ACTUAL REVIEW AND CONTEXT:
What it says on the tin.
It's a low-budget gag anime that pokes fun at recurring events from the manga. Without that context I can see why someone would find this "bad", but why would you watch it without knowing what it's parodying? It would be like watching DD Hokuto no Ken without knowing even the "You're already dead" line.
For example, Maya will often "become" things in order to "understand" the role she's supposed to play when acting, such as "acting like the wind" to understand how to perform as "someone feeling the wind blowing on their face". This is one of the most important parts of the manga and what sets her apart from the other actresses she performs with.
So as a gag, one of the episodes here has her act as a cellphone in order to "understand how to deliver a text message".
Is it funny on its own? Not really. It's funny because you know what it's referring to, and because that's something you could actually see her doing. And that's the structure for most of the jokes here.
THE JOKES
"What if [event from the manga] happened in modern society as opposed to 1980?"
"How would these 1980 characters deal with these modern problems?"
"The overly sentimental character would probably have an emo blog nowadays"
"What if they made the 80s shoujo reaction face to everything?" (admittedly the funniest episode for me)
Do all the jokes land? Not really, some are very dull. But most are definitely entertaining, provided you know what they're referencing. I might've not bust a gut laughing, but I definitely had a dumb grin on my face throughout the whole thing, especially with the more absurd episodes.
THE ART
Not much to say. They're low budget 3D chibis that move (more like wiggle) like bowling screen/karaoke avatars. They're pretty cute, mostly because of how cheap it is.
OVERALL
If you've read Glass no Kamen or even watched the show, you'll get the jokes and have a good time with how absurd this is. If you haven't, you won't. That's not hard to understand.
That said, I wish they'd have used other characters from the manga as well, especially during the episodes where they simply didn't have a joke and just spammed one-liners. Including the theater troupe, the directors, even Masumi's secretary or hell, Masumi himself who barely appears in the actual episodes, would've made it better. It's still pretty funny though, and since the episodes are only 4min, one of them not landing doesn't waste your time that much.
