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Junko Mizuno's Cinderalla

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This a must-buy if you are into the newest of the new creative departures in the comics/books/movies you like. Junko Mizuno is a very original artist that mixes My Little Pony like worlds with macabre, funny situations.

I was eager to purchase Cinderella after viewing Mizuno's fantastic art online. I was surprised at how small the book is, I was expecting graphic novel size... The story is funny, B-movie like and cute, and has some neat twists that seem to stem out of the art. Cinderella as a whole is not a masterpiece or anything you must buy, but is a fine piece of cutting-edge creative pop storytelling.

the book also includes some extras, a couple of bonus filler comics, an interview, and STICKERS!

Reading Junko Mizuno's Cinderalla makes you feel like a child again, hearing the old Cinderella story for the very first time. In Japan, the story is apparently very different than ours. For one thing, the father, the stepmother and the two evil stepsisters are all evil zombies with green bodies and one of the stepsisters, when dissatisfied with something Cinderella has sewn for her, has the propensity to rip the breasts right off her own body. What a drama queen.

Cinderalla has enormous black eyes with hints of purple iris and enormous though oddly foreshortened eyelashes. Her hair is like a Dolly Parton dream of festoons and swoopy bouffant, and it's a bilious violet that after a while you get used to. She has a cute little mouse friend who gelps her at the restaurant. So far so good, but poor little Cinderalla falls in love with the Prince, not realizing that he too is a -- oh well if I go any further into the Japanese revisious, I will be spoiling things for new readers. The book is small, a graphic novel shrunk down till it could fit into a DVD case. But it gives you full measure of fun and morbid chuckles and--if you think you have problems --they too will seem small next to Cinderalla's.

the book binding and paper quality is low but the content is SO GOOD. junko mizuno's little manga/graphic novels are about the ART, the creepy grotesque story, and the overall CUTE packaging. you want this book to read, to stare, and to keep. it is one of my most prized possessions ;]

I really enjoyed this little book. Junko's illustrated retelling of the Cinderella story in Manga style is unique, crazy, sexy, violent, macabre and endearing. I really enjoy her drawing style.

If your looking for something diffrent get this book! I was at the comic book store when i saw this. Ii had heard of junko mizuno from [some website] It catches the eye. Any whoo i got this and read it its halarious!

I really enjoy the art, its nice. Exept when they draw cinderalla topless. Any ways its a good read.

It also comes with stickers at the end!

if you still live at home you might want to take a raincheck on buying this book. it's pretty good, but they draw cinderalla topless for no apparent reason a lot and it really can be a shock to the system for parents. still, if you know what you're buying and you don't mind, it's a lovely little book. also the stickers ARE pretty cool.