Skip Beat!, Vol. 18

Today’s post in Skip Beat!, Vol. 18 by Yoshiki Nakamura. It is 200 pages long and is published by Shojo Beat. As it is the eighteenth volume of the long running series you need to have read the first seventeen volumes. The cover has Kyoko and Ren on it looking at the reading. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this volume. The story is told from third person close of the main characters. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- Kyoko hasn't had a Love Me Section job in a while, and this newest assignment is pushing her limits. She's now the personal assistant to Koo Hizuri, a Japanese actor turned Hollywood star, and everyone knows how assistants are treated in Hollywood! Can Kyoko see past Koo's meanness, or will his nastiness just make her demons worse?! 

Review- This volume we spend so much time with Ren’s father Koo Hizuri and Kyoko. Koo and Kyoko argue and fuss at each other but in the end Kyoko learns more about acting and Koo realizes the kind of talent that Kyoko has. Koo gives Kyoko an assignment to prove her acting ability and lots of advice along the way. He asks her to play his son, Koun. Of course as the reader we know that Koun is Ren and that makes everything weird for us but it is a brilliant plan in the story itself. Kyoko is struggling with getting new roles other than mean girl and she wants to do more. Koo tells her to takes the roles she can get and learn to make all the mean girls different from each other. A solid volume in a fantastic series. I cannot wait to see what Kyoko gets into next.

I give this volume Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this manga with my own money.