Trivia / Orange

• Dawson Casting: In the live-action film, the main gang of high schoolers are played by actors in their twenties, despite being supposedly eleventh graders. Naho's actress (Tao Tsuchiya) was the youngest at 20, while Hagita's actor (Dori Sakurada) was the oldest at 24. In this case, the same actors play the characters 10 years in the future, so casting actors from an intermediate age group makes sense.
• Dueling Works: The anime adaptation and the movie were released with terrible timing: The former was released around the same time as Your Name, while the latter, asides from having to compete with that, also came out a few weeks after the movie adaptation of A Silent Voice. The bad rep that the anime adaptation earned through its run did not help on sales.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Ryo Ryusei (Suwa), Dori Sakurada (Hagita), and Kurumi Shimizu (Azusa) all dye their black hairs to play their characters in the live-action film.
• Playing Against Type: Hiroshi Hamasaki, the director of the anime, previously directed the hyper-violent Shigurui and the nihilistic Texhnolyze.
• Saved from Development Hell: Takano Ichigo started publishing Orange in March 2012, but became ill in November, leaving the series unpublished for more than a year. After many health-related troubles, she wondered if she should start publishing it as a webseries, but the support from Futabasha editors made her decide she'd publish it on the then-new magazine Monthly Action, on a bimonthly schedule publishing it alternatively with her other series ReCollection, in April 2014. It reached its conclusion in August 2015.