History Manga / Orange

* {{Bishonen}}: This being a shoujo work, a lot of the guys are handsome, but Kakeru stands out for his athletic yet slender figure, smooth face, beautiful eyes, and deep, warm voice. Suwa is a bit more manly and muscular, while Hagita is kind of a skinny nerd.

Not to be confused with the [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios animation studio]] of [[NamesTheSame same name]][[labelnote:*]]Though it ''did'' work on the show[[/labelnote]].

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''Orange'' is a [[ShoujoDemographic shojo]] manga by Ichigo Takano. It started serialization in Bessatsu Margaret on March 2012, but after 9 chapters [[DevelopmentHell the author started having serious health problems and the series was left on hiatus for over a year]]. The author resumed publishing the series on February 2014, this time in the {{seinen}} magazine Monthly Action over an irregular schedule until the author was completely cured. Its serialization officially ended in August 2015 with a total of five volumes. After the main series ended, Takano has occasionally authored special chapters, some of them serving as tie-ins to the anime movie mentioned below, making up the contents of a sixth volume. 2019 saw to a more definitive end, announcing a seventh volume to complete the series.

* AbusiveParents: Kakeru never forgave his mother for divorcing his father when he was young. [[spoiler:Her last text explains that he was an abusive man, and that she left him to protect herself and Kakeru]].

''Orange'' is a [[ShoujoDemographic shojo]] manga by Ichigo Takano. It started serialization in Bessatsu Margaret on March 2012, but after 9 chapters [[DevelopmentHell the author started having serious health problems and the series was left on hiatus for over a year]]. The author resumed publishing the series on February 2014, this time on the seinen magazine Monthly Action over an irregular schedule until the author was completely cured. Its serialization officially ended in August 2015 with a total of five volumes. After the main series ended, Takano has occasionally authored special chapters, some of them serving as tie-ins to the anime movie mentioned below, making up the contents of a sixth volume. 2019 saw to a more definitive end, announcing a seventh volume to complete the series.

A LiveActionAdaptation was slated for December 2015, starring Kento Yamazaki (who also starred in the live-action adaptations of other shoujo manga such as ''Heroine Shikkaku'' and ''L-DK'') as Kakeru and Tao Tsuchiya as Naho. A 13 episode anime adaptation by Creator/TMSEntertainment aired in summer of 2016, with a [[CompilationMovie Compilation Movie+]] titled ''Orange: Future'' (''Orange: Mirai'') and released in December 2016 serving as its [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation author-approved]] epilogue. Creator/{{Funimation}} has released an English broadcast dub for this series, which began on October 24, 2016. Watch it [[http://www.funimation.com/shows/orange/videos here]].

This is the situation Takamiya Naho has to confront the day she becomes a high school junior, when she receives a letter from herself... sent from 10 years into the future. The letter predicts everything she'll experience that day, including the transfer of Naruse Kakeru, an apparently lonely boy from Tokyo. The letter also tells that Kakeru will die in an accident, and that it's up to Naho to change the past and save him.

''Orange'' is a [[ShoujoDemographic shojo]] manga by Takano Ichigo. It started serialization in Bessatsu Margaret on March 2012, but after 9 chapters [[DevelopmentHell the author started having serious health problems and the series was left on hiatus for over a year]]. The author resumed publishing the series on February 2014, this time on the seinen magazine Monthly Action over an irregular schedule until the author was completely cured. Its serialization officially ended in August 2015 with a total of five volumes. After the main series ended, Takano has occasionally authored special chapters, some of them serving as tie-ins to the anime movie mentioned below, making up the contents of a sixth volume. 2019 saw to a more definitive end, announcing a seventh volume to complete the series.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Kakeru is dead in the original timeline.

* BrokenBird: Kakeru used to be a happy and optimistic kid, but his mother's death turned him pessimistic and cynical.

