Jungle Juice (Webtoon)

* Season 1
* Season 2

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**Jungle Juice** is a Korean **YLAB** webtoon and the 15th Super String webtoon. It is written by Hyung Eun and illustrated by Juder. Produced by Hyungwuk Shin. Editorial assistance by Yeongmin Jo and Yeonjae Kang. Published by YLAB.

## Synopsis

Suchan Jang is an extraordinary college student at the top of the social food chain. But underneath the perfect façade, he hides a pair of insect wings that suddenly grew when he used a mysterious bug spray called "Jungle Juice.” Suchan's life crumbles when he bares his wings to the world to save someone's life. When all hope seems lost, Suchan stumbles upon a hidden world of insect humans where everyone is accepted for what they are. But the law of the jungle governs this secret society and all must fend for themselves in order to survive.

## Release Schedule

On Naver webtoon, it began serializing on December 30, 2020 and completed on August 10, 2022 with episodes every Thursday. There is an official English release beginning on February 23 2021, and finishing on September 14, 2022 with episodes released on every Tuesday. Furthermore, it is a confirmed on YLAB Instagram that season 2 is to be released on August 10, 2023 for Korean webtoon. On September 6, 2023, season 2 is officially released.

* From February 8, 2021, serialization started on the traditional Chinese WEBTOON.
* From March 1, 2020, the serialization of Simplified Chinese started on Dongman Manga.
* From March 22, 2021, translation serialization started on the official French WEBTOON.
* From March 29, 2021, translation serialization started on the Thai page of WEBTOON , an overseas service of Naver Webtoon.
* From April 26, 2021, translation serialization started on the Indonesian page of WEBTOON , an overseas service of Naver Webtoon.
* From May 29, 2021, Japanese translation serialization began on LINE Manga , an overseas service of Naver Webtoon and a Japanese published manga e-book service.
* From June 30, 2021, the Spanish translation serialization started on the Latin American WEBTOON , an overseas service of Naver Webtoon.
* From August 20, 2021, serialization started on the German WEBTOON , an overseas service of Naver Webtoon.

## Merchandise

There was an official Jungle Juice Theme Juice with Dragonfly flavor and Cockroach flavor. It is unclear who manufactured it or if it is still available. In the official Ylab Store, there is a few merchandises such as mousepads and acrylic stands:

* https://smartstore.naver.com/ylabstore/category/6f3a783e827840528b7b82322de7c1d0?cp=1

Can buy a physical copy that is up to 3 volumes: https://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Juice-Vol/dp/B0C2P7PT1Y

## Reading Order

Due to the webtoon not having any Superstring events or characters at this time, you can read this wherever you want. That said, read this before Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse.

## Where to Read

* Korean(Official/In-Progress): https://m.comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=762279
* English(Official/In-Progress): https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/jungle-juice/list?title\_no=2480&page=1

## Background

There are two seasons.

**Season 1:**

* Ep. 1-2: Unravel Arc
* Ep. 3-7: NEST's Introduction Arc
* Ep. 8-12: Semester Starts Arc
* Ep. 13-17: Group Assignment Arc
* Ep. 18-28: Angel Orphanage Arc
* Ep. 29-35: Class Match
* Ep. 36-46: Black Island Arc
* Ep. 47-54: Weakness Training Arc
* Ep. 55-68: Attack On NEST Arc
* Ep. 69-81: Gigantia Raid Arc
* Ep. 82-84: Epilogue

**Season 2:**

* Ep. 1-6: Incrimination Arc
* Ep.7-10: Blackout Arc
* Ep.11-15: MASK's Ambush Arc
* Ep.16-20: Preparation Arc
* Ep.21: City in Peril Arc

## Characters

**Main Characters**

* Suchan Jang
* Huijin Park
* Breeder
* Gayeon Sin
* Jun Ji

Full Character List

**All Characters with Pages**

**Antlion****Armored Ground Cricket****Bidan Lee****Bom Baek****Breeder****Carly Davidson****Changhun Yu****Daun Jeong****Dean (NEST)****Dohwa Cheon****Dohyeon Ma****Executioner****Gayeon Sin****Gold-Digger****Haemin Kwon****Hana Seon****Hansung Lee****Huijin Park****Hwanyeong Yu****Hyeona Bang****Hyeonbin Ju****Hyeseong Cha****Jaesong Hyeok****Jihwan Eom****Jubin Song****Jun Ji****Junhyeong Lee****Knight****Leader (MASK)****Leader (Predators)****Maehwa****Mojin Gu****Nanami****Old Man****Pil Henson****Praying Mantis****Preacher****Rida Hwang****Scolopendra Gigantea****Seyoung Moon****Suchan Jang****Technician****Tracker****Undertaker****White Witch****Woochang Kang****Woogun Oh****Yuhyang Hon****Yunji Jeong**

## Organizations

**Season 1**

* NEST -
* Pet Shop - a criminal organization run by Breeder that intentionally uses Jungle Juice on humans to create Insect Humans. The end goal of Pet Shop is not clear, but it seems Breeder hopes to create stronger breeds of Insect Humans through force-feeding.
* Propolis -
* Predators -
* Natural Life - the company that produced Jungle Juice and distributed it. They later shut down. Not much is known about them apart from that.
* Angel Orphanage - An orphanage for children but is secretly part of Pet Shop and infect children with Jungle Juice in exchange for money.
* Stargram - presummably the Super String Universe version of Instagram. Both Suchan and Mihui were shown using it.

