Nobody talks about this one. That needs to stop. This is a 2017 pilot attempting to resurrect a 1984 series that never finished, which means it's basically a love letter written 33 years late to an unfinished story. The pilot doesn't explain itself to newcomers, it just builds a shrine to what Glass no Kamen was supposed to be. If you've been waiting decades to see Maya's next role, this is the closest you'll ever get to closure, even though it might be too little and arrive too far past the moment that mattered. The ambition here is real, but the pilot film format means it never becomes a full story, just a promise that couldn't be kept.

Glass no Kamen Pilot Film is a one-episode drama special from 2017. The pilot was packaged as an extra on the Blu-ray edition of the 1984 Glass no Kamen series, so it serves as a companion piece for viewers who own that release.