Orange Marmalade

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To be honest, most of the manwha is hit or miss romance fare. But when the emotional beats of the story hit, most of them hit hard. There are certain highlights here and there in the overall story, but I've re-read the last 20 or so chapters more times than I can count. The climax and ending of this manwha is what elevates it for me above most other romance stories, and if you don't want to read the whole manwha, I recommend the beginning and end for anyone interested.

I would go into more detail, especially in regards to how well the main character's friendships ... are handled from start to finish, but I don't want to include any spoilers.

And while some stories may just use the main character being non-human as a gimmick, her being a vampire is inextricably linked to her identity and society around her. In many cases, I found her dealing with the pressures of keeping her identity a secret much more gripping than the romance plot.

If anything, the main weak points would probably be the male love interest and the "villain" at the end. His relationship with Mari was kind of hard to follow sometimes, and as for the villain, I'm still not 100% sure what their motivation was. One minute they acted a certain way, then bam, complete 180.

Overall, if you're here for the romance, I think you'll like what you see. But calling it just a romance story would be selling it short in many ways.

This is overall a pretty fun read; although there's a really interesting premise it doesn't feel like the manhwa completely convinced itself of its own world-building until the later chapters, which were the more interesting ones in my opinion.

There were also some really annoying character moments and the middle dragged out a bit because it was almost all just Mari being wishy-washy. I understand the reasoning for it, but it felt like not much moved forwards and even then there was a lot of questionable decision-making.

I also thought that side characters could have been fleshed out more; it really felt as though they were just ... there, or they had backstories that were introduced out of the blue, for convenience. Mari and Jaemin were really the only characters that had cohesive depth to them.

Overall, however, the artwork is really cute and fun from start to finish!

Nothing about this is fun, meaningful, sweet, or tragic.

The main plot setting is that humans are irrationally, wildly racist against vampires to an extent that is unfathomably unrealistic. The "love interest" is a pushy stalker. The main character is a gutless, bland loser. Since the art is average, it leaves the work with no redeeming factors.

This could have been an interesting work despite the flawed premise if any of the characters were particularly fun or unique, but nobody offers anything. Instead it is nothing but a slow paced abomination. "OMG being vampire is suffering" is not an interesting story.