![]() Glass Mask - Wikipedia. Glass Mask. Cover of the first tankōbon of the series.ガラスの仮面(Garasu no Kamen)Genre. Romance, Drama. Manga. Written by. Suzue Miuchi. Published by. Hakusensha. ![]() Demographic. Shōjo. Magazine. Hana to Yume. Bessatsu Hana to Yume. Original run. January 1. Volumes. 49. Anime television series. The Jalopnik Bump is a magical thing. It’s obvious that the sticker is no ordinary decal, placed shamelessly on racers. This application is special. Grants for. You are viewing our Anime Sub List daily updated. Watch Anime online in high quality at AnimeTofu without any dramas. We have a variety of formats including 720p and. Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Suzue Miuchi, serialized in Hana to Yume from January. ![]() Directed by. Gisaburō Sugii. Studio. Eiken. Original network. NTV, Animax. Original run. April 9, 1. 98. 4 – September 2. Episodes. 23. Television drama. Original run. 19. Episodes. 23 + 1 special. Original video animation. Glass no Kamen: Sen no Kamen wo Motsu Shoujo. Directed by. Tsuneo Kobayashi. Studio. TMS Entertainment. Released. December 1. April 2. 1, 1. 99. Runtime. 45 minutes. Episodes. 3Anime television series. Directed by. Mamoru Hamatsu. Studio. TMS Entertainment. Licensed by. Original network. Animax, AT- X, TV Aichi, TV Osaka, TV Tokyo. Original run. April 5, 2. March 2. 8, 2. 00. Episodes. 51. Anime and Manga portal. Glass Mask(ガラスの仮面,Garasu no Kamen) is a Japanese shōjomanga series written and illustrated by Suzue Miuchi, serialized in Hana to Yume from January 1. October 2. 01. 2. The story has also been adapted into anime and a live- action television series. As of 2. 00. 6, the collected volumes had 5. Japan, making it the second best- selling shōjo manga ever.[1] The title refers poetically to the mask of faces that actors wear - while expressing emotions that are not their own, the mask they wear (their acting) is as fragile as glass. If the actors are distracted, their mask will "break" and show on stage the actors' true feelings. After not publishing a new chapter in the story for more than two years, Miuchi re- launched the series in Hakusensha's Bessatsu Hana to Yume (別冊花とゆめ) magazine in July 2. The story continues from where it left off in volume 4. Miuchi has announced that she intends to end the series soon.[3]Glass Mask is a saga depicting the devotion of Maya Kitajima to the performing arts as a professional stage actress, and her competition with her skilled rival, Ayumi Himekawa. They are both pursuing the degree of acting proficiency and career success required to play the lead role of the legendary stage play "The Crimson Goddess" ("Kurenai Tennyo"). Maya is not particularly beautiful or smart in school, but her passion for acting is all- consuming, to the point where she literally puts her own life on the line several times for the sake of a role. Always told by her mother that she was good for nothing, Maya wants to prove to the world and to herself that she has worth. On the other hand, everyone expects the gifted and multi- talented Ayumi to succeed, so she is determined to reach the top on her own without the help of her prestigious parents. As the story unfolds it encompasses the tangled human relationships of many characters, including Maya's mentor, Chigusa Tsukikage, who discovered Maya's tremendous talent for acting during her search for a successor capable of performing the role of "The Crimson Goddess", and Masumi Hayami, the young president of Daito, who often interacts with Maya as a crafty and cold- hearted entrepreneur, while giving her faithful support and warm encouragement in the disguise of an anonymous fan ("The Purple Rose Person", or "murasaki no bara no hito" as Maya calls him for his trademark gift of purple roses). Hajime Onodera, a director for Daito, wants the rights to "Kurenai Tennyo," which were given to Tsukikage by the playwright; since Tsukikage refuses to sell him the rights, Onodera tries to drive Tsukikage's acting school out of business through a series of nefarious schemes. Since Onodera is working for Hayami, Maya (unaware that Hayami is "The Purple Rose") hates him. Though there is an age difference of eleven years, Masumi falls in love with Maya and gives her encouragement in subtle ways. Characters[edit]Maya Kitajima(北島 マヤ,Kitajima Maya). A talented young actress (a 1. Chinese restaurant alongside her mother. Her father died when she was a little girl and her mother, Haru (Louise in the French anime), who is mentally unstable, considers