(Good) Skip Beat!

Series in one sentence:
Heartbreak turns you into a top class actor overnight.

Series in more sentences:
An overworked high school dropout goes out to seek vengeance after she discovers her now famous childhood friend has willingly abused her love and considers her nothing but his maid.
She plans to enter stardom in order to spite him, though her revenge plan doesn't get appreciated much by the big star of the talent agency she's at, and even the boss wants her to learn how to love again for the sake of her future career.
 

A cool series with an unrewarding, rushed open ending. It's another one of those animes that started before the manga ever got finished, which caused this gut wrenching halt to the story.
I would've been fine with it if they hadn't given screen time to episodes and scenes about less interesting stuff. Why did we see so little from the childhood friend and love interest? Both men's feelings for the main character ended without a real conclusion, while you'd think it's the most important part of the story. Surely they could've given it a better ending than this?

The plot in general was great and I liked the main character fine enough, though I will say her voice actor was all over the place. She kept switching around between 3 different voices and it did not match for me. Those occasional "cute, higher pitched waifu"-lines she delivered just didn't fit the vengeful, yet silly and playful demeanour the main character started showing off the moment she cut her hair.

I also thought the jokey art style -which first seemed to kick in at funny moments, but then started taking over half the series- to be distracting at times. I wish Skip Beat was able to keep better focus on its art style, character development and story progress, but still, it kept me satisfied enough to keep on watching. It could've been worse, I suppose.

A very fun story, indeed. Despite my complaints, I don't think many will disagree, it's worth the watch.