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Orange. Orange. Orange.

You know when I first saw this show, I didn't really care for it. I used to roll my eyes when people gushed about it because I couldn't figure out why it was so well liked.

This movie has given me a new found respect for the show because frankly it made the show and its events make a lot more sense. It also helped that I went though the show again before watching the movie.

Now from here on out, there's spoilers so you are warned. Most of the movie is flashback of events from the new timeline of the story from ... Suwa's point of view. What really shines is the last like 25 minutes or so that's basically epilogue.





Spoilers:

It begins with Kakeru asking Naho to go to a shrine with her and she says yes. They pray together and the other 4 are there as well, but not with Naho and Kakeru. You find out that this is where Suwa actually convinced Naho to be with him. The show made it seem like in the original timeline, she started to fall for Suwa before Kakeru's death after he confessed at New Years. That wasn't the case. While she was always very close to Suwa, she didn't start falling for him until the second time he confessed and basically proposes to her. Past Suwa says he's a horrible person for taking advantage of Naho while in a fragile emotional state after Kakeru's death. The others try to cheer him up and say he's a good guy and was only being Kakeru's substitute. In my opinion, that would have been true for new timeline Suwa. If Kakeru had still died then he would have been Kakeru's substitute, but only because of the influence on this timeline brought by the letters. Original timeline Suwa did it for his own selfish purposes and nothing more. In the show, Future Suwa even says that if Kakeru had lived, Naho would have rejected him. (Sorry, SuwaxNaho shippers, the only conceivable timeline where Naho would be with Suwa is one where Kakeru dies.) Free from this, Suwa is now able to walk down his own path. Skip ahead to 10 years in the future. They all meet on the same hill and now Kakeru and Naho are married with a child named Haru who loves Uncle Suwa. They laugh and have a good ole time at a picnic. It ends with them looking at the sunset and them all agreeing to all send letters to a 3rd timeline where Kakeru will tell himself that he's happy and to not let the depression burden him. It doesn't show if they actually send letters though. Jump back to the original timeline where Suwa awakens to find Naho crying. Now at this point with the fact that original timeline Suwa was guilty about how he got Naho, it shows that their marriage might not be as great as it showed in the show. Naho is crying because she was dreaming about Kakeru. The way she says it, she might have been dreaming about the new timeline, but that's not clear. Suwa says he was dreaming about it as well then looks annoyed and goes back to sleep. Not even bothering to comfort his wife as she sobs. I had this theory that people blasted me for. I believe that Future Naho still had feelings for Kakeru and she regretted not being able to reconcile with him. I think this movie adds credence to that theory. It ends with what I assume to be the 2nd timeline where its morning of the first day of school at Naho's house and you see a future letter waiting for her.

End Spoilers

All in all, this was a pretty good epilogue movie for a decent series. Answered a lot of questions for me as well. This will probably get pounded by Suwa fans, but it makes sense that Naho and Kakeru are together. They were destined to be, not Suwa and Naho.

I loved the comedy. I loved the romance. Fuwa and Izumi were great characters. The office workers were great characters. I loved all the characters except Tokiko & her husband. They are the very definition of a dysfunctional marriage. They are what ruins it from being perfect. He's a complete scumbag who neglects & hits her and she's an idiot for going back to him time and time again because she does this soooo many times. Most of the time it came off as a joke that she would leave her husband, but honestly that just made it worse. I started to drift when it ... became more and more about them. She was a likeable character at first until it got more into her story with the husband and then it spiraled. There were times where you were supposed to feel bad for the husband, but again he just came off as a complete scumbag. Worst of all [spoiler]she gets pregnant with that scumbag's baby and of course goes back to him and then after she leaves with him, they joke about her running away again.[/spoiler] I've never seen a more frustrating couple in a manga than I have with Tokiko and her husband.The last 2 volumes were good because you didn't see them until the end [spoiler]where she comes back AGAIN, pregnant & talking about divorce and her idiot husband right behind coming to argue with her.[/spoiler] All in all, a really good romance slice of life where its perfection is ruined by 2 highly unlikable characters. I know this review is mostly about ranting Tokiko and her husband, but seriously, they are the one flaw of this manga.