
“…with a locked box inside herself… here.”

She better hope the box contains a voucher for good psychotherapy, she needs it… badly.
As we open the page of the story we find ourselves in a fast food place, where that girl in question is working hard as a counter person. Seemingly glowing as she does her job, but that glow may be truly scary once you get to know her well.

She works two jobs hard, lives on a razor’s edge, and struggles to make ends meet.
Yet somehow she finds the time to obsess over a new pop star named Sho Fuwa. So much so she burns rubber from her fast food place as the evil psychotically obsessed burning eyed spirit of vengeance… only she is doing this on a normal pedal bicycle, and the only innocent blood that will be contested over will be the blood spilled AFTER somebody denies her wishes. Ouch.

But even the boss of her second job notices she is driven for some strange reason, only she has no idea just how driven this woman is.
This is Kyoko Mogami, and for the first time ever I’m going to give advice I usually wouldn’t in a situation like this… and that advice is this : Become a lesbian already! You’re choice of men sucks!!

Why is she practically killing herself? Well she is totally attached to this guy Sho Fuwa, who turns out to have been a childhood friend of her’s. Well, somehow one thing led to another and he is now living with Kyoko in her apartment! Yeah, that should be a perfect arraignment right? Well… it isn’t.

She works herself to death, and tries hard to “make him happy”… which, as you and I both know, is a dead end that should litterly lead to a dead end if she keeps working herself like a maniac. Well that’s no good, especially since he seems to take all her efforts and treat her like some sort of personal servant for all her efforts, a sure sign that this “relationship” is not working.

It can only get worst when we are introduced to her hatred, the hot male celebrity Ren Tsuruga. He doesn’t know the duo of Kyoko and Sho exist, but that is probably not going to stay the same very long.

Add to the fact that Kyoko has the ability to make magic hands appear out of her belly to reach for things (it’s a sight gag), and she seems to be well on her way to killing herself for a greedy selfish pretty boy? Well things can’t get much more dysfunctional than the happenings of Skip-Beat, which I will have a full review for you shortly. Stay tuned.

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First Look at Skip-Beat V. 1