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“OVA prequel to Glass Mask: poor, talentless Maya obsessed with theater meets scarred woman guarding legendary play rights.”
Glass Mask: The Girl of a Thousand Masks
ガラスの仮面～千の仮面を持つ少女～
6.96
4,880 rank · 3,293 viewers · 8 favorites
Drama
Performing Arts
Shoujo
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Synopsis
OVA prequel to Glass Mask: poor, talentless Maya obsessed with theater meets scarred woman guarding legendary play rights.
An OVA depicting the early events of the Glass no Kamen series. Kitajima Maya is a young girl from a poor background with no talents of use to school or her widowed mother. However, she is obsessed with movies, theatrical plays and TV dramas-to the point of remembering every line from a movie she's seen once, and dramatically acting out the stories, including every character, for anyone who will listen. One day, she encounters an old woman with a scarred face who claims that Maya is the girl she's been looking for-for the old woman has spent years protecting the rights to a 'legendary' play.
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7.6
/10
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Score distribution
median 8
mode 4
σ 2.06
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Polarized
σ 2.06 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.40
Running avg · Aug 2008 → Mar 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Well, obviously it's kinda different from 80's version. I like that this one has more small details in plot and they make more realistic and intense atmosphere in comparison with "childish"...”
- 10 “This is not so much a sequel as an OVA covering the very beginning of the story of Glass Mask. It begins with Maya, the girl who is not good at anything... aside from her fascination with all that...”
- 8 “I thought this was a very good adaptation for watchers who wanted to give Glass Mask a try but didn't want to commit to a full series like the 1984 or 2005 adaptations. I vastly preferred the...”
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Short · 20%
Medium · 60%
Long · 20%
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- Format 3 × 45′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 15m all episodes
- Aired Dec 1998 – Apr 1999
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-3239 catalog