ternyata gak cuma sekedar aktris yg berakting sesuai skenario,melainkan benar-benar menjiwai peran yg dilakoninya...adalah Maya Kitajima dan Ayumi yang bersaing dengan kehebatan akting mereka masing-masing untuk memperebutkan peran Bidadari Merah...perbedaan antara mereka adalah bahwa seorang Maya Kitajima berakting sesuai dengan skenario asli adegan per adegannya..misal saat ia harus beradegan memakan roti yg ternyata roti itu telah diganti dengan roti yg terbuat dari lumpur, tetapi ia tetap memakannya meski setelah itu ia menjadi sakit perut. Lain halnya dengan Ayumi, pada kondisi yg sama dia lebih berimprovisasi untuk merubah cerita dan tidak mengikuti skenario aslinya. Sangat menarik untuk dibaca!Dulu baca komik Topeng Kaca pas SMP, demi menyewa komik ini di rental, saya sampai tidak jajan.masih menjadi harapan untuk memiliki koleksi lengkap komiknya ^_^ Original title: Garasu No KamenGenre: shojo (typically for teenage girl readers), drama, romance, slice of life, tragedy, comedy.The title of Glass Mask refers to the fragile mask wore by the actors in the stage. When they get distracted, the mask could break and the performance fails.This is the most anticipated manga of all the time, so far. It was created in 1976 with 42 volumes published. Considered “dead” for the next 12 years, it lived again for two volumes during 2008-2009 and not finished yet. However, the author has announced that she will end this series quickly.Extra patience is worth to wait for the next volumes of this beautiful story. This is about the rise and fall of Maya Kitajima as a professional stage actress. She was 13, not pretty or smart when a famous actress Chigusa Tsukikage found her raw talent and looked at her to be a potential successor for playing the role of Crimson Goddess in the future. Maya followed her passion of acting and left her mother alone to be trained under Tsukikage’s supervision. At the early stage of her career, she met Masumi Hayami, the young director of Daito group and Ayumi Himekawa, a skillful actress of the same age who comes from a notable family in acting industry.Masumi was impressed by Maya’s strong will in her first performance and being the hugest fans ever since. Known as a cold hearted person, he covered his feeling by being cynical and sometimes cruel to Maya. But he never forgot to send her purple roses without name for every first night of her performances and provided support includes finance secretly when she was in the need of it. Maya called this secret admirer as Purple Roses Man.Ayumi on the other hand, is an everlasting rival of Maya. Considered as a prodigy since very young, she was surprised by Maya’s acting in a practice session. Ayumi is actually the one who puts this rivalry between them, while Maya always feels inferior when facing her. But they also admire each other’s talent. The plot sometimes unites them to be in the same stages.The core of this story, apart from Maya’s life, is the drama of Crimson Goddess. As the first actress to take the role and the owner of the copyright, Tsukikage did her best to bring it back to the stage. She trained Maya extremely hard to fulfill the standard she set to play the role while at the same time watching Ayumi’s improvement. This play at some point doesn’t only affect Maya’s life but also the life of almost every figure in the manga.Rivalry, friendship, intrigues, competition and love color the story splendidly. As a drama of life, it feels complete. My only doubt is about the time line. Within 12 years so many things have changed. I don’t read the second last volume yet so no idea how the author puts the story in the present context, or whether she chose to let it flow as the way it should be in the past.
What do You think about Glass Mask (2000)?
gara gara baca ini komik, waktu SMA jadi pengen ikut kelas pantomim :D
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