Princess Knight, Part One
"PRINCESS KNIGHT is regarded a defining masterpiece of the [shojo] genre." -Shojo Beat magazine"Princess  Knighthas the structure and feel of a Disney cartoon, which  is not  surprising, as Tezuka was a big fan of Disney's work. The story  has a  classic fairy-tale setting, a vaguely European country during the   middle ages, with a king and queen, a Royal Guard who are a bunch of   bullies, and quaint villages filled with peasants. The characters have   the rounded, big-eyed look of classic Disney characters, and the pacing   and slapstick humor conjure up such classics as "The Sorcerer's   Apprentice."...Still, Tezuka's  story seems to have caught the popular  imagination in a way that earlier  shoujo manga did not." -MTV