**Season 2**

* Stray Dogs -
* M.A.S.K. -

## Setting/Locations

**Season 1**

* Gangwon Province, South Korea - The events in Season 1 mostly occur within Gangwon (also spelled Kangwon)
	+ NEST Premises
	+ Sokcho - the final battle occurs in Sokcho.
* Black Island, South Korea - a ficticious Island off the coast of Gangwon. Some episodes occur here as they are investigating a Pt Shop lab.

**Season 2**

* Gangwon Province, South Korea - The events in Season 2 mostly occur within Gangwon again (also spelled Kangwon)
	+ Donghae-si - At the beginning of Season 2, Suchan and his friends rescue Woobin Dan, a newly transformed jungle juice user
* Baltic Sea, Europe - The location of Pumpkin, the material that creates Jungle Juice.

## Super String Universe

As of now, it is unclear whether Jungle Juice is in the main dimension or in a separate dimension (ex. Housekeeper). However judging from the official Superstring Encyclopedia, it appears to be in the main dimension as it was section there. Assuming it is in the main dimension, it is still unclear where it is exactly in the timeline. The only notable hint is that it takes place after the year 2019. However, considering that they had celebrated Christmas and having a winter break at the end of season 1, it would mean the main events started around the months of September to December. It would has to be at the least, after Island Part 2, if our **timeline** is correct.

Crossovers
**Season 1**
* In Ep.36, when Huijin Park and Dohwa Cheon was making a sand statue on top of Suchan Jang, it was a statue of Kuku (Terror Man).

**Season 2**
* In Ep.8, Carly tells Suchan about the origins of the Pumpkin (raw material for Jungle Juice), which was discovered in a sinkhole in the Balkan Sea. The sinkhole is an common motif throughout the Super String Universe, most evident in Distant Sky as one of the main disasters are the sinkholes. Furthermore, the sinkhole along with the fact that the Pumpkin is dated around ten of thousands of years ago may imply that it was either related to the Prophets (i.e. Suki being sent back to Earth by the Adjuster Prophet, falling into a crater full of water in "Neolithic Girl"), the Black Wing Clan (i.e. Atrahasis sealed into a sinkhole upon landing on Earth in "Terror vs Revival"), or extraterrestrial (i.e.Okta or Spelta from "Kangtawoo").

**Appearance in Other Webtoons**
* In Terror Vs. Revival of Ep. 29, Miho Won mentions that psychics , clones , vampires , and insect humans could exist. The insect humans is a reference to Superstring, "Jungle Juice."
* Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse,
	+ In the prologue, Suchan, Huijin, and Jun Ji all make a cameo appareance. It is unknown what role they exactly as the Webtoon is still ongoing.
	+ In Ep.5 and 6 two members of White display Insecta Complexes: Fujita and Nakano.
	+ In Ep.13, NEST is mentioned as a hidden research facility in some form funded by the Daehan Group (mainly Miho Won).
	+ In Ep.15, Jun Ji, Suchan Jang, Huijin Park all make their appearance.

## Scanlation Controversy

A controversy had happen a couple of years ago when the author and illustrator of Jungle Juice had caught wind of an illegal scanlation team called "Reset Scan," had released episodes that were five weeks earlier than the current official episodes. On reddit, Juder had asked, "Popularity goes up but profits go down. Please subscribe to the work officially."

* AdiosCorea, a scanlator, had replied, "As long as Naver is rude to British and American fans, this problem will not go away if I stop. If I upload it within 24 hours in normal quality, I will stop illegal translation." The full explanation is below:
	+ Reddit's Response Reason: https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofGod/comments/uf1048/line\_webtoons\_has\_made\_a\_reddit\_ad\_open\_to\_public/

