Cursed Princess Club (Webtoon)

*Not to be confused with the club itself!*

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***Cursed Princess Club*** is an original Webtoon illustrated and created by LambCat. The story follows the life of Princess Gwendolyn, a kind and loving 16-year-old princess of the small but vibrant Pastel Kingdom. She looks different from her family, as they are all very conventionally beautiful, and she is not. When Gwen learns she's considered to be "ugly" by her arranged fiance, her life changes and she begins viewing herself differently. She is saved by a club of cursed royals who teach her how to love herself again. The comic can be read here; normally, it is updated every week on Monday. This comic available on various languages in webtoon platforms such as : English (main), Deutsch (German), French (France) and Spanish (Spain).

The story began publication on February 24th, 2019. On December 15th, 2019, the first season's finale, "Remain Calm (part 2)" was released, concluding the first season with 29 episodes. The second season began on August 18th, 2019 and ended on March 22, 2020 with 32 episodes. The third season began on May 31, 2020 and ended on April 11, 2021 with 45 episodes. The fourth and current season's first half began on August 15th, 2021, and ended on February 6, 2022 with 26 episodes. Its second half began on December 19, 2022, and is currently ongoing. 2 groups of 4 bonus episodes depicting short stories involving some characters were released between seasons 2 and 3 and seasons 3 and 4. Additionally, a special episode recapping the first half of Season 4 was uploaded on December 11, 2022, a week before the second half began.

Cursed Princess Club is one of the most popular Webtoons within the comedy genre, with over 290 million global viewers and 2.2M million subscribers. It was made into ads on the official WEBTOON YouTube channel to promote the series, and was picked as one of Webtoon's favorite series. There's various text style throughout the series but in the ballon speech usually is "Hyldemoer". In the episode Proposals (part 2), between the first and second halves of Season 4, LambCat announced that they would be taking a break from updating the comic, which ended taking 10 months. This hiatus was later revealed to be because LambCat was working on physical copies of Cursed Princess Club. The first volume of physical copies was released on January 3, 2023, the second was released on July 4, 2023, and the third is scheduled to release on January 2, 2024. Additionally, merchandise has been released, including a Laverne plushie which has been fully funded.

## Synopsis

### Webtoon Version

*Meet Gwendolyn – living proof that princesses don't always have it all. See, although she lives in a castle and her father is the King, Gwendolyn isn’t like a movie princess, or even a fairly-tale princess. She’s got a big heart, but isn’t particularly attractive and doesn’t have a Disney-quality singing voice. But one night, she accidentally stumbles upon the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, and her life will never be the same. Hexed and cast out, the ladies of the club are just the people Gwendolyn needs to show her that just because she doesn’t “fit the mold” does not mean she’s any less of a princess.*

### Physical Book Version

*Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King’s three daughters, is living proof that princesses don’t always have it all. She isn’t like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn’t particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they sleep, Gwendolyn is a bit…different. So when her father proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom, it breaks Gwendolyn’s heart to hear that Prince Fredrick thinks she’s “really ugly.” Overwhelmed and ashamed, she runs away into the forest and encounters the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, where her life will never be the same.*

*The Cursed Princess Club are a ragtag band of outcasts, misfits and cursed princesses who have created an incredible friendship circle. It is among these friends where Gwendolyn learns to embrace her uniqueness and find her people.*

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Episodes*

* **Season 1**: with 29 episodes
* **Season 2**: with 32 episodes
* **Season 3**: with 45 episodes
* **Season 4**: with 50 episodes, so far
* **BonusEpisodes**: with 9 episodes

## Physical Books

* **Volume 1**: covers Episode 1 to Episode 34
* **Volume 2**: covers Episode 35 to Episode 61
* **Volume 3**: covers Episode 62 to Episode 77, and Bonus Short Ep. 1 to Bonus Short Ep. 4

## Trailers

Cursed Princess Club (Official Trailer) - WEBTOONCursed Princess Club (Official Trailer -2) - WEBTOON

## Trivia

* The creator, LambCat, describes Cursed Princess Club as a chance given to her to take all the things they loved from fairy tales and stories of their childhood and combine them with all the messages they wished they got to hear back then.
	+ While thinking of fairy tales and brainstorming, LambCat's thoughts included "What if the spells didn't break and there wasn't a happily ever after? What would that scenario be like?", that got cross-pollinated with with the idea of insecurity and shame in general.
	+ In the beginning, the story was a simpler one about looks not being everything. It has expanded to being about the idea that society has a lot of things they want from us. Cursed Princess Club was about how many of us have two parts of ourselves. One that we want to present to others based on what they want, and one that's just us. What if there were a clash between them? What emotions would come from that?

## External Links

* Cursed Princess Club in English on Webtoons
* Cursed Princess Club on the Webtoon Wiki

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