Skip Beat!

Skip Beat!
Cover of the first manga volume, featuring Kyoko Mogami
スキップ・ビート! (Sukippu Bīto!)
Genre	Comedy, coming-of-age, romance[1][2]
Manga
Written by	Yoshiki Nakamura
Published by	Hakusensha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Magazine	Hana to Yume
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	February 7, 2002 – present
Volumes	50 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Kiyoko Sayama
Produced by	Shinji Horikiri Kōsuke Suzuki Hiroto Kumagai
Written by	Mayori Sekijima
Music by	Akifumi Tada
Studio	Hal Film Maker
Licensed by	AUS: Hanabee NA: Pied Piper[3] UK: MVM Films
Original network	TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Original run	October 5, 2008 – March 29, 2009
Episodes	25 (List of episodes)
Other
Skip Beat! TV drama series
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Skip Beat! (Japanese: スキップ・ビート!, Hepburn: Sukippu Bīto!), abbreviated as Sukibi, is a Japanese shōjo manga by Yoshiki Nakamura. It is the story of Kyoko Mogami (最上 キョーコ, Mogami Kyōko), a 16-year-old girl who discovers that her childhood friend and romantic goal, Shotaro Fuwa, only keeps her around to act as a maid and to earn his living expenses, while he works his way to become the top pop idol in Japan. Furious and heartbroken, she vows revenge by beating him in show business.

In Japan, the manga was first published in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume in February 2002, while in the United States, it began publishing under Viz Media's Shojo Beat label in 2006. Fifty volumes and one fanbook have been released in Japan, and forty-eight of the volumes have been released in the United States. In 2002, a drama CD adaptation was made and released by Marine Entertainment, and covers the first volume (chapters one to five) of the manga. An anime adaptation was produced by Hal Film Maker, and began airing October 5, 2008.^[4] It ended airing with episode twenty-five on July 12, 2009.