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| Really mixed feeling about this manga, started very strong for a shoujo and the drama is great, but the characters were a real letdown imo, the manga relied far too much on it's story and the characters just went with flow. Also i really hated Kakeru from start to finish, the mangaka was probably trying to make him out as insecure or vulnerable but to me he came out as selfish and a real jerk, and everytime Naho or anyone else went out of their way for him, it just made me rage. |
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| 8 out of 10. I really loved the concept, pacing as well as the storytelling. But the thing is, it doesn't leave much of an impact like the other amazing shoujos with a unique plot. The entire story revolves around one idea, saving Kakeru. And that's it. There is little to no growth for any of the other characters. No extra subplots. It just felt kind of one dimensional overall. Like, yay we saved our boy Kakeru! That's it. I am still really impressed by the monologues and the small details such as the relay being a metaphor for Kakeru's life. I think this is a good series about suicide though. |
| EXCUSE ME while I wipe the boogers and tears from my face. 10/10 |
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| Havent cried like this since watching Clannad AS, that being said 10/10!!!!! Now Im definitely going to watch this on cinemas this coming december! everything was just freaking beautiful. Hagita is da true MVP, you da man bruh. YAY for parallel timeline! we have Suwa X Naho on the future timeline while on the present timeline we have Kakeru X Naho! |
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| great series, really love it.. my only wish is just i wish to see all of them reach their dreams so no more bitter feelings xD |
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| The series ended quite fast, but I guess the plot doesn't really offer more volumes for it.. Anywaaaay, I love this manga. The plot is one of the best plots ever, and I'm already satisfied with this cliche ending. I'm rooting for SuwaxNaho but meh, like what Suwa said it's already nuff that that dream is granted is another world. |
| You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down |
| Chapter 22 is the final? then the last 5 chapters will be extras? Anyway, I loved the ending, I loved how nothing has changed to the future them, but rather, created another parallel world where Kakeru have lived. It's tragic but realistic, I mean, you can't really change the past if we follow the 'parallel world' logic, but knowing that Kekaru didn't die in another world will remove all the regrets they had been carrying for the past 10 years.I think that's enough. |
| I've always regarded this as one of the most highly acclaimed shoujo series out there, and in which it didn't disappoint. Glad to see Kakeru alive, his smile is just so great! I would like to think that future Naho does genuinely love Sura, as Sura as a whole deserves very much. It really did fit their character of their choice on whether or not to actually talk about the marriage and all. With Naho being focused primarily on just one thing, while Suwa's letter even took the receptionist's feelings into much of a consideration, after all, Future Suwa and Suwa both had a clear idea how things would end. It makes me like Suwa more, though Kakeru was adorable at many times too. Whoever makes Naho the happiest to wherever the chain of events may lead, this was a great manga! Hagita from gifting Azu that umbrella despite the circumstances and now this, the one that managed to make me laugh out loud. Some sort of epilogue to see the new time capsule being opened would be great. I guess in a way, this left something to be desired, though nothing major. Sorta contradicting myself... |
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| Reading This Chapter And Listening to Angel Beats - Ichiban No Takaramono SAME TIME UHUHUHUHUUUHUH IM CRYING TOO MUCH TEARS OF HAPPINESS  |
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| Kakeru's been acting a bitch these past chapters, but I held out a sliver of hope that his death could have been an accident. But no, he fucking walked/rode in front of that truck. Future truck-driver is forced to live with the guilt of having killed some stupid high school kid. It also probably ruined his plans for that day. Self-serving motherfucker. Same with how he treats Naho. Still got time to dump him for Suwa. Suwa deserves better though. |
QuattroVaginasSep 12, 2016 9:03 AM
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| i think naho and suwa still end up together |
| and this manga made me cry so hard haha .......... |
| Oh my god, after all they did, I was afraid that Kakeru still wouldn't make it. So glad that it turned out alright. |
| オタクなんじゃねぃよ I'm not an otaku. |
BBLKing said: Loved the ending, that's a pretty clever solution for a love triangle. Hagita the best. Parallel worlds. Everybody wins... each in a different world. Good ending. I was fearing that he wouldn't change. Even though the Naho had some facepalmworthy moments earlier in the series. She grew to be more assertive. This series... one of the best Shoujo's I've read or witnessed ever. It wasn't as cheesy or melodramatic as some other ones like Ao Haru Ride, Kaichou Wa Maid Sama or some Kareshi... WOOT 8/10. Very enjoyable. Need an epilogue to be perfect. |
