However, it’s soon revealed that life for Kakeru truly isn’t improving. To try and avoid losing the relay, the friends also work hard training together and pass along an inspiring message to Kakeru when they finally run together.įor a moment it appears that things are actually starting to look up. In the current timeline, Suwa helps out Naho by making sure that Kakeru’s grandmother can attend the event, which lifts Kakeru’s spirits a great deal. Coupled with the fact that he lost the relay race for his class, it’s easy to see how this festival was a defining moment in Kakeru’s mental health and potential future. In the original timeline this was a notable event for Kakeru as he began feeling even more depressed due to the fact none of his family (especially his deceased mother) could be at the sport’s festival, while other students had their families present. The first major story arc kicks off by covering the school sport festival. By working together can the group encourage Kakeru to open up to them and prevent him from committing suicide? However, at the start of the second volume our young protagonist has discovered that the rest of her close friends have also received letters from the future and are doing their best to support Naho in helping Kakeru. Despite following the advice of the letters from the future, Naho couldn’t always prevent Kakeru from being hurt or feeling lonely. When we left Naho in Volume 1 she was struggling with how to best help Kakeru. This second complete collection of Orange contains the final two and a half volumes of the original Japanese releases collected into a massive 384 page omnibus.Īs a general note this review contains spoilers for the first complete collection, so if you haven’t already read it then stop reading now!

I’m here again to review the second volume and tell everyone about this wonderful series. Back in May I was busy singing the praises of Orange as the manga series had just seen the release of Orange: The Complete Collection Volume 1.

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