In order to promote the upcoming Princess Hunter game, the team behind it started uploading comedy fantasy comics starring its characters on their Twitter account
. Later, they were separated into two distinct series, both of which were then also hosted on Webtoon.
Princess Hunter: Origins began in May 2023, and has a consistent narrative. It's about the history of the Gunslinger known as the Princess Hunter, and the harsh upbringing it took to attain the skill he has now. The comic can be read here.
Princess Hunter: Legends began in August 2023, and is more of a gag-a-day comic about the Princess Hunter as he encounters (and romances) monstrous princesses on his adventures, as well as the private lives of the monsters themselves. The comic can be read here.
Tropes:
Both Comics:
- Cute Monster Girl: Many of the beasts in the Princess Hunter's world are these, such as the Naga Princess skilled in swordplay, or the rat women that the Hunter's father was hired to slay for endangering a woman's husband until it's revealed the husband and rats were just getting drunk together.
- The Faceless: The Princess Hunter's face is never seen; either it's obscured during his childhood training before he's earned his helmet, or he's wearing the helmet that covers his entire head.
- Fairy Companion: The Princess Hunter is accompanied by a fairy named Mel that gives him advice on dealing with monsters and non-traditional princesses.
- Guns Akimbo: The Princess Hunter is sometimes shown wielding two different guns at once in the modern day. According to the official Twitter account of the game/comic's creators, the sinister-looking "Dusk" is the symbol of a pact one of his ancestors made with the Crimson King that doomed their bloodline, and the heroic-looking "Dawn" is a family heirloom forged from rare ore.
- Interspecies Romance: Relationships between humans and nonhumans are common, such as a wife being angry at her husband for getting drunk with rat women, or the pumpkin girl princess whose parents are a regular human and a sentient pumpkin.
- No Name Given: The main protagonist is either referred to as the Gunslinger, as he comes from a long lineage of gun-wielding knights, or the Princess Hunter, as he's been tasked with locating princesses as potential brides for the Crimson King that his ancestors made a pact to serve. He mentions having temporary names in the past, but in the context of his father referring to him with insults during his childhood training.
Origins:
- Abusive Parents:
- The Princess Hunter's father caused a lot of childhood trauma, ranging from having the Hunter carry all of their camping gear until he collapses from exhaustion, to referring to him by insults instead of an actual name.
- Mel, while listening to the Hunter's origins, remarks that her own mother didn't care much about her.
- Framing Device: The comic is presented as the modern-day Princess Hunter telling stories about his past to a curious Mel.
- One-Hit Polykill: "Praise" has the Hunter tell how his father's response to him hitting six targets with six shots was to pull out his own gun, hit all six targets with one ricocheting shot, and then tell the Hunter that his skills are nice but to keep practicing.
- Only in It for the Money: The Hunter's father originally considers being hired to protect a circus as lacking integrity and refuses, until he's informed of just how much the circus' manager is willing to pay for his services.
- Skewed Priorities: The Hunter's father, upon learning that his son's been cornered by four wolves with only a stick to defend himself, immediately rushes towards the danger in order to order his son to drop the stick and fight the mongrels like a real Gunslinger.
Legends:
- Chest Monster: "Overbite" has two adventurers noticing an odd chest with teeth sticking out and realising it's one of these, so they feel confident in choosing a more ordinary-looking chest that's filled with gold...which turns out to be a second chest monster that advises the first to go see a dentist.
- Comically Missing the Point: "Obvious solutions" has Princess Hunter upset that a monster's getting away, only for his ally to point out that he has a ranged weapon. He then pulls out his gun...and chucks it at the monster.
- Con Artist: "Princess Saver" has a bunch of goblin girls convince the Princess Hunter to pay a huge dowry in exchange for getting to marry multiple goblin princesses, when the truth is none of them are royal and they're making princess crowns out of wood to scam rich knights.
- Crossover Punchline: "Benefits of reading" has Princess Hunter bemoan being ordered to read in order to improve his intellect, until the book he picks up turns out to be The Tome of Imps (from a mature comic by the artist Huffslove, in which the titular book summons sexy imps and turns impish readers into imps themselves).
- Crown of Power: "True Princess" has two monster girls fighting over a princess crown that, in their struggle, falls onto the head of an ordinary wild possum, which then transforms into a wild possum able to stand on its hind legs, wearing a dress, make-up, and a ribbon, with fairy wings.
- Garden Garment: "Leaf Fall" has Princess Hunter drinking tea with a forest spirit dressed in such a manner while watching the leaves change for fall, when a sudden gust of wind blows the leaves off the spirit herself and the Hunter scrambles to cover her more-exposed body from viewers.
- Giant Woman:
- "All I wanna be is someone who gets to see a giant woman..." has Princess Hunter asking out a half-mountain woman large enough to carry an entire kingdom on her back, with entire forests as parts of her outfit.
- "Uncharted Shores" has Princess Hunter go sailing to hunt down a Scilla woman, not realising that the two large islets he shipwrecks upon are her chest.
- Hourglass Plot: Episode 3, "Hypocrisy", starts with a young Princess Hunter getting rejected by an attractive possum woman, and ends with them both older and the possum woman begging him for a date now that she's a Struggling Single Mother of multiple children and he's the handsome one.
- Human Disguise: One strip has the Princess Hunter show up for a date with a plant person that has petals for hair and a large chest, only for it to turn out to be a Man-Eating Plant whose head and chest are just closed jaws.
- Mermaid Problem: "Failed Expectations" has Princess Hunter imagine himself on a beach with both a traditional mermaid and one with the fish and human halves swapped.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: The Princess Hunter's Establishing Character Moment in the first Episode is, in order to fight a Naga Princess who is unbeatable at swordplay, whipping out his revolver.
- Pumpkin Person: "Meet the parents" has Princess Hunter introduced to a pumpkin girl princess's human father. When he sits on a large pumpkin and asks what happened to the queen, it starts blushing, and they inform him he's currently sitting on her.
