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Orange
Orange by Ichigo Takano
This is available in five volumes, and also in two omnibus editions (the second included a backstory which I didn't get into), but it reads as one story.
It opens with Naho receiving a letter. It says it's from her future self, that a new boy will arrive in class and sit beside her, and she must not ask him to walk home, because he's no longer with them in the future.
Not knowing what to believe, she joins with her friends in asking
He's out for a couple of weeks, and only later do they realize what the problem was.
It winds on, through the events of the year, through trying to do what the letters say and failing, trying, and succeeding, and not making an apparent change. It involves a hairpin, a subplot in a different time (which, I think, could be more visually distinct), soccer, discussion of time travel and how the grandfather paradox would have to mean different timelines, regrets and whether you can fix them, a race, shrine visits, dating that gets cut short and more.
The explanation of how the letters get there is somewhat jerry-rigged.
Does some interesting things with intensifying the detail of the art in dramatic moments.
This is available in five volumes, and also in two omnibus editions (the second included a backstory which I didn't get into), but it reads as one story.
It opens with Naho receiving a letter. It says it's from her future self, that a new boy will arrive in class and sit beside her, and she must not ask him to walk home, because he's no longer with them in the future.
Not knowing what to believe, she joins with her friends in asking
He's out for a couple of weeks, and only later do they realize what the problem was.
It winds on, through the events of the year, through trying to do what the letters say and failing, trying, and succeeding, and not making an apparent change. It involves a hairpin, a subplot in a different time (which, I think, could be more visually distinct), soccer, discussion of time travel and how the grandfather paradox would have to mean different timelines, regrets and whether you can fix them, a race, shrine visits, dating that gets cut short and more.
The explanation of how the letters get there is somewhat jerry-rigged.
Does some interesting things with intensifying the detail of the art in dramatic moments.