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  Skip Beat!’s Harmful Healing: Forgiving abuse at the cost of self-worth

  As Kyoko struggles to recover from abuse and trauma, she is encouraged to forgive everyone around her, put her own happiness last, and believe that love cures all. Skip Beat’s prioritization of these ideals over actual healing processes perpetuates unhealthy, even dangerous ideas about recovery.

  Feature | by Baillie Pucket | May 22, 2020 | 0 Comments
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  As Told by Saena: Skip Beat! and the infinite variety of women’s stories

  By primarily telling events from Kyoko’s point of view, Skip Beat! has often conformed to the pattern of telling a “single story.” However, in Volumes 37 and 38, the manga’s perspective shifts in a big way, giving readers an unexpected glimpse of Kyoko’s mom Saena through her own eyes.

  Feature | by Shelby Strong | September 13, 2017 | 0 Comments