Yoshiki Nakamura: Skip Beat!

Overall rating: 4/5 stars
Title (Japanese): スキップビート!
Author (English): Yoshiki Nakamura
Author (Japanese): 仲村佳樹 （なかむらよしき）
Total books: 8 or more so far?
Summary: Welcome to the world of Japanese entertainment! For people unfamililar with the world of Japanese television and music, it's quite an interesting introduction to the industry. Solid, very interesting plot, and very nice characterizations. The author never falls into the realm of the cliched and predictable, a trap that all manga have to deal with. It's probably the most strongly plot driven manga that I am currently following.

From the author of Tokyo Crazy Paradise, another series that I will one day own.

The manga artist has been steadily improving and Skip Beat is really beautifully drawn.

It's a very plot driven manga. Good characterizations, but I get sucked in by the plot. The other day I started re-reading volume 3, and couldn't stop until volume 5 (the last book that I have). It may be dangerous to own more than one book at a time, given my lack of will power.

Frankly, Nakamura's male characters are quite amusingly drawn.