Cinderella Monogatari Episode 18 - THE DISTURBING PAINTER

Cinderella Monogatari Episode 18 - THE DISTURBING PAINTER

Episode Summary:

The king wants his son to sit for an official portrait, and Duke Zaral suggests an excellent painter. The painter in question is a strange individual named Zore, who lives alone in a castle atop a mountain peak. Once upon a time, Zore was the aristocracy's official portrait painter and it just so happens that Cinderella is looking for him not only because her stepsisters want portraits of themselves, but also because she wants to find out who painted the beautiful painting left to her by her mother. When the fairy godmother realizes that Cinderella and prince Charles are about to have their portraits done by Zore, she hastens to the painter's castle…. For it is in fact all part of a diabolical plan conjured up by Zaral, who has now acquired through magical rituals,the ability to capture within his painting the soul of the person he paints. He even manages to capture the fairy godmother, until the timely intervention of Patch, Bingo and ChouChou,who release her and allows her, in turn, to save Cinderella and Charles and even free Zore himself from a spell that had turned him a slave. In the end, the painter uses his newly won freedom to paint a spellbinding portrait of Cinderella.