Hi there! So -- big Glass Mask fan here, and pleased as punch that someone has picked up this manga, even if I haven't caught up to all the new chapters yet. Thank you for the new updates :')
That being said, maybe I need to get on the groove of this manga again, but I'm really turned off by the plotline surrounding Masumi's sickly fiancée. I know, I know... it's an old manga, but still-- such a tired trope. Rather than feel sympathy for her plight, I feel irked by her blind obsession with Masumi whenever she shows up in the story (it's like she realizes he's in love with someone else, yet refuses to come to terms with it?). It also shows us that Masumi's going down the same road his father did (married to someone he doesn't love, obsessed with the actress portraying the Crimson Goddess), which isn't great to see.
I'm also somewhat confused, since I've read online that the author rewrote some parts of the manga, finding that she had focused too much on romance, and wanting the story to be more focused on acting. Does anyone know if this is true?
Finally, I kinda feel like Mrs Tsukikage should've died back then, when she was playing the Crimson Goddess for one final time. Maybe because that's where the scans stopped for a long time, but that scene felt very... final, and seeing her alive after this was a little jarring. At this point, does she really have much else to contribute to the story?