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A note about editions: there's 4 or 5 different editions of this series. This one is a black & white, all-in-one edition of the 1958, 3 volume version. It has very different paneling and dialogue from the 2 volume version. While it's missing the beautiful coloring of the 1958 version (and reprint), it uses many more kanji, and was much easier to read (at least for me, I switched between both versions). The frame story pages included differ slightly, with digital one including a "men should be brave, and women should be caring, so now all is right again" moral dialogue, while the physical one simply ended with the internal story.
Overall a fun story that I could never quite tell where it was going. You can tell there's a lot of Disney influence, but there's also a lot of Takarazuka Revue influence (and some obvious homages). I really loved Sapphire, our heroine princess with the 2 心 (male and female), though I didn't particularly care for the the last 1/4 or so. The characters are fun, though sometimes a little too cartoonish for my taste. The plot is wildly all over the place (it kinda gives おにいさまへ a run for its money, though it's not a melodramatic tragedy), and I could rarely predict where it was going. The paneling is fairly dense a lot of the time, so this makes for a really long read.
Often (questionably) called the first shoujo manga, I could see some relation, in terms of character and themes (not to mention the whole girl prince thing), to modern shoujo - though the art style is definitely not reflective of where the genre went.
Overall an enjoyable read.