![]() ![]() Suwa versus Kakeru for Naho’s affections could easily fall into shoujo tropes (rival hair colors aside), and in some ways it does, but it does so thoughtfully. The narrative switchover is a good one and keeps the extra volume from feeling tacked on for a couple of reasons: the story of how Naho and Suwa wind up together is fully never explored in the original series, leaving the reader with natural questions and it’s clear that Suwa had the most to lose if Kakeru survives, and yet he chooses to send the letters to his past self anyway. Billed as essentially “volume 6”, the story chooses to focuses on Suwa, who, in one version of the future, marries Naho after Kakeru’s untimely death. Orange is a popular series with an anime adaption, a live action movie adaption, an anime movie adaption, and the original manga, a follow-up makes complete sense here. ![]() Now, the future has changed in more ways than the original orange crew could have imagined - but how exactly did their future selves come to be before the letters? A group of high school friends receive letters from themselves ten years in the future, urging them to save their best friend from a terrible fate. ![]()
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