| I really enjoyed reading this manga, a very good one and not your typical love story. I really liked Suwa as a character so from now on he will be one of my favourites :D Hagita is funny too, especially in this chapter with the bike. I wish the author developed a bit more the relation between Hagita and Azusa, I think it would have ended pretty cool. Last chapter was nice, I'm glad they saved Kakeru and it's a happy ending, but it would have been more epic if someone died saving him. Just a thought. Nevertheless, it's a strong 8/10. |
| Although I am happy that everything ended up well, I stillfeel very uncontented with that ending. Will the last 5 chapters be just extra/side sotries? When will they be released? I hope the movie gives us more for the ending. |
| I have read Orange all over again from the first chapter to the last, last night and so now I have every bit of piece on my head compared to the first time I read it. And my opinion has not changed since the first time as I still think the reason this manga is so good is because of Suwa. I could probably write 10 pages on how wonderful a person he is but it still wouldn't be enough. I felt bad for Kakeru throughout the manga because of his fate which led him to the path of killing himself but I never felt any emotional connection to him getting to be with Naho, and their being together would be the way for him to be saved (irrespective of the timeline). I know it's a shoujo manga and almost all the time the girl gets the person she loves in the end; and thus Naho got Kakeru in the end. I think I shed tears the moment her letter from the future revealed that the valentine's day chocolate was actually for Kakeru and not for Suwa. Wouldn't that mean when the 10 year older Naho earlier said she would have picked Suwa over Kakeru in the future because how overjoyed she was on the new year eve confession from him to be nothing but words out of sympathy for the 10 year older Suwa? After carefully seeing his smile at that time, I realized Suwa knew all along he was just a replacement, which I found unbelievably cruel for such a wonderful person as he is. The next person I would think who is worth a mention is Hagita. I think if there is an outcome that I didn't like in the future was that Kakeru's death might have resulted in a future where Azu was no longer with him. If we see how close they have been, it almost looked natural that Azu and Hagita were meant for one another yet Taka from the future revealed that Azu was never the same after Kakeru's death which led to her distancing herself from both Hagita and Suwa. Hagita is my second favourite character in the manga after Suwa and it is his straightforwardness that earned him my admiration. Azu and Taka are wonderful friends and as girls it was almost certain that they would choose Naho's feelings over Suwa's. They were always there for Naho through thick and thin which make them so lovable. And finally Naho and Kakeru. I think the only thing that I cared for was the fact that they were the ones the story actually revolved around. Two of my least favourite characters in the manga if I am being honest. But if their being together (at least for now) saves Kakeru, which ultimately would result in a future where the six friends stay close like they are now in present, I would like to think this as a manga that promotes the beauty of true friendship and NOT romance because every time I recall the light expressions of (fake) contentment of Suwa, or the existence of that cute baby he had with Naho, I feel there is a black hole formed deep inside of me. |
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| My throat nearly ripped out of myself when I thought Kakeru died again. I just barely contained my need to scream because the rest of the house is asleep lol ... And then the next page happened and sufficiently quelled my terror :D I think everything was tied up pretty nicely. I'm happy to think that both Suwa and Kakeru win the girl in the end. Yay for fictional parallel worlds! (But since we don't have that particular luxury at the present time, I'd say that the moral of the story is to live without regrets and hold your loved ones close.) Definitely giving this manga a high score <3 |
| These faces are so cute that I might just leave them here (#`Д´)´∀`)･ω･) ﾟДﾟ)ﾟ∀ﾟ)･∀･)￣ｰ￣)´_ゝ`) |
| i was worried this would either end in a bitter tragedy or a too shoujo-y unrealisitcally happy ending, but thankfully it ended somewhere in the middle. i hated the last chapter for giving me a fuckign heart attack when it seemed like he'd died, then making me almost tear up the way things resolved, then laugh at the whole 'hagita ruined his bike' thing...i think that although it was too abrupt of an ending, the last few scenes of them revealing the letters to kakeru and future naho's last sentiments were truly heartwarming for me. tbh this will probably one of my favorite manga for a very long time (until i cross more that surpass it?), but i'm still left a little unfilfilled at what could have made this a 10/10 - i was dying to know how they sent the letters in the first place, how their futures in the alternate timeline ended up, whether suwa found soME form of happiness in soccer fame or a new love or fuck give that kid SOMETHING he's too good and pure for this world. i also would really have liked a more in depth development or subplot involving azu/hagita/takako, because even as the lesser main characters they rly interested me and i wanted to know more!!! and totally thought the last five chapters would lead to more but apparently those are all for that 'haruiro astronaut' unrelated story............ and now i have to live with this feeling a little incomplete! but hey, they saved him, i loved the main characters, and the art was impeccable |
