I agree, I was in my early 20s when I started this, and now I'm almost 40. I feel like the story has stagnated compared to the incredible build up in the beginning.
I started reading and collecting the manga of skip beat in my 20s and stops. the story was so interesting and i squeal when the HEEL siblings appears... after that... the story become like a story telling...
its unlike kaikan phrase and even akatsuki no yona. yona and hak has an incredible starts and we all wish for hak to confess and when he did - it was awesome. there's no boring moments at each chapter, even though there are so many characters and so many 'dark past' and incredible appearance...
skip beat wasted one chapter after another with characters that arent relevant...
sorry for ranting.
i feel a sudden lost... i know many will get mad at me or even disagree, but this is my opinion.
the mangaka should focus on kyoko and not elements not related to her - it should focus on ren and his past, it should focus on sho and his 'feelings'
the manga started in 2002 - i was in college.
2018. 16 years later... now, im working - got a career, got a child turning 7, and in my mid 30s... there's still no 'progress' between Kyoko & Ren.
oh well... maybe i'll read this before i turn 60 and get to see their first ever kiss or something...
oh well, lets just hope the mangaka and her editor knew what she's doing.
i love the 'making kyoko more profound and find her true character - but several chapters already prove that Kyoko is no ordinary girl and she takes everything seriously and committed. but the thing is - there's too many elements and some pages are wasted on 'talks' and unnecessary things... the mangaka may or may not lose her fanbase with the prolong of chapters... it would be awesome if she focus more on kyoko, ren and sho's past and how they can hurdle it or something.
anyway... i'll look into this again before i turn 60 and lets see :)