History Webcomic / OrangeMarmalade

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this South Korean webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its original Korean and [[http://www.webtoons.com/episodeList?titleNo=97 translated into English]]. A very loose KoreanDrama adaptation also aired from May 2015.

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this South Korean webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its orginal Korean and [[http://www.webtoons.com/episodeList?titleNo=97 translated into English]]. A very loose KoreanDrama adaptation also aired from May 2015.

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!!!This work contains examples of:

* Passive-AgressiveKombat: Ma-ri's modus operandi when she get ticked at Jaemin, mixed in with a healthy dose of IcePrincess.

* [[spoiler:DriventoSuicide: After the school threatens to expel Ma-ri, she attempts to kill herself by diving into a lake of freezing water, as vampire are sensitive to the cold.]]

* [[spoiler:HappilyFailedSuicide: Ma-ri's ultimate fate. ]]

* [[spoiler:InterruptedSuicide: Jaemin manages to get to Ma-ri in time.]]

* PragmaticAdaption: The TV show that came after the comic was anything but. The original story was down to earth, and relied on interpersonal relationship drama. The TV series, by contrast, introduce elements like reincarnation.

8BerserkButton: Played for laughs with Ma-ri a couple of time. Everytime Si-hoo asks her to get him some of Jae-min's blood, she ends up pummeling him.

[[caption-width-right:231:"I would totally stare into your eyes right now, but this sunlight is blinding me."]]

-->"You know... I... often think about you."\\
"I... really want to suck your blood."\\
"What?"

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this South Korean webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its orginal Korean and [[http://www.webtoons.com/episodeList?titleNo=97 translated into English]]. A KoreanDrama adaptation also aired from May 2015.

* AccidentalPervert: Ma-ri woke up from a nap to find herself nibbling on a freaked out Jae-min's neck. Plot ensues.
* AlphaBitch: Ah-ra is a failed one of these. She failed to get Jae-min to care about her and she failed to scare Ma-ri away from him. [[spoiler:After getting threated by Si-Hoo to keep their vampirism a secret, she gets better and even joins the band]].
* {{Angrish}}: Ah-ra, on seeing Ma-ri in chapter 47, says "ASDFWHAR-" and more, several lines long. Ma-ri wanders away confused.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Joseph
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Due to the small population size and the distance between vampire familes,it is common for arranged marriages to be set up between vampires. .]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: There are several instances. One being the LapPillow moment and Ma-ri wearing the hairclip Jae-min got her.

* BeautifulDreamer: Jae-min falls asleep on Ma-ri's lap. [[spoiler:She strokes his hair and gets caught.]]

* BeneathTheMask: Ma-ri has to pretend to be a human due to the fantastic racism. It gets heart-breaking when [[spoiler: she has to make racist jokes about herself and her family to keep her cover from getting blown.]]
** Jae-min has a lot hidden behind his cool exterior.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jae-min punches out some of the students threatening Ma-ri, ''gulps down'' one of the packets of blood at her feet, in front of most of the school and drags Ma-ri away from the school in Chapter 112.]]
* BreakTheCutie: After a long, hard time of opening up her heart and getting together with Jae-min, Ma-ri found out that [[spoiler: he hated vampires, on the night she was going to confess to him no less. She tried her best to keep it a secret, but Jae-min found out and coldly broke up with her. By the time he tried to make amends, he had already deeply hurt her. Then it got even worse when Yoo Chae Rin reveals to the school that she is a vampire out of spite (in the middle of a huge vampire scare).]]
* {{Brought Down to Normal}}: Vampires in this setting have been turned into nothing more than ordinary humans with some special dietary needs by centuries of drinking pigs' blood. [[spoiler: Inverted by Si-hoo, who gets a human girlfriend who doesn't mind his vampirism for a while and even gives him her blood. After a while, he becomes a traditional vampire who can be killed by sunlight but has superhuman strength.]]
* ButtMonkey: Ah-ra, full stop. Also the two members of the band club that aren't main characters.
* ChekhovsGun: The metal bars seen hanging from a crane operated by an (ostensibly) lazy man were present early on in the series, and became an important plot device later on.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The rude white-haired vampire on television is Si-Hoo, the vampire Ma-ri's family want her to marry.]]
* ChickMagnet: Jae-Min and, as of chapter 45, Si-Hoo.
* [[spoiler: CouldntFindAPen: Yoo Chae Rin uses blood taken from Ma'ri's blood packs to write the messages revealing she is a vampire to the entire school. She also covers Ma-ri's desk in the blood and writes 'Die' in giant letters on the window beside it, also in blood.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Yoo Chae-Rin is dumped by Si-hoo because of his ArrangedMarriage with Ma-ri, something that Ma-ri never agreed to, so she outs Ma-ri as a vampire, goads the students into pelting her with bloodbags, and swears to wipe out all vampires from the world.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: After it came out that a murder thought to be commit by a vampire was actually a vampire-hating human's doing]], a vampire rights movement lead by humans starts up, and their signs are rainbow colored.
* EvilAlbino: Si-hoo, possibly. He has the physical appearance of one but his red eyes may be due to vampirism. . [[spoiler: After giving Ma-Ri human blood to drink, adding a whole new dynamic to how serious his threats against Jae-Min were, he is definitely trending towards the Evil end of the scale, but later subverted in the end. He's ultimately a good guy who abandons vampire tradition in order to be with a human.]]
* FakeOutFadeOut: [[spoiler:Chapter fifteen]].

