Orange

Naho Takamiya starts her second year of high school already flustered—she’s late, unsettled, and then handed a letter addressed to her. The strangest part is the sender: Naho herself, writing from ten years in the future. Doubt quickly gives way to unease as the day unfolds exactly as the letter predicts, leaving her to face the possibility that the message is real.

The letter speaks of a future weighed down by regret and asks Naho to make different choices this time. It urges her to watch over a new transfer student, Kakeru Naruse, and to think carefully about every decision that involves him—because in the future described, Kakeru is no longer there. With each instruction, Naho is pushed to confront what she can change, and what she can’t, before the same sorrow repeats itself.