Kyouko gets humiliated in the worst possible way, and instead of breaking, she decides to claw her way into show business just to prove him wrong. The comedy explodes from her rage, this girl transforms into a completely different person the moment she steps into character, and watching her wrestle between her real self and her stage personas is genuinely hilarious. The show knows the difference between a revenge story and a redemption story, and by the end you realize she was never actually trying to win him back.
Kyouko has spent years sacrificing everything for Shou, the childhood friend she loves. She moved to Tokyo to support his idol dreams, working multiple jobs while he pursues stardom. When she overhears him casually dismiss her as nothing more than a convenient maid, something inside her snaps. Rather than wallow in heartbreak, she transforms herself completely: new hair, new clothes, new attitude. Kyouko decides to enter the entertainment industry not out of passion, but out of pure spite. She'll become a star and show Shou exactly what he threw away. There is a catch: her chosen agency, LME, expects its talent to be able to love, a feeling Shou has crushed in her. The company president places her in the Love Me Section, a new division for hopefuls who caught his attention but lack something. On the road to becoming an actress she meets figures such as Kanae Kotonami, Maria Takarada, Yukihito Yashiro and Ren Tsuruga, while the demanding industry keeps pushing her past her comfort zone. The result mixes comedy, drama and romance.
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