Adorkable: Saena's younger self. Intent on proving herself valuable at work, while being sweet and naive in personal relations. When her boyfriend dropped by to bring her some supper, Saena freaked out because she was wearing a worn-out, sloppy sweatsuit.
Foe Yay Shipping: Kyoko and Sho have a fair amount of this when they're reunited post-breakup, most obviously while filming the music video. The way they argue somehow makes Mimori jealous and makes the people there think that they are Like an Old Married Couple. The fact that they are childhood friends and know everything about the other only helps. Also some between Sho and Reino. Kyoko even accuses Reino of having a "Sho fetish."
Fridge Brilliance: When Kyoko worries that Ren will cut all ties with her in Karuizawanote After Reino attacked her, Sho saved her, and she tried to keep this a secret from Ren, it seems a little too far-fetched. Until you realize that that's how she's used to being treated by those she cares about. Her mother abandoned her when she was a little girl, Fuwa Sho dropped her without a second thought after she spent years devoted to him, even Corn left without giving her a way to keep in touch (although in his case it was because he was ten years old and had to go home).
Hilarious in Hindsight: Just the fact that Skip Beat! is a Japanese manga that got adapted into a Taiwanese drama, and the two main actors for Shou and Ren are members of Super Junior, a popular boyband from Korea. What?
Idiot Ball: As of chapter 270, Ren and Kyoko are tossing it back and forth in order to keep from figuring out the other's feelings.
Ren should be able to figure out that Kyoko was in no frame of mind for romance the night that Sho kissed her, and that if she'd wanted to kiss him, then she wouldn't have come and cried into "Corn's" chest instead. Additionally, Ren knows that, as the Love Me Section's #1 Member, Kyoko is not the type of girl to be able to show affection openly and that, historically, any mention of Sho has made her rabid because of how much a hold he has on her heart. So, seeing Kyoko casually joking around with Sho should not read like the two got back together to anyone with common sense.
Meanwhile, Kyoko knows that Ren likes a high school girl, and that the girl claiming to be involved with him has a history of lying and a very good reason to want to mess with Kyoko. She also knows that Ren has kissed her on the cheek and given her a flower ring like the ones his father used to give his mother, and that Ren doesn't feel that he has the right to be happy or in a relationship with someone he cares about. And that's not even touching all the similarities between Corn and Ren or the times she's conflated the two of them by accident.
Kyoko was incredibly... devoted to Ruriko. Kyouko even mentions at one point that she was almost able to feel love again during her time with Ruriko.
In Sho's PV, Kyoko has to act out an angel who has a lot of this with another angel. She perfoms a brilliant act that actually enraptures the other angel's actor, who dislikes her. How did she find the inspiration for this? By inserting Moko into the other angel's role in her mind.
During the party arc, Moko immediately goes to look for her present for Kyoko, in response to Ren's gift upon learning it was her birthday. All of her expressions, thoughts and mannerisms wouldn't be out of place on a jealous girlfriend. The fact that she would usually not show affection pubicly, yet grins in triumph at Ren when Kyouko is speechless about Moko's gift is just the cherry on top.
Narm: The character name of BJ in Tragic Marker. BJ is actually an abbreviation of Black Jack, a nickname the FBI gave the serial killer Darrel because his number in their list is 21, but those letters, to an English audience, can mean something vastly different.
The Scrappy: Saena Mogami isn't well-liked. She was unpleasant to most readers because she was an Abusive Parent to Kyoko and dropped her off at the ryokan, practically abandoning her. And when she finally appeared in-person, she states on TV that she has no child. When Kyoko talked with Saena and her past was revealed, with Saena being blinded by love and making a mistake that had harrowing consequences on her and her boss' career, some readers felt this didn't justify her attitude towards her daughter. Even with Saena basically admitting that her treatment of Kyoko was bad and that she knows herself that she's a horrible parent, sympathy is not often thrown her way.
Ships That Pass in the Night: Kanae and Yashiro is surprisingly popular, likely because fans like the idea of the two main leads' best friends hooking up. All this, despite the fact that the two characters have never interacted in the manga.
