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[[File:skipbeat.jpg|framethumb|350px|Ren, Kyouko, and Shou.]]
{{quote box|Ren, Kyouko, and Shou.}}
Kyouko Mogami is a sweet [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] in training who, after graduating from Junior High, follows her childhood friend Shou to Tokyo to help him pursue his dream of being an idol. Although Shou doesn't help her at all and even mistreats her, Kyouko still believes that all her efforts (working several part-time jobs, paying all his expenses, acting as his housemaid) will be eventually repaid with love and gratitude.
 
Until she learns, from the mouth of Shou himself, that he has no feelings towards her, and the only reason he asked her to come with him was because he knew she would act as his personal servant for nothing.
 
Another woman would have cried right then, or pleaded for explanations... but instead this revelation opens the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|sealed Pandora's Box]] inside Kyouko's heart, unleashing (and materializing) all the demons she had kept inside her for years. She vows to have her revenge, but Shou simply mocks her and scoffs that the only way she could hurt him would be if [[Tempting Fate|she became as famous as he is.]]
 
So she [[Determinator|decides to become as famous as he is]].
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The rest of the series follows Kyouko as she determinedly works her way up the ranks of show business, improving her performance skills, making friends and enemies galore, butting heads with talented and handsome fellow actor Ren Tsuruga, and most of all trying to rebuild her life anew now that she's out from under Shou's thumb.
 
An [[Anime]] adaptation ran in autumn 2008, which can be legally watched on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430152836/http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Skip_Beat! Crunchy Roll].
 
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=== ''Skip Beat!'' employs the following tropes: ===
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Played straight with Kyouko, whose mother is distant and neglectful, not to mention emotionally abusive. She doesn't care where her daughter is now, and may not have seen her in years, since in one flashback Shou's parents were seen wondering whether she was ever coming back to get her, and Kyouko seems to have spent much of the latter part of her childhood living at the ryokan. Ren was believed to be a case of this because of his reluctance to talk of his past, but {{spoiler|in a subversion it's revealed to be the opposite: his parents are ''too'' loving so he can't breathe.}}
** Oddly, ten-year-old 'Ren' appears to have been ultra-angsty anyway, apparently [[Wangst|just because his parents were kind of busy and he was having trouble finding his own identity when they were so famous.]]
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* [[Almost Kiss]]: Many, ''[[Ship Tease|many]]'' times.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Well, sort of:
{{quote| Kyoko: Oh, this is like a confession of loooove! [[Les Yay|I can’t beliiieve I said I liiiike Moko!!]]}}
* [[Bad Job, Worse Uniform]]: The "Love Me" uniform is a glaringly pink sweatsuit.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: The intention, more or less, of bringing {{spoiler|"Tsuruga Ren"}} into existence at all. To the point that he now does the Spider-man thing in his internal monologues and refers to both {{spoiler|his birth name and his current name}} as separate people with their own sets of emotions which can be put on and off like other roles. {{spoiler|Apparently Kuon decided to die after whatever exactly happened with Rick's death, and the only way to deal with those emotions is to consider Hizuri Kuon an ex-person and become Tsuruga Ren all the time.}}
** His identity crisis issues, documented from around chapter seventy, have been getting more complicated with the addition of {{spoiler|Cain Heel}}, especially to an observer like Kyoko. Although the character doesn't add much input of his own, he encourages violent situations that give {{spoiler|Kuon}} trouble and {{spoiler|romantic-potential ones that strain Ren's self-control.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Ren:''' Ever since living life as Tsuruga Ren, until now Kuon's emotions had never been brought forth, not once.... When I returned to Tsuruga Ren, my emotions were steadily altered.... To me, both sides are so important, and yet I will have no choice but to choose one sooner or later.}} (Chapter 167)}}
*** Chapter 167 spoiler above? Counts as ''progress'' on his part.
** Also Kyoko's character-creation method, though most of the time she's good at snapping out of it again. The early stages of Mio and especially Natsu were pretty alarming, though.
