Fairytales are, or should be, an important part of everyne's childhood, and some of the most famous and beloved are the ones by the brothers Grimm. Who doesn't know Snow White? Little Riding Red Hood? Cinderella? Sleeping Beauty? Since a few years ago, it became a trend make the fairy tales more grimdark, saying that's the way they were before Disney made the movies. Don't get me wrong, some original versions can be really creepy or sinister sometimes, with some gory scenes, but the main difference this new versions and the original is that the original versions got only some dark scenes, with a pretty more sinister subtext underneath, while this new versions were most of them dark for the being dark's sake. There were some amazing works, of course, but this is not, unfortunetly.
I usually like dark works, but this manga cross the line to be just painful to read. The main character is a vain, selfish and arrogant prince with a misogynistic love for dead women because quiet are more beautiful, and thinks one of most important hings in a woman is...her bust size. To add more insult, this character and his opinions were written by a woman. He acts abusive toward his servent, who's only in the story for being a comic bystander, except in the Riding Red Hood arc, whn we discover the prince manipulated a little girl when he was a kid to make her murder her parents, just because she was his servsant's friend. If you don't feel disgusted by this character after reading what i wrote...
The rest of cast are most of them really dislikeable, or better said, despicable. We got a masochyst witch dressed like a stereotiaped otaku's s&m dream who loves how mean the prince is with her, a creepy stepbrother who has to be worse tha n the main character in a poor attemp to make him look like a nice guy, and a lot of princess that are just beautiful, but bitchy/only care for looks/manipulative. And that's the worst part.
If they were just princesses the mangaka created from her on imagination, i wouldn't mind at all, but the problem is they are based on the beloved characters from the classic fairy tales. Snow White is turned into a disgusting manipulative creepy looking gothic-lolita, losing all the charm from the original tale. I don't mind reimaginating fairytales and give the audience a different piont of view, but this work doesn't show any respect from the original, until the point of becoming an insult. The only character that gets a new refershing point of view was the sleeping beauty's version.
This title is a shojo, so you're gonna find some of the typical gangs that would be funny if there wasn't for the disturbing context. It looks like it want to be a dark outtake of typical fairytales, but still want so desperatly to appeal teenage girls.
But there's not only fairy tales the victims: the women's portrayal is just offensive. Most of the female cast is annoyng, shallow and obnoxious. And like i said before, it was writting by a woman.