Whether Sailor Moon or Fruits Basket, manga has long used classic fairytales as a jumping-off point to tell their own unique stories. Manga-inspired fairytales often combine children's stories with specific Japanese mythology and traditional storytelling to explore everything from yokai folklore and urban legends to dynastic history lessons and samurai culture, giving them a universal appeal that everyone can relate to.
The most memorable manga inspired by fairytales are ones that do not simply retell the original but use the source material to tell new emotionally resonant parables and sidestep storytelling tropes and conventions to create timeless tales that can be passed for generations. Furthermore, the best manga fairytales withstand the test of time more than most.
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Kaguyahime (The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter)
The woman-created manga adapted from the early 10th-century Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Woodcutter, Reiko Shimizu's...
The most memorable manga inspired by fairytales are ones that do not simply retell the original but use the source material to tell new emotionally resonant parables and sidestep storytelling tropes and conventions to create timeless tales that can be passed for generations. Furthermore, the best manga fairytales withstand the test of time more than most.
Related: 10 Seinen With The Best Manga Art
Kaguyahime (The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter)
The woman-created manga adapted from the early 10th-century Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Woodcutter, Reiko Shimizu's...
- 2/15/2023
- by Jake Dee
- ScreenRant
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