I first heard about this manga from a friend of mine. I was excited since she is really harsh and critical so she must know what is a good read...
but then I read the synopsis. I was so let down, "this is so used theme!". I didn't like the main character and her original attentions and reasons. I avoided the series...
Up until I accidentally payed a crunchyroll membership I forced myself to take a good use of it and came up with Skip Beat. I decided to give it a shot... Before I knew it I had binged the whole anime. I instantly switched to manga where it was left off and so far I have always read it when I got the chance.

It's great. It's one of the best "shoujo"s out there and it has great comedy. I recommend the anime too since it did a great job at giving so similar feel and soul as the manga did, and that's rare. I often hate the anime adaptations no matter what.
It has romance, but it doesn't get boring. the characters seem pretty real with mixed emotions and unsolved feelings. This series won't start with romantic stuff, actually quite the opposite.
*possible spoiler* The main protag holds her grudge against love for a very long time. She eventually grows as a person and she gets better goals in life, (I'd say that's not exactly a spoiler since it's kinda expected of her, but sorry anyways) but you have to follow her undevelopmend-ness for a long time - but this time it's not a problem. I often get annoyed by shoujo series rushing their stories. *spoiler ends*
But sometimes even I get bothered by how little the characters and feelings develop against each other - and I have given a nickname to this series "cocktease". I actually feel like a schoolgirl once again when I'm reading this manga and something "romantic" happens, no matter how small and insignificant it is to me in reality, I blush when it happens in this manga. A lot. And that's a really nice feeling. It doesn't rush itself and I really get the feeling that the mangaka values more her characters than the whole "tell a love story" -concept. I ended up hating and loving everyone in this story.
I adore the comedy in this, like I said before. It's not some cheap moe or pervy-humour all over the place. Most jokes comes from the characters and their interaction. There is some characters though that don't seem as "real" or are somehow unnecessary - but some of them have had their excuses and reasons come up as the story progresses, some.
But.. I do have a complaint regarding the art. It's really beautiful and detailed, especially the eyes. I love how Kyoko's eyes have been made both in the anime and in the manga. But like I said the art... I'm not a big fan of extremely long leg -manga style. Sometimes it broke my immersion when there was a whole body shot and the legs were so damn long. Every now and then males had too thick neck too and sometimes the hand palms were too big too... I don't want to complain about something so little, but for me it did break the immersion. It could be a stylistic choice but it's a style choice that ticked me off. It's just me. But like I said the art is otherwise very well done and beautiful. It just suffers from the barbie- syndrome (long legs) like many other Shoujo -mangas, and it just happens to bother me. You might find it attractive and it's okay.
But I have another complaint too... And it's about the art. (I'm sorry). I sometimes had a hard time understanding where everything was. But it can just be me not paying attention. I just wish a little bit more background art.
Now that I've criticized so meanly the art I have to praise it a little bit more. I loved how the mangaka saw extra effort to some simple things like belt rings or buttons on a phone. I especially love the presidents mobile phone, I want one like that! So what I mean to say is that the art has some nice details.

I've actually awakened some desire to act within myself while reading this. A lot of the acting problems and settings seem somewhat realistic. If you're an actor you might consider picking this one up - but I don't know how realistic it is since I'm not an actress after all so don't blame me if I it's not realistic.

What can I say? It's a manga that exceeded my expectations. The idea and the synopsis are really simple, but within there is a nice story and a manga that hooks you up.
Actors are cooler than I thought.