User blog comment:Ultraprime2/Fairy Tail Wiki - Anime vol. 3: Spring 2016/@comment-4449950-20160707050612/@comment-4829046-20160708171617

"Orange... some say it's lit and worth the watch"

For some reason that made me think of 'Orange is the new black'......

Yeahhh..... I don't even watch it...

That aside, the manga for Orange is great from what I hear. Quotes like "Best shoujo ever!" and "If only it were longer..." and somesuch I didn't want to spoil myself(for once) so I refrained from the source material(for once), but that first episode though: Simply gorgeous. It's obviously going to tackle tragedy interspersed with time factor and in a way that is more of a laid-back time paradox story(?) than a timeloop, timejump or timetravel type. Basically shouldn't be readily compared with Steins;Gate, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi(ERASED) or Re:Zero. Not to mention it is slice-of-life. It isn't an original concept(We've all seen it in movies) but the characters are what sells it. One of the first comments a very picky critic friend of mine made when he saw the poster for it was that the females didn't look like stereotypical shoujo ones. Can't say that I agree or disagree with that, but the entire cast certainly got my attention. It wasn't the best first episode, but it did what it had to do and that being to set up the actual plot device rather than go too much into all the cast.

ReLife has been one of my all-time fav manga for a while though so the anime version is definitely top of the intricate school life genre for the season, but I'll see if Orange manages to top it both as a regular story and as an adaptation. If it doesn't, well... since ReLife technically finished airing, it will still be top of the genre for its time right? ;D