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Shou is the main example, but plenty of the actresses Kyouko works with that don't get a name act like this. Basically, if there's a [[Jerkass]] in this series, they'll be one of these.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Both played straight and subverted, somewhat. Played straight as Sho is represented as blond and is the man who broke Kyouko's heart, which warped her personality (she definitely views him as evil). He even has a Dark-haired rival in the main Love Triangle! Somewhat subverted as well, in that {{spoiler|Ren is a natural blond who dyes his hair dark, and Sho is a natural brunet who bleaches his.}}
** Can be considered a [[Zig -Zagging Trope]] when you bring Reino into the picture. He has long, white hair, and not only is he a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]], Ren and Sho have to fight him off.
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Kyoko and Moko are repeatedly mistaken for this.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Kyoko, and, possibly, Ren.
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* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Maria views Kyoko as one.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Kyoko and Ren, the first time they ever had a one-on-one conversation.
* [[Cut a Slice, Take Thethe Rest]]: One actor Kyoko works for is prone to this behavior.
* [[Determinator]]: Kyouko. The leitmotif phrase about her being "a scary kind of actress" not only refers to the eerie dark aura she exudes, but to her obsessive dedication and applying the [[Enforced Method Acting]] on herself.
* [[Drool Hello]]: In one of the extra pages installments of the manga, Maria has a rather large, remote-controlled, robot spider she uses to scare off women who get too close to Ren. Guess how she introduces it. Go on, guess.
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* [[Enjo Kosai]]: In one of the arcs about Kanae, the other characters believe she is doing this because they see her with other males, among them an older man. {{spoiler|Yes, there are paid relationships, but not of the type the others thought: Kanae was simply playing [[Replacement Goldfish]] with the men, so they could learn to act with a girlfriend, discourage a persistent even stalkerish admirer, or, in the case of the old man, reconnect with his own estranged daughter.}}
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Kyoko and Sho, except they're not seeing what they think they're seeing; Ren for Kyoko, except Kyoko and Ren send mixed enough messages to the world that these people then get very confused.
* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: Surprisingly, Kyouko still believes in the most classic [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]]; most of her mindset was shaped by the (evidently [[Bowdlerization|Bowdlerized]]) fairy tales she read in her childhood, with "[[Cinderella (Literaturenovel)|Cinderella]]" being the most prominent example. Many of her imagination spots shows her as a [[Princess Classic]] surrounded by cute fairies (who look like a cleaner version of her Inside Demons). She even genuinely believes that a boy she met in her childhood was the Prince of Fairies. The [[Hidden Depths|scary implication]] is that she was forced to cling to those beliefs as a way to ease the pain of her difficult home life, the ostracism from her peers, and to give herself hope. If she still believes, it is because she doesn't know any better way to console herself.
* [[Falling Into His Arms]]: During the Dark Moon arc, {{spoiler|Kyoko loses her balance while reaching for a high shelf in Ren's kitchen, and he catches her. [[Almost Kiss]] and [[Ship Tease]] ensue.}}
* [[Fan Girl]]: Yashiro is a rare [[Gender Flip|male]] example, but nevertheless, he is [[Shipper Onon Deck|as active in his Ren&Kyoko Shipping]] as a proper fan girl can be.
* [[First Kiss]]: Kyoko loses hers to {{spoiler|Sho}}. Who did it for no other reason than to twist her mind and make her only think about him. {{spoiler|You'd think someone who's been on the receiving end of Kyoko's temper and onryo-gundan, he'd know better.}}
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]: Some of the outfits.
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* [[Forceful Kiss]]:{{spoiler|Shou on Kyouko in Chapter 145.}}
* [[Friend Versus Lover]]
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Kyoko does it to Moko at one point.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Kyoko has these, though the “good” ones hardly ever appear.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: The only thing funnier than the "Love Me" section is just how much difficulty the VAs have in pronouncing it. And most of those difficulties were predicted in the manga.
{{quote| '''Kyouko:''' Rugby section??}}
* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: The fuel of several characters. Kyouko was the victim of such an attitude from her former female classmates, due to her closeness to Shou (another thing she blames on him).