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''Orange'' is a [[ShoujoDemographic shojo]] manga by Takano Ichigo. It started serialization in Bessatsu Margaret on March 2012, but after 9 chapters [[DevelopmentHell the author started having serious health problems and the series was left on hiatus for over a year]]. The author resumed publishing the series on February 2014, this time on the seinen magazine Monthly Action over an irregular schedule until the author was completely cured. Its serialization officially ended in August 2015 with a total of five volumes. After the main series ended, Takano has occasionally authored special chapters, some of them serving as tie-ins to the anime movie mentioned below.

** Regrets are part of life, and sometimes you have to go on living while accepting there's something you can't go back and change. [[spoiler: Naho, Suwa, and their friends in the original timeline can't save Kakeru in their own world, and have to make the best of life without him while taking comfort that they created an alternate world where he will be happy]]. However, you should sieze the day and be brave from this moment on so that you won't regret that you didn't try your hardest, especially when you're young. [[spoiler:If somehow you ''do'' get a second chance to make things right, like Naho in the past, then you should struggle with all your might [[EarnYourHappyEnding to save the person you love]]]].

* AlphaBitch: Ueda is a selfish, attractive girl who uses her popularity to get what she wants, and begins to bully Naho when she starts persuing Kakeru.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ueno pretends to be cute and innocent, but she's completely self-centered and fights dirty against anyone she considers a rival.

* InformedAttractiveness: The GenericCuteness inherent in the beautiful shoujo art style means that Ueno being really hot and Naho being plain but cute has to be spelled out in the dialogue. It's hinted by details such as Ueno's makeup, but Naho's shoujo heroine character design still makes it hard to see her as "plain".

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Hagita and Azusa are always bickering, but they do like each other deep down. This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in-story.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Future Naho and her friends, it was not being able to save Kakeru. The kids in the present regret having invited Kakeru to go out with them at Opening Day, the same day his mother commited suicide.

** At first Azusa and Takako are excited about Kakeru accepting Ueno's confession, but immediately change their minds when they find out how jealous she is, and especially when they find out that Naho likes Kakeru. From then on they ship Naho/Kakeru, since they make clear that as her friends, they'd support Naho and whoever she likes. For that same reason they don't actively cheer for Suwa, who's also into Naho and is their friend, but they aren't against him confessing his feelings and actually get mad when he [[spoiler:says he'll never tell Naho how he feels]].

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: Ueno and her girl posse resort to this type of bullying of Naho after Kakeru dumped Ueno for [[ClingyJealousGirl more publicly bullying Naho]].

* TeamMom: Naho looks after her friends as if she were their mother, and Kakeru even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

* ThroughHisStomach: Naho makes a bento lunchbox for Kakeru, which she's too shy to give him at first, but when she works up the courage it makes him very happy and she promises to keep making them for him. She stops making them when he starts dating Ueno, but after he breaks up with Ueno he tells her that he missed eating her lunches.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: A black hole is mentioned to exist within the Atlantic Ocean. This is totally impossible in real life. A [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles black hole]] usually forms from the collapse of a star bigger than our sun, whose existence would have made our solar system very different--certainly theire would be no Earth as we know it. If a black hole somehow spontaneously came into existence there, any one that was large enough not to disappear through radiation in the blink of an eye would swallow up the whole Earth.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The main explanation about the letters being sent back in time? [[spoiler: ''A black hole existing within the Atlantic Ocean'']]. While [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief we can accept this as a useful plot device]], it's totally impossible in real life. [[spoiler:A [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles black hole]] usually forms from the collapse of a star bigger than our sun, whose existence would have made our solar system very different--certainly theire would be no Earth as we know it. If a black hole somehow spontaneously came into existence there, any one that was large enough not to disappear through radiation in the blink of an eye would swallow up the whole Earth.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The main explanation about the letters being sent back in time? [[spoiler: ''A black hole existing within the Atlantic Ocean'']]. While we can accept this as a useful plot device, it's totally impossible in real life. [[spoiler:A [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles black hole]] usually forms from the collapse of a star bigger than our sun, whose existence would have made our solar system very different--certainly theire would be no Earth as we know it. If a black hole somehow spontaneously came into existence there, any one that was large enough not to disappear through radiation in the blink of an eye would swallow up the whole Earth.]]

* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:The letter tells Naho that after the sports festival, Kakeru tried to hang himself with a towel and was rescued when his attempt failed. She and her friends manage to talk him out of this first attempt in the alternate timeline.]]

