Line #4 Recap/SkipBeatVolume9


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Roses are red but Ren Tsuruga is blue, 'cause he doesn't show up until half-way through... this volume.]]
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4	Moko's career is threatened by a spoiled child star, so it's up to Kyoko to figure out why this kid has it in for her best friend. In the process, Moko reveals some secrets about her family and Kyoko does the same about her relationship with Sho Fuwa.
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6	!! This volume contains the chapters:
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8	* Act 49. "The Forbidden Confession" [[note]]Kyoko is on the set of another "Yappa Kimagure Rock" episode as Bo the Chicken and the featured guest this week is Hiou Uesugi, the child star who accused Moko of injuring him. Kyoko puts all her effort into ensuring Hiou doesn't ruin Moko's career by slandering her name on the show. Afterwards Hiou and Kyoko encounter Moko at LME and the truth of the incident comes to light.[[/note]]
9	* Act 50. "Surprise Hurricane" [[note]]Kyoko and Hio follow Moko home and meet Moko's family.[[/note]]
10	* Act 51. "End of the Dark Road" [[note]]Ren goes to visit Lory, who tells him he is going to have problems with his acting because he hasn't experienced love. Meanwhile, Kyoko has spent the night at Moko's house. She and Moko talk about Moko's childhood. They also discuss the situation with Hio. Moko believes there is no way Hio will forgive her, but he returns to Moko's home and invites her to go back to work with him.[[/note]]
11	* Act 52. "The Unexpected Truth" [[note]]Yashiro tries to get Ren to confide in him about Kyoko. Moko tries to get Kyoko to confide in her about Ren, but Kyoko ends up telling her the truth about her history with Sho Fuwa. Kyoko's next big role is also mentioned: a starring role in a big remake of a drama from 20 years ago.[[/note]]
12	* Act 53. "Looked Like Smooth Sailing" [[note]] Kyoko brushes off Moko's suggestion that Ren might have feelings for her, but she does vow to apologize for her earlier behavior. After an awkward run-in with Ren, she gets a second chance to apologize and explain her past with Sho Fuwa. Kyoko leaves with a renewed excitement about working with Ren on their next project: ''Dark Moon''.[[/note]]
13	* Act 54. "Invitation to the Moon" [[note]]Kyoko and Ren have doubts about their roles in ''Dark Moon'' - Kyoko doesn't want to play a cruel rich girl, and Ren is worried he won't be able to capture the correct emotions of his character. Ogata, the emotionally fragile director of the series, tell Kyoko and Ren that the success of his remake depends on casting the both of them and pleads with them to stay.[[/note]]
14	* Extra: "A Bit of a Leftover Story"
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17	!!Chapters in this volume provide examples of:
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19	* CoversAlwaysLie: At no point does a soaking wet Ren Tsuruga surrounded by red roses appear in this volume.
20	* EmbarrassingAnimalSuit: Kyoko's still got her job on "Yappa Kimagure Rock" as Bo the Chicken... apparently the guy who they brought in to fill her shoes just wasn't as entertaining.
21	* FlowerMotifs: It's a [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] manga after all - the cover features a half-submerged Ren surrounded by floating rose blossoms, and most chapters have a few instances of panel backgrounds filling with unexplained flowers.
22	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Moko is part of a '''big''' multi-generational family. With ten siblings (three older than her, seven younger) and half a dozen nieces and nephews all sharing a compound, it's no wonder she wanted to live on her own! Everyone living at the Kotonami home includes:
23	** Moko's parents (currently on vacation)
24	** The eldest sister (24) and her 3 children
25	** The eldest son (22), his wife, and their 2 children
26	** The second eldest son (19), his wife, and their baby
27	** Moko (16), but only when she visits (which is sparingly)
28	** Moko's 7 younger brothers and sisters
29	* MethodActing: Moko drew on her experience as an older sister/ aunt to a huge gaggle of children when she worked with Hio - it's why she got so upset when he refused to eat the meat and fish on his plate. Her family can barely afford to buy meat, and seeing Hio willing to throw it away caused her to fall back into older-sister mode. After filming wrapped, she was still in character, and she ended up roughhousing with Hio because that's the only way the children in her house wanted to play.
30	* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Moko just doesn't like to work with children. Not because she's a ChildHater (she isn't), but because she has a lot of younger siblings and nieces and nephews who can only be controlled by playful brute force and she knows that she tends to act the same way with child actors; Moko realizes that it's inappropriate behavior when the kid isn't related to you. She has changed her mind a bit since she befriended Hio.
31	* PrecociousCrush: Hio Uesugi appears to have one on Moko because she's the only actress who has treated him professionally, instead of like a child.
32	* SpoiledBrat: Hio Uesugi threatened to end Moko's career when she threw him on set, and then threatened to end Kyoko's career because she was wearing the same uniform as Moko. It takes a trip to Moko's family home to meet her rowdy herd of MassiveNumberedSiblings to break him of his spoiled behavior.
33	* TakeBackYourGift: When Kyoko refuses to confide in Moko after Moko revealed her family situation, the latter gives back the Kyoko-shaped curse doll that the former had given her and declares their friendship over. Kyoko promptly changes her tune and tells Moko everything about her past with Sho Fuwa.
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