The Prince's Keeper 02

The Prince's Keeper #2

by Oto Nagatsuki, Himako Neko

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Romance, Magic

208 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2026

Reviews

[Kelli]

or, more folk than you’d expect wanted to turn this prince into a cat

[Maddie]

Cats and witches!? I felt so blessed while reading this volume. Sadly this series had been updating irregularly for quite a while, meaning there is no currently release date for volume three. It looks like its back on schedule as of now, but there are only two volumes published both in English and Japanese. It’s always the series I want to read the most that have the longest waits!

Just like in volume one, volume two mostly focuses on the mystery of who could have turned Prince Heinrich into a cat. Everyone who knows his secret is eerily calm with his feline affliction, but once you take everyone’s status into consideration, it makes sense that everyone is able to go-with-the-flow. We have the witch Miranda who turned her own cat into her familiar at a young age—there’s no way watching a cat turn into a human could surprise her. We have to cursed prince himself, a knight who claims it’s a knight’s duty to be self-sufficient—even as a cat. We also have one new mystery character, someone close enough to the prince that they’ve learned to accept whatever is thrown at them.

The number of characters who know Heinrich has been cursed to turn into a cat grows with every volume, making discovering the culprit all the more difficult. If the culprit finds out that the king knows what happened and is looking for them, surely they will do something about it. The only option is for Miranda and her companions to solve the mystery as quickly as possible. Whether they will be able to find the culprit or now seems to lie solely on Miranda’s shoulders. Although she doesn’t seem to have much confidence in her magical abilities, to me, she is the most powerful witch we’ve seen in the story yet. I wonder what happened for her to have such little self-confidence… I think Miranda learning to trust in herself will be what eventually allows the group to discover the curse-castor.

Miranda and the prince have a rather interesting dynamic that has been slowly progressing into what I can only assume will be a romantic relationship. This is the type of slow-burn that I adore, as it’s still unclear if they will actually get together or not. All we know is that they have quickly become fond of each other, but that could just be a trauma-bond from Miranda saving the cat-prince in volume one.

Even if this ends up being a romance-free fantasy series, I will be very happy I read it.

[Snail]

Prince-turned-cat and our innocent young witch’s adventures continue as they search for the witch who cursed the prince. The story doesn’t advance super far in this volume, introducing two possible suspects, noble young women with flowers in their names.

I do like the visual depiction of the spells; translating the chants to go along with them must have been some work.

My main takeaway:
now I want to drink a glass of warm milk with honey… and to play with cats!

Art: ★★★⭐︎⭐︎
Plot: ★★★⭐︎⭐︎
Characters: ★★★⭐︎⭐︎

[SummerRae]

I wasnt going to get this volume because I wasn't all that impressed with the first volume but there it was with its beautiful cover and now here I am lol. The art is absolutely breathtaking. Every panel is carefully thought out with such detail. The problem is the dialogue is very generic, and cheesy. And the overall story has been done time and time again. A shame but I'll definitely be leaving it here. I'll be looking into Himako Neko's art though :)

[Jess | jadecanread]

This is such a cozy fantasy story so far!

Recap: Klaus’s boss is Heinz, they work together to figure out the culprit, divination to narrow down the relevant families, cuddle during thunder, enlisting her sister to create a tea party to get two suspects together, leaving and being tailed, realizing which noblewoman may be the culprit.

[f.f 🪻]

Querido cat distribution system,
¿Cuando es mi turno?

[R]

Better than the 1st volume, it was nice to see Miranda go off and do some things on her own.

[Marta]

Too cute both in cat and human form❤️

[Amanda [Novel Addiction]]

Dang it, this series is so cute.

[SluggishGoblinReads]

Art is nice, but the progression isn’t really gripping me, see how it goes in volume 3 to see it i want to go on or not.

[Cheyenne]

I absolutely loved volume 2! This is such a cute series!

[Mossy]

People, please read this.

[Mk]

it's really too bad he's ugly because the story is well done

[Holly]

I like this.

This is basically a magical crime mystery duo sort of story, where they're trying to figure out who cursed the prince. I don't know how long it's going to be... whether they're going to just solve the one initial mystery and call it done or what. Personally I wouldn't mind if they kept going and just went around solving magical mysteries like Sherlock and Watson.