* {{Fetish}}: [[spoiler:When Jae-min is getting stalked by Si-Hoo, he tells him he doesn't have ''that'' kind of fetish. Si-Hoo asks him about getting one]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Jae-Min initially experiences prejudice towards vampires and adverse to women touching him is because his biological mother left his dad for a vampire--who turns out to be a huge NiceGuy. He wasn't told that she was threatened to stay away from them. His father eventually grew indifferent to him and turns a blind eye while Jae-Min's stepmom beat him and constantly ridiculed him because his mother fell in love with a vampire. His father also berates both him and her for the same reason. To add insult to injury, his dad winds up showing his half-brother with affection whileignoring him. He's even harassed by his friends because his mom fell in love with a vampire. The experience left him rather traumatized.]]
* FriendlessBackground: Ma-ri, though there are hints that it wasn't always like that.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Vampires like Ma-ri and her family, who decide to blend into society as much as possible.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: 300 hundred years ago vampires were nearly wiped out completely in a very much literal extermination, until they discovered they were able to survive on pig's blood and the governments of the world allowed them to continue living. The general public opinion of people in the current time is that the war should have continued and wiped out all vampires. [[spoiler: Recent events in story make the war starting up again a ''very'' real concern. Later subverted towards the climax when the realization that a murder that was thought to be done by a vampire was done by a bum who wanted to stir up controversy; this jumpstarts a human-lead vampire rights movement.]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Ma-ri, [[spoiler: they are broken around the time she first makes friends who accept her for what she is.]]
* HeManWomanHater: Jae-min, at the start.
* HiddenEyes: Jae-min in chapter 55.
* HopelessSuitor: Ah-ra. Jae-min rarely acknowledged her. Even before he met Ma-ri. Yoo Chae Rin never had much chance with Si-hoo, who was avoiding her as much as he could before he even met Ma-ri.
* IceQueen: Ma-ri, she even has the nickname "ice princess" at her school.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: A non-romantic example, [[spoiler:between Si-Hoo and Jae-min]] in chapter 47, [[spoiler:when Si-Hoo is stalking Jae-min for his extremely tasty blood and says he'll make an exception (sexually) just so he can have Jae-min. Then Jae-min tries to punch him in the face.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Si-Hoo]]:''' "[[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I don't bend that way either]], but if it's someone like you, I don't mind giving it a try."
* IneffectualLoner: Ma-ri
* InstantFanClub: Si-Hoo gains one the moment he transfers to the school. The friend of Jae-min, who has a rabid fan club of his own, jokes that Si-Hoo will start stealing his fans and Jae-min comments that he hopes that happens.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Yoo Chae Rin wishes she could be a vampire because she feels her life more exciting.
** IJustWantToBeNormal: And as a flip side, Ma-ri wanted to be a normal human being.
* {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't express Si-Hoo's personality. He was dancing on a MoralEventHorizon in Chapter 45 ForTheLulz. [[spoiler:Fortunately he was interrupted.]] He gets ''slightly'' nicer to Ma-ri over time, even [[spoiler:stopping Ah-ra from revealing they're vampires]] (though this might have not been for Ma-ri's sake); he still antagonises everybody around him.