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Hagita and Azusa, even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-story.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Meta example. The anime adaptation and the movie were released with ''terrible'' timing: The former was released around the same time as ''Anime/YourName'', while the latter, asides from having to compete with ''that'', also came out a few weeks after the movie adaptation of ''Manga/ASilentVoice''. The bad rep that the Anime adaptation earned through it's run did ''not'' help on sales.

* YouCantFightFate: What the group is afraid of, especially Naho. When they don't follow their future selves' letters suggestions, it backfires and sets Kakeru down the path that would lead to his death. When they ''do'' follow the suggestions, they are still likely to mess up and Kakeru is still likely going to die before they finish high school. In the end, this becomes [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig Zagged]]. [[spoiler:Kakeru still died in the original timeline, and there wasn't any chance they would change that future. In the present timeline, however, Kakeru survives, changing their fate. As the story itself suggests the existence of parallel worlds with different timelines, the GrandfatherParadox originally suggested by Hagita doesn't exist, and now there are simply two future worlds: one with Kakeru and the other without him]].

* InSpiteOfANail: Subverted. Future Naho is aware that [[ForWantOfANail changing a single event won't reverse Kakeru's death]], and instead gives her past self detailed instructions on several specific events that could have gone better. [[spoiler: Her friends do the same. Despite all their efforts though, Kakeru still attempts suicide on February 15, and it initially looks successful. However, all the changes brought on by his friends were significant enough to make him not go through with it.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: For Future Naho and her friends, it was not being able to save Kakeru. The kids in the present regret having invited Kakeru to go out with them at Opening Day, the same day his mother commited suicide.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Suwa wants Naho to be happy even if it means letting someone else have her, [[spoiler: to the point that even his future self from the original timeline, who is married and has a child with Naho, advises Present!Suwa to let Kakeru and Naho enjoy their time together, as she only had eyes for him back then. Future!Suwa doesn't give any specific advice about the day when he confessed to her after Naho and Kakeru had a fight, but Present!Suwa decides by himself to not confess his feelings, in order to not get in the way of Naho and Kakeru from the present getting together]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Kakeru's parents had a divorce. His father doesn't care about him anymore, and his mother commited suicide, so he lives with his grandmother.

A LiveActionAdaptation was slated for December 2015, starring Kento Yamazaki (who also starred in the live-action adaptations of other shoujo manga such as ''Heroine Shikkaku'' and ''L-DK'') as Kakeru and Tao Tsuchiya as Naho. A 13 episode anime adaptation aired in summer of 2016, with a [[CompilationMovie Compilation Movie+]] titled ''Orange: Future'' (''Orange: Mirai'') and released in December 2016 serving as its [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation author-approved]] epilogue. Creator/{{Funimation}} has released an English broadcast dub for this series, which began on October 24, 2016. Watch it [[http://www.funimation.com/shows/orange/videos here]].

* RomanticFalseLead: Ueno manages to snatch up Kakeru before Naho can early on, but Kakeru soon regrets agreeing to go out with someone just based on looks when he realizes she has a bad personality, and it isn't long before he breaks up with her.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The whole point of the letter is Naho helping Kakeru in all the ways possible so he doesn't die.

* SuicideNotAccident: [[spoiler: Kakeru's grandmother tells Naho and her friends that Kakeru walking in the path of a truck may have been intentional, instead of accidental.]]

** In the original timeline, Naho and [[spoiler:Suwa]] eventually got married and have a child together. Even with their regret that Kakeru is dead, they love each other and their baby, which is one thing they wouldn't change.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Suwa wants Naho to be happy even if it means letting someone else have her, [[spoiler: to the point that even his future self from the original timeline, who is married and has a child with Naho, advises Present!Suwa to let Kakeru and Naho enjoy their time together, as she only had eyes for him back then. Future!Suwa doesn't give any specific advice about the day when he confessed to her after Naho and Kakeru had a fight, but Present!Suwa decides by himself to not confess his feelings, in order to not get in the way of Naho and Kakeru from the present getting together]].