(W/A/CA) Kaori Yuki. The story of Belle and her beast as you've never seen it before* with sinister* creeping shadows suffusing a door to a wider* magical world. Young and rambunctious Belle insists on going out to play in the forbidden woods* but her adventurous streak abruptly ends when her mother is spirited away by a beast known to kidnap beautiful women. Twisted by the loss of his wife* Belle's father keeps his daughter* who has unusual* violet hair* locked away in an effort to "protect" her from prying eyes. Finally emerging after years of solitude* Belle ventures back into the woods where she lost her mother and encounters the beast once more!