** Kyoko herself also [[Les Yay|has this reaction]] when she imagines that Moko has a boyfriend. An inner debate between [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Curse The Hypotenuse]] and [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] ensues.
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Kyoko has to get Ren through one of these during her stint as his substitute manager.
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* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Kyoko and Maria are very apt to do the stereotypical voodoo doll thing, among other styles of black magic; in fact, that is what mutually bonds them in first place.
* [[Hot Guys Are Bastards]]: Played with. Kyoko tends to assume this in the wake of her relationship with Sho, but she sometimes turns out to be wrong.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: At 190cm, Ren tends to tower over most ''men'', so naturally Kyoko looks tiny in comparison.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: In series. Kyoko is very unhappy to discover that, thanks to her performance as Mio in ''Dark Moon'', all of the job offers that are coming to her are for antagonists - and all of them request that she "just act like Mio."
* [[I Didn't Mean to Turn You On]]: Poor Ren. Thank goodness he has the self control of a monk.
** Kyouko still has no idea.
* [[Idol Singer]]: Kyouko has to deal with a particularly bitchy one. Shou is the male version, and his musical rival Reino is part of a Visual band.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Kyoko mistakes [[Nice Character, Mean Actor|Ruri]] for one.
* [[It Doesn't Mean Anything]]: How Ren handwaves {{spoiler|the kiss on the cheek he gave her ''and'' Kyouko's kiss with Shou}} away.
* [[Jerkass]]: Sho, ''so very much''. In the beginning of the story he is totally an idiot when out of his idol act; now, thanks to [[Character Development]], at least is sightly more considerate towards Kyouko and less of a jerk towards the whole world. {{spoiler|As of Chapter 145, he's reverted back to this.}}
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* [[Love Hurts]]: The whole reason Kyouko swore off love in the first place.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Ren is in love with Kyouko, who can't love anyone 'cause has her heart full of hatred towards Shou, who eventually is in love with her too. In conclusion, a pretty hard rebus to solve!
* [[May -December Romance]]: An important issue in Ren's hesitancy to voice his feelings toward Kyouko. Also, there is this thing between Kanae and Hiou...
** Kanae and Hiou are just... Normally, no one would bat an eye at a six year age difference. However, things are a bit weirder when there's [[Ship Tease]] material for a pairing where one is seventeen and the other is [[Shotacon|eleven]]. Yeah. You read that right.
*** I thought he was twelve?
** Kyoko and Ren are only four years apart and apparently that's not an actual issue, just one of Ren's excuses early on, because:
{{quote| '''Ren:''' Anything will do. If it can become a chain so that I will not love this woman, any excuse is good enough.}}
* [[Missing Episode]]: In the anime season 1 finale, when Kyouko remembers all the people she met, Hiou and Kanae are shown together, but the entire story about Hiou, Kanae and her family is missing.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|My Acting Is Stronger Than Yours]]
* [[Never Work Withwith Children or Animals]]: Kanae just doesn't like to work with children. Not because she's a [[Child -Hater]] (she isn't), but because {{spoiler|she has a lot of younger siblings who can only be controlled by playful brute force, and she knows that she tends to act the same way with child actors, which is inappropriate behavior when the kid isn't related to you}}.
* [[Nosebleed]]: Kyoko [[Les Yay|has one]] in response to Moko asking her out for ice cream in an over-the-top tearful manner, and [[First -Name Basis|calling her by her first name]] without honorifics.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Kyoko. So, so much. The reason for this is the "love" part of her brain died, and she can no longer take a hint when she should.
* [[One Head Taller]]: Kyoko and every [[Love Interest]] in the series who's not Ren. She's closer to his sternum. (Stupidly tall one-quarter-Japanese people.)
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* [[Only Six Faces]]: Add this with similiar hairstyles and each character is basically indistinguishable from each other.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kyoko's father is implied to be dead, and her mother just doesn't care about her. Maria's mother died in a airplane crash, {{spoiler|and she and her father are too hurt to try to get closer to each other}}.
