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From Anime Waves: Shiho is a "private actress" who works for a production company. She also does personal assignments that needs her to pretend to be a different person. She takes on assignments for people and takes on the personality of the person who they are pretending to be.
This is a classic, gorgeous manga talk about acting. Unlike Glass Mask, the play-acting in this manga is used in the real life, which is quite new and interested, even until now. The story is not exciting, but warm and elegant, with many things about life, friends, family, love.
As for the art, it's a classic shoujo style, really soft and beautiful.
I had read this long times ago, but it's still one of my favorite shoujo.
This is a really captivating manga. So far I've never liked manga featuring acting, young people in the theatre scene and the like; but this one is different. The PA theme might seem weird but it's really well executed. Do give it a try, it's a very enjoyable read.
This is one of the best acting-related manga I have ever read. As good if not better than Skip Beat!, depending on your taste. It's more focused on the acting of a Private Actress. It's very "episodic"--the theme or acting environment changes every chapter; every chapter Shiho acts as someone else. And she's quite good.
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The girl, Shiho, is not in the entertainment business. She is a PA (Private Actress). She gets hired by people who want her to act like someone else--that may include acting as the reincarnation of a dead daughter, someone's lover, or a middle school student (she's in high school). She's a fantastic actress--some people call her a "genius." She is reluctant about becoming an entertainment actress because her father and mother are very known actor and actress. She is a love-child from their affair. Her father is a married man. Her mother is single.
If you want some sort of romance in this, you will get it, but in small doses since the romance is just a sideline plot. So far (chapter 27), the romance is not a happy ending one yet, but still very much hopeful.
Even though she is not in entertainment business, she sometimes acts as an extra in films. Lately in the manga, she has started to come out of her shell and started acting professionally. I'm really looking forward to more chapters!!
An enjoyable read! At first I thought the way that the author kept including random famous people was kind of spazzy, but then I started looking up the people I didn't know and it was really fun!! Another thing I liked was how varied the people were. Murderers and sick people, people in love or escaping from it, and then our beloved/hated main character and antogonist!
SIDE NOTE: In c.27 the guy says his son looks stupid, but it isn't an insult! In Japan you have to be very humble, so if he had praised his son it would have seemed rude.
This is a great and very special manga. It deals with the characters' emotions amazingly and I find few manga to be so touching. It is NOT a quick read to be flipped though quickly, and it is far from a generic shoujo. The episodic style works very well for this series, and the plot and characters evolve after each case.
I have this series, and although it was a refreshing read, the main girl was a bit too perfect for my taste, but other than that it was great. 7/10. I love the mangaka's art and most of her other stories are good too. Mostly centered around "perfect" girls, but nothing bad about it.
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