Skip Beat!

“Wanting to be loved seems hopeless the more you yearn for it.” The most heartfelt and relatable line in volume 1 of skip beat. There is nothing in this world I understand and relate to more than heartbreak. I’ve experienced every type of heartbreak a person could experience but much like Kyoko up to this current chapter, I’ve never experienced love being reciprocated. You spend so much time loving and caring for another person that you happen to lose yourself in the end. Love feels like such a basic human experience that everyone has felt at least once in their life and you for whatever reason can’t possibly experience what it feels like to be loved, no matter how bad you want to. So much so that the emotion that everyone has within them “love” turns into the exact opposite “hate”. Hatred for love, hatred for yourself for being incapable of being loved, and hatred for the people who get to experience it with ease. Yoshiki Nakamura did an excellent job at capturing this feeling and putting it into words. It almost makes you feel like Kyoko can speak, feel, and react to the thoughts you yourself can’t even express. I think this is the best panel in volume 1.