Cynical Orange
Cynical Orange is a Manhwa by Ji Un Yun about the So Beautiful It's a Curse high school girl Hye-Min Hwang, who is loved by boys and hated by girls. Enter playboy Ma-Ha Jang, who finds Hye-Min irresistible in that he can't win her over. After failing to get rid of Ma-Ha, Hye-Min drags him over to her cousin Shin-Bi Oh's café. Ma-Ha takes up a job there in order to try to woo Hye-Min, but quickly discovers that her world, her cousin and his girlfriend, is a bit more sinister than meets the eye.
Originally published by Seoul Cultural. It was translated into English beginning in 2002 by iceKunion, until Yen Press took over.
Tropes used in Cynical Orange include:
- Beware the Nice Ones: Bora.
- Bishounen: Ma-Ha, Jung-Yun, and Shin-Bi.
- Bottle Fairy: So-Ryu.
- Broken Bird: Hye-Min.
- Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Bora is this to Jung-Yun. He calls off their friendship after she steals Hye-Min's couple's ring in jealousy.
- The Charmer: Ma-Ha.
- Cool Big Sis: So-Ryu is this to Hye-Min. She's only doing it because Shin-Bi would be her boyfriend if she did. She hates Hye-Min.
- Cute Bruiser: So-Ryu.
- Dandere: Hye-Min, surprisingly enough.
- Gangsta Style: Hye-Min and Shin-Bi play first-person shooter games like this.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Shin-Bi. He let Ma-Ha be Hye-Min's boyfriend because he figured that Ma-Ha would fulfill the role of dumping Hye-Min in a way that would force Hye-Min to stay with Shin-Bi forever. He didn't expect for Ma-Ha to get serious first, or for Hye-Min to fall for Ma-Ha.
- Just Friends: Hye-Min tells Shin-Bi that they need to be this. He doesn't take it well.
- Lonely Together: Hye-Min and Shin-Bi.
- Ojou: Hye-Min.
- Rich Bitch: Hye-Min's mother.
- So Beautiful It's a Curse: Hye-Min
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Hye-Min.
- Tsundere: Bora. So-Ryu, to an extent.
- White-Haired Pretty Boy: Shin-Bi. Slightly subverted as in-series, many people find him scary-looking.