First, It has a great story and I love the main character Maya.
Her struggles to become an artist all felt too real and inspiring.
I didn't think acting was so hard and I learned something about perseverance and giving your best for your dreams. If something, I would give this series a perfect 10 for the first half episodes.
Then it becomes more and more cliche. I understand this comes from a Shoujo manga, and it shows, latter on the series Maya and the other characters do things that I think are not very rational, and are kind of cliche on these kind of mangas: (like falling in love with your tyrannical master or "casual" miraculous encounters, things like that), still it was not that bad, but it surely made the overall plot not perfect, at least for me: male not a big fan of cliches or cheap plot tricks.
The end, I didn't like at all, the acting went abstract and too much religious/philosophical and it was left open and inconclusive. If this series haven't had that superb start I would give this series just a 7 at most. But in average, it was good.
If you like acting or are a Shoujo diehard fan this anime would be perfect.
