Welcome!!!

Hi meet you . how going.

Hello! I am from the U.S.A. and have spent hours and hours and hours reading this site and am very grateful it is here.

Glass Mask is my first manga. My daughter reads a lot of manga, but I never had the patience for it. But a few weeks ago she suggested I watch the Glass Mask anime. She thought I would like it because I studied acting in college, but gave it up in my youth. I am a "failed actress." (lol) I was fascinated by the 51 episodes of the anime so much, but the ending was highly unsatisfying. So I thought I would check out the manga to see if the story continued. Little did I know at that time what a giant project it was going to be to find the story and learn all about Glass Mask.

Well, now two weeks later I have been immersed in the manga. I have learned many things about the manga world, including about scanilators and things like that. I have read 39 volumes in English, and 10 volumes in Japanese using synopses and reading this forum to help me understand. It has been a lot of work just figuring out where everything is and how to read it and which stories are official, so considering the time and energy spent doing that, I can't imagine how much time and energy has gone into producing this forum. Quite and accomplishment, which shows a lot of love for the series.

I sincerely don't think I will be able to survive until I know the end of this story.

This forum has gone quiet, but I thought I'd post my little note here and let you all know that I'm waiting with you all. Guess I'll just go out and live my life while I'm waiting for the end. I hope I still remember and care by the time the story reappears. I will probably be checking here from time to time.

Despite all the time spent here, I never did find that section "S"

From a sincere fan!

Taylor, thanks for your response. I've read much of your writing all over this forum and feel like I know you, almost, although I, of course, am a complete stranger to you.

I have settled down now and the feeling of dying to know what happens next has subsided enough that I feel like I can live now.

In the meantime, to carry me over, after re-reading and re-watching Glass Mask several times, I have finally decided to try out some other manga too. This helped, except that now I'm also dying to know what happens in Skip Beat, although will have less time to wait to find out than for Glass Mask. After that I decided I'm only going to read manga that are finished from now on. Can't take this kind of waiting.

My daughter has been rolling her eyes because her mom is not supposed to be in to this stuff. So, I read when she's not around.

Well, as I mentioned before, Glass Mask was my first manga, although I have watched some anime with my kids. I never ventured into the manga because it seemed like such a bother to get used to reading from back to front and right to left. But it was the Glass Mask desperation after the anime ending that made me consider reading the manga.

After reading Glass Mask, I said to myself, "Well, I really don't want to start getting in to this stuff, because it's very time consuming and it feels like it's even a little addicting." But I still had the dissatisfaction of not knowing what's going to happen to Maya and Masumi. So, I read it all over again, and then all over again. Then I discovered/found the live drama and watched that a couple of times.

After all that, I didn't want to start another manga because I thought, "Surely there can't be another one out there better than this Glass Mask. I think I may have made a mistake in reading one I liked so much first, because I'm sure none other will capture me like this has."

However ... after a while, even reading and re-reading and re-watching became a little frustrating. So, I figured, okay, I'll just find some other one to read to pass the time until that volume 50 comes out. I chose Skip Beat for two reasons: 1. I had watched the anime of that with my daughter and found it interesting but frustrating because it was open ended. It seemed that the story continued in the manga so that might be satisfying. 2. Skip Beat was suggested as one to read if you like Glass Mask.

There was SO much of Skip Beat that, had I handled it right, it surely could have lasted me until Glass Mask started publishing again. HOWEVER, this new addiction took hold and I could not put it down and I read through all of it in about 3 days, neglecting some chores along the way.

This is a whole new world for me, lol! I have now read about 5 of them that I have enjoyed immensely. I just finished Ouran High School Host Club and sincerely think I like that one as much as Glass Mask. I truly loved the characters in that one.

So, I guess there are other ones out there besides Glass Mask. It was never my intention to go this far. What a world I've discovered!