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  PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqePv9i6Yw On the first day of her second year of high school, shy, self-effacing Naho receives a mysterious letter addressed to herself in her own hand-writing. Opening it, the letter claims to be from her future self, 10 years from now, asking her to help erase all of the regrets the future Naho has from the choices she didn't make in high school. Naho is initially sceptical of the letter, but when their homeroom teacher starts their day off by introducing a kind, handsome new transfer student called Kakeru - exactly as set out in the letter - she begins to realise that its outlandish claim might actually be true. Knowing that she'll eventually regret her high school life enough to send that letter, Naho decides to follow her future self's requests and do what she can to live a better life - especially since she's starting to fall for Kakeru, and the letter says that in the future, he'll no longer be with them... Orange is a shoujo/seinen (yes) slice of life romance manga that ran from March 2012 to August 2015 (English translation available in print via Seven Seas and online on Crunchyroll) with a live action film that came out in December last year, and an anime adaptation that is currently airing, also on Crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/orange. If you have any interest in high school slice of life, drama or romance stories with a bit of a sci-fi twist, please watch this show! It's really good so far and really pretty: https://a.pomf.cat/kgdamb.webm Also, this is the thread for talking about the anime, so please don't be a dick and post manga spoilers. Thanks! 
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I've only watched the first two episodes, but Naho seems inherently unlikable and god-drat girl just give him the loving bento already is my impression from those two. She's shy and indecisive and the half the point of this is that future her is teaching her to get over that. Plus, that's a super common romance trope.  MJP posted:Is this ReLIFE from the other gender's eyes? It's not a comedy and the protagonist isn't an adult. AnacondaHL posted:Show is good so far, but at some point it feels like the show is going to keep withholding information unnecessarily as a crutch to artificially generate drama, e.g. this last part about looking in the eraser. The way the scenes were setup and ordered felt lazy, and did not explain or justify her actions in the story's world. There's nothing artificial about a plot device where a distracted character forgets something they read that morning. I don't get your complaint about the scenes' setup/ordering "not explaining her actions."  Also: the show is supposed to be a mystery, where you slowly find out what happened in the future via Naho slowly progressing through the letter.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:50
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AnacondaHL posted:Moving forward, there's not even a shot of her being all "oh crap, I just forgot this super important thing I was supposed to do", it just suddenly cuts to her already going back for it, with no sense of time elapse or anything. You're right, I forgot the specifics and assumed that she forgets about part of the note. She doesn't, because the show is consistent about how she's portrayed and what decisions she makes, and is better for it. Here is the scene you're talking about : https://u.pomf.is/knhqem.webm First off, the cleaning montage conveys a sense of elapsed time just fine, and her running back to class and hurriedly pulling out the eraser also conveys a sense of urgency perfectly well.  Secondly: Naho's defining character traits are that she's shy and that she prioritises other people's happiness over her own. The start of that scene provides us with good reasons for why things happen the way they do. She's going back and forth on whether she "deserves" to let Kakeru know how she feels rather than letting him date the cool, mature senpai that he previously said he found attractive (which is mostly her making up an excuse to dodge out of having to confess to Kakeru). She then gets called away to clean, which the show implies she's using to justify not opening the erasing cover to herself. Eventually, like in multiple previous cases so far, she realises that she actually wants to find out what the note says after all, rather than procrastinating so she can not look at it until she knows she's too late. She looks at the eraser, and then she immediately runs out of the classroom to go answer his question... via a note in his shoe locker, because she's still Naho. That last part is literally the entire point: she's changing, but she's changing gradually. Present-day Naho is self-effacing and this leads to her adult self having a boatload of regrets about her high school experience, which leads her to send a letter back to help Naho break out of her shell, but this isn't an instant thing. Present-day Naho is still fundamentally the same person she was at that moment in future-Naho's past, and thus continues to be indecisive about the whole thing. And in case that wasn't extra clear from everything that's happened so far in the show, she even spends part of the episode talking about how she thinks she might be able to change the future slightly. AnacondaHL posted:While this all seems very picky, the show hinges on her interaction with the words of the letter, which up to this point had been handled pretty good, but this was noticeably subpar, and I'm not sure if the show can afford any more of these without going into "eh, screw it, just toss a bunch of feels at the audience and gloss over it" mode, which is not something I'm interested in watching. You seem to forget that you're dealing with a shy 16 year old school girl who is actively not committed to following the letter's instructions because they take her out of her comfort zone. She's not future-Naho who travelled back in time armed with a burning desire to change the past, she's a kid who doesn't like to draw attention to herself, making the initial decision to change herself because of the letter, and then struggling with that decision. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Jul 22, 2016 09:05
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https://u.pomf.is/qsoqex.webm I finally had the time to watch the episode today and I love how this show uses music and montages so much. Also, god drat it Naho. 
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Jul 26, 2016 12:03
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God, it always takes me days to get around to watching the weekly episode, unlike every other show, just because I know I have to sit down, mentally prepare myself to have my emotions toyed with, and actually pay attention to the animation.
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Finally got the chance to watch the episode. Kakeru, why are you so thick? At least he and Naho deserve each other. Also, I'm glad that Naho is finally fixing things. 
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Aug 4, 2016 13:48
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Now I don't want to watch the episode. 
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Aug 7, 2016 18:21
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I'm three episodes behind now, so I can marathon them next week and avoid the cliffhangers.
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Aug 21, 2016 19:52
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Ah, a rape joke, how epic.
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Aug 29, 2016 03:33
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Okay, I finally have the time to start catching up on Orange, since I'm a month behind. Kakeru has officially found the least smooth way to try to get a girl to say she likes him, and also:  It's you, you idiot. I've missed these dumb goofs.  e; I can't believe it worked and then he didn't ask her. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 14:28
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SweetBro posted:I wonder if it's possible for there be a romantic anime where all of the characters involved have learned basic communication skills. Half the point of romance manga is usually to torture readers with will-they-or-won't-they, because that's always fun (in small doses), so it kind of comes with the territory.
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Sep 1, 2016 09:09
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I'm finally on episode 9, and oh, god, the off-model faces. e; I'm going to scream now. 
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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Sep 1, 2016 23:35
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a kitten posted:Yeah 
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Sep 4, 2016 11:07
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I'm still only on 9, I've been banking the episodes so I can watch everything left in one go.
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Captain Invictus posted:You might die It's like ripping a bandaid off: better to do it all in one go so the pain doesn't last as long.
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Finally found the time to watch the last two episodes today. Boy, episode 12 was pretty hard to watch.  Also, I really wish they hadn't actually put their dumb theory for how they were going to send the letters back in time in the show. But still, that was a good ending. And also: Finally. e; and also also:  Uh, Azu, put the shovel down...
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