* [[Pimped -Out Dress]]
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Or at least keeps half the plot running. Sometimes gets a tad ugly, like over the stalker thing. Generally in the form of Ren getting upset with Kyoko, but not always.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Lory Takarada firmly believes in this. The other characters...not so much.
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Some of the outfits.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: How Kyouko initially envisions her relationship with Shou. Unfortunately for her, the series brutally deconstructs it.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Near the end of episode 12 Moko delivers an epic one to Erika.
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]] and [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!]]: [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kyoko and Ren are Yoko and Kamina]]. [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Ren and Sho are Johann and Setsuna]]
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Kyoko struggles with this sometimes.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Erika, Moko's childhood nemesis
* [[Romantic Two -Girl Friendship]]: Kyoko seems to want to have this kind of relationship with Moko. It's actually the result of her never having had a female friend before and having mistaken notions about how such friendships are supposed to work.
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Ren and Kyoko.
* [[Secret Identity]]: Ren doesn't know that Kyoko is the one inside the Bo costume, and Kyoko doesn't know that {{spoiler|Ren is her childhood friend, Corn.}}
** Or at this point, that he's {{spoiler|Hizuri Kuon,}} who she believes to have died when he was fifteen.
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** Also, Moko would like you to acknowledge that she and Kyoko are NOT best friends.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Kyoko never uses make up on herself, because she can't afford it. But when she does get made up she really surprises everyone around her.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Yashiro, Ren's manager. He is very persistent.
* [[Shout -Out]]: When Kyoko helps Maria arrange a party to express her gratitude to the people around her, they're approached by a mysterious benefactor only known as [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Daddy-Long-Legs_Legs (novel) |Uncle Long Legs...]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: {{spoiler|Cain Heel.}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: A minor example, but the ou-versus-o romanization varies ''even within this very page''.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Reino, towards Kyoko. At first, he wanted to steal her away from Sho and anger him; nowadays, he's just in love with her [[In Love Withwith Your Carnage|dark and hateful side.]]
** Also really likes messing with her. I mean, how many sadistic psychics get to hold people's emotional astral projections hostage in exchange for chocolate?
* [[Stealth Mentor]]: Ren ends up as Kyoko’s, frequently giving her advice on how to succeed in show business, in spite of their mutual dislike for one another.
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* [[Stripperiffic]]: Seen mostly on the [[Mr. Fanservice|male characters]]. Sho and his look-alikes, Vie Ghoul, favor outfits with sheer fabric. Also, [[media:s16-6b_1917.jpg|this outfit.]]
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Kyoko causes this on one of her cast-mates once.
* [[Super -Deformed]]: Kyoko can shrink into this at the slightest provocation with happiness, excitement or anger. Also, every remotely silly scene has the characters suddenly resembling lollipops.
** The Ren chibis can be ridiculously cute and were central to his character development for a while, since they showed all the things that weren't his cool persona, like snarking with Kyoko in the 'false princess' arc, or sulking at "Bo."
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Kyoko, increasingly.
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** Congratulations, Kyoko. You managed to improve on what used to be done to you after all.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Invoked in series, as quite a few onlookers are thoroughly disturbed by the "Super Real Tsuragu Ren Special Size Doll" Kyoko gives Maria as a present - and that's before she introduces the swappable faces...
{{quote| '''Yashiro:''' Am I the only one who thinks that doll looks a little ''too'' realistic?}}
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Kyoko certainly at the beginning of the story was one. Now she'd be the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]], except that she doesn't care for him anymore.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: What gives Kyoko her occasional superpowers, except when it's a burning will to fulfill some kind of duty. Also, Ren has a problem with this sometimes. By which we mean once. With a goon who never got another name than 'Seaweed-head.' It preoccupies him rather, though.
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]: most of the stunts Kyoko pulls, including the Artistic Radish Peeling with BURNING POWER. And the less we talk about her imagination spots, the better. Incidentally, Daikon (as in radish) can also mean a Bad Actor, Kyoko probably didn't see the significance of this when she used it in her audition.
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts|Who Wears Short Shorts?]] As {{spoiler|Setsuka, Kyoko}} wears positively minuscule shorts.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Kyoko, with good reason.
 
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