
Ideas Kakeru revealed to Future Hiroto in their conversations over their ideal scenarios with Naho. Well, not so much excuses as much as Kakeru’s ideas.


He wanted to forget and had been running away, but once they start crossing paths again, he starts finding excuses to hang out with her. Between the original series and this volume, it’s clear that this isn’t a normal love triangle found in most romance manga they both wish to be with the girl, but they also believe she would be happier with their rival.Īfter Kakeru’s death, the other five start drifting apart, and it’s a couple of years before Future Hiroto bumps into Future Naho again. The two friends often end up discussing what they’d do if they were dating Naho. But Future Hiroto likes Kakeru as a person, and they can’t hide their crushes on Naho from each other. He had liked Naho for a long time after all. If you were wondering why, this chapter explains the reason.Īs elaborated in -Suwa Hiroto-, Future Hiroto in high school was understandably jealous that Kakeru and Naho were drawn to each other. But Future Hiroto included a major detail Future Naho’s didn’t: they were married and had a child. Like Naho and the rest of their friends, he received a letter warning about Kakeru’s upcoming suicide. That’s the decision Hiroto faced in orange and again faces here. We often hear about giving up everything for love, but would you even give up your own love? Now, enough background! On to the actual review. After that is orange -Suwa Hiroto-, a three chapter miniseries about Future Hiroto and Naho.Īlso, just for clarity’s sake, Future Hiroto = the one 10 years later, Hiroto = high school student. This section is the titular orange -future- chapter and is almost a third of the volume. First is what is essentially an epilogue to the main story set in the present. So orange -future- is divided into two Hiroto-centered parts. If you are reading this, I am assuming you have read or seen orange. (Remember that Seven Seas released orange in two omnibuses, and I guess orange 3 didn’t seem right.) If you haven’t read orange, be aware there are major spoilers in this review. It’s billed as the sixth volume in Japan (and you can see it’s also labeled as such inside the English version), but because it was released after the main story had finished, it’s also considered its own volume. Torn between friendship and love, what kind of future awaits him?įirst, orange -future- is both a sequel and a spin-off of orange. But Hiroto knows Kakeru is a good guy who is always thinking about Naho.

Hiroto has always liked Naho, and he couldn’t help but be envious as she starts to fall for Kakeru, a transfer student. Shoujo / Seinen – Drama, romance, slice-of-life, supernatural, tragedy