Maya useless due to Maya's tendency to be sidetracked by anything to do with acting while in the middle of working). She is discovered by the former diva Chigusa Tsukikage and starts a promising, yet thorny acting career under the older woman's wing. Her mother discourages her daughter from an acting career, believing that her daughter would be a laughingstock. She even refused to attend a school play Maya was in because Maya's role was that of a pitiful and wretched minor character. So Maya gave the role more depth and sadness to a character who was originally meant to be portrayed as laughable and pathetic. Later on, Maya is given the opportunity to make a living as an actress. Tsukikage cuts off Maya's ties with her mother, making the decision of becoming an actress. However, Maya is consistently given encouragement through an anonymous fan who sends her a bouquet of purple roses which is none other than Hayami Masumi, whom Maya shows an immense hatred towards, especially since he took malicious enjoyment in bringing down Tsukikage's acting school. A few years later, Haru dies of Tubercolis and blindness, trautimizing Maya for many weeks. Maya's talent for acting comes from both her natural skill and emotional personality, unlike Ayumi whose skills are more technically driven; in fact, Maya practically 'becomes' her characters when she plays, so brutal her training methods are and so intensely she performs. During the beginning of her training sessions, Maya has always displayed unconventional performances of the assigned tasks, such as laying on the floor to "sit on" a toppled chair. People often note how unremarkable Maya is until she takes the stage. In fact, the prodigy actress Ayumi comments that Maya knows how to captivate the audience, even though she isn't aware of doing so. Despite having enormous potential and raw talent, Maya often doesn't recognize her abilities. She thinks of herself as unremarkable and "useless", as her mother constantly referred to her as, though she is compelled to pursue a career in acting because "acting is all she has". She also harbors moments of inferiority in comparison to Ayumi, who is beautiful, talented, and rich. Despite all this, Maya doesn't harbor any malice or ill will toward Ayumi, though Ayumi is secretly competitive toward Maya. Maya has three nicknames. One is "The Stage Storm," referring to her innate ability to drown out other actors' importance in a play even while in a bit part. Tsukikage refers to Maya as "the girl with a thousand masks" in tribute to her versatility whenever taking on character roles. And she is addressed as "little child" (ちびちゃん,Chibi- chan) by Masumi Hayami, a diminutive nickname he's given to her due to their broad disparity in age and height, to satirize her naivete, and eventually out of true affection. Ayumi Himekawa(姫川 亜弓,Himekawa Ayumi) Maya's biggest rival, the honor- bound and noble Ayumi was born as the daughter of a very famous actress, Utako Himekawa (once the student of Tsukikage) and a successful director and producer, Mitsugu Himekawa, and has been touted as a prodigy from an early age. Ever since learning she got her first acting role just because of her family links, Ayumi has striven to shine on her own and never falls into arrogance. Ayumi becomes aware of Maya's prodigious gift for acting when they first meet in a practice session; from then on she views the younger girl as a life- rival. She is ambitious enough to try to surpass her own mother, who is a widely recognized actress. People have jokingly told Utako that her daughter will steal the role of the Crimson Goddess from her. Even though Ayumi is young, she believes that she will re- vitalize the renowned role. Thus, she takes it upon herself to get as much experience as she can by trying out for any roles, including minor ones. At first, when Ayumi took on the role of Tom in The Prince and the Pauper, the children in attendance didn't like the performance because they were used to seeing Ayumi as a beautiful young woman rather than a dirty and homely boy. Yet Ayumi soon draws the children's favor by begging for "money" in a hat, to which the children offer her their candy. The people behind the stage were surprised that Ayumi would do such a thing, particularly since Ayumi generally would have thought such things beneath her. Her passion to become the Crimson Goddess is undeniable, however, as she continually strives for perfection to attain the role.
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