• Helter Skelter won the Grand Prize at the 2004 Japan Media Art Festival and the Asahi Newspaper's Osamu Tezuka Award.
• Okazaki is considered the mother of women's comics and this is her magnum opus.
• Reveals an unseen side of the Japanese fashion business, sometimes in a controversial light.
• Helter Skelter was made into a film in Japan in 2012 and debuted at Cannes Film Festival.