Title: Glass no Kamen / Glass Mask

Author & Illustrator: Suzue Miuchi

Genre: Shōjo

Volumes: 42 and still running

Publisher: Hakusensha

Year: Began serializing in 1976

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My fellow readers, the only warning I am going to give you for this manga is that it’s long! However, even if it’s long – it’s worth every chapter. I stumbled across this by accident and found myself reading it out loud because I was so engrossed with the plot.

The original manga is different from anything I’ve read until now because it features the old types of drawings (refer to picture).

The story focuses on a girl (Maya) that always had an inspiration for acting. The story features her struggle as she runs away from her home and mother to get what wants. She faces hardships along the way until she gets the stardom that she aims for. She did not run away from home for home to be famous, but it was just for the simple reason that she was in love with acting. However, the faster she had climbed up, the faster she had fallen which resulted in a scandal that strayed her away from her dream.

The volume doesn’t always talk about the success of the girl, but it also focuses on how she fell and struggled to climb up again and prove to the world that she is as good as they had perceived her to be.

I liked it a lot because it aligns a lot with real life situations – hardships she faced were actual struggles. What I really liked about this was the fact that she was always praised and worshiped by others, but one mistake made everyone forget about her acting skills and good hearted nature and they always remembered her as the girl who did …

It reminded me a lot of times of a person at my previous job. She was always doing a good job at work, but once she made one HUGE mistake and her boss always remembered her for that instead.

Watch her struggle with the only lead actress that sees Maya as a potential rival who is worthy to beat her in the acting industry. The two girls battle their way against each other on TV and the theatre, hoping… that one day one of them will get the role of the crimson goddess.

It’s different than what I have read so far.

Please share your thoughts with me. What do you all think? Is this the type of story that you would pick up and read?

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Facts:

Glass Mask is a long-running shōjo manga by Suzue Miuchi, serialised in Hana to Yume from January 1976, and collected in 42 tankōbon volumes as of 2006. The story has also been adopted into anime several times, including TV series in 1984 and 2005 and an OVA.

Source: Glass Mask Wikipedia Link

Kindly note that if you click on the link above you will be exposed to many spoilers

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Sources: Anime News Network, Wikipedia

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