We can’t plan our life thoroughly, but we can fix some things. There are things that are bound to happen to us, to the society, to environment, etc. After all, we make our futures but like the manga suggests, we can’t always change it. Naho and her friends will also teach Kakeru to enjoy life more and not to blame himself for what happened. Even Naho has settled… But perhaps her self from another dimension can have a different life than the one she had where she felt remorse. There’s also pieces to the future selves in between, because they haven’t forgotten and have chosen different paths after the tragedy that occurred in their reality. The manga has only five volumes, and they are enough to cover the period from when the guys receive the letters to when their friend is supposed to die. Thakfully, the author didn’t drag the story like someone else would have done. It is very hard changing a person’s train of thought, but with the help of all her friends, Naho does what she can to let Kakeru be in the future 10 years from then. The fact that despite the main female knows what will happen, she tries to change it to make it better, to make Kakeru Naruse, the friend and boy she came to love in the past, not commit suicide. Perhaps this is the trait I loved the most about this manga. In the present/past, we see that Naho’s teacher says a few things about ‘parallel realities’, but it is just speculations after all, and well, of course this is a work of fiction so creativity is tolerated. For example, it is not explained precisely how did the future 26-year-old selves of the main protagonist and her friends are able to send their letters to the past. The plot itself looks random if you don’t start reading the manga, because there is a little of sci-fi elements in it. I read it in one day and it gave me a lot of feels because the story touched me. “Orange” is a shojo manga with strong moments. She let the person she loved disappear and she can’t bear to lose him again in a parallel reality, if this letter is ever able to make it into the past. In that letter, older Naho wrote that she has regrets. “Orange” is the story of Naho Takamiya, a 16 year old girl who receives a letter that contains information about her future, written by her 26-year-old self. A live action for this work is set to be released this December in Japan, and I wish it keeps it close to the original story unlike many adaptations that in my opinion failed miserably (see L-DK for example). I have just finished reading this short manga series called “Orange”, a shojo which I devoured in just one day.

Orange takano ichigo manga