So I finished watching Skip Beat, and I guess I have another anime to put onto my list of "anime with terribly incomplete endings, and leave me really disappointed that is expects me to read the entire anime to know the ending" animes. While that name is much too long, it's a pretty good summation of my final thoughts on the show.
I mean, like, seriously, there were like 5 or more completely different parts of the story that are left completely unresolved.
The main plot, where Ren needs to learn how to learn how to act in his emotionally difficult role in Dark Moon.
His romance with the main character, Kyoko.
Kyoko's revenge plot against Shotaro
Shotaro's conflicting feelings for his girlfriend, and his reviving feelings for Kyoko.
Moko's back story.
And some others that I'm just not remembering, completely unresolved in the anime. So disappointing.
The show also gave me a headache, with how such obstinate bitches most of the female antagonists are. Plus, alot of the fawning over how the main character is SO Super Special and Talented! It's actually kind of irritating some times.
After that, I started watching the remainder of the eps of the first season of Those Who Watch Elves, which is very well written and entertaining, and the english dubs aren't half bad.
Also, I watched the first few eps of Sherlock Hound, which, if the credits are to be believed, was co-written and co-directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
It's an amazingly fun little show, featuring anthropomorphic dog people being the characters of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Except with way more fantastic adventure and action. Also, it's a show that's only available in English dubs, but the voicing is fantastic. Everyone has this pleasant English accent, and Watson himself has such convincing and amusing Harumphs, and other amusing noises originating from being short, stocky Englishman that I can't help but praise it.
I know I espouse quite a few things by Mr. Miyazaki, it's something of a goal of mine to watch everything he's ever created.