sailormeanJan 13, 2016 4:58 AM
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| also, not that anyone's likely to even read this but the whole treatment and misunderstanding of kakeru's character by a LOT of the readers on multiple websites made me really sad and i wish I could more properly explain just how accurately the mangaka portrayed him as a legitimately ill and depressed teenager in a realistic manner - his actions perceived as selfish or cruel by some resonated with me as a person who's had depression for god, almost half my life, and i empathized so much with the 'wall' he built and even more so with naho and everyone's joint effort and ability to slowly tear that wall down and make him realize that he is wanted, which is HARD/ impossible to realize when you're fucking depressed and you view yourself as this worthless thing that only causes harm and pain and it truly makes you want to build a wall and disappear in order to not hurt anyone else. i think the reality of that portrayal is what alienated a lot of viewers, which is totally understandable but also kind of a shame, and I wish more people had looked at his intentions a little less as selfish acts and more as how hard it is to view the world in the same way others view it when you've got a severe mental illness |
sailormeanJan 13, 2016 4:59 AM
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| The end broke my heart. I don't know how to read the last scene, as a parallell future maybe. But anyway it feels like that doesn't count. The important thing is that Naho does not choose Suwa who I like so very much and it must have broken his heart. I think he went too far in his attempt to save Kakeru. Suwa should have confessed his love. Why Suwa, WHY!!?? :'( :'( |
| This is the last? I thought there's still five more chapters. Dissapointed. |
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| I read this chapter a snail pace, reading one page then going to Forum Games to distract myself from these feels because I was so scared this will end up in a tragedy.... Im so happy I loved this. I LOVED THIS I FUCKING LOVED THIS MANGA im crying. really crying, tears of happiness for the first time in this heart crushing manga. Now I need a break, A SUPER LONG AND WELL DESERVED BREAk  |
| The best shoujo I have ever read. Not just your ordinary teenage love manga. It talks about so much more. The depression of Kakeru felt so real every time he talked about his mother. Glad he didn't commit suicide and learns about the beauty of life. Stay strong and move forward. Really looking forward to the anime now. |
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| I really liked this manga. Ending could be a bit better and less rushed, but in general it was great. |
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| I'm not really into shoujo (not if doesn't have an "ai" right after it) but I decided to give this one a shot because it has an interesting premise and I'm glad I did, it was actually a good read. I liked the friendship dynamic, I didn't hate the mc which I generally do (although she could be quite ???? sometimes, like when Kakeru confessed and she was afraid to give him an answer because she didn't want to be a bother to him???), it was also really funny besides being really depressing most of the time. It's 8/10 for me because the time-travel explanation was quite messy imo, the annoying antagonist presence (Ueda) which is always so common and such a cheap way to create drama and the end felt like it was missing something. Also, Taka is best girl.  |
| Just finished this, and I absolutely loved this manga. I'm so glad all ended well in the end, and that ending was pretty solid. This manga hit a spot. Now I seriously can't for the adaptation. Summer can't come soon enough. I loved the characters. Hagita was freaking hilarious. 10/10. |
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| Meh didn't like it, Naho was annoying and i didn't care about the other characters |
| It's just average but marathonable. |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| I'm glad it ended this way. It is a very lovely manga. Can't wait for the anime adaptation. I think it will be very nice ^-^ |
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| It's perfect. I just don't have more words to describe it |
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| Hagita with that comic relief till the very end. |
