Kevin Killian 2005-01-10
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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.