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Skip Beat!, Volumes 1-3
Skip Beat!, Volumes 1-3 | Yoshiki Nakamura
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Fame is sweet but revenge is sweeter! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he s casting her out now that he s famous enough! Kyoko won t suffer in silence she s going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz! Kyoko s broken heart and creepy rage keeps her from getting into her talent agency of choice. The eccentric president of the agency decides to give her a second chance, but it requires her to wear a bright pink uniform, put up with spoiled stars, and try to live up to the name of her new position The Love Me Section! Can Kyoko stand the indignity long enough to find her vengeance?"
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Skip Beat!, Volumes 1-3 | Yoshiki Nakamura
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SKIP BEAT! is my all-time favourite comic. I‘d never heard of it when I plucked it off the library shelf to help balance out all the male-authored comics I was reading at the time, and I never imagined I‘d fall so totally in love.

I usually only reread a few of the most recent volumes when there‘s a new release, but this time I‘m going full-series. Bring on the 45-volume binge!

(Also, please note my tasty empanada-type thing.)

Serotonin Good choice 👍 4y
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Skip Beat!, Volumes 1-3 | Yoshiki Nakamura
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1. History time! “Comics” is the overall medium. (It‘s not a genre. Comics come in all genres.) Will Eisner coined the term “graphic novel” to mean a longer comic; I think his criteria was 65+ pages, but don‘t quote me on that. In the 90s, comics fans who wanted to be pretentious—myself included—began to declare they read GRAPHIC NOVELS, not COMICS. The librarians and marketers latched onto that.

TL:DR: no difference. Just legitimized pretension.

xicanti 2. I love SKIP BEAT! a tiny bit more than SAGA. (I also don‘t draw much distinction between Eastern or Western comics.)

3. No preference. I‘m here for any well-constructed comic. #sundayfunday
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BookmarkTavern How interesting! I didn‘t know that! Thank you for the history lesson! And thanks for sharing! 😁 4y
Megabooks Thanks for the history lesson! 4y
xicanti @ozma.of.oz @Megabooks I‘m all about the history of comics. 4y
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These panels...! Kyoko's talent agency admittance interview is funny the first time through, but now that I know her inside and out it always leaves me all 😭😭😭 on account of the bit about acting.

BiblioNyan Re-reading that series always surprises me because you notice sooo much more each time. It's awesome. 7y
xicanti @Bibli0.Nyan it's my favourite. 7y
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I felt a surge of despair when I saw today's #anditsaugust prompt, because most of my comics are digital and it's tough to fit a lot of ebooks into a feature shot. Then I browsed through my physical shelves and realized I I've got a fair, if not spectacular, number of #comicsbywomen in that format, too! #comics

(And I forgot to round up some important ones, including NIMONA and BITCH PLANET. Poop.)

Caryl Amy Unbounded! 💖 7y
xicanti @Caryl it's one of my favourites! I keep hoping she'll rerelease it, along with all the other minicomics that were never collected. 7y
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