Kyrie
Grimms Manga was a cute collection of fairy tale retellings. None of the stories are direct adaptations.
For instance, in Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf falls in love with Red. Rather than the moral of the story being “don't trust strange men”, it's changed to “you shouldn't judge others based on their appearance”.
In Hansel and Gretel, the woman who takes the children in is more of a cougar than a flesh-craving witch, although poor Gretel believes that the woman is literally going to “eat Hansel up”.
Other stories aren't changed quite so much - Rapunzel is only gender-swapped, with Rapunzel being both the long-haired beauty locked away in a tower, as well as the one whose eyes get pricked by thorns.
The stories are pretty good, for adaptations. The more changed stories still capture a general sense of their source material, and some of the updated takes - such as Hansel and Gretel - do a very nice job of retelling the story in a slightly more modern light.
And that artwork is just gorgeous.
I'll admit that I liked Little Red Riding Hood the most out of all the stories in this volume, both for the story itself, and the way the characters were drawn.
Grimms Manga was a cute collection of fairy tale retellings. None of the stories are direct adaptations.
For instance, in Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf falls in love with Red. Rather than the moral of the story being “don't trust strange men”, it's changed to “you shouldn't judge others based on their appearance”.
In Hansel and Gretel, the woman who takes the children in is more of a cougar than a flesh-craving witch, although poor Gretel believes that the woman is literally going to “eat Hansel up”.
Other stories aren't changed quite so much - Rapunzel is only gender-swapped, with Rapunzel being both the long-haired beauty locked away in a tower, as well as the one whose eyes get pricked by thorns.
The stories are pretty good, for adaptations. The more changed stories still capture a general sense of their source material, and some of the updated takes - such as Hansel and Gretel - do a very nice job of retelling the story in a slightly more modern light.
And that artwork is just gorgeous.
I'll admit that I liked Little Red Riding Hood the most out of all the stories in this volume, both for the story itself, and the way the characters were drawn.