** [[spoiler: His method of breaking up with Yoo Chae Rin. Telling her after knocking her to the ground that their entire relationship was a lie and he never saw her as anything but a walking blood bank and that he's now sick of the very sight of her is decidingly Jerkass.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was pretty much an ass at the start. But became a lot nicer when he fell in love with Ma-ri.
** Si-Hoo is slowly starting to become this.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Yoo Chae Rin gets off scott free for trying to ruin Ma-ri's life and even gets back together with Shi-hoo at the end of the story.]]
* LapPillow: [[spoiler:Which leads to the first kiss between Jae-min and Ma-ri.]]
* LargeHam: Soo-ri
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Shi-hoo decides to cut things off with Chae-rin none to gently because he has feelings for Ma-ri and wants to be with her after Jae-min breaks up with her when he finds out she's a vampire. But then all of the human blood he'd gotten from Chae-rin catches up with him, and he is no longer immune to sunlight. He does get super strength, though.]]
* LethalChef: Ma-ri and her entire family. Justified because vampires don't eat human food and don't need to know how to cook. Also they have no taste for anything beside blood.
* LittleBlackDress: Ma-ri's aunt is always wearing one.
* LoveTriangle: Ah-ra likes Jae-min who likes Ma-ri, who isn't sure (Jae-min and Ma-ri [[spoiler:eventually get together]]).
** When Ma-ri begins to realize she likes Jae-min, a new guy (Si Hoo) appears on the scene who [[spoiler: is engaged to Ma-ri, but appears to be attracted to Jae-min's blood.]] Future updates may develop what could become a LoveDodecahedron. In Chapter 74 it's revealed that Si-Hoo has Yoo Chae Rin, [[spoiler:his girlfriend who he keeps avoiding]].
* MasochistsMeal: Vampires can eat normal food, but it has no taste for them and soon after it reaches their stomach, their body forces them to throw it up. To keep up appearance, Ma-ri is forced to eat every single day at school, only to puke it up right after. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Day.]]
* MistakenForGay: Due to Jae-min's constant rejection and general dislike for girls, people think this of him. Including his friend, who was worried Jae-min had a crush on him.
* MyGreatestFailure: Jae-Min's mother [[spoiler: broke her promise with Jae-Min and (unknowingly) left him to be abused by his step mother.]] Ever since she has tried her hardest to atone and mend bridges between her son and herself (as well as her new husband). But with very little success.
* NewTransferStudent: Ma-ri, slightly before the beginning of the story, Si-Hoo and Yoo Chae Rin (in chapter 77) [[spoiler:Si-Hoo's girlfriend]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the past, Jae-Min's mom [[spoiler: left his father for a vampire she fell in love with years ago. During the divorce, she promised to come get him. But his father threatened to reveal the identity of the vampire she had remarried to so she broke her promise. Unfortunately, she underestimated just how much people would ostracize her son because she left for a vampire. She was also unaware that he was physically/emotionally abused by his stepmother until he ran away.]]
** [[spoiler: Si-hoo's Jerkass method of breaking it up with Yoo Chae Rin after revealing that he is engaged to Ma-ri, with included him telling her the entire relationship was a lie, he was only using her for her blood and she disgusts him now, causes Yoo Chae Rin to snap and reveal to the entire school Ma-ri is a vampire.]]
* NonHumanLoverReveal: [[spoiler: In Chapter 91 Jae-min finally learns Ma-ri is a vampire. To say he does not take this news well is an understatement.]]