* In the first place, I paid writers small salaries and then blamed the prevalence of illegal translation, which could not be completely cut out by anyone from before the night rabbit for 20 years to the reduction of wages, is not **only fundamentally improving the service, but also treating the writers inhumanely on Naver. It seems that there is no intention to improve it.** It is rather painful for me for fans to shield the atrocities against Naver and YLab writers, and against fans in the UK and the United States. **At the very least, I want them to be uploaded at the same time.**
* If you want to spread it, spread this line. I am sorry to the writer, but Naver, who has been silent for 5 years and 3 months, has no choice but to do this. As a way of atonement, I'd rather have the writers transfer a portion of my rat's tail every week from my regular labor job through overseas remittance. **Please ask Naver to fix it at the same time.** If you speak English, it takes 5 years to hear it. I wonder why fans don't think that Naver exploits writers, why they are proud of each other by blaming and blaming each other when it's unconditionally illegal. It will be easy to find where I am, so if you understand why I am doing this, please find me, otherwise **I will wait for a reply from Naver or the writers.**

* This sparked anger and controversy from Korean Superstring and Jungle Juice Readers. On April 9th, AdiosKorea had left a final response
	+ Response: https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofGod/comments/mmh7ts/the\_state\_of\_the\_hiatus\_as\_of\_april\_2021\_no\_news/gtrqhmj/?context=3

## Criticism & Evaluation

It is well-received for its beautiful and high-quality drawing. The initial volume also boasts a huge amount of over 200 cuts. The insect-human characters, who could easily be drawn in a disgusting way, are receiving favorable reviews for designing them to be unique, beautiful, or cool. In terms of the story, it is receiving favorable reviews for its novelty by giving the society a unique setting reminiscent of real university campus life.

Here are some criticism of readers:

* **No Super String** - Quite a few Korean Readers felt that Jungle Juice shouldn't be a part of the Superstring Universe. The reasons were: Jungle Juice was "too great" to be in Superstring, the lore and timeline of Superstring is too confusing and complicated, and that it may lose popularity as those that only read Jungle Juice may get confused and lose interests when Superstring events and characters eventually appears.
	+ Reddit Conversation: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistantSky/comments/uqlcfl/many\_korean\_jungle\_juice\_fans\_do\_not\_want\_jungle/
* **Unrealistic Aspects** - Some Korean readers criticized that there is a lack of realism. Even though it is part of Super String, there were some concerns. However, due to the webtoon being very recent, there could be future explanations. The following criticisms are:
	1. There are so many insect humans that exists and only lives in secret world of NEST, that there must had been a lot of missing people registered to the police.
	2. Erasing traces and videos of insect humans completely successful seems unrealistic as NEST is a university size organization and that Korea is a small country.
	3. The mantis human that caused mayhem at the theater was erased; causing the public to believed to be a promotional event seems unrealistic. Since one person died.
		+ Note: It was revealed that NEST was created with help with Miho Won in another webtoon which explains things but is unlikely to see this reveal in the webtoon.

## Trivia

* Jungle Juice is one of the few Superstring webtoons to have merch.
* Jungle Juice is praised for its beautiful and high-quality artwork. Especially with female characters.
	+ Many English Readers, especially on Webtoon are extremely horny by beautiful women and handsome men as seen in the comments section.
* In the official English Section, there is a user who shares facts and biology of insects (specifically the main insect shown during the episodes) in many episodes which gained many likes; becoming an icon.
* By far on the English webtoon, this webtoon has the most views with currently 60.5 million out of all of the Superstring Webtoon.
* It may have the most translated languages officially in different webtoons.
* Apparently some compared this webtoon to other existing animated series like: My Hero Academia, Terraformas, X-Men, and the Kamen Rider Series.
* An original version of Jungle Juice was made by Inwan Youn and Kyungil Yang which was serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday at the 2007. The series was very short.
* An Easter Egg in Ep. 105 of "Study Group", a Blue String webtoon, appeared on Heewon Choi's laptop with a logo of Jungle Juice. Interestingly, Study Group was serialized before Jungle Juice.
* On July 29, 2021, a live action promotional video of Jungle Juice was released.
	+ Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm\_Gqrqjp4o
* On October 12, 2021 on Line Webtoon Comic Con, an interview the producer, author, and illustrator of the webtoon took place.
	+ Also on October 9 2021, it appears on New York Comic Con with interviews of the author.
* When season 1, ep. 32 was released containing the aphrodisiac scene, an extreme feminist group called the "*Yeocho Community"* (apparently known for their misandry(?)) in South Korea wanted to remove this scene for all users. They attempted to file complaints to Naver Webtoon and the Korea Communications Commission but they ignored their complaint as it doesn't break their policy since the webtoon is for those of around the 15 year old age range.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.24
2. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.49
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbzZCkGLwdN/
4. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 2, Ep. 8
5. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep. 83-84
6. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%A0%95%EA%B8%80%EC%A5%AC%EC%8A%A4(%EC%9B%B9%ED%88%B0)#s-7.2
7. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%97%AC%EC%B4%88%20%EC%BB%A4%EB%AE%A4%EB%8B%88%ED%8B%B0
8. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%A0%95%EA%B8%80%EC%A5%AC%EC%8A%A4(%EC%9B%B9%ED%88%B0)#s-7.1