Title: Skip Beat
Status: 19 Volumes (Ongoing)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
Author: NAKAMURA Yoshiki
Description: The story is about Kyôko Mogami, who was a really nice and quiet girl who fell in love with her childhood friend, Shôtaro. She used to spend a lot of time at Shôtaro's parents' inn and learned a lot about housekeeping and hostelry. Shôtaro (Shô) soon gets bored of living in Kyoto and decided to move to Tokyo, and he asks Kyôko to leave high school and Kyoto to help him pursue a musical career in Tokyo. At the start of the story, Kyôko lives an unreasonably frugal life, spending nothing on herself and doing whatever she can for Shô, who is by now in the top twenty of most popular entertainers in Japan. However, she overhears Shô complaining about her to his manager, saying that she is a boring and plain girl that he'd like to be rid of. Unlike other heroines in the same situation, Kyôko doesn't shed many tears when she learns that Shô thinks she's just good for housekeeping. Instead, her "Pandora's box" opens and she vows vengeance on Shôtaro. Enraged, Kyôko attempts to attack Shô, but is instantly carried off by security, Shô mockingly telling her that if she wants revenge, she'd better become a bigger star than him.
Kyôko immediately cuts and bleaches her hair, while selling her possessions to throw away her past. She then moves out of her apartment into "Darumaya", a place where she works in the evenings. She figures that the only way she can beat Shôtaro is to become more famous than him. She then goes to the largest production company that isn't Shô's, L.M.E.: the same company that manages Ren Tsuruga, one of Japan's most popular actors and Shô’s main rival. Through persistence and partially stalking Mr. Sawara, head of the talento division at L.M.E., she manages to get an audition.
At the audition, Kyôko, whose life had been spent in one form of service or another, performs as her talent the art of katsuramuki, a special type of vegetable peeling. She impresses the judges with her originality (she peels a daikon into an enormous flower) and uniqueness of her skill. She also meets Kanae Kotonami at the audition, who proceeds with Kyôko to the next round.
However, the next round is where Kyôko meets her failure: it is a reaction test where she must listen to a cellphone and spontaneously act out a response. The cellphone conversation is a man telling her that he's sorry, didn't love the other girls, and wants to get back together with her - resulting in Kyoko trashing the phone and screaming in rage. She fails the audition.
At home, Kyôko cries, but not because she's failed the audition, but because she was told that the reaction revealed a lack of love for one's self, and that in order to be an entertainer and be loved by her fans, she has to love them in return. This is something she doesn't think possible: basically, Kyôko has lost the feeling of self-worth that one needs in order to be a human being. Nevertheless, Kyôko impressed the President, Lory Takarada, so much that he says privately to Sawara that if she returns of her own initiative, he'll have a special program waiting for her. He decided that since she lacked the key ingredient to making a star (love), he will make a new branch especially for people like her so they can get back those feelings of love. The "Love Me" branch was then established, but unfortunately for Kyôko the branch is a jack of all trades, so she can find herself doing anything from starring in a commercial to cleaning gum off the floor! With some initial flubs, Kyôko actually starts to excel and gain back some of her feelings of love, as well as memories of a young boy named "Corn" whom she had a special bond with when she was a child.
Licensed (in English): YES by VIZ
This manga was one of the 6 or 7 titles that got me hooked on read mangas before them i though it was waste of time so i had to post this title i hope many of u have read this manga i cant seem to get enough i want Skip Beat to run upto as least 30 volumes hehehehehehe
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for putting pressure on me
, but there's still damn chance she will go to that JERK Sho!!!!!! 
noway! cause i need my beauty pop too ^^
