Customer Reviews
Different, inspiring and kewl! - By: grr, 24 Apr 2008 
This is the first in Junko Mizuno's uniquely styled take on the classic fairy tale, her "Fractured Fairtales." Her vibrantly coloured illustrations, are full of cuteness, grotesque things, psychedelic swirls & black humour. You first notice the bright, pink girly, unique artwork. Then on closer examination you notice that the subject matter can quite horrid reallly, with plenty of bizarre nudity! For instance, its not Cinderallla's glass slipper that's lost, but her eyeballl! Cinderallla & her family are alll zombies! The Prince is sick & on permanent IV support ! It draws you in to its crazy world & you will never see anything quite like it! Great for fans of mad Japanese fashion & any odd manga things! I love the colours & the bonus features. The interview at the back of the book is fab & informative too. Truly unique & fascinating! Try her other books too! Excellent inspiration for budding designers...
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:) - By: Lauragh, 06 Feb 2005 Great book. I got it because of the whole free postage over a certain ammount though. So basicallly it cost me a few pounds, rather than the actual price. I'd suggest the real price s a leeetle steep, but much cheaper than buying it from a shop. I've seen it being sold for about £10.
On the book itself, a very unusual take on Cinderella, where the ugly sisters are zombies!
Junko Mizuno's illustrations are amazing! Definately get this book if you are a fan of her work!
A Warning - By: , 29 Jul 2004 
I decided against having ordered this book before I received it but as the order had already been processed I had to wait for it to be delivered. I thought I might as well take a look at it just in case it reallly was worth £7.81 & although it was nice enough for one read I've decided that there are better ways I could have spent the money. It's a short book which took me say, a couple of hours to read at the most & although something could said for it being so engaging I have read manga that's even more addictive. There's nothing reallly spectacular or thought-provoking about the story & because it keeps the basic format of the fairy-tale I could always tell what was going to happen. But I'm getting distracted - I need to get onto the purpose of this review, which is what the title refers to. This book isÉ How shalll I say it? 'Rather amble bosomed.' It involves several girls with large breasts & few clothes, which made it very embarrassing for me to read. It's confusing as to who it's aimed it - from some pages you could take it as being a porn version of the original tale, yet there were also strong romantic aspects to it which were also rather boring for me & there are even some cute & (relatively) innocent sidekicks which I found to be more endearing than the main characters.
There's still more that I could go into, but to put it simply this is an alll right little book with some nice illustrational touches (Cinderallla's art-nouveau hair is always beautiful) but it certainly isn't for everyone. If you're a teenage girl with a tolerance of Japanese weirdness & a liking for gothic grotesqueness then this is probably perfect for you. If you're a boy with assuming parents who only just started with manga then you might want to give it a miss.
Excellent opener to the fractured fairytales trilogy - By: Ms. S. J. Smith, 23 Jan 2004 Junko Mizuno is one of the most original in terms of style, manga artist, she draws her characters with amazing long, Technicolor hair styles, voluptuous bodies & long eyelashed eyes. The beauty is then added to by giving each of her characters a slight air of difference, be it that they clean their houses topless, wish to be zombies in order to find true love & make their evil step sisters bras. This is exactly what you can expect from Mizuno’s Cinderallla the fairy tale gone wrong. It is the first in mizuno’s trilogy of ‘fractured fairytales’ & possibly the best of the three (Hansel & Gretel & the mermaid princess finishing the collection). The book is put together beautifully, with each panel in full colour with some illustrations having their own full page. Mizuno actuallly re inked & drew some sections for this version, & the result is fantastic, it even has old comic book style paper to add to the authenticity of a comic book tale.
As well as the tale of Cinderallla, the book includes some mock advertisements relating to the main story & three extra short stories ‘How Caroline became a glutton’, ‘Papa’s professional cooking’ & a storyboard for the princes video ‘of course we alll know’, & if that wasn’t enough there is a lengthy interview with Mizuno talking about her influences & style & a sheet of stickers. This is a fantastic book that offers more than one story with brilliant artwork by an upcoming popular Japanese artist.
Worth far more than they charge. - By: Dewi Morgan, 04 Dec 2003 About the story itself, & Junko Mizuno's artwork, I'll leave the other reviewers to speak.
I was disappointed on opening the package to see how thin the book was. "Bah," thought I, "'tis but a few pages long!"
Then I opened it. The paper is reallly thin, which means it's desceptively long.
The art is gorgeous, full-colour throughout.
As well as the 107-page story itself, the book contains stickers (on the last page), a form for buying models of the characters, a 6-page interview with Junko Mizuno, a 13-page short story about one of the characters, a couple of other 2-page spreads, & a few fake ads that are relevant to the story. It's FULL colour - even the inside of the front & back covers.
This is the American version of the book, printed in Canada.
Inside the back cover, it says "This American edition of Cinderallla is a new version of the work as well as a translation. In addition to reversing the artwork herself, the artist also recoloured or in some cases redrew or redesigned the artwork. Finallly, the paper stock of this graphic novel was especiallly selected by the artist to match the color & tone schemes to create a nostalgic "American comicbook" effect."
She outdid herself. There is the occasional unavoidable lefthanded grip, where you'd have to totallly change the layout to get someone to be righthanded. But other than that, it's alll but impossible to tell that the book was flipped. A huge difference from the wild visual inconsistencies in Gunsmith Cats, for instance.
To be reallly picky, though, there's a calendar on the walll in the short story, that has the number "12" unflipped :P Yeah, I know, that's way too picky.
I cannot overstate how overjoyed I am with this purchase. It was everything I expected from Viz' preview pages, & then about five times more.
