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Story (7): the story is pretty straightforward. Not revolutionary or anything but it aware if ut and not trying to be something else. So they use that to their advantage. The ending and revelation is quite predictable but what makes me enjoy this is the atmosphere. Idk how but they really got the disturbing factor spot on it gave me chills at every chapter. Just a simple depiction of horrifyingly big swollen bug bite, thousands of insects crawling all over your body and attacking your pets, relatable daily things like that and dramatise that just really works for horror. I like how it doesn't ... rely on ghosts or gore too much to scare the readers.

Art (9): Is probably the strongest point in this manga. It has a delicate, soft pen strokes, to have such pretty art style on a disturbing horror manga just adds the creepyness. Did I mention the word pretty? The character design is nothing unique (not that it has to tho) but it's pretty. It's gorgeous. The paneling is also awesome. And some shots were just beautiful like the scene where it has a spread image of dead bodies all over a lake with a kayak (?) in the middle. Powerful and pretty I could print that in a poster and hang it on my bedrooms. Also the insects, inflected bodies, monster designs are so grossly drawn it's so good. And the main girl (the instect Princess is terrifying, omg.

Characters (7): it doesn't have many chapters so it's not like we can explore the characters that much so nothing special. The characters reaction to things are pretty realistic which I really appreciate, not like some airhead horror main character that has the dumb mentality of "I neED tO sAve everYonE!". As if "saving everyone" is the only personality trait they have. The Insects Princess on the other hand does a really good job at being creepy and terrifying.

Enjoyment (9): this manga did a really good job at making me feel disturbed and creeped out like a horror manga should so thumbs up for that! I haven't really found a nice horror manga that's actually creepy aside from Ito Junji's work so this is really refreshing. I love how this manga doesn't really rely on psychopathic killers or such to make it terrifying.

Overall (8): totally recommend this if you're just bored and feeling like having an insect related nightmare at night!

Looks like this is gonna be my first review for this site. But this is not gonna take long, after all if you have read another short horror manga you will pretty much know how the experience will go. Personally I read manga like these when I have nothing to do and want a quick read. And as that, this manga works quiet well.

The story is short and self contained, and not over ambitious at all. What is presented is not bad, but enjoyable for what it is. The biggest strength this piece has is its art, just like a lot of other horror ... manga. The designs are not scary nor thrilling but cool instead. And it was fun to see how they applied insect biology on humans.

However being a short horror manga just like any other, I did not really managed to attach myself to any characters nor did not care that much about them. This is at best a story I will remember for about a week until it vanishes into the void of my memories.

As a final point I would like to read the original raw version as I felt the translation seemed a bit off. I can´t tell for sure if it´s a bad translation but I personally was slightly bothered by it.

If you have time and just find this manga randomly, give it a try. You probably won´t remember it well but during the time I read it, I was enjoying myself. And it´s also a quick read and a solution if you want to pass time.

Insect Princess? More like INCEST Princess. 


The story had a strong start, the art is great, everything was going smoothly until they revealed that they're related. Totally killed the vibe of the manga.

I was interested to see how would they end the disaster they created, but they just .. didn't LMAO. It's a short story, it only has 25 chapter, so if you are just a a little bit curious might as well read it. 

The ending was honestly bad too, it was very vague and there's no real outcome it just ended abruptly.

The characters are very flat, even if the story is short, I've read oneshots ... that have more character than this.

Very anticlimactic, I would not recommend it. I only read it because the art was pretty.