#grimm's fairy tale classics

[chaotictoon]

Fairy Tale: Snow White

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[fawn-cottage]

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics | Briar Rose

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[angeloftheodd]

Princess Leonora playing with her golden ball in  “The Frog Prince” 👑✨🎀

Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1989) 🧚🏰

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[miscfanfreak]

This was too adorable not to post!

#grimm's fairy tale classics #the marriage of mrs fox #fox #furry #cute

[umi-no-onnanoko]

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[tangledinourstrings]

グリム名作劇場: 夏の庭と冬の庭の話 (Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: Beauty and the Beast, 1988) directed by 斎藤博 (Hiroshi Saitō)

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[ariel-seagull-wings]

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics/Grimm Masterpiece Theater: Snow White (1987)

@princesssarisa @themousefromfantasyland

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[dragonbadgerbooks]

October Fun Day Book Photo Challenge: October 21, 2023 Back to the Future Day

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[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: Briar Rose" (1989 anime series episode)

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, or Grimm Masterpiece Theatre as it's known in its Japan, was one of my earliest introductions to the Grimms' fairy tales. When the English dub of this anime aired on Nick Jr. in the '90s, I remember seeing various episodes, including Rapunzel, The Brave Little Tailor, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Four Skillful Brothers. More recently, I've discovered and enjoyed episodes I missed back then, such as Cinderella, Snow White, and The Coat of Many Colors (All-Kinds-of-Fur). The most recent episode I've discovered, and the first one that I've watched in subtitled Japanese as well as in the English dub, is Briar Rose.

Since this series is based on the Grimms' fairy tale collection, this episode is very much a retelling of the Grimms' Briar Rose, not Perrault's Sleeping Beauty. Most notably, in keeping with the Grimm's description of the magical women as "wise women," and not as fairies, they're not portrayed as fairies here. Instead they're thirteen witches. They all live together in a gloomy castle, all first appear as frightening animals before they assume their human forms, and all wear dark colors and look faintly sinister. Fortunately, they're kind as long as they're treated with respect... but if they're not, beware! Unfortunately, because the King and Queen have only twelve golden plates, the thirteenth witch isn't invited to the celebration of the princess's birth. In rage she enlarges herself to the size of a giant to crash the feast and curse the baby. In the original Japanese version, she curses her to die, with the twelfth witch altering the curse from death to sleep; in the English dub, she curses the princess to sleep forever, and the twelfth witch alters it so that someday a prince will wake her.

Fifteen years later, we meet a far more melancholy Briar Rose than the lively princess seen in other versions. Her well-meaning but misguided father the King treats her like a child, still expecting her to play with dolls, and is overprotective too, forbidding her even to leave her room when he and the Queen aren't home. Thus we find Briar Rose playing a sad melody on her harp, yearning to be free to grow up, and refusing to join her parents on a ride into town to buy her more dolls as birthday gifts. (This is the Japanese version; the English dub makes things worse, as she's said to have never been allowed to leave the castle at all, and instead of refusing to go doll-shopping, she refuses to join her own birthday party out of depression, despite the waiting guests.) A surreal montage of roses reflects her longing to "bloom." But suddenly, from an old tower, she hears the sound of a harp playing a perfect conclusion to the melody she's been trying to compose. Disobeying her father, she ventures into the tower... where of course she finds the Thirteenth Witch disguised as an old woman with a spinning wheel.

As soon as Briar Rose is asleep, the Witch puts the rest of the castle to sleep too, then surrounds it with thorns. A band of peasants try to break through to rescue the royal family; some years later, so do two thuggish warriors who want to win the princess. But all these men are entangled in the briars and presumably die. (Though the English dub just says that they become trapped under the spell too.)

A hundred years later, however, a young Prince is riding through a blizzard, when he finds the castle. From the tower he hears the sound of Briar Rose's harp music, then sees a vision of the princess. (The English dub also claims that he's been having dreams about her, but the Japanese version doesn't say so.) Then the gates magically open and Briar Rose's voice calls for him. When he finally finds her sleeping on a bed entwined with briars, we reach a very unusual storytelling choice: this Prince doesn't wake Briar Rose with a kiss. Instead, he accidentally pricks his finger on a thorn, a drop of his blood lands on Briar Rose's lips, and this is what breaks the spell. The happy ending is what we expect, though, as the rosebuds on the briars all burst into bloom, and everyone wakes up. The Thirteenth Witch, seemingly weakened by the breaking of her spell, flies off in the form of a bat (just like in Toei Animation's 1976 anime version), while Briar Rose and the Prince joyfully celebrate their wedding.

This is a standout among the episodes of Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, combining a warm, colorful aesthetic and gentle fairy tale romanticism with touches of darkness, melancholy, and poetic surrealism not found in many other Sleeping Beauty retellings. This is true in either the original Japanese version or the English dub. Having watched both versions back to back, however, I must admit that I prefer the Japanese. The English dub adds a voiceover narrator and quite a bit of extra dialogue, removing much of the Japanese version's subtlety. It also cuts a few frames of animation that feature drops of blood, as well as bowdlerizing any mention of death.

In either language, though, I recommend this unique Sleeping Beauty to any lover of both fairy tales and anime.

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[chaotictoon]

Fairy Tale: Sleeping beauty

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[fawn-cottage]

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics | Snow White

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[angeloftheodd]

Princess Briar Rose and the Prince in a rose garden in “Briar Rose” 👑🌹💞

Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1988) (Saban Dub) 🧚🏰

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[the-bar-sinister]

This left an indelible mark on my psyche when I was a very young child.

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[heartandflowerball]

I was today years old when I learned that the flower in Repunzel is a real flower and looks like this:

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[tomahawk182]

A collection of reference images that i'd like to inform my art during the celtic magazine section of my uni corse.

obviously i want to use the celtic knot imagery and simple/contemporary design of the books, maybe adding in more leather work and more textile feelings from the leather work images in the corner.

Also adding simple yet rustic feeling images like Ricky montgomery's album cover, could work for more light hearted parts of the stories or throughout to enhance the depressing theme's in the book muchj like his music.

kinda want the feeling of a contemporary fairytale book.

Also the Neil Philip's English folk tales has a gorgeous cover that i's like to try and replicate in a starter page for my entire section of the magazine, also an amazing read with good visuals and a starter page with just hand drawn rose's on it, not too expensive from forbidden planet either.

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[curejune]

the doves and the whole dance teacher thing are very cute details in this version. the king is the worst, the queen is the best

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