Kutsuwada, Chie

Both novices and advanced artists can greatly benefit from this title filled with whimsical and adorable Kawaii drawings.

With all good intentions and competent art, this adaptation based on William Scott Wilson's translation reduces the original work to a gorefest. As a result, much of the period's cultural oddness for moderns and the setting for the many tales about violent deaths is lost. For adult collections where translations of the original are popular.