Welcome to the Darkest Timeline.
I’m back from holiday, recovering from jet lag, and coming down with (hopefully just) a cold, but I really didn’t want to try rolling two episodes and a season review into this Sunday’s post, so I managed to squeak out some belated commentary during a slow work day. Apologies if it’s not the most polished of pieces.
orange shuffles timelines a bunch this week, giving us the original past timeline from Kakeru’s perspective before shifting us back into our usual original-future and current-past timelines. As you’d expect, the world through Kakeru’s eyes is a heartbreaking one, achingly honest and really hard to watch.
The Josei Next Door 
I admit it, this episode broke me. I think it was one of the best (or at least, most emotionally effective) of the entire series so far, but as you said, it also made for an incredibly painful watch.
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