* NoIndoorVoice: Soo-ri
* OneHeadTaller: Jae-min and Ma-ri

* ParentalAbandonment: Jae-min was abandoned by his mother for two years, so he claims.
** The full details are that his mother [[spoiler: left his father for a vampire she fell in love with. She promised to come get him, but his father threatened to reveal the identity of the vampire, thus ruining their lives. So she was forced to withdraw. Unfortunately, she didn't know at the time just how much pain her son was going through.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Ma-ri's parents.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ma-ri gives a hefty one to Si-Hoo in chapter 44. Their first meeting.
** Si-Hoo gave one to Jae-min after he [[spoiler: broke up with Ma-ri.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Ma-ri and Jae-min finally get together at the end of Part 3]].
* TheRunaway: Jae-min
* RunningGag: Joseph's abuse of animals, courtesy of one constantly hungry belly. Mainly the stray dog he picked up.
** He constantly scares or grosses out Ma-ri by either offering her a live mouse, or eating one in front of her.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Soo-ri]], when she finds out. Mrs Oh, a teacher and Jae-min's mother, keeps the secret of Ma-ri's vampire identity a secret.
** By the end of Part 3 both [[spoiler: Woo-Mi and Ah-Ra]] know, though the latter only keeps it a secret due to death threats from [[spoiler:Si-Hoo]].
** Yoo Chae Rin had been keeping both Si-hoo and Ma-ri's secret, [[spoiler: but reveals the truth to the entire school when Si-hoo breaks up with her.]]
* SchoolClubStories: Soo-ri convinces/forces Ma-ri into joining band club. Jae-min eventually joins after being dragged in by his mother.

* ShrinkingViolet: Ma-ri, before ThePowerOfFriendship kicked in.

* StalkerWithACrush: Jae-min was one at the start, no matter how much he denies it.
---> '''Jae-min:''' "I feel good when I'm watching you."
** In chapter 47, [[spoiler:Si-Hoo starts stalking Jae-min]].
* StepfordSmiler: Jae-min's parents whenever they're with him. They still act friendly and smile. But deep down, they're still pretty broken up about their strained relationship with him and the guilt over what they (indirectly) did to him. Jae-min's stepdad revealed that his mother has cried several times over her guilt.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Ma-ri and Jae-min]] in chapter 71.
* TookALevelInKindness: Ah-ra all the way. She tried her best to torment Ma-ri when she started getting Jae-min's interest and threatened to expose her secret to the world if she did not cut of contact with Jae-min. She spent as much time as she could trying to destroy Ma-ri only to fail every time. As she ends up spending more time with the cast, she cools down and by the time[[spoiler: Ma-ri's secret is revealed, has become nice enough that Ma-ri's treatment at the hands of the school completely horrifies her.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Ma-ri and Jae-min are a tsundere couplet.
* VegetarianVampire: Well, not really vegetarian in the strict sense of the word, but the idea is there. Most vampires drink pig blood, including Ma-ri and her family - pork is also one of the few foods they eat. [[spoiler: Han Si-Hoo now has been revealed to drink human blood. Adding to his {{Jerk Ass}} tendencies, he gave Ma-Ri human blood to drink and only told her what it was after she drank it.]]
* WasItAllALie:[[spoiler: One of first things Jae-min suspects of their relationship when he discovers Ma-ri is a vampire is that she was only going out with him to get a chance to drink his blood.]]
** [[spoiler: Si-hoo tells Yoo Chae Rin that their whole relationship was a lie and he was using her for her blood. She does not take this well.]]
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: Chapter 85. It's revealed that [[spoiler: Jae-Min's mother divorced his biological father to marry a vampire. And as a result, he is deeply prejudiced against them.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: A lot of people call Jae-Min on this when [[spoiler: he broke up with Ma-ri due to his hatred for vampires.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Han Si-hoo, the {{jerkass}}.
* WhyCantIHateYou: Jae-min says this in chapter six about Ma-ri.

** A group of girls on the train who like Jae-min get upset when he says Ma-ri is his girlfriend (for kicks) saying they thought he liked guys and that "it's much more attractive".
** The two girls in chapter 47 who, upon seeing Si-Hoo and Jae-min positioned in an [[NotWhatItLooksLike interesting position]], squeel "hyaaa~", ask if it's a lovers quarrel and take everything they say sexually (such as when Si-Hoo talks about pouncing on Jae-min. He means to attack and kill him... probably).
* YearX: It begins in "Autumn, 20XX"
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Jae-min, his step-dad and Raina Kyo, the musician who publicly comes out as a vampire.

