Glass Mask going to be an “comedy” anime
“Glass Mask”(/garasu-no kamen) is a popular manga work for girls created by Suzue Miuchi describing dreams, efforts, suffering, and competitions of a girl who is eager to become an actor. Now, this nationally popular manga is going to be filmed as a comedy anime on TV from the comng October. (http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/glass/)
Originally, this manga work is a quite “serious” cartoon of a life of the girl who wants to be an actor describing her complicated human relationships with other people, such as her master, friends, rivals and so forth. And it has been filmed as an serious anime and TV dramas a few times so far, but this time in token of 40th anniversary of this manga work, it is to be a comedy anime to describe school lives of young people as a kind of satire of cynicism of society.