| Wait, What? This was the final chapter? Oh man, I feel so bad haha, I didn't get emotionally involved because I thought there were 5 more chapters left, so I took it lightly. I really liked it though, kinda rushed and all but the story is a 10/10. But I don't know if it deserves a perfect score (on my list) because I'm not fond of open endings in stories that actually NEED closure. I guess it's because this manga had publishing problems, and I don't know if this is true but I'm 100% sure that I read somewhere that the mangaka was tired of making this manga, and her publishers obliged her to continue. Anyway, it is what it is and I really enjoyed it. Can't wait for the anime adaptation :) |
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| love Hagita when he broke Kakeru's bike I felt like I should have cried at this chapter, it didn't pull at my heart strings Overall Orange was amazing 9/10 |
| I was so scared that it would end in a disaster because the whole manga is most about making happy memories and everyone is so caring about each other. I'm so relieved that all end well for them. Is the manga that makes you cry but because it's so happy that makes you shed tears of joy. Thank you true hero Bicycle-Smasher Hagita! 10/10 |
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testamentKAISER said: Hagita is too awesome in this chapter. XD So F. Naho made a vow to save Kakeru again and again and again, even though she will not "witness" her accomplishments. But atleast she saved Kakeru. :) So in the current timeline Kakeru x Naho and then in the "future" world, is still Suwa x Naho. Those sudden confessions are a bit... Meh... Oh well, good manga. :) i am confused how it ended |
| A rushed ending but satisfactory. My heart aches for Suwa. 7/10 (rounded down) from me. I like how they didn't confirm whether Naho married Kakeru or Suwa in the current timeline so it's left up to the audience. I'm just gonna pretend it's Suwa since Takano Ichigo drew an alternate picture of him standing with the adult versions of the characters and Suwa is still holding onto his baby with Naho (and Naho said she would pick Suwa in any timeline). https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTnFjkgUAAAKQ2m.jpg:large |
sauveterreMay 3, 2016 10:03 PM
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| I loved this manga. It's wonderful, I would never spect that it'd turn out this way. The story was much deeper than I thought, and I really liked its message, it's simply beautiful. But, the suicide theme... I really wasn't expecting that. It impacted me way more than I thought, especially in that chapter where it shows Kakeru's point of view until the moment he committed suicide. That impacted me so much, and I cried so much that I didn't have forces to cry at the end of the manga. I got very sad, but that ending really relieved me. A lot. I'm happy with this ending. Even if I prefer Naho to marry Kakeru, Suwa is my favorite character. I like all the characters, but Suwa's got my attention. The sacrifice he made for his friend, even if he likes Naho, the way he worried about everyone, his actions, these are things I admire in a character. Anyway, solid 10/10. Orange was really worth-reading for me and I would recommend it to anyone. |
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| Holy fuck that was bitter. I caught up from back when it was paused for something since I noticed it on animebytes, even though it was updated in November. I really was surprised when I saw it, so I read it. Just wow. It wasn't the best thing ever and I wish some things happened differently but I also was happy how everything went. It's better than never being finished. lol.. I fucking cried. Reading those last few pages with "Boys Don't Cry by The Cure" is taxing on the heart. Fucking random circumstance music. |
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Allllonsy said: If Kakeru's suicide was one day before they send the time capsule, how did he send his letter? I know that's possible that they've sent it in different days or the letter was ready before, but I'm in doubt, I've missed the answer in the manga or it's a Ichigo's mistake? Uh, if I remember correctly, in the world that we were reading most of the time, the suicide happened early. I THINK. Probably not. |
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| I really wanted to give this mango a 6/10 but alas it be 7/10 The way the letters travel through the future into the past is bullshit. Bremuda triangle is a wtf moement. They should have explained more about this time traveling mechanic. Feels like magic. Was kinda hoping for more development on a possible Hagita/pigtail girl romance. Wanted a little more subplots basically. Still shipping the true path Naho/Suwa I feel like they could have learned a more bigger lesson. These are my reasons for not raising the score higher. Good series that goes over a good topic in depression but could have explored it further. |
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| Nice manga. one of my favourites. The first 12 chapters were 11/10 worthy... stuff happened and I ended up giving it a respectable 9. Left a big impact on me, I'm truly grateful to give this manga a try. I can't count the number of times I passed on it on numerous lists. Truly something I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a heartwarming, slice of life, romantic, highschool story of depression, friendship and recovery. :) But............. I'm upset Hagita x Azu did not happen. :'( |
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