-->"You know... I...often think about you."\\

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this South Korean webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its orginal Korean and [[http://www.webtoons.com/episodeList?titleNo=97 translated into English]]. A KoreanDrama adaptation was also announced to be in the making in February 2015.

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its orginal Korean and [[http://www.webtoons.com/episodeList?titleNo=97 translated into English]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires of OrangeMarmalade were once standard vampires. Long lives, drank human blood, very hard to kill, healed quickly, had near super strength and a deadly weakness to sunlight. By the time of the story, due to restrictions placed on them after a war that drove them to near extinctions they survive off of only pigs blood and have lost almost all their vampiric traits, except for their reduced but still fast healing they also still have a small weakness to sunlight, but it causes them no physical pain or discomfort and they have gained a weakness to cold temperatures.

Written and illustrated by Seok Woo, this webcomic can be found on [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=293520&no=1&weekday=sat Naver ]] in its orginal Korean. Orange Marmalade was originally being translated by [[http://www.webtoonlive.com/description/Orange%20marmalade/ Webtoon Live]], but partway through its release, the author asked Webtoon Live to cease translation. They obliged and on 10 December 2013 the webcomic was taken off of Webtoon Live in its entirety much to the dismay of English-speaking fans. [[http://asdfscans.net/projects/orange-marmalade/ Asdf Scans]] has begun translating the comic into English starting from chapter 115 where Webtoon Live left off.

** [[spoiler: Si-hoo's Jerkass method of breaking it up with Yoo Chae Rin because he felt that their relationship was doomed to fail, with included him telling her the entire relationship was a lie, he was only using her for her blood and she disgusts him now, causes Yoo Chae Rin to snap and reveal to the entire school Ma-ri is a vampire.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Shi-hoo decides to cut things off with Shi-hoo none to gently when he realizes that there might not be any hope for them in a long term relationship, and then moves to Ma-ri pretty much because she's a vampire and she's nice. But then all of the human blood he'd gotten from Shi-hoo catches up with him, and he is no longer immune to sunlight. He goes get super strength, though.]]

** [[spoiler: Si-hoo's Jerkass method of breaking it up with Yoo Chae Rin, with included him telling her the entire relationship was a lie, he was only using her for her blood and she disgusts him now, causes Yoo Chae Rin to snap and reveal to the entire school Ma-ri is a vampire.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires of OrangeMarmalade were once standard vampires. Long lives, drank human blood, very hard to kill, healed quickly, had near super strength and a deadly weakness to sunlight. By the time of the story, due to restrictions placed on them after a war that drove them to near extinctions they survive off of only pigs blood and have lost almost all their vampiric traits, except for their reduced but still fast healing they also still have a small weakness to
sunlight, but it causes them no physical pain or discomfort and they have gained a weakness to cold temperatures.

* BroughtDownToNoromal: Vampires in this setting have been turned into nothing more than ordinary humans with some special dietary needs by centuries of drinking pigs' blood. [[spoiler: Inverted by Si-hoo, who gets a human girlfriend who doesn't mind his vampirism for a while and even gives him her blood. After a while, he becomes a traditional vampire who can be killed by sunlight but has superhuman strength.]]

* EvilAlbino: Si-hoo, possibly. He has the physical appearance of one but his red eyes may be due to vampirism. . [[spoiler: After giving Ma-Ri human blood to drink, adding a whole new dynamic to how serious his threats against Jae-Min were, he is definitely trending towards the Evil end of the scale.]]

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: 300 hundred years ago vampires were nearly wiped out completely in a very much literal extermination, until they discovered they were able to survive on pig's blood and the governments of the world allowed them to continue living. The general public opinion of people in the current time is that the war should have continued and wiped out all vampires. [[spoiler: Recent events in story make the war starting up again a ''very'' real concern.]]