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Princess Mermaid
by
Junko Mizuno
In this dark-hued ocean fable, three beautiful and seductive mermaid sisters, Tara, Julie, and Ai, lure unsuspecting sailors into their underwater pleasure palace for a different kind of dinner. But things take a twist when Julie sees all-too-human Suekichi as more entrancing than edible, launching an affair that puts them in the middle of a very strange feud.
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
December 31st 2003
by VIZ Media LLC
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Meg Powers
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It's hard to resist a Junko Mizuno interpretation of "The Little Mermaid," which is a pretty disturbing fairy tale on its own, if you're reading the original Hans Christian Anderson version. However, I think my expectations might have been too high.The artwork is beautiful, naturally, and I appreciate the influence of traditional Japanese mermaid folklore-Japanese mermaids are man-eating, as are the cute versions in Mizuno's interpretation-but I guess my gruesome expectations were a bi...more
Quite disturbing, definitely not for children ! But I liked it (I think I liked it...) and found this take on The Little Mermaid more original than what Mizuno did with Hansel & Gretel.
OMG, this was awful. I know, I know- there are mermaids, there are princesses, and as my boyfriend so delicately pointed out, there are nipples all over the place. How could this book go wrong?? I don't know- but it totally did. Reading it was like reading a piece of joke manga- where the story jumps around to a ludicrous extent, there are magical transformations for absolutely NO reason, the women/female characters are so totally objectified, and the translations were horrible. (Example th...more
ooh pretty mermaid postcards...
Such a fantastic twist on Little Mermaid (;
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