Upcoming TW-drama Skip Beat Releases Official Posters

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• I am so ready for November to be over and for it to be December.
  Yay, I hope Skip Beat does not disappoint! (And that I'll be able to stand the dubbing.)

  • Not to mention SCHOOL WILL BE OVER. Thank goodness.

  • Oh yeah, I'll be there as the officially delivery source of Skip Beat goodies and crack. And this drama WILL be crack. Mark my word. We will be flailing.

    • I am SO on board for the flailing. ~practices~

    • Aye aye captain! i'll be ON BOARD too!=D

• I've been waiting for this. What a pity I'll not be able to hear siwon's handsome voice. But I'll still watch it anyway. :)

• ~incoherent flailing~

• Treacherous! How could you not like Skip Beat?
  LOL :D

  • Just to clarify, I mean the manga.

    • maybe because I read it once a year but the manga doesn't drag for me....so excited!

  • The story is fabulous, but the manga execution is dreadful. The mangaka can't write worth shit. She takes 5 times as long to get a point across. SB is the draggiest crap bc of her, but her concept story is just so awesome that I can't wait for the drama adaptation.

    • Your sentiments regarding the author are unexpectedly strong...
      But I must agree with you that Skip Beat is dragging a bit.

    • Yeeep I agree. So draggy. After waiting for chapters every month and only getting build ups and no outcome I gave up waiting for chapters.

    • Agreed. As much as I love the story and still following it diligently (mostly, because I can't wait to see RenxKyoko together!), this is one of the most dragging manga I've ever read! So slow... I've heard the author's other manga is the same.

    • I don't know what happened to the mangaka...Tokyo Crazy Paradise wasn't draggy...*sigh*

    • Well, the manga has really been dragging recently. I think we've been on that taping set for 3 months already. Anyway, I really love the manga and Kyoko is awesome. I just hope Ivy's Kyoko isn't as screechy as I've perceived from the trailer. Here's to hoping for another awesome drama!

    • The problem is when you read it in installments from month to month. When you read it all in one shot, it actually speeds along pretty quick. But that's impossible to do since it's an ongoing series. Sigh.

      It's because she keeps adding all details, like she's writing a novel instead of a manga. The price is that it can drag, something awful. (The part when she started the job as Natsu was one of the worse, in my opinion.) But what you get out of it is that you understand the motivations of even the side characters and everyone's actions are understandable and in character. Which is pretty darn rare for a shouju manga!

      But the art, on the other hand, is just painful. She (or her assistant) is definitely a bad artist. She can draw very expressive faces, but her sense of body proportions are all weird. Ren sometimes looks like a stiff, Frankenstein monster!

    • I have to agree with you, she takes far too long to get her point across! But the concept and plot is phenomenal, which is why I have anxiously been awaiting the release of a drama version. Also am I the only one who get's the feeling that if this one goes well it could end up BOF-esque? (By which I mean it could spawn Korean and Japanese version.)

• cant wait to see it

• OMG. I just finished the fan-made trailer for the nonexistent J-dorama. It's soooooo good. I am now a fan of Ikuta Toma. Gotta watch the original Hana Kimi to see him! He'd be soooooo perfect as Sho!!!

• The fan made Japanese MV sure is EPIC! I can totally see Toma acting like a big ass and Shun as daddy long legs, or something similar to that. How I wish it were real..

• Wow the japanese trailer is made really well! Now I actually really wanna watch the jap version even though it doesn't exist...

  Yeah I agree the manga's a bit too draggy. But I think that's the case for practically all mangas that get famous. The mangaka wants to milk it for all it's worth (or is pressured to milk it), so then we get a very long series with not much plot. :(
  The other manga Tokyo Crazy Paradise by the same mangaka as Skip Beat is so much better. Especially since it's already finished.

  • I found SB draggy from book one. The mangaka's style is all over the place. She just doesn't understanding pacing and execution. I really love the story, the execution just makes me want to headdesk all the time. A few chapters were excellent tho, the ones with Kyoko and Vie Ghoul and Sho in the middle teens were brilliant. Most everything else is a MEH from me.

• This looks really fun. I like the anime, but unfortunately the ending was not satisfying. Understandable since the manga was not finished yet, and... still running till now. I gave up on the manga already. It's wayyyy to draggy.
  I'm curious on how the drama is going to end.
  I hope we're not going to get an open-ending.
  Is this series really going to start in December?
  Does this mean that it's going to go head to head with OG at least for the first couple of episodes while OG is running its last leg?
  I really want to watch this but I guess I'll stick to OG until it's finished first; then I can devote all my time to this. :)

• how come the fan made mv is so much better than the official one! I'm so excited. I jumped when I saw a skip beat post!

  • Because it has a dream cast that could never actually come true. Maki, Toma, Shun, Kimura Takuya, Ayase Haruka etc all in one drama? I want to watch it too, though. :)