Orange Episode 5 [Suwa is amazing]

Wow, I see why people absolutely love Suwa in this show and why he is rated so high. Even as I love this show and the pairing that it is supporting, I love Suwa as well. I can’t call myself anything but team ‘Please let everyone be happy’. That is my team now. I only ship everyone x happiness. In all seriousness though, this episode both saddened and delighted me. The reason it saddened me terribly is simple: Suwa loves Naho but Naho both loves and gives Kakeru something that helps save him. Don’t get wrong here: if Naho was only interested in Kakeru or shippable with him because it saved him I would not ship them. It’s no ones obligation to be with someone to ‘save their life’ or anything. Instead, Naho helps him while genuinely loving him. Even Naho of the future remembers her happy memories and loving Kakeru, even though she also loves Suwa.

I don’t want Suwa to be unhappy. Which is why something else in this episode comforts me. Their science teacher essentially elaborates that time travel can only exist with parallel dimensions. To prevent a conundrum that would not require time travel at all the only solution is that each dilemma creates a new world. This means the universe that spawned the issue would not change but would create a world where it did change. Essentially, we can have our cake and eat it too. If they succeed in saving Kakeru in this world then that means that both the world with Suwa and the world with Kakeru would exist: meaning there is a world where both of them could be happy.

If this happens, this might be one of my favorite shoujo anime. Seriously, an anime where both sides win and everyone gets to be happy? That would be probably my favorite thing ever! That being said I love Kakeru, Suwa, and Naho all at once. Even a threesome ending would make me happy. Suwa protected Naho this episode and genuinely cares about her and Kakeru so much he seems to honestly mean that he wouldn’t mind them being together and that it would make him happy. I’ve never seen a bunch of friends who hit my heartstrings like these characters do!

Ueda turns out to be a jerk this episode and harasses Naho, and meanwhile Naho has courage not once but twice. She not only defies Ueda but she also finds it in herself to outright ask Kakeru to see the fireworks alone with her so she can experience a memory that it seems she won’t otherwise. Kakeru also seems to be a nice guy, because in this world he hesitates from asking Naho out because he has gotten closer to Suwa and doesn’t want to hurt him. I want to smush these precious teenage faces together and make them all happy.

Seriously though, future Naho has yet to mention that she married Suwa. Perhaps it’s because she wants Naho to be able to decide who it is she will fall for in this world? I think even older Naho doesn’t know who she would choose. Not to mention that Naho in the future has experienced a different side of both Kakeru and Suwa than the Naho we are viewing. . .so basically we have to let Naho decide her new future. She seemed until now to think of it as helping another person, even if it was her future self. Yet now Naho has to do things on her own to make herself happy and the best part about it?

She is actually doing that. Naho is choosing to be happy for herself. I’m so proud. . . now I must wait until next week where undoubtedly I will cry moar about these precious cinnamon rolls.

Oki