Isekai Goumon-hime (Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen)

Kaito Sena is a pitiful existence. After 17 years of hellish abuse, he is finally set free from the shackles of mortality on the day his father strangles him to death—or so he thought.

Being told to become a servant of a girl with exquisite features moments after his death, Kaito immediately refuses; however, under duress, he submits. So begins the life of Kaito as the butler of Elisabeth Le Fanu, the feared and detested Torture Princess. Tasked by the church to exterminate 14 demons, she orders Kaito to accompany her. However, as fate would have it, she is a firm believer of the notion that a true torturer is only deserving of a painful death themselves; therefore, she awaits the day she can fulfill her mission and forfeit her life to the church.

For all of Elisabeth's cruel sadism, Kaito is oddly captivated by her pure sense of purpose and resolve. But as he gets used to his new life, he often finds himself dwelling upon the question: "are sinners like the Torture Princess truly undeserving of happiness?"

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Isekai Goumon-hime was published in English as Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint from May 21, 2019 to November 8, 2022.

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Jan 25, 2023

cosme7

Recommended

It’s time for a story.
It’s the story of a boy who was brutally killed by another, and a story of a monster who cruelly killed others.
Or perhaps it’s a story of a child who was abandoned by his parents, and a hero who was abandoned by the world.
Either way, it’s a story of admiration and folly.
It’s a story of love, but not a story of romance.
Someday, it will likely be remembered as a tale from long, long ago.
A horrible, tragic little anecdote.
One that was far too twisted to pass off as a fairy tale.

1. Story ★★★★★ - It's a very closed story, its plots are ...

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Dec 24, 2022

Fa1seShepherd

Recommended

Without a doubt, the best LN series I have ever read. It's definitely not for everyone. I love me some gore, body horror and mutilation as much as the next person, but from volume 1, the story lets you know that it isn't f*%king around. Entrails are commonplace and each death is described in excruciating detail. That was enough to hook me for at least a few volumes by itself, but then the story did the rest of the work. Also the art... which is gorgeous.

This is a series that is well-written, knows what it wants to say, and doesn't overstay it's welcome (Hell, ...

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Feb 19, 2025

ZephyrEmblem

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (25/115 eps)

tl;dr: Prose = good, characters = good, art = my personal favorite light novel art, plot = abysmal.

Torture Princess is at its best when flaunting the eccentricities of its world and characters; it's at its worst when the plot actually stops by and demands the reader's attention. Some people might humor a story for a while, to give it a full chance to hook the reader to its plot. I did such a thing with "Torture Princess," and was subsequently forced into reading drawn-out action sequence after drawn-out action sequence. Yes, the prose is better than the average light novel, but who cares? Especially when ... said prose is wasted on in-depth descriptions of gore for the umpteenth time.

I would like to preface this review by saying that I dropped this series partway through the fourth volume. I've heard from some people that the series gets better, but I just found the series too boring to continue. It wasn't even horrible, I genuinely liked almost all of the characters, but the plot from volume to volume just did not hook me. The premise is fine: evil but maybe not so evil girl has to kill x of evil entity to atone for doing something evil in the past; the problem is that there are so few moments of actual interest, and the one's that do exist, are scattered about in gallons of bullshit. I swear the author could condense the first four volumes into two by cutting down a lot of the demon hunts that feel like filler. Also, at the end of volume 3/start of volume 4, there is one of the most contrived plot points in the entire series which feels more like a desperate attempt to keep the series running than anything else.

Look, if all of the meanderings in the first four novels are somehow important in the end, that's great. It doesn't change the fact that reading them in the moment is uninteresting, it feels like you are reading a literal fetch quest. I'm unsure of what the series is building towards, or rather I don't think it is really building towards anything at all, and that is not something you should be struggling with on the fourth volume. I should be thinking about how I really want to see x or y happen, and not wondering what the author even wanted me to be excited about to keep reading. And if anyone tries to bring up the aforementioned "character drama" at the beginning of Volume 4, then you are out of your mind if you think that can carry a story (even if wasn't horribly done).

I don't hate Torture Princess, I've probably wanted to like this series more than any other light novel I've read, if only for how gorgeous the art is. But the three-and-a-half novels I just finished were not enjoyable enough to me. Would I recommend it? Maybe, if you are into gore or something. For me though, I'll be generous and give this an extremely light 6 as this is definitely of more artistic value than the average light novel. In the end though, I am rather disappointed that this series could not implement the many interesting ideas it had in